US12219988B1

A conical smoking shell storage apparatus, comprising of a container having a top panel, one or more side walls, an interior and a plurality of lower frustoconically shaped inserts detachable supported in a generally vertical condition and parallel to each other via cooperating upper and lower openings. Multiple nested conical smoking shells can be supported in each of the frustoconically shaped inserts which provide support from bending, wrinkling, or damage to the sidewalls of the nested conical smoking shells with a plurality of upper frustoconically shaped inserts on the top of stack of nested conical smoking shells.
US12219987B2

There is disclosed a separator drum (13) for tobacco industry product assembly apparatus. The separator drum has a plurality of segments (29, 30) arranged to form at least a part of a peripheral surface of the separator drum. Each segment has at least one flute (31) and at most four flutes (31). Each flute (31) is adapted to carry a rod of aerosolisable material (2) as the separator drum rotates during use. Each segment (29, 30) is slidably mounted to the separator drum (13) for axial movement.
US12219971B2

Pectin-based melt-to-make bulk gummy mix is disclosed that is shelf stable and formulated, optionally with flavors and colors, in a bulk mix form that is convenient for the next step in manufacturing individual serving pectin gummies. The bulk pectin-based gummy mix can be formulated by companies making infused gummies in a convenient manner to consistently manufacture pectin-based gummies in any size and dose. Methods for making a storage stable bulk pectin-based gummy mix that is a precursor for making individual serving pectin gummies are disclosed, as well as methods for making individual serving pectin gummies from a storage stable bulk pectin-based gummy mix. Kits comprising a two-part pectin-based gummy mix and acidulent for initiating pectin gelling are also described for the convenient manufacture of individual serving pectin-based gummies.
US12219969B2

In a preparation step, raw material milk is prepared. In a lactose degradation step, at least part of lactose included in the prepared raw material milk is degraded using a lactose-degrading enzyme. The lactose concentration in the raw material milk in which lactose is degraded is not more than 2.5% by mass with respect to a total amount of the raw material milk. A lactic acid bacterium is added to the raw material milk in which at least part of lactose is degraded, and the raw material milk to which the lactic acid bacterium is added is fermented.
US12219965B2

An automated chicken deboner system and method. The system includes a conveyor system to move the front-half of the chicken through the different deboning stations, including a loading station where the bird is placed on a cone, a press station to align the front half of the chicken on the cone, a skin cutter station to cut the skin and fat located at the base of the neck of the chicken, a wing cutter station to remove the wings, a scapula cutter station to separate the breast meat from the scapula, a wishbone cutter station to separate the breast meat from the wishbone, a breast plow station to separate the breast meat from the ribs, a wishbone paddle station to further separate the breast meat from the wishbone, a breast removal station to completely remove the breast meat, and a tender cutter station to remove the two tenders.
US12219959B1

A nano-coated polymeric antimicrobial film including a polymer and a metallic glassy powder coating on the polymer. The polymer includes a polymeric material selected from a virgin linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), a plastic solid waste (PSW), and a bio-based plastic. The metallic glassy powder is selected from the group consisting of Cu53.3Zr25.5Nb12.9Ni8.3, CuZn54Zr25Nb14Ni7, Cu48Ti17Ni28Zr5Ag2, and Cu85/SUS316L10/Ag5. The resulting nano-coated polymeric antimicrobial film has anti-microbial protective effects and may be applied to surfaces where anti-microbial activity is desired.
US12219950B2

An electronic rodent trap includes an outer housing forms a trap body having two entrances defined on opposite sides thereof and creates a tunnel therebetween extending longitudinally between the entrances. A high voltage killing circuit is arranged within the trap body, and includes a plurality of killing plates and a triggering element separate from the plurality of killing plates and spaced inwardly from the entrance. A removable tunnel module is received within the outer housing and includes opposed entrances in alignment with the two entrances of the trap body. A removable electronics module is received within the outer housing, the electronics module contains the voltage circuit operatively connected to the plurality of killing plates.
US12219949B2

An electronic rodent trap and monitoring method is provided. Each trap has at least one entrance, and preferably two entrances in opposed relationship to create a longitudinal tunnel, with a pair of lower plates extending longitudinally and oriented in spaced substantially parallel relationship, and a triggering element, such as a third plate, positioned above the lower plates, and preferably adjacent the ceiling of the trap on a center baffle that also shields a bait cup. The trap is activated when the rodent, with its left and right feet on the parallel lower plates, which are preferably raised above the floor, contacts the triggering element on the center baffle. The trap is preferably modular in design with an electronics module and a tunnel module removably secured within and protected by an outer housing. The trap also has improved features for more accurate remote monitoring of rodent dispatch and kill verification.
US12219945B2

A fishing rod assembly includes a rod and a reel assembly. The reel assembly includes a housing, a spool positioned within the housing, the spool configured to rotate about a central axis to retrieve or let out fishing line, and a gear set configured to drive the spool to rotate about the central axis, the gear set includes a first set of gears and a second set of gears. The gear set is configured to receive input rotational kinetic energy through the second set of gears and output rotational kinetic energy to the spool through the first set of gears. The first set of gears includes a planetary gear set arranged about the central axis, and the second set of gears is arranged about an offset axis that is spaced from the central axis.
US12219941B1

A recirculating, animal watering system has an upright reservoir with a tubular sidewall extending between upper and lower end caps. The sidewall has an open mouth nearer the upper end cap. Thus the reservoir below the mouth serves as a water supply pool. A water supply conduit extends vertically from a lower communication port submerged in the water supply pool and at least one fountain discharge outlet arranged in the reservoir above or at the level of the mouth. An air supply line is included and extends between a source of pressurized air and a submerged air injection site into the water supply conduit. Given the foregoing, a small steady stream of air lifts water from the water supply pool, up the water supply conduit by plug or slug flow and out through the at least one fountain discharge outlet to trickle or drizzle back into the water supply pool.
US12219936B2

An elastomeric feed port and a bird feeder having a seed reservoir with a seed opening fitted with such an elastomeric feed port is provided. The feed port has an elastomeric seed control membrane with a cutout that forms at least one aperture through which birds can access seed in the reservoir. The cutout is shaped to create flexible flaps or fingers adjacent the aperture in the membrane that partially cover the seed opening to reduce seed spillage but that can be pushed aside or temporarily deformed by a bird when the bird inserts its beak into the cutout aperture to access seed therethrough.
US12219913B2

A soybean cultivar designated 15190907 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 15190907, to the plants of soybean cultivar 15190907, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 15190907, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 15190907. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 15190907. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 15190907, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 15190907 with another soybean cultivar.
US12219909B2

A modular planter box defining a storage cavity therein that is configured to receive a planting medium, the modular planter box including a first side-wall extending longitudinally in a first direction and having a bottom end configured to rest on a supporting surface, a second side-wall extending longitudinally in a second direction, and a bottom wall residing on an imaginary plane. The second side-wall extends in a third direction that is normal to the imaginary horizontal plane. The bottom wall is spaced from a bottom end of the first side-wall in the third direction and towards an opposite, top end of the first side-wall. The second side-wall is positioned closer to a first end of the first side-wall than a second end thereof, and the second side-wall is spaced from the first end of the first side-wall in the first direction and towards the second end of the first side-wall.
US12219900B2

A rotary vegetation cutting unit having: a frame having a drive shaft; at least one cutting element that moves with the frame; and a debris blocking assembly on the frame with a unitary part that moves relative to the frame in opposite directions around an operating axis. The unitary part is configured to deflect away from the at least one cutting element objects approaching the at least one cutting element in a radial direction. The rotary vegetation cutting unit further has a bearing assembly including: a) a bearing that guides movement between the unitary part and the shaft; and b) a holder for the bearing. The rotary vegetation cutting unit is configured so that any debris spaced radially from the rotary vegetation cutting unit is required to traverse a non-straight path to contact the bearing.
US12225833B2

Embodiments of the invention provide a resistive switching device that includes a metal interconnect electrode and a charge-particle-treated memory stack over the metal interconnect electrode. The charge-particle-treated memory stack includes a plurality of layers that includes a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a dielectric layer between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The dielectric layer includes a portion of a blanket dielectric layer. The bottom electrode includes a portion of a blanket bottom electrode layer. The charge-particle-treated memory stack further includes a current-conducting filament characteristic that results from charge particle treatments applied while a top surface of the blanket dielectric layer is exposed and a top surface of the blanket bottom electrode is exposed.
US12225826B2

A vibration device includes: a piezoelectric unit including a piezoelectric element; a housing that holds the piezoelectric unit; a wiring member electrically connected to the piezoelectric unit; and a joining member that joins the housing to an external device. The housing includes a bottom surface portion to which the piezoelectric unit is fixed, and a side surface portion standing at an edge portion of the bottom surface portion. The side surface portion has a first surface formed on a top portion of the side surface portion, and a second surface that is one step lowered from the first surface by a cutout portion formed in the top portion. The joining member extends along the first surface to bridge over the cutout portion. The wiring member is joined to the joining member at a position of the first surface, and passes through the cutout portion in a state where the wiring member is not joined to the second surface.
US12225819B2

Embodiments of the present invention relate to an organic electronic device capable of ensuring high luminous efficiency, low driving voltage and high heat resistance, and improving color purity or lifespan.
US12225807B2

A display apparatus includes a first pad at one side of a substrate; a first semiconductor layer on the substrate; a first crack detection electrode interposed between the substrate and the first semiconductor layer, and including a first end portion at the one side and a second end portion at another side; a second crack detection electrode disposed on the first semiconductor layer, and including a first end portion located at the one side and a second end portion connected to the second end portion of the first crack detection electrode; and a first auxiliary electrode disposed on the second conductive layer, and including a first end portion connected to the second end portion of the first crack detection electrode and a second end portion electrically connected to the first pad.
US12225797B2

A microcavity pixel design and fabrication method for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) array with a high aperture ratio suitable for a light field display. This is achieved by laterally overlapping intermediate electrodes and optical filler layers, reducing the lateral spacing. The OLED layers in the design have a uniform white OLED stack, allowing each layer to be deposited across the OLED array, simplifying fabrication. The optical path length for each subpixel's optical microcavity is optimized through the thickness of the optical filler layers, allowing the white OLED stack to be uniform, reducing fabrication complexities.
US12225789B2

A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, first color sub-pixels, data lines, and first power signal lines located on the base substrate. Each first color sub-pixel includes an organic light emitting element including a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode. The data lines are located between the second electrode and the base substrate. The first power signal lines are disposed in the same layer as the data lines. The display substrate further includes a first pad block disposed in the same layer as the data lines; the second electrode of each first color sub-pixel is overlapped with the data line, the first power signal line and the first pad block; and the first power signal line and the first pad block are located at both sides of the data line.
US12225788B2

A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area positioned outside the display area; a first power supply line positioned in the peripheral area; a first insulating layer positioned on the first power supply line; and a second power supply line positioned on the first insulating layer in the peripheral area. The first power supply line includes a first main wire extending in a first direction and a first sub-wire diverging toward the display area from the first main wire, the second power supply line includes a second main wire extending in the first direction and a second sub-wire diverging toward the display area from the second main wire, the first main wire includes an internal edge positioned near the first sub-wire and an external edge facing the internal edge, and the second main wire does not overlap the internal edge in a plan view.
US12225781B2

An array substrate is provided. A respective pixel driving circuit of the array substrate includes a driving transistor, a storage capacitor, and a transistor having a gate electrode connected to a respective second gate line of a plurality of second gate lines, a first electrode connected to a first capacitor electrode of the storage capacitor, and a second electrode connected to a second electrode of a first reset transistor, the transistor being configured to receive a reset signal through the first reset transistor. An active layer of the driving transistor and an active layer of the transistor are spaced apart from each other by at least an insulating layer. The active layer of the driving transistor comprises a first semiconductor material. The active layer of the transistor comprises a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material.
US12225780B2

A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The method includes: forming a pixel definition layer transitional pattern on a base substrate, the pixel definition layer transitional pattern being provided at a lateral surface with an undercut; forming a common layer, which is broken at the undercut, on the base substrate; removing the undercut to obtain a pattern of a pixel definition layer; and forming a cathode on the base substrate.
US12225774B2

A display device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a first pixel-defining layer disposed on the first electrode, the first pixel-defining layer having a first opening exposing at least a portion of the first electrode and including a pigment, and a second pixel-defining layer disposed on the first pixel-defining layer and including a dye.
US12225763B2

[Object] To make it possible to improve light extraction efficiency while realizing a desired viewing angle characteristic for each pixel. [Solution] Provided is a display device, including: a plurality of light emitting sections formed on a substrate; and reflectors provided above the light emitting sections with respect to the plurality of light emitting sections positioned in at least a partial region of a display surface, lower surfaces of the reflectors reflecting part of emission light from the light emitting sections. The light emitting sections and the reflectors are arranged in a state in which centers of the reflectors are shifted from centers of luminescence surfaces of the light emitting sections in a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction so that light emitted in a direction other than a desired direction among the emission light from the light emitting sections is reflected.
US12225758B2

A display device includes: a resin layer on the circuit layer including a groove surrounding and separating a display area; light-emitting elements on an upper surface of the resin layer so as to emit light with luminances controlled by the currents; a sealing layer covering the light-emitting elements; a second substrate above the sealing layer; a sealing material provided between the sealing layer and the second substrate so as to surround the display area and the groove; and a filling layer surrounded by the sealing material between the sealing layer and the second substrate. The groove is formed along a line describing a shape that is inscribed in a rectangle and not in contact with corners of the rectangle as viewed in a direction vertical to the upper surface of the resin layer.
US12225744B2

The invention concerns a hybrid multispectral device comprising a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, at least one first functional element having a first functional layer operable to detect or emit light of a first wavelength range, and at least one second functional element having a second functional layer operable to detect or emit light of a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range. The first functional element is arranged on the first surface of the substrate, while the second functional element is arranged on the second surface of the substrate. The first functional element is arranged in a first lateral region of the multispectral device, and the second functional element is arranged in a second lateral region of the multispectral device. The first lateral region and the second lateral region are arranged laterally offset from each other such that the light of the second wavelength region reaches the second functional element or the light of the second wavelength region emitted from the second functional element exits the multispectral device on the first surface of the substrate without having passed through the first functional layer.
US12225731B2

A memory cell includes a transistor including a memory film extending along a word line; a channel layer extending along the memory film, wherein the memory film is between the channel layer and the word line; a source line extending along the memory film, wherein the memory film is between the source line and the word line; a first contact layer on the source line, wherein the first contact layer contacts the channel layer and the memory film; a bit line extending along the memory film, wherein the memory film is between the bit line and the word line; a second contact layer on the bit line, wherein the second contact layer contacts the channel layer and the memory film; and an isolation region between the source line and the bit line.
US12225729B2

An SONOS memory cell includes a silicon substrate. A tunnel silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a silicon oxide layer are disposed from bottom to top on the silicon substrate. The silicon oxide layer includes two first silicon oxide layers and a second silicon oxide layer. A thickness of the silicon oxide layer is smaller than a thickness of each of the first silicon oxide layers. A control gate covers and contacts the silicon oxide layer. A first source/drain doping region and a second source/drain doping region are respectively disposed at two sides of the control gate. The silicon oxide layer has a cross section. The second silicon oxide layer is sandwiched between the two first silicon oxide layers on the cross section.
US12225728B2

A semiconductor memory device includes an electrode structure, a plurality of channel posts, and at least one gate separation layer. The electrode structure includes insulating interlayers and gate conductive layers which are alternately stacked. The channel posts are formed through the electrode structure. The gate separation layer is formed between the channel posts. The gate separation layer separates an uppermost gate conductive layer among the gate conductive layers. Each channel post among the channel posts adjacent to the gate separation layer has a gibbous moon shape in a planar view. The semiconductor memory device further includes a slit structure arranged at both sides of the gate separation layer. The slit structure is formed through the electrode structure. Each channel post among the channel posts adjacent to the slit structure has a gibbous moon shape in the planar view.
US12225724B2

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first insulation layer and a first sacrificial layer are alternately and repeatedly formed on a substrate to form a mold layer. A sacrificial layer structure is formed on the mold layer to include an etch stop layer and a second sacrificial layer sequentially stacked. After forming a hard mask on the sacrificial layer structure, the sacrificial layer structure and the mold layer are etched by a dry etching process using the hard mask as an etching mask to form a channel hole exposing an upper surface of the substrate and form a recess on a sidewall of the second sacrificial layer adjacent to the channel hole. A memory channel structure is formed in the channel hole. The first sacrificial layer is replaced with a gate electrode.
US12225710B2

A memory device includes a substrate, an active layer spaced apart from a surface of the substrate and laterally oriented in a first direction and including an opened first side, a closed second side, and a channel layer between the first side and the second side, and a word line laterally oriented in a second direction crossing the first direction while surrounding the channel layer.
US12225704B2

A semiconductor device including: a first level including at least four independently controlled first memory arrays, where the first level includes first transistors; a second level disposed on top of the first level, where the second level includes second memory arrays; and a third level disposed on top of the second level, where the third level includes third transistors and a plurality of third metal layers, where the third level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonding regions and a plurality of metal to metal bonding regions, where the first level includes first filled holes, where the second level includes second filled holes, where the second filled holes are aligned to the first filled holes with a more than 1 nm but less than 40 nm alignment error, and where the third level includes at least one SRAM memory array.
US12225703B2

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first sacrificial and first active layer on a substrate; forming a first mask pattern on a portion of the substrate; etching the first sacrificial and first active layer partially using the first mask pattern to expose a portion of a top surface of the substrate; forming a semiconductor layer on the exposed top surface of the substrate; forming sacrificial layers and active layers on the first active and semiconductor layer, the active layers including an uppermost second active layer; forming a second mask pattern on a portion of the second active layer; forming a trench using the second mask pattern, the trench defining a first and second active pattern; and removing the sacrificial layers to form a first and second channel patterns on the first and second active patterns, respectively, wherein the first active pattern includes the semiconductor layer.
US12225702B2

A dual-port static random access memory (SRAM) cell is provided. The dual-port SRAM cell includes: P-type active patterns that are spaced apart from one another along a first direction, each of the P-type active patterns extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and including at least one transistor. The P-type active patterns include first through sixth P-type active patterns which are sequentially arranged along the first direction. A first cutting area is provided between the second P-type active pattern and a first boundary of the dual-port SRAM cell that extends along the first direction, and a second cutting area is provided between the fifth P-type active pattern and a second boundary that is opposite to the first boundary and extends along the first direction.
US12225701B1

A lightweight radiation shielding material. A carbon nanotube forest is embedded in a matrix comprising nanoparticulates, such as nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, or graphene nanosheets. The nanoparticulates can be low atomic number (low-Z) or high atomic number (high-Z). The matrix can be a solidified polymer, epoxy, resin, or ceramic precursor, for example silicon carbide. The radiation shield can shield an object from radio frequency interference (RFI), lightning, electromagnetic interference (EMI), an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons, and/or protons. The nanoforest is disposed on a conductive base with sufficient in-plane electrical conductivity to provide an effective conductive path for currents induced by radiation absorption. The base can be a second nanoforest comprising horizontally-oriented carbon nanotubes, which makes the shield particularly lightweight, as low as 10% of the mass of aluminum that provides equivalent shielding. The base can be adhered to an object to be shielded.
US12225699B2

An electronic device includes an electronic component on ae printed circuit board, an electrical shield extended around the electronic component and defining an opening corresponding to the electronic component, a heat diffusion pattern on the electronic component, and a shielding sheet which extends across the opening of the electrical shield and commonly overlaps the electronic component, the electrical shield and the heat diffusion pattern. The shielding sheet includes a first heat diffusion member which is inside the opening of the electrical shield and contacts the heat diffusion pattern, and a second heat diffusion member which is attached to the first heat diffusion member, extends across the opening of the electrical shield and contacts both an upper portion of the electrical shield and the first heat diffusion member.
US12225689B2

A cooling system for the liquid immersion cooling of electronic components. The system includes a container containing, in an interior, liquid heat transfer fluid into which electronic components are immersed, the container having a gas space above the surface of the liquid heat transfer fluid, and a heat exchanger device in the gas space of the container for forming liquid heat transfer fluid. The cooling system further includes a lock device on the container for exchanging electronic components, and the lock device has a lock space, which lock space is hermetically sealed with respect to the gas space of the container to prevent gas exchange.
US12225684B2

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the openings having a varied size so that the motherboard slides between released and engaged positions. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position.
US12225683B2

A thermal module for being disposed in an electronic device comprises a driving device and at least one thermal device. The driving device includes a driving member and a driven member which are connected together, wherein the driving member is adapted to drive the driven member to operate. The at least one thermal device includes a fan, wherein two opposite ends of the fan respectively have a mating portion and a connecting portion. The mating portion is adapted to be connected to the driven member, so that the driving member drives the driven member to drive the fan to rotate. The connecting portion of the fan is adapted to be connected to the mating portion of a fan of another thermal device, so that when the driving member drives the fan to rotate, the fan drives the fan of the another thermal device to rotate.
US12225673B2

A foldable display apparatus includes a display panel having a light-emitting element disposed thereon, a cover window disposed on top of the display panel, a bottom plate disposed beneath the display panel, a bellows for supporting at least a portion of the bottom plate, a first support coupled with one end of the bellows, and an edge coupled with the other end of the bellows.
US12225671B2

An electronic control unit includes a connector, a first board, and a second board. The first board includes an inner-layer conductor. The second board includes an inner-layer conductor and provided with a control circuit. A thickness of the inner-layer conductor of the first board is thicker than a thickness of the inner-layer conductor of the second board. The thickness of the inner-layer conductor of the first board is 1.7 to 2.3 times the thickness of the inner-layer conductor of the second board.
US12225665B2

A circuit system and method of manufacturing a printed circuit board includes providing an integrated circuit package mounted on a first side of a printed circuit board and a power regulator connected to power terminals of the integrated circuit package through a cutout in the printed circuit board. The power regulator draws power from the printed circuit board by way of side pins around a periphery of the cutout.
US12225661B2

A multilayer substrate includes an insulator that includes a first region and a second region that is thinner than the first region, and a first signal line and a second signal line that are structured to extend across the first region and the second region. In a region in which the first signal line and the second signal line face each other, a line width of the first signal line and a line width of the second signal line are smaller in the second region than in the first region, and a distance between the first signal line and the second signal line is smaller in the second region than in the first region.
US12225637B1

A curved surface heating device comprising a curved panel-shaped protective layer, with a conductive layer formed on one side of the protective layer, wherein the conductive layer comprises a conductive metal or a carbon-based material, wherein a volume percentage of the conductive metal is between 30% and 60% and a volume percentage of the carbon-based material is between 30% and 60%, and wherein a thickness of the conductive layer is within 50 micrometers (μm).
US12225636B2

A self-regulating far-infrared carbon fiber composite planar electrothermal material and manufacturing method therefor, where the material is composed of two reinforced insulating layers, two insulating layers, two self-regulating layers and a heating layer, is formed by high-temperature hot pressing, impregnation and curing, and further comprises a connecting terminal and a power supply lead. The connecting terminal is riveted on copper electrodes at two ends of the self-regulating far-infrared carbon fiber composite planar electrothermal material, and the power supply lead is snap-fitted on a wiring groove of the connecting terminal. The electrothermal material uses a three-dimensional conductive network with a stable physical structure of carbon fiber conductive paper, which effectively avoids unstable heating performance, short service life, and fire hazards that may be caused in the self-regulating planar heating material.
US12225633B2

A road-side unit (RSU) device receives a first request from a vehicle that moves along a travel path. The vehicle includes an edge device. A second request is communicated to an inference server based on the received first request. The second request includes an input feature corresponding to sensing information of the vehicle. A response is received from the inference server based on the communicated second request. The response includes wireless connectivity enhanced information including specific initial access information, and the specific initial access information enables the RSU devices to bypass an initial access search on the RSU device, and direct at least one specific beam of radio frequency (RF) signal to the edge device of the vehicle based on the wireless connectivity enhanced information.
US12225631B2

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for allocating a User Equipment (UE) identifier, and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: a preset functional entity or module allocates a UE identifier; the UE identifier is associated with an identifier of the UE in a wireless network system for information interaction between a network side device and the preset functional entity or module.
US12225629B2

A wireless device system can include lighting devices, sensing devices, and other wireless devices in a wireless mesh local area network. The devices are configured for rapid provisioning with provisioned site network data by using a process in which each device stores data for a default provisioning network, and a provisioning device, for example a smart phone or other mobile device, is used to wirelessly connect with at least one of the devices in the default provisioning network, enabling distant wireless devices to be reached by relay of messages in the default provisioning network. Devices can be individually provided a new network address, for example, from the provisioned site network data, and all devices are provided remaining data from the provisioned site network data using the mesh network broadcast feature, thus provisioning and switching devices near simultaneously from the default provisioning network to the provisioned site network.
US12225628B2

There is provided mechanisms for remote provisioning of a SIM profile to a subscriber entity. A method is performed by a remote SIM provisioning server. The method includes obtaining a request from an MNO entity for generation of the SIM profile. The method includes generating the SIM profile. The method includes providing, to a storage entity, a key-value pair of the SIM profile. The key-value pair includes a unique identifier including at least one profile specific element of the SIM profile as key and binding information of the at least one profile specific element as value. The unique identifier including at least one profile specific element of the SIM profile is represented by an ICCID of the SIM profile. The binding information of the at least one profile specific element is represented by an EID and profile/subscription unique data elements for the SIM profile.
US12225626B2

The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a network exposure function (NEF) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a Nnef_EventExposure_subscribe request message including a first non-subscription registration identifier (ID) from an application function (AF), transmitting a Namf_EventExposure_subscribe request message including the first non-subscription registration ID to a default unified data management (UDM), receiving a Namf_EventExposure_subscribe response message including a subscription correlation ID from the default UDM, transmitting a Nnef_EventExposure_subscribe response message including the subscription correlation ID to the AF, receiving a Namf_EventExposure_Notify message including a second non-subscription registration ID from the default UDM, and transmitting a Nnef_EventExposure_Notify message including the second non-subscription registration ID to the AF.
US12225625B2

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: selecting a first subscriber identity module from a plurality of subscriber identity modules of a user equipment; and transmitting a resume request message via the first subscriber identity module, wherein the resume request message comprises first radio access network (RAN)-based notification area (RNA) update information associated with the first subscriber identity module and second RNA update information associated with a second subscriber identity module of the plurality of subscriber identity modules.
US12225623B2

A telecommunications network provides selective roaming for user equipment (UE) devices registered to the network, allowing some UE devices to operate on a roaming network in some geographic regions and disallowing other UE devices to access roaming networks. The telecommunications network maintains mappings between UE devices and roaming permissions for each UE device. When a target UE device requests to attach to a roaming network, the roaming network passes the request, with an identifier of a particular geographic region in which the request was received, to the telecommunications network to query the mappings. If the mappings indicate the target UE device is authorized to access the roaming network in the particular geographic region, the telecommunications network allows the target UE device to attach to the roaming network.
US12225621B2

According to one configuration, multiple users in a tiered hierarchy share use of a wireless spectrum. For example, a spectrum access system receives a notification indicating that a first-priority tier 1 user in the hierarchy temporarily needs access to a first wireless spectrum assigned to a second-priority tier 2 user in the hierarchy. In response to the notification, the spectrum access system temporarily allocates the second-priority tier 2 user use of a second wireless spectrum. The spectrum access system protects use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-priority tier 2 user from a third-priority tier 3 user in the hierarchy. In certain instances, the one or more spectrum access systems receive the same notification of use of the first wireless spectrum by the first-priority tier 1 user. The multiple spectrum access systems not serving the second-priority tier 2 user protect the Tier 2 User from any Tier 3 Users in the hierarchy.
US12225603B2

This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies, to resolve problems of a long data transmission delay and high signaling overheads. A first access network device receives uplink user plane data from a user equipment in an inactive state, and sends an uplink control plane information element and the uplink user plane data to a second access network device through a same interface. The method is applied to a data transmission process.
US12225600B2

Embodiments include methods performed by a first network node configured to operate in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include determining a radio access technology (RAT)/Frequency Selection Priority (RFSP) index associated with a user equipment (UE) served by the first network node. Such methods include sending, to a second network node, a request for the second network node to establish dual connectivity with the UE as a secondary node (SN). The request includes the RFSP index. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by the second network node, as well as network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US12225592B2

Aspects are provided to support payloads for msgA transmission in a two-step random access (RACH) procedure by providing a one-to-many mapping arrangement between preambles and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource units (PRUs). A preamble is determined by the UE which is mapped to one or more groups of PRUs to support piggybacking of uplink control information (UCI), frequency hopping on PUSCH, and multiple-slot repetition for msgA transmissions. By piggybacking UCI to a payload in msgA, flexibility may be provided in the selection of MCS and waveform as well as resource allocation for demodulation reference signals (DMRS) and PUSCH in PRUs. Moreover, by allowing a payload to hop to different frequencies on PUSCH during the transmission of msgA, a gain in frequency diversity and interference averaging may be provided, and by enabling a payload to repeat across multiple slots in msgA transmission, coverage enhancement and/or reliability may be increased.
US12225588B2

A wireless station that belongs to a communication cell includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a trigger frame transmitted from an access point that belongs to an interference cell and a controller which, in operation, determines, based on at least one parameter included in the trigger frame and reception power value of the trigger frame received at the wireless station, whether the wireless station is allowed to transmit to other wireless station that belongs to the communication cell, wherein the at least one parameter includes a value set based on transmit power value of the trigger frame transmitted from the access point.
US12225587B2

Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver configured to transmit/receive a wireless signal and a processor configured to control an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a MAC frame including information on a plurality of wireless communication terminals that are to receive data from a base wireless communication terminal. The plurality of wireless communication terminals include the wireless communication terminal and receive data from the base wireless communication terminal based on the MAC frame.
US12225579B2

Methods and apparatuses for adaptive low-power sensing operations for sidelink (SL) communications in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes operating with partial sensing; operating in a resource pool configured for the partial sensing; and triggering for a SL resource selection in a slot n. The method further includes selecting Y candidate slots for the SL resource selection and performing, in a sensing window, a contiguous partial sensing (CPS). A first of the selected Y candidate slots is a slot t′y0SL. The sensing window is in contiguous slots within the resource pool relative to the slot t′y0SL.
US12225575B2

A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method may be applied to internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, or V2V, or may be applied to fields such as intelligent driving and an intelligent connected vehicle. The method includes: A first device determines a first resource and a second resource; and the first device sends or receives first data on a resource other than at least one time domain symbol on the first resource, and sends or receives control information on the second resource, when the first resource and the second resource overlap in the at least one time domain symbol; or the first device sends or receives first data on the first resource, and discards or skips receiving control information in at least one time domain symbol.
US12225571B2

A method, a system, and a computer program product for optimal link selection between user equipment and new radio stations in a non-standalone network. The method includes detecting a connection attempt by a user equipment to a non-standalone network that includes at least one base station and NR stations. The method also includes receiving connection data from the UE and connecting the UE to the base station. The method further includes determining an NR station from the NR stations based on channel quality measurements relating to the NR stations and the connection data of the UE using a prediction module that uses a machine learning model to predict the NR station. The channel quality measurements include cell range, uplink performance, cell capacity, and link quality. The method also includes connecting the UE to the NR station determined by the machine learning model.
US12225564B2

A wireless communication method, a source node and a target node are provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one candidate cell resource configuration, where the at least one candidate cell resource configuration is configured by a target node based on at least one triggering condition; in a case that the at least one triggering condition has a satisfied triggering condition, determining a candidate cell resource configuration associated with a target triggering condition in the satisfied triggering condition as a target cell resource configuration; and initiating a communication process associated with the target triggering condition, based on the target cell resource configuration.
US12225561B2

A network device sends downlink control information to a first terminal device. The downlink control information includes: time domain resource information, where the time domain resource is a time domain resource on which a first data channel is located; and frequency domain resource information, where the frequency domain resources are a frequency domain resource on which the first data channel is located and a frequency domain resource on which a second data channel is located. The second data channel is located on a time domain resource different from the time domain resource on which the first data channel is located. The first terminal device receives, on the determined time domain resource and frequency domain resource, a signal that is located on the first data channel and that is from the network device.
US12225555B2

A method disclosed includes receiving data from a plurality of data sources in a broadcast core network for transmission over a radio access network (RAN). The method includes assigning radio spectrum resources for transmitting the data over the RAN according to a policy guidance set by a plurality of network operators for sharing the radio spectrum resources and generating a baseband packet corresponding to the data at a distributed unit (DU) in the RAN. The method includes collecting transmission data from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in the RAN for training a machine learning algorithm and scheduling transmission of the generated baseband packet to a remote unit (RU) over a fronthaul in a radio topology of a plurality of radio topologies under control of the machine learning algorithm according to the policy guidance. The generated baseband packet is compatible for transmission in the plurality of radio technologies.
US12225551B2

Disclosed is a base station capable of appropriately configuring a resource on which an EPDCCH is located when soft combining is applied. The base station includes a configuration section that configures an EPDCCH set in a plurality of subframes, where the EPDCCH set is formed of ECCEs to which control information (assignment information) transmitted over the plurality of subframes is assigned. The base station includes an assignment section that assigns the control information to any of the ECCEs in each of the plurality of subframes.
US12225549B2

Methods and apparatuses for providing hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information. A method includes receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in a slot and receiving PDCCHs that schedule receptions of first multicast physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), respectively. A first number of the PDCCHs is not received after the first PDCCH, and a second number of the PDCCHs is received after the first PDCCH. The method further includes determining that transmission of a PUCCH to provide the HARQ-ACK information associated with receptions of multicast PDSCHs, that include the first multicast PDSCHs, would overlap in time with the PUSCH transmission in the slot and transmitting the PUSCH. The PUSCH includes first HARQ-ACK information associated with the first number of PDCCHs and does not include second HARQ-ACK information associated with the second number of PDCCHs.
US12225547B2

A method for generating a downlink control information (DCI) is provided. The method includes the following. Determine a length of each field in a target DCI based on a length of each field in each of expected DCIs corresponding to target cells respectively, where the length of each field in the target DCI is a length required to be compatible with corresponding fields in the expected DCIs. Construct a subfield for each field in the target DCI based on a preset correspondence to enable each subfield of each field in the target DCI to correspond to one of the target cells. Generate each field in the target DCI based on the length of each field in the target DCI and the preset correspondence, to form the target DCI.
US12225538B2

Data may be communicated during a connected state of the wireless device using configured resources. The wireless device may transition to an inactive state and/or an idle state. A release message, for transitioning the wireless device from the connected state, may indicate resource information for the wireless device to use to be able to send and/or receive data in the inactive state and/or in the idle state.
US12225534B2

The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the disclosure may receive information about a resource for uplink (UL) control information transmission and MA signature configuration, determine based on the resource for UL control information transmission whether the resource allocated for the UL control information transmission overlaps a resource allocated for UL data transmission, determine whether to multiplex the UL control information when it is determined that the resource allocated for the UL control information transmission overlaps the resource allocated for UL data transmission, and based on a result of the determining, multiplex the UL control information with UL data based on the information about the MA signature configuration and transmit a result of the multiplexing.
US12225532B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may generate information indicating a reference signal and a measurement report for a first sidelink between the first UE and a second UE. The first UE may use the information for a second sidelink between the first UE and the second UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12225530B2

Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to actions performed by a Radio Access Network (RAN) when redundancy is not available. In this regard, embodiments of a method performed by a RAN node are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a RAN node for RAN action when redundancy is not available comprises receiving, from a core network node, a request for a set of User Plane (UP) resources in the RAN. The method further comprises determining whether the request for the set of UP resources in the RAN can be met and sending, to the core network node, a response to the request for the set of UP resources that is based on whether the request for the set of UP resources in the RAN can be met.
US12225523B2

The present disclosure proposes a synchronization method for the DU transmission timing of the IAB node.
US12225519B2

Multi-link operations can provide higher network throughput and improved network flexibility compared to traditional techniques for wireless communication. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of frame transmission that prevents constrained MLDs from transmitting and receiving frames on multiple links simultaneously using a novel and reliable group addressed frame transmission schedule for constrained MLDs. Group addressed frames are frames that are transmitted to several devices (e.g., broadcast) listening on a wireless link. It is important to carefully schedule group addressed frames for reception by MLDs to prevent IDC interference. According to some embodiments, group addressed frames are only transmitted when all MLDs listening on a wireless link are not transmitting data to prevent IDC interference.
US12225518B2

This base station is provided with: a control circuit that generates information relating to a terminal group among a plurality of terminals, said terminal group being a target of transmission by non-orthogonal multiple access; and a transmission circuit that transmits the information relating to the terminal group during a period in which control information addressed to the plurality of terminals is transmitted.
US12225508B2

One or more transmission parameters for data transmission may be determined for wireless communications. A wireless device may determine transmission parameters for data transmission based on configuration associated with control signaling. For example, the transmission parameters (e.g., transmission beam, transmission power, etc.) may be determined based on a selected spatial relation, among multiple spatial relations, corresponding to a control channel.
US12225506B2

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for high-bandwidth stations in a WiFi environment. In embodiments, a bandwidth of communications supported by the access point is divided into multiple frequency segments. In an embodiment, bandwidths up to 320 MHz are supported, which can be subdivided into four frequency segments of 80 MHz each. Different stations park on different frequency segments, whereas the access point has its primary channel located on the first frequency segment. With this configuration, uplink and downlink channel access can be provided to the different stations using a primary channel hopping pattern, which is provided to the stations from the AP. This pattern provides time windows for each frequency segment, during which the stations in that segment are able to freely communicate. Several other aspects of the disclosure further support this configuration and other high-bandwidth configurations.
US12225501B1

Example embodiments relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable mediums for paging information and paging-related actions. A terminal device may receive via a first cell first paging information related to a second cell or another carrier of the first cell, and to perform a paging-related action via the second cell or said another carrier based on the first paging information. Synchronization signals are not transmitted in the second cell or said another carrier. The paging-related action may include monitoring for second paging information in the second cell or said another carrier if the first paging information includes a paging early indication, a wake-up signal, or a scheduling message for scheduling a paging message, or performing at least one action for transferring information via the second cell or said another carrier if the first paging information includes a paging message or a wake-up signal.
US12225493B2

A method for providing service based interface (SBI) support for network elements (NEs) not supporting SBI service operations includes receiving SBI configuration parameters for an NE not supporting SBI service operations. The method further includes establishing a connection with the NE not supporting SBI service operations. The method further includes registering, with a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) and using the SBI configuration parameters, the NE not supporting SBI service operations. The method further includes monitoring, over the connection, status of the NE not supporting SBI service operations. The method further includes updating, with the NRF, the status of the NE not supporting SBI service operations.
US12225492B2

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for paging multi-SIM devices in the same network. One apparatus includes a first subscriber identity module (“SIM”), a second SIM, a processor and a transceiver that communicates with at least one communication network. The processor registers with a first communication network using the first SIM and registers with a second communication network using the second SIM. Here, the registration with the first communication network is associated with a first identifier, wherein registering with the second communication network includes indicating the first identifier to the second communication network upon determining that the first communication network and the second communication network are the same communication network.
US12225486B2

A method of a first UE comprises: determining a sidelink synchronization identity (SL-SID) and a set of resources; generating at least one sidelink synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (S-SSB) based on the SL-SID and the set of resources, wherein each S-SSB of the at least one S-SSB includes first two symbols for a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS) and second two symbols for a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS); generating a first sequence corresponding to the S-PSS, wherein the first sequence is determined based on a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulated M-sequence with a 127 of sequence length and a low cross-correlation with a PSS; generating a second sequence corresponding to the S-SSS, wherein the second sequence is determined based on a BPSK modulated Gold-sequence with a 127 of sequence length; and transmitting, the at least one S-SSB over sidelink channels established with the second UE.
US12225458B2

Methods and apparatuses for same power transmissions. The method includes receiving first information indicating use of a same power for transmission of a channel over more than one slot and second information indicating use of a same power, after a change in power, for transmission of the channel over more than one slot. The method further includes determining a first number of consecutive slots, a second number of consecutive slots, from the first number of consecutive slots, for transmission of the channel with a same power, and a third number of consecutive slots, from the first number of consecutive slots and after the second number of consecutive slots, for transmission of the channel with a same power. The method further includes transmitting the channel with a first power in slots from the second number of consecutive slots and a second power in slots from the third number of consecutive slots.
US12225446B2

A signal transfer control apparatus that performs a control operation to switch a plurality of communication paths constituted by a plurality of signal transfer apparatuses transferring a signal includes: a fixed delay information acquisition unit that acquires fixed delay information for each of the plurality of communication paths; a traffic information acquisition unit that acquires traffic information indicating a traffic volume or each of the plurality of communication paths; a probability density function estimation unit that estimates a probability density function of a traffic volume of each of the plurality of communication paths based on the traffic information; an occurrence probability estimation unit that estimates an occurrence probability of variable delay in each of the plurality of communication paths based on the probability density function of each of the plurality of communication paths; a communication path calculation unit that performs a calculation for specifying a communication path which is highly likely to satisfy a predetermined delay condition based on the occurrence probability of the variable delay in each of the plurality of communication paths and the fixed delay information for each of the plurality of communication paths; and a setting instruction unit that outputs a setting instruction for switching a transfer destination of a signal to at least any one of the signal transfer apparatuses so that the signal is transferred via the communication path specified by the calculation performed by the communication path calculation unit.
US12225438B2

A method, performed by a first user equipment (UE), of performing unicast communication includes transmitting a direct communication request message, generating a profile for a PC5 unicast link, receiving, from a second UE, a response message based on a result of establishment of the PC5 unicast link; and transmitting, to the second UE, a data message over the PC5 unicast link based on the response message, wherein the profile includes at least one of a Layer-2 identifier (ID) of the first UE, an application layer ID of the first UE, a Layer-2 ID of the second UE, an application layer ID of the second UE, PC5 5th generation (5G) Quality of Service (QoS) Indicator (PQI), or PC5 QoS Flow identifier (PFI) associated with the PQI.
US12225420B2

A measurement method of a non-connected state user-side device, a measurement method of a non-connected state user-side device and a user-side device are provided. The method includes: acquiring, by the user-side device, non-connected state measurement configuration information; performing, by the user-side device, a non-connected state measurement according to the non-connected state measurement configuration information. According to the present disclosure, based on the non-connected state measurement configuration information, the user-side device may help the network-side device to select a suitable user-side device to perform the non-connected state measurement, thereby achieving the measurement of the non-connected state user-side device. In addition, the non-connected state measurement configuration information may include inter-frequency measurement configuration information, thereby achieving an inter-frequency measurement and saving resources of the user-side device during the measurement.
US12225414B2

This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for one or more wireless devices to gain access to a wireless channel of a radio frequency spectrum band. In some aspects, a recurring coordinated medium interval is defined in the time domain and associated with the wireless channel. The coordinated medium interval includes a first time period, which may be referred to as a common reservation window, and a second time period, which may be referred to as a scheduled medium access window. During the first time period, access points (APs) attempting to gain access to the wireless channel may transmit reservation signals to reserve one or more scheduled service periods within the second time period of the same coordinated medium interval. The scheduled service periods reserved by an individual AP may be used for UL/DL communications between that AP and its associated stations (STAs).
US12225409B2

For data transmission when a communication manner between the network device and a plurality of terminal devices is switched from a unicast manner to a multicast manner, a data transmission method includes: A network device sends first indication information to a first terminal device, where the first indication information includes a first sequence number (SN), and the first indication information is used to indicate the first terminal device to receive a data packet in a multicast manner. The network device sends the data packet to the first terminal device and a second terminal device in the multicast manner based on the first SN.
US12225402B2

A network entity for controlling distribution of slice service level agreement (SLA) information of a network slice in a mobile communication network is provided, wherein the network entity is configured to: obtain a plurality of slice SLA indications, wherein each slice SLA indication is obtained from a network control entity of a first plurality of network control entities; and provide to a network control entity local slice SLA information, wherein the local slice SLA information is based on the obtained plurality of slice SLA indications. A network control entity for supporting distribution of slice service level agreement (SLA) information for a mobile communication network is provided, wherein the network control entity is configured to: provide a plurality of slice SLA indications to a network entity for controlling distribution of slice SLA information of a network slice; obtain local slice SLA information related to a network slice from a second entity, wherein the local slice SLA information is based on the obtained plurality of slice SLA indications.
US12225392B2

A terminal includes a transmitter that transmits a random access preamble; a receiver that receives a random access response; and a controller that uses a spatial filter applied to the transmission of the random access preamble for a transmission of an uplink control signal, in a time interval after the receiver receives the random access response until the receiver receives configuration information of another spatial filter.
US12225390B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sharing machine learning models and an indication of transmission and reception points (TRPs) for which the machine learning models are applicable between wireless nodes such as user equipments (UEs) and base stations (BSs). For example, a UE receives an indication of one or more machine learning models associated with at least one TRP of one or more TRPs from a BS. The UE then uses the at least one of the one or more machine learning models for applications related to the at least one TRP. The applications may include a channel state information (CSI) compression, a cross frequency channel prediction, and a beam selection.
US12225387B2

Communications devices are disclosed. A communications device includes an unlicensed national information infrastructure frequency range 1 (U-NII-1) to U-NII-2A transceiver coupled to a first antenna though a U-NII-1 to U-NII-2A coexistence filter, and a U-NII-2C to U-NII-8 transceiver coupled to a second antenna though a U-NII-2C to U-NII-8 coexistence filter.
US12225386B2

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12225375B2

A method of handling authentication reject upon accessing an SNPN using credentials from a credential holder is proposed. A UE is configured with a “list of subscriber data”. The UE selects an SNPN using the configured list of subscriber data, e.g., based on the SNPN selection parameters contained in a selected entry of the list of subscriber data. Based on the selected entry, the UE selects an SNPN, and then tries to access the selected SNPN using credentials supplied by a subscribed SNPN. When UE receives an authentication reject message from the network, UE considers that the selected entry of the list of subscriber data is invalid. However, other entries related to the current selected SNPN are still valid. UE is still able to access the current selected SNPN, using credentials supplied in another entry of the list of subscriber data.
US12225367B2

An apparatus to realize the virtual height and surround effect. The apparatus includes at least an input source, a processor and front speaker. The input source provides the input signals on front, surround and height channels input into the processor in which a beamforming, channel separation and/or virtual-height effect are applied on each of the source channels, respectively. After the processing, all produced output channels output by the processor are arranged and combined into existing speakers of the soundbar.
US12225362B2

An electronic device for transmitting audio data to a plurality of external electronic devices, and a method for controlling same are provided. The electronic device includes an audio module, a communication module, and a processor. The processor can control the communication module to identify connections between the electronic device and the plurality of external electronic devices, identify properties of each of the plurality of external electronic devices connected to the electronic device, and control the audio module and the communication module so as to transmit audio data having a designated volume level to each of the plurality of external electronic devices according to the identified properties of the plurality of external electronic devices.
US12225347B2

The present disclosure may provide a sound-producing device comprising a diaphragm and a housing. The housing may include a first sound guide hole and a second sound guide hole. The diaphragm may be disposed in the housing. When a user wears the sound-producing device, a distance between the first sound guide hole and the ear canal opening may be smaller than a distance between the diaphragm and the ear canal opening, a range of an included angle between a connection line between the first sound guide hole and the second sound guide hole and a connection line between the center of mass of the diaphragm and the ear canal opening may be smaller than 45°, and a distance between the second sound guide hole and the ear canal opening may be greater than the distance between the diaphragm and the ear canal opening.
US12225346B2

A multiple-driver adapter having a plane wave equalizer according to the present invention may include: a cube body; a high-pitched driver provided on one surface of the cube body and a medium-pitched driver provided on the other surface; a horn unit vertically disposed in the high-pitched driver and the medium-pitched driver, and partially disposed at output units of the high-pitched and medium-pitched drivers, and having a fore end exposed to one surface of the cube body; and at least one equalizer provided in the cube body and reducing sound interference.
US12225341B2

A flexible arm that is configured to be located between and physically and electrically connect an acoustic module of an open-ear headphone to a battery housing of the open-ear headphone. The flexible arm defines an original resting length and position between the acoustic module and the battery housing. The flexible arm includes a flexible printed circuit that extends through the entire original resting length of the flexible arm and comprises a conductor that is configured to carry electrical energy between the acoustic module and the battery housing, and a flexible material that encases at least some of the flexible printed circuit. The length of the flexible printed circuit within the flexible arm is greater than the original resting length of the flexible arm. The flexible printed circuit can thus better accommodate tension or compression on the flexible arm as the flexible arm is bent from its original resting position.
US12225340B2

A sonic ranging method for a mobile phone and a wireless earphone. Firstly, the mobile phone performs an acoustic response test on the wireless earphone. The mobile phone generates a first audio sequence at a first time slot. The wireless earphone recognizes the first audio sequence to generate a second audio sequence. When the mobile phone recognizes the second audio sequence, the mobile phone estimates a length of elapsed time according to the time difference between a current time slot and the first time slot. When the mobile phone obtains the length of elapsed time, a distance between the wireless earphone and the mobile phone may be determined according to a delay compensation parameter and the length of elapsed time. Various potential applications can be implemented based on the invention without the needs for additional hardware circuits in the mobile phone.
US12225324B2

An electronic device includes a communication module, a display, a memory, and at least one processor connected to the communication module, the display, and the memory. The at least one processor is configured to identify an external electronic device connectable to the electronic device based on video calling and content execution, identify at least one function executable in the external electronic device among functions associated with video calling and content execution, identify, based on device configuration information of the electronic device and device configuration information of the external electronic device, a function to be executed in the external electronic device among the at least one function executable in the external electronic device, and transmit, to the external electronic device via the communication module, information corresponding to the function to be executed in the external electronic device.
US12225322B2

A recording apparatus includes the following. A timekeeper keeps time. A recorder records data. At least one processor is configured to perform, associating the time at a timing that the data is recorded in the recorder to the data as recorded time, the time based on the kept time kept by the timekeeper, obtaining modified time regarding modification of the kept time, and in a situation that it is determined that a predetermined condition to determine whether there is a possibility that the modified time is before the recorded time associated to the latest data is satisfied, associating the time in which the kept time is not modified based on the modified time to the data recorded thereafter as the recorded time.
US12225320B2

Plural cameras cooperate to define an overlap of fields of view that consolidate to provide an extended field of view communicated to an information handling system. The plural cameras stitch the non-overlapping portions into a consolidated visual image by reference to a landmark captured by both cameras in the overlapping portion, such as a reference marker placed in the extended field of view. The plural cameras coordinate through a wireless interface or with a daisy chain of communication cables to share the overlap boundary, resolution compatibility and an architecture for communicating the consolidated field of view with the information handling system.
US12225314B2

An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of a high-speed operation is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, and can retain analog data obtained by an image capturing operation in pixels and extract data obtained by multiplying the analog data by a given weight coefficient. In the imaging device, the data is stored in a memory cell and pooling processing of data stored in a plurality of memory cells can be performed. The pixels are provided so as to have a region overlapping with at least one of the memory cells, a pooling processing circuit, and a reading circuit of the pixels; thus, an increase in the area of the imaging device can be inhibited even with an additional function.
US12225313B2

An image capturing device including a pixel chip having pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a signal processing chip having a first control block including a first converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel in at least a first pixel block into a digital signal, and a first storage unit storing the digital signal, and a second control block next to the first control block in a column direction and including a second converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel included in at least a second pixel block into a digital signal, and a second storage unit storing the digital signal, wherein the second converting unit and the second storage unit in the second control block are reversed vertically to the first converting unit and the first storage unit in the first control block.
US12225306B2

A clock generation circuit, comprising a first RC circuit, a first switch, a second RC circuit, a second switch, a comparator and a logic circuit. The first RC circuit comprises a first capacitor, coupled to a first predetermined voltage level and a second predetermined voltage level. The second RC circuit comprises a second capacitor, coupled to the first switch. The comparator comprises: a first input terminal, coupled to the second RC circuit and the second switch; a second input terminal, configured to receive a reference voltage level; and an output terminal, coupled to a control terminal of the first switch and a control terminal of the second switch. The logic circuit is coupled to the output terminal of the comparator, configured to generate a clock signal. In one embodiment, the clock generation circuit is applied to an image sensor.
US12225301B2

Systems and methods are described for optical processing. According to some aspects an optical processing apparatus may include a pixelated photodiode array (PDA), each pixel in the PDA includes a radiation detector. The apparatus also includes a read out integrated circuit (ROIC) that includes a logic circuit and a plurality of switch elements. The plurality of switch elements being switchable between an armed state for arming its corresponding radiation detector and transmitting a signal received from the corresponding detector to the ROIC, and a disarmed state for disarming its corresponding detector and blocking transmittal of the signal, wherein in the armed state, the PDA is configured to detect an incoming optical signal and in the disarmed state, the PDA is configured to disregard the incoming optical signal. Moreover, the logic circuit controls a switch state of a selectable switch element associated with a radiation detector.
US12225293B2

A phenotyping device, method and system for measuring phenotypic traits of one or more plants in a target canopy, wherein the includes a canopy spreader for spreading the target canopy, a camera unit, a means for controlling the angle and the distance of the camera unit in relation to the canopy spreader, an electronic control unit for controlling the camera unit. The phenotyping device, method and system enables recording the raw data from the target canopy during a data collection session including information of the plants that are not visible to a camera unit without spreading the canopy.
US12225292B2

An electronic device according to an embodiment includes: an ultra-wide band (UWB) communication module including a plurality of antennas, and a processor operatively connected to the UWB communication module, wherein the processor is configured to: measure a first coordinate of a first external device and a second coordinate of a second external device generated based on signals received from the first external device and the second external device using the plurality of antennas, generate a first coordinate system based on the electronic device corresponding to the measured first coordinate and second coordinate, and regenerate a second coordinate system through reconfiguration of the first coordinate system based on the first external device.
US12225289B2

A method, system, and computer program product for determining a core-to-ferrule offset of a ferrule for a fiber optic connector. A reference ferrule is physically aligned with a core imager by positioning the reference ferrule so that edges of the reference ferrule in a plurality of profile images are aligned with fiducial markers in the images. The reference ferrule is incrementally rotated about its longitudinal center access, a core image captured at each rotational angle, and a reference core-to-ferrule offset determined based on the core images. A test ferrule is physically aligned with the core imager by positioning the test ferrule so that edges of the test ferule are aligned with the edges of the reference ferrule in a plurality of profile images. The core-to-ferrule offset of the test ferrule is then determined based on an offset between the test and reference cores in a composite core image.
US12225282B2

Provided is an imaging system including an imager configured to image a ridable moving object positioned at a registered photo spot, and a processor configured to execute a program to cause a guide to guide the ridable moving object on which a user gets and which is positioned near the photo spot to a recommended position in the photo spot.
US12225280B2

The technology disclosed relates to adjusting the monitored field of view of a camera and/or a view of a virtual scene from a point of view of a virtual camera based on the distance between tracked objects. For example, if the user's hand is being tracked for gestures, the closer the hand gets to another object, the tighter the frame can become—i.e., the more the camera can zoom in so that the hand and the other object occupy most of the frame. The camera can also be reoriented so that the hand and the other object remain in the center of the field of view. The distance between two objects in a camera's field of view can be determined and a parameter adjusted based thereon. In particular, the pan and/or zoom levels of the camera may be adjusted in accordance with the distance.
US12225264B2

The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for dynamic secondary content insertion into streaming content. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for efficient transcoding and insertion of transcoded secondary content (e.g., advertisements or “ads”) into streamed primary content. Transcoded versions of content are associated and stored with a mezzanine version content identifier. Secondary content selection/insertion indications may use this identifier to select a secondary content independent of a particular transcoded version.
US12225254B2

A spoiler prevention system and method on streaming applications and other interactive platforms whereby hen the spoiler prevention system is active, spouses, friends, or other groups having multiple members, will not be able to watch new episodes of selected programs unless both parties are present at the location that the program is being viewed which may be determined by two separate codes entered by the parties, or that a computing device belonging to both parties is in proximity with one another or a streaming device, or by the parties logging into the mobile application on their computing devices.
US12225252B2

In some embodiments, a method generates a first representation of a first relationship between bitrate and quality based on first features of a first portion of a video. Also, the method generates a second representation of a second relationship between bitrate and quality based on second features of a second portion of a video. The first representation is analyzed to determine a first list of bitrates for the first portion of video and the second representation is analyzed to determine a second list of bitrates for the second portion of video. The first list of bitrates is different from the second list of bitrates. The method outputs the first list of bitrates for use encoding the first portion of video and the second list of bitrates for use encoding the second portion of video.
US12225244B2

Methods, systems, and media for selectively presenting broadcast content based on user interests are provided. In some implementations a method for selectively presenting broadcast content is provided, the method comprising: receiving user information; associating one or more athletes, each on a roster of a team in a sports organization, with the user based on the user information; identifying broadcast programs that a user device can present; determining broadcast programs that depict a game between teams in the sports organization that are relevant to an athlete associated with the user based on program metadata; receiving event metadata for the relevant broadcast programs that is indicative of events in the game depicted therein; determining that a portion of the first broadcast program is relevant to a first entity based on the event metadata; and causing the user device to present the portion of the first broadcast.
US12225235B2

A video coding device may be configured to signal reference picture lists according to one or more of the techniques described herein. In one example, a method of decoding video data comprises: receiving reference picture list syntax elements; and parsing a syntax element specifying a value of a picture order count delta in the reference picture list syntax elements, wherein the syntax element is defined by i in a range of 0 to a number of entries in the reference picture list syntax elements, wherein: in case that a value i is not equal to zero, the picture order count delta is set to a value of the syntax element defined by i, wherein i is the number of entries in the reference picture list syntax elements, and in a case that a value i is equal to zero, the picture order count delta is set to a value of the syntax element plus one.
US12225227B2

According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an encoded pixel block to which an inter prediction is applied. The method includes selecting one or more available blocks from the motion reference block. The method includes selecting a selection block from the available blocks. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information specifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available blocks.
US12225226B2

A program map table in a transport stream comprising an elementary stream identifier indicating a particular elementary stream, a high dynamic range flag indicating the presence or absence of high dynamic range content within the elementary stream, and a wide color gamut flag indicating the presence or absence of wide color gamut content within the elementary stream.
US12225221B2

Ultra light models and decision fusion for increasing the speed of intra-prediction are described. Using a machine-learning (ML) model, an ML intra-prediction mode is obtained. A most-probable intra-prediction mode is obtained from amongst available intra-prediction modes for encoding the current block. As an encoding intra-prediction mode, one of the ML intra-prediction mode or the most-probable intra-prediction mode is selected, and the encoding intra-prediction mode is encoded in a compressed bitstream. A current block is encoded using the encoding intra-prediction mode. Selection of the encoding intra-prediction mode is based on relative reliabilities of the ML intra-prediction mode and the most-probable intra-prediction mode.
US12225217B2

This application discloses a video data processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving, by an electronic device, a first data packet, where the first data packet constitutes a target video frame; and in a case that the target video frame is a damaged frame, determining, by the electronic device based on a packet loss rate of second data packets, whether to decode the first data packet, where the second data packets are data packets received by the electronic device within a predetermined time period before the first data packet is received.
US12225214B2

According to the disclosure of the present document, a chroma residual scaling factor is derived on the basis of information relating to an absolute value of a chroma residual scaling delta value and information relating to a sign of the chroma residual scaling delta value, and an LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed by applying explicit signaling to information relating to a value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor.
US12225213B2

An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of residual information; deriving a residual sample by applying, to the transform coefficient, at least one of LFNST and MTS; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples, wherein the LFNST is performed on the basis of an LFNST index indicating an LFNST kernel, the MTS is performed on the basis of an MTS index indicating an MTS kernel, and the LFNST index may be parsed before the MTS index.
US12225207B2

Processing circuitry receives a coded bitstream carrying at least a picture, determines that a current coding unit (CU) in the picture is coded in a subblock based inter prediction mode based on a first syntax element value in the coded bitstream, and determines that one or more first subblocks in the current CU that is coded in the subblock based inter prediction mode are coded by intra prediction. The processing circuitry reconstructs one or more second subblocks of the current CU by inter prediction based on the subblock based inter prediction mode, the one or more second subblocks do not overlap with the one or more first subblocks in the current CU. The processing circuitry reconstructs the one or more first subblocks of the current CU by the intra prediction while the current CU is coded in the subblock based inter prediction mode.
US12225193B2

A method for information compression/decompression, apparatuses and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method for information compression may include: clustering text blocks to be processed into respective-text areas according to pixel distribution information of the text blocks to be processed; acquiring text row distribution information of each of the text areas according to foreground pixels of each text row in each of the text areas; scanning each text row in each of the text areas according to the acquired text row distribution information to acquire original pixel information of each text row; and performing lossless compression on the text row distribution information of a plurality of the text areas and the original pixel information of each text row of the plurality of the text areas.
US12225187B2

The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and devices for coding and decoding. When determining to enable a weighted prediction for a current block, the method includes: for the current block, obtaining a weighted prediction angle of the current block; for each pixel position of the current block, determining a surrounding matching position pointed by the pixel position from surrounding positions outside the current block based on the weighted prediction angle of the current block; determining a target weight value of the pixel position based on a reference weight value associated with the surrounding matching position; determining an association weight value of the pixel position based on the target weight value of the pixel position; determining a first prediction value of the pixel position based on a first prediction mode of the current block; determining a second prediction value of the pixel position based on a second prediction mode of the current block; and based on the first prediction value, the target weight value, the second prediction value and the association weight value, determining a weighted prediction value of the pixel position; and determining weighted prediction values of the current block based on the weighted prediction values of all pixel positions of the current block.
US12225186B2

This application discloses an apparatus for constructing a merge candidate motion information list, including: one or more processors; a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to obtain first motion information and add the first motion information to a first candidate motion information set, to obtain a second candidate motion information set; obtain second motion information based on an HMVP candidate motion information list; when the second motion information is different from all motion information in the second candidate motion information set, add the second motion information to the second candidate motion information set, to obtain a merge candidate motion information list, wherein a quantity of pieces of motion information in the merge candidate motion information set is equal to a preset threshold. Implementing this application reduces complexity in constructing the merge candidate motion information list, and improve coding efficiency.
US12225177B2

The present disclosure provides a screen detection method, an apparatus and a device, a computer program and a readable medium, and belongs to the technical field of screens. The method includes: receiving a cylindrical lens detection instruction for a target screen, wherein the cylindrical lens detection instruction at least includes target viewpoints; acquiring browsing images shot from the target screen under the target viewpoints in response to the detection instruction, wherein the target screen is a screen of which the light emission side is provided with cylindrical lenses; using the browsing images as viewpoint images under the condition that the browsing images include target contents; and outputting detection parameters of the cylindrical lenses on the target screen based on image parameters of the viewpoint images.
US12225176B2

A Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) generation and interaction method based on a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) includes the steps of: acquiring multi-viewpoint data of a target scene by a synchronous shooting system with a multi-camera array arranged accordingly to obtain groups of synchronous video frame sequences from a plurality of viewpoints, and rectifying baselines of the sequences at pixel level in batches; extracting, by encoding and decoding network structures, features of each group of viewpoint images input into a designed and trained deep CNN model, to obtain deep feature information of the scene, and combining the information with the input images to generate a virtual viewpoint image between each group of adjacent physical viewpoints at every moment; and synthesizing all viewpoints into frames of the FVV based on time and spatial position of viewpoints by stitching matrices. The method does not require camera rectification and depth image calculation.
US12225166B2

A printing device includes: a case covering a printing mechanism; and an electrostatic touch panel provided at the case. The touch panel is provided at an angle from horizontal. At a bottom side of the touch panel, a wall for stopping a touch pen rolling down a surface of the touch panel is provided.
US12225157B2

A system and method for automated customer response system mapping and duplication comprising a contact center crawler which connects with an existing automated contact center system, generates navigation data for the automated contact center system by sending queries and receiving responses for each available option of the automated contact center system; a data model generator which creates a map of the navigation data in a structured data format; and a CX model generator which generates programmatic code representing the data model which duplicates the function of the automated customer response system.
US12225143B2

A method includes generating a first asset token that represents control, by a first entity, of a portion of a physical communication asset. The method includes publishing, to a distributed ledger, ownership of the first asset token and receiving, from a second entity, a request to control the portion of the physical communication asset represented by the first asset token. In response to receiving the request, the method includes removing the first asset token from circulation on the distributed ledger and generating a second asset token representing control, by the second entity, of the portion of the physical communication asset. The method also includes publishing, to the distributed ledger, ownership of the second asset token and transferring, using the distributed ledger, ownership of the second asset token to the second entity.
US12225138B2

This disclosure relates to field of cryptography and digital signatures. The constant theft of cryptocurrencies is due to compromise of the secret signing key inherently stored in a single location. Also, one of challenges in the existing ECDSA signature is single point failure, wherein the signing key (private key) is prone to theft. The disclosed technique overcomes the challenging in the existing techniques by party distributed signature that ensures the safety of the private key. The disclosed techniques slits the key in two parts and saves at two different locations/machines. Further based on a ECDSA based technique, the digital signature is obtained securely using several steps that includes generation of first two parts of digital signature at one party, generation of the second two parts of digital signature at second party, finally decrypting a complete digital signature at the first party.
US12225133B2

Secure communication between users and resources of an electrical infrastructure and associated systems and methods. A representative secure distributed energy resource (DER) communication system provides for the creation of trust rules that govern the permitted communications between users and resources of an electrical infrastructure system, and the enforcement of the trust rules.
US12225132B2

When a network element attempts to establish a session with another network element, a security verification agent may be activated in one or both network elements. The security verification agents, such as front-end processors, virtual network functions, or other software agents, may reside in each of the network elements.
US12225121B2

Systems and methods are described for accessing resources of a Unified Endpoint Management (“UEM”) system through an enrolled device. In an example, an unenrolled device can be paired with an enrolled device. The unenrolled device can connect to the enrolled device on a local network. The enrolled device can verify the unenrolled device using a key provided during pairing. The unenrolled device can send requests for UEM resources to the enrolled device, which the enrolled device can send to a UEM server. The UEM server can send the requested UEM resources to the enrolled device, and the enrolled device can send the UEM resources to the enrolled device over the local network.
US12225119B2

An information sending method, a key generation method, and an apparatus, where a core network element first determines whether a terminal device needs to perform a key activation procedure, and then sends a first message to an access network element, where the first message indicates whether the access network element needs to send, to the terminal device, a second message to trigger the terminal device to perform the key activation procedure. After receiving the first message, the access network element determines, based on the first message, whether the second message needs to be sent to the terminal device, and sends the second message to the terminal device when the second message needs to be sent to the terminal device.
US12225098B2

In a network, a common agnostic data exchange method between two devices native to the network, the devices using different formats and transmission protocols, includes invoking a proxy at each device, and a first proxy receiving a first data record from a first device, the first data record having a first format. The first proxy identifies the first format by comparing a first pattern of the first data record to reference patterns of one or more reference data records and determines if a sufficient pattern match exists between the first pattern and the reference pattern. The first proxy translates the first data record's format into an inter-proxy data record having an inter-proxy format and transmits the inter-proxy data record to a second proxy coupled to a second device. The second proxy translates the inter-proxy data record to a second data record having a format employed at the second device.
US12225094B2

Disclosed are systems and methods for utilizing designed market access (DMA) zones in conjunction with mobile networks so as to enable secure, appropriate read/write access to streaming content. The disclosed systems and methods enable a mapping of an Internet Protocol (IP) address to a particular geolocation node of a mobile network, whereby a DMA for such node can be identified/determined. Accordingly, the DMA can be leveraged for monitoring a customer user's location respective to streaming service/media access requests.
US12225090B2

Embodiments of this application provide a packet transmission method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system. A target transport layer proxy network element establishes a fourth transport layer connection based on a first context of a source transport layer proxy network element, where the first context is a context about packet transmission of the source transport layer proxy network element on a first path. If the target transport layer proxy network element receives first indication information, and the first indication information indicates that application context migration between a first application server and a second application server is completed, the target transport layer proxy network element performs transport layer processing on a packet on a second path based on a second context of the target transport layer proxy network element, and transmits, on the second path, a packet obtained through the transport layer processing. Hence, a packet loss can be avoided.
US12225080B2

Systems and methods for an adaptive scheduler for collaboration networking are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a first Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions store thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the first IHS to: establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection with a second IHS; and adapt a scan rate and an advertisement rate of the first IHS based, at least in part, on context of the P2P connection. If the first IHS is configured as a host for the P2P connection, then it can adapt an advertisement rate of the first IHS, and stop any scans by the first IHS. If the first IHS is configured as a client for the P2P connection, it can adapt a scan rate of the first IHS, and stop any advertisements by the first IHS.
US12225075B2

Lease transfer between master and slave replicas is described. A master replicator determines that an initial master replica lease takes effect. On determining that a master replica transfer needs to be performed, sending a transfer preparation message to a target replicator prior to expiration of a current master replica lease. The target replicator locally starts and calculates a new master replica lease and returns a readiness response to the master replicator. The master replicator sends a lease extension message to remaining slave replicators to extend local corresponding leases. After receiving lease extension success responses of a majority of the slave replicators, the master replicator terminates the local master replica lease of the master replicator in advance, and sends a transfer confirmation message to the target replicator. The target replicator validates the new master replica lease to make the target replicator a new master replicator.
US12225070B2

There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining media data, generating, from the media data, one or more event segments, appending the one or more event segments, to a first event processing buffer, the one or more event segments comprising an event start offset for each of the one or more event segments based on a time at which the each of the one or more event segments is appended to the first event processing buffer, appending the one or more event segments, to a second event processing buffer, the one or more event segments comprising event dispatch information for the each of the one or more event segments, and dispatching the one or more event segments based on the first event processing buffer and the event dispatch information in the second event processing buffer.
US12225069B2

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing encoding or decoding of adaptive bitrate streams. In various embodiments, one or more first computing systems may divide a live media content stream into one or more segments, each segment might include a starting segment boundary and an ending segment boundary. The one or more first computing systems might encode the one or more segments into one or more primary adaptive bitrate streams. The one or more first computing systems might also divide the one or more segments of the live media content stream into one or more subsegments. Each subsegment might be less than a length of a corresponding segment of the one or more segments. The one or more first computing systems might the encode and/or a second computing system might decode the one or more subsegments into or from one or more secondary adaptive bitrate streams.
US12225060B2

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for P-CSCF restoration. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a P-CSCF restoration message, the P-CSCF restoration message including an indication of a failed P-CSCF server; as a result of the received P-CSCF restoration message, identifying at least one Session Management Function, SMF, server associated with the failed P-CSCF server; and communicating, to the identified at least one SMF server, a restoration message for tearing down at least one session for at least one user equipment, UE, associated with the failed P-CSCF server. In another embodiment, a method includes as a result of a received restoration message, at least one of: tearing down at least one session for at least one user equipment, UE, associated with the failed P-CSCF server; and notifying the at least one UE of the failed P-CSCF server.
US12225059B2

Systems and methods for providing cybersecurity services by a network and for automating the provisioning of the cybersecurity services are disclosed. The system comprises a connection control function configured to receive a message in response to a request to establish a data connection from a user equipment (UE), the message including a requested CyberSecurity Control service identifier (CSC-ID) corresponding to a first security service of a plurality of security services. The CCF can interact with a cybersecurity control (CSC) function to determine, based on the requested CSC-ID, an allowed CSC-ID for the data connection, the allowed CSC-ID corresponding to a second security service of the plurality of security services; retrieve, based on the allowed CSC-ID, an operator security policy associated with the second security service. The CCF can then select and configure a network function in accordance with the retrieved operator security policy associated with the second security service.
US12225050B2

Distribution and management of services in virtual environments is described herein. In one or more implementations, a service distribution and management model is implemented in which system services and applications are seamlessly distributed across multiple containers which each implement a different runtime environment. In one or more implementations, a system for distributing access to services in a host operating system of a computing device includes a host operating system configured to implement a host runtime environment, and one or more services implemented by the host operating system. The system further includes a service control manager configured to enable communication between a client stub of a service implemented in a client runtime environment and a service provider of the service that is implemented in a service runtime environment that is separate from the first client runtime environment.
US12225048B2

A computer implemented method includes receiving data from an application layer resulting in received data. The received data is diverted to an input/output layer outside a communication stack and data packets are generated from the received data. Mock packet headers are fabricated with packet formatting and address corresponding to an underlying transport layer. Corresponding mock packet headers are concatenated with the data packets to form transport packets which are encrypted using a fixed key. The transport packets are provided to a network debug tool for decryption using a public key for execution of the network debug tool to inspect the transport packets.
US12225047B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring, evaluating protection against, improving protection against, and simulating phishing threats. Network usage information for users of an organization can be leveraged to determine user-specific network behavior information. This user-specific network behavior information can then be leveraged to better identify incoming threats as well as generate and deploy user-specific phishing lures. Phishing simulation campaigns can be conducted, including by implementing variations in how the phishing lures are presented. Such campaigns can be scored to determine how different presentation variations perform. User-specific phishing lures can be generated using user environment information collected by an agent running on the user's device. Alerts informing users of potential threats can be dynamically updated with different presentation parameters to improve performance. Digital communications identified as threats can be used to generate hashes to speedily identify subsequent digital communications that are threats.
US12225038B2

Certain aspects involve using a set of machine learning modeling models for predicting attempts to tamper with records using a fraudulent dispute. A tampering prediction system receives a request from a target entity to modify event data for a historical event, including information about the target entity and the event. The system generates a first score by applying a first set of machine learning models to the information from the request and information about the target entity obtained from a database. They system computes a second score by applying a second machine learning model to event data retrieved from the database. The second machine learning model has been trained using labeled training data and is augmented with a model that has been trained using unlabeled training data. The system generates an overall score for the request based on the first score and the second score.
US12225034B2

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for classifying traffic flow using a plurality of learning machines arranged in multiple hierarchical levels. A first learning machine may classify a first portion of the input stream as malicious based on a match with first classification rules, and a second learning machine may classify at least part of the first portion of the input stream as malicious based on a match with second classification rules. The at least part of the first portion of the input stream may be classified as malicious based on the matches in the first and second learning machines.
US12225032B2

A computer-implemented method of analysing anomalous network traffic in a telecommunications network, said telecommunications network comprising a plurality of network entities (120, 110) and a security analyser (130-3), wherein the method comprises the steps of: receiving at the security analyser a network communication from a first network entity; identifying the first network entity; by means of the security analyser: analysing the network communication and/or a performance of the first network entity thereby to identify the network communication as an anomalous communication (310); in response to identifying the network communication as an anomalous communication, communicating an instruction to the identified first network entity to respond with origin information regarding the anomalous communication, wherein the origin information identifies a preceding network entity from which the anomalous communication was directly received by the first network entity (320, 330); and commencing with the preceding network entity, iteratively communicating an instruction to a preceding network entity to respond with origin information for identifying another preceding network entity from which the anomalous communication was directly received until a source network entity from which the anomalous communication originated is identified (380, 390; and applying a security policy to the identified source network entity (370).
US12225025B2

A system retrieves from cloud storage a packet(s) sampled from network traffic detected for software deployed on a cloud instance within a cloud environment. Each packet is inspected with deep packet inspection (DPI) to determine characteristics of the packet from which the identity/type of the corresponding software are determined. The system correlates the data/metadata generated from DPI with data/metadata of other cloud resources of the cloud environment based on determining the cloud resources to which the cloud instance is related or which also support deployment/execution of the software. The correlated data/metadata are evaluated based on security policies which include criteria for characteristics of software running on the cloud infrastructure rather than criteria for cloud infrastructure configuration alone. The system thus determines whether a cloud resource complies with the security policies based at least partly on the types/characteristics of software with which it is correlated.
US12225023B2

Identifying malicious clients in federated learning is disclosed while enhancing privacy. The clients are clustered such that cluster updates in the federated learning are generated. When a suspect cluster is identified, clients in the suspect clusters are labeled as suspect and clients in clusters that are not suspect are labeled as fair. The clients are reclustered and the clusters and clients are relabeled without changing the labels of clients that were previously deemed fair. After one or more iterations, the malicious clients are identified, and corrective actions can be performed.
US12225022B2

Disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for secure data communication between two devices. A disclosed system responds to a request from an originating communication device in a first network to connect with a communication device in a second network, for communication, by receiving a request from the communication device in the first network, the request including payload data and a destination network address in the second network. The system then transmits the received payload data to the destination address in the second network after analyzing the payload data for network intrusion. When the analysis does not indicate network intrusion, the system determines a route to the destination network address by looking up the destination address in a routing table and forwarding the payload data to the destination network address in the second network. If the analysis indicates network intrusion, the system discards the payload data.
US12225018B2

Systems and methods are provided for managing capabilities of workspaces operating on an Information Handling System (IHS). A request is received from a user of the IHS for access to a protected resource. A security context and a productivity context are determined for operation of a primary workspace on the IHS. Two or more applications are identified for operation within the primary workspace, where the applications provide access to the protected resource, and where the applications include overlapping capabilities. Based on the security context and the productivity context for the primary workspace deployment, two or more of the applications with overlapping capabilities are selected for operation within the primary workspace.
US12225011B2

Computer technology for protecting data security in a computerized system for recommending content to users where, a processing unit generates an identifier for a first data record relating to a user device based on a first machine learning model. Then, the processing unit sends the identifier to a service provider, and the service provider uses the identifier to determine one or more contents to be sent to the user device. Creating and using a decision tree machine learning (ML) model and a cluster ML model with training records and a transformed records.
US12225007B2

Various approaches for securing networks against access from off network devices. In some cases, embodiments discussed relate to systems and methods for identifying potential threats included in a remote network by a network access device prior to requesting access to a known secure network via the remote network.
US12225006B2

A server receives encrypted data from a protected-resource-requesting device that includes an encrypted combination of the device and user identification. The first server requests a most recent copy of data of a distributed ledger from a randomly selected logged-in workstation. The first server searches for a match of the encrypted data from the first device in the distributed ledger data received from the randomly selected workstation. In response to determining a match, the first server updates a table of a second server with a one-time-password (OTP) and a copy of the encrypted data received from the device. The first server sends the OTP and an instruction to the device to send the OTP and the encrypted data to the second server, which determines whether a match exists. In response to a confirmed match, the first server grants access to the device.
US12225003B2

Cross-channel user authentication is provided, to increase resilience of a computerized system to cyber-attacks and to fraudulent transactions. In a demonstrative scenario, a user utilizes his web browser on his laptop computer to log-in to a web server; which in turn extracts the IP address of the laptop computer. The web server triggers an application server to send a Push Notification to a Mobile App that had been installed on a smartphone of that user who just logged in; and that Push Notification causes that smartphone to respond to the application server with the IP address of the smartphone. If the IP address of the computer is not identical to the IP address of the smartphone, then the servers determine that the log-in attempt on the computer was possibly fraudulent, and fraud mitigation operations are initiated. Optionally, geo-location data, device orientation data, device motion data, or other parameters are used as part of the cross-channel authentication process.
US12224996B2

Techniques are described for providing customizable sign-on functionality, such as via an access manager system that provides single sign-on functionality and other functionality to other services for use with those services' users. The access manager system may maintain various sign-on and other account information for various users, and provide single sign-on functionality for those users using that maintained information on behalf of multiple unrelated services with which those users interact. The access manager may allow a variety of types of customizations to single sign-on functionality and/or other functionality available from the access manager, such as on a per-service basis via configuration by an operator of the service, such as co-branding customizations, customizations of information to be gathered from users, customizations of authority that may be delegated to other services to act on behalf of users, etc., and with the customizations that are available being determined specifically for that service.
US12224990B2

A packet-spreading data transmission system with anonymized endpoints facilitates enhanced fortified private communications between a plurality of arbitrary devices via a plurality of communication channels or networks. The data transmission system receives at a source endpoint device a message of arbitrary length. The message includes a destination address associated with a destination endpoint device. Both source endpoint device and the destination endpoint device are selected from a plurality of arbitrary devices. The received message are fragmented and agilely transmitted, via a plurality of communication channels, from the source endpoint device to the destination endpoint device.
US12224979B1

The technology described herein is directed towards automatic virtual subnet delegation. An automated process scans the subnets of a virtual network and builds a tree of the IP space, including allocated and unused space designations. User-defined parameters and organization policy data are used to determine the number of IP addresses needed for an application or the like. By traversing the tree of existing IP space, the technology described herein finds and places a new subnet, such as to ensure a high utilization of the overall IP space or based on an alternative type-of-fit criterion. When the virtual subnet space is created in the cloud, a public cloud-specific subnet identifier is returned to the user to utilize in deploying the application. Another use of the technology described herein is to track and optimize IP space allocation for existing virtual networks in the public cloud, including to identify underutilized and/or improperly-sized subnets.
US12224971B2

A method for communicating in a digital conversation is implemented on a computing device and includes: receiving an interactive contextual emoji from a first digital conversation participant to post in the digital conversation with at least a second digital conversation participant, where the interactive contextual emoji is pre-defined to indicate at least a current availability status associated with the first digital conversation participant, requesting the current availability status from a status application based on at least an indication of the interactive contextual emoji, where the status application maintains the current availability status, receiving the current availability status from the status application, and displaying the interactive contextual emoji in the digital conversation with at least an indication of the current availability status.
US12224967B2

An apparatus may comprise a component for communicating using a first RAT and another component for communicating using a second RAT. Overlapping communication using the two RATs may cause problems for proper reception at the apparatus. The apparatus may detect that transmission or reception of a first packet using a first RAT will overlap in time with reception of a second packet using a second RAT. The apparatus prioritizes the first packet or the second packet based at least on a relative priority of the first packet and the second packet.
US12224958B2

A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving reference signals for sidelink communication are provided. The operation method of a first terminal includes receiving a message including a first DMRS scrambling identifier for sidelink communication from a base station and calculating a first DMRS sequence based on the first DMRS scrambling identifier. Additionally, the method includes transmitting SCI and a first DMRS generated based on the first DMRS sequence to a second terminal.
US12224957B2

Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal, which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved.
US12224952B2

A packet processing method includes: a first device receives a packet from a second device; the first device determines a first queue buffer used to store the packet, and determines a first upper limit value of the first queue buffer based on an available value of a first port buffer and an available value of a global buffer, where the global buffer includes at least one port buffer, the first port buffer is one of the at least one port buffer, the first port buffer includes at least one queue buffer, and the first queue buffer is one of the at least one queue buffer. The first device processes the packet based on the first upper limit value of the first queue buffer, an occupation value of the first queue buffer, and a size of the packet.
US12224949B2

Methods and systems for managing requests in a distributed computing system are provided. A plurality of requests are received by one or more of the plurality of computing nodes in the distributed computing system. A respective timestamp is assigned to each of the plurality of requests. A subset of the plurality of requests are assigned to an epoch, wherein the epoch corresponds to an interval of time comprising the respective timestamp of each request of the subset of the plurality of requests. A present time is compared to a closing time of the epoch. Based on the comparison, the subset of the plurality of requests are queued for execution in a waiting data structure by last-in, first-out (LIFO) ordering based on the respective timestamp of each request of the subset.
US12224947B2

A link aggregation load balancing apparatus includes a flow monitoring circuit and an initial allocation circuit. The flow monitoring circuit is arranged to monitor flows of a plurality of member ports belonging to a link aggregation group, for performing classification upon the plurality of member ports to generate a member port classification result. The initial allocation circuit is arranged to refer to the member port classification result for selecting a target member port from the plurality of member ports to act as a forward port of a data flow.
US12224943B2

Provided are a service flow transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The service flow transmission method includes: acquiring service flows; and performing transmission via different FlexE outgoing interfaces according to priorities of the service flows. By means of determining priorities of service flows, and performing transmission via different FlexE outgoing interfaces according to the priorities of the service flows, mutual interference between service flows can be prevented.
US12224938B2

Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving data having information identifying a first path to a destination, wherein the information facilitates transmission of the data to a next-hop of the first path. A congestion state of the first path can be determined. If the first path has a congested state, a second path to the destination can be determined, wherein the second path has a non-congested state. The information of the data can be updated to identify the second path to the destination, wherein the updated information facilitates transmission of the data to a next-hop of the second path.
US12224936B2

Some aspects of the methods and systems presented relate to performing stateless address translation between IPv4 capable devices to IPv6 capable networks and devices. Stateless address translation may form a new IPv6 addresses by combining the IPv4 address of a device with an IPv6 prefix address assigned to the translator. The translation may also combine the IPv4 destination address and UDP port information with the new IPv6 address. Existing Domain Name Systems (DNSs) may be leveraged for resolving the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses across different networks.
US12224928B1

According to one or more implementations of the disclosure, a device initiates probing of a path in a network during which one or more probe packets are sent along the path. A hop along the path modifies the one or more probe packets to include energy source information regarding one or more energy sources available to that hop. The device receives results of the probing of the path that include the energy source information. The device generates, based on the results of the probing, a visual representation of the path and those one or energy sources available to different hops along the path. The device provides the visual representation of the path to a user interface for display.
US12224925B2

A Segment Routing over Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6)-based data processing method includes a first network device generating a slice locator, where the slice locator includes a target argument. The slice locator is used to identify an addressable destination address prefix in a slice supported by the first network device, and the target argument is used to indicate that the slice locator is associated with at least two slices supported by the first network device. The first network device sends the slice locator to a second network device, so that the second network device generates, based on the slice locator, at least two target slice locators corresponding to the at least two slices.
US12224923B1

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: receiving data center asset telemetry information; processing the data center asset telemetry information to provide a performance indicator metric; training a resource utilization machine learning model using the performance indicator metric; and, using the resource utilization machine learning model to provide a data center asset resource utilization result.
US12224920B2

A method for managing a QoE for a UE in a communications network is provided. The method includes determining, based at least on data received in a communications session, one or more parameters affecting the QoE. The method includes determining weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes computing an expected QoE for the UE based on the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes determining that the expected QoE satisfies a threshold. The method includes transmitting, to one or more network nodes in the communications network, the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method also includes adjusting the communications session at the UE.
US12224910B2

A method for self-discovery of an array of linear sensors, wherein each linear sensor has a unique identifier, the method includes: for each accessory, identifying a linear sensor situated upstream or downstream of the linear sensor; sending a local request to the identified sensor/accessory; sending a general request to the plurality of linear sensors and/or accessories in the array; receiving a response to the at least one local request by said linear sensor and/or the accessory; sending a response to the general request by said linear sensor and/or by the accessory, the response to the general request sent by the linear sensor comprising the unique identifier; and processing the response to the general request received from each linear sensor and/or from each accessory by the central processing unit allowing to reconstitute the logical topology of the network as a function of the unique identifiers received.
US12224909B2

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center management and monitoring operation. The data center management and monitoring operation includes: identifying a headless data center asset within a data center; identifying a baseboard management controller associated with a data center asset within the data center; accessing the baseboard management controller associated with the data center asset; and, programming the headless data center asset via the baseboard management controller associated with the data center asset, the programming propagating headless data center asset unique information from the baseboard management controller to the headless data center asset.
US12224904B2

Systems, methods, and related technologies for segmentation management are described. The segmentation management may include visualization, configuration including translation, simulation, or a combination thereof of one or more segmentation policies. In certain aspects, a segmentation policy is accessed and a segmentation rule is determined based on the segmentation policy, wherein the segmentation rule is based on a characteristic of an entity determined without the use of an agent. An enforcement point associated with the segmentation rule may be determined, where the enforcement point is communicatively coupled to a network. The segmentation rule may be translated into a configuration associated with the enforcement point and the configuration communicated to the enforcement point.
US12224883B2

A network configuration method, a terminal device, a system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The network configuration method may include: receiving first configuration information from a first device; setting VLAN information of a second device according to the first configuration information, and generating second configuration information according to the VLAN information; and establishing a communication connection with the first device by means of an untagged port.
US12224881B2

A method for processing data in an Ethernet protocol stack is disclosed. The method includes receiving client data for transmission via an Ethernet bus, and selectively transmitting the client data over the Ethernet bus by one of packet switching or non-packet-switching transmission based on an identity of the originating client device.
US12224879B2

Disclosed are meeting spaces that are accessible through an adjoining facility or area, and associated systems and methods that provide automated levels of security for classified discussions. The meeting spaces are configured to automatically adapt to different levels of classification, e.g., from any of unclassified to top secret classifications. The meeting spaces are prevented from becoming active for their intended function until all required security features are activated. In some embodiments, the meeting spaces include one or more electronically opaquing privacy glass windows between the meeting space and the adjoining facility. The privacy glass can either appear as opaque, such as when a classified meeting or call is taking place or as a failsafe mode, or can be optically transmissive, such as when the space is unused, is used for unclassified purposes, and/or when the adjoining area is used at the same or higher level of classification.
US12224875B2

Systems and methods for virtual interactions are described. One or more users can view or listen to media, react to the media and share such media experience virtually with others. The media experience can take place synchronously, asynchronously or both.
US12224869B2

In accordance with example embodiments as described herein there is at least an apparatus and method to perform transmitting packet data convergence protocol data unit duplicates over two or more carriers; receiving an indication that indicates packet data convergence protocol data unit has been correctly transmitted via one of two or more carriers; and upon receiving the indication, instructing to discard other packet data convergence protocol duplicates over carriers other than the one of two or more carriers with a successful delivery.
US12224859B2

Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for decoding data. For example, it may be determined, in a current slot, whether data received in a previous slot is decoded successfully. The data received in the previous slot may be included in a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). If the data received in the previous slot is not decoded successfully, preemptive multiplexing information may be detected in a first search space. The data received in the previous slot may be decoded, for example, using detected preemptive multiplexing information. The preemptive multiplexing information may be of a current slot. The preemptive multiplexing information may be comprised in a first DCI. A second search space of the current slot may be searched. For example, the second search space may be searched for a second DCI. The first DCI and the second DCI may be different.
US12224856B2

This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses an encoding method and apparatus, to improve accuracy of reliability calculation and ordering for polarized channels. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence used to encode K to-be-encoded bits, where the first sequence includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, the first sequence is same as a second sequence or a subset of the second sequence, the second sequence comprises sequence numbers of Nmax polarized channels, and the second sequence is the sequence shown in Sequence Q11 or Table Q11, K is a positive integer, N is a positive integer power of 2, n is equal to or greater than 5, K≤N, Nmax=1024; selecting sequence numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence; and performing polar code encoding on K the to-be-encoded bits based on the selected sequence numbers of the K polarized channels.
US12224848B2

This application provides a data packet processing method and apparatus, applied to a satellite communications system. An earth surface, space, and network space are divided based on a satellite constellation and an ephemeris of a satellite, and an identifier is allocated to each ground area, each space area, and each network that are sub-divisions of the earth surface, space and network space, to establish a fixed mapping relationship between the EID, the SID, and the NID. In addition, each satellite maintains mapping relationship information recording the mapping relationship. Unless a satellite joins the constellation or one satellite leave service, the mapping relationship recorded in the mapping relationship information does not need to be updated. Based on the mapping relationship information, a satellite may route a data packet, thereby reducing a large amount of signaling interaction caused by establishing and maintaining a routing table in the conventional manner.
US12224846B2

Systems and methods for controlling the air to ground network coverage in an underserved area include an aerial vehicle and control circuitry communicatively coupled to relay circuitry, antenna circuitry, and a ground site. The control circuitry is structured to receive signal data corresponding to a radio signal, the relay circuitry structured to convert the radio signal into a subsequent signal, determine one or more airline schedules and one or more flight statuses associated with an underserved area, based on the one or more airline schedules and the one or more flight statuses determined, determine an aerial vehicle location as the aerial vehicle navigates to the underserved area, and generate a command to activate, via the antenna circuitry, transmission of air to ground network coverage based on the subsequent signal to the underserved area when the aerial vehicle location is in the underserved area.
US12224844B2

Provided are a wireless communication method and a terminal device, wherein same can determine whether a beam failure recovery is successful. The method comprises: after a beam failure recovery request of a secondary cell is sent to a network device, a terminal device detecting first downlink information on the secondary cell; and the terminal device determining, according to whether the first downlink information is successfully detected, whether the beam failure recovery of the secondary cell is successful.
US12224842B2

Provided are an electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device for finding a direction of a neighboring device effectively in a wireless communication system without additional hardware. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device for finding a direction of a neighboring device in a wireless communication system, the electronic device includes an antenna array including a first antenna and a second antenna for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, an antenna switch configured to switch antennas for receiving the RF signal among the plurality of antennas, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the antenna switch to receive the RF signal from the neighboring device through the first antenna, control the antenna switch to switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to receive the RF signal during a time interval in which an error detection code is detected, and detect the direction in which the neighboring device is located based on a result of decoding the error detection code.
US12224839B2

A first wireless communication device, such as a base station, may include separate transmit and receive antenna arrays. The separation between the transmit and receive antenna arrays may cause a direction of a transmit beam formed at the transmit antenna array to be different from a direction of a receive beam formed at the receive antenna array. The transmit and receive beams may be formed for communication with a second wireless communication device, such as a user equipment (UE). The described aspects enable the first wireless communication device to monitor a difference between a first direction of the transmit beam and a second direction of the receive beam. The first wireless communication device may transmit an indication of a beam correspondence failure to the second wireless communication device when the difference between the first and second directions is greater than or equal to a beam correspondence threshold.
US12224835B2

Methods and apparatuses for reporting of time-domain channel correlation properties are provided. A method includes receiving a configuration about a CSI report. The configuration includes information about (i) M non-zero power (NZP) CSI reference signal (RS) resources for tracking, (ii) a number (K) of time-domain correlation values, and (iii) delay values τk for k=0, 1, . . . , K−1. The method further includes, based on the configuration: measuring the M NZP CSI-RS resources for tracking, determining, based on the measurement, the K time-domain correlation values, wherein a k-th correlation value is between two CSI-RS transmission occasions that are separated by one of the delay values τk, and quantizing a value for an amplitude of each of the K time-domain correlation values. The method further includes transmitting the CSI report including an indicator, for each of the K time-domain correlation values, indicating the quantized value of the amplitude.
US12224831B2

Methods and apparatuses for beam measurement and reporting in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes identifying an indication for reporting, in a channel state information (CSI) report, at least a first group of two resource indicators and corresponding beam metrics associated with a first entity identity (ID) and a second entity ID, respectively, and transmitting, in the CSI report, the first group of two resource indicators and the corresponding beam metrics. The first or second entity IDs correspond to at least one of: a physical cell identity (PCI) corresponding to a serving cell PCI or a PCI different from the serving cell PCI; and a PCI index pointing to a PCI corresponding to the serving cell PCI or a PCI different from the serving cell PCI in a list of PCIs that are higher layer configured to the UE.
US12224830B2

Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations. The operations include receiving a downlink channel information (DCI) format 2_0 from a g-NodeB (gNB) connected to the 5G NR network, wherein the DCI format 2_0 includes channel occupancy time (COT) duration and a gap threshold value, determining if a nonzero power channel state information reference signal (NZP-CSI-RS) resource is valid, wherein the NZP-CSI-RS resource is valid if the NZP-CSI-RS resource is within the COT duration and if a gap between a last symbol of the DCI format 2_0 and a first symbol of the NZP-CSI-RS resource is greater than the gap threshold value.
US12224828B2

Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for reporting channel state information (CSI) for multiple spatial layers. The apparatuses and methods can include at least: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for a set of precoding matrixes, wherein the PMI is determined based on a combination of digital Fourier transformation (DFT) spatial domain (SD) vectors, or based on DFT-based frequency domain (FD) compression; and transmitting, by the UE, the PMI to a next-generation NodeB (gNB).
US12224826B2

The present disclosure a method of transmitting a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: mapping data to a symbol having a first phase value; determining a beam direction for the data, the UE comprising an antenna array composed of a plurality of antenna elements, and a phase value of each of the plurality of antenna elements being determined based on the determined beam direction; determining each antenna element indication value corresponding to each of the plurality of antenna elements based on the phase value of each of the plurality of antenna elements; generating a beam for data transmission based on each antenna element indication value; and transmitting the data through the generated beam.
US12224825B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a report indicating a mapping between antenna panels and reference signal beam indications. The UE may transmit the report and apply the mapping to the antenna panels for reference signals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12224813B2

A transmission device of the present disclosure includes: a driver unit that transmits a data signal with use of a first voltage state, a second voltage state, and a third voltage state interposed between the first voltage state and the second voltage state, and is configured to make a voltage in the third voltage state changeable; and a controller that changes the voltage in the third voltage state to cause the driver unit to perform emphasis.
US12224809B1

Disclosed are an OTA test method for a vehicle antenna system, a device and a storage medium. According to the method, the radio frequency performance of a physical layer of a whole vehicle antenna system can be tested, and the problem in the prior art that the test result of parts cannot accurately reflect the performance of the whole vehicle antenna system can be solved.
US12224806B2

A method for recognising a user whose body is capable of re-transmitting an electromagnetic signal in the form of an electromagnetic wave. The method is implemented on a transceiver device and includes the following steps on the device: transmitting an electromagnetic pulse signal; obtaining a re-transmitted signal when the user is in the vicinity of the device, the signal depending on the transmitted pulse signal; comparing the re-transmitted signal with at least one reference signal of the user; and recognising the user if the re-transmitted signal is close to the reference signal.
US12224801B2

There is provided a transmission system, a transmission method, and a transmission device that make it possible to inhibit deterioration in quality of transmission signals while reducing the number of times of compensation on transmission signals in a case where a plurality of devices is connected in a daisy chain. The transmission system includes a plurality of sub devices and a main device that are connected in a daisy chain. The main device includes a main connector connected to the first sub device of the plurality of sub devices, the main connector being configured to output transmission signals of a plurality of channels. The plurality of sub devices each includes a first sub connector connected to a preceding device, the first sub connector being configured to receive the transmission signals, a compensation unit disposed to correspond to a channel obtained as a result of thinning out, at predetermined intervals, channels other than a channel of an own device signal used by the sub device to which the compensation unit belongs, the compensation unit being configured to perform compensation on the transmission signals, and a second sub connector configured to shift channels of the transmission signals received from the preceding device other than the own device signal by the number of channels of the own device signal and output the transmission signals. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a multi-monitor system.
US12224798B2

The present disclosure relates to a method of testing light-fidelity (LiFi) coverage. A mobile light-fidelity tester is moved in a test area in which at least one indoor light-fidelity access point is located while performing coverage tests of the at least one indoor light-fidelity access point. Further, a coverage report of the at least one indoor light-fidelity access point is returned. In addition, a test system is described.
US12224795B2

In an optical transmission system including a plurality of optical transmitting units and a relay device, the plurality of optical transmitting units include a frequency modulation conversion unit that converts an input signal into a frequency modulation signal through frequency modulation conversion processing, a multiplexing unit that multiplexes monitoring signals with different frequencies with the frequency modulation signal, and an optical modulation unit that converts the frequency modulation signal that is an electric signal in which the monitoring signals are multiplexed into optical signals having different wavelengths, and the relay device includes a photoelectric conversion unit that acquires a combined signal obtained by combining optical signals having different wavelengths from each other and converts the combined signal into an electric signal, and a measuring unit that measures transmission quality of the plurality of monitoring signals included in the electric signal.
US12224794B2

In some examples, OTDR event detection and light power level measurement-based fiber optic link certification may include performing, at one end of a device under test (DUT) of a network, a light power level measurement. An OTDR measurement may be performed at the one end of the DUT to detect at least one event associated with the DUT. Based on analysis of the light power level measurement and the OTDR measurement, an event classification may be generated to classify the at least one event associated with the DUT.
US12224790B2

A radio frequency (RF) front-end system and a method for reducing interference are provided. The RF front-end system includes a processing circuit, a first transceiver, an RF front-end circuit, and a first antenna. The RF front-end circuit includes a first switch circuit, a first filter circuit, and a second switch circuit. The first switch circuit and the second switch circuit respectively include first signal paths and second signal paths. The first filter circuit includes an all-pass circuit corresponding to a first frequency band and a first channel filter corresponding to a first frequency channel. The processing circuit executes an anti-interference process, including: switching to the all-pass circuit; executing a channel sounding process to determine usage statuses of a plurality of channels; executing an automatic channel selection process to select a target channel; and switching to the target channel, and controlling the first transceiver to perform signal transmission.
US12224789B2

A system for interference mitigation includes: a transmit coupler; a receive coupler; a duplexer; and an interference cancellation module that includes a receive-band filter, a transmit-band filter, and an interference cancellation system.
US12224783B2

Described are broadband active coupling circuits and methods. A broadband active coupling circuit includes a high-pass circuit configured to provide a high frequency response for a broadband signal and a low-pass circuit connected in parallel with the high-pass circuit. The low-pass circuit is configured to provide a low frequency response for the broadband signal, where the low-pass circuit includes an active circuit configured to minimally impact the high frequency response provided by the high-pass circuit.
US12224780B2

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a communication processor, a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (RFIC) configured to receive a signal output from the communication processor and to modulate the signal into an RF signal, a power management circuit, a first power amplifier configured to amplify an RF signal output from the RFIC based on power supplied from the power management circuit, a second power amplifier configured to amplify the RF signal output from the RFIC based on the power supplied from the power management circuit, at least one capacitor connected in parallel to a power supply terminal of the first power amplifier, and at least one switch connected between the power supply terminal and the at least one capacitor, wherein the communication processor is configured to: identify a power amplification mode based a frequency band of the RF signal, and control the at least one switch by outputting a control signal corresponding to the identified power amplification mode.
US12224772B2

In a compression mode in which plaintext data is input, and compressed, a first code that is an error detection code is generated with respect to the plaintext data, and compressed. A circuit generates restored plaintext data in which the compressed data is decompressed, for confirming successfulness. A second code that is an error detection code is generated with respect to the restored plaintext data and is compared with the first code. In a case where the first code and the second code agree, the compressed data and the first or second code are output. In a decompression mode, plaintext data is generated in which the input compressed data is decompressed. A third code that is an error detection code is generated with respect to the plaintext data and is compared with an input code, and when the input code and the third code agree, the plaintext data is output.
US12224770B2

A receiver is arranged for receiving a signal comprising an interleaved symbol stream. The receiver comprises a convolutional deinterleaver comprising a plurality of delay portions each of which is arranged to delay symbols from the symbol stream from an input to an output by a different amount, the delay portions being arranged in a sequence. An input selector is configured to input the symbols from the symbol stream to the delay portions so that successive symbols are input in accordance with the sequence of the delay portions. An output selector configured to read the symbols from the delay portions by successively selecting the symbols from the outputs of the delay portions in accordance with the sequence of the delay portions to form a deinterleaved symbol stream.
US12224759B2

An apparatus and a method of correcting a mismatch of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter are provided. The apparatus may include: a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter configured to receive a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal in a correction mode and generate a first output signal, and including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters; and a mismatch corrector configured to generate a second output signal by processing the first output signal of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter based on parameters, wherein the parameters may be generated based on the first output signal of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter in the correction mode, and a period of the NRZ signal may be different from a product of a sampling period of the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter and a number of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters included in the time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter.
US12224758B2

The invention provides a power system for monitoring a working environment of a monitored circuit and adjusting a working voltage of the monitored circuit includes: a power circuit, a voltage-controlled oscillator and a counter. The power circuit is configured to output the working voltage to the monitored circuit through a power supply path. The voltage-controlled oscillator is disposed in or around the monitored circuit and is electrically connected to the power supply path and a ground path to which the monitored circuit is electrically connected, and is configured to output an oscillation frequency in accordance with a signal variation on the power supply path and the ground path. The counter is electrically connected to the voltage-controlled oscillator and is configured to generate a counting number signal in accordance with the oscillation frequency and a synchronizing signal, thereby adjusting the working voltage outputted to the monitored circuit.
US12224757B2

A method and apparatus for reducing jitter in a phase-locked loop (PLL). Clock signals provided to the PLL are resampled into the voltage domain of the VCO in the PLL rather than being merely level shifted into that voltage domain or input directly from digital domain clock dividers as in the prior art. The resampling is done with flip-flops in the analog domain using a faster synchronous clock in each case, and results in cleaner clock edges being presented to the PLL than those provided by the digital circuitry alone. A divided input clock signal is resampled using the undivided input clock, while a divided feedback clock signal is resampled using the feedback clock signal itself, i.e., the output of the VCO in the PLL. This removes jitter caused by the processing of clock signals in the digital voltage domain and thus reduces the jitter in the output signal.
US12224749B2

This disclosure provides example interface circuits, interface circuit protection methods, and terminal devices. An example interface circuit includes a switching unit, a power input end, a first function pin, a second function pin, a control signal input end, a detection port, a grounding output end, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, and an on-off apparatus. The switching unit includes a wire grounding GND end, a circuit power supply Vcc end, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit. The on-off apparatus includes an input pin, a first on-off pin, and a second on-off pin. The switching unit is configured to switch, in response to a control signal that is input through the control signal input end, functions corresponding to the first function pin and the second function pin.
US12224746B2

An impedance calibration circuit including: a calibration circuit configured to receive a first calibration clock signal, to perform impedance calibration on a basis of the first calibration clock signal, and to output a first stop signal when the calibration is completed; a first detection circuit configured to detect calibration time of the impedance calibration circuit, and to output a second stop signal when the calibration time reaches a preset value; and a calibration control circuit configured to receive the first stop signal and the second stop signal and to output the first calibration clock signal. When the first stop signal or the second stop signal is received, the calibration control circuit stops outputting the first calibration clock signal.
US12224740B2

An apparatus includes a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region over a substrate, and a first gate adjacent to the first drain/source region, a second gate adjacent to the second drain/source region and a third gate between the first gate and the second gate, wherein the first drain/source region, the second drain/source region, the first gate, the second gate and the third gate form two back-to-back connected transistors.
US12224739B2

A fast-transient buffer is shown. The fast-transient buffer has a flipped voltage follower coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the fast-transient buffer, and a first MOS transistor coupled to the flipped voltage follower as well as the output terminal of the fast-transient buffer. The first MOS transistor regulates the output voltage of the output terminal of the fast-transient buffer, in the opposite direction in comparison with an output voltage regulation direction due to the flipped voltage follower.
US12224735B2

Diplexers, filter devices, and methods are disclosed. A diplexer includes a first chip comprising series resonators of a high band filter, a second chip comprising shunt resonators of the high band filter and series resonators of a low band filters, and a third chip comprising shunt resonators of the low band filter. The series resonators and the shunt resonators of the high band filter are decoupled transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators (DXBARs). The series resonators and the shunt resonators of the low band filter are transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators (XBARs).
US12224730B2

The present invention discloses a composite substrate for manufacturing an acoustic wave resonator and a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonator, and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of the composite substrate includes: providing a base, wherein the base includes a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other; and a first groove sunken towards the second surface is formed on the first surface; and providing a piezoelectric plate, wherein the piezoelectric plate is matched with the first groove in shape, and a bottom of the first groove is integrated with the piezoelectric plate by bonding; and the composite substrate includes: a base, wherein the base includes a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other; and a first groove sunken towards the second surface is provided on the first surface; and a piezoelectric plate, wherein the piezoelectric plate is embedded into the first groove, and a top of the piezoelectric plate is higher than the first surface or flush with the first surface.
US12224726B2

A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency alert includes reading tone, using one or more processors, information and volume level information corresponding to an emergency sound generator from memory coupled to the one or more processors; and controlling, using the one or more processors, an output sound of the emergency sound generator based on the tone information and volume level information. The tone information includes data of frequency variation over a predetermined period, and the volume level information includes data of volume level variation over the predetermined period.
US12224725B2

A lookup table calibration apparatus and method are disclosed. The lookup table calibration apparatus includes a power amplifier circuit configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal having time-variant power levels based on a modulated voltage. To ensure proper alignment between the modulated voltage and the time-variant power levels, the power amplifier circuit is further configured to phase-shift the RF signal based on a modulated phase correction voltage. Specifically, the modulated voltage is generated based on a modulated voltage lookup table and the modulated phase correction voltage is generated based on a phase correction voltage lookup table. Herein, the lookup table calibration apparatus can be configured to concurrently populate and/or calibrate the modulated voltage lookup table and the phase correction voltage lookup table based on a measured gain and a measured phase of the RF signal, respectively.
US12224724B2

An amplifier may include multiple transistors with two transistors having their gates tied together via a common connection. The amplifier may utilize a local common mode feedback resistor as part of the amplifier. The local common mode feedback resistor may be coupled between the common connection and respective terminals of two transistors of multiple transistors. The local common mode feedback resistor may include a group of resistors coupled in series. The local common mode feedback resistor may also include a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) resistor coupled in parallel with one or more of the first group of resistors. In the local common mode feedback, the first MOS resistor provides different levels of resistance to different process corners to reduce overshoot when the amplifier is enabled.
US12224721B2

A power amplifier with a quasi-static drain voltage adjustment is provided that has a transistor that is made from Gallium Nitride (GaN). In an exemplary aspect, the transistor is a field-effect transistor (FET) having a source, gate, and drain. The transistor is tested for process variations. Based on detected process variations, a microcontroller may raise a drain voltage to increase output power capability. Power capability of the power amplifier scales as the square of the drain voltage, so small adjustments are sufficient to offset the slow process corner while maintaining reliability.
US12224719B2

Disclosed are a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device includes an amplifier to perform amplification based on an input differential signal, an output driver to output an audio output signal based on an output signal from the amplifier, a reference voltage output device to output a reference voltage in response to power ON, a pre-output driver configured to pre-compensate for an offset voltage and output a compensation signal, based on an output signal from the amplifier after the power ON, and a first switching device disposed between an output terminal of the output driver and an output terminal of the pre-output driver, wherein the output driver operates after the first switching device is turned on in response to the power ON. Accordingly, pop noise and harmonic distortion in case in which power is turned on may be reduced.
US12224716B2

Power amplifier having analog pre-distortion by adaptive degenerative feedback. In some embodiments, a pre-distortion circuit for an amplifier can include a transistor having an input node for receiving an input signal, an output node for providing an output signal having a gain relative to the input signal, and a common node for coupling to a ground. The pre-distortion circuit can further include a degeneration circuit implemented between the common node and the ground, with the degeneration circuit being configured to introduce a feedback response that reduces the gain when the input signal has a power level at or below a selected level. The degeneration circuit can be further configured to be disabled or provide a reduced feedback response when the input signal has a power level that exceeds the selected level.
US12224708B2

An oscillator circuit includes a first BAW oscillator, a first coupling stage, a second BAW oscillator, and a second coupling stage. The first BAW oscillator is configured to generate a first output signal at a frequency. The first coupling stage is coupled to the first BAW oscillator, and is configured to amplify the first output signal. The second BAW oscillator is coupled to the first coupling stage, and is configured to generate a second output signal at the frequency. The second output signal differs in phase from the first output signal. The second coupling stage is coupled to the first BAW oscillator and the second BAW oscillator, and is configured to amplify the second output signal and drive the first BAW oscillator.
US12224703B2

A distributed direct current power system including an inverter to invert DC to alternating current (AC), a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) strings, and a plurality of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) converters coupled between the plurality of photovoltaic (PV) strings, respectively, and the central inverter, the plurality of MPPT converters configured to maximize solar power production by the plurality of PV strings and minimize mismatch between the plurality of PV strings. The system also including a plurality of batteries, a plurality of DC-DC battery converters (DCBC) coupled to the plurality of batteries and configured to manage charge and discharge of the plurality of batteries, enable interconnection of the plurality of PV strings and the plurality of batteries, and supply a constant medium DC voltage to the central inverter, and a hydrogen generation system in electrical communication with the inverter, the photovoltaic strings, or the batteries.
US12224688B2

An aircraft includes: rotors each driven by an electric motor; a PCU that converts AC power output from a generator into DC power; an inverter that converts DC power supplied from the PCU into AC power and outputs the AC power to the electric motor; a DC wire that connects the PCU and the inverter; and an AC wire that connects the inverter and the electric motor. The AC wire is disposed in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which rotation shafts of the generator and a gas turbine extend.
US12224684B2

An optical element driving mechanism is provided in the present disclosure, including a fixed portion, a movable portion that is connected to an optical assembly, and a driving assembly that drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion and includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric unit, a guiding element, and a counterweight element. A first end of the guiding element is connected to the piezoelectric unit, and a second end is connected to the fixed portion. The counterweight element is connected to the piezoelectric unit. The fixed portion comprises a bottom that has a first through hole and a second through hole. The first through hole corresponds to the piezoelectric unit and the counterweight element, accommodates a part of the piezoelectric unit and the counterweight element. The second through hole corresponds to the guiding element, accommodates the second end of the guiding element.
US12224672B2

An asymmetric power converter includes a primary-side rectifying/filtering circuit, a power factor correction circuit, an asymmetric conversion circuit, and a feedback control circuit. The primary-side rectifying/filtering circuit rectifies and filters an input voltage to output a first voltage. The power factor correction circuit converts the first voltage into a power voltage. The asymmetric conversion circuit converts the power voltage into an output voltage to supply power to a load, and an output current is drawn by the load. The feedback control circuit generates a feedback control signal according to a load power demand provided by the load. The feedback control circuit controls the asymmetric conversion circuit to operate in a full-bridge resonant mode, a half-bridge resonant mode, or a hybrid half-bridge resonant mode according to the feedback control signal.
US12224671B2

A power supply circuit includes a transformer having a primary winding and secondary windings, a first power conversion circuit configured to convert a DC voltage into an AC voltage and output the AC voltage to the primary winding, a rectifying and smoothing circuit that is connected to the secondary winding and is configured to rectify and smooth an alternating current output from the secondary winding, and a second power conversion circuit configured to boost a direct current output from the rectifying and smoothing circuit and supply to a load a DC voltage lower than a rated voltage of the load set in advance.
US12224644B2

A motor assembly has an enhanced retention system for minimizing axial and radial movement of the bearings and output shaft. A front endbell assembly is fixed to a front end of the motor, the front endbell assembly including a plastic front endbell and a front bearing assembly through which a driving end of the output shaft extends. The plastic front endbell is over-molded about the front bearing assembly and elasticity of the plastic front endbell operates to preload the front bearing assembly to restrict axial movement of the front bearing assembly. Similarly, a rear endbell assembly is fixed to a rear end of the motor opposite from the front end, the rear endbell assembly including a plastic rear endbell and a rear bearing assembly into which a rear end of the output shaft extends. The plastic rear endbell is over-molded about the rear bearing assembly and elasticity of the plastic rear endbell operates to preload the rear bearing assembly to restrict axial movement of the rear bearing assembly. A spring or an appropriately sized output shaft may be used to preload the bearing assemblies oppositely from the over-molded plastic endbells.
US12224638B2

An insulator, a stator, and an electric motor capable of improving molding accuracy and assemblability are provided. An insulator 26 includes a first insulator 61 and a second insulator 62 to be attached from both axial sides of a stator core. The first insulator 61 has a first core end surface covering portion 65 and a first skirt portion 79. The second insulator 62 has a second core end surface covering portion 265 and a second skirt portion 279. The insulator 26 includes a coil lead-out portion 77 provided integrally with only the first core end surface covering portion 65 for leading out terminal portions of coils from the first insulator 61 to the outside. A length of the longest portion of the second skirt portion 279 in the axial direction is greater than a length of the longest portion of the first skirt portion 79 in the axial direction.
US12224627B2

A rotor assembly includes a shaft defining a lubricant inlet channel for receiving a lubricant and a lamination stack. The lamination stack is rotatably coupled to the shaft, extends between first and second lamination stack ends, and defines a lubricant cooling channel in fluid communication with the lubricant inlet channel. The rotor assembly also includes a first end cap adjacent to the first lamination stack end and a second end cap adjacent to the second lamination stack end. One of the first end cap and the second end cap defines an end cap inlet at a first radial distance from the shaft, a lubricant outlet channel defined to extend at least partially radially inward toward the shaft, and an end cap outlet at a second radial distance from the shaft which is less than the first radial distance for expelling the lubricant.
US12224626B2

A rotor of a dynamo-electric rotary machine includes a rotor core arranged concentrically to a rotor axis and including slots filled with electrically conductive material. A front ring is arranged at a front axial end of the slots and includes electrically conductive material, and a rear ring is arranged at a rear axial end of the slots and includes electrically conductive material. A rotor-core-distal surface of the front ring and/or rear ring has a bevel in axial direction from an outer circumference to an inner circumference, with the bevel defined by a bevel angle having a value of 3° to 30°. A support element is at least partially connected to the front and/or rear ring with a positive fit and pressed thereon axially, with the support element being supported on a shaft and having a radial end which terminates at a radial end of the front and/or rear ring.
US12224625B2

A rotor (1) for an electrical axial flux machine (2) that can be operated as a motor and/or generator. The rotor includes a support (3), a plurality of magnet elements (4) arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and running radially from the interior outwards, the magnet elements (4) being magnetized in a circumferential direction and being arranged individually or in groups in series around the circumference with alternating opposing magnetization directions, and a plurality of flux conduction elements (5) which conduct the magnetic flux and are arranged against, on, or in the support (3) and around the circumference, between the magnet elements (4). A flux distributing element (6) which distributes the magnetic flux is arranged between at least one of the magnet elements (4) and a flux conduction element (5) that is arranged adjacently thereto in the circumferential direction.
US12224612B2

A method for charging battery packs for power tools with the aid of a charging device. The charging device has a first charging mode, in which the battery packs are charged up to a defined state of charge using a constant current and subsequently using a constant voltage. At least one second charging mode is settable by a user, in which the battery packs are only partially charged up to a charge limit exclusively using a constant current. A charging device is also described.
US12224610B2

A battery-operated device including a rechargeable battery and an interchangeable drive unit that is supplied with power by the rechargeable battery via an electromechanical interface is provided. The rechargeable battery is chargeable via the electromechanical interface.
US12224602B2

A method of controlling power on a low-power device and the low-power device for performing the method are provided. The method includes performing a first operation, of acquiring sensing data, using power stored in an internal battery of the low-power device, wherein the first operation consumes a first power consumption from the internal battery; and performing a second operation, with respect to the acquired sensing data, and which consumes a second power consumption, using power wirelessly transmitted from an external device located outside of the low-power device, wherein the second power consumption is greater than the first power consumption.
US12224601B2

The embodiments of the present invention relate to a battery pack, detachably connected to an external device for charging or discharging. The battery pack includes a control module, and a communication terminal. The communication terminal is connected to the control module and the external device, and the control module detects the signal from the communication terminal to decide the pattern to determine the type of the external device. The battery pack further includes a state indication terminal, which is connected to the control module and the external device, and the control module detects at least one operating parameter of the battery, and generates a state parameter related to the operating parameter according to the operating parameter. The control module sends the state parameter to the outside by using the communication terminal, and the control module sends an abnormality signal to the outside by using both of the communication terminal and the state indication terminal. The embodiments of the present invention have the following beneficial effects: the battery pack may be used for an external device without a communication function and may also be used for an external device with the communication function with a plurality of usage scenarios and high universality. Further, the battery pack can not only receive a digital signal but also receive an analog signal by using only one port, to recognize types of external devices on different platforms with communication and without communication, with a small quantity of ports and a high degree of integration. In addition, the battery pack transmits to the outside by using two terminals, to doubly ensure communication, thereby preventing any abnormal communication terminal from causing damage to the use of the battery pack, and improving the use security.
US12224595B2

A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, may include an Energy Harvesting device, EH, a Zero Energy transceiver, ZE, and a main transceiver. The WTRU may initialize operation using the main transceiver, and receive beam detection configuration and mapping information. The WTRU may initialize beam (re-) selection procedure using the ZE transceiver, and use the received beam detection configuration to determine detectable beam IDs. and use the received mapping information to retrieve EH signaling configuration. The WTRU determines expected EH performance for each detected beam, and selects the beam with best expected EH performance. On condition that the WTRU determines necessity of dynamic EH signaling for the selected beam, it proceeds with presence declaration procedure to request optimized dynamic EH signaling. The WTRU utilizes control signaling channel parameters to dynamically receive optimized EH signal configuration, and configures its EH circuitry, and harvests energy.
US12224590B2

A method of controlling a wind power plant including an energy storage device, the wind power plant being connected to a power grid and comprising one or more wind turbine generators that produce electrical power for delivery to the power grid, the method comprising: processing grid data related to the power grid to determine a probability forecast for a future state of the grid; and controlling charging and discharging of the energy storage device in accordance with the probability forecast.
US12224589B2

An operation decision-making method for centralized cloud energy storage capable of participating in power grid auxiliary services. The method includes: establishing a model predictive control model; obtaining operating parameters of the current period t from a grid control center at a beginning of a current decision-making cycle; predicting operating parameters within the predetermined time range based on historical data; obtaining decision variables according to the model predictive control model, the operating parameters of the current period and the operating parameters within the predetermined time range; setting a charging power of the centralized energy storage facility in the current period t and a discharging power according to the decision variables; obtaining an actual power of the centralized energy storage facility at an end of the current period t through sensors installed on the centralized energy storage facility as a parameter for a next decision period.
US12224583B2

An electrical distribution grid energy management and router device, or GER device, may be installed in a distribution grid, and route power from power supply to one or more power consumers. The GER devices described herein may provide platforms to add one or more features to a distribution transformer, provide additional features and benefits to both the utility company and end consumer, and may serve as a platform for providing other features, such as multi-layer protection systems for detecting, among other things, one or more fault conditions, and responding to such conditions when detected. A GER device may include sensors to measure electrical properties of incoming and outgoing power, and may include an electrical circuit layer having a central DC power stage.
US12224575B2

A method may include receiving, via at least one processor, a first set of data indicative of a fault being present and send a first signal to a breaker based on the first set of data. The first signal may cause the breaker to open a plurality of poles of the breaker. The method may then involve receiving a second set of data indicative of the fault being cleared and sending a second signal to the breaker based on the second set of data. The second signal may cause the breaker to close a first pole of the plurality of poles at a first time and close a second pole of the plurality of poles at a second time different from the first time.
US12224568B2

An electrical box including a central housing with a first side opening, a second side opening opposite the first side opening, and a rear opening, each of the first and second side openings configured to receive an electrical or data interface device, a first extension compartment around the first side opening, the first extension compartment including a first door, and a second extension compartment around the second side opening, the second extension compartment including a second door.
US12224566B1

A horizontal surface cover with a cover plate, at least one opening, and at least one access door. The cover plate is configured to cover an electrical device within an electrical box. The at least one opening extends through the cover plate and is sized to allow access to the electrical device through the at least one opening. The at least one access door is sized and shaped to fit within the at least one opening, and has a hinge with a hinge axis. The at least one access door is configured to translate along the hinge axis and rotate about the hinge axis to move between a closed position and an open position. The at least one access door is aligned with and inside of the at least one opening when in the closed position, and is misaligned with the at least one opening when in the open position.
US12224561B1

A compartmentalized panelboard that includes a first panel interior having an incoming power and a main breaker mechanism, a second panel interior having a power distribution bus with the main breaker mechanism electrically connected to the power distribution bus of the second panel interior and controlling the feed of power between the panel interiors, a conductive material connecting the main breaker mechanism to the power distribution bus of the second panel interior, at least one door enclosing the panel interiors, a nonconductive physical barrier separating the panel interiors, a sealing device allowing the conductive material to pass from the first panel interior through the nonconductive physical barrier into the second panel interior with the nonconductive physical barrier and the dead front panels physically and electrically isolating the power distribution bus of the second panel interior from the incoming power of the first panel interior when power is cut off by the main breaker mechanism.
US12224551B2

A laser device comprises a plurality of laser diodes, each laser diode emitting a light beam having a fast axis and a slow axis and a beam direction; and one or more optical components configured to modify a divergence of the light beams in a fast axis plane and/or in a slow axis plane such that the light beams have a same focal plane in the fast axis plane and in the slow axis plane.
US12224548B2

A single-photon Raman optical frequency comb source is provided, including: a light source assembly, a filtering mechanism, at least three electro-optical modulators, a wavelength division multiplexer and a single photon generating mechanism. The light source assembly is configured to generate a Raman scattering light. The filtering mechanism is configured to pass a light having a specific wavelength, to filter the Raman scattering light and obtain at least three Raman scattering spectral lines. Each electro-optical modulator is configured to modulate a frequency of one of the Raman scattering spectrum lines in one-to-one correspondence, so as to cause a frequency shift of the Raman scattering spectrum line. The wavelength division multiplexer is configured to multiplex all modulated Raman scattering spectral lines and output a Raman optical frequency comb. The single photon generating mechanism is configured to adjust the Raman optical frequency comb to obtain a single-photon Raman optical frequency comb.
US12224546B2

An ultrastable laser system is based on a polarization-maintaining optical fiber. The ultrastable laser system comprises a laser device; acousto-optic modulators, a first beam splitter, a polarizer, an optical fiber interferometer comprising a second beam splitter, an optical fiber delay line, a third acousto-optic modulator, and a beam combiner; a beam combiner, a polarization beam splitter, photoelectric detectors, a frequency synthesizer, frequency mixers, a servo feedback circuit and a piezoelectric ceramic. The temperature interference is eliminated based on the characteristic that refractive indexes of a fast axis and a slow axis of the polarization-maintaining optical fiber differently change with a temperature, a vacuum structure can be avoided, and the ultrastable laser system has low cost, small system, simple structure and high signal stability.
US12224536B2

An electrical outlet assembly includes a molded housing having side walls, end walls extending between the side walls, a bottom wall interconnecting the side walls and the end walls, and an outlet core extending upwardly from the bottom wall into a space defined between the side and end walls. In one example, a first end wall of the end walls includes a latch portion that is deflectable relative to the space to selectively secure an electrical plug that is engaged with the outlet core. In another example, a biasing element is attached to the molded housing to bias the latch portion toward the outlet core.
US12224526B2

An electrical connecting member includes an elastic connecting portion, a first fixing portion, and a second fixing portion. The first fixing portion and the second fixing portion are respectively disposed on two sides of the elastic connecting portion. A contact head portion is disposed on the second fixing portion in an upward direction. The contact head portion includes an extending segment and a bending segment. An electrical contact region is defined between the extending segment and the connecting portion. The bending segment is bent towards a lower portion of the electrical contact region and is connected to the second fixing portion through the extending segment. A free end of the bending segment is bent towards the extending segment to form an arc-shaped protrusion and is disposed in the accommodating groove.
US12224520B2

A cable connector includes a housing, a conductive insert affixed within the housing, a first conductive plug, and a second conductive plug. The housing defines a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. The first conductive plug and the second conductive plug are removably affixed to the housing. The first conductive plug further includes a dust cap and an insulating pin that is rotationally fixed to the dust cap. The first conductive plug provides a single structure that is configured to block moisture and engage the first center conductor against the first end of the conductive insert. Alternatively, the first conductive plug may include a dust cap, an insulator and a pin that are rotationally affixed to one another.
US12224519B2

An electrical plug connector, in particular built-in plug connector, includes a housing with a connecting flange having through holes for feeding through fasteners; a flange plate with mounting bores for connecting to a device wall; a control panel, or similar; and a seal inserted therebetween. The outer edge of the flange plate is bent towards the housing and overlaps the outer edge of the connecting flange. The seal protrudes with a circumferential sealing lip into the insertion opening and has an edge bent towards the housing, which edge overlaps circumferential edge of the connecting flange and which, itself, is overlapped by the outer edge of the flange plate. In the assembled state, the circumferential edge of the flange plate extends at maximum to the height of the rear side of the connecting flange and the edge of the seal is higher than the rear surface of the connecting flange.
US12224514B2

An electrical plug connector has a housing, in which at least one insertion opening and at least one guide for a complementary plug connector with at least one electrical contact pin are arranged. At least one contact element that is elastically deflectable out of the path of the contact pin is mounted in the housing and at least partially protrudes into the insertion opening when the complementary plug connector is absent. The lateral edge of the contact element facing the contact pin, in its front section, encloses an acute angle with the path of the contact pin during the insertion when viewed in the direction of the deflection of the contact element. When the cable plug connector is fully inserted, a flat contact section of the contact element, adjoining the lateral edge, in the transverse direction abuts in contact with the contact pin.
US12224508B2

Provided is a zero-clearance fifth-generation (5G) ultra-wideband (UWB) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna, including a main dielectric substrate, lateral dielectric substrates, and multiple antenna elements, where the lateral dielectric substrates are arranged at two sides of the main dielectric substrate; the multiple antenna elements are arranged on the lateral dielectric substrates; the antenna elements each include a feeding element and a grounding radiator element; the feeding element is provided at an inner side of each of the lateral dielectric substrates; and the grounding radiator element is provided at an outer side of the lateral dielectric substrate. Under a combined action of the feeding element and the grounding radiator element, the present disclosure forms a dual-resonant antenna structure to effectively cover N77, N78, N79 and 5G wireless local area network bands in 5G mobile communication, and achieves the desirable antenna efficiency as well as desirable isolation and ECC between the antenna elements.
US12224499B2

The present invention discloses a wide microstrip antenna array based antenna system for millimeter wave applications. The microstrip antenna array based antenna system of the present invention includes plurality of patch antennas and each of the patch antennas includes a U-slot of unequal arms. This patch antenna with the U-slot acts as the array element. The array elements are placed in a linear array at a distance of λ/2 from each other on the antenna substrate to achieve desired scan performance. The microstrip corporate feed network with T-junction power divider is used. The antenna elements are fed by electromagnetic coupling with the feed network. The antenna array with dummy elements on both sides of the linear array together with an extra ground plane is used to achieve improved array performance with high main lobe gain and reduced side lobe.
US12224497B2

A method and radio interface having a reconfigurable massive multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) array system for energy efficient communications are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes, for a beam direction, one of activating and deactivating each of a plurality of radio frequency (RF), branches based at least in part on the beam direction and at least one power constraint, each RF branch being in electrical communication with at least one antenna of an antenna array of the radio interface. The method also includes, for the beam direction, configuring at least one switch of a plurality of switches positioned between antenna elements to selectively affect a mutual coupling between at least two antenna elements of the antenna array that are in electrical communication with deactivated RF branches, the configuring being based at least in part on the beam direction.
US12224489B2

An apparatus may include a substrate including a capacitance sensing electrode, an antenna on the substrate, and a shield feature between the electrodes and the antenna.
US12224484B2

Two shot knuckles include a first shot component and a second shot component. Both shot components are composed of different dielectric materials, where the first shot is composed of a relatively high strength structural material and the second is composed of a cosmetic material. The first shot component can physically couple two conductive sections together by interfacing with a coupling structure of that section. The first shot component includes second shot retaining regions and a cosmetic region. The second shot component occupies the cosmetic region and anchors itself to the first shot component using the second shot retaining regions. The second shot may be the only part of the two-shot knuckle visible to a user of an electronic device and can exhibit any desired color.
US12224477B2

A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna apparatus and a heat dissipation device therefor are disclosed. The present disclosure according to at least one embodiment provides a massive MIMO antenna apparatus including a board, a first blowing unit, and a second blowing unit. The board has at least one board surface that holds a distributed arrangement of a plurality of heat-generating components, has a width and a length longer than the width, and includes a first section having a first amount of heat generation and a second section having a second amount of heat generation greater than the first amount of heat generation, the first section and the second section being partitioned along a length direction of the board.
US12224474B2

Plasma jet assemblies utilizing evanescent mode cavity resonators, and methods of making the same and using the same, are described.
US12224468B2

A method of operating a solid oxide fuel cell system may comprise contacting a cathode gas comprising oxygen with a heating element to produce a heated cathode gas, passing the heated cathode gas through a cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell stack to increase the temperature of the solid oxide fuel cell stack to an operation temperature and reduce the oxygen to oxygen anions, and passing an anode gas through an anode of the solid oxide fuel cell stack to initiate the electrochemical oxidation of the oxygen anions within the anode. The passing of the anode gas through the anode of the solid oxide fuel cell stack may be initiated when the solid oxide fuel cell stack is heated to an operational temperature.
US12224466B2

Provided are nanoporous materials (including nanoporous metals) and related methods of fabricating the disclosed materials. The disclosed materials are useful in supporting chemical reactions, including the on-board production of hydrogen from water by way of contacting the water to the disclosed materials.
US12224462B2

An electrolyte supply system for supplying an electrolyte to a use point, includes: a receiving storage tank configured to store the electrolyte that has been delivered; a supply storage tank to which the electrolyte is transferred from the receiving storage tank; a temperature control device configured to control temperatures of the electrolyte in the receiving storage tank and that in the supply storage tank; and a supply pipe that is laid from the supply storage tank to the use point. The electrolyte supply system is highly safe because the storage tanks are disposed in an outdoor location, and furthermore, performs a temperature control process for the receiving storage tank before the electrolyte is transferred to the supply storage tank. Thus, it can supply the electrolyte to the use point 24 hours a day even with little temperature control in the supply storage tank.
US12224457B2

Provided is a secondary battery including an electrode assembly and an electrolyte enclosed in an exterior case. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The secondary battery includes a spacer positioned between the electrode assembly and an exterior case, and the electrode assembly includes current collecting tabs of a positive electrode and a negative electrode each protruding from the same end face. The spacer is positioned between an end face, of the electrode assembly, from which the current collecting tab protrudes and the exterior case, and at least one of the current collecting tabs of the positive electrode or the negative electrode has a bent shape between the electrode assembly and the spacer.
US12224444B2

Disclosed are an electrode assembly, and a secondary lithium battery including the same. The electrode assembly is configured by alternately stacking two or more positive electrodes and one or more negative electrodes using a separator as a boundary therebetween, outermost positive electrodes are positioned on outermost opposite surfaces of the electrode assembly, respectively, each of the outermost positive electrodes includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive active material layer formed on one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a non-reversible material coating layer formed on the other surface of the positive electrode current collector and including lithium oxide, and the non-reversible material coating layer is positioned on an outermost surface of the electrode assembly.
US12224436B2

Disclosed are a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The cathode active material includes a secondary particle in which a plurality of primary particles are agglomerated, wherein the secondary particle has a predetermined arrangement structure in which (003) surface of primary particles are aligned to be in a vertical direction with respect to a tangent line at a point (P) at which the (003) surface of the primary particles meet a surface of the secondary particle.
US12224435B2

According to a storage battery of an embodiment includes a first battery module and a second battery module connected in parallel with the first battery module. The number of first cells connected in series in the first battery module is M, and the number of second cells connected in series in the second battery module is N. When an open circuit voltage at SOC=X % of the first cells and the second cells are Va1 (X) and Va2 (X), respectively, the voltages of the battery modules are M×Va1 (X)N×Va2 (X) in the range where the SOC of the cell is 70% to 100%.
US12224429B2

A negative electrode plate, a secondary battery and an apparatus thereof are provided in the present application. The negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative membrane disposed on the negative electrode current collector, and the negative membrane includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer. The first coating layer is located on an outermost layer of the negative membrane and includes a first negative active material including a silicon-based material and a carbon material, and in the first coating layer, a mass percentage of the silicon-based material is 0.5% to 10%. The second coating layer is disposed between the first coating layer and the negative electrode current collector and includes a second negative active material including a silicon-based material and a carbon material, and in the second coating layer, a mass percentage of the silicon-based material is 5%-50%.
US12224425B2

A magnetic alignment device for negative electrode and method for manufacturing negative electrode using the same. The magnetic alignment device can measure the loading amount of the negative electrode slurry applied on the negative electrode collector in real time and can easily control the intensity of the magnetic field by adjusting the separation distance of the magnet portion according to the measured negative electrode slurry loading amount, and has an advantage of uniformly high alignment degree of the crystal faces of the carbon-based negative electrode active material contained in prepared negative electrode active layer.
US12224411B2

The present invention relates to a method and system for evaluating insulation and lithium ion conductivity characteristics of a separator for an electrochemical device, in which insulation and lithium ion conductivity characteristics are evaluated while a separator-containing measurement object to be tested and an electrochemical device are made to face each other, and thus, the insulation and lithium ion conductivity characteristics of the separator can be evaluated by reflecting temperature and pressure changes and the like according to the actual operation state of the electrochemical device.
US12224407B2

The present invention maintains compatibility with a power tool having no wireless connection function, and prevents malfunctions due to linked operation. A battery pack that supplies a driving power source to a power tool, said battery pack comprising: a wireless communication unit for communicating wirelessly with an external device; and a control unit that performs a first determination process to determine the state of a wireless communication connection with the external device, wherein when the control unit has determined in the first determination process that wireless communication has been established, the control unit transmits a linking command to the external device, and during a state in which the wireless communication has been established, the control unit can perform a communication connection cancellation process to cancel the wireless communication.
US12224404B2

A system including an adapter plate, a conveyor, a separator drum, and first and second electrode drums. The conveyor is configured to move the adapter plate continuously and sequentially in a predetermined path between the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, the first electrode drum to receive a respective first electrode sheet, the separator drum to receive a respective separator sheet, and the second electrode drum to receive a respective second electrode sheet until a stacked battery cell includes a desired number of respective separator sheets, respective first electrode sheets, and respective second electrode sheets.
US12224400B2

A lithium/sulfur electrochemical element (1) comprising: a cathode (2) comprising: i) carbon having a porous structure (5) comprising pores with a mean diameter less than or equal to 6 nm; ii) sulfur having a degree of oxidation between 0 and −2 in the pores of the carbon; b) an electrolyte comprising: i) at least one organic solvent which is a carbonate; ii) one or more salts, at least one salt being lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide; c) an anode (4) comprising lithium metal or a metallic alloy of lithium. Such an element provides increased safety of use because it limits the quantity of hydrogen sulfide that can be emitted in the event of an electrolyte leak or in the event of exposure of an electrode of the element to water.
US12224399B2

The present invention relates to a solid-state battery that is based on a phthalocyanine solid-state electrolyte/anode connection that is chemically obtained. Such chemical connection process yields a solid electrolyte interphase that connects the solid-state battery's phthalocyanine solid-state electrolyte and anode. Unlike other processes for forming solid-state electrolyte/anode connections, the present chemical process does not require that solid-state electrolyte be ductile and flow under high pressure.
US12224398B2

Provided is an all-solid-state sodium ion secondary battery in which electrode layers are difficult to peel from a solid electrolyte layer and which has excellent cycle characteristics. An all-solid-state sodium ion secondary battery 1 according to the present invention includes: a solid electrolyte layer 2 having a first principal surface 2a and a second principal surface 2b opposite each other and made of a sodium ion-conductive oxide; a positive electrode layer 3 provided on the first principal surface 2a of the solid electrolyte layer 2; and a negative electrode layer 4 provided on the second principal surface 2b of the solid electrolyte layer 2, wherein at least one of the first principal surface 2a and the second principal surface 2b has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.05 μm or more.
US12224395B2

Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode layer composed of a lithium complex oxide sintered body, a negative electrode layer composed of a titanium-containing sintered body, a ceramic separator, an electrolytic solution, and an exterior body including a closed space, the closed space accommodating the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the ceramic separator, and the electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode layer, the ceramic separator, and the negative electrode layer are bonded together, the ceramic separator is composed of MgO and glass, the glass has an average grain size of 0.5 to 25 μm, and a ratio of the average grain size of the glass to the average grain size of MgO is 1.5 to 85.
US12224393B2

A disclosed method of manufacturing a battery includes the steps of: (A) suction-attaching a first separator and a second separator to a winding core, with the first separator and the second separator being stacked on each other; and (B) winding the first separator and the separator around the winding core. Each of the first separator and the second separator includes a porous substrate layer made of resin, and at least one surface layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate layer.
US12224392B2

An electrode assembly includes: a plurality of positive electrodes and a plurality of negative electrodes, alternately and repeatedly stacked; a separator between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, respectively, to protrude from the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes and stacked such that surfaces at edges of the separator face each other; and a fixing member including an adhesive layer adhered to the surfaces of the separator.
US12224384B2

A display device may include a light emitting element including a first end having a first surface, and a second end having a second surface parallel to the first surface, an organic pattern that overlaps the light emitting element and exposes the first and second surfaces, a first electrode disposed on a substrate and electrically contacting the first end, and a second electrode disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode, and electrically contacting the second end. A surface area of the first surface may be less than that of the second surface. A top surface of the organic pattern may be a curved surface.
US12224377B2

The present invention discloses a micro-sized face-up LED device with a micro-hole array and preparation method thereof. The LED device is prepared based on a GaN-based epitaxial layer and includes a GaN-based epitaxial layer, a current spreading layer, a P electrode, an N electrode and a passivation layer; the GaN-based epitaxial layer including a substrate, an N-type CaN layer, i.e., an N-GaN layer, a multiple quantum well layer (MQW), and a P-type GaN layer, i.e., a P-GaN layer; and the N-GaN layer including an etched exposed N-GaN layer and an etched formed N-GaN layer. The present invention improves luminescence efficiency while ensuring the device modulation bandwidth; and after the micro-hole array is etched by ICP, a sample continues to be etched by using the current spreading layer etching liquid to prevent the leakage caused by the expansion of the current spreading layer in the etching process.
US12224369B2

A radiation detector includes a stack of layers along a direction Z, the stack comprising: an absorbent layer, a first contact layer, an assembly consisting of at least one intermediate layer, referred to as an intermediate assembly, an upper layer, the first contact layer and the upper layer having a plurality of detection zones and separation zones, a detection zone corresponding to a pixel of the detector, a passivation layer made from a dielectric material, arranged on the upper layer and having openings at the level of the detection zones of the upper layer, the semiconductor layers of the stack being compounds based on elements of groups IIIA and VA of the periodic table of the elements, the second material comprising the VA element antimony and the third material not comprising the VA element antimony.
US12224361B2

Disclosed is a solar cell module. The module includes a solar cell including a plurality of unit battery cells electrically connected to each other via internal connection electrodes; an upper cover disposed on a front face of the solar cell; a light-conversion coating layer coated on an inner face of the upper cover, wherein the light-conversion coating layer includes upconversion nano-particles for absorbing near-infrared rays and emitting light having a wavelength in a visible region; a lower cover disposed on a rear face of the solar cell; a first filling material layer formed between the solar cell and the light-conversion coating layer; and a second filling material layer formed between the solar cell and the lower cover.
US12224355B2

A semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer and excellent electrical characteristics is provided. Further, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in which plural kinds of thin film transistors of different structures are formed over one substrate to form plural kinds of circuits and in which the number of steps is not greatly increased is provided. After a metal thin film is formed over an insulating surface, an oxide semiconductor layer is formed thereover. Then, oxidation treatment such as heat treatment is performed to oxidize the metal thin film partly or entirely. Further, structures of thin film transistors are different between a circuit in which emphasis is placed on the speed of operation, such as a logic circuit, and a matrix circuit.
US12224353B2

A polysilicon layer includes a polysilicon part of a polysilicon thin-film transistor. A first conductor layer includes a first gate electrode part of the polysilicon thin-film transistor. The first insulator layer includes a first insulator part located between the first gate electrode part and the polysilicon part. The oxide semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor part of an oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor. The second conductor layer includes a second gate electrode part of the oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor. The second insulator layer includes a second insulator part located between the second gate electrode part and the oxide semiconductor part. The second insulator layer has a relative permittivity of not less than 8. The entire area of the second insulator layer is covered with the second conductor layer.
US12224351B2

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first poly-material pattern, a first conductive element, a first semiconductor layer, and a first gate structure. The first poly-material pattern is over and protrudes outward from the substrate, wherein the first poly-material pattern includes a first active portion and a first poly-material portion joined to the first active portion. The first conductive element is over the substrate, wherein the first conductive element includes the first poly-material portion and a first metallic conductive portion covering at least one of a top surface and a sidewall of the first poly-material portion. The first semiconductor layer is over the substrate and covers the first active portion of the first poly-material pattern and the first conductive element. The first gate structure is over the first semiconductor layer located within the first active portion.
US12224345B2

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second electrode, a gate electrode, second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type, third semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, and a third electrode. The second electrode is provided in a plurality in second and third directions. Each second electrode opposes a portion of the first semiconductor region in the second and third directions with an insulating layer interposed. The gate electrode is provided around each second electrode. The first semiconductor region includes first regions provided respectively around the second electrodes and the second region provided around the first regions in the second and third directions. Impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in each of the first regions is higher than impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in the second region.
US12224342B2

An integrated circuit transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate providing a drain, a first doped region buried in the semiconductor substrate providing a body and a second doped region in the semiconductor substrate providing a source. A trench extends into the semiconductor substrate and passes through the first and second doped regions. An insulated polygate region within the trench surrounds a polyoxide region that may have void inclusion. The polygate region is formed by a first gate lobe and second gate lobe on opposite sides of the polyoxide region. A pair of gate contacts are provided at each trench. The pair of gate contacts includes: a first gate contact extending into the first gate lobe at a location laterally offset from the void and a second gate contact extending into the second gate lobe at a location laterally offset from the void.
US12224334B2

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor layers arranged one above another, and source/drain epitaxial regions on opposite sides of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure surrounding each of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The gate structure includes interfacial layers respectively over the plurality of semiconductor layers, a high-k dielectric layer over the interfacial layers, and a gate metal over the high-k dielectric layer. The gate structure further includes gate spacers spacing apart the gate structure from the source/drain epitaxial regions. A top position of the high-k dielectric layer is lower than top positions of the gate spacers.
US12224333B2

An HEMT with a stair-like compound layer as a drain includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer. The composition of the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer are different from each other. A source electrode, a gate electrode and a drain electrode are disposed on the second III-V compound layer. The gate electrode is disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode. A first P-type III-V compound layer is disposed between the drain electrode and the second III-V compound layer. The first P-type III-V compound layer is stair-like.
US12224332B2

The purpose of the present invention is to suppress a change in characteristics of a TFT using an oxide semiconductor film caused by that oxygen in the oxide semiconductor film is extracted by metal electrode. The main structure of the present invention is as follows. A semiconductor device having a TFT, in which a gate insulating film is formed on a gate electrode, and an oxide semiconductor film is formed on the gate insulating film; the oxide semiconductor film including a channel region, a drain region, and a source region; in which a metal nitride film is formed on a top surface of the gate electrode in an opposing portion to the channel region in a plan view; and the metal nitride film is not formed at a part of the top surface of the gate electrode.
US12224326B2

Solid assemblies having a composite dielectric spacer and processes for fabricating the solid assemblies are provided. The composite dielectric spacer can include, in some embodiments, a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer having a mutual interface. The composite dielectric spacer can separate a contact member from a conductive interconnect member, thus reducing the capacitance between such members with respect to solid assemblies that include one of first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer. The composite dielectric spacer can permit maintaining the real estate of an interface between the conductive interconnect and a trench contact member that has an interface with a carrier-doped epitaxial layer embodying or constituting a source contact region or a drain contact region of a field effect transistor. The trench contact member can form another interface with the conductive interconnect member, providing a satisfactory contact resistance therebetween.
US12224323B2

A buried wordline structure fabrication method includes: providing a first trench in a semiconductor substrate, wherein the first trench has a tip on its bottom; performing epitaxial growth within the first trench to reduce the depth of the tip on the bottom of the first trench; and forming a gate dielectric layer on an inner wall of the first trench and filling a gate conductive layer within the first trench to form the buried wordline structure.
US12224317B2

A method of manufacturing a vertical power semiconductor device includes forming a drift region in a semiconductor body having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface along a vertical direction, the drift region including platinum atoms, and forming a field stop region in the semiconductor body between the drift region and the second main surface, the field stop region including a plurality of impurity peaks, wherein a first impurity peak of the plurality of impurity peaks is set a larger concentration than a second impurity peak of the plurality of impurity peaks, wherein the first impurity peak includes hydrogen and the second impurity peak includes helium.
US12224314B2

A multi-stack semiconductor device includes: a substrate; and a plurality of multi-stack transistor structures arranged on the substrate in a channel width direction, wherein the multi-stack transistor structure include at least one lower transistor structure and at least one upper transistor structure stacked above the lower transistor structure, wherein the lower and upper transistor structures include at least one channel layer as a current channel, wherein the lower transistor structures of at least two multi-stack transistor structures have different channel-layer widths.
US12224308B2

A display device and a tiled display including the same are provided. The display device includes a bottom plate, and a display panel including an active area on the bottom plate and including a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of dummy areas near the active area and including a plurality of dummy pixels, wherein the plurality of dummy pixels is on at least one side surface of the bottom plate, wherein the plurality of pixels includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit lights of different colors, and wherein the plurality of dummy pixels is configured to emit light of a same color as one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel.
US12224303B2

In a manufacturing method of a photoelectric conversion panel, a contact hole CH3 that exposes a part of an upper face of a photodiode and a contact hole CH2 that exposes a source connection electrode are formed in a first flattening film and in inorganic insulating films 105a to 105c, an inorganic insulating film 107 is formed, contact holes CH2a and CH3a are formed in the contact holes CH2 and CH3, respectively, and a bias line and a data line are formed in the contact holes CH2a and CH3a, respectively.
US12224291B2

A display device may include a source electrode disposed on a substrate; a drain electrode disposed on the substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode, the insulating layer including an opening overlapping the drain electrode; and a first electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically contacting the drain electrode in the opening of the insulating layer, wherein an angle between a side surface of the opening of the insulating layer and a plane parallel to the substrate is in a range of about 70 degrees to about 85 degrees.
US12224288B2

An array base plate, a method for manufacturing same, and a display panel are disclosed. The array base plate includes: an active layer including a body portion, and a first conduction portion and a second conduction portion disposed on two sides of the active layer; an etching protective layer and an ohmic contact layer disposed in a same layer, where the etching protective layer is located on the body portion, and the ohmic contact layer is located on the first conduction portion and the second conduction portion; and a source and a drain separately disposed on the ohmic contact layer located on the first conduction portion and the second conduction portion.
US12224267B2

The present disclosure provides a chip interconnecting method, an interconnect device and a method for forming a chip interconnection package. The method comprises arranging at least one chipset on a carrier, each chipset including at least a first chip and a second chip. A contact surface (or diameter) of each of the first bumps is smaller than that of any of the second bumps. The method further comprises attaching an interconnect device to the first chip and the second chip, the interconnect device including first pads for bonding to corresponding bumps on the first chip and second pads for bonding to corresponding bumps on the second chip. Attaching the interconnect device includes aligning the plurality of first pads with the corresponding bumps on the first chip whereby the plurality of second pads are self-aligned for bonding to the plurality of second bumps.
US12224265B2

A stacking structure including a first die, a second die stacked on the first die, and a third die and a fourth die disposed on the second die. The first die has a first metallization structure, and the first metallization structure includes first through die vias. The second die has a second metallization structure, and second metallization structure includes second through die vias. The first through die vias are bonded with the second through die vias, and sizes of the first through die vias are different from sizes of the second through die vias. The third and fourth dies are disposed side-by-side and are bonded with the second through die vias.
US12224260B2

A semiconductor package including: a plurality of lower pads; an upper pad; a semiconductor chip including a chip pad and configured to transmit or receive a first signal through the chip pad; a first wiring structure connecting the chip pad to a first lower pad among the plurality of lower pads; and a second wiring structure connecting a second lower pad among the plurality of lower pads to the upper pad, wherein the first lower pad and the second lower pad are separated from each other by a minimum distance between the plurality of lower pads.
US12224251B2

In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides semiconductor devices, packages, and methods. In one embodiment, a device includes a die pad, a lead that is spaced apart from the die pad, and an encapsulant on the die pad and the lead. A plurality of cavities extends into at least one of the die pad or the lead to a depth from a surface of the at least one of the die pad or the lead. The depth is within a range from 0.5 μm to 5 μm. The encapsulant extends into the plurality of cavities. The cavities facilitate improved adhesion between the die pad or lead and the encapsulant, as the cavities increase a surface area of contact with the encapsulant, and further increase a mechanical interlock with the encapsulant, as the cavities may have a rounded or semi-spherical shape.
US12224248B2

A semiconductor wafer includes semiconductor dies and laser grooves formed in the scribe lines along the long edges of the semiconductor dies. A laser groove extends between the long edges of two adjacent semiconductor dies to encompass the corners of the two adjacent semiconductor dies. When diced, the resulting semiconductor dies have portions of the corners removed.
US12224240B2

A microelectronic device, including a stack structure including alternating conductive structures and dielectric structures is disclosed. Memory pillars extend through the stack structure. Contacts are laterally adjacent to the memory pillars and extending through the stack structure. The contacts including active contacts and support contacts. The active contacts including a liner and a conductive material. The support contacts including the liner and a dielectric material. The conductive material of the active contacts is in electrical communication with the memory pillars. Methods and electronic systems are also disclosed.
US12224221B2

A packaging method and a package structure are provided. The packaging method includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of chips are disposed on a carrying surface of a carrying board for chip redistribution. Each of the chips includes a first side connected to the carrying surface and a second side opposite to the first side, and the second side is provided with at least one chip connecting member. Next, a base structure is provided. The base structure has a bonding surface provided with a plurality of predetermined areas for bonding the chips respectively, and each of the predetermined regions has at least one electrically connecting structure formed therein. Lastly, an encapsulating material is applied to integrate the base structure, the chips, and the carrying board into a unitary structure under specific hot pressing conditions.
US12224216B2

A model parameter test structure for a transistor includes: a substrate, having a first conductivity type, a plurality of isolation structures being provided in the substrate and the isolation structures being used to isolate different doped regions; a first test device, formed in the substrate and configured to obtain characteristic parameters of a source side of the transistor; and a second test device, formed in the substrate and configured to obtain characteristic parameters of a drain side of the transistor; wherein a structure of the first test device is different from a structure of the second test device.
US12224200B2

The present disclosure provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a support unit that supports a substrate, and a heating unit that irradiates a beam to the substrate and heat the substrate, and the heating unit further includes an irradiation part that irradiates the beam, and a rotation part that rotates the beam.
US12224190B2

A valve assembly may provide a body comprising a bottom portion and a top portion having a threaded region, a closing mechanism situated above the top portion of the body, an actuator in communication with the closing mechanism, a nut configured to attach to the threaded region, and a threaded hole extending into at least one of the bottom portion of the body or the nut.
US12224177B2

This disclosure describes an improved etch selectivity of a-C mask during HAR etch processes by using a cyclic etch process. The process has two principle steps: 1) A partial etch using a polymerizing etching recipe with lower O2 and extra polymer generation where a-C mask selectivity to dielectric (e.g. for SiO2 or ONON layers) is high; and 2) A polymer cleaning step using Kr sputter, Xe sputter, NF3, SF6, IF7, IF5, CF4, or other F based etching process, with or without bias, to etch the polymer. The polymer cleaning step may include addition of O containing molecules such as O2, CO, CO2, NO, NO2, N2O, SO2, and/or COS. These steps are repeated between a partial etch process (polymer creating) and polymer cleaning step (cycle etching).
US12224169B2

This invention relates to graphical user-interactive analysis of data, including in particular, mass spectrographic data analysis, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides user-customizable reports, including methods and apparatuses for generating customizable pivot tables and graphs specific to mass spectrographic data.
US12224152B2

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for generating a plurality of substantially collimated charged particle beamlets. The apparatus includes a charged particle source for generating a diverging charged particle beam, a beam splitter for splitting the charged particle beam in an array of charged particle beamlets, a deflector array includes an array of deflectors including one deflector for each charged particle beamlet of said array of charged particle beamlets, wherein the deflector array is configured for substantially collimating the array of diverging charged particle beamlets. The apparatus further includes a beam manipulation device configured for generating electric and/or magnetic fields at least in an area between the charged particle source and the deflector array. The apparatus has a central axis, and the beam manipulation device is configured for generating electric and/or magnetic fields substantially parallel to the central axis and substantially perpendicular to the central axis.
US12224142B2

This breaker device includes: a casing; an igniter configured to generate gas; a pusher located inside the casing and positioned below the igniter; a conductor including a separating portion positioned below the pusher; and an elastic member disposed to be positioned between the casing and the pusher to press the outer side surface of the pusher. In the state where the pusher is stationary after the pusher moves the separating portion downward under the pressure of the gas generated by the igniter, the pusher is located at a level below the elastic member, and the inner surface of the elastic member overlaps the pusher as viewed from above.
US12224140B2

A relay array may connect an electrical device (e.g., an inverter, power converter, etc.) to a utility grid. Based on a detection of a power interruption or fault, the relay array may disconnect the electrical device from the grid to ensure safety or reduce damage to the electrical device or grid. The relay array may include one or more electromechanical relays (e.g., latching relays). A safety catch may prevent the latching relay(s) from changing states. The electrical device may be configured to facilitate removal of the safety catch once the ability to change states is desired. The latching relay(s) may also be supplied with a power pulse for changing a state of the latching relay(s). The power pulse may be provided by a power bank that may be maintained with power in case of a power interruption or fault.
US12224131B1

A hard start capacitor replacement unit has a plurality of capacitors in a container sized to fit in existing hard start capacitor space. The capacitors are 4 metallized film capacitors wound in a single cylindrical capacitive element. The container has a common terminal and capacitors value terminals for the plurality of capacitors, which may be connected singly or in combination to provide a selected capacitance. An electronic or other relay connects the selected capacitance in parallel with a motor run capacitor. The hard start capacitor replacement unit is thereby adapted to replace a wide variety of hard start capacitors.
US12224129B2

A film capacitor includes a stack including at least one dielectric film and a plurality of metal films, the at least one dielectric film including a polyarylate film, wherein each of the at least one of dielectric film and each of the plurality of metal films are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, each of the plurality of metal films deposited on each of the at least one dielectric film by vapor deposition, cover films on two first side surfaces, the two first side surfaces facing each other in a first direction, the first direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, the cover films containing a polyester hot-melt resin, and metal-sprayed electrodes on two second side surfaces, the two second side surfaces facing each other in a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and orthogonal to the stacking direction.
US12224128B2

A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a capacitance formation portion including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, alternately disposed in a first direction, and a cover portion disposed on both end surfaces of the capacitance formation portion opposing each other in the first direction; and an external electrode disposed outside the body and connected to the internal electrode, wherein the cover portion contains fluorine (F), and A1 and A2 satisfy A2>A1, where A1 is an average size of a dielectric grain included in the cover portion, and A2 is an average size of a dielectric grain included in the dielectric layer.
US12224125B2

A film capacitor that includes a dielectric resin film made of a thermosetting urethane resin; and a metal layer on at least one surface of the dielectric resin film, wherein the dielectric resin film contains at least an isocyanate group and a carbonyl group, and a ratio of a first absorption peak intensity of the isocyanate group in a wave number range of 2200 cm−1 to 2350 cm−1 to a second absorption peak intensity of the carbonyl group in a wave number range of 1650 cm−1 to 1800 cm−1 is 0.08 to 1.15.
US12224122B2

An electronic component includes a laminate in which first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes are alternately laminated in a lamination direction with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, the laminate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other in the lamination direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to each other in a width direction, and a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other in a length direction, a first external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes, a second external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes, and side margin portions each including a dielectric including Ca, Zr, and Ti.
US12224117B2

A test bench for a contactor bulb includes: a frame, configured to fix the bulb therein, and an actuation device, borne by the frame and including an output shaft, centred on a longitudinal axis and translationally movable with respect to the frame parallel to the longitudinal axis between a front position and a rear position, the output shaft being configured to be connected to an actuation rod of the bulb. The actuation device is a moving magnet electromagnetic actuator.
US12224114B2

A periodic arrangement of magnets are used to form structures that channel the potential energy that a magnet possesses into kinetic energy in a controlled fashion to perform some useful work or function. One function is to create a magnetic chute that converts the potential energy of a magnetic projectile into kinetic energy that is used to channel the projectile to follow a path achieving high velocities along a path. The path is formed by assembling magnets periodically along the path in a certain fashion to create a magnetic chute that allows the magnetic projectile to slide easily along the path since the projectile is confined by the shape of the magnetic chute.
US12224110B2

A transformer is provided, including a core, a primary conductor, a magnetic member, and a secondary conductor. The core includes a central pillar and at least one lateral pillar. An accommodating space is formed between the central pillar and the lateral pillar. The primary conductor, the magnetic member, and the secondary conductor are disposed in the accommodating space. The primary conductor surrounds the central pillar. The magnetic member surrounds the primary conductor, and the secondary conductor surrounds the magnetic member. The magnetic member is disposed between the primary conductor and the secondary conductor, and is flexible.
US12224108B2

A coil module is provided, including a second coil mechanism. The second coil mechanism includes a third coil assembly and a second base corresponding to the third coil assembly. The second base has a positioning assembly corresponding to a first coil mechanism.
US12224099B2

A coil component may include a body having one surface and the other surface facing each other, and including a molded portion having a core and a cover portion disposed on the molded portion; a wound coil disposed between the molded portion and the cover portion and wound around the core; and a first accommodation groove and a second accommodation groove disposed on the one surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other, and respectively disposed outside of a region of the body corresponding to the core, wherein both end portions of the wound coil are respectively disposed in the first and second accommodation grooves, and a minimum value of a distance between the first and second accommodation grooves is greater than a diameter of the core.
US12224097B2

An electronic component that has fewer cracks during production is provided. The electronic component includes an outer electrode on a multilayer body, which includes an inner glass layer, a magnetic material layer on top and bottom surfaces of the inner glass layer, and an outer glass layer on top and bottom surfaces of the magnetic material layer. The insulating layers of the inner glass layer and the outer glass layers contain a dielectric glass material that contains a glass material containing at least K, B, and Si, quartz, and alumina. The glass material content of each insulating layer of the inner glass layer ranges from approximately 60%-65% by weight, the quartz content of each insulating layer of the inner glass layer ranges from approximately 34%-37% by weight, and the alumina content of each insulating layer of the inner glass layer ranges from approximately 0.5%-4% by weight.
US12224090B2

A multilayer varistor has a stack structure including a plurality of layers stacked in a third direction. The multilayer varistor includes a first internal electrode electrically connected to a first external electrode, a second internal electrode electrically connected to the second external electrode, and a third internal electrode electrically connected to the third external electrode. The first internal electrode is disposed between the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode in the third direction.
US12224072B2

A classification method and system for medical conditions based on the concept of subtypes, which are classes of patients whose medical fact patterns as analyzed in an N-dimensional space places them closer to other patients belonging to the same subtype than to patients who belong to different subtypes and, who share similar likelihood of certain specified outcomes. A computer system processes patient data for a plurality of patients from a set of patients called a cohort. The computer system processes the patient data for the cohort to group patients into sub-cohorts of similar patients, i.e., each sub-cohort includes patients who have similar medical fact patterns in their patient data. Patients in different sub-cohorts generally, but not necessarily, have significant differences in their patient data. The computer system generates quantitative definitions, describing the patients in the sub-cohorts.
US12224069B2

A processor may generate a workstation characteristics model of a workspace. A processor may generate respective user profiles for each of one or more users. Each of the respective user profiles may include user data associated with a respective user. A processor may assign, based on the respective user profiles, a respective risk level to each of the respective user profiles. A processor may compare each of the respective risk levels to a risk threshold level. A processor may apply a user characteristic model. A user characteristic model may be based on each of the respective risk levels and the workstation characteristics model. A processor may assign each of the one or more users to respective workstations based on the user characteristic model.
US12224066B2

A method of determining a region of interest in an image of tissue of an individual by an apparatus including processing circuitry may include executing, by the processing circuitry, instructions that cause the apparatus to partition an image of tissue of an individual into a set of areas, identify a tissue type of each area of the image, and apply a classifier to the image to determine a region of interest, the classifier being configured to determine regions of interest based on the tissue types of the set of areas of the image.
US12224061B2

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium, for determining a level of hypertension of a person. Image data defining a retinal image of a retina of the person that has been captured by a retinal imaging system is acquired. Processing the image data is performed to identify a plurality of vessel segments present in the retinal image. Determining is performed of respective widths of vessel segments of at least a subset of the plurality of vessel segments present in the retinal image. Calculating, as a vascular summary metric, at least one average value or median value of the determined widths of the vessel segments present in the retinal image, is performed to determine a level of hypertension by which the person has been affected.
US12224057B2

A medical image processing method and processing apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-processed image; performing a feature extraction on the to-be-processed image to obtain a corresponding feature image; and re-determining a pixel value of each pixel in the to-be-processed image based on first information and second information of a corresponding pixel in the feature image, and processing the to-be-processed image; wherein the first information is information of a pixel adjacent to the corresponding pixel in the features image, and the second information is information of a pixel that is not adjacent to and is similar to the corresponding pixel in the features image.
US12224052B2

A computer-implemented system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive attribute data associated with a user, generate, based on the attribute data and a first health issue of the user, a selected set of the attribute data, the first health issue corresponding to a first long-term care health issue of the user, determine, based on the selected set of the attribute data, a first probability associated with treating the first health issue, generate, based on the first probability, a treatment plan that includes one or more exercises directed to modifying the first probability, and modify, based on at least one of the first probability and a second probability, the treatment plan. The second probability is associated with treating a second health issue of the user. A treatment apparatus is configured to implement the treatment plan while the treatment apparatus is being manipulated by the user.
US12224050B2

The present invention provides a system (1) comprising: a pen injection device (10) holding a specific type of medicament and comprising a dose expelling mechanism and pen communication means (15), a mobile communication unit (30) comprising mobile communication means (35) adapted to communicate with the pen communication means (15), and a software application program configured to determine a recommended type of medicament to be delivered to a user based on information indicative of a physiological condition of the user, wherein the pen injection device (10) further comprises indication means which in a first state indicates that the dose expelling mechanism is to remain idle and in a second state indicates that the dose expelling mechanism is available for operation, and wherein the mobile communication unit (30) is configured to, via a communication from the mobile communication means (35) to the pen communication means (15), a) prompt a change of state of the indication means from the second state to the first state in response to the recommended type of medicament to be delivered differing from the specific type of medicament, and/or b) prompt a change of state of the indication means from the first state to the second state in response to the recommended type of medicament to be delivered corresponding to the specific type of medicament.
US12224047B2

Systems and methods for identifying and presenting prior findings data in a radiology review workflow, based on natural language processing (NLP) of unstructured radiology report text, are disclosed. In an example, prior findings are generated with operations including: receiving text from a prior radiology report prepared for a patient in a prior radiology study; processing the text with a trained NLP engine to classify discrete prior findings in the prior radiology study that identify observed condition(s) and characteristics of the observed condition(s); and outputting or presenting the prior findings, such as in a radiology review user interface. In an example, the radiology review user interface displays the observed condition(s) and the characteristic(s) of the observed condition(s) to a user (e.g., a radiologist), and can apply sorting, filtering, or grouping based on pathology phrases or attribute words associated with the observed conditions or the characteristics of such observed conditions.
US12224046B2

A charting system is provided for use in a healthcare facility having a network. The charting system includes a microphone to receive voice inputs from a caregiver. A vital sign monitor obtains a vital sign from a patient and displays it. The system includes a communication device having a voice-to-text module that includes a processor coupled to the microphone. The processor operates a voice-to-text algorithm that converts the vital sign into text in response to the caregiver dictating the vital sign into the microphone. The processor initiates transmission of the vital sign to an EMR computer via the network after conversion of the at least one vital sign to text.
US12224042B2

A device includes arrays of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) cells. Reference sequences representing portions of a genome are stored in respective groups of NVM cells. Exact matching phase substring sequences representing portions of at least one sample read are loaded into groups of NVM cells. One or more groups of NVM cells are identified where the stored reference sequence matches the loaded exact matching phase substring sequence using the arrays at Content Addressable Memories (CAMs). Approximate matching phase substring sequences are loaded into groups of NVM cells. One or more groups of NVM cells are identified where the stored reference sequence approximately matches the loaded approximate matching phase substring sequence using the arrays as Ternary CAMs (TCAMs). At least one of the reference sequence and the approximate matching phase substring sequence for each group of NVM cells includes at least one wildcard value when the arrays are used as TCAMs.
US12224038B2

A memory device and an intelligent operation method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a memory array, a signal generating circuit, an environment detecting circuit and an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit. The signal generating circuit is configured to generate an inputting signal. The environment detecting circuit is configured to detect at least one environment information. The AI circuit is connected among the memory array, the signal generating circuit and the environment detecting circuit. The AI circuit at least receives the inputting signal from the signal generating circuit, receives the environment information from the environment detecting circuit, receives a first performance information from the memory array, receives a second performance information from the AI circuit and outputs an ideal signal to the memory array according to the inputting signal, the environment information, the first performance information and the second performance information.
US12224032B2

In a data transmission system, one or more signal supply voltages for generating the signaling voltage of a signal to be transmitted are generated in a first circuit and forwarded from the first circuit to a second circuit. The second circuit may use the forwarded signal supply voltages to generate another signal to be transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit, thereby obviating the need to generate signal supply voltages separately in the second circuit. The first circuit may also adjust the signal supply voltages based on the signal transmitted back from the second circuit to the first circuit. The data transmission system may employ a single-ended signaling system in which the signaling voltage is referenced to a reference voltage that is a power supply voltage such as ground, shared by the first circuit and the second circuit.
US12224028B2

A semiconductor chip includes a physical layer and a processing circuit. The physical layer includes at least one sequence checking circuit and at least one signal transmission path, wherein the at least one sequence checking circuit is configured to generate at least one test result signal according to a clock signal and at least one test data signal transmitted through the at least one signal transmission path, and the clock signal is not transmitted through the at least one signal transmission path. The processing circuit is electrically coupled to the physical layer and is configured to determine an operation status of the at least one signal transmission path according to the voltage level of the at least one test result signal.
US12224023B2

Embodiments herein disclose an OTP low power circuit and methods for providing bias voltages using a single regulator. The circuit includes a Bitcell, a diode drop, a charge pump, a combinational logic controller, a program current sink load, and a read current sink load. The Bitcell includes programmable word lines and read lines, and is configured to operate in either a programmable mode or a read mode. The diode drop is configured to provide a second bias voltage to drive the read lines and the single regulator is configured to provide a first bias voltage to drive the WP in the read mode. The charge pump is configured to provide a third bias voltage to drive the WP in the program mode.
US12224020B2

A semiconductor storage device of embodiments includes a block constituted with a plurality of strings each including a plurality of memory cell transistors, a plurality of word lines, a bit line, a source line, and a control circuit configured to perform erase operation on the plurality of memory cell transistors, and the control circuit changes setting of first erase-verify operation included in the erase operation for an open block including a memory cell transistor having an erase level and setting of second erase-verify operation included in erase operation for a closed block not including a memory cell transistor having an erase block.
US12224017B2

A system can include a memory device containing blocks made up of wordlines respectively connected to sets of memory cells, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device to perform operations including responsive to receiving a read request that specifies a block, determining a value of a metric reflective of a number of programmed wordlines of the block. The operations can also include responsive to determining, based on the value of the metric, that the block is in a partially programmed state, identifying a read voltage offset corresponding to the value of the metric, and performing, using the read voltage offset, a read operation responsive to the read request.
US12224015B2

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that applies a first set of control signals to even bitlines in NAND memory and senses voltage levels of the even bitlines during an even sensing time period. The technology may also apply a second set of control signals to odd bitlines in the NAND memory, and sense voltage levels of the odd bitlines during an odd sensing time period, wherein the second set of control signals are applied after expiration of a stagger time period between the even sensing time period and the odd sensing time period.
US12223995B2

Described apparatuses and methods relate to adaptive memory registers for a memory system that may support a nondeterministic protocol. To help manage power-delivery networks in a memory system, a device includes logic that can write values to memory registers associated with memory blocks of a memory array. The values indicate whether an associated memory block has been refreshed within a refresh interval. Other logic can read the registers to determine whether a block has been refreshed. The device also includes logic that can access data indicating a row address that was most recently, or is next to be, refreshed and write values representing the address to another register. The register can be read by other logic to determine whether a wordline potentially affected by an activation-based disturb event is near to being refreshed. These techniques can reduce the number of refresh operations performed, saving power and reducing costs.
US12223991B2

A semiconductor storage apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of memory cells and a control circuit. Each of the memory cells includes a magnetization reversal memory device and a first switch device that controls a current to flow to the magnetization reversal memory device. The control circuit performs a writing control based on an asymmetric property of a writing error rate curve line with respect to a writing voltage of the magnetization reversal memory device.
US12223990B2

Embodiments of the present invention provide a storage cell and a data read/write method and storage array thereof. The storage cell includes a bit line, a tunnel junction, and four access transistors. Each access transistor includes at least an active region. The active region includes a source. The sources of the access transistors are all electrically connected to a first end of the tunnel junction. A second end of the tunnel junction is electrically connected to the bit line, and the bit line extends along a first direction. The active regions of the access transistors are isolated from one another. Long-side extension directions of the active regions of the access transistors are the same, and a first angle θ is formed between the long-side extension directions of the active regions and the first direction; wherein θ is a non-right angle.
US12223985B2

A first graph which is a flow graph is converted into a second graph using a first algorithm. The second graph, combined with a second algorithm using a dynamic programming recursion, is compared with a video and a best matching thread, with respect to the video, is found through the second graph. The best matching thread may then be used for a user-assistance function. The dynamic programming recursion reduces computational effort needed by the computer performing the matching.
US12223970B2

An encoding method, a decoding method, an encoder for performing the encoding method, and a decoder for performing the decoding method are provided. The encoding method includes outputting LP coefficients bitstream and a residual signal by performing an LP analysis on an input signal, outputting a first latent signal obtained by encoding a periodic component of the residual signal, a second latent signal obtained by encoding a non-periodic component of the residual signal, and a weight vector for each of the first latent signal and the second latent signal, using a first neural network module, and outputting a first bitstream obtained by quantizing the first latent signal, a second bitstream obtained by quantizing the second latent signal, and a weight bitstream obtained by quantizing the weight vector, using a quantization module.
US12223959B2

A method includes obtaining, at a first conference endpoint device, spoken command data representing a spoken command detected by the first conference endpoint device during a teleconference between the first conference endpoint device and a second conference endpoint device. The method further includes generating modified spoken command data by inserting a spoken phrase into the spoken command. The method further includes transmitting the modified spoken command data to a natural language service.
US12223951B2

Systems and methods are provided for responding to a natural language query, e.g., a first natural language query. A first natural language understanding model is used to process the natural language query. A confidence level, e.g., a first confidence level, of the understanding of the natural language query is determined. In response to the confidence level being below a confidence level threshold, the natural language query is reprocessed using a reprocessing module. A response to the first natural language query is generated based on the processing of the natural language query by the first natural language understanding model and the reprocessing of the natural language query.
US12223950B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting a continued conversation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first audio data of a first utterance. The actions further include obtaining a first transcription of the first utterance. The actions further include receiving second audio data of a second utterance. The actions further include obtaining a second transcription of the second utterance. The actions further include determining whether the second utterance includes a query directed to a query processing system based on analysis of the second transcription and the first transcription or a response to the first query. The actions further include configuring the data routing component to provide the second transcription of the second utterance to the query processing system as a second query or bypass routing the second transcription.
US12223948B2

Methods and systems for correction of a likely erroneous word in a speech transcription are disclosed. By evaluating token confidence scores of individual words or phrases, the automatic speech recognition system can replace a low-confidence score word with a substitute word or phrase. Among various approaches, neural network models can be used to generate individual confidence scores. Such word substitution can enable the speech recognition system to automatically detect and correct likely errors in transcription. Furthermore, the system can indicate the token confidence scores on a graphic user interface for labeling and dictionary enhancement.
US12223945B2

A speech recognition method is provided. The method may include: obtaining speech data and a speech recognition result of the speech data, the speech data including speech of a plurality of speakers, and the speech recognition result including a plurality of words; determining speaking time of each of the plurality of speakers by processing the speech data; determining, based on the speaking times of the plurality of speakers and the speech recognition result, a corresponding relationship between the plurality of words and the plurality of speakers; determining, based on the corresponding relationship, at least one conversion word from the plurality of words, each of the at least one conversion word corresponding to at least two of the plurality of speakers; and re-determining the corresponding relationship between the plurality of words and the plurality of speakers based on the at least one conversion word.
US12223932B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a harmony processing method and apparatus, a device, and a medium, and the method includes: acquiring a harmonic interval corresponding to a target harmony control in response to a triggering operation on the target harmony control; performing, according to the harmonic interval, sound modification processing on a first sound input originally to obtain a second sound, in which an interval between the first sound and the second sound is the harmonic interval; and generating a target audio according to the first sound and the second sound, wherein the first sound and the second sound are presented as different harmonic parts in the target audio.
US12223921B2

A drive method for a display panel, and a display apparatus. The drive method includes: when current original gray-scale values corresponding to sub-pixels in the same region are the same in a plurality of continuous display frames, converting the current original gray-scale values into a first target gray-scale value and a second target gray-scale value; in a current display frame of the plurality of continuous display frames, controlling a data voltage corresponding to the first target gray-scale value to be input to a first sub-pixel unit in the region, and controlling a data voltage corresponding to the second target gray-scale value to be input to a second sub-pixel unit in the region, where each of the first sub-pixel unit and the second sub-pixel unit includes at least one sub-pixel.
US12223916B2

A data driving circuit including: a latch which receives an output image signal and outputs a latch data signal including a plurality of bits; a transition detector which compares the latch data signal of a current line with the latch data signal of a previous line, and outputs a first transition detection signal based on the comparison; a delay compensator which outputs a delay data signal obtained by delaying some of the plurality of bits of the latch data signal based on the first transition detection signal; a level shifter which outputs a level shift data signal obtained by changing a voltage level of the delay data signal; and an output circuit which converts the level shift data signal into a data signal and provides the data signal obtained by converting the level shift data signal to a data line.
US12223915B2

A pixel includes: a light-emitting diode; a first transistor; a second transistor connected to a gate of the first transistor and to a data line; a third transistor connected to the gate of the first transistor and to a first voltage line; a fourth transistor connected to the first transistor and a second voltage line; a fifth transistor connected to the first transistor and to a third voltage line; and a sixth transistor connected to the first transistor and to the light-emitting diode, where a gate signal supplied to a gate of the sixth transistor is a signal obtained by shifting a gate signal supplied to a gate of the fifth transistor by a certain time.
US12223914B2

A display device includes pixels including a light-emitting element, and an initialization transistor connected between an anode electrode of the light-emitting element and a first initialization power line to which a voltage of initialization power is supplied, and turned on when an initialization scan signal is supplied, and an initialization scan driver which supplies the initialization scan signal. The initial scan driver supplies an i-th (i is a natural number) initial scan signal to overlap an (i−1)-th initial scan signal, and supplies an (i+1)-th initial scan signal so as not to overlap the i-th initial scan signal, and the initialization scan signal is set to a gate-on voltage.
US12223913B2

This disclosure relates to a display substrate, including a display region and a bezel region located around the display region; the bezel region includes a bonding area located at a side of the display region, and the bezel region further includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the bonding area, and a third region opposite to the bonding area; at least one of the first region, the second region or the third region includes a bending area, and a gate driver on array (GOA) driving circuit is disposed at a side of the bending area away from the display region. This disclosure also relates to a display device.
US12223911B2

A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a pixel circuit, and first and second transistors. The OLD includes a cathode electrode connected to a second power source. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a gate electrode initialized by a third power source. The driving transistor controls the amount of current flowing from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED. The first transistor is connected between a fourth power source and the second power source and an anode electrode of the OLED. The first transistor is turned on based on a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The second transistor is connected between a data line and the pixel circuit. The second transistor is turned on when the scan signal is supplied to the ith scan line.
US12223910B2

A display panel includes a transistor, a light emitting device electrically connected to the transistor, a connection wiring electrically connecting the transistor to the light emitting device and including side surfaces, a capping pattern disposed on the transistor and contacting at least a side surface among side surfaces, an upper insulating layer disposed on the transistor and including a first opening that overlaps the at least the side surface, and a pixel definition layer disposed on the upper insulating layer and covering the first opening of the upper insulating layer.
US12223904B2

The invention of the application is the invention regarding a semiconductor device and a method for driving the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, first to fifth switches, first to third capacitors, and a display element. The first transistor (M2) comprises a back gate, a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first switch (M1), the second switch (M3) and the first capacitor (C1) are positioned between the gate of the first transistor and a source of the first transistor, the back gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the third switch (M4), the second capacitor (C2) is positioned between the back gate of the first transistor and the source of the first transistor, the source of the first transistor is electrically connected to the fourth switch (M6) and a drain of the second transistor (M5), a gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to the fifth switch (M7), the third capacitor (C3) is positioned between the gate of the second transistor and a source of the second transistor, and the source of the second transistor is electrically connected to the display element (61).
US12223900B2

A display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a display area provided with pixel circuits arranged in an array and a non-display area provided with M light emitting driving circuits, M control driving circuits and M reset driving circuits. Odd-numbered light emitting driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second light emitting clock signal lines, and even-numbered light emitting driving circuits are connected with third and fourth light emitting clock signal lines; and/or, odd-numbered control driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second control clock signal lines, and even-numbered control driving circuits are connected with third and fourth control clock signal lines; and/or, odd-numbered reset driving circuits are electrically connected with first and second reset clock signal lines, and even-numbered reset driving circuits are connected with third and fourth reset clock signal lines.
US12223894B2

A pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a capacitor having two terminals connected to a first power terminal and a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and a light emitting device. The pixel driving circuit includes: a reset module; a data writing module; a threshold compensation module including a compensation transistor configured to electrically connect second and gate electrodes of the driving transistor together in the data writing phase; a light emitting control module including a first gating transistor configured to electrically connect the second electrode of the driving transistor and the light emitting device in the reset phase and disconnect the second electrode from the light emitting device in the data writing phase. The compensation transistor and the first gating transistor are oxide transistors, and the driving transistor is a low-temperature polysilicon transistor.
US12223892B2

Disclosed are a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a Light emitting device, a Data signal write-in module, a Driving transistor, a Compensation module, a First initialization module, and a Light emitting control module. The first initialization module is electrically connected to the compensation module and electrically connected to the gate of the driving transistor through the compensation module. When the voltage level of the gate of the driving transistor, the number of the transistors connected to the driving transistor could be reduced.
US12223891B2

A display substrate includes a first wiring region (110) and a second wiring region (120), wherein the first wiring region (110) is provided with at least one first wiring (71) and a light emitting device, the second wiring region (120) is provided with at least one second wiring (72) and a light emitting device, and the light emitting device at least includes an anode (90). The first wiring region (110) further includes at least one first compensation line (81), an orthographic projection of the at least one anode (90) in the plane of the display substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first compensation line (81) in the plane of the display substrate.
US12223889B2

To reduce power consumption of a drive circuit for a display device. A drive circuit (10) for the display device includes a comparator (100), a PWM signal generation unit (200), and a drive unit (300). The comparator (100) is a comparator that starts comparison between a count number of pulses in an input clock signal and input comparison data in synchronization with a start signal, and includes a shift register (120) that is configured by a plurality of flip-flops in which the clock signal is input to a clock terminal and that is cascade-connected and shifts the start signal, and a selection unit (130) that selects one of outputs of the plurality of flip-flops constituting the shift register according to the comparison data and outputs the shifted start signal as a result of the comparison. The PWM signal generation unit (200) generates a PWM signal according to the result of the comparison. The drive unit (300) drives a light emitting element (11) based on the generated PWM signal.
US12223883B2

A display device includes: a pixel including a light emitting element, a first capacitor connected between a first node and a second node, and a second capacitor connected between the second node and a third node. The pixel further includes: a first transistor connected between the second node and the light emitting element to operate depending on potential of the first node; a second transistor connected between the third node and a data line to operate depending on a first scan signal; a third transistor connected between the third node and the second transistor to operate depending on a light emitting control signal; a fourth transistor connected between a reference voltage line and a first node to operate depending on the second scan signal; and a fifth transistor connected between the reference voltage line and the third node to operate depending on a third scan signal.
US12223878B2

An electronic device including an organic light emitting display device is provided. The electronic device includes the organic light emitting display device and a display power management integrated circuit (PMIC). The organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, and a display driver IC (DDI) for driving the display panel. The display PMIC includes a first regulator that outputs a first voltage changed in magnitude from an input voltage input to the display PMIC, and a second regulator that outputs a second voltage phase-inverted and changed in magnitude from the input voltage.
US12223877B2

Provided are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes M pixel driving circuits and N sub-pixel units, where M
US12223876B2

Rendering images on an active area of an OLED includes rendering images on the active area of the display panel with a plurality of different frame rates. For a plurality of the different frame rates having a frame rate that matches or is above a threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is not performed during the frame period. When rendering images on the active area, for at least one of the different frame rates having a frame rate that is lower than the threshold frame rate, an image refresh operation is performed once per frame period and a self-refresh operation is performed at least once during the frame period.
US12223874B2

A method and an apparatus for adjusting a brightness of a display are provided. The method includes: acquiring a gray scale number and a working frequency; determining a first gray scale compensation value of a preset calibration area using a preset gray scale compensation mapping table; determining a second gray scale compensation value of a non-preset calibration area according to the first gray scale compensation value; controlling, according to the first gray scale compensation value, the preset calibration area for displaying; and controlling, according to the second gray scale compensation value, the non-preset calibration area for displaying.
US12223870B2

A screen module uses a bendable display panel including a first panel layer and a second panel layer. A support layer is located between the first panel layer and the second panel layer. The first panel layer and the second panel layer are connected by a bent region, and a thickness of the support layer close to the bent region is greater than a thickness of a first region of the support layer. A projection of the first region of the support layer on the first panel layer overlaps with a projection of a display driver chip on the first panel layer. After being stacked, the thickness of the screen module may be reduced to meet the user's requirement for a small thickness of an electronic device.
US12223867B2

A display panel, a motherboard, and a mini LED display device. The display panel includes: a panel edge extending along a first direction, and a display region and a test region. The test region is between the display region and the panel edge and includes test pads. At least two test pads are arranged along the first direction, adjacent ones of which are spaced by at least two first electrostatic discharge protection wires extending from one side of the display region adjacent to the test region to the panel edge. Each first electrostatic discharge protection wire includes a first line segment located between two adjacent test pads and a second line segment adjacent to the panel edge. A distance between adjacent first line segments between two adjacent test pads in the first direction is less than a distance between adjacent second line segments in the first direction.
US12223866B2

A display substrate, a test method for the display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a touch detection circuit layer and a pixel driving circuit layer. The display substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The touch detection circuit layer includes a driving signal line and a dummy electrode line arranged side by side in the display region and insulated from each other, and both the driving signal line and the dummy electrode line extend from the display region to the non-display region. The non-display region is provided with a plurality of test pads including a first pad electrically connected to the driving signal line and a second pad electrically connected to the dummy electrode line.
US12223853B2

Various systems and methods are provided for conducting acoustical measurements via an inflatable mannequin. In one embodiment, a system comprises an inflatable mannequin that comprises a detachable mannequin head, a plurality of inflatable anatomical parts, and a plurality of configurable joints, an inflation system that calibrates and controls inflation of the plurality of anatomical parts of the inflatable mannequin; and a joint control system that calibrates and controls the plurality of configurable joints via joint motors. In another embodiment, a first method comprises selecting a mannequin profile based on sizes of anatomical parts of the inflatable mannequin and second method comprises conducting acoustical measurements with the selected mannequin profile. In this way, acoustical measurements may be conducted to develop audio processing schemes that widen the sweet spot in an interior of a vehicle.
US12223850B2

A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that an evacuation slide deployment path is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to identify a region within the captured image data that corresponds to the evacuation slide deployment path, determine whether the evacuation slide deployment path will generate a failed deployment outcome, and produce a warning associated with the evacuation slide deployment path in response to determining that the evacuation slide deployment path will generate the failed deployment outcome.
US12223848B2

A method for determining transition height elements in a flight climbing stage based on constant value segment identification comprises the steps of splitting a speed component and a Mach component from a flight track, and performing linear interpolation on the two respectively; discretizing the interpolated speed component, and setting a threshold for filtering to obtain a speed discrete value set; identifying a constant-speed segment, and acquiring a maximum constant-speed value and a maximum moment of the constant-speed segment; keeping the Mach component of the track with a time no less than the constant-speed maximum moment; discretizing the kept Mach components, and filtering to obtain a Mach discrete value set; identifying a constant-Mach segment, and acquiring a constant-Mach value corresponding to a minimum moment of the constant-Mach segment; and calculating a transition height in the flight climbing stage according to the constant-speed value and the constant-Mach value obtained.
US12223846B2

An all-inclusive method for planning the operation of an aerial vehicle, in particular an eVTOL, which operation is divided into different operational areas each with its own individually validatable and inspectable planning methodology, including (i) pre-processing data on a computer basis on the ground before takeoff of the aerial vehicle; (ii) taking along pre-planned results of the data pre-processing in the form of a database (33, 44) on board the aerial vehicle, preferably after transferring the pre-planned results into the database (33, 44) on board the aerial vehicle; (iii) combining the pre-planned results by means of a computer-based decision logic (28) with planning steps at the flying time in accordance with a state of the aerial vehicle recorded by sensors for generating a current flight path; and (iv) controlling the aerial vehicle along the current flight path.
US12223843B2

An aviation advisory module may include processing circuitry configured to receive data indicative of internal factors and external factors related to route optimization of an aircraft. At least some of the external factors may include dynamic parameters that are changeable while the aircraft is in-flight. The processing circuitry may also be configured to generate a guidance output associated with a route of the aircraft based on integration of the internal factors and the external factors to optimize the route for a user-selected cost parameter, and provide a graphical representation of the guidance output along with comparative data or context information associated with the user-selected cost parameter.
US12223840B1

Methods for performing operations for improving driver safety across a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. A plurality of safety events pertaining to a driving of a fleet of vehicles by a plurality of drivers are detected. A subset of the events is identified. The subset corresponds to one or more safety events of the plurality of safety events involving one or more vehicles of the fleet of vehicles to which drivers have not been assigned. A user interface is generated for presentation on a client device, the user interface including an interactive user interface element for accessing the subset of the events. One or more user interface elements are provided for accepting or rejecting recommendations for assignments of one of the plurality of drivers to each of the vehicles. The recommendations are generated based on an application of a machine-learned model to images of faces captured.
US12223836B2

The present embodiments relate to a method in a system, a method in a network device, and a network device. The method includes: acquiring, from an entity, a notification of the occurrence of an accident of a vehicle in an area; requesting a RAN node and a CN node of the mobile operator to provide information regarding the vehicle; receiving from the CN node a combined information including information regarding communication with the vehicle and/or information of interest in said area provided to the core network node from vehicles and/or users, and/or devices present in said area where the accident occurred, and available information regarding the vehicle; and analyzing the received combined information.
US12223828B2

A system for controlling a watercraft includes a data communication module, a device system, an electric power supply, and a controller. The data communication module is operable to perform wireless communication with an external computer. The device system includes at least one electric device. The electric power supply provides electric power to the data communication module and the device system. The controller is configured or programmed to switch between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller provides electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply during both activation and deactivation of the device system. In the second mode, the controller provides electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply during the activation of the device system, but stops providing electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply during the deactivation of the device system.
US12223827B2

An electronic device that obtains a set of remote-control commands is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive an image associated with a second electronic device, where a brand and a model of the second electronic device are initially unknown to the electronic device. Then, the electronic device may perform image analysis on the image to determine at least the brand of the second electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may access, based at least in part on the determined brand, the set of remote-control commands that are associated with the second electronic device. Next, the electronic device may store the set of remote-control commands in memory. Subsequently, when the electronic device receives user-interface activity information associated with a portable electronic device that specifies selection of the second electronic device, the electronic device may provide the set of remote-control commands to the second electronic device.
US12223822B2

Example methods and arrangements for sensors are disclosed herein. At least one storage device or storage disk includes instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor of a mobile electronic device to at least access notification data indicative of an event at a security perimeter of a building, the notification data corresponding to a change in a status of one or more sensors at the security perimeter; present the notification data to a user of the mobile electronic device, the notification data including image data associated with the event; generate a message based on a user input at the mobile electronic device in response to the notification data; and output the message to cause a responsive action.
US12223815B2

A smoke detection device comprises a housing, a control unit with a power unit, and a scattered light sensor. The sensor comprises an optical chamber having a first emitter, a second emitter, and a photoreceiver therein. The optical chamber is within a filtration chamber having output openings that are coupled to the optical chamber via a labyrinth that terminates as a ring slit between the optical chamber and the filtration chamber. The control unit constantly provides power impulses to the first emitter, and connects the second emitter to the power unit at a moment when a threshold signal arises at the photoreceiver, determines signal levels of the photoreceiver that arise during providing of the power impulses to the first and the second emitters, and initiates an alarm if the level within the second emitter connection period is at least 20% greater than the level within the first emitter connection period.
US12223811B2

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring a physical location to determine and/or predict anomalous activities. One or more machine learning algorithms may be used to analyze inputs from one or more sensors, cameras, audio recording equipment, and/or any other types of sensors to detect anomalous measurements/patterns. Notifications may be sent one or more devices in a network based on the detection.
US12223807B2

A computer implemented game involving analytics and real time data analysis. The game can allow players to predict and wager on the types of plays that have yet to occur, for example, in a football game. The game may utilize an algorithm that compares situational data in a game to stored data regarding similar situations in past games. The game can then provide a likelihood that a certain type of play can be performed, which may be interpreted as odds of a certain type of play. Users can then utilize this information to predict and wager on the upcoming play. Depending on the results of the play, users may win or lose their wager.
US12223803B2

Gaming systems and method that provide a play of a multi-stage game including a first stage during which a quantity of sections of a wheel are accumulated for subsequent use in a second stage of the play of the multi-stage game, and the second stage during which the accumulated quantity of sections of the wheel are employed to select sections of the wheel before the sections are displayed with awards displayed in association with the selected sections.
US12223802B2

An ecommerce platform, available via an interactive electronic resource, allows a user to purchase products and services from the resource, receive promotional-valued credits in return for the purchase, and play games to earn additional promotional-valued credits. The user can purchase products and services at the electronic resource with either or both of a government-issued legal tender, such as the U.S. dollar, or a virtual currency used by the electronic resource, such as the promotional-valued credits. In embodiments of the invention, the user is guaranteed that an amount of legal tender (e.g., the U.S. dollar) paid-in to the ecommerce platform is the same as or less than a fair market value of the products or services purchased via the ecommerce platform.
US12223798B2

In various embodiments, the system and method disclosed herein coordinates the access to persistent data amongst a plurality of disparate entities which otherwise have no player data sharing relationship with one another.
US12223792B2

Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for till management. In one implementation, a recycling of notes is triggered using a recycler controller. The notes are recycled using a cash recycler, and the notes corresponding to a till. A coin value of plurality of coins corresponding to the till is recorded using the recycler controller. The coin value is determined by capturing a weight of a set of coins of the plurality of coins corresponding to a designated coin denomination. The weight of the set of coins is captured using a coin scale. The till is validated based on the coin value and the recycling of the notes.
US12223790B1

A depth sensing device, situated above a threshold to a room, collects asynchronous, non-personally-identifiable data regarding a count of people entering and exiting across the threshold. Phase shift of modulated infrared light reflected from a light source to an object is measured and converted into depth data indicating the depth of the pixels therein. The depth data is used to classify detected objects as human, and to track their movement bi-directionally through the threshold. A running count of humans entering or exiting the room is streamed to a remote server, which aggregates data collected from a number of depth sensing devices. The server then makes that data available at various levels of visualization corresponding to different levels of a hierarchy of nested virtual spaces, such as a multi-entrance room, or a building. Entities that access this data may see a real-time, accurate count of humans currently occupying the virtual space, as well as historical data.
US12223788B1

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for student accountability systems. School buses can be equipped with a bus system that executes a driver application. Students carry student identification (ID) systems that identify the students to the bus system, which in turn reports a geographic location to a student accountability system. The bus system is configured to permit rapid boarding and easy usage by drivers. The student accountability system provides a parent portal and an administrator portal to monitor the students and provide other useful functions.
US12223786B2

A gate opening method includes: a step (S8) of transmitting a gate opening signal for making a request for opening of a gate, which is configured to restrict entry into a predetermined space, to the gate by using an IP address unique to a mobile terminal associated with a user; a step (S9) of determining whether or not to allow the user to enter the predetermined space based on a ticket management table and the IP address of the mobile terminal in response to reception of the gate opening signal; and a step (S11) of controlling the gate so that the user is able to enter the predetermined space in response to a determination that the user is allowed to enter the predetermined space. The ticket management table includes a plurality of pieces of network address information indicating a plurality of IP addresses unique to a plurality of mobile terminals.
US12223780B2

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a server, an accident report from a transport, accessing, by a server, at least one media file associated with the report on a remote storage, analyzing, by the server, the media file to assess a damage to the transport, and storing the damage assessment onto the remote storage.
US12223768B2

Technologies are provided herein for adaptively learning and matching modalities of face images. A face image is obtained and a biometric signature is generated of the face image. The biometric signature is compared with a stored biometric signature obtained from data storage. Differences are determined between the biometric signature and the stored biometric signature and compared with a proximity threshold. As a result of the comparison with the proximity threshold, the identity of the person in the face image may be determined or the face image may be stored in data storage in association with the identity of the person.
US12223760B2

Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing fingerprint recognition. Embodiments of the present invention concern a system and method for capturing a user's biometric features and generating an identifier characterizing the user's biometric features using a mobile device such as a smartphone. The biometric identifier is generated using imagery captured of a plurality of fingers of a user for the purposes of authenticating/identifying the user according to the captured biometrics and determining the user's liveness. The present disclosure also describes additional techniques for preventing erroneous authentication caused by spoofing. In some examples, the anti-spoofing techniques may include capturing one or more images of a user's fingers and analyzing the captured images for indications of liveness.
US12223759B2

An example computing platform comprising is configured to (i) receive, via one or more cameras positioned on a construction site, a plurality of images, (ii) detect, within the plurality of images, a plurality of objects being worn by respective workers on the construction site, (iii) select, from the plurality of images, a set of images depicting a particular worker, and (iv) based on the selected set of images depicting the particular worker, determine a plurality of trade probabilities for the particular worker, each trade probability in the plurality of trade probabilities indicating a likelihood that the particular worker belongs to a particular trade from among a plurality of trades.
US12223757B2

An image processing method, applied to an electronic apparatus, includes performing feature extraction processing on a source image to obtain a feature data set corresponding to a source file, determining an image processing parameter corresponding to the feature data set according to the feature data set, and processing the source image according to the image processing parameter.
US12223756B2

Systems, devices and methods operative for identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text, placing the identifier on the figure at a distance from the reference, the identifier visually associated with the reference upon the placing, the placing of the identifier on the figure is irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.
US12223752B2

Disclosed herein are charged particle microscopy (CPM) support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a CPM support apparatus may include: first logic to cause a CPM to generate a single image of a first portion of a specimen; second logic to generate a first mask based on one or more regions-of-interest provided by user annotation of the single image; and third logic to train a machine-learning model using the single image and the one or more regions-of-interest. The first logic may cause the CPM to generate multiple images of corresponding multiple additional portions of the specimen, and the second logic may, after the machine-learning model is trained using the single image and the one or more regions-of-interest, generate multiple masks based on the corresponding images of the additional portions of the specimen using the machine-learning model without retraining.
US12223751B2

A method of self-testing an imaging system of a sample handling apparatus is provided. Systems and non-transitory computer readable mediums performing the method are also provided.
US12223750B1

The disclosure relates to a system and method for identifying one or more features in a meat sample. In one embodiment, the system and method disclosed herein uses automated methods to identify a backfinned pork loin and a non-backfinned pork loin. The system and method disclosed herein comprises imaging a meat sample with an imaging device to obtain one or more images; and using an iteratively trained feature detection model to detect and identify one or more features, including the presence or absence of the features in the images of the meat sample.
US12223749B2

A method for an object of interest in a degraded 2D digital image of the object is provided. The method includes the following steps: detecting, beforehand, the object of interest in a 2D digital image and assigning it a label; reconstructing a 3D volume of the object thus labeled from a plurality of available 2D digital images of the object of interest; storing, in a database, a record relating to the object thus reconstructed in 3D form and labeled; for each record thus stored, generating a new plurality of 2D digital images according to a plurality of viewing modes from the thus reconstructed 3D volume of each object; training a neural network on a learning set composed of an expanded set of 2D digital images thus generated and corresponding with the label of the object of interest to be recognized; from a degraded 2D digital image of the object of interest to be recognized; using the neural network thus trained to deliver as output the label of the object and a confidence index linked to the recognition of the object of interest.
US12223748B2

An example method includes: retrieving a previous representation representing a target portion of a space; obtaining a current representation representing the target portion of the space; comparing the previous representation to the current representation to identify a change in the target portion of the space; mapping the target portion of the space to a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the space to locate the change within the 3D representation; and storing a change map defining the change in context of the 3D representation.
US12223743B2

An object detection device includes a processor. The processor acquires or generates a first disparity image generated on the basis of an output of a stereo camera mounted in a mobile object. In the first disparity image, pixels representing disparities are arranged on a two-dimensional plane formed by a first direction corresponding to a base-length direction of the stereo camera and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The processor approximates a relationship between a coordinate, in the second direction, of a road surface in a direction of travel of the mobile object and a disparity representing the road surface with two straight lines, the relationship being included in the first disparity image.
US12223742B2

A method includes receiving first environment information related to a first vehicular task from a host vehicle, comparing the first environment information to second environment information captured when a member vehicle performed a second vehicular task corresponding to the first vehicular task using a second set of operating criteria, and determining a first set of operating criteria for performing the first vehicular task based on a similarity score between the first environment information and the second environment information and a success or accuracy rate of the second vehicular task performed by the member vehicle.
US12223733B2

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for automatically validating evidence of traffic violations. One instance of a method comprises receiving an evidence package comprising video frames showing a vehicle involved in a potential traffic violation. The video frames can be input into one or more deep learning models to obtain a plurality of classification results. The method can further comprise generating a score based in part on the classification results and evaluating the score against one or more thresholds to determine whether the evidence package is automatically approved, is automatically rejected, or requires further review.
US12223730B2

An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the possible surveillance target.
US12223721B2

A method and an apparatus for video frame processing are provided. The method includes: obtaining a convolutional neural network (CNN) feature and a local feature of a target video frame; performing dimension reduction on the CNN feature to obtain a CNN feature with a reduced dimension of the target video frame; obtaining a first video frame from multiple sample video frames, a distance between a CNN feature with a reduced dimension of the first video frame and the CNN feature with the reduced dimension of the target video frame meets a first preset condition; obtaining a local feature of the first video frame; calculating a matching degree between the local feature of the first video frame and the local feature of the target video frame; determining the first video frame as a duplicate video frame of the target video frame if the matching degree meets a second preset condition.
US12223718B2

Methods and apparatus for the analysis of moving objects. In one embodiment, a pitch tracking system is disclosed that includes one or more cameras that have been positioned in a desired location and a computing system containing executable software that is configured to receive imaging data from the one or more cameras that captured the desired location and analyze seam placement and/or finger placement as a function of time for the received imaging data. Computer readable media and methodologies are also disclosed herein.
US12223712B2

Systems and methods for detecting and aligning land property boundaries on aerial imagery are provided. The system receives an aerial imagery having land properties. The system applies a feature encoder having a plurality of levels to the aerial imagery. A first level of the plurality of levels includes a convolution block and a discrete wavelet transform layer. The discrete wavelet transform layer decomposes an input feature tensor to the first level into a low-frequency band and a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band is cached and processed with side-convolutional blocks before the high-frequency band are passed to a feature decoder. The system applies the feature decoder to an output of the feature encoder based at least in part on one of inverse discrete wavelet transform layers. The system determines boundaries of the one or more land properties based at least in part on a boundary cross-entropy loss function.
US12223710B2

A device configured to capture a first image of an item on a platform using a camera and to determine a first number of pixels in the first image that corresponds with the item. The device is further configured to capture a first depth image of an item on the platform using a three-dimensional (3D) sensor and to determine a second number of pixels within the first depth image that corresponds with the item. The device is further configured to determine that the difference between the first number of pixels in the first image and the second number of pixels in the first depth image is less than the difference threshold value, to extract the plurality of pixels corresponding with the item in the first image from the first image to generate a second image, and to output the second image.
US12223709B2

Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and image moderation management computing apparatuses that receive a request that includes an image to be moderated. A percentage match of the received image against one or more computer vision models for one or more different categories is identified. A determination is made when the percentage match is within a range between customizable lower and upper thresholds for one or more of the different categories. Image moderation analysis data on the received image from one of one or more moderator computing devices is obtained when the percentage match is within the range. One or more stored rules on the received image are executed based on the obtained image moderation analysis data.
US12223708B2

A method includes identifying, within an image that represents a fingerprint, a plurality of keypoints. The method also includes determining a plurality of pixel vectors by transforming, for each respective keypoint, a corresponding two-dimensional (2D) array of pixel values associated with the respective keypoint into a corresponding pixel vector, and obtaining a plurality of filter vectors that represent, for each respective filter of a plurality of filters, a transformation of a corresponding 2D array of filter values of the respective filter into a corresponding filter vector. The method additionally includes convolving the plurality of keypoints with the plurality of filters by multiplying, using a tensor processing hardware, a pixel matrix formed by the plurality of pixel vectors and a filter matrix formed by the plurality of filter vectors, and determining, based on the convolving, a representation of the fingerprint.
US12223705B2

Systems and methods for performing semantic segmentation of three-dimensional data are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can be configured to obtain sensor data including three-dimensional data associated with an environment. The three-dimensional data can include a plurality of points and can be associated with one or more times. The computing system can be configured to determine data indicative of a two-dimensional voxel representation associated with the environment based at least in part on the three-dimensional data. The computing system can be configured to determine a classification for each point of the plurality of points within the three-dimensional data based at least in part on the two-dimensional voxel representation associated with the environment and a machine-learned semantic segmentation model. The computing system can be configured to initiate one or more actions based at least in part on the per-point classifications.
US12223701B2

In some implementations, a device may receive image data and sensor data associated with the image data. The image data may depict a series of scenes that are captured over a time period and that are associated with an occurrence of an event. The device may determine a time of interest, within the time period, at which a value of the sensor data satisfies one or more criteria. The device may extract a portion of the image data based on the time of interest. The device may extract, from the portion of the image data, a slice of image data depicting a first set of scenes and a slice of image data depicting a second set of scenes. The device may train, based on the slices of image data, a model to predict a probability of an occurrence of an event.
US12223697B1

Described is a method for improved performance of agent-based machine learning. The method includes training a reinforcement learning (RL) agent on an image processing task. A dataset of states and corresponding actions is then extracted from the RL agent. A measure of attention is applied to an input space of the RL agent. During action selection by the RL agent, image patches of the input space are extracted based on the applied measure of attention. Portions of a set of inputs are clustered based on similarity to the image patches, generating a set of clusters having cluster centers. Non-semantic concept labels are provided as distances to the cluster centers for each state in the dataset.
US12223694B2

The learning device includes: a first estimation unit configured to perform estimation using a temperature parameter, based on a student model; a second estimation unit configured to perform estimation using the temperature parameter, based on a teacher model; and a temperature calculation unit configured to calculate the temperature parameter, based on estimation information generated by the first estimation unit and the second estimation unit.
US12223684B2

Systems and methods for evaluating the physical and/or cosmetic condition of electronic devices using machine learning techniques are disclosed. In one example aspect, an example system includes a kiosk that comprises an inspection plate configured to hold an electronic device, one or more light sources arranged above the inspection plate configured to direct one or more light beams towards the electronic device, and one or more cameras configured to capture at least one image of a first side of the electronic device. The system also includes one or more processors in communication with the one or more cameras configured to extract a set of features of the electronic device and determine, via a first neural network, a condition of the electronic device based on the set of features.
US12223682B2

Variable width interleaved coding for graphics processing is described. An example of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphic processor; and memory for storage of data including data for graphics processing, wherein the graphics processor includes an encoder pipeline to provide variable width interleaved coding and a decoder pipeline to decode the variable width interleaved coding, and wherein the encoder pipeline is to receive a plurality of bitstreams from workgroups; perform parallel entropy encoding on the bitstreams to generate a plurality of encoded bitstreams for each of the workgroups; perform variable interleaving of the bitstreams for each workgroup based at least in part on data requirements for decoding received from the decoder pipeline; and compact outputs for each of the workgroups into a contiguous stream of interleaved data.
US12223676B2

The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for pose correction and a host. The method includes: obtaining a first image; in response to determining that a first reference object of at least one reference object exists in the first image, determining a first relative position between the host and the first reference object; obtaining a first reference pose based on the first relative position; and correcting a pose of the host based on the first reference pose.
US12223675B2

A method for determining an articulation angle between a towing vehicle and a trailer, wherein the trailer can be imaged in single images with single-image pixels using a camera system. The method includes determining a point cloud from at least one single image and forming at least one planar reference surface from adjacent object points of the point cloud that lie in a same plane. The method further includes reading in at least one single image, in which the trailer coupled to the towing vehicle is imaged, and determining at least one partial surface and fitting the at least one previously formed planar reference surface to the at least one determined partial surface by applying a geometric transformation. The method further includes determining the articulation angle between the towing vehicle and the trailer as a function of a rotational component of the applied geometric transformation.
US12223669B2

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a wrist measurement or watch band size using depth data captured by a depth sensor from one or more rotational orientations of the wrist. In some implementations, depth data captured by a depth sensor including at least two depth map images of a wrist from different angles is obtained. In some implementations, an output is generated based on inputting the depth data into a machine learning model, the output corresponding to circumference of the wrist or a watch band size of the wrist. Then, a watch band size recommendation is provided based on the output.
US12223661B2

Systems and methods provide editing operations in a smart editing system that may generate a focal point within a mask of an object for each frame of a video segment and perform editing effects on the frames of the video segment to quickly provide users with natural video editing effects. An eye-gaze network may produce a hotspot map of predicted focal points in a video frame. These predicted focal points may then be used by a gaze-to-mask network to determine objects in the image and generate an object mask for each of the detected objects. This process may then be repeated to effectively track the trajectory of objects and object focal points in videos. Based on the determined trajectory of an object in a video clip and editing parameters, the editing engine may produce editing effects relative to an object for the video clip.
US12223658B2

This application discloses a foreground data generation method performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target image, the target image containing a target object and a background; removing the background from the target image to obtain initial foreground data of the target object in the target image; expanding the initial foreground data and eroding the expanded foreground data; blurring the eroded foreground data to obtain certain foreground data and uncertain data from the initial foreground data; and segmenting the certain foreground data from the uncertain data, to obtain target foreground data of the target object in the target image.
US12223657B2

An image segmentation system to perform operations that include causing display of an image within a graphical user interface of a client device, receive a set of user inputs that identify portions of a background and foreground of the image, identify a boundary of an object depicted within the image based on the set of user inputs, crop the object from the image based on the boundary, and generate a media item based on the cropped object, wherein properties of the media object, such as a size and a shape, are based on the boundary of the object.
US12223656B2

An individual identification system includes an acquiring means and a determining means. The acquiring means is configured to acquire a matched image obtained by shooting part of a predetermined region of a matching target object. The determining means is configured to calculate a score representing a degree to which a partial image similar to the matched image exists in a registration image obtained by shooting a predetermined region of a registration target object, and determine based on the score whether or not the matching target object is identical to the registration target object.
US12223654B1

According to examples, a system for implementing image modification functions via use of variable scanning orders is described. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to partition an image into a plurality of image blocks, identify one or more image blocks of the plurality of image blocks associated with a region of interest (ROI), and scan the one or more image blocks in an image modification order. The processor, when executing the instructions, may then arrange the one or more image blocks according to the image modification order to form a modified image including the region of interest (ROI) and crop the region of interest (ROI) in the modified image to form a new image.
US12223653B2

A panorama rendering method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, and relates to the field of panoramic technology. The method includes: segmenting a panoramic picture to obtain segmented panoramic tile pictures; determining a target tile picture under a current screen and a target spherical patch in a panoramic picture sphere model, according to the panoramic picture sphere model and the segmented panoramic tile pictures; and pelfonning drawing on the target spherical patch by using the target tile picture, to obtain a target scene. In this way, time consumption of panorama loading can be reduced and loading performance can be improved.
US12223651B2

Methods and systems for analysis of image data generated from various reference points. Particularly, the methods and systems provided are useful for real time analysis of image and sequence data generated during DNA sequencing methodologies.
US12223649B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining anatomy directly from raw medical acquisitions using a machine learning system. One method includes obtaining raw medical acquisition data from transmission and collection of energy and particles traveling through and originating from bodies of one or more individuals; obtaining a parameterized model associated with anatomy of each of the one or more individuals; determining one or more parameters for the parameterized model, wherein the parameters are associated with the raw medical acquisition data; training a machine learning system to predict one or more values for each of the determined parameters of the parametrized model, based on the raw medical acquisition data; acquiring a medical acquisition for a selected patient; and using the trained machine learning system to determine a parameter value for a patient-specific parameterized model of the patient.
US12223643B2

Described are platforms, systems, and methods for screening patients. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving, from a cellular imaging device, image data comprising calcium kinetic features of neuronal cultures derived from a patient; processing the image data through a machine-learning model to determine a diagnosis for the patient based on the calcium kinetic features, the machine-learning model trained using neuronal calcium data; and providing the diagnosis a user interface.
US12223638B2

A display defect detection system and a detection method thereof are disclosed. A display defect detection system includes a preprocessing circuit receiving a capture image of a test pattern, displayed by a display panel, as a panel image including diagonal Mura and preprocessing the panel image to output a preprocessing image and a Mura detection circuit calculating a final feature value of the diagonal Mura by multiplying a first feature value, in which a luminance difference of the diagonal Mura is reflected, by a second feature value in which a shape ratio of the diagonal Mura is reflected, on the basis of an edge map of the preprocessing image, and detecting a display position of the diagonal Mura on the basis of the final feature value of the diagonal Mura.
US12223630B2

An image data processing method, a system and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: recording to-be-processed database data as a target image set; performing sharpness calculation on target images in the target image set by a weighted gradient algorithm, and removing, if sharpness of at least one target image is smaller than a threshold, the at least one target image from the target image set; performing sharpness enhancement processing on remaining target images in the target image set; extracting feature points in the target images in the target image set and the contrast image, one by one or at intervals; and comparing and judging similarity between the target images and the contrast image by a similarity algorithm, and inputting similar target images into classified storage spaces.
US12223613B2

A method for tracking progression of a construction site at different points in time relative to an expected progression of the construction site as represented by a computer model. The method includes generating an image of the construction site by scanning the construction site with an imaging device and detecting a fiducial marker appearing in the image at a location on the construction site. The fiducial marker is unique among fiducial markers positioned on the construction site. The method further includes identifying the detected fiducial marker in association with a unique identifier among the fiducial markers and aligning a coordinate system of the identified fiducial marker with a coordinate system of the computer model, which represents the construction site at points in time.
US12223609B2

A right holder information checking unit (55) (checking unit) of a content checking device (12) (information processing device) checks whether content (45) posted by a poster (40) to a virtual space in which one or more pieces of content can be shared has right holder information indicating that the content is appropriate content permitted to be posted by the right holder of the content (45).
US12223607B2

One or more embodiments of the invention is a mixed reality system for displaying a mixed-reality image on a display, the system including a mobile terminal device having the display and a photographing device. The system includes a plurality of feature point sets arranged in the prescribed real space. The mobile terminal device recognizes each of the feature point sets photographed by the photographing device, determines a viewpoint position of a virtual camera, in a virtual space, corresponding to a position and a photographing direction of the photographing device in the real space, based on arrangement position and posture information for each of the feature point sets and relative position and posture information of the mobile terminal device with respect to each of the feature point sets, and generates a mixed-reality image in which an image of the virtual object is superimposed on a photographed image of the real space.
US12223606B2

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying a visual property of an object based on a geographic location associated with a device. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to display an object that is associated with a set of one or more visual properties including a visual property that is dependent on a theme. Based on a particular theme, a set of one or more physical elements is identified that corresponds to the object. The one or more physical elements are associated with respective values for the visual property. A value for the visual property associated with the object is determined based on the respective values associated with the set of one or more physical elements. The object is displayed in accordance with the value for the visual property.
US12223598B2

Methods and systems for controlling navigation of an autonomous vehicle for traversing a geographical area are disclosed. The methods include receiving information relating to a drivable area in the geographical area and identifying a plurality of lane segments that intersect with the drivable area. The plurality of lane segments can be used to segment the drivable area into a plurality of sub-regions such that each of the plurality of lane segments can be represented as a union of a unique subset of the plurality of sub-regions. A data representation of the drivable area may be created to include the plurality of sub-regions, and used to render the map of the geographical area. The map includes the drivable area and/or one or more of the plurality of lane segments.
US12223590B2

A display processing method and device are provided. The method is applied to a rotatable three-dimensional display device including a rotatable display panel, the method includes: obtaining model information about an image model in a to-be-displayed image, the image model including one or more attribute sets including triangular faces constituting the image model; traversing coordinate information about vertices of each triangular face in each attribute set according to association relationship among the attribute sets; generating display data for the display panel at each phase according to the coordinate information about the vertices of each triangular face; and displaying an image according to the display data at each phase when the display panel is at the each phase.
US12223586B2

Aspects relate to tracing rays in 3-D scenes that comprise objects that are defined by or with implicit geometry. In an example, a trapping element defines a portion of 3-D space in which implicit geometry exist. When a ray is found to intersect a trapping element, a trapping element procedure is executed. The trapping element procedure may comprise marching a ray through a 3-D volume and evaluating a function that defines the implicit geometry for each current 3-D position of the ray. An intersection detected with the implicit geometry may be found concurrently with intersections for the same ray with explicitly-defined geometry, and data describing these intersections may be stored with the ray and resolved.
US12223585B2

Apparatus and method for grouping rays based on quantized ray directions. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: An apparatus comprising: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays; ray direction evaluation circuitry/logic to generate approximate ray direction data for each of the plurality of rays; ray sorting circuitry/logic to sort the rays into a plurality of ray queues based, at least in part, on the approximate ray direction data.
US12223576B2

Disclosed is an avatar creation method including creating a base object of an avatar, creating at least one partial object; acquiring customizing information of a user, deforming the base object and the at least one partial object based on the customizing information; and creating a user avatar with a default facial expression by projecting the at least one partial object onto the surface of the base object.
US12223575B2

An embodiment for augmented reality (AR)-based visualization of an accidental situation in a multi-machine environment is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to an activity. The embodiment may also include identifying a context of the activity and at least one property of one or more objects associated with the activity. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more items of safety equipment used by a user. The embodiment may also include assigning a compatibility score to the user. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the compatibility score is not adequate, executing a digital twin simulation of an avatar of the user. The embodiment may also include creating a visual animation of a resultant state of the avatar of the user consistent with the executed digital twin simulation. The embodiment may further include displaying the visual animation to the user.
US12223574B2

An example computing platform is configured to (i) receive a two-dimensional (2D) image file comprising a construction drawing, (ii) generate, via semantic segmentation, a first set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iii) generate, via instance segmentation, a second set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (iv) generate, via unsupervised image processing, a third set of polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, (v) based on (a) overlap between polygons in the first, second, and third sets of polygons and (b) respective confidence scores for each of the overlapping polygons, determine a set of merged polygons corresponding to respective areas of the 2D image file, and (vi) cause a client station to display a visual representation of the 2D image file where each merged polygon is overlaid as a respective selectable region of the 2D image file.
US12223571B2

A data transmission method includes: capturing, by a virtual reality host, a portion of an image to be transmitted in a preset area to obtain a first image, and compressing, by the virtual reality host, a portion of the image to be transmitted in a display area to obtain a second image, wherein the preset area is a portion of the display area (S101); transmitting, by the virtual reality host, the first image and the second image to a virtual reality apparatus in a certain order (S102); receiving the first image and the second image by the virtual reality apparatus (S103); stretching the second image by the virtual reality apparatus, and merging the first image with a stretched second image by the virtual reality apparatus to obtain an image to be displayed (S104); and displaying the image to be displayed by the virtual reality apparatus (S105).
US12223570B2

Data visualization processes can utilize machine learning algorithms applied to visualization data structures to determine visualization parameters that most effectively provide insight into the data, and to suggest meaningful correlations for further investigation by users. In numerous embodiments, data visualization processes can automatically generate parameters that can be used to display the data in ways that will provide enhanced value. For example, dimensions can be chosen to be associated with specific visualization parameters that are easily digestible based on their importance, e.g. with higher value dimensions placed on more easily understood visualization aspects (color, coordinate, size, etc.). In a variety of embodiments, data visualization processes can automatically describe the graph using natural language by identifying regions of interest in the visualization, and generating text using natural language generation processes. As such, data visualization processes can allow for rapid, effective use of voluminous, high dimensional data sets.
US12223559B1

A computer-aided method of comparing legal requirements, including: comparing a first legal requirement from a first jurisdiction to a second legal requirement from a second jurisdiction, including applying a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to the first and second legal requirements; computing a distance between the first and second legal requirements; determining from the distance that the second legal requirement belongs to a same subject matter category as the first legal requirement; and providing a user interface (UI) to display the first and second legal requirements to a user, with the computed distance.
US12223551B2

Systems and methods provide for an automated system for determining whether claims related to an insured item should proceed to an arbitrating body. A virtual assistant (also referred to herein as an “arbitration assessment assistant”) installed in a computing device (e.g., computer, laptop, tablet computer, mobile phone, etc.) may be responsible for managing and assisting an insurance representative (e.g., an insurance adjuster, subrogation representative, etc.) in determining liability and fault relating to a claim, conducting a subrogation process, and ultimately determining whether the claim should be submitted for arbitration. In one or more aspects discussed, herein the process may be fully automated.
US12223544B1

A method for valuing one or more cash flow occurrences in an interest rate swap transaction. An example method includes estimating a mean interest rate for each tenor of one or more combinations of two or more tenors of an interest rate swap. The method may include determining a forward interest rate based on the mean interest rate of each tenor of the one or more combinations for the cash flow occurrences. The method may include determining an estimate value, a standard deviation of the estimate value, and a probability or outcome associated with the estimate value. The method may include determining an overall value of the interest rate swap based on one or more determinations of estimate value, standard deviation of the estimate value, and probability or outcome associated with the estimate value.
US12223543B2

A mobile banking reconciliation application allows a user to reconcile a business's records with banking records associated with one or more accounts of the business. The mobile banking reconciliation application can access an accounting system to obtain business records and banking records associated with the business. The banking records and business records may be displayed as a set of cards that a user can scroll and/or flip through (e.g., using the touch screen of a mobile device). The related business records displayed may be a suggestion that is based on a determination that the banking record likely matches the business record. The user may identify the appropriate business record for the particular bank record being reconciled from existing business records, or the user may create a new business record.
US12223542B1

The Bid Solicitation System and Method according to the present invention solicits vendors involved with all aspects of construction materials, equipment, and services wishing to be alerted of construction projects of wide variety provided vendor capabilities meet certain parameters established by the Bid Solicitation System and Method. The vendor, after reviewing the detailed requirements including time of delivery or services, can choose whether it wishes to provide a bid to be considered. To be part of the process, the vendor is first required to fill out an extensive application and provide a reasonable amount of backup support documentation all of which is verified by the Bid Solicitation System and Method. The system then generates a Request for Bid and delivers the Request for Bid to applicable vendors that provide such item(s) to support a conventional or automated construction processes.
US12223540B2

Improved techniques and systems for delivery and acquisition of digital assets are disclosed. The techniques and systems are especially suitable and useful for delivering digital assets (e.g., media assets) that are available for acquisition and electronic delivery from online stores to electronic devices. In accordance with one aspect, when a digital asset is acquired from an online store via an electronic device associated with a user, the digital asset can be arranged for delivery to a number of other of electronic devices also associated with the user. It will be appreciated that the digital asset can be delivered and acquired without requiring explicit user input or instruction in accordance with another aspect. Other aspects of the techniques and systems include customization of configuration and user interfaces that are provided to facilitate acquisition of digital assets in a more efficient manner.
US12223529B2

A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation using a web browser application. A publisher enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
US12223527B1

Techniques for using one point-of-sale (POS) device and application for the sale of two merchants' items are described. A first period of time of operation for the first merchant is received from the POS device via a first merchant account. A second period of time of operation for the second merchant is received via a second merchant account. A portion of the first period of time exclusive of the second period of time is determined. Access to the second merchant items via the first merchant account is provided, enabling the first merchant to offer the second merchant items for purchase during the portion of the first period of time. A request to authorize a purchase of an item from the first merchant that is one of the second merchant items is received during the portion of the first period of time. The transaction is facilitated.
US12223525B2

A computer-implemented system including a data store: a content items database, a user account database, and one or more servers configured to execute a computer program to perform one or more of the following: receiving content items from content database that are associated with a topic selected by a user for posting on a social network, wherein at least one content item is associated with an URL; estimating a post to a reaction filter for a time interval for the social network for the user, calculating a reaction profile associated with reactions to posts on the social network by aggregating reaction time of a plurality of users on the social network for one or more content items posted on the social network; determining a schedule for posting the content items on the social network as a function of the post to reaction filter and reaction profile.
US12223515B2

Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses, methods, computer readable media, computer program products, and systems related to optimizing carbon emission in mobile device lifecycle operations, including by programmatically determining and executing carbon efficient mobile device repairs. In some embodiments, the system may be configured for carbon optimized repair of a plurality of mobile devices. The system may connect with the mobile device; receive device data from the mobile device, the device data including a device identifier. The system may diagnose at least one defect with the mobile device; identify a plurality of solutions for the at least one defect; apply the device identifier and information associated with the at least one defect to one or more models to generate lifecycle efficiency prediction data for the mobile device for the plurality of solutions; and select a carbon minimized solution of the plurality of solutions based on the lifecycle efficiency predictions.
US12223510B2

Examples disclosed herein relate to a system including: one or more processors and at least one memory device; the one or more processors may receive communication data and initiate a procedure to the received communication data to generate a machine representation of the received communication data, the one or more processors may utilize one or more idea mapping functions on the machine representation to generate one or more identifiers and one or more idea links for the machine representation, the one or more processors may generate an interpreted communication data based on the one or more idea links; and the one or more processors may transmit an initiation action signal based on the one or more idea links.
US12223498B2

A transaction card includes a near-field communication (NFC) component, a security component, a wireless component, one or more memories, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. The device receives a signal from a user device attempting to access a secure application, and energizes the NFC component based on the signal received from the user device. The device causes the security component to generate an encrypted code based on the NFC component being energized, and provides, via the security component, the encrypted code to the wireless component. The device provides, via the wireless component, the encrypted code to the user device to permit the user device to utilize the encrypted code as authentication for accessing the secure application.
US12223497B2

In embodiments, a system for tokenizing incompatible currencies is disclosed. The system includes a currency bridge that receives a request to tokenize an amount of currency for a user, verifies verify that the user has the defined amount of currency and that the currency has been locked in an account such that the user is unable to transfer the defined amount of currency from the account, and in response to verifying that the defined amount of currency has been locked, request generation of an NFT in accordance with a tokenization protocol that represents the locked currency. The system includes a token generation system that generates the NFT and a ledger management system that associates the NFT with an account of the user on a cryptographic ledger that stores NFTs that are defined in accordance with the protocol, thereby allowing the user to transact using the NFT.
US12223496B2

A network node in a peer-to-peer network of nodes includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one network interface. The at least one processor is configured to receive a request to transfer a security token and execute a plurality of compliance rules associated with the security token. At least one of the compliance rules is implemented using at least one smart contract. The at least one smart contract references a global registry. The at least one processor is also configured to transfer the security token based on the execution of the compliance rules. The global registry includes personally identifiable information (PII) hash(es) for each of at least one investor associated with the transfer of the security token. The hashes are committed to the distributed ledger and updated when PII of a respective one of the at least one investor changes.
US12223495B2

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for transmitting, as part of a polling loop, a value added services (VAS) command that includes capability data corresponding to a payment terminal. For example, the payment terminal can transmit a VAS command that advertises the payment terminal's capabilities as part of a polling loop. The payment terminal can listen for a response to the VAS command and, after receiving a response, the payment terminal may initiate a VAS protocol. The VAS command can also specify a mode in which the payment terminal is operating, such as a payment-only mode, a VAS mode, a payment-plus-VAS mode, etc.
US12223479B2

Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting usage issues on enterprise systems and dynamically providing user assistance. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from an automated teller system, user presence information indicating that a user has been detected at an automated teller machine associated with the automated teller system. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify, based on the user presence information received from the automated teller system, that the user has a need for assistance with the automated teller machine associated with the automated teller system. In response to identifying that the user has the need for assistance, the computing platform may generate and send one or more commands directing the automated teller machine associated with the automated teller system to execute one or more automated assistance actions corresponding to the need for assistance.
US12223474B2

A group payment vehicle and process for establishing and utilizing the group payment vehicle may be utilized to make proxy payments for group members and associate payment mechanisms with the group payment vehicle. The group payment vehicle may be virtual or physical and may be time limited (or have another payment limitation). The group payment vehicle may be a debit-type or credit-type as established by a creator of the group payment vehicle. A system may be configured to enable the creator to invite potential group participants to participate with the group payment vehicle that functions as a single payment mechanism to vendors for an event. The system may limit the group payment vehicle to be time limited, geolocation limited, and/or merchant limited to limit potential financial exposure and fraud.
US12223466B2

Cameras capture images of shelves/displays having items. The images are processed to identify real-time item counts on the shelves and/or empty or partially empty shelves with less than a configured number of items. Notifications or messages regarding item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are sent through an Application Programming Interface (API) to consuming services in accordance with custom defined rules. In an embodiment, real-time item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are dynamically reported through the API based on on-demand requests from the consuming services.
US12223465B2

An automated plant (10) for cutting and operating flat slabs made from ceramic or the like for typically but not exclusively manufacturing slabs intended for use as coating elements at both civil and industrial levels and for both indoor and outdoor environments, comprising a first macro-area (12) defining an area suitable for storing products consisting of semi-finished slabs or mother-slabs, a second macro-area (14) defining an area for storing auxiliary packing materials or consumable materials for operations or processes on said slabs, a third macro-area (16) defining a production area for processing, packaging, and packing daughter-slabs or sub-formats of slabs obtained from mother-slabs, a fourth macro-area (18) defining a finished product area or store for letting the products coming from the third macro-area (16) pass through/temporarily accumulate, said plant also comprising automatic handling means for slaving and handling materials and semi-finished and finished products between said macro-areas and internally thereto, and a central control unit for programming, managing, and controlling the operation of said macro-areas and the interaction therebetween.
US12223460B2

A sorting conveyor and a method for sorting packages to selected destinations. A neural network executed by a multi-core classification processor uses captured images of package units conveyed on an infeed conveyor to classify each package unit. A control processor controls a sorting conveyor to direct each package unit to a destination depending on the package unit's classification.
US12223455B2

The present disclosure describes systems and method for performing a vulnerabilities assessment of an organization. A campaign controller executes one or more simulated phishing campaigns directed to a plurality of users of an organization, using a plurality of models determined by the campaign controller based at least on identification of the organization. The campaign controller stores to a database the results of execution of the one or more simulated phishing campaigns and based on the results, the campaign controller determines one or more vulnerabilities to phishing for the organization. In one embodiment, the campaign controller determines a percentage of the plurality of users of the organization that are phish-prone. In some embodiments, the users of the organization that are phish-prone interacted with a link of a simulated phishing communication.
US12223452B2

Techniques for generating a proper agenda with a desired outcome in a predicted workflow within an organization. A template is generated and an asset synthesis instance that includes an agenda is designed to advance a task. The template is generated with the asset synthesis instances building upon one another over time by accessing meeting minutes, persona ratings, resource contribution ratings, transcripts, file histories, or the like of a first asset synthesis instance for a task when creating an agenda for a second asset synthesis instance for the task.
US12223449B2

Methods and systems for scheduling modifications to online stores. Scheduling a modification, to an online store, to occur at a first time. Monitoring requests, associated with the online store, received from user devices. Determining, based on the monitored requests, a metric indicating a level of customer activity associated with the online store. Comparing the level of customer activity with a threshold level of customer activity associated with the modification and, based on the comparison, determining a second time for scheduling the modification.
US12223446B2

The disclosure provides an Internet of Things system and a method for managing a people flow of a public place in a smart city. The method may comprise obtaining pedestrian distribution information in a preset area during a current time period via network from a storage device; determining, by processing the pedestrian distribution information through an area location prediction model, at least one area location in the preset area for a future time period, a population flow load of the area location being greater than a first threshold, wherein the area location prediction model includes a graph neural network model, a graph input into the graph neural network model includes at least two nodes and at least one edge; generating, based on the area location, prompt information; and feedbacking the prompt information to a user terminal of a user platform through a service platform via the network.
US12223444B2

Disclosed is an accelerator and a method of operating the accelerator including determining whether any group shares weights of a first group from among groups, determining a presence of an idle processing element (PE) array, in response to no group sharing the weights of the first group, and selecting a second group having a memory time overlapping a computation time of the first group from among the groups, in response to the idle PE array being present.
US12223442B2

A first context update indicative of a present state associated with an application is received. A first contextual situation, among a plurality of contextual situations associated with a plurality of conditions, that corresponds to the first context update is identified. Identifying the first contextual situation includes implementing a decision tree to minimize a number of the plurality of conditions to be evaluated, identifying the first contextual situation using the decision tree, and determining one or more actions to be performed corresponding with the first contextual situation.
US12223440B2

A device and method for determining a knowledge graph. A second embedding is determined for a first embedding for a word including a function. A first classification, which determines whether or not the word is an entity for the knowledge graph, or which defines to which entity or to which type of entity for the knowledge graph the word in the knowledge graph is to be assigned, is determined for the second embedding using a first classifier. A second classification, which defines to which type of embeddings from a plurality of types of embeddings the second embedding is to be assigned, is determined for the second embedding using a second classifier. At least one parameter for the function is trained in a training as a function of a gradient for the training of the first classifier and as a function of a gradient for the training of the second classifier.
US12223439B2

Systems and methods for multi-modal representation learning are described. One or more embodiments provide a visual representation learning system trained using machine learning techniques. For example, some embodiments of the visual representation learning system are trained using cross-modal training tasks including a combination of intra-modal and inter-modal similarity preservation objectives. In some examples, the training tasks are based on contrastive learning techniques.
US12223434B2

In an example, the present invention provides a meta data processing apparatus for processing sensor inputs and providing feedback to a user for an on-line course. The invention provides for storing the information on a public block chain using a plurality of servers.
US12223430B1

Described is a system for performing a simulated vehicle control task based on adversarial decision analysis. Empirical game theoretic analyses are performed between an evolving and an adversary population of neural network strategies. Each empirical game theoretic analysis includes using a neuroevolution procedure to perform a fitness-based selection of a strategy in the evolving population that out-performs the adversary population. Using an empirical game theory procedure, the neuroevolution procedure is iteratively run and the selected strategy is added to the adversary population with each iteration, resulting in monotonic strategy improvement with each iteration. Following the empirical game theoretic analyses, a final strategy is selected for the evolving population and the adversary population using a tournament selection procedure. The final strategy is used to train a neural network which is used to perform a simulated vehicle control task.
US12223426B2

Provided is a method and apparatus for designing and testing an audio codec using quantization based on white noise modeling. A neural network-based audio encoder design method includes generating a quantized latent vector and a reconstructed signal corresponding to an input signal by using a white noise modeling-based quantization process, computing a total loss for training a neural network-based audio codec, based on the input signal, the reconstruction signal, and the quantized latent vector, training the neural network-based audio codec by using the total loss, and validating the trained neural network-based audio codec to select the best neural network-based audio codec.
US12223421B2

The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method of transmitting or receiving a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method may include: identifying a neural network model for transmitting first information to a base station (BS); learning a connection weight of the neural network model using the first information; transmitting, to the base station, second information for updating a weight of a second partial neural network corresponding to the base station based on a result of the learning; and updating a weight of a first partial neural network corresponding to the UE based on the result of the learning.
US12223417B2

A mechanism is described for facilitating smart convolution in machine learning environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors including one or more graphics processors, and detection and selection logic to detect and select input images having a plurality of geometric shapes associated with an object for which a neural network is to be trained. The apparatus further includes filter generation and storage logic (“filter logic”) to generate weights providing filters based on the plurality of geometric shapes, where the filter logic is further to sort the filters in filter groups based on common geometric shapes of the plurality of geographic shapes, and where the filter logic is further to store the filter groups in bins based on the common geometric shapes, wherein each bin corresponds to a geometric shape.
US12223415B2

An apparatus and method for creating data dependency in a neural network without the need for historical data or training is described. An “auxiliary path” that is adjacent to the main path of the neural network contains neurons that receive input data, creating non-linearity beyond that normally present in the network. The outputs of the neurons in the auxiliary path do not directly feed into the layers of neurons in the main path of the network as inputs, but instead are used to “adjust” the input weights to neurons in the main path by selecting which of existing, pre-determined weights are used for any given input. No training phase is required, and the weights in the network do not change, but instead existing paths are simply opened or closed to inputs depending upon the inputs, effectively altering the input weights to the neurons in the main path.
US12223404B2

An iterative attention-based neural network training and processing method and system iteratively applies a focus of attention of a trained neural network on syntactical elements and generates probabilities associated with representations of the syntactical elements, which in turn inform a subsequent focus of attention of the neural network, resulting in updated probabilities. The updated probabilities are then applied to generate syntactical elements for delivery to a user. The user may respond to the delivered syntactical elements, providing additional training information to the trained neural network.
US12223401B2

A method for integrating a machine learning (ML) model that impacts different factor groups for generating a dynamic recommendation to collectively optimize a parameter is provided. The method includes (i) processing a specification information and operational data associated with a demand management service obtained from client devices (116A-N), (ii) training the ML models with processed specification information and the operational data to obtain a trained ML model that includes an anticipation ML model that optimizes demand parameter or recommendation ML model that generates recommendation for optimizing a factor group, (iii) integrating the trained ML model with the ML models by setting an output of a first ML model as a feature of a second ML model and (iv) determining a demand of a product using the trained ML models and quantifying probabilistic values that signify prediction of the demand.
US12223398B2

A data sequence prediction method includes calculating, based on historical data sequences of N objects, a similarity distance between every two objects of the N objects, to obtain a similarity distance set, where the similarity distance is used to represent a similarity degree of two objects, the historical data sequence includes a plurality of pieces of data arranged according to a preset rule, and N is a positive integer greater than 1, dividing the N objects into K prediction object classes based on the similarity distance set using a clustering algorithm, where K is a positive integer, and K≤N, and predicting a future data sequence of an object included in at least one prediction object class of the K prediction object classes.
US12223395B2

Cutting quantum circuits is disclosed. Solutions to a cutting problem of cutting a quantum circuit into quantum subcircuits are represented in a tree structure. Selected nodes are queried using a machine learning model to generate predicted transpilation metrics such as estimated transpilation error. If the prediction associated with a node fails such that the predicted transpilation error in a simulated quantum computing system is greater than an error threshold or constraint, the corresponding solutions represented by the node and the node's children are pruned from the tree structure.
US12223386B2

A hand wearable includes a flexible body, a barcode scanner attachment device, a trigger device, and a nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device stores hand wearable, barcode scanner, or both specific information including one or more data indicative of the life of the hand wearable, the life of a scanner operatively coupled to the barcode scanner attachment device, or both. The nonvolatile memory device holds the stored hand wearable, barcode scanner, or both specific information when power to the nonvolatile memory device is turned off. The nonvolatile memory device makes the stored hand wearable, barcode scanner, or both specific information available when the power to the nonvolatile memory device is turned on. A system, method of using, and method of manufacturing the hand wearable is also disclosed.
US12223384B2

A reading control device that controls reading of tags by reading devices provided at positions that are on a pair of wings attached to sides of a cargo bed of a vehicle, and face a cargo compartment includes: an identifying section that identifies that either one of the pair of wings is opened; and a reading control section that causes a reading device attached to an opened wing in the pair of wings to emit an electromagnetic wave for reading a tag, and does not cause a reading device attached to an unopened wing to emit the electromagnetic wave in a case where the identifying section identifies that either one of the pair of wings is opened.
US12223375B2

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive a print instruction to print an image rasterized by another information processing apparatus; associate the print instruction with any one of plural ejection destinations to which a recording medium printed in response to the print instruction is ejected; and, in a case where the ejection destination associated with the print instruction waits for ejection of a recording medium subsequent to the already ejected recording medium, execute a print instruction for the subsequent recording medium, and not execute a print instruction for ejecting a recording medium other than the subsequent recording medium to the ejection destination.
US12223368B2

In one disclosed embodiment, a computing system may receive, at a first application programming interface (API) endpoint, a first request for a first operation. The computing system may send, to a second API endpoint, a first API call requesting the first operation. In response to sending the first API call, the computing system may receive a first response to the first API call. The computing system may determine that at least one characteristic of the first request or the first response satisfies a criterion. The computing system may detect a first event based on the first request or the first response satisfying the criterion. The computing system may generate a first indication of the first event.
US12223365B2

The present technology relates to improving computing services in a distributed network of remote computing resources, such as edge nodes in an edge compute network. In an aspect, the technology relates to a method that includes aggregating historical request data for a plurality of requests, wherein the aggregated historical request data a time of the request, a location of a device from which the request originated, and/or a type of service being requested. The method also incudes training a machine learning model based on the aggregated historical request data; generating, from the trained machine learning model, a prediction for a type of service to be request; identifying an edge node, from a plurality of edge nodes, based on a physical location of the edge node; and based on predicted service, allocating computing resources for the computing service on the identified edge node.
US12223364B2

An executable monitoring agent executing commands on a host server monitors for commands it cannot execute. Upon receiving a command that it cannot execute the monitoring agent initiates a search for the capability to execute the command. Upon finding the capability on the host server it is downloaded and installed, giving the monitoring agent the requisite capability to execute the command.
US12223362B2

The Machine-Learning-Based Load Balancing for Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Apparatuses, Processes and Systems (“MLLB”) transforms workload agent installation request, AWCD training request, NWCD training request, asset workload classification request, node workload classification request, asset virtualization request inputs via MLLB components into workload agent installation response, AWCD training response, NWCD training response, asset workload classification response, node workload classification response, asset virtualization response outputs. An asset virtualization request datastructure is obtained. A set of asset workload classification labels for the asset determined using an asset workload classification datastructure is retrieved. A set of node workload classification labels for each node in a set of available compute nodes determined using a node workload classification datastructure is retrieved. A set of compatible candidate compute nodes is determined using a set of capacity threshold rules. A virtual machine corresponding to the asset is instantiated on a selected candidate compute node.
US12223356B2

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for converting a static and non-functional electronic mapped process of a programmatic workflow into a functional, user-interactive process checklist that tracks and manages the steps of the mapped process and enables the process's steps to be completed and accounted for. The process checklist provides instant visibility into the status and progress of the workflow's underlying process, with responsibilities and handoffs being clear and procedures well-documented; and enables users to engage with the process checklist so that the workflow and its underlying mapped process can progress. The process checklists generated from the systems and methods disclosed herein are dynamic and interactive such that they engage users collaboratively in a visual, easy-to-use solution and that lets users map, manage, and execute the processes they know best—thus improving process-management computer systems with better communication, collaboration, and compliance across multiple users and computer systems.
US12223340B2

Described embodiments provide systems and methods for enhancing user engagement with micro applications. A computing device can include one or more processors and memory. The computing device can receive an indication of an action to be completed with use of a micro application. The computing device can be in communication with a client device and one or more computing systems of record to execute the micro application. The computing device can values for one or more attributes of the micro application. The computing device can generate, based on the identified values, a score for the micro application. The computing device can provide the score to the client device for display within a user interface. The user interface can be configured to initiate the action with use of the micro application.
US12223335B2

In general, embodiments relate to a method for adjusting a datacenter when new hardware is added. The method comprises retrieving telemetry form the datacenter and using it to detect one or more new hardware elements that have been added to the datacenter. The one or more new hardware elements are identified, and it is determined that a hardware profile template form the one or more new hardware elements does not exist in a shared storage. A component tree for the identified one or more hardware elements is created and using this component tree a hardware profile template is created for each of the identified one or more hardware elements. This profile template is saved in the shared storage and is applied to configure the datacenter to use the one or more new hardware elements.
US12223332B2

A method for starting-up a device with an embedded multimedia card (eMMC) is provided. The method comprises providing power to the device, putting the eMMC in a Fast-Boot modus, reading a bootloader from the eMMC into a RAM of the device, starting the bootloader in a CPU of the device, terminating the Fast-Boot modus, resetting the eMMC, putting the eMMC in the Fast-Boot modus initializing hardware by the bootloader, while reading an operating system into the RAM using DMA, and starting the operating system from the RAM by the bootloader is provided. A device comprising an embedded eMMC is also disclosed.
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