US12239207B2
A packaged deodorant stick product comprising a deodorant stick composition, a retaining member and a holder, the deodorant stick composition being mounted on the retaining member and the retaining member comprises one of a bayonet element and a socket and the holder comprises the other of the bayonet element and the socket, wherein the bayonet element is lockably receivable within the socket such that the retaining member is removably connectable to the holder.
US12239204B2
A cosmetic item including a reservoir adapted to contain a cosmetic product such as a mascara. A guide tube extends according to a longitudinal direction in the reservoir, and an applicator is mounted in longitudinal translation in the guide tube. The applicator can take on a retracted position and a deployed position with respect to the guide tube. The guide tube has a constant inner cross-section, and the applicator has a constant and identical cross-section, except for a functional clearance. The applicator includes a smooth longitudinal first portion and a second portion including a surface suitable adapted to retain the cosmetic product. The cosmetic item according to the invention is aesthetic and simple to use, it protects the cosmetic product from air and enables an accurate metering of the delivered product.
US12239200B1
A nail lamp for curing UV-curable nail gel uses light emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit ultraviolet light and are relatively lower power. The nail lamp is powered from an exterior power source, such as a wall socket, or by a rechargeable battery pack. A battery compartment of the nail lamp holds the battery pack, which is removable without disassembling the nail lamp. The nail lamp is easily transportable to different locations and can be used even when a wall socket is unavailable. A curing time of the nail lamp is user-selectable. The nail lamp can also include one or more detection sensors to detect a person's hand or foot in a treatment chamber and automatically turn on or off the LEDs.
US12239194B1
A wig and hair piece holder/organizer is provided. The organizer includes four larger pockets to hold wigs. The four larger pockets have transparent covers with a central zipper for opening and closing the transparent cover for each individual pocket. A wig is placeable within the pocket and also can be hooked to or hung from an included grommet for each pocket. On a right side of the organizer, a top section of the organizer is divided into two individual pockets that include elastic holders for holding hair extensions and hair pieces. A set of four smaller pockets are integrated into the holder beneath the two top individual pockets on the right hand side. The back panel is made of satin. Further, the holder can be folded on itself and/or rolled to a compact storage state even while holding multiple wigs and/or hair extensions and styling tools.
US12239175B2
A tactile device includes a wearing portion to be worn on a subject, a tactile stimulus generation portion that provides a tactile stimulus to a body surface of the subject, and a positioning portion that makes a place where the wearing portion is worn constant. The tactile stimulus generation portion is fixed to the wearing portion. The wearing portion is worn on an arm of the subject. A tactile stimulus is provided to a body surface of the arm of the tactile stimulus generation portion. The positioning portion is, for example, a glove integrally formed with the wearing portion.
US12239174B2
Medical protective clothing, including a protective clothing body. The protective clothing body includes a hood part, a neck part, a top, pants, shoe cover parts, and sleeves, and is formed by sewing the hood part, the neck part, the top, the pants, the shoe cover parts and the sleeves in sequence. The hood part includes an air exchange assembly. The sidewall of the top is separated from the back of the medical personnel by means of airbag ribs, thus preventing the sweaty back from being in contact with the sidewall of the top to make the people feel uncomfortable when the protective clothing is worn for a long time in summer.
US12239165B2
A support for a heater component of an aerosol provision device defines an axis and is configured to engage an end of the heater component to hold the heater component substantially parallel to the axis at a predetermined distance from a coil. The support defines a channel to receive a wire of a temperature sensor, and the channel defines an opening into a space between the heater component and the coil. An aerosol provision device is also described which comprises: a heater component configured to heat aerosol generating material; a first support, wherein the first support defines an axis and is configured to engage a first end of the heater component; a second support, wherein the second support is configured to engage a second end of the heater component; and at least one coil configured to heat the heater component. The first and second supports hold the heater component substantially parallel to the axis at a predetermined distance from the at least one coil.
US12239152B2
Compositions comprising polysaccharides and oligosaccharides are provided. Methods for the formation of the compositions, including the enzymatic production of the oligosaccharides, and the uses of the compositions in foodstuffs, cosmetics, and nutraceuticals are also provided.
US12239151B2
Described herein is a precursor compound of formula (I) releasing 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline and a method to release 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline from the precursor compound of formula (I) in the form of any one of its stereoisomers, tautomers, salts or as a mixture thereof, where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C10 hydrocarbon group optionally including one to three heteroatoms; X represents an amino acid, a peptide or a OR2 wherein R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C20 hydrocarbon group optionally including one to three heteroatoms and n is 0 when the dotted line represents a single bond or n is 1 when the dotted line represents no bond.
US12239150B2
Systems and devices and methods of making and using the same to prepare nut milk products. An exemplary system of the present disclosure includes a blending device capable of blending a quantity of nuts with a quantity of a liquid to break down the quantity of nuts into pieces to generate a blended product, a porous vessel defining an opening and configured to strain the blended product so that when the blended product is introduced into the opening, at least part of a solid fraction of the blended product remains within the porous vessel, and at least part of a liquid fraction of the blended product passes through the porous vessel which is collected as a filtered or strained product, and a non-porous vessel configured to receive at least part of the porous vessel therein and further configured to receive the filtered or strained product.
US12239145B2
There is described a dispensing apparatus for dispensing a food product from a container. The dispensing apparatus comprises a support for supporting a container of product when the container is loaded into the apparatus, an actuator for effecting movement of the support in a first direction during a product dispensing stroke of the apparatus and in a second direction during a return stroke of the apparatus; and a retainer for retaining a spent container of product so that a spent container is removed from the support during the return stroke.
US12239140B2
A vinegar-derived food additive, methods of making, uses thereof. A vinegar-derived food additive may be an antimicrobial or a buffering food additive. A vinegar-derived food additive may comprise vinegar-derived acetate in the form of a dry powder or solution. Vinegar-derived acetate may have a pH of about 4.5 to about 10.0. Vinegar may be treated with basic neutralizing agent to produce partially-neutralized vinegar having a pH of below about 7.0. Partially-neutralized vinegar may be dried to produce a vinegar-derived acetate dry powder. Untreated vinegar may be added back produce vinegar-derived acetate dry powder or solution having a pH of about 4.5 to about 10.0. Antimicrobial food additives may have a pH of about 4.5 to about 7.0. Buffering food additives may a pH of about 7.0 to about 10.0. Vinegar-derived food additives may be used to process foods and beverages.
US12239127B2
A thermal capacitor includes a shell and a PCM. The shell includes a first major surface that is configured to contact a container including media to be frozen. The shell defines a cavity in which the PCM is disposed. The PCM has a transition temperature in a range of −80 degrees Celsius to −50 degrees Celsius and is configured to rapidly freeze media from room temperature to −60 degrees Celsius with the container including the media in contact with the shell in an enclosed space.
US12239124B2
The present application discloses a liquid composition for cryopreservation of a biological material comprising a polar aprotic solvent, a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an unbranched polysaccharide, a branched polysaccharide; and polyvinyl alcohol. Further provided are uses of said liquid composition for cryopreservation of abiological material and methods for preserving a biological material using said liquid composition.
US12239123B2
A system for applying agricultural fluid to a target includes a controller communicatively connected to valve assemblies and configured to control at least one operating parameter of each valve assembly, and a portable electronic device connected in communication with the controller. The portable electronic device includes a user interface. The portable electronic device is configured to retrieve a stored user profile including at least one prestored value that relates to a physical characteristic of the system or an operating parameter of the system, and populate at least one user input field of the user interface with the at least one prestored value. At least one of the controller and the portable electronic device is configured to retrieve the stored user profile and determine the at least one operating parameter of each valve assembly based on the physical characteristic of the system or the operating parameter of the system.
US12239112B2
A pet drinking bowl, particularly a self-filling and self-cleaning pet drinking bowl with a sealing door, a removable drinking bowl, and at least one removable cleaning or filling nozzles aligned around and above the removable drinking bowl, is disclosed. Alternate versions may have removable cleaning or filling nozzles in the sealing lid. The pet drinking bowl is filled by water pressure from a residential water circuit distributed by a series of solenoid valves and is drained via a pump plumbed to the residential drain line. The pump drains the pet drinking bowl by a multi-stage drain with at least two settings: partially open and fully open.
US12239109B2
In the breeding of aquatic products, keeping track of changes in the water quality environment is an urgent aquaculture problem to be solved. At present, single sensors are often used for data detection, and there is no coordination between the sensors or between sensors and actuators, resulting in a lack of a unified monitoring and control mechanism. The current invention discloses a holding tank monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network and a monitoring method provided thereof characterized by an unattended operation and automated execution by obtaining environmental data of a holding tank in real-time, and analyzing the data using a suitably trained machine learning algorithm and causing a control action on the actuator to perform a corrective action on the holding tank for optimal operation of the system.
US12239106B2
In an auxiliary tool for feeding including a hook portion and wing portions, the hook portion includes a flat plate-like bottom surface portion, a flat plate-like top surface portion separated from the bottom surface portion in the up-down direction so as to be parallel with the bottom surface portion, a side surface portion coupling the bottom surface portion and the top surface portion on the same side, and claw portions extending downward from an end portion of the top surface portion on the opposite side to the side surface portion, and the wing portions extend in forms of V shapes from the side surface portion in the right-left direction and have elastic force to return to their original shapes when compressed such that angles of the V shapes are decreased.
US12239097B2
A self-supporting structure for the play and relaxation of cats is disclosed. A first, second and third cylindrical tower define respectively a first, second and third length from a first, second and third bottom end opposite a first, second and third top end. A flat triangular base defines a bottom side opposite a top side. The flat triangular base is configured to be attachable at each of its triangular ends respectively to the first bottom end, the second bottom end and the third bottom end of the cylindrical towers. A second diameter and a third diameter of their respective cylindrical towers are each less than a first diameter of the first cylindrical tower. The second length added to the third length is less than the first length. The second and third cylindrical tower are configured to be disposed inside the first cylindrical tower during shipping.
US12239096B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods that facilitate animal enrichment and breeding in animal containment environments. Provided in certain embodiments are animal containment enrichment compositions that include one or more sheets, where at least one of the one or more sheets comprises an array of scores defining a flat array of strips in the sheet. Provided in certain embodiments are animal containment enrichment compositions that include one or more sheets, where at least one of the one or more sheets comprises an array of scores defining a flat array of sections of the sheet.
US12239095B2
A granule for detecting occult blood in pet urine including 50-70 parts by weight of an adsorbent, 50-60 parts by weight of a filler, 3-5 parts by weight of an antibacterial agent, 5-10 parts by weight of a deodorant, 2-4 parts by weight of cumene hydroperoxide, and 2-4 parts by weight of an indicator.
US12239092B2
A waste receptacle (4) for animal excreta, the waste receptacle comprising: a base and at least one sidewall upstanding from the base, the base and at least one sidewall cooperating to define a housing having an internal void, a periphery of said at least one sidewall remote from said base defining an opening to said void; a platform support (41) coupled to said at least one sidewall in the vicinity of said sidewall periphery; and a platform (11) supportable by said platform support to partly obstruct said opening, said platform comprising first (13) and second (15) platform parts that are pivotally coupled to one another, neighbouring peripheral walls of said first and second platform parts each comprising a recess (202, 204), the recess in the peripheral wall of said first platform part cooperating with the recess in the peripheral wall of said second platform part to define an access port (5) for enabling an animal to access the internal void of the housing via said access port, said neighbouring walls of said first and second platform parts being spaced from one another to provide a lateral gap (206) between said first and second platform parts, the arrangement being such that litter on said platform can fall into the void through the gap or the port when one said platform part is pivoted relative to the other.
US12239076B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PGYL72 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PGYL72 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PGYL72 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PGYL72 or a locus conversion of 1PGYL72 with another maize variety.
US12239043B2
A seeding apparatus includes a frame supported on ground-engaging wheels, an opening device for creating a trench, a seed reservoir, and seed dispensing apparatus configured to deposit seed in the trench. The opening device is mounted to the frame by a four-bar linkage having first and second link arms. Each of the first and second link arms is pivotably connected to the frame by respective first and second pivot joints, and to the opening device by respective third and fourth pivot joints disposed forwardly of the first and second pivot joints. The opening device is ‘pushed’ through the soil via the four-bar linkage.
US12239038B2
An apparatus for measuring a soil condition includes a shank configured to engage with a drawbar, an array of movable pads carried by the shank, and a plurality of sensors. Each of the movable pads are spaced at different distances from a point at which the shank is configured to engage the drawbar. Each sensor is coupled to at least one movable pad of the array of movable pads and configured to measure deflection of the at least one movable pad relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil by the drawbar. A method of measuring a property of soil includes dragging the shank through soil and measuring deflection of the movable pads relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil.
US12239036B2
An autonomous travel system is provided with a location acquisition unit, an inertia measuring device, a travel control unit, an initialization control unit, and a condition setting unit. The location acquisition unit acquires a location of a work vehicle by using a satellite positioning system. The inertia measuring device detects an orientation of the work vehicle. The travel control unit causes the work vehicle to travel autonomously along a preset travel route. The initialization control unit carries out an initialization process for the inertia measuring device by obtaining the orientation of the work vehicle on the basis of a value acquired by the location acquisition unit during initialization travel in which the work vehicle travels straight in a predetermined direction. In the condition setting unit, switching from off to on of a power source of the work vehicle is defined as a first starting condition for the initialization process, and acceptance of an instruction for carrying out the initialization process when the power source of the work vehicle is on is defined as a second starting condition for the initialization process.
US12245531B2
Herein provided is a multilayered structure including one or more nanocrystalline layers each comprising a transition metal dichalcogenide, one or more substantially amorphous electrically insulating layers each comprising a transition metal oxide, wherein the transition metal oxide comprises a transition metal which is identical to the transition metal of the transition metal dichalcogenide, wherein the one or more nanocrystalline layers and the one or more substantially amorphous electrically insulating layers are formed in an alternating manner, and wherein each of the one or more nanocrystalline layers is formed adjacent to the substantially amorphous insulating layer. A resistive memory device comprising the multilayered structure and a process of fabricating the multilayered structure are also disclosed herein.
US12245530B2
A ring-shaped heater, system, and method to gradually change the conductance of the phase change memory through a concentric ring-shaped heater. The system may include a phase change memory. The phase change memory may include a bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a ring-shaped heater patterned on top of the bottom electrode, the ring-shaped heater including: a plurality of concentric conductive heating layers, and a plurality of insulator spacers, where each insulator spacer separates each conductive heating layer. The phase change memory may also include a phase change material proximately connected to the ring-shaped heater. The phase change memory may also include a top electrode proximately connected to the phase change material.
US12245529B2
Some embodiments relate to a method for forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a bottom electrode over a substrate. A data storage layer is formed on the bottom electrode. A diffusion barrier layer is formed over the data storage layer. The diffusion barrier layer has a first diffusion activation temperature. A top electrode is formed over the diffusion barrier layer. The top electrode has a second diffusion activation temperature less than the first diffusion activation temperature.
US12245527B2
Providing for a resistive switching memory device is described herein. By way of example, the resistive switching memory device can comprise a bottom electrode, a conductive layer, a resistive switching layer, and a top electrode. Further, two or more layers can be selected to mitigate mechanical stress on the device. In various embodiments, the resistive switching layer and conductive layer can be formed of compatible metal nitride or metal oxide materials having different nitride/oxide concentrations and different electrical resistances. Further, similar materials can mitigate mechanical stress on the resistive switching layer and a conductive filament of the resistive switching memory device.
US12245525B2
An electronic device comprises a semiconductor memory that includes: a memory cell; a protective layer disposed along a profile of the memory cell; and a buffer layer interposed between at least a portion of a sidewall of the memory cell and the protective layer, wherein the buffer layer and the protective layer include silicon nitride, and wherein a density of the protective layer is greater than a density of the buffer layer.
US12245521B2
A magnetic memory including a substrate, a spin-orbit torque (SOT) layer, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, a first protection layer, and a second protection layer is provided. The SOT layer is located over the substrate. The MTJ stack is located on the SOT layer. The first protection layer and the second protection layer are located on the sidewall of the MTJ stack. The first protection layer is located between the second protection layer and the MTJ stack. There is a notch between the second protection layer and the SOT layer.
US12245519B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a conductor region thereon, an interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, and a conductive via electrically connected to the conductor region. The conductive via has a lower portion embedded in the interlayer dielectric layer and an upper portion protruding from a top surface of the interlayer dielectric layer. The upper portion has a rounded top surface. A storage structure conformally covers the rounded top surface.
US12245518B2
A magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic layer extending in a first direction, a pinned layer on the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer vertically overlapping with the pinned layer with the first magnetic layer interposed between the pinned layer and the second magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes, a plurality of magnetic domains arranged in the first direction, and at least one magnetic domain wall between the plurality of magnetic domains, and a magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer is substantially parallel to a top surface of the first magnetic layer.
US12245513B2
Provided is a sheet-shape electrostatic sound pressure-electrical signal conversion device that is three-dimensionally deformable and has a low drive voltage. The sound pressure-electrical signal conversion device includes a polymer sheet sandwiched between a pair of electrodes facing each other, the polymer sheet is a dielectric film, at least one of the electrodes includes an insulating flexible substrate having a plurality of through-holes and a plurality of conductive fibers having one end fixed to the flexible substrate with a pressure sensitive adhesive, electrical conduction in an in-plane direction is formed by contact between the conductive fibers, the conductive fibers are vibrated by giving an electrical signal to the pair of electrodes or the conductive fibers are vibrated by receiving sound pressure to cause the pair of electrodes to output an electrical signal.
US12245512B2
The present invention relates to an actuator including: a first ionic polymer layer disposed on underside of a first electrode layer; a second ionic polymer layer disposed on top of a second electrode layer; and a porous conducting interlayer disposed between the first ionic polymer layer and the second ionic polymer layer.
US12245504B2
Provided are novel organic compounds having a structure of Formula I: Also provided are formulations having these organic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organic compounds.
US12245497B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting material. The light-emitting material is a series of metal complexes containing a ligand(s) based on isoquinoline which is substituted with deuterium at 3- and 4-position and a ligand(s) based on acetylacetone. The compounds can be used as the light-emitting material in an emissive layer of an organic electroluminescent device. These novel compounds can provide better device performance. Further provided are an electroluminescent device and a compound combination including the light-emitting material.
US12245493B2
A film-laminated metal sheet including a resin film configured to coat a metal sheet on at least one surface, wherein an arithmetic mean height Sa0 of a surface of the resin film is 3.0 nm or smaller, and an arithmetic mean height change ratio {(Sa1/Sa0)×100} of the surface of the resin film is 80% to 120%, where Sa1 denotes an arithmetic mean height of the surface of the resin film after thermal treatment at 100° C.
US12245491B2
A display panel includes: a substrate comprising a display area and a corner area, the corner area located outside the display area and having curved sides or polygonal sides; a plurality of pixels in the display area in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; a driving portion in the corner area and comprising a plurality of normal stages and a plurality of dummy stages between the plurality of normal stages, the plurality of normal stages being configured to output electrical signals to the plurality of pixels; and an alignment mark in the corner area, wherein the corner area includes a notch area that is defined based on the alignment mark, and some of the plurality of dummy stages are in the notch area.
US12245488B2
An electronic device includes a display panel including a bending portion, a first non-bending portion, and a second non-bending portion spaced from the first non-bending portion with the bending portion therebetween in a first direction, an input sensing part on the first non-bending portion, and including a sensing electrode, a signal line on the second non-bending portion, electrically connected to the sensing electrode, and including a first portion extending substantially parallel to the first direction, and a second portion extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and located between the sensing electrode and the first portion, an electronic part on the second non-bending portion, and not overlapping the signal line, and a reinforcing member on the second non-bending portion, at least partially surrounding the electronic part, and overlapping the first portion while not overlapping the second portion in a plan view.
US12245486B2
An electro-optical device is provided and includes a first light-emitting element configured to emit light in a first wavelength region, a second light-emitting element configured to emit light in a second wavelength region shorter than the first wavelength region, a third light-emitting element configured to emit light in a third wavelength region shorter than the second wavelength region, a first filter configured to transmit light in the first wavelength region and light in the second wavelength region and absorb light in the third wavelength region, and a second filter configured to transmit light in the first wavelength region and light in the third wavelength region and absorb light in the second wavelength region.
US12245483B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a main display area, and display area(s) surrounded by the main display area. The display panel includes first light-emitting devices disposed in the display area(s); first pixel driving circuits disposed in the display area(s), and electrically connected to the first light-emitting devices respectively for driving the first light-emitting devices to emit light; a first wiring layer connected between first pixel driving circuits and first light-emitting devices; a signal wiring layer electrically connected to the first pixel driving circuits and partially overlapping the first wiring layer; and a capacitive barrier layer disposed between the first wiring layer and the signal wiring layer and including at least one organic insulating layer.
US12245478B2
The present disclosure is related to a display panel, a display device and a terminal device. The display panel includes a driving backplate, an interconnection layer and a light-emitting layer. Pixel circuits in a driving region include first and second pixel circuits. The driving backplate has first interconnection holes, and any one of the pixel circuits is connected to one of the first interconnection holes. An interconnection region of the interconnection layer includes two interconnection portions each of which has second interconnection holes. First and second interconnection holes connected to the same lead are located in the same hole row to form a hole group. First and second interconnection holes in one of two adjacent hole groups are located between first and second interconnection holes in the other hole group.
US12245477B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display panel includes: a driving layer, including a plurality of driving units; anodes; a light-emitting portion; cathodes; an encapsulation layer provided with a plurality of via holes to expose the cathodes corresponding to each of the driving units; a plurality of conductive portions correspondingly disposed in the plurality of via holes; and a conductive layer is connected to each of the cathodes through a corresponding one of the conductive portions in the via holes, so that each of the cathodes is connected to the conductive layer in parallel, and an equivalent resistance at opposite ends of the cathode is reduced, thereby reducing the voltage drop existing at opposite ends of the cathode.
US12245476B2
A display device includes an auxiliary wiring located on a substrate; an insulating layer arranged on the auxiliary wiring, overlapping the auxiliary wiring in a plan view, and including an opening having a width greater than a width of the auxiliary wiring; a first electrode located on the insulating layer; a bank layer including an emission opening that overlaps the first electrode in a plan view; an intermediate layer overlapping the first electrode through an emission opening in a plan view and including an emission layer; a second electrode on the intermediate layer; and an auxiliary layer arranged on the second electrode, wherein the auxiliary wiring includes sub-layers, and each of the second electrode and the auxiliary layer contacts a side surface of one of the sub-layers through the opening of the insulating layer.
US12245475B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a transistor disposed on the substrate; a first electrode connected to the transistor; an emission layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the emission layer; a common voltage line connected to the second electrode; and a third electrode and a fourth electrode disposed between the common voltage line and the second electrode.
US12245466B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a planarization layer on a side of the substrate; a pixel defining layer configured to define a pixel opening region and located on a side of the planarization layer away from the substrate; an anode in the pixel opening region and on a side of the planarization layer away from the substrate. The array substrate further includes an intermediate insulation layer between the planarization layer and the pixel defining layer. The intermediate insulation layer has a chemical polarity between a chemical polarity of the planarization layer and a chemical polarity of the pixel defining layer.
US12245465B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image on a first surface of the display panel, and including: a first display area including a first sub-pixel area, and having a first resolution; and a second display area including a second sub-pixel area and a first transmission area, and having a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution; and a first optical sensor on a second surface of the display panel opposite to the first surface to overlap with the second display area. Accordingly, an image may be displayed at a portion where the first optical module is disposed.
US12245463B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a detection circuit, located on the side of the base substrate, and including a transistor and a photosensitive detection component electrically connected to the transistor, and an orthographic projection of the transistor on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the photosensitive detection component on the base substrate do not overlap with each other; a planarization layer, located on the side of the detection circuit facing away from the base substrate, and including a first surface facing away from the base substrate at the position in which the transistor is located, and a second surface facing away from the base substrate at the position in which the photosensitive detection component is located; and a light-emitting device, located on the side of the planarization layer away from the detection circuit.
US12245456B2
A display device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, and a third light emitting element that are disposed on a substrate and emitting light of different colors, respectively; a first insulation layer disposed on the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, and the third light emitting element, and including at least one opening; and a second insulation layer disposed on the first insulation layer, and disposed in the at least one opening, wherein a refractive index of the second insulation layer is higher than a refractive index of the first insulation layer, and the at least one opening overlaps at least one of the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, and the third light emitting element in a plan view, and does not overlap at least another one in a plan view.
US12245450B2
An electrode, a method of manufacturing the same, a light-emitting device, and a display device are provided, the electrode includes: a reflective layer; and two double-layer adjusting units stacked on the reflective layer, each including an insulating layer and a conductive layer sequentially arranged and directly contacted in a direction away from the reflective layer. For at least one unit, a via hole is provided in the insulating layer, an electrode lead formed integrally with the conductive layer is provided in the via hole, and electrically connected to the reflective layer through the electrode lead. In each unit, a difference between a thickness of the conductive layer and a thickness of the insulating layer does not exceed a set threshold configured to control the thickness of the insulating layer. The conductive layer farthest from the reflective layer locates on different levels in light-emitting regions of different types of light-emitting devices.
US12245432B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, and a dielectric stack over the substrate. The dielectric stack includes a first layer over the substrate and a second layer over the first layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a gate layer including a first portion traversing the second layer and a second portion extending between the first layer and the second layer.
US12245430B2
A memory structure, includes active columns of polysilicon formed above a semiconductor substrate, each active column includes one or more vertical NOR strings, with each NOR string having thin-film storage transistors sharing a local source line and a local bit line, the local bit line is connected by one segment of a segmented global bit line to a sense amplifier provided in the semiconductor substrate.
US12245420B2
A semiconductor memory device and a method of forming the same include a substrate, bit lines, contacts, a dielectric layer, storage node pads and a capacitor structure. The bit lines are disposed on the substrate and include a plurality of first bit lines and at least one second bit line. The contacts are disposed on the substrate and alternately and separately disposed with the bit lines. The dielectric layer is disposed over the contacts and bit lines. The storage node pads are disposed in the dielectric layer and respectively contact the contacts. The capacitor structure is disposed on the storage node pads and includes a plurality of first capacitors and at least one second capacitor located above at least one second bit line. Therefore, the semiconductor memory device can achieve more optimized device performance.
US12245417B2
A memory device includes pages each including memory cells arranged on a substrate. Voltages applied to first and second gate conductor layers and first and second impurity layers in each memory cell are controlled to retain a group of positive holes. In a page write operation, a voltage of the channel semiconductor layer is made equal to a first data retention voltage. In a page erase operation, the group of positive holes are discharged by controlling the voltages, the voltage of the channel semiconductor layer is made equal to a second data retention voltage, and erase and ground voltages are applied to selected and non-selected pages respectively. The first and second impurity layers and first and second gate conductor layers are connected to source, bit, plate, and word lines. The source, word, and plate lines are disposed parallel to the pages. The bit line is disposed perpendicular to the pages.
US12245412B2
A device includes first and second gate electrodes, a word line and a first metal island. The first gate electrode corresponds to transistors of a memory cell. The second gate electrode is separated from the first gate electrode and corresponds to the transistors. The word line is coupled to the memory cell and located between the first and the second gate electrodes. The first metal island is configured to couple a first power supply to the memory cell. A first boundary of the first metal island is located between first and second boundaries of the first gate electrode and is located between first and second boundaries of the word line, and each of the first boundary of the first gate electrode and the first boundary of the word line is located between first and second boundaries of the first metal island.
US12245408B2
A micromobility transit vehicle may include a wheel, an electric motor associated with the wheel, and a motor controller configured to control a motive force provided by the electric motor to the wheel. The motor controller may include a printed circuit board (PCB), one or more MOSFETs attached to the PCB, and a respective aperture defined through the PCB below each MOSFET. The motor controller may include a thermal assembly associated with each MOSFET and capable of dissipating heat from the MOSFETs to a heat sink. Each thermal assembly may include a heat transfer plug positioned at least partially within an associated aperture of the PCBA to contact an associated MOSFET, and a thermal interface material positioned between the heat transfer plug and the heat sink and capable of dissipating heat from the heat transfer plug to the heat sink.
US12245399B2
Display assemblies with condensation control are disclosed. A cover is positioned forward of an electronic display layer located within a housing. Fans and sensors are located at an airflow pathway extending within the housing. A controller receives readings from the sensors, determines which of the readings is, relatively, highest, and drives each of said fans based on the relatively highest one of the readings in accordance with a control scheme for each of the fans, where the control scheme is dependent upon the readings.
US12245384B2
A signal transmission circuit includes: a circuit board stored in a housing; a connector which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a first signal terminal and a first ground terminal; and an integrated circuit which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a second signal terminal and a second ground terminal. The first signal terminal and the second signal terminal are connected to each other by a signal wiring arranged on the circuit board. The first around terminal and the second ground terminal are connected to each other by a ground wiring arranged in a predetermined range including a portion immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring in the circuit board. At least a part of the ground wiring immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring has a high impedance structure formed to be wider than the signal wiring and narrower than a combined width of the first signal terminal and the first ground terminal.
US12245381B2
Methods and systems for low-force, low-temperature thermocompression bonding. The present application teaches new methods and structures for three-dimensional integrated circuits, in which cold thermocompression bonding is used to provide reliable bonding. To achieve this, reduction and passivation steps are preferably both used to reduce native oxide on the contact metals and to prevent reformation of native oxide, preferably using atmospheric plasma treatments. Preferably the physical compression height of the elements is set to be only enough to reliably achieve at least some compression of each bonding element pair, compensating for any lack of flatness. Preferably the thermocompression bonding is performed well below the melting point. This not only avoids the deformation of lower levels which is induced by reflow techniques, but also provides a steep relation of force versus z-axis travel, so that a drastically-increasing resistance to compression helps to regulate the degree of thermocompression.
US12245377B2
A component carrier includes a stack having at least one horizontal electrically conductive layer structure, at least one electrically insulating layer structure, a semiconductor component embedded in the stack, and at least one vertical via being laterally offset from the semiconductor component. The at least one horizontal electrically conductive layer structure electrically connects the vertical via to a bottom main surface of the semiconductor component. The component carrier is configured for a current flow from the vertical via to the horizontal electrically conductive layer structure, from the horizontal electrically conductive layer structure to the bottom main surface of the semiconductor component, from the bottom main surface of the semiconductor component to an upper main surface of the semiconductor component, and from the upper surface of the semiconductor component to the outside of the component carrier.
US12245363B2
A cap including a side wall portion having conductivity, a lid portion, a thin portion formed at least around the lid portion, and a beam portion supporting the lid portion is formed, an exposed component and a sealing component are mounted on a module substrate, the cap is mounted on the module substrate so as to surround an exposed component, the sealing component and the cap are sealed with a sealing resin, the lid portion is ground so as to reduce its thickness until the thin portion disappears, a shield layer is formed on an outer surface of the sealing resin and a side surface of the module substrate, a translucent adhesive sheet is attached on a top surface of the sealing resin, the beam portion is cut by laser through the adhesive sheet, and the adhesive sheet is peeled together with a lid portion.
US12245362B2
The invention relates to an EMC filter for a control device. The filter includes a multilayer circuit carrier comprising electrically conductive layers, in particular copper layers, and electrically insulating circuit board layers. According to the invention, the circuit carrier of the aforementioned type forms at least two filter capacitors, wherein in each case the filter capacitors are formed by electrically conductive layers that are formed in the circuit carrier and lie across from one another and/or extend parallel at a distance from each other.
US12245354B2
A translatable electrode for use in a cartridge assembly for a contact start plasma arc torch including an electrode body having a longitudinal axis and including a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end including a spiral groove and a contact surface at a proximal end face shaped to electrically communicate with a cathodic element. The translatable electrode also including at least one emissive insert disposed within the distal end of the electrode body and proximate a distal end face. The translatable electrode including at least one baffle disposed between the proximal and distal end of the electrode body. The translatable electrode also including a gas flow dampening region disposed circumferentially about the distal end and adjacent the distal end face and positioned between the at least one baffle and the distal end face.
US12245345B1
A voice-activated light system that includes a microphone for receiving one or more voice commands (which may be referred to as a “voice microphone”), one or more light sources (such as LEDs) coupled to a controller and a light driver. The light driver is for driving the light sources and the controller is for detecting a voice command in order to control the mode of operation of the one or more light sources. The controller can have multiple control commands each for selecting a different mode of operation of the light source(s). The modes can be controlled by a common voice input term followed by a second voice command corresponding to a mode of operation of the light source. The system may include a second microphone which may be referred to herein as a “music microphone”. The commands can include “light show,” “slow pulse,” “steady on,” “blinking,” or “off”.
US12245344B2
A method comprises determining (101) sensing input and determining (103) a likelihood that a human or animal is present based on the sensing input. The sensing input reflects changes in radio frequency signals received by one or more devices. The method further comprises controlling (105) a lighting device to render a light effect upon determining that the likelihood exceeds a presence detection threshold, and to continue to render the light effect for a subsequent predetermined period of time even when the likelihood changes by more than a predetermined value within the predetermined period. The method further comprises indicating (107) the likelihood to a user via an indication selected from a plurality of indications, e.g. by rendering the indication on the lighting device. A different indication of the plurality of indications is selected upon determining that the likelihood has changed more than the predetermined value.
US12245341B2
Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a heater configured to generate aerosol by heating a cigarette, the heater including a first electrically conductive heating element formed along a first path on an electrically insulating substrate, a second electrically conductive heating element formed along a second path on the electrically insulating substrate, and a temperature sensor track formed along a third path in a region between the first path and the second path; a battery configured to supply power to the heater; and a controller configured to control the power supplied from the battery to the heater and monitor a temperature sensed using the temperature sensor track.
US12245338B2
A support frame of a thin electric heating band contains: a body, multiple first blades, multiple second blades, multiple fixing sheets, and multiple defining elements. The body includes a base and multiple supporting arms. Each first blade includes multiple first spaced recesses, and each second blade includes multiple second spaced recesses, such that the thin electric heating band is engaged in each first spaced recess and each second spaced recess, thus positioning the thin electric heating band. Each fixing sheet is stacked on each first blade and includes multiple spaced notches, and each spaced notch communicates with each first spaced recess laterally. Each first blade includes an air facing fringe and an air shadow fringe, and each defining element is fixed on the air shadow fringe of each first blade.
US12245322B2
The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus using V2X enhancements to perform discontinuous reception. In an embodiment, a method implemented by a first WTRU, for a device-to-device (D2D) communication between the first WTRU and a second WTRU, the method may include any of comprising receiving, from the second WTRU, D2D control information comprising: (1) first information indicating one or more first transmission resources reserved for transmission of the D2D communication and (2) second information indicating if at least one second transmission resource is reserved for retransmission of the D2D communication; determining a sleeping period for the first WTRU that ends prior to a reception time of the retransmission of the D2D communication, wherein the sleeping period is based on the second information; and receiving the retransmission of the D2D communication, after an end of the determined sleeping period.
US12245316B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for resuming a connection of a wireless communication device suspension to a dormant state while the wireless communication device was operating in dual connectivity with a Master Cell Group (MCG) with a first network node and a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) with a second network node. In one embodiment, a method performed by the wireless communication device comprises receiving a connection resume message with an indication to restore the SCG of the wireless communication device, where the connection resume message comprises information that is mandatory when the connection resume message comprises an indication to restore the SCG. The information that is mandatory comprises information that triggers synchronization and random access towards a Primary SCG Cell (PSCell) (e.g., reconfigurationWithSync or mobilityControlInfoSCG). The method further comprises restoring the SCG in accordance with the connection resume message. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless communication device are also disclosed.
US12245309B2
Example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to perform at least identifying, by a user equipment of a communication network, a beam failure occurred over at least one dormant bandwidth part for communication with at least one secondary cell of the communication network; and based on the identifying, determining to report the beam failure to the communication network for beam failure recovery by the communication network.
US12245297B2
The present disclosure discloses a control method for a slice network, a terminal, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program. The control method includes controlling, by a terminal based on relevant information corresponding to slice information, a processing between the terminal and a network device. The relevant information corresponding to the slice information includes at least one of access control information, a Backoff Indicator (BI), or a timer.
US12245286B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive slice based RACH configuration information, wherein the selecting is based on the slice based RACH configuration information, determine that a first network slice and a second different network slice are in operation when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state, initiate an access stratum (AS) triggered random access channel (RACH) procedure, select RACH resources associated with one of the first network slice or the second network slice for the RACH procedure based on the slice based RACH configuration information and transmit a signal over the RACH using the selected RACH resources.
US12245285B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, configuration information related to a random access procedure. For example, in some aspects, the configuration information may include a physical random access channel mask configuration based at least in part on a random access occasion density in a time and frequency domain in a cell served by the base station, a random access response configuration based at least in part on an indication transmitted from the UE to the base station, and/or the like. Accordingly, the UE may perform the random access procedure based at least in part on the configuration information, which may be indicated to the UE in system information, radio resource control signaling, and/or the like. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12245276B2
A UE and a method of operating the UE is provided. The method includes receiving an indication for determining a set of channel access parameters from a base station node. The method includes responsive to receiving the indication in a DCI message, determining a first set of channel access parameters based on the request. The method includes responsive to receiving the indication in a RAR message, determining a second set of channel access parameters based on the request. A RAN node and method of operating the RAN node is also provided. The RAN node transmits an indication for determining a set of channel access parameters to a UE wherein when transmitted in a DCI message, the UE is requested to determine a first set of channel access parameters, and/or when transmitted in a RAR message, the UE is requested to determine a second set of channel access parameters.
US12245265B2
An electronic device that is configured to schedule transmission of data to at least one other electronic device via sidelink resources in a wireless communication network; identify that the scheduled transmission of the data is preempted by another transmission occurring within at least a part of the sidelink resources; and control transmission of the data to at least one other electronic device based on the identifying.
US12245258B2
A method for implementing opportunistic user scheduling under long-term and short-term resource fairness constraints is presented. The method includes enabling a base station to communicate with a plurality mobile devices handled by a plurality of users within a single-cell wireless communication network, deriving a feasible region of resource block (RB) fairness vectors by enabling an opportunistic scheduler to select active users from the plurality of users at each RB, implementing an optimal user scheduling strategy to maximize system utility by optimizing, via the opportunistic scheduler, transmit power and user mode selection, wherein the optimal user scheduling strategy includes a threshold-based strategy (TBS) phase and a compensation phase, and employing a short-term resource fair scheduling strategy satisfying user resource demands over a finite window-length.
US12245240B2
A method for transmitting a transmission indication signal includes: receiving a transmission indication signal on a part of time-frequency resources occupied by a network device. The transmission indication signal is used to instruct a terminal to perform a corresponding terminal behavior according to terminal behavior indication information, and the terminal behavior indication information is used to indicate the terminal behavior.
US12245229B2
A transmission mode determining method, an information configuration method, and a device are provided. The transmission mode determining method includes: determining, based on first preset information, a transmission mode of a physical downlink shared channel PSDCH scheduled by one downlink control information DCI; where the first preset information is carried in at least one of radio resource control RRC, a media access control control element MAC CE, and the DCI.
US12245228B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a scheduling device such as a base station, control signaling which indicates a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration scheduling a burst of multiple downlink shared channel transmission opportunities during an SPS interval. Based on receiving the SPS configuration, the UE may receive downlink signaling from the base station in a downlink shared channel transmission opportunity of the SPS interval. In some other aspects, a UE may receive control signaling which indicates a configured grant (CG) that schedules a burst of multiple uplink shared channel transmission opportunities during a CG timing interval. Based on receiving the CG, the UE may transmit uplink signaling to the base station in an uplink shared channel transmission opportunity indicated by the CG.
US12245225B2
A communication control method executed in a relay apparatus comprising a base station function processor, and a user equipment function processor, the communication control method including: receiving, by a MAC layer of the base station function processor, from the lower apparatus, a first buffer state report, notifying, by the MAC layer of the base station function processor, a MAC layer of the user equipment function processor, of an amount of first untransmitted upstream data; considering, by the MAC layer of the user equipment function processor, the amount of first untransmitted upstream data notified to be a part of an amount of upstream data queued in a MAC layer of the relay apparatus to calculate an amount of second untransmitted upstream data of the relay apparatus; and transmitting, by the MAC layer of the user equipment function processor, a second buffer state report.
US12245216B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: when a terminal device determines transmission statuses of N time-frequency resource groups based on transmission indication information sent by a network device, if a time-frequency resource group is separated into a former half and a latter half by one or more first symbols in time domain, the former half of the time-frequency resource group may be combined into a previous time-frequency resource group of the time-frequency resource group, or the latter half of the time-frequency resource group may be combined into a next time-frequency resource group of the time-frequency resource group, to determine a transmission status. This ensures continuity, in time domain, of the time-frequency resource group indicated by the transmission indication information, and can avoid unnecessary uplink transmission cancellation or downlink transmission interruption, thereby increasing a network capacity.
US12245215B2
A data transmission method includes: transmitting, in a carrier aggregation scenario based on scheduling information, sidelink data on a data carrier and feedback data on a feedback carrier. The scheduling information is used to schedule the data carrier and/or the feedback carrier, and the feedback data is used to indicate a transmission result of the sidelink data.
US12245208B2
Method, systems and devices for configuring time domain resource allocation (TDRA) of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a user equipment. The method includes receiving, by the user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC), the RRC configuring a TDRA type corresponding to a TDRA table. Another method includes sending, by a network base station, a RRC configuring a TDRA type corresponding to a TDRA table for the user equipment.
US12245194B2
A user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits, to another user equipment, data through a physical shared channel; a control unit that identifies a resource in which a channel used for transmission and reception of a response related to retransmission control for the data is allocated; and a receiving unit that receives, from the another user equipment, the response related to the retransmission control for the data through the channel used for transmission and reception of the response related to the retransmission control, wherein the control unit identifies, based on a subchannel in which the physical shared channel is allocated, the resource in which the channel for receiving the response related to the retransmission control is allocated.
US12245189B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The t disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining paging occasions (PO).
US12245185B2
In one example, a method being performed by a first station and comprises: transmitting a first message including an indication of whether a clock reconfiguration event occurs at the first station; transmitting a first positioning reference signal (PRS); receiving from a second station a second PRS; and transmitting to the second station a second message including a first time when the first PRS is transmitted by the first station and a second time when the second PRS is received by the first station, to enable the second station to determine a roundtrip time (RTT) between the first station and the second station based on the first time, the second time, a third time when the second station receives the first PRS, a fourth time when the second station transmits the second PRS, and the indication.
US12245177B2
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a plurality of groups and communicates, using the transceiver, information associated with the plurality of groups of candidate SSB positions to the UE. The processor further performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. In response to the LBT procedure being successful, the processor determines a first group of the plurality of groups and transmits, using the transceiver, one or more SSBs on one or more candidate SSB positions of the first group to the UE.
US12245174B2
Disclosed is a method for a UE to acquire time information about a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block in an unlicensed band. In particular, the method is characterized by: receiving SS/PBCH blocks through a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a specific slot; detecting the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols; detecting the sequence of PBCH Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRSs) included among the plurality of OFDM symbols; and acquiring time information about the SS/PBCH blocks on the basis of the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols and the sequence of the PBCH DMRSs.
US12245170B2
A gain adjustment control method, device and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: calculating energy of a full-bandwidth physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission signal in an intermediate frequency digital domain or a baseband digital domain according to a set calculation period; determining a gain control adjustment parameter according to the calculated energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal; and controlling and adjusting a gain of a receiver according to the determined gain control adjustment parameter and a gain adjustment rule.
US12245164B2
The present invention relates to a method for sharing power and resources for on-demand sidelink positioning in a new radio-vehicle to everything (NR-V2X) communication system, and an apparatus therefor. A method by which a terminal shares power in a new radio-vehicle to everything (NR-V2X) communication system, according to one aspect, may comprise the steps of: configuring, in a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), transmission resources for HARQ-ACK feedback information (HFI) associated with an NR-V2X service and transmission resources for a positioning reference signal (PRS) associated with sidelink positioning; if transmissions of the PRS and the HFI are requested at the same time, allocating power on the basis of at least one from among priority corresponding to the PRS and priority corresponding to the HFI; and transmitting at least one from among the PRS and the HFI on the basis of the allocated power.
US12245155B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for scheduling delivery of buffered multicast data to wireless stations (STAs) associated with an access point (AP). In some implementations, a STA transmits, to the AP, a request frame including a multicast address of a multicast group. The AP transmits, to the STA, a Group Identification (ID) assigned to the multicast group. The AP transmits a beacon frame including a wake-up schedule indicating times at which one or more STAs belonging to the multicast group are scheduled to receive buffered multicast data from the AP. STAs that belong to the multicast group wake up at one of the indicated times for a Target Wake Time (TWT) Service Period (SP). STAs that do not belong to the multicast group remain in power save mode during the TWT SP. The AP transmits the buffered multicast data at the indicated time during the TWT SP.
US12245154B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to systems and methods of target wake time for peer-to-peer communication. In one aspect, a first wireless communication devices configures a subfield indicating to extend a restricted target wake time (rTWT) for peer-to-peer communication. The first wireless communication device sends a message including the subfield to a second wireless communication device.
US12245153B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for wireless communication are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a second network entity, one or more LP reference signal (LP RS) resources, where the one or more LP RS resources are configured for at least one of: time or frequency tracking or synchronization, time or frequency error estimation or correction, radio resource management (RRM), or channel estimation. The example method may further include receiving a LP wake up signal (LP WUS) based on the one or more LP RS resources, where the LP WUS is associated with one or more monitoring occasions, where the LP WUS is quasi-co-located with at least one of the one or more LP RS resources, and where the LP WUS is associated with a first configuration and the at least one LP RS resource is associated with a second configuration.
US12245149B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may establish a communication connection with a serving cell associated with a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle configuration, determine, based at least in part on at least one of a first on duration of a first DRX cycle indicated by the first DRX cycle configuration or a type of traffic of one or more communications received during the first DRX cycle, an autonomous measurement gap associated with a neighboring cell, and perform a measurement of the neighboring cell during the autonomous measurement gap. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12245147B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a power saving mode of a base station. The UE may communicate with the base station based at least in part on the power saving mode, the communicating comprising one or more of: monitoring for a wake-up signal with a periodicity that is based at least in part on the power saving mode, transmitting uplink control information via control channel resources that are based at least in part on the power saving mode, or transmitting or receiving one or more communications via a set of component carriers that are based at least in part on the power saving mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12245146B2
The present application is directed to one or more aspects with at least one aspect describing a method including a step of receiving device context information including a Power Saving Mode (PSM) Sync Flag from a core network node, where the PSM Sync Flag indicates a monitoring type of a device from among plural devices in the network. The method also includes a step of receiving a tracking area update or an attach request from the device on the network. The method further includes a step of sending a device availability notification request to a core network interworking function.
US12245145B2
Disclosed is a method comprising transmitting one or more requests for charging or discharging batteries of a plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of base stations comprise at least a first group of base stations associated with a first communications service provider, and a second group of base stations associated with a second communications service provider different to the first communications service provider.
US12245139B2
The present disclosure relates to selecting a Local Management Function (LMF) in a wireless communication network, a next generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) acquires a capability from a user equipment (UE), the capability indicating whether the UE is capable of supporting LMF in Radio Access Network (RAN). An access and mobility management function (AMF) is then notified whether the UE is capable of supporting LMF in RAN. An LMF selection is then received from the AMF. Then a response is transmitted to the UE based on the received LMF selection, the response indicating whether a positioning procedure to be carried out by the UE is based on LMF in RAN. In this manner, the capabilities of the UE are taken into consideration when selecting an LMF for a positioning procedure.
US12245136B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communication are described. One or more peripheral devices may transmit a discovery beacon. The discovery beacon may indicate a first device state associated with the one or more peripheral devices. The discovery beacon may be received by one or more network devices. The one or more network devices may determine, based on the discovery beacon, a second device state associated with the one or more peripheral devices.
US12245135B2
A communication device and a communication method for allowing a communication terminal to be able to search for access points within a short time are provided. A communication device operating as an access point in a wireless network transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined beacon interval on an operation channel selected from available frequency channels. In addition, the communication device performs data transmission and data reception to/from a communication terminal subordinate thereto on the operation channel, and transmits a notification signal including information about the operation channel while switching channels at each predetermined cycle in available frequency channels other than the operation channel.
US12245134B2
A user equipment (UE) operating in an “Onboarding Mode” may search for a network broadcasting Onboarding Capability Information (OCI), then register using onboarding credentials and receive SNPN credentials from the network. The UE may then exit onboarding mode, enter Manual Network Selection or Automatic Network Selection mode, and connect to the SNPN. A UE may also receive from a network a list of PLMNs and SNPNs that are equivalent then, when registering, indicate to the network that a requested slice is not associated with the UE's HPLMN, but is associated with an SNPN. The network may indicate to the UE how the slices of the network map to the slices of the SNPN, and may indicate whether a slice that is offered by the network only partially maps to a slice of the SNPN or HPLMN.
US12245123B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, media, and methods for providing emergency data communications for citizen engagement. An embodiment operates by providing an emergency data submission link regarding an emergency notification to a plurality of communication devices. Emergency data submissions are received with the link, where each submission includes an emergency location. The embodiment verifies the submissions to generate a set of submitted emergency incidents, and displays the incidents within a graphical user interface (GUI) of an emergency response application. An embodiment operates by receiving emergency data related to a plurality of emergency incidents. The embodiment generates a heatmap that graphically represents a density of a plurality of emergency incidents. The embodiment identifies clusters of emergency incidents on the heatmap, and displays the heatmap within an interactive map within a GUI of an emergency response application accessed by an emergency service provider (ESP).
US12245122B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may communicate with multiple beacon devices (e.g., road side beacons), where messages from the road side beacons may be transmitted over a sidelink communications link and may be used to determine a speed and/or location of the wireless device. In some examples, the messages may carry public safety information, location information, navigation information, or other types of information, which may be used, for example, to notify the wireless device of a nearby event, to enable navigation, or the like. When receiving messages from the road side beacons, the wireless device may report a status to a base station, which may determine a relationship between transmissions from the wireless device and predict future transmissions based on the relationship. As a result, the base station may modify communications parameters in accordance with the status of the wireless device.
US12245118B2
A method for managing network services for a cellular network provider. The method includes receiving, via a GUI, a query input of an MSISDN number associated with a subscriber and querying a first external system using the MSISDN. In response to the query of the first external system, the method includes receiving a first set of subscriber information. The method includes querying a second external system using the MSISDN number to determine an IMSI number associated with the subscriber, and querying a third external system using the IMSI number. In response to the query of the third external system with the IMSI number, the method includes receiving a second set of subscriber information and populating one or more fields of the GUI with the first and second set of subscriber information.
US12245116B2
There is provided a method for accessing data in a UDR. The method comprises storing, for a Data Set provided in a UDR a plurality of SBA services. The method also comprises registering, from the UDR toward an NRF identifiers for the plurality of SBA services handled at the UDR and an identifier of the UDR, receiving, at the NRF from an NF service consumer, a service discovery request with an identifier of an SBA service, and transmitting, from the NRF toward the NF service consumer, the identifier of the UDR handling the SBA service. The method also comprises transmitting, from the NF service consumer toward the UDR identified by the identifier of the UDR, a service request for the SBA service, and receiving, at the NF service consumer from the UDR, information data relating to the one or more Data Subsets associated with the SBA service.
US12245111B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. For example, a subscriber may be identified with a level of prominence commensurate with the level at which he/she subscribers to a content creator to. Notifications and/or recommendations may be presented in an augmented reality experience along with augmented reality identifications of subscribers and/or content creators.
US12245105B2
An equipment identification system for identifying and operating one or more machines at a site. The system includes one or more connectivity modules, each connectivity module communicatively and physically coupled to one of the one or more machines. The system also includes a user device configured to communicate with the one or more connectivity modules via a network connection. In response to a user selection on an application hosted on the user device, one or more of the machines are identified by one or both of an audible signal or a visual signal.
US12245097B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods relating to mobile computing. According to an example method, a first user location of a user of a mobile computing system is determined. A first communication device in proximity to the first user location is identified based on the first user location. A first signal is communicated to the first communication device. A first information payload based on the first user location is received from the first communication device, in response to the first communication device receiving the first signal. Video or audio data based on the first information payload is presented to the user at a first time during which the user is at the first user location.
US12245093B2
This application provides a method and an apparatus for determining signal quality information of a frequency. On example method includes obtaining, by a network device, signal quality information, of a first frequency, from a plurality of terminal devices, wherein the first frequency is a frequency used by a serving cell accessed by the plurality of terminal devices; and determining, by the network device, signal quality information of a second frequency based on the signal quality information of the first frequency and a stored first mapping relationship, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency, and the first mapping relationship is a mapping relationship between the signal quality information of the first frequency and the signal quality information of the second frequency.
US12245079B2
The present invention provides an inter-system measurement information transmission method and system. The method comprises: if there is no interface between a first base station and a second base station, the first base station determines a corresponding core network and a corresponding interface; if the corresponding core network is a first core network corresponding to the first base station, the first base station sends first measurement configuration information to a control plane entity of the first core network; the control plane entity of the first core network sends the first measurement configuration information to a control plane entity of a second core network; the control plane entity of the second core network sends the first measurement configuration information to the second base station; and the second base station determines inter-system measurement configuration information of a terminal within the coverage of the second base station for the first base station.
US12245075B2
A method for sidelink data duplication function control includes: receiving, by a first terminal device from a higher layer, one or more data flows to be sent to a second terminal device, where a receiving device of the data flows is the second terminal device; and controlling, based on a preset rule, data duplication function of a SLRB between the first terminal device and the second terminal device, where the preset rule includes whether at least one of the data flows satisfies a preset QoS condition, and/or whether at least one communication link between the first terminal device and the second terminal device satisfies a preset link condition.
US12245072B2
A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multiplying the backoff number by a predetermined time value.
US12245071B2
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for maintaining continuity of a buffer status report (BSR) from a user equipment (UE) when the UE is handed over between base stations. In one aspect, a base station or a component thereof may be configured to allocate a set of resources for transmission by a UE. The set of resources may have a capacity that is insufficient for an amount of data indicated by a BSR from the UE. The base station or component thereof may be further configured to transmit, to another base station in association with handover of the UE, an indication that the capacity of the set of resources is insufficient for the amount of the data indicated by the BSR.
US12245070B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for managing quality of service (QoS) in a communication network. A plurality of data flows related to at least one application associated with a user equipment (UE) is received. At least one data flow that requires QoS management related to the at least one application is identified from the plurality of data flows based on an analysis of at least one of a plurality of attributes related to the at least one application. The at least one data flow is classified into a QoS class associated with the at least one application. The at least one data flow is prioritized based on the QoS class.
US12245068B2
This application discloses a communication method and apparatus, to improve transmission efficiency of a control plane message of a terminal according to a control and provisioning of wireless access points protocol. In this application, a control request message of a terminal may be transmitted between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus through a target channel. Because the target channel supports concurrency of a plurality of messages, transmission efficiency of the control request message of the terminal can be improved.
US12245063B2
A method of performing cell reselection by a wireless communications device comprises measuring a signal strength of radio signals received from a serving cell, determining whether the signal strength of the signals received from the serving cell is lower than a first predetermined signal strength threshold, if the signal strength is lower than the first predetermined signal strength threshold measuring a signal strength of a neighbor cell operating on the same frequency as the serving cell to generate signal strength measurements at a first rate, and in accordance with the signal strength measurements of the neighbor cell generated at the first rate determining whether to reselect to the neighbor cell.
US12245056B2
A method for error information propagation from an SCP to a NF to support a circuit breaker design at the consumer NF includes receiving, at the SCP and from the consumer NF, a first SBI service request message. The method further includes attempting, by the SCP, to forward the first SBI service request to N producer NF instances. The method further includes detecting, by the SCP, an error involving the N producer NF instances. The method further includes performing, by the SCP, successful alternate routing of the first SBI service request message to an (N+1) th producer NF instance. The method further includes receiving, by the SCP, a success response message from the (N+1) th producer NF instance. The method further includes propagating, by the SCP, with the success response message and to the consumer NF, error information regarding the N producer NF instances.
US12245043B2
Various arrangements for implementing a cellular network slice using a template are provided. Some number of client slice parameters can be defined by a client. Based on these parameters, a predefined cellular network slice template can be selected from a library of predefined cellular network slice templates. A new cellular network slice is then defined using the selected predefined cellular network slice. Cellular network access can be granted to the client via the defined cellular network slice and feedback on the performance of the cellular network slice is provided. Based on the client feedback and parameters of the defined cellular network slice, the predefined cellular network slice template in the slice template library is updated.
US12245034B2
A peer-to-peer offline communication method, including: at a mobile device executing a mobile device communication application, generating a mobile device certificate signing request and sending the mobile device certificate signing request to a cloud server; at the mobile device communication application, receiving a signed mobile device certificate from the cloud server; at a vehicle executing a vehicle communication application, generating a vehicle certificate signing request and sending the vehicle certificate signing request to the cloud server; at the vehicle communication application, receiving a signed vehicle certificate from the cloud server; broadcasting the presence of the mobile device and discovering the presence of the mobile device at the vehicle; exchanging and verifying the signed certificate signing requests between the mobile device communication application and the vehicle communication application; and encrypting and decrypting data exchanged between the mobile device and the vehicle.
US12245031B2
Techniques described herein are directed to a system and methods for issuing commands to an electronic device as well as techniques for transferring a device key to a user device associated with a user who has gained authorization to issue commands to the electronic device. In some embodiments, a device key may be conveyed directly from an access device to a user device. In some embodiments, the device key may be conveyed to a user device by a mobile application server which is in communication with the user device upon receiving an indication that an operator of the user device is authorized to issue commands to the electronic device.
US12245026B2
A computing device may receive, from an electronic device and via a wireless connection, a request to securely transmit user information using a secure data exchange module of the computing device. The computing device may configure the secure data exchange module for conducting a secure transmission of the user information and transmit a notification to the electronic device. The computing device may provide a user interface on the computing device for conducting the secure transmission of the user information. The computing device may receive and/or send, via the secure data exchange module, the user information. The computing device may transmit, via the wireless connection, the user information to the electronic device. The computing device may receive, from the electronic device, confirmation of a successful processing of the user information. The computing device may provide an indication of the confirmation of the successful processing of the user information.
US12245025B2
A data communication system serves a user application in a User Equipment (UE). The data communication system receives a subscription from an application server into a Network Exposure Function (NEF). The subscription is for user data from the user application in the UE. The data communication system receives the user data from the user application in the UE over a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and transfers the user data to the NEF. The data communication system transfers the user data from the NEF for delivery to the application server in response to the subscription.
US12245018B2
A method processes binaural sound to externally localize to a first user at a first location. This location is shared such that an electronic device processes the binaural sound to externally localize to a second user at a second location. The first and second locations occur at a same or similar location such that the first and second users hear the binaural sound as originating from the same or similar location.
US12245014B2
Improved methods and/or apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal in soundfield format for L loudspeakers. The method and/or apparatus can render an Ambisonics format audio signal to 2D loudspeaker setup(s) based on a rendering matrix. The rendering matrix has elements based on loudspeaker positions and wherein the rendering matrix is determined based on weighting at least an element of a first matrix with a weighting factor ℊ = 1 L . The first matrix is determined based on positions of the L loudspeakers and at least a virtual position of at least a virtual loudspeaker that is added to the positions of the L loudspeakers.
US12245012B2
A method and apparatus for decompressing a Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) signal representation is disclosed. The apparatus includes an input interface that receives an encoded directional signal and an encoded ambient signal and an audio decoder that perceptually decodes the encoded directional signal and encoded ambient signal to produce a decoded directional signal and a decoded ambient signal, respectively. The apparatus further includes an extractor for obtaining side information related to the directional signal and an inverse transformer for converting the decoded ambient signal from a spatial domain to an HOA domain representation of the ambient signal. The apparatus also includes a synthesizer for recomposing a Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) signal from the HOA domain representation of the ambient signal and the decoded directional signal. The side information includes a direction of the directional signal selected from a set of uniformly spaced directions.
US12245011B2
Disclosed are an active noise reduction acoustic unit and a sound-producing unit, the active noise reduction acoustic unit includes a casing; a baseplate which is arranged in the casing and separates the casing into a first accommodating cavity and a second accommodating cavity; the first accommodating cavity and the second accommodating cavity are in communication with each other, the second accommodating cavity being provided therein with a feedback microphone, and the feedback microphone being configured to pick up noise signals; and the first accommodating cavity is provided therein with a moving iron speaker which can vibrate and produce sound according to the noise signals.
US12245009B2
A system and method for wireless audio data system configuration is disclosed and described herein.
US12245007B2
A networked speaker device includes a sealed housing and an Ethernet port in the housing for receiving power and audio data from a network router via an Ethernet cable. A power supply subsystem in the housing manages the power received at the Ethernet port. A microprocessor subsystem, powered by the power supply subsystem, receives and processes the audio data to generate output audio signals. A digital audio amplifier, powered by the power supply subsystem, amplifies the output audio signals to drive a speaker driver to render an audio output. The device also includes at least one heater resistor in the housing powered by the power supply subsystem. The at least one heater resistor is controlled by the microprocessor subsystem to automatically heat the interior of the housing when temperature inside the housing falls below a given temperature.
US12245003B2
A playback device comprising a first spectrum radio for communication via a first wireless spectrum and a second spectrum radio for communication via a second wireless spectrum operates in a first mode in which the first spectrum radio is enabled and the second spectrum radio is disabled. While operating in the first mode, the playback device receives a command to join a synchrony group with a display device. Based on the command, the playback device begins to operate in a second mode in which the second spectrum radio is enabled. The playback device receives audio content for playback, wherein the audio content corresponds to video content being displayed at a display device. Using the second spectrum radio, the playback device coordinates with the display device for playing back the audio content in synchrony with the video content.
US12244998B2
The present disclosure provides an impedance apparatus. The apparatus includes a mass component, at least one elastic component, and a fixed component, the mass component connecting with the fixed component through the at least one elastic component; a damping component disposed between the mass component and the fixed component and providing damping for a movement of the mass component relative to the fixed component. When the mass component is in contact with an external vibration unit, the mass component receives a vibration of the external vibration unit and moves relative to the fixed component, a mass of the mass component is in a range of 0.5 g-5 g, an elastic coefficient of the at least one elastic component is in a range of 600 N/m-5000 N/m, a damping of the damping component is in a range of 1-4, and the impedance apparatus provides the external vibration unit with a mechanical impedance in a range of 6 dB-50 dB.
US12244996B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a headphone including a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook includes a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion being hooked up between an ear auricle and a head of a user, and the second portion is configured to be hang between an auricle of a user and a head of the user, the second portion extends toward a front outer side of the auricle, connects with the sound production component, and is configured to place the sound production component at a position close to an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, and at least a portion of the sound production component is inserted into an concha cavity. The sound production component and the first portion of the ear hook clamp the auricle in a wearing state.
US12244994B2
A first device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to receive audio signals from multiple microphones. The one or more processors are configured to process the audio signals to generate direction-of-arrival information corresponding to one or more sources of sound represented in one or more of the audio signals. The one or more processors are also configured to and send, to a second device, data based on the direction-of-arrival information and a class or embedding associated with the direction-of-arrival information.
US12244979B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to defective pixel detection and correction, and more specifically to using threshold functions based on color channels to compare pixel values to threshold values. A method is provided herein that comprises identifying a color channel of an image pixel in a frame and identifying a threshold function based at least on the color channel. The method further comprises applying the threshold function to one or more nearest-neighbor values to obtain a threshold value and determining whether a corresponding sensor pixel is defective based at least on a comparison of the image pixel to the threshold value.
US12244978B2
A purple-fringe correction method includes determining: (1) a first distance between a first pixel in a purple-fringe area in an image and an overexposed area in the image and (2) a second distance between the first pixel and a non-overexposed, non-purple-fringe area in the image. The first pixel in the purple-fringe area is corrected based on the first distance and the second distance.
US12244976B2
A projector controlling method includes causing at least one of a first projector and a second projector to accept an instruction of movement of a region where a first image is projected from a first region to a third region and movement of a region where a second image is projected from a second region to a fourth region, upon reception of the instruction, causing the first projector to move the first image from the first region to the third region at a first movement speed, and causing the second projector to move the second image from the second region to the fourth region at a second movement speed.
US12244969B2
Event-related data based on an image that has been captured is generated. Coverage information relating to imaging range is compared to the event-related data. The cameras that can capture an image of the event, based on a comparing result, are listed so that an operator can select one of the listed cameras.
US12244966B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing template rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for providing an interface to configure a template room for virtual conferencing; receiving, via the interface, an indication of user input specifying a configuration for the template room; accessing a data file comprising values for generating plural rooms based on the configuration for the template room; and providing, based on the configuration for the template room and on the data file, for virtual conferencing between plural participants across the plural rooms.
US12244965B2
Computing systems and methods are described in which video calls or other online communications are established or enhanced among two or more live participants. In some variants one or more preferences are gleaned from a first participant's behavior so as to streamline a call establishment with one or more qualified recipients. Alternatively or additionally, enriched auditory message data may be received privately from a sender without leaving a shared space.
US12244947B2
Variation in electrostatic capacitances of control signal lines in a pixel is reduced. An imaging element includes: photoelectric conversion units arranged in a first semiconductor substrate; a charge holding unit that is disposed in the first semiconductor substrate and holds generated charges; a plurality of charge transfer units that is each disposed for one of the photoelectric conversion units and transfers the generated charges to the charge holding unit; an image signal generating circuit that is disposed in a second semiconductor substrate and generates an image signal on the basis of the held charge; a plurality of charge transfer unit signal lines that is each disposed for one of the plurality of charge transfer units and each transmits a control signal; a charge holding unit signal line that transmits a voltage corresponding to a charge held in the charge holding unit to the image signal generating circuit; and a capacitance adjustment unit that is disposed in the vicinity of at least one of the plurality of charge transfer unit signal lines and the charge holding unit signal line and adjusts an electrostatic capacitance between the charge transfer unit signal line and the charge holding unit signal line.
US12244940B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods of rendering content based on a control point of a camera device are disclosed. In an example, a marker is attached to the camera device and its pose is tracked over time. Based on a camera model of the camera device, an offset between the marker and the control point is determined. The tracked pose of the marker can be translated and/or rotated according to the offset to estimate a pose of the control point. The rendering of the content is adjusted over time based on the estimated poses of the control point. Upon presentation of the content in a real-world space (e.g., on a display assembly located therein), the camera device can capture the content along with other objects of the real-world space and generate a video stream thereof.
US12244937B2
Disclosed herein are improvements to pixel pattern conversion, upsampling, and IR decontamination processes. An example includes an image processing pipeline comprising an upstream component, a pattern conversion component downstream with respect to the upstream component in the image processing pipeline, and a downstream component relative to the pattern conversion component. The pattern conversion component is configured to obtain RGB-IR pixel data produced by the upstream component of the image processing pipeline and convert the RGB-IR pixel data into RGB pixel data and IR pixel data using a conversion engine. The conversion engine is configured to demosaic the RGB-IR pixel into the RGB pixel data and the IR pixel data, remosaic the RGB pixel data into an RGB pattern and the IR pixel data into an IR pattern and remove IR contamination from the RGB pixel data of the RGB pattern for use by the downstream component.
US12244931B2
An information processing device includes: a determination unit that determines retrieval information used to retrieve at least one photographing recipe including information on photographing; an acquisition unit that acquires relative setting values representing relative values of photographing setting values, corresponding to one of the at least one photographing recipe retrieved on a basis of the retrieval information; and a setting unit that sets a photographing device to perform photographing on a basis of the relative setting values.
US12244926B2
There is provided an overlay measurement device controlling a focus movement, which includes: a lighting part being configured to orient lighting toward an overlay measurement target; a collection part comprising an objective lens and a detector for obtaining one or more of images of each focus in the overlay measurement target; a lens focus actuator moving the objective lens to adjust a distance between the objective lens and a wafer; and a processor controlling an operation of the lens focus actuator. The processor obtains a focus graph respectively in relation to two layers from one or more of the images of each focus, and the processor identifies a reference focus in relation to the obtained focus graphs to move the objective lens.
US12244924B2
Provided is an information processing device including an image capture unit that captures an image of a subject and converts the image into digital data to generate a captured image, a calculation unit that calculates, for each predetermined area of the captured image, a probability that the subject included in the predetermined area is a main subject desired to be captured by a camera operator, a determination unit that determines the predetermined area in which the probability exceeds a predetermined threshold as a valid data area and that determines a main subject area based on the valid data area, and a focusing unit that focuses on the determined main subject area. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately bring the main subject into focus.
US12244923B2
Provided are a control method, a camera assembly, and a mobile terminal. The control method is implemented by an image sensor including a two-dimensional pixel array and a lens array. The two-dimensional pixel array includes multiple color pixels and multiple panchromatic pixels. The color pixels have narrower spectral responses than the panchromatic pixels. The two-dimensional pixel array includes minimum repeating units, each of which includes multiple sub-units, and each of the multiple sub-units includes at least two color pixels of the multiple color pixels and at least two panchromatic pixels of the multiple panchromatic pixels. The lens array includes multiple lenses, each of which covers a corresponding one sub-unit of the sub-units. The control method includes: obtaining phase information of different pixels of the corresponding one sub-unit covered by the lens; and calculating a phase difference according to the phase information of the different pixels, to perform focusing.
US12244919B2
Disclosed are a video capturing method and an electronic device, through which the recording mode can be flexibly switched before or during video recording, and the layout after switching can be determined before switching, thereby facilitating accurate switching. In response to a first operation by a user on a first interface (2512), the electronic device displays, on the first interface (2512), a first option (2513) for indicating a first layout of a second preview image and a third preview image on a view-finding interface. In response to a selection operation by the user on the first option (2513), the electronic device displays a second interface, where the second interface includes the second preview image acquired by a second camera and the third preview image acquired by a third camera; the second preview image and the third preview image are displayed in the first layout.
US12244912B1
A method for determining performance of an imaging device in real-time is disclosed. The method may include, but is not limited to, receiving a first set of images of a first calibration target positioned at a first position from one or more imaging devices, determining a first environmental condition external to the aircraft at the first position based on the received first set of images using a machine learning algorithm; receiving additional set of images of an additional calibration target positioned at an additional position from the one or more imaging devices; determining an additional environmental condition external to the aircraft at the additional position based on the received additional set of images; and determining one or more real-time calibration parameters for the one or more imaging devices based on at least one of the determined first environmental condition and the determined additional environment condition.
US12244906B1
A media device control system is provided herein. The media device control system receives a first indication of a geographic location of a set-top box associated with a user and receives a second indication of data representing one or more vacation time periods based on the geographic location. The media device control system determines that the user is predicted to be on vacation within a period of time based on the data representing the one or more vacation time periods and the geographic location. The media device control system receives user input confirming that the user will go on vacation within the period of time. The media device control system causes the set-top box to transmit signals to activate a television during the period of time based on the user input indicating that the user will go on vacation within the period of time.
US12244898B2
A content recommendation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a content surfacing software code providing a user interface. The hardware processor executes the content surfacing software code to receive an initiation signal identifying a user, and, in response, identify content items as desirable content items to the user based on the user and metadata describing each of the desirable content items. In addition, the content surfacing software code generates a networked map of nodes corresponding respectively to the desirable content items, where the distances between nodes are based on the similarity of the metadata describing the desirable content items corresponding to the nodes. The content surfacing software code further outputs the networked map for display to the user via the user interface, the nodes being displayed as thumbnail images depicting the desirable content and selectable by the user.
US12244897B2
A method of optimizing playback, the method including: determining whether a player is in a freezing state; obtaining freezing information of the player when the player is in the freezing state; and determining a freezing type based on the freezing information, wherein the freezing type is used to instruct the player to perform a corresponding optimization operation. According to the present application, a freezing classification may be performed based on the freezing information to obtain refined freezing types, and different optimization strategies may be formulated respectively based on the freezing types to implement playback optimization, thereby improving playback optimization effect and optimization efficiency and improving playback experience.
US12244891B2
A system for quantifying viewer engagement with a video playing on a display includes at least one camera to acquire image data of a viewing area in front of the display. A microphone acquires audio data emitted by a speaker coupled to the display. The system also includes a memory to store processor-executable instructions and a processor. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processor receives the image data and the audio data and determines an identity of the video displayed on the display based on the audio data. The processor also estimates a first number of people present in the viewing area and a second number of people engaged with the video. The processor further quantifies the viewer engagement of the video based on the first number of people and the second number of people.
US12244890B2
Systems and methods for detecting and analyzing audio in a media presentation environment to determine whether to replay missed portions of media content are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, one or more computing devices detect audio in a media presentation environment. The one or more computing devices determine whether the audio relates to the media being presented. If the audio does not relate to the media being presented, the one or more computing devices cause replaying a portion of the media presentation corresponding to when the audio was being detected.
US12244883B2
A system is provided for generating a live output stream manifest based on an event. Each of a set of discrete service engines ingest a portion of a programming schedule comprising a playlist of media content. Based on processing of source manifests encapsulated by the media content, a collection of disparate manifest units is obtained. The collection of disparate manifest units is stored as indexed disparate manifest units in a data store based on a set of indexing parameters. Based on an event including a set of indexed disparate manifest units retrieved from the data store, a live output stream manifest is generated during a current iteration in response to a client request comprising a set of client request parameters. The retrieval of the set of indexed disparate manifest units is performed just-in-time based on a query that corresponds to the set of client request parameters.
US12244881B2
A method is provided for managing key rotation (use of series of keys) and secure key distribution in over-the-top content delivery. The method provided supports supplying a first content encryption key to a content packaging engine for encryption of a first portion of a video stream. Once the first content encryption key has expired, a second content encryption key is provided to the content packaging engine for encryption of a second portion of a video stream. The method further provides for notification of client devices of imminent key changes, as well as support for secure retrieval of new keys by client devices. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server infrastructure in accordance with the provisions of the method.
US12244870B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for data compression. The present implementations more specifically relate to dynamically queuing entropy-coded data to be transmitted in a bitstream. For example, an encoder may perform a first order image compression operation on raw image data to produce a set of first order coefficients and may perform a second order image compression operation on at least a subset of the first order coefficients to produce a set of second order coefficients. The encoder may further encode the first and second order coefficients as first and second order codewords, respectively, according to an entropy coding scheme. In some aspects, the encoder may output the first order codewords to a transmit queue before the lengths of the second order codewords are known. However, in some implementations, the second order codewords may be transmitted from the transmit queue before the first order codewords.
US12244865B2
An electronic device for decoding a picture from a data stream is disclosed, the electronic device includes a processor. The processor configured to decode a first syntax element indicating a bit rate value and a second syntax element indicating a bit rate scale. The processor is also configured to determine a fraction of a reference level corresponding to a subpicture of the picture, using a subpicture level information (SLI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message. The processor is further configured to determine a bit rate of the subpicture based on the fraction, the first syntax element, and the second syntax element.
US12244864B2
A method for decoding a predetermined block of a picture using intra-prediction by reading, for each of predetermined intra-prediction blocks, from a data stream, a mode index identifying a matrix-based intra-prediction mode is disclosed. Samples of each predetermined intra-prediction block are predicted by computing a matrix-vector product between an input vector derived from reference samples and a prediction matrix associated with the identified matrix-based intra-prediction mode (k)—and associating components of an output vector obtained by the matrix-vector product onto sample positions of the predetermined block. Further predetermined intra-predicted blocks of the picture are predicted to obtain a prediction signal. A transformation flag is decoded from the data stream using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding, and a prediction residual is decoded and re-transformed using a reverse transformation based on the transformation flag to obtain a prediction residual signal. The prediction residual signal is used to correct the prediction signal.
US12244858B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) patches in an atlas frame and a three-dimensional (3D) bounding box scale. The 2D patches are decoded. A point cloud is reconstructed by converting the 2D patches to a 3D patch coordinate system defined by each projection plane of the 3D bounding box. The 3D bounding box scale is applied to a 3D bounding box.
US12244855B2
According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US12244849B2
A method of encoding a motion information predictor index for an Affine Merge mode, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.
US12244837B2
Coefficient data related to an image is coded in parallel in each line of coding tree units each including transformation blocks and corresponding to a topmost coding block in a tree structure, and coding of each line is performed so as to be delayed by an amount corresponding to one coding tree unit with respect to coding of a line immediately above the line to be coded. Additionally, coded data obtained by coding coefficient data related to an image is decoded in parallel in each line of coding tree units each including transformation blocks and corresponding to a topmost coding block in a tree structure, and decoding of each line is performed so as to be delayed by an amount corresponding to one coding tree unit with respect to decoding of a line immediately above the line to be decoded.
US12244827B2
A moving picture encoding method for increasing coding efficiency includes: determining whether or not to apply orthogonal transformation, to calculate a value of an orthogonal transform skip flag; performing the orthogonal transformation on a prediction residual according to the value of the orthogonal transform skip flag, to calculate at least one orthogonal transform coefficient; performing quantization on at least the one orthogonal transform coefficient, to calculate at least one quantized coefficient; performing variable-length encoding on the orthogonal transform skip flag; and changing a scan order for at least the one quantized coefficient according to the value of the orthogonal transform skip flag, and performing variable-length encoding on at least the one quantized coefficient in the scan order after the change.
US12244822B2
A method for acquiring motion vectors includes: obtaining a number of related motion vectors of a current block, wherein the number of related motion vectors are motion vectors of a related block of the current block, a prediction mode of the related block is the same as a current prediction mode of the current block, an encoding has been completed; determining weights of at least part of the number of related motion vectors; and calculating a weighted motion vector of the current block based on at least part of the number of related motion vectors and the weights of at least part of the plurality of related motion vectors.
US12244804B2
An electronic apparatus performs a method of coding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from the bitstream, the video data corresponding to a coding unit, wherein the coding unit is coded by intra-prediction mode or inter-prediction mode; receiving a first syntax element from the video data, wherein the first syntax element indicates whether the coding unit has been coded using adaptive color-space transform (ACT); processing the video data to generate residuals of the coding unit; in accordance with a determination based on the first syntax element that the coding unit has been coded using the ACT, performing a clipping operation that confines a dynamic range of the residuals of the coding unit within a predefined range; and applying an inverse ACT to the residuals of the coding unit after the clipping operation.
US12244796B2
A decoder comprises circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory, in operation, determines a number of first pixels and a number of second pixels used in a deblocking filter process, wherein the first pixels are located at an upper side of a block boundary and the second pixels are located at a lower side of the block boundary, and performs the deblocking filter process on the block boundary. The number of the first pixels and the number of the second pixels are selected from among candidates, wherein the candidates include at least 4 and M larger than 4. Response to a location of the block boundary being a predetermined location, the number of the first pixels used in the deblocking filter process is limited to be 4.
US12244784B2
Inventory at a remote location may be verified by transmitting a security key associated with uniquely identifying object identification information from a verification server to a client machine at the remote location. The security key may then be used to generate a multi-view interactive digital media representation (MVIDMR) of the object that includes a plurality of images captured from different viewpoints. The MVIDMR may then be transmitted to the verification server.
US12244783B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US12244780B2
A printing system includes: a main printer configured to print an image sheet by sheet; a sub printer communicably connected to the main printer and configured to print an image sheet by sheet; and a storage medium that is configured to store image data of a plurality of images and from which the main printer is able to read out the image data. In response to changing of a state of the sub printer, the sub printer notifies the main printer of a changed state. The main printer regularly checks print situations of the main printer and the sub printer. In accordance with the print situations that are regularly checked, the main printer determines which of the printers is to be used for printing of an image for each of the image data of the plurality of images.
US12244776B2
An image reading device includes a tray, a paper feed roller that conveys a sheet, a first sensor that detects a front end and a rear end of the sheet, a second sensor that detects the front end of the sheet, and a scanner that reads an image on a front side of the sheet and reads an image on a back side of the sheet. A controller determines a first time duration that elapses from the detection of the front end of the sheet by the first sensor to the detection of the rear end of the sheet by the first sensor and operates the scanner to read the image on the back side of the sheet over a second time duration equal in length to the first time duration. The second time duration begins after the front end of the sheet is detected by the second sensor.
US12244774B2
The present disclosure describes providing end-to-end call identity validation of a forwarded call. Identity information associated with a received call invite may be temporarily stored and reused for the forwarded call when a determination is made that the called party is likely to forward the call. If the inbound call is diverted (forwarded) by the called device, a call invite comprising an indication that the invite has been diverted (forwarded) by the called device may be received. The system may match data associated with the diverted call invite with the stored identity information. In some examples, the SHAKEN identity header and SHAKEN token is stored and may be attached to the diverted call invite. DIV authentication may then be performed, and the diverted call invite comprising SHAKEN and DIV identity headers may be provided to the forward-to destination.
US12244766B1
A combination light switch cover/communicator device that can serve as both an easy-to retrofit single- or dual-gang light switch cover and an emergency safety device. The cover communicator can be designed to install in similar process to a conventional light switch cover, while also preferably containing a remote monitor and lockdown switch, which can also provide for emergency activated video monitoring availability. A preferably provided lockdown button can be used to minimize the time it takes to contact first responders or to lock down a building. Where provided, live video of an emergency/event can be recorded and preferably upon activation can be provided or remotely forwarded to provide police and other first responders with current information concerning the emergency/event. The communicator portion provides for monitoring and can digitally transmit critical information to others who may be remotely located and can also provide critical information to individuals involved with the event through audio, hi-resolution LCD screen and/or multi-character text display. The communicator also can provide location information in real-time, to help first responders to arrive faster to the event.
US12244764B2
A captioned telephone service (CTS) system for blocking spam calls includes a CTS server and a database. A CTS user's equipment is associated with a CTS number and an original phone number. The CTS server is configured to allow the user to elect to use an original number service and a call drop service. If the original number service is set, when the user places a phone call to a peer by using the CTS number, the original phone number, instead of the CTS number, is displayed as caller identification on a communications device of the peer. The CTS server assists the user to set up call forwarding and checks whether the call forwarding was successfully set. If the call drop service is set, the CTS server drops a call, directed to the CTS number. However, emergent calls or emergency related calls are excluded from the call drop service.
US12244762B2
A method of providing a transcription of an electronic communication includes determining a language spoken in the electronic communication, differentiating among participants in the electronic communication, identifying a hierarchy of topics discussed in the electronic communication, and providing a display of the hierarchy of topics.
US12244757B2
Computer-implemented detection of anomalous telephone calls, for example detection of interconnect bypass fraud, is disclosed. A telephone call associated with user devices is analyzed remote from the user devices. A first set of multiple features, for example Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, is derived from a call audio stream. The first set is converted to an embedding vector, for example via a model based on a Universal Background Model comprising a Gaussian Mixture Model, which model is preferably configured based on a training plurality of first sets of multiple features derived form a corresponding training plurality of audio streams. Occurrence, or probability of occurrence, of an anomalous telephone call is determined based on the embedding vector, for example via a back-end classifier, such as a Gaussian Backend Model, which classifier is preferably configured based on labels associated with the training plurality of audio streams.
US12244756B2
Methods for operating a communications-enabled application, controlling a secure profile via an operating system, and operating a cellular network are provided. Operating a communications-enable application includes detecting a need for data transmission when the mobile device has a communications status which is incompatible with the need and sending a request to activate a secure profile. Controlling the secure profile includes receiving a request from an application to have data session access via a secure profile and activating a data session utilising a secure profile. Operating the cellular network includes receiving a request to establish a cellular network data communications session from a mobile device including the communications-enabled application and establishing a data session with the mobile device using the secure profile. A mobile device and cellular network for performing the methods are also provided.
US12244755B2
The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices.
US12244750B1
A tablet case includes a housing sized to receive the tablet computer, and a kickstand assembly that includes a locking high-friction hinge mounted on the housing. A kickstand member is attached to the high-friction hinge at a proximal end. The kickstand member is able to move between a collapsed configuration wherein the kickstand member abuts the housing, and at least one extended configuration wherein the kickstand member is axially rotated to extends outwardly from the housing for supporting the housing. Only friction from the locking high-friction hinge prevents axial rotation of the kickstand member.
US12244749B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprising a flexible display includes a first area and a second area extending from the first area, a motor module configured to move at least a part of the second area according to a driving state in the first state and the second state, and a processor electrically connected to the flexible display and the motor module. The processor identifies a characteristic value related to the motor module when being changed from the first state to the second state and controls the motor module such that an area exposed to the outside of the electronic device among the second area is changed based on the identified characteristic value.
US12244745B2
A method for improving communication security implemented by a sending device. The method includes the sending device generating a first hash token based on a K generation hash (HK) value of a seed known only to the sending device, where K is an integer value greater than one, and sending a first message that includes the first hash token. The method further includes the sending device performing a reversible combination of a K−1 generation hash (HK−1) value of the seed and a hash of the first message to generate a second hash token, and sending the second message that includes the second hash token.
US12244742B2
Computer-implemented digital communication using cryptography is disclosed. The computer-implemented methods are used to perform digital communication for minting and transfer of digital commodities using short message service (SMS) messages. The cryptographic system disclosed generates graphical user interfaces and executes operations on a backend apparatus. When the backend apparatus receives the SMS messages, the backend apparatus retrieves the digital commodities and interacts with a storage apparatus to store the digital commodities, identified by a uniform resource locator (URL).
US12244740B2
An IC for adaptive PUF stabilization process includes a PUF stabilizer and a non-volatile memory. The PUF stabilizer has PUF units, a statistic processor, a majority voting generator, and a dark-bit masker. The statistic processor is connected to the PUF units, and performs measurements on the PUF units to output results. The majority voting generator is connected to the statistic processor to accumulate the results into a statistic result, which is output as a PUF bit. The dark-bit masker is connected to the PUF units, and marks unstable PUF units bit as dark-bit and create dark-bit masks. The non-volatile memory is connected to the PUF stabilizer to store the dark-bit masks, and the dark-bits are replaced by specific bit sequences provided by the PUF stabilizer. This decreases bit error rates of the PUF measurement results, and allows customization of the quantity of dark bits per dark-bit mask used.
US12244737B2
Provided is an unobtrusive client verification system with one verification devices having processors that are configured to receive a first request from an unverified client device, generate a random number in response to receiving the first request from the unverified client device, define a set of expressions as a browser challenge problem that evaluates to an answer specified by the random number, encrypt the answer within an answer token, provide the browser challenge problem with the answer token to the unverified client device, receive a second request with a solution to the browser challenge problem and the answer token from the unverified client device, and verify the unverified client device in response to the solution matching the answer that is decrypted from the answer token provided with the second request.
US12244728B2
According to one embodiment, a data protection apparatus includes a processor configured to execute an encryption process on log data including a data frame including a plurality of pieces of data generated along a time sequence. The processor is configured to encrypt each of the pieces of data with a corresponding encryption key among a first initial key and a first encryption keys generated in a forward direction to a time sequence of the pieces of data. The processor is configured to encrypt each of a plurality of pieces of data encrypted with the corresponding encryption key with a corresponding encryption key among a second initial key and a second encryption keys generated in a backward direction to a time sequence of the pieces of data.
US12244726B2
A secure, integrated data system and method users both blockchain and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies to achieve information provenance for data, particularly, mobile health device data. Using a blockchain to record and enforce data access policies removes the need to trust a single entity with gatekeeping the health data. Instead, participants form a consortium and collectively partake in verifying and enforcing access policies for data stored in private data silos. Data access and computation takes place inside of TEEs, which preserves data confidentiality and provides a verifiable attestation that can be stored on the blockchain for the purpose of information provenance.
US12244719B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for computer-implemented authentication platforms are described herein. In an example approach, a user is enrolled in a computer-implemented authentication platform. The enrollment process includes digitally encrypting an image of a user, storing the digitally encrypted image of the user in a blockchain as part of a user profile of the user, generating (using the digitally encrypted image of the user) an identifier of the user, and storing the identifier of the user in the blockchain as part of the user profile of the user. Subsequently, the user is authenticated. The authentication process includes retrieving the digitally encrypted image of the user from the blockchain (using the identifier of the user to retrieve the digitally encrypted image of the user) and decrypting the digitally encrypted image of the user using a decryption token.
US12244718B2
We disclose a blockchain e-voting system, where keeping the basic principles of voting does not require trusted-third parties. The system includes at least two vote nodes each having two sets of private and public keys, a voter management node, two smart contract modules, and a blockchain. A voter management node is configured to provide a cryptographic base for public key generation and to pre-register DIDs of vote nodes. A first smart contract module is configured to perform self-identification of vote nodes, encryption of votes, and generation of zero-knowledge proofs for the validity of their results, and to upload all the outputs to a blockchain. For the purpose, a vote node executes the first smart contract module, taking a voting decision, an asserted DID, the two sets of public and private keys as inputs, where one set of keys is for the self-identification, and another set is for the encryption. A second smart contract module is configured to download the votes from the blockchain, check the validity of proofs, tally up the results without decrypting them, and finally upload the results to blockchain.
US12244716B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for secure identification retrieval. The method includes retrieving a value of a periodic variable and calculating a plurality of query tokens from a corresponding plurality of client device identifiers and the value of the periodic variable. Each query token is associated with a corresponding client device identifier in a first database. The method further includes receiving a first query token calculated from a client device identifier of the first client device and the value of the periodic variable and identifying a second query token of the calculated plurality of query tokens in the first database matching the first query token. The method further includes, responsive to the identification, retrieving the associated client device identifier and retrieving one or more characteristics of the first client device according to the associated client device identifier. The method further includes transmitting the retrieved one or more characteristics.
US12244701B2
The disclosure discloses an OAM measurement device independent quantum key distribution system based on real-time tracking compensation and method thereof, which comprises a user side Alice, a user side Bob and a measuring unit; the user side Alice and the user side Bob realize real-time monitoring and phase distortion compensation of the channel environment by using strong pulse lasers from the measuring unit; the measuring unit utilizes an M-Z interferometer formed by a Dove prism to realize the separation of odd/even orbital angular momentum order photons, and measure Bell states of the photons with orbital angular momentum; the disclosure realizes OAM measurement device independent quantum key distribution system based on real-time tracking compensation, and the user uses the orbital angular momentum state for coding, thereby having the characteristics of good stability, high code rate and strong expansibility.
US12244700B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for enhancing the security of a quantum key distribution network. The quantum key distribution network includes a first node, a second node, and at least one relay node, by means of which the first node and the second node implement a first stage of quantum key distribution; the first node and the second node share a first key pool, which includes at least one key; and the method is executed on either the first node or the second node. The method includes: acquiring a first key obtained after the first stage of quantum key distribution; determining the seed key from the first key pool; generating a first random string by applying, based on the seed key, a first algorithm predetermined with a correspondent node, the first random string having a length equal to that of the first key; and acquiring a second key by performing a preset first bit operation on the first key and the first random string.
US12244699B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for authentication between multiple devices using N-way entangled particles. Any number (N) of entangled particles may be distributed to any number of devices within a distributed system to facilitate authentication between multiple devices. An example authentication method includes: generating, by a secure key generator of a first participating device, a first key based on one or more quantum entangled particles; determining, by communications hardware of the first participating device, that a connection to a second participating device could not be established or maintained; in response to the determining, by the communications hardware, transmitting a first connection request to establish a connection with a third participating device; receiving, by the communications hardware, an acknowledgement to instantiate the connection with the third participating device; and establishing, by the communications hardware, the connection with the third participating device.
US12244696B2
A server can receive a device public key and forward the device public key to a key server. The key server can perform a first elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange using the device public key and a network private key to derive a secret X1. The key server can send the secret X1 to the server. The server can derive an ECC PKI key pair and send to the device the server public key. The server can conduct a second ECDH key exchange using the derived server secret key and the device public key to derive a secret X2. The server can perform an ECC point addition using the secret X1 and secret X2 to derive a secret X3. The device can derive the secret X3 using (i) the server public key, a network public key, and the device private key and (ii) a third ECDH key exchange.
US12244684B2
A method includes: a first network device obtains a synchronization mode indication and synchronization information, where the synchronization mode indication indicates a target network device to perform synchronization based on the synchronization information. The first network device sends the synchronization mode indication and the synchronization information through a network that supports FlexE. A second network device receives the synchronization mode indication and the synchronization information through a network that supports FlexE. The second network device performs synchronization based on the synchronization mode indication and the synchronization information.
US12244674B2
An example apparatus includes message generator circuitry to generate a first message for a first server of a first Internet domain in response to detecting a login event at a client device, the login event associated with an Internet-based service of a second Internet domain, the second Internet domain outside the first Internet domain, and a communication interface to receive a second message from the first server, the second message including a global unique identifier (GUID) and a login timestamp, the GUID identifying at least one of the client device or a user of the client device to the first Internet domain, the message generator circuitry to generate a third message including (a) the GUID, (b) a cookie identifier associated with the second Internet domain, and (c) the login timestamp, the third message to cause generation of an identifier-to-cookie map at a second server of the second Internet domain.
US12244658B2
Disclosed are a method and system for monitoring streaming. The method for streaming monitoring includes registering a streaming channel of a user as monitoring target information, performing monitoring on broadcast streaming using the streaming channel based on configuration information of the user, and providing monitoring information for the broadcast streaming.
US12244654B2
Live editing a workbook with multiple clients including receiving, by a table manager, a request by a first client on a first client computing system to edit a workbook in an exploration mode that displays edits to the workbook without altering the workbook; receiving, by the table manager from the first client, an exploration edit targeting the exploration of the workbook; applying, by the table manager, the exploration edit to the exploration of the workbook; and presenting, by the table manager to a second client on a second client computing system, the application of the exploration edit to the exploration of the workbook.
US12244653B2
Techniques described herein relate to inter-channel transfer at an automated contact center, in order to transfer communication sessions from a first channel to a second channel. In addition to channel transfer operations, communication session context data can be transferred from the first channel to the second channel and a communication session summary can be generated and provided to second channel devices. Furthermore, a communication session can be loaded in a second channel queue based on the communication session via the first channel.
US12244646B2
A cloud node in a cloud-based system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to: communicate with a user associated with a tenant of a plurality of tenants; obtain policy and configuration for the user based on the tenant, from a central authority in the cloud-based system; provide the one or more cloud services to the user, based on the policy and configuration; and crawl one or more cloud providers having a plurality of files for the user, based on the policy and configuration. The cloud node is inline between a user device of the user and the Internet, as well as connected to the one or more cloud providers.
US12244642B1
In some examples, a system includes a router device and a first adapter device in communication with the router device. The first adapter device includes processing circuitry configured to: communicate with the router device, wherein the router device is incapable of communicating in accordance with the MACsec protocol. The processing circuitry is further configured to establish an encrypted connection in accordance with the MACsec protocol between the first adapter device and a remote device, determine that the encrypted connection is offline, and output a message to the router device that the encrypted connection is offline. The router device is configured to communicate with the remote device via a second adapter device configured to communicate in accordance with the MACsec protocol and bypass the first adapter device.
US12244639B2
A network based hyperlocal authentication system and method is described. A wireless client device requests a key from a remote network component. The remote network component generates and transmits the key to the gateway. The gateway then transmits the key to the client device application with a gateway short-range transceiver. The wireless client device receives the key from the gateway and then requests and receives a cryptographic material from the remote network component. The wireless client device communicates with the remote network component with the key, received from the gateway, and the cryptographic material, received from the network component.
US12244623B2
An anomaly detection device is provided with a learning unit that generates a detection model using a communication log during normal operation of a communication apparatus as learning data and an anomaly detection unit that detects anomaly of the communication apparatus using the generated detection model. The anomaly detection device is further provided with a data acquisition unit that acquires a communication log (second communication log) generated during a predetermined period later than a first communication log and a determination unit that instructs relearning using the second communication log when there is difference information between the learning data (first communication log) of the current detection model and the second communication log and when the number of pieces of additional information (information on the additional flow) or the number of pieces of deletion information (information on the delete flow) included in the difference information satisfies predetermined evaluation criteria.
US12244622B2
A method comprises transmitting a first client model to a first computing device and a second client model to a second computing device; determining (i) a first predictive score ratio for the first computing device, and (ii) a first predictive score ratio for the second computing device; determining the first computing device and the second computing device match; determining (i) a second predictive score ratio for the first computing device, and (ii) a second predictive score ratio for the second computing device; and detecting an anomaly in the first computing device responsive to (i) the determining the first computing device and the second computing device match, and (ii) determining the second predictive score ratio for the first computing device exceeds the second predictive score ratio for the second computing device by an amount above a difference threshold.
US12244620B2
A system for implementing anomaly detection accesses user activities associated with an avatar in a virtual environment. The system extracts features from the user activities, where the features provide information about interactions of the avatar with other avatars and entities in the virtual environment. The system determines a deviation range for each feature, where the deviation range indicates a deviation between the features among the avatars over a certain period. The system determines whether the deviation range for a feature is more than a threshold deviation. If it is determined that a deviation range of a feature is more than the threshold deviation, a confidence score associated with the user is updated based on the deviation range of the feature. If the confidence score is more than a threshold score, the user is not associated with an anomaly. Otherwise, the user is determined to be associated with an anomaly.
US12244619B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring a first activity undertaken by a communication device during a first communication session, generating, based on the monitoring, first data that indicates an amount of time that is spent on the first activity, comparing, based on the generating, the first data to a threshold, and identifying, based on at least the comparing, an action to take when the amount of time that is spent on the first activity exceeds the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12244617B2
The technology relates to machine responses to anomalies detected using machine learning based anomaly detection. In particular, to receiving evaluations of production events, prepared using activity models constructed on per-tenant and per-user basis using an online streaming machine learner that transforms an unsupervised learning problem into a supervised learning problem by fixing a target label and learning a regressor without a constant or intercept. Further, to responding to detected anomalies in near real-time streams of security-related events of tenants, the anomalies detected by transforming the events in categorized features and requiring a loss function analyzer to correlate, essentially through an origin, the categorized features with a target feature artificially labeled as a constant. An anomaly score received for a production event is determined based on calculated likelihood coefficients of categorized feature-value pairs and a prevalencist probability value of the production event comprising the coded features-value pairs.
US12244613B2
Systems and methods include receiving a copy of a template file of security rules where the template file includes a plurality of rule tags and one or more dependency tags that define relationships and dependencies between any rules associated with the plurality of rule tags; scanning the template file including, for each respective rule tag of the plurality of rule tags checking if an enabled flag is set for the respective rule tag, when the enable flag is set, looking up a respective rule in a rule database and replacing the respective rule tag with the respective rule, and when the enable flag is not set, removing the respective rule tag from the template file; and providing an output file including a plurality of rules having the relationships and dependencies, where the output file is used for security scanning.
US12244609B2
The present disclosure provides a method for determining the authenticity of an identity document that includes receiving, by an electronic device, an image of an identity document. The document image includes facial image data and personal data of a person associated with the identity document and an identity document number. Moreover, the method includes extracting the personal data and the document number from the identity document image. The extracted personal data includes at least a surname and the extracted identity document number includes groups of characters that represent personal data and information about an entity. Furthermore, the method includes decoding a first group of the characters using a soundex coding algorithm, identifying a surname that corresponds to the decoded first group of characters, comparing the identified surname against the surname in the extracted personal data, and determining the authenticity of the identity document using a result of the comparison.
US12244604B2
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for companion device authentication. A user of a first device may not have access to a service that can be provided by the first device. The service may be a streaming service, a cloud-based service, or the like. Companion device authentication can allow the user, or another user, to authorize access to the service at the first device, using a companion device to the first device. The first device and the companion device may exchange communications to nominate the companion device prior to notifying a user of the companion device of a companion device authentication request for the first device.
US12244598B2
Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a framework that enables user to delegate other users as operators of their securely held account credentials via services backed by OAuth protocols. The disclosed framework provides functionality for users to be delegated access to other users' account credentials, information and resources for the performance of specific electronic transactions. The framework operates by connecting two OAuth registered users so that one user can perform an electronic transaction using another user's securely held credentials upon approval by the other user. This ensures that each electronic transaction is securely held and performed, and operated under the control of the delegator despite performance of the transaction by the delegatee involving the delegator's account information.
US12244590B2
A method for authorizing access to one or more secured computer resources includes obfuscating a reference biometric vector into an obfuscated reference biometric vector using a similarity-preserving obfuscation. An authentication biometric vector is obfuscated into an obfuscated authentication biometric vector using the similarity-preserving obfuscation. A similarity of the obfuscated authentication biometric vector and the obfuscated reference biometric vector is tested. Based on the similarity being within an authentication threshold, access to the one or more secured computer resources is authorized.
US12244589B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling, providing, and managing digital identities in association with mobile devices. One example method includes determining, by a mobile device, that identity data of a user is changed, and prompting the user to identify a third party separate from the mobile device to authenticate the user. The method also includes requesting the third party to authenticate the user, and causing an authentication interface of the third party to be displayed at the mobile device where the authentication interface solicits login credentials for an account of the user at the third party. The method then includes granting, by the mobile device, access to one or more aspects of a mobile application installed at the mobile device, in response to an indication of a successful authentication of the user from the third party.
US12244586B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for facilitating secure and private communications, via a website or application of a third-party computing system (TPCS), between a user device and a service provider computing system (SPCS). The communications may be conducted via a frame in a website served by the TPCS. The TPCS may serve a website that incorporates a customizable SDK component provided by the SPCS. The communications allow the user to, for example, open a new account. The SDK component may be initialized via a script from the SPCS, and authenticated via a session token obtained from the SPCS via the TPCS. The SDK component may provide user information, input into the frame, to the SPCS via API calls to the SPCS. The user does not navigate away from the website while securely engaging the SPCS. The third-party/partner need not develop its own user interface, security protocols, etc.
US12244584B1
A system and method for performing tasks by providing decentralized communication between entities are disclosed. The system is a computer-implemented system comprised of a plurality of subsystems. The plurality of subsystems comprises an identity managing subsystem, an entity detection subsystem, a first data-exchange subsystem, an entity selection subsystem, and a second data-exchange subsystem. The system is configured to manage one or more unique digital identities for each entity of the at least two entities associated with the computer-implemented system based on registration and authentication of each entity on a decentralized network. The system is configured to enable a first entity associated with the at least two entities to detect one or more second entities for exchanging generic communication data and domain-specific communication data for performing the one or more tasks by providing the decentralized communication between the at least two entities.
US12244583B1
Systems and methods for providing access rights may include a first computing system that receives a request to link an enterprise account of the first computing system to a second computing system. The first computing system may authenticate a user, receive a selection of one or more access rights, and one or more accounts of the enterprise account, via an application interface of the second computing system, and generate an access token for transmission to a computing device of the user, where the access token identifies the one or more access rights and the one or more accounts. The first computing system may transmit the access token to the computing device, to provide the computing device access to the one or more accounts according to the one or more access rights, of the first computing system, via the second computing system.
US12244582B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide various methods relating to enclaves. For instance, a method of authentication for an enclave entity with a second entity may include receiving, by one or more processors of a host computing device of the enclave entity, a request and an assertion of identity for the second entity, the assertion including identity information for the second identity; using an assertion verifier of the enclave entity to determine whether the assertion is valid; when the assertion is valid, extracting the identity information; authenticating the second entity using an access control list for the enclave entity to determine whether the identity information meets expectations of the access control list; when the identity information meets the expectations of the access control list, completing the request.
US12244563B2
A system for web traffic control is provided that is based on information related to a user's previous online activity. In one embodiment, the system is able to collect information about incoming traffic, compare the information to a generated ruleset, and make and implement a decision about how to handle each request/user interaction. In one embodiment, the ruleset is based on e-commerce rules. An e-commerce rule is a unit of decision making logic based on the user's previous online activity on the e-commerce platform, e.g. “If request is to add an item to user's cart, and if user already added something to their cart less than one second ago, then block request”. In some embodiments, the rules may be executed at the firewall and/or in a web application on the e-commerce platform. In some embodiments, one or more rules may be recommended to a merchant.
US12244562B2
Techniques for an email-security system to screen emails, extract information from the emails, analyze the information, assign probability scores to the emails, and classify the emails as likely fraudulent or not. The system may analyze emails for users and identify fraudulent emails by analyzing the contents of the emails. The system may evaluate the contents of the emails to determine probability score(s) which may further determine an overall probability score. The system may then classify the email as fraudulent, or not, and may perform actions including blocking the email, allowing the email, flagging the email, etc. In some instances, the screened emails may include legitimate brand domain addresses, names, images, URL(s), and the like. However, the screened emails may contain a reply-to domain address that matches a free email service provider domain. In such instances, the email-security system may assign a probability score indicative that the screened email is fraudulent.
US12244560B2
This disclosure describes techniques to operate a control plane in a network fabric. The techniques include determining a stateless rule corresponding to communication between a first segment of the network fabric and a second segment of the network fabric. The techniques further include configuring the control plane to enforce the stateless rule.
US12244554B2
Systems and method for determining a topic cohesion measurement between a content item and a hyperlinked landing page are presented. In one embodiment, a plurality of content item signals is generated for the content item and a corresponding plurality of signals are generated for the hyperlinked landing page. An analysis of the corresponding signals is conducted to determine a measurement of topic cohesion, a topic cohesion score, between the content item and the hyperlinked landing page. A cohesion predictor model is trained to generate the predictive topic cohesion score between an input content item and a hyperlinked landing page. Upon a determination that the topic cohesion score is less than a predetermined threshold, remedial actions are taken regarding the hyperlink of the content item. Alternatively, positive actions may be carried out, including promoting the content item to others, associating advertisements with the content item, and the like.
US12244534B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure provide channel state information (CSI) processing criteria. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving, from a base station via a first bandwidth part (BWP), control signaling that triggers reporting at least one of a first channel state information (CSI) report associated with the first BWP or a second CSI report associated with a second BWP that is non-active, determining, based on an indication of an active downlink (DL) BWP change, at least one occupation time of one or more CSI processing units (CPUs) associated with the first CSI report or the second CSI report, and taking one or more actions based at least in part on the at least one occupation time.
US12244531B2
Orthogonal DMRS ports with resource block reuse in a single cell is provided. ABS comprises: a BBE and RUs. The BS transmits user data to each of a plurality of UEs on a PDSCH using a PRB allocation for the cell. The PRB and cell are the same for all UEs. The PRB comprises DMRS symbols. The BS transmits user data to each UE on the PDSCH using a respective non-intersecting subset of the RUs. No RU transmits user data on the PDSCH using the PRB to more than one UE. The BBE: determines non-intersecting sets of DMRS ports; assigns one set to each UE; and causes the BS to transmit UE-specific DMRS to UE on the DMRS ports in the set assigned to that UE using only a respective non-intersecting subset of RUs used for transmitting user data to that UE on the PDSCH using the PRB.
US12244528B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a request, for an uplink transmission or a downlink transmission, for amplitude modulated phase tracking reference signals; and communicate the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12244520B2
Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the rack. In one method, a client device of a user is used to select various network service options. The service options correspond to services that can be provided to computing equipment of the user that is mounted in various racks of the data center. In response to receiving the selection of one or more service options, the network fabric of the data center is configured to connect the computing equipment to the selected services. In one approach, the network fabric is configured by creating and/or configuring one or more virtual networks to provide the connection to the services.
US12244517B1
A system and method for managing resources for computation in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The system includes wireless devices, Fog servers, and a centralized Fog node controller, each connected by a wireless communication network. Communication over the communication network uses millimeter wave or submillimeter wave signals. The wireless devices generate application-related IoT tasks. The Fog servers provide computation resources to the IoT tasks, where each of the IoT tasks are of various sizes, in bytes, and have compute resource requirements. The Fog node controller manages computation of the IoT tasks, for each Fog server, subject to a predetermined number of Fog server computation cycles that are performed in parallel.
US12244514B2
Intelligent distribution of packet flows may be provided. Compute resource data may be received. Next, packets may be classified into flows that may be persistently mapped to compute resources for a lifetime of the flows. Based on the compute resource data, the flows may then be allocated to the compute resources.
US12244510B2
A system and method are provided in which a first MTU (maximum transmission unit) size is determined messages traveling in a first direction along a path. A second MTU size is determined for messages traveling in a second direction along the same path. Messages are sent in the first and second directions based on the first and second MTU size, respectively. In some embodiments, different sizes are chosen for the DL MTU and the UL MTU. In some embodiments, triggers are used to proactively change the MTU size with network conditions. In some embodiments, packet segmentation may be performed at the eNB/gNB. In some embodiments, mobility support is provided with packet segmentation. In some embodiments, dedicated bearers are pre-established that support specific MTU sizes. In some embodiments, the SDAP (service data adaptation protocol) may announce the MTU size to use for a given flow on the UL.
US12244508B2
The invention relates to a method implemented in a packet-switched network for scheduling transmission of Ethernet frames, where a time of a next transmission of a future time-critical traffic frame (Express frame), among several time-critical traffic frames to transmit, is determined on the basis of respective priority levels of the time-critical traffic frames. The determination of this next transmission time allows a fair timing of transmission of such time-critical traffic frames which might belong to different streams. It makes possible also to transmit, before the aforesaid next transmission time, preemptable frames of non-time-critical traffic.
US12244506B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing congestion control for a particular packet flow associated with a source first host computer operating in a network. The method is performed at the first source host computer. The method determines a bandwidth threshold specified for the particular packet flow. Based on the bandwidth threshold, the method allocates an amount of bandwidth to the particular packet flow. The method periodically receives sets of contextual data associated with the particular packet flow. For the received sets of contextual data, the method iteratively (1) computes a current bandwidth consumption by the particular packet flow and (2) based on the sets of contextual data and the current bandwidth consumption, adjusts the amount of bandwidth allocated to the particular packet flow.
US12244501B2
A communication system includes a vehicle including a control device configured to store a control program, a terminal configured to give a notification about predetermined information, and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle and the terminal. The server is configured to transmit update data for the control program. The processor is configured to reduce a data amount of information to be transmitted to the terminal about a transmission status of the update data when the server transmits the update data to the vehicle via the terminal, as compared to a data amount of information to be transmitted to the terminal about the transmission status when the server transmits the update data to the vehicle without intermediation of the terminal.
US12244492B2
According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a network node comprising a CU. The method comprises receiving assistance information for mobility robustness optimization and forwarding the assistance information, configuration changes related to mobility robustness optimization, or both to a DU or to a second CU. According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a network node comprising a DU. The method comprises receiving assistance information for mobility robustness optimization. The assistance information indicates that a failure may have originated in a cell of the DU. The method further comprises performing one or more parameter changes in one or more functions handled by the DU.
US12244485B1
A method includes monitoring, at a computing device, outputs of a sensor validator. Each output is generated by the sensor validator based on corresponding sensor data from a sensor coupled to an autonomous vehicle, and each output indicates whether the corresponding sensor data is associated with an event. The method also includes mutating, at the computing device, particular sensor data to generate mutated sensor data that is associated with a particular event. The method further includes determining, at the computing device, a performance metric associated with the sensor validator based on a particular output generated by the sensor validator. The particular output is based on the mutated sensor data.
US12244484B2
A message batching configuration may be determined for transmitting a message to recipients. The message batching configuration may include two or more message batches, a respective recipient count for each message batch, a respective time delay between each message batch, and a performance metric for evaluating the message. The message is transmitted in accordance with the message batching configuration. The transmission of subsequent message batches is halted when it is determined that the designated performance metric fails to meet a designated performance metric threshold.
US12244482B1
A networking device can include a packet processing pipeline circuit and a processor. The packet processing pipeline circuit can be configured to implement a data plane and the processor can be configured to implement a control plane. The packet processing pipeline circuit and the processor can also be configured to send a plurality of heartbeat packets on multiple paths to a second networking device. The data plane can produce and send the heartbeat packets to the second networking device within a heartbeat period. The data plane may send a second plurality of heartbeat packets on multiple paths to the second networking device with a second heartbeat period. The heartbeat packets can have unique packet five tuples that include an IP address of the second networking device.
US12244472B2
The embodiments herein provide a method for reducing KPI data. The disclosed technique is used to reduce insignificant KPI data generated by network entities (NEs) such as Radio Access Network (RAN) or element management system (EMS)/network management system (NMS). Further, the method includes determining a threshold value for each KPI data to determine significance of the KPI data and uses the threshold value to reduce the KPI data in a file. Further, the method includes utilizing a network bandwidth (e.g., control plane traffic load) and a storage space in the EMS/operations support system (OSS) efficiently and helps operators of the EMS/OSS to identify a network KPI deterioration in near real time.
US12244467B2
To be able to adequately provide desired services over a 5G mobile service network, the 5G communication infrastructures requires a much-improved flexibility in resource management. Network operators are foreseen to deploy network slicing, by isolating dedicated resources and providing customised logical instances of the physical infrastructure to each service. A critical operation in performing management and orchestration of network resources is the anticipatory provisioning of isolated capacity to each network slice. Accordingly, it is necessary to obtain an estimate of service level demands. However, the estimation of such service level demands is typically obtained via deep packet inspection, which is a resource intensive and time-consuming process. Therefore, it is typically not possible to provide updated accurate estimates at a frequency suitable for use in accurate prediction of a future per-service traffic consumption, without an undesirable level of computational and time resources being required. The present invention provides a distributed network traffic data decomposition method which makes use of a neural network to provide an accurate future per-service traffic consumption prediction without deep-packet inspection or another resource intensive analysis method.
US12244459B1
Some embodiments automatically and proactively adjust network device configuration settings during network operation, based on correlations between device performance and device configuration. Correlations are computed using statistics routines or computed by a machine learning module. Some embodiments share adjusted configuration values via a cache, and some persist adjusted values through an application restart. In some embodiments, the cache is hierarchical and different kinds of reconfiguration data are shared at different levels. In some embodiments, the configuration value is shared only between application instances that have sufficiently similar contexts. Some embodiments detect a correlation loss and fall back to a known good configuration setting or a default configuration setting. Some embodiments optimize network internode communications by making dynamic adjustments which are not available from static configuration settings or from static configuration rules.
US12244451B2
A system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions thereon; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive alarm data related to equipment in a telecommunication network. The processor is configured to receive a correlation rule and a mass outage rule, wherein each mass outage rule is associated with a correlation rule. The processor is configured to perform a first aggregation using the alarm data based on domain, vendor, equipment type, classification, or geographic information; and associate the aggregated alarm data with a corresponding correlation rule. The processor is configured to determine a number of pieces of equipment that are associated with each correlation rule; determine whether the determined number is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and generate an incident report in response to the number of pieces of equipment being equal to or greater than the at least one threshold value.
US12244450B1
Embodiments relate to a method for enhancing and prioritizing operation technology (OT) control systems in a safety instrumented system (SIS) environment by incorporating safety levels. The method includes receiving network packets associated with OT systems by network interface. From network packets, OT systems associated with safety integrity level (SIL) values are identified. In response to identifying OT control systems associated with SIL values, determining priority levels from SIL values of OT systems. The method includes identifying, among OT control systems, network packets associated with a critical OT system associated with a SIL value having a higher priority level. The critical OT system may be prioritized that comprises encoding the network packets of the critical OT system, with corresponding SIL value. The prioritized critical OT system may be prioritized based on SIL value and classified into a network group associated with a network tag to deliver traffic with higher priority.
US12244438B2
In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a front end circuit to receive and process incoming radio frequency (RF) signals into orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) samples; a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine to receive and convert the OFDM samples into frequency domain sub-carriers; a demodulator to demodulate the frequency domain sub-carriers; a channel estimator to: compute a first pilot channel estimate for a first channel condition comprising a flat channel condition and a second pilot channel estimate for a second channel condition comprising a selective channel condition based on a first set of pilot sub-carriers of the frequency domain sub-carriers; and select one of the first and second pilot channel estimates using the first and second pilot channel estimate; and a control circuit to configure at least the demodulator based at least in part on the selected first or second pilot channel estimate.
US12244425B2
Provided is a method by which a first apparatus performs wireless communication and an apparatus for supporting the method. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information related to a sidelink (SL) bandwidth part (BWP); receiving, from the base station, information related to an uplink (UL) BWP; receiving, from the base station, information related to an SL resource and information related to a UL resource for reporting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback; transmitting, on the basis of the SL resource within the SL BWP, data in which the HARQ feedback has been disabled to a second apparatus through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); generating an ACK related to the transmission of the data in which the HARQ feedback has been disabled; and transmitting, to the base station, the ACK on the basis of the UL resource within the UL BWP.
US12244422B2
The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and method capable of improving reliability of notification regarding a reception result in communication using a plurality of bands. The wireless communication device controls to transmit, by using any band of two or more bands, an MBO BA Setup signal containing setting information regarding a setting of a notification method for a reception result used for communication in the two or more bands, and to transmit a Data signal containing data by using the two or more bands. The present technology can be applied to wireless communication systems.
US12244418B2
A method performed by a STA may comprise receiving data of a MU-HE-PPDU, from an AP. The MU-HE-PPDU may comprise a HE-SIG-A field, a first HE-SIG-B portion and a second HE-SIG-B portion. The first HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a first channel and the second HE-SIG-B portion may be received on a second channel which is different than the first channel. The first HE-SIG-B portion may include one or more STA identifiers.
US12244417B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for a link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one aspect, the link adaptation protocol may be used to select a transmission rate option (such as a modulation and coding scheme (MCS)) for communications from a first WLAN device to a second WLAN device based on wireless channel conditions. This disclosure includes several example message sequences for the link adaptation protocol which can accommodate a variety of uplink or downlink data transmission designs, including single user (SU) and multi-user (MU) transmissions. The example message sequences may be used with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), and beamformed transmissions.
US12244405B2
A reception device includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first electronic component includes a first signal processor and a first control circuit controlling the first signal processor. The second electronic component includes a second signal processor and a second control circuit controlling the second signal processor. The first control circuit controls the first signal processor such that transmission of a reception signal from a first transmitter of the first signal processor to the second electronic component and transmission of an analog sound signal from a second transmitter of the first signal processor to the second electronic component are simultaneously started.
US12244403B2
A method for performing a handover operation includes using one or more processors of a non-terrestrial node to initiate communication with a first terrestrial node of a network, the terrestrial node having a first unique node identifier and a cell identifier and store a mapping that associates the first unique node identifier with the cell identifier. The method also includes using the one or more processors to receive an indicator that the mapping is subject to change and update the mapping to associate a second unique node identifier of a second terrestrial node of the network with the cell identifier based on the received indicator.
US12244395B2
Methods and systems are described for providing satellite beam handover based on predicted network conditions. In embodiments, a satellite communications system retrieves flight plan data for a plurality of aircraft being provided a network access service, identifies, for each aircraft respective candidate satellite beams of the plurality of satellite beams for providing the network access service, each candidate satellite beam having an associated service timeframe for providing the network access service, obtains, for each of the respective candidate satellite beams, a beam utilization score indicative of predicted beam utilization by the plurality of aircraft over the associated service timeframe, selects satellite beams for providing the network access service of each aircraft of the plurality of aircraft based at least in part on the beam utilization scores, and schedules handover of the network access service for the plurality of aircraft to the selected satellite beams.
US12244392B2
A hub for supporting a voice relay between wearable terminals in a vehicle includes a reception processing device that receives a voice signal from at least one transmission terminal among two or more wearable terminals in the vehicle, a transmission processing device that transmits the voice signal to at least one reception terminal among the wearable terminals, and a controller that establishes a communication channel with each of the wearable terminals, selects a target terminal based on a voice signal obtained from a conversation attempt terminal attempting to transmit voice, and controls the reception processing device and the transmission processing device to relay bidirectional voice information transfer between the conversation attempt terminal and the target terminal.
US12244391B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may receive, from a network node, a transmission configuration indication (TCI) for a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) beams, wherein the TCI indicates a quasi co-location (QCL) type for a spatial transmit (Tx) parameter for the plurality of SSB beams, and the QCL type for the spatial Tx parameter indicates that the plurality of SSB beams are Tx spatially correlated. The repeater may receive, from the network node, the plurality of SSB beams in accordance with the TCI, wherein the plurality of SSBs are associated with a direction of the repeater. The repeater may relay, to a user equipment (UE), the plurality of SSB beams. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12244377B2
In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for port reduction, comprising: calculating, at a distributed unit (DU), beamforming weights based on received DMRS channel estimates; sending the calculated beamforming weights to a radio unit (RU); applying, at the RU, port reduction to DMRS symbols based on the calculated beamforming weights; compressing IQ data and received DMRS symbol data to compensate for an underlying bandwidth increase, thereby enabling beamforming at the RU. PUSCH data may be compressed. Beamforming weight calculations may be performed in the O-DU. Beamforming weight calculations may be provided to the L2 scheduler. BFP format compression may be performed. Channel information may be compressed for non-signal data. DMRS compression may be performed at the CU. The DMRS pattern may be received from the control plane. An equalizer weight calculation may be performed to merge a plurality of CSI estimates from different RUs for a given user to calculate joint equalization. The method may further comprise applying, at the RU, port reduction to both PUSCH and DMRS symbols. Beamforming may be performed for uplink, for downlink, or both.
US12244375B2
A beamforming-based communication method includes: obtaining cell information; when the cell information meets a preset low-load condition, dividing to-be-processed broadcast messages into a plurality of broadcast message groups; determining, based on a preset correspondence between a broadcast message and a broadcast beam, a broadcast beam group corresponding to each broadcast message group and a broadcast beam for sending no broadcast message in each time window; sending the broadcast message group in each time window by using the broadcast beam group; and shutting down, in each time window, the broadcast beam for sending no broadcast message. Some broadcast beams are used in each time window to send the broadcast message, and the broadcast beam for sending no broadcast message is shut down.
US12244372B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for port selection codebook configuration. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of parameter settings of a port selection codebook. The port selection codebook includes a port selection matrix W1, a combinational coefficient matrix W2, and a frequency basis selection matrix Wf. Based at least in part on the parameter settings, the UE selects L CSI-RS ports, Mv frequency basis from a window of N consecutive frequency basis; and up to beta*L*Mv entries per layer, where beta is a percentage of the L*Mv entries per layer. The UE reports one or more of the port selection matrix W1, the up to beta*L*Mv entries in the combinational coefficient matrix W2 per layer, and the frequency basis selection matrix Wf to the base station.
US12244368B2
A reflection direction control method includes an arrival direction estimation step of estimating an arrival direction of radio waves transmitted by a wireless terminal to one or more reflection units each including a plurality of reflection elements capable of dynamically changing phase characteristics when the radio wave is reflected, a phase control step of controlling a phase of a radio wave reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements so that the reflection unit reflects, in a predetermined direction, the radio wave transmitted from the estimated arrival direction, and a switching step of switching between an antenna mode in which the reflection unit is caused to receive the radio wave of which the arrival direction is estimated and a reflection mode in which the reflection unit is caused to reflect the radio wave.
US12244360B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment, including in one example: receiving a relay characteristic report, wherein the relay characteristic report indicates an intrinsic channel delay of a relay device; determining a channel delay spread of the channel; and transmitting an indication to affect relay device operation based at least in part on the channel delay spread and the intrinsic channel delay of the relay device.
US12244354B2
Systems and methods for performing signed matrix operations using a linear photonic processor are provided. The linear photonic processor is formed as an array of first amplitude modulators and second amplitude modulators, the first amplitude modulators configured to encode elements of a vector into first optical signals and the second amplitude modulators configured to encode a product between the vector elements and matrix elements into second optical signals. An apparatus may be used to implement a signed value of an output of the linear processor. The linear photonic processor may be configured to perform matrix-vector and/or matrix-matrix operations.
US12244345B2
A communication device includes an interleaving unit that determines an interleaving length of transmit data to be transmitted through free-space optical communication, and interleaves the transmit data based on the determined interleaving length, and a shaping unit that shapes the interleaved transmit data so as to make the interleaving length detectable on a receiving side of the free-space optical communication.
US12244344B2
In a multi-cell wireless communication system (100) with at least one optical access point (120) and at least one radio frequency access point (120), more flexibility is provided to an end device (110) in selecting an access point (120) for establishing a data link. Because of the line-of-sight characteristic of an optical link and the limited field of view of an optical receiver, optical cells are typically deployed with a relatively high density and adjacent optical cells may have an overlapping area. This invention discloses a method of an end device (110) for selecting a favorable access point (120) with reduced overhead, even when the end device is located in the overlapping area of two adjacent optical cells.
US12244340B2
This application provides an optical power commissioning method, a commissioning system, a control device, and a commissioning station. The commissioning system includes a control device and one or more commissioning stations. The method includes the control device first identifies one or more to-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needs to be performed, the control device sends, based on the to-be-commissioned service, commissioning information to the one or more commissioning stations on which the to-be-commissioned service passes through, where the one or more commissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioning based on the commissioning information, and the one or more commissioning stations perform optical power commissioning based on the commissioning information. According to this application, a plurality of services and a plurality of commissioning stations can be commissioned concurrently.
US12244334B2
Reliable communications is a central goal of 5G and 6G. However, due to signal fading at high frequencies and interference due to crowding, message faults continue to be a problem. Disclosed are methods for base station and user devices to adjust the modulation scheme according to the types of faults received, including amplitude faults (incorrectly demodulated amplitude levels) and phase faults (incorrectly demodulated phase levels), among others. The base station can select a more suitable modulation scheme based on the types of faults observed by user devices, such as modulation schemes with more or fewer amplitude levels and phase levels. In some versions, the number of amplitude levels is different from the number of phase levels, to combat specific fault problems.
US12244333B2
Methods and systems for correcting distortions of audio transmissions are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving an audio transmission that includes symbols. A first portion of the audio transmission including a first subset of the symbols may be identified and compared to an expected sequence having expected symbols. One or more differences may be determined between the first subset of the symbols and the expected symbols and a movement speed between a transmitter and a receiver of the audio transmission may be determined based on the differences. A second portion of the audio transmission may be identified including a second subset of the symbols in the second subset of the symbols may be corrected based on the movement speed between the transmitter and the receiver.
US12244327B2
In embodiments, an electronic device may include a housing having an inner space, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the inner space of the housing, a first antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the PCB, and transmitting and/or receiving a radio signal in a first frequency band, at least one second antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the PCB, and transmitting and/or receiving a radio signal in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, and a flexible substrate electrically connecting the PCB and the first antenna structure. The flexible substrate may include a first connecting portion electrically connected to the PCB, an interconnecting portion extended from the first connecting portion to the first antenna structure, at least one branch portion branched from at least a part of the interconnecting portion, and extended to the at least one second antenna structure, at least one first conductive path disposed in the interconnecting portion, and electrically connecting the first connecting portion and the first antenna structure, and at least one second conductive path disposed in the interconnecting portion and the at least one branch portion, and electrically connecting the first connecting portion and the at least one second antenna structure.
US12244325B2
Provided are an information processing device, an encoding method, and a decoding method that implement low latency communication. An information processing device of the present disclosure includes a first processing unit that performs processing of a first protocol layer including processing of generating first coded data by encoding first data with an erasure correction code that is a first code, and provides the first coded data to a second protocol layer lower than the first protocol layer.
US12244320B2
An atomic oscillator according to the present invention includes: a light generator configured to generate two excitation lights; an alkali metal atom gas cell to which the two excitation lights are applied with a frequency difference therebetween being changed; a detecting unit configured to detect a light amount of a transmitted light having passed through the alkali metal atom gas cell; and a control unit configured to measure a resonance frequency of an alkali metal atom gas based on the detected amount of the transmitted light and control an intensity ratio of the two excitation lights applied to the alkali metal atom gas cell based on the measured resonance frequency.
US12244316B2
An apparatus according to some embodiments comprises: a first clock path including a first duty-cycle adjuster that adjusts a duty cycle of a first input clock signal, a second clock path including a second duty-cycle adjuster that adjusts a duty cycle of a second input clock signal having a different phase from the first input clock signal; and a control circuit configured to detect longest one or shortest one of first, second, third, and fourth time periods to generate a control signal. The first, second, third and fourth time periods are defined by phase differences between rising edges and falling edges of the first and second input clock signals.
US12244314B2
An apparatus includes a first transistor including a first gate, a first drain and a first source. A second transistor includes a second gate and a second source, the second gate is coupled to a first current source configured to generate a linear current ramp, the second source is coupled to the first gate and a second current source configured to generate a constant current through the second transistor determined by a sampled voltage between the first gate and the first source. A third transistor includes a third gate and a third source, the third gate is coupled to the first drain, and the third source is coupled to an inductive load, wherein the third transistor is configured to source a load current to the inductive load in response to an integration of the linear current ramp. A first capacitor is coupled between the third source and the second gate.
US12244311B2
In some aspects of the present disclosure, a circuit in a first power domain is disclosed. In some aspects, the circuit in a first power domain includes a first enable-controlled logic gate coupled to a second circuit in a second power domain different from the first power domain. In some aspects, the circuit in a first power domain includes a feedback loop coupled to the first enable-controlled logic gate, the feedback loop including a first inverter and a second enable-controlled logic gate coupled to the first inverter. In some aspects, the circuit in a first power domain includes a second inverter coupled to the feedback loop.
US12244295B2
An acoustic resonator device, filter devices, and methods of making the same. An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, where the back surface is attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. The device further includes an interdigital transducer formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, where interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on the diaphragm are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a primary shear acoustic mode in the diaphragm. The interleaved fingers include a first layer adjacent the diaphragm and a second layer over the first layer, the second layer having a narrower width than the first layer.
US12244282B2
An impedance calibration circuit includes a variable impedance circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. The variable impedance circuit includes conduction paths connected in parallel between an output terminal and a supply terminal coupled to a first supply voltage. The variable impedance circuit is configured to adjust an impedance at the output terminal by enabling one or more of the conduction paths according to a calibration code. The detection circuit is configured to detect a change in impedance of the conduction paths by applying a second supply voltage to a reference terminal through a detection path, and accordingly generate an input voltage at the reference terminal. An electric potential of the second supply voltage is equal to an electric potential of the first supply voltage. The control circuit is configured to compare the input voltage with reference voltages to generate the calibration code.
US12244280B2
According to one embodiment, a signal processing circuit includes a first voltage setting circuit that sets a reference voltage on an input side of an isolator, a variable gain amplifier circuit that amplifies an output signal of the isolator, a DC offset adjustment circuit that adjusts an offset of the variable gain amplifier circuit, a second voltage setting circuit that sets a reference voltage on an output side of the isolator, and a control circuit that controls the DC offset adjustment circuit in response to a result of comparison of an output voltage of the variable gain amplifier circuit with an output voltage of the second voltage setting circuit.
US12244278B2
A capacitive amplifier device and technique for mitigating the perturbation within the switchable terminals of a feedback capacitor which is produced by the switching activity performed as part of the device's operation. The capacitive amplifier contains feedback components which can be switched without producing significant kickback or poorly behaved transitions due to the inclusion of at least one dedicated circuit. The dedicated circuit is a kickback limiter circuitry which is connected to a switchable node and is designed to reduce the kickback. The technique for reducing the kickback produced can be achieved by connecting and activating the kickback limiter circuitry.
US12244277B2
Methods and apparatus for a signal isolator that mitigates the effects of CMTI strikes. In embodiments, a first die comprises a transmit module and the first die has a first voltage domain; and a second die comprises a receive module including a receive amplifier configured to receive from the transmit module a transmit signal that includes a differential signal and a common mode current. The second die may have a second voltage domain with the first and second die being separated by an isolation barrier. In embodiment, the receive amplifier includes a differential amplifier to receive the differential input signal from the transmit module; and a common mode module configured to sense the common mode current and sink or source the common mode current and minimize changes to an input impedance of the receive amplifier.
US12244275B2
A power amplifier circuit supporting phase correction in a radio frequency (RF) signal is disclosed. The power amplifier circuit includes a power amplifier configured to amplify an RF signal based on a modulated voltage. The power amplifier circuit also includes a phase correction circuit configured to generate a phase correction signal based on the modulated voltage to thereby cause a phase change in the RF signal before the RF signal is amplified by the power amplifier. As a result, the modulated voltage and the time-variant power envelope can be better aligned in time and/or phase at the power amplifier circuit to thereby improve efficiency and linearity of the power amplifier circuit.
US12244269B2
A power amplifier has an amplifying transistor, a first resistor, a bias circuit, a second resistor, and a compensation circuit. The amplifying transistor amplifies a radio frequency (RF) signal to output an amplified RF signal. A control end of the amplifying transistor receives the RF signal. The first resistor provides a first resistance, and a second end of the first resistor is coupled to the control end of the amplifying transistor. The bias circuit has a bias transistor and is coupled to a first end of the first resistor. The second resistor provides a second resistance less than the first resistance, and a second end of the second resistor is coupled to the control end of the amplifying transistor. The compensation circuit has a compensation transistor, and an output end of the compensation circuit is coupled to a first end of the second resistor.
US12244266B2
Various embodiments of a system and associated method for detecting and classifying faults in a photovoltaic array using graph-based signal processing.
US12244264B2
An inverter includes an input terminal that receives output power of a first power type from a solar panel array and an output terminal that transmits output power of a second power type. The inverter further includes a processor that receives a control algorithm via a network connection and controls the inverter based upon the received control algorithm. The control algorithm is determined by applying a transformation to a state vector representative of the inverter and the solar panel array to relocate eigenvalues of the state vector from an initial control region to a stable control region, and determining the control algorithm based upon the relocated eigenvalues.
US12244257B2
A motor control method according to an embodiment of a present invention comprises the steps of: performing three-phase commutation in a first range section of a motor rotational speed in a brake mode of a motor; performing two-phase commutation in a second range section of the motor rotational speed performing one-phase commutation in a first range section of the motor rotational speed; and turning off commutation when the motor rotational speed is less than or equal to the first range section.
US12244254B2
A power conversion device includes a converter circuit, an inverter circuit including a switching element, a first capacitor, a buffer circuit, and a current supply circuit. The converter circuit converts a first alternating current into a direct current, and outputs the direct current to a pair of wires. The inverter circuit converts the direct current into a second alternating current by a switching operation of the switching element, and supplies the second alternating current to drive coils of a motor so that a drive shaft is rotationally driven. The first capacitor and the buffer circuit are connected between the pair of wires. The buffer circuit includes a second capacitor and a regulator connected in series. The current supply circuit supplies a current to support coils using energy stored in the second capacitor so that a load of the drive shaft is supported in a non contact manner.
US12244253B2
A method for minimizing undesired movement of a moving mass of an electromagnetic load may include detecting undesired movement of the moving mass based on real-time measurements of one or more parameters associated with the electromagnetic load and, responsive to detecting undesired movement of the moving mass, affecting a signal applied to the moving mass to reduce the undesired movement.
US12244252B2
A motor driver circuit includes: a current detection circuit configured to generate a current detection signal according to a drive current of a motor as an object to be driven; a first amplifier configured to amplify the current detection signal; a second amplifier configured to multiply a voltage across the motor by a gain smaller than 1 and output the multiplied voltage; and a third amplifier configured to generate a back electromotive force detection signal according to a difference between an output of the first amplifier and an output of the second amplifier.
US12244248B2
A setting unit sets a duty ratio of a PWM signal based on a target voltage value, and outputs the duty ratio to a voltage conversion circuit. An estimated value calculation unit cyclically calculates an estimated duty ratio value based on the detected input voltage value and the detected output voltage value. An abnormality detection unit cyclically calculates, as a difference value, a difference between an updated estimated value and a comparison reference value, and detects abnormality of a voltage detection unit based on a change in calculated difference value. The updated estimated value is a newly calculated estimated duty ratio value. The comparison reference value is a value based on the estimated duty ratio value calculated in a cycle prior to a cycle in which the updated estimated value is calculated.
US12244242B2
An apparatus for conversion between AC and DC voltages includes a rectifier and first and second stages coupled to each other and having a regulator and a switched-capacitor circuit respectively. The first stage receives a first voltage from the rectifier and the second stage provides a second voltage. A controller controls the first and second stages.
US12244241B2
An electrical wiring device for delivering power to multiple mobile devices including: a housing having a faceplate; a first power delivery port accessible through the faceplate; a second power delivery accessible through the faceplate; an AC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive an AC signal from a connection to a source of AC mains power and to output a DC signal; a first DC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive the DC signal and provide a first DC output signal having a first power to a first power delivery port; a second DC/DC converter disposed in the housing and configured to receive the DC signal and provide a second DC output signal having a second power to a second power delivery port; wherein the first DC output signal is different from the second DC output signal.
US12244240B2
A controller for a power converter, a corresponding power converter and a corresponding method are provided. The controller for a power converter includes a rectifier configured to receive an alternating current input signal and output rectified half waves, an output capacitor and a current control device is coupled between the rectifier and the output capacitor. After reaching a first maximum voltage, power flowing is gradually reduced, and later the current provided to the output capacitor is gradually ramped up.
US12244238B2
A power conversion system in which a converter and an inverter are coupled to each other via a DC coupling unit that has an inductance component is provided. A switching frequency of each of the converter and the inverter is set to be the same and the switching frequency is set to be higher than a resonance frequency of a resonance circuit that includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and the DC coupling unit such as a cable. A switching operation of at least one of the converter or the inverter is controlled such that phases of predetermined components of voltage ripples, at the first capacitor and the second capacitor, that are respectively generated by switching operations of the converter and the inverter are substantially matched.
US12244227B2
A power converter including an inductor, a first power switch, a second power switch, a third power switch, a fourth power switch, a sixth power switch, a first flying capacitor, a third flying capacitor, a seventh power switch, an eighth power switch, a ninth power switch, a tenth power switch, a twelfth power switch, a second flying capacitor, and a fourth flying capacitor.
US12244224B2
An apparatus for controlling a power converter operable to receive a cyclically varying input signal includes a discrete-time, on-time generator coupled to the power converter and configured to regulate an output voltage of the power converter and a controller configured to compare the output voltage of the power converter against a first predetermined range to: obtain a comparison result at a zero-crossing of the cyclically varying input signal and select one of a plurality of operation levels of the discrete-time, on-time generator in response to the comparison result. The plurality of operation levels includes a linear, discrete-time operation level and a nonlinear, discrete-time operation level.
US12244218B2
The disclosure relates to a power grid, comprising a converting stage comprising a plurality of DC/DC converters. At least one of the DC/DC converters is a single-stage isolated DC/DC converter comprising a voltage control configured to control a voltage of the respective DC/DC converter. The DC/DC converters are connected in series and at least one of the plurality of converters of the converting stage is configured to provide a respective predetermined output voltage to a load.
US12244215B2
A first switch couples an input node receiving a main control signal for a main switching stage of a multi-phase converter to an output node delivering a secondary control signal for a secondary switching stage following actuation of the secondary switching stage. A second switch couples the output node to a capacitor during a time period of actuation/deactuation of the secondary switching stage. Current is sourced to the capacitor during the actuation time period or sunk from the capacitor during the deactuation time period. The sourced or sunk current may be generated proportional to the main control signal.
US12244191B2
A stator with a multi-phase stator winding including phase windings each made of several winding segments, the segments including intermediate conductor portions arranged away from each other in a circumferential direction and link portions located at first and second radial end sides and connect the paired intermediate conductor portions into an annular shape. The winding segments are adjacent each other in a circumferential direction partially overlapping in the circumferential direction and include first and second winding segments overlapping each other in the circumferential direction. The link portions of the first winding segments are bent radially inward at at least one of axially opposed ends of the stator winding. The link portions of the second winding segments are bent radially outward at the at least one of the axially opposed ends of the stator winding. These link portions are arranged not overlapping in an axial direction of the stator.
US12244190B2
A rotor for an electrically excited drive machine includes: a coil per rotor pole with, in each case, one first energizable coil unit, and a rotor core for holding the coils of the rotor poles. The coils have, in each case, at least one second energizable coil unit per rotor pole. The rotor has an interconnecting unit which is designed to interconnect the at least two coil units per coil in a manner which is dependent on an operating point of the electric drive machine in order to set the number of windings of the coil, and in order to electrically connect the coils of the rotor poles for configuring a rotor winding with an overall number of windings which is dependent on the numbers of windings of the coils.
US12244188B2
An induction motor assembly includes an induction motor, and one or more switches coupled to selectively inhibit the supply of power from a power source to at least one of a main winding and an auxiliary winding of the motor. A control circuit is configured to obtain a main winding voltage value representative of a voltage across the main winding, receive an auxiliary winding voltage value according to a sensed voltage across the auxiliary winding, and determine at least one of a rotational speed of the induction motor and a load of the induction motor, according to the main winding voltage value and the auxiliary winding voltage value. The control circuit is configured to control switching operation of the one or more switches according to the determined rotational speed or the determined load, or generate a log of the determined rotational speed or the determined load in memory for monitoring.
US12244186B2
A hairpin twisting device of a hairpin winding motor includes a fixing jig on which a stator core is seated, the stator core including a plurality of slots positioned through the stator core in a circumferential direction and including a plurality of layers positioned in the slot in a radial direction, and a twisting module positioned under the fixing jig and rotated in a predetermined direction to twist hairpins while clamping respective end portions of the plurality of hairpins inserted into the plurality of slots.
US12244183B2
A position-torque sensor system includes two angle sensors configured to detect a rotational movement. Each of the two angle sensors includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is rotatable in response to the rotational movement to provide a rotor rotational movement and is rotatable relative to the stator. The stator includes an excitation coil and a set of receiving coils that generate output signals indicative of the rotor rotational movement. The sets of receiving coils of the stators of the two angle sensors are structurally same and the rotors of the two angle sensors are structurally the same.
US12244180B2
An electromagnetic pole (17) for a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The pole has a tooth (18) comprising a tooth body (19), the tooth (18) being radially oriented and the tooth (18) comprising a recess (21), a coil (16) comprising a plurality of wire turns (20) wound around the tooth (18) between a first radial end (28) and a second radial end (29), the wire turns (20) which are the most distant from the tooth body (19) between the first radial end (28) and the second radial end (29), forming an outer wire layer (22), the coil (16) comprising a bracing wire (14), the bracing wire (14) being wound on the outer wire layer (22) from the first radial end (28) to the second radial end (29) in less than one turn around the tooth (18) so as to hold in position the outer wire layer (22).
US12244161B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of battery charging, and proposes a battery charging management method and device, comprising: before charging a battery to be charged, obtaining an active handshake signal of the battery to be charged; self-checking the battery to be charged according to the active handshake signal to determine whether the battery to be charged is working normally; when the battery to be charged is working normally, determining a corresponding charging model to charge the battery to be charged. In the present invention, before charging the battery to be charged, an irregularity check is given to the battery to be charged, charging is done when the battery to be charged is working normally and potential safety hazard is avoided.
US12244148B2
Examples described herein provide a method that includes providing a first electric power pathway from a battery to a first auxiliary low voltage bus via a direct-current (DC)/DC converter and a first switch. The method further includes providing a second electric power pathway from the battery to a second auxiliary low voltage bus via the DC/DC converter and a second switch. The method further includes selectively controlling at least one of the first switch or the second switch to manage a load in one of the first auxiliary low voltage bus or the second auxiliary low voltage bus based at least in part on the battery or the load.
US12244131B2
The process and apparatus for tension stringing a conductor through above-ground supports uses a length of rope affixed to the conductor wound on the tensioning machine and pulled by the puller machine. Each of the first and second stringing apparatuses includes an onboard control system which controls each of the first and second stringing apparatuses in pulling mode or in tensioning mode. Each of the first and second stringing apparatuses includes a motor/regenerative brake or other means of inducing tension into the conductor. Each of the machines includes a wireless transceiver which is hard-wired to said onboard control systems. A first operator resides on the puller machine and selects the machine as a puller machine operating in pulling mode using an onboard control system. An observer resides on the tensioner and selects the second machine to be the tensioner. Each of the wireless transceivers communicates with the other wireless transceiver enabling control of both the machines by the onboard control system of the puller machine.
US12244129B2
A wall-plate system having a wall-plate adapted to accommodate a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) coupled with the wall-plate and may comprise a mounting bracket. The PCBA may include one or more chip packages and/or other components that extend into cavities in the mounting bracket after installation, the cavities located on the mounting bracket to accommodate chip packages and/or other components. The wall-plate may include snaps to couple with the mounting bracket, the snaps extending from an interior surface of the wall-plate, the snaps located away from edges of the wall-plate towards a center of the wall-plate. The mounting bracket may comprise openings to couple with a device in a junction box and/or with the junction box. The wall-plate may comprise, e.g., one or more battery mounts and the mounting bracket may have a shape to accommodate extension by the battery mounts into a plane of the mounting bracket.
US12244124B2
An electrical connection structure includes a case in which a first electric motor and a second electric motor are housed, and electrical equipment that controls the first electric motor or the second electric motor. The first electric motor is electrically connected to a first three-phase terminal of the electrical equipment via a connecting member. The second electric motor is electrically connected to a second three-phase terminal of the electrical equipment via the connecting member. On the electrical equipment side, the first three-phase terminal and the second three-phase terminal are arranged in series. On the case side, a first electric motor side three-phase terminal, which is connected to the first electric motor, in the connecting member, and a second electric motor side three-phase terminal, which is connected to the second electric motor, in the connecting member, are arranged in parallel.
US12244118B2
A pulsed laser diode driver includes an inductor having a first terminal configured to receive a source voltage. A source capacitor has a first terminal connected to the first terminal of the inductor to provide the source voltage. A bypass switch has a drain node connected to a second terminal of the inductor and to a first terminal of a bypass capacitor. A laser diode switch has a drain node connected to the second terminal of the inductor. A laser diode has an anode connected to a source node of the laser diode switch and a cathode connected to a bias voltage node. The laser diode switch and the bypass switch control a current flow through the inductor to produce a high-current pulse through the laser diode, the high-current pulse corresponding to a peak current of a resonant waveform developed at the anode of the laser diode.
US12244117B2
A high-voltage pulse generation device configured to apply a pulsed high voltage to the space between a pair of discharge electrodes disposed in a laser chamber of a gas laser apparatus includes n transformer cores that form a transformer, where n is a natural number greater than or equal to two, n primary electric circuits of the transformer, the n primary electric circuits each having a first terminal connected to a reference potential and a second terminal connected to a charger, the n primary electric circuits each including one or more primary coils, one or more diodes connected in parallel to the one or more primary coils, and one or more pulse generators connected in parallel to the one or more primary coils, and a secondary electric circuit of the transformer, the secondary electric circuit including a secondary coil and connected to the pair of discharge electrodes.
US12244114B2
A cable assembly comprises a conductive cable including an exposed conductive first section having a first cross-section, and a second section adjacent the first second and having a second cross-section distinct from the first cross-section. A ferrule is positioned over the conductive cable and includes a body defining a seam formed therethrough in an axial direction. The ferrule defines a first body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the first portion of the conductive cable, and a second body portion deformed into a cross-section corresponding to the second portion of the conductive cable.
US12244113B2
Portable, hand held, battery operated, dieless, hydraulic crimping tools are provided with a working head and a tool frame. The working head has a head frame with an open access to a working area of the working head. The open access may be in the form of a C-shape. The working head has a nest to receive a crimping member. An indentor is attached to a piston within the tool frame. The piston moves the indentor between a home position adjacent the tool frame and an indenting position where the indentor impacts the crimping member.
US12244104B2
An assembly for terminating a high speed cable. The assembly includes a shell housing and preassembled crosstalk shield. The shell housing has a mating end and a conductor receiving end, One or more shield receiving recesses extend from the conductor receiving end toward the mating end. The preassembled crosstalk shield has mounting projections which are positioned in the one or more shield receiving recesses. The mounting projections and the one or more shield receiving recesses provide an interference engagement to provide a secure mechanical and electrical connection between the shell housing and the preassembled crosstalk shield.
US12244088B2
A connector includes a terminal fitting that includes a terminal connection section, and a housing that includes a terminal accommodating section in which the terminal fitting is inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber in the terminal accommodating section in a terminal insertion direction and accommodated at an accommodation completion position, wherein the terminal connection section is a tubular section bent in a tubular shape with end surfaces of two end portions facing each other, and includes a recess that is recessed from a distal end of the terminal connection section on a terminal insertion direction side, in a terminal removal direction opposite to the terminal insertion direction, the terminal insertion direction being a tube axis direction.
US12244087B2
The connecting tube portion 20 has a bottom wall 22, an upper wall 24 facing the bottom wall 22 and a front opening 21 open forward. The resilient contact piece 50 includes a fulcrum portion 51 folded rearward from a front end edge of the bottom wall 22 in the connecting tube portion 20 and a contact point portion 54 provided at a position behind the fulcrum portion 51 to contact the male terminal 80. The auxiliary spring 70 is disposed at a position behind the fulcrum portion 51 and below the contact point portion 54. The auxiliary spring 70 includes protrusions 75 projecting in a direction intersecting the front-rear direction. The protrusions 75 and an inner surface of the upper wall 24 are visually confirmable through the front opening 21 of the connecting tube portion 20.
US12244079B1
A solderless antenna includes a pair of spaced-apart electrically-conductive disks arranged in a vertical stack and a self-supporting, branched-path feed circuit. The feed circuit has a signal-receiving point and four signal paths leading to four excitation points. The first signal path is the shortest. The second signal path includes a portion of the first signal path and is longer than the first signal path. The third signal path is unique with respect to the first signal path and second signal path, and is longer than the second signal path. The fourth signal path includes a portion of the third signal path and is longer than the third signal path.
US12244074B2
A communication device, method and computer program product enable transceivers to communicate via antennas supported by a configurable housing assembly. First and second housing portions are connected at respective proximal sides for relative movement between an open position and a closed position about a lateral axis. First and second antenna elements of a first antenna array each have an elongated shape and are configured to communicate in radio frequency (RF) communication band(s). The first and the second antenna elements are supported respectively by the first and the second housing portions. The first antenna element is proximate to and substantially aligned in parallel with the second antenna element when the housing assembly is in the closed position and separated when the housing assembly is in the open position. A first antenna feed/source network eliminates array cancellations between the first and the second antenna elements when the housing assembly is in the closed position.
US12244073B2
A wireless tag that is not guaranteed to be located within a predetermined area is prevented from being read as a valid wireless tag. A communication device includes: an antenna; a reference tag; a reception unit; and a determination unit. The reception unit uses the antenna to sequentially receive signals wirelessly transmitted from a reference tag whose relative position to the antenna is known and a reading target tag different from the reference tag. The determination unit determines that the signal transmitted from the reading target tag and received by the reception unit is invalid based on a phase of the signal transmitted from the reference tag and received by the reception unit.
US12244052B2
A communication device, computer program product, and method provide a heat sink antenna that performs dual functions of thermal energy transferring and radio frequency (RF) communication. The communication device includes a millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna module. The communication device includes a heat sink antenna having a first portion in thermal conductive contact with at least a portion of a surface of the mmWave antenna module. The heat sink antenna has a second portion extending away from the first mmWave antenna module to transfer thermal energy away from the first mmWave antenna module. An RF front end of the communication device includes mmWave transmitter that radiates a mmWave signal via the mmWave antenna module, resulting in generation of the thermal energy.
US12244038B2
An electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a stack along a stacking axis with a respective separator portion of an elongated separator sheet positioned between and winding around each of the electrodes in the stack along a serpentine path. The plurality of electrodes include a top electrode positioned at a top of the stack along the stacking axis, and the plurality of electrodes include a bottom electrode positioned at a bottom of the stack. The separator portions in the stack include a top separator portion abutting the top electrode and a bottom separator portion abutting the bottom electrode. The bottom electrode may have a thickness along the stacking axis that is from 80% to 120% of a thickness of the top electrode along the stacking axis. Moreover, a maximum thickness of each of the electrodes in the stack may be less than 8.3 mm.
US12244036B2
An electrode structure for use in an energy storage device, the electrode structure comprising a population of electrodes, a population of counter-electrodes and an electrically insulating material layer separating members of the electrode population from members of the counter-electrode population, each member of the electrode population having a longitudinal axis AE that is surrounded by the electrically insulating separator layer.
US12244035B2
Provided is a battery assembly including: a battery housing; a battery cell assembly including a plurality of battery cells which are stacked and placed in the housing and are electrically connected; and a heat dissipation resin layer, and the battery assembly has minimized cell damage due to a swelling phenomenon occurring in a battery cell and an improved module life by controlling the physical properties of the low-hardness heat dissipation resin layer.
US12244028B2
A power storage device includes: a power storage module including a plurality of stacked power storage cells; and a case having an inner space to accommodate the power storage module. The case includes a main body provided with an opening on an electrode terminal side of the plurality of power storage cells, a cover provided over the opening, and a tapered portion that narrows a width of the inner space in a direction from the opening toward a lower side of the main body.
US12244026B2
Provided is a lid body including: a terminal member being mainly made up of a first metal; a sealing plate mainly made up of a second metal; and a sealing material. The sealing plate has a mounting hole for attaching the terminal member. The terminal member is inserted into the mounting hole and is attached to the sealing plate in a state where the sealing material is joined to a peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole. With as αS a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the sealing material, α1 as a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the first metal and α2 as a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the second metal, αL≤αS≤αH is satisfied, where αH is the higher value and αL is the lower value from among the α1 and α2.
US12244016B2
Provided are an electrode binder composition that provides an electrode that exhibits high durability even when an active material that shows a large volume change is used, an electrode coating liquid composition containing the electrode binder composition, a power storage device electrode including an electrode mixture layer containing a solid of the electrode coating liquid composition, and a power storage device including the power storage device electrode. An electrode binder composition includes (A) a polyurethane, (B) a fibrous nanocarbon material having an average fiber length of 0.5 μm or more, and (C) water. The polyurethane is obtained by reacting together (a) a polyisocyanate, (b) a polyol, (c) a compound having one or more active hydrogen groups and a hydrophilic group, and (d) a chain extender. (b) contains an olefinic polyol having 1.5 or more active hydrogen groups and/or a carbonate diol having less than 6 carbon atoms between carbonate bond chains.
US12244015B2
A thin-film all-organic electrochemical device is disclosed. The device includes one or more polymer chains. Each of the one or more polymer chains has reducing functional groups, oxidizing functional groups, and ionically conducting functional groups. The ionically conducting functional groups are disposed in between the reducing functional groups and the oxidizing functional groups. The device may produce a potential greater than 5 volts.
US12244005B2
The invention relates to a secondary particle for a cathode of a secondary lithium battery cell that comprises a plurality of primary particles, each having a layered crystalline structure in which transition metal oxide layers and lithium layers alternate. Each of the primary particles has a spatial extension in the direction of its crystallographic c-axis that is greater than in a direction perpendicular to this axis. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a particle.
US12243999B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a formed body for an electrode including: a step of preparing an electrode material containing an electrode active material; a step of supplying the electrode material onto the support; and a step of pressurizing the electrode material on the support by sandwiching the support and the electrode material between a first roll that is brought into contact with the electrode material and a second roll that is brought into contact with the support, in which a temperature T1 of the first roll and a temperature T2 of the second roll satisfy a relationship T1>T2.
US12243993B2
A method for processing positive electrode active material waste of lithium ion secondary batteries, the waste containing cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium, the method including: a carbon mixing step of mixing the positive electrode active material waste in the form of powder with carbon to obtain a mixture having a ratio of a mass of carbon to a total mass of the positive electrode active material waste and the carbon of from 10% to 30%; a roasting step of roasting the mixture at a temperature of from 600° C. to 800° C. to obtain roasted powder; a dissolution step including a first dissolution process of dissolving lithium in the roasted powder in water or a lithium-containing solution, and a second dissolution process of dissolving the lithium in a residue obtained in the first dissolution process in water; and an acid leaching step of leaching a residue obtained in the lithium dissolution step with an acid.
US12243986B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method in a battery pack and a master BMS for providing the method. The master BMS according to the present invention, as a master BMS for performing wireless communication with a slave BMS according to a frequency hopping method in a battery pack, may include: a communicator for receiving first channel scan information generated by scanning a plurality of channels belonging to a frequency bandwidth used in the wireless communication by a device disposed outside the battery pack; a channel analyzer for generating second channel scan information by scanning the channels belonging to the frequency bandwidth; a storage unit for storing a reference signal to noise ratio (SNR) value on the wireless communication; and a control unit for selecting a hopping channel used in the frequency hopping method based on the first channel scan information, and calculating signal intensity of the selected hopping channel based on the second channel scan information and the reference SNR value.
US12243961B2
A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting element core extending in a direction and including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer, and a device active layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a device insulating film surrounding a lateral surface of the light-emitting element core, and a reflective film disposed on an outer lateral surface of the device insulating film and surrounding at least a lateral surface of the device active layer.
US12243955B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) and a method of forming an array of micro LEDs for transfer to a receiving substrate are described. The micro LED structure may include a micro p-n diode and a metallization layer, with the metallization layer between the micro p-n diode and a bonding layer. A conformal dielectric barrier layer may span sidewalls of the micro p-n diode. The micro LED structure and micro LED array may be picked up and transferred to a receiving substrate.
US12243951B2
Apparatus, methods and systems of wireless power distribution are disclosed. Embodiments involve the redirection of collimated energy to a converter, which stores or converts the energy into a more suitable form of energy for at least one specific point-of-use that is coupled to the converter.
US12243947B2
Distance measurement accuracy is improved. An avalanche photodiode sensor according to an embodiment includes a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate bonded to a first surface of the first semiconductor substrate, wherein the first semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions arranged in a matrix and an element separation portion, the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions include a first photoelectric conversion portion, the element separation portion has a first element separation region and a second element separation region, the first photoelectric conversion portion is arranged between the first element separation region and the second element separation region, the first semiconductor substrate further includes a plurality of concave-convex portions on a second surface opposite to the first surface and between the first element separation region and the second element separation region, and the second semiconductor substrate includes a reading circuit connected to each of the photoelectric conversion portions.
US12243944B2
A solid-state image pickup unit includes: a substrate made of a first semiconductor; a substrate made of a first semiconductor; a photoelectric conversion device provided on the substrate and including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode in order from the substrate; and a plurality of field-effect transistors configured to perform signal reading from the photoelectric conversion device. The plurality of transistors include a transfer transistor and an amplification transistor, the transfer transistor includes an active layer containing a second semiconductor with a larger band gap than that of the first semiconductor, and one terminal of a source and a drain of the transfer transistor also serves the first electrode or the second electrode of the photoelectric conversion device, and the other terminal of the transfer transistor is connected to a gate of the amplification transistor.
US12243939B2
Described examples include an integrated circuit having a transistor with a first gate on a first gate insulating layer. The transistor also has second gate separated from the first gate by a gate gap. The integrated circuit also includes a channel well at the gate gap extending under the first gate and the second gate. The transistor has a first source in the channel adjacent to an edge of the first gate. The transistor having a second source formed in the channel adjacent to an edge of the second gate separated from the first source by a channel gap. The transistor has at least one back-gate contact, the at least one back-gate contact separated from the first gate by a first back-gate contact gap and separated from the second gate by a second back-gate contact gap.
US12243934B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor structure suspending over the substrate and comprising a source region, a drain region, and a channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region. The channel region includes a doped two-dimensional (2D) material layer comprising a first portion on an upper surface of the channel region. The semiconductor device also includes an interfacial layer surrounding the channel region including the first portion of the doped 2D material layer, and a gate electrode surrounding the interfacial layer.
US12243933B2
A semiconductor device with an active transistor cell comprising a p-type first and second base layers, surrounding an n-type source region, the device further comprising a plurality of first gate electrodes embedded in trench recesses, has additional gate runners formed adjacent to the first base layer, outside the active cell, and contacting the first gate electrodes at the cross points thereof. The additional gate runners do not affect the active cell design in terms of cell pitch i.e., the design rules for cell spacing, hole drainage between the cells, or gate-collector capacitance, hence resulting in optimum low conduction and switching losses. The transistor cell and layout designs offer a range of advantages both in terms of performance and manufacturability, with the potential of applying additional layers or structures.
US12243931B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods for forming source/drain (S/D) epitaxial structures with a hexagonal shape. The method includes forming a fin structure that includes a first portion and a second portion proximate to the first portion, forming a gate structure on the first portion of the fin structure, and recessing the second portion of the fin structure. The method further includes growing a S/D epitaxial structure on the recessed second portion of the fin structure, where growing the S/D epitaxial structure includes exposing the recessed second portion of the fin structure to a precursor and one or more reactant gases to form a portion of the S/D epitaxial structure. Growing the S/D epitaxial structure further includes exposing the portion of the S/D structure to an etching chemistry and exposing the portion of the S/D epitaxial structure to a hydrogen treatment to enhance growth of the S/D epitaxial structure.
US12243930B2
A semiconductor device includes a first fin and a second fin in a first direction and aligned in the first direction over a substrate, an isolation insulating layer disposed around lower portions of the first and second fins, a first gate electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a spacer dummy gate layer, and a source/drain epitaxial layer in a source/drain space in the first fin. The source/drain epitaxial layer is adjacent to the first gate electrode and the spacer dummy gate layer with gate sidewall spacers disposed therebetween, and the spacer dummy gate layer includes one selected from the group consisting of silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, silicon carbon nitride, and silicon carbon oxynitride.
US12243923B2
Structures for a transistor including regions for landing gate contacts and methods of forming a structure for a transistor that includes regions for landing gate contacts. The structure includes a field-effect transistor having a source region, a gate region, a gate with a sidewall, and a gate extension with a section adjoined to the sidewall. The structure further includes a dielectric layer over the field-effect transistor, and a gate contact positioned in the dielectric layer to land on at least the section of the gate extension.
US12243915B2
The present disclosure provides source/drain epitaxial structures and source/drain contacts wrapped with graphene layers in fin structures of field effect transistors, and fabricating methods thereof. In some embodiments, a disclosed semiconductor device includes a fin structure on a substrate. The fin structure includes an epitaxial region. The semiconductor device further includes a metal contact above the epitaxial region, and a graphene film covering a top surface and sidewalls of the epitaxial region and covering a bottom surface and sidewalls of the metal contact.
US12243911B2
In described examples of an isolation device, an isolation die that has a set of bond pads is mounted on a first lead frame that has a set of leads. A portion of the bond pads are coupled to respective leads. A first mold material encapsulates the isolation device and the first lead frame forming a first package. The first package is mounted on a second lead frame that has a set of leads. A portion of the first lead frame leads is coupled to respective ones of the second lead frame leads. A second mold material encapsulates the first package and the second lead frame.
US12243905B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a metal grid, a backside illuminated (BSI) image sensor, and a method of forming the BSI image sensor. In the methods, an etch stop layer and a metal material layer are successively deposited in geometric conformity over a substrate already formed therein with a recess and a conductive pillar, followed by the formation of a bonding pad on the metal material layer in the recess. After that, a dielectric cap layer is deposited and etched together with the metal material layer and the etch stop layer to form the metal grid. According to the present invention, the deposited metal material layer has reduced surface roughness, which results in improved thickness uniformity of the resulting metal grid. The metal grid is overall easier to form, resulting in savings in cost and increased performance of the device being fabricated.
US12243898B2
The present disclosure describes an image sensor device and a method for forming the same. The image sensor device can include a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer can include a first surface and a second surface. The image sensor device can further include an interconnect structure formed over the first surface of the semiconductor layer, first and second radiation sensing regions formed in the second surface of the semiconductor layer, a metal stack formed over the second radiation sensing region, and a passivation layer formed through the metal stack and over a top surface of the first radiation sensing region. The metal stack can be between the passivation layer and an other top surface of the second radiation sensing region.
US12243892B2
An image sensor including: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a pixel device isolation film extending from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pixel device isolation film defines pixels in the semiconductor substrate, and includes a conductive layer; and a device isolation structure located inside a device isolation trench that extends from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the device isolation structure includes a conductive liner electrically connected to the conductive layer, wherein a negative bias is applied to the conductive layer and the conductive liner.
US12243890B2
A semiconductor device structure for sensing an incident light includes a substrate, a passivation layer and a wiring structure. The substrate has a device embedded therein. The passivation layer is disposed on the substrate, where the passivation layer has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, the first side of the passivation layer includes microstructures disposed on the substrate, and the second side of the passivation layer is a continuous flat plane, wherein each of the microstructures has a cross-section in a shape of a triangle, trapezoid or arc. The wiring structure is disposed on the substrate, where the writing structure includes at least one contact and metal interconnection patterns respectively formed in different dielectric layers, and the at least one contact and the metal interconnection patterns are electrically connected, where the substrate is located between the passivation layer and the wiring structure.
US12243881B2
To reduce a leakage current of a transistor so that malfunction of a logic circuit can be suppressed. The logic circuit includes a transistor which includes an oxide semiconductor layer having a function of a channel formation layer and in which an off current is 1×10−13 A or less per micrometer in channel width. A first signal, a second signal, and a third signal that is a clock signal are input as input signals. A fourth signal and a fifth signal whose voltage states are set in accordance with the first to third signals which have been input are output as output signals.
US12243879B2
The display device has a first substrate having a display area including pixels and a peripheral area surrounding the display area and including a peripheral circuit, a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of gate wirings spaced apart in a first direction in the peripheral circuit of the first substrate, and a plurality of signal lines spaced apart in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the second substrate has a black matrix with a lattice area at a position facing the display area and the peripheral circuit, and the lattice area of the black matrix is arranged to overlap the plurality of gate wirings and the plurality of signal lines of the peripheral circuit.
US12243867B2
An IC device includes first through third active areas extending in a first direction and a first gate structure extending perpendicular to and overlying each of the first through third active areas. Each of the first through third active areas includes a first portion adjacent to the first gate structure in the first direction and a second portion adjacent to the first portion and including an endpoint of the corresponding active area, the first active area is positioned between the second and third active areas and includes the endpoint positioned under the first gate structure, and each of the second and third active areas includes the endpoint positioned away from the gate structure in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US12243865B2
A bonded assembly includes a first three-dimensional memory die containing a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers and first memory structures located in the first alternating stack, a second three-dimensional memory die bonded to the first three-dimensional memory die, and containing a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers, and second memory structures located in the second alternating stack. The first electrically conductive layers have different lateral extents along the first horizontal direction that decrease with a respective vertical distance from driver circuit devices, and the second electrically conductive layers have different lateral extents along the first horizontal direction that increase with the respective vertical distance from the driver circuit devices.
US12243863B2
Embodiments describe a display integration scheme in which an array of pixel driver chips embedded front side up in an insulator layer. A front side redistribution layer (RDL) spans across and is in electrical connection with the front sides of the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is bonded to the front side RDL. The pixel driver chips may be located directly beneath the display area of the display panel.
US12243862B2
In an optical receiver circuit which suppresses an unnecessary increase in impedance and occurrences of resonance and radiation noise and which produces preferable high-frequency transmission characteristics, a PD submount mounted with a PD chip and a chip capacitor and a TIA carrier mounted with a TIA chip are electrically connected to each other by a bonding wire. The chip includes an anode electrode pad and a cathode electrode pad, anode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad, and cathode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad. A wire electrically connects the pad and a signal pad for input of the chip to each other, a wire electrically connects the pad and the capacitor to each other, and a wire electrically connects the pads and the pads to each other.
US12243861B2
The present disclosure provides a novel form of a display device which enables semiconductor light emitting elements having a vertical structure to be assembled onto a substrate and then wiring process to be performed stably without any change to the position of the elements during post-processing. The display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a substrate; a pair of assembly electrodes positioned on the substrate; a dielectric layer positioned on the assembly electrodes; a wiring electrode positioned on the dielectric layer and comprising a base electrode part and a low melting point junction; a partition wall which overlaps with a portion of the wiring electrode, is positioned on the dielectric layer, and defines an assembly groove to which a semiconductor light emitting element is assembled; and the vertical semiconductor light emitting element which is assembled in the assembly groove and is electrically connected to the low melting point junction of the wiring electrode, wherein the low melting point junction has a flow stop angle for controlling the thermal flow characteristic of the junction.
US12243849B2
In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a substrate and multiple columns of semiconductor dies positioned approximately in parallel along a length of the substrate. The package also includes multiple passive components positioned between the multiple columns of semiconductor dies, the multiple passive components angled between 30 and 60 degrees relative to the length of the substrate, a pair of the multiple passive components having a gap therebetween that is configured to permit mold compound flow through capillary action. The package also includes a mold compound covering the substrate, the multiple columns of semiconductor dies, and the multiple passive components.
US12243846B2
A bonding wire for connecting a first pad to a second pad is provided. The bonding wire includes a ball part bonded to the first pad, a neck part formed on the ball part, and a wire part extending from the neck part to the second pad. Less than an entire portion of a top surface of the neck part is covered by the wire part, and the wire part is in contact with the neck part, the ball part, and the first pad.
US12243845B2
In a soldering structure, a power module having the same, and a method for manufacturing the power module configured for constantly determining a height of a power module when the power module is manufactured, the soldering structure may include a soldering target portion; a metal layer including a bonding surface having a bonding region in which the soldering target portion is bonded by solder; and at least one wire located in the solder within the bonding region.
US12243844B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area, a plurality of pad electrodes disposed in the pad area on the substrate, a circuit board disposed to overlap at least a portion of the pad area on the substrate, and an anisotropic conductive layer disposed in the pad area between the substrate and the circuit board. The circuit board includes a base substrate and a plurality of bump electrodes disposed on a lower surface of the base substrate. The anisotropic conductive layer includes an adhesive layer and a plurality of conductive particles arranged in the adhesive layer. Each of the conductive particles includes a core, a first conductive film disposed on the core in a way such that at least a portion of the core is exposed, and a second conductive film entirely covering the core and the first conductive film.
US12243839B2
A bonded semiconductor structure includes a first device wafer and a second device wafer. The first device includes a first dielectric layer, a first bonding pad disposed in the first dielectric layer, and a first bonding layer on the first dielectric layer. The second device wafer includes a second dielectric layer, a second bonding layer on the second dielectric layer, and a second bonding pad disposed in the second dielectric layer and extending through the second bonding layer and at least a portion of the first bonding layer. A conductive bonding interface between the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad and a dielectric bonding interface between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer include a step-height in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric bonding interface and the conductive bonding interface.
US12243838B2
A circuit substrate structure includes a circuit substrate, at least two chips, and a bridge element. The circuit substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The chips are arranged in parallel on the first surface of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The chips have active surfaces, back surfaces opposite to the active surfaces, and side surfaces connecting the active surfaces and the back surfaces. The chips include side circuits. The side circuits are arranged on the side surfaces and have first ends and second ends, the first ends extend to the active surfaces along the side surfaces, and the second ends extend to the back surfaces along the side surfaces. The bridge element is arranged on the back surfaces of the chips and electrically connected to the active surfaces of the chips through the side circuits.
US12243836B2
In a semiconductor device, a first member having a first surface includes a plurality of circuit blocks disposed in an inner region of the first surface when the first surface is viewed in plan. The second member is joined to the first surface of the first member in surface contact with the first surface. The second member includes a plurality of first transistors that are connected in parallel to each other and form a first amplifier circuit. A conductive protrusion protrudes from the second member on an opposite side to the first member. The first transistors are disposed in a region not overlapping any of the circuit blocks in the first member in a plan view.
US12243819B2
Integrated chips include first lines, formed on an underlying substrate. Spacers are formed conformally on sidewalls of the plurality of lines. Etch stop remnants are positioned on the sidewalls of the plurality of lines, between the spacers and the underlying substrate. Second lines are formed on the underlying substrate, between respective pairs of adjacent first lines.
US12243806B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such electronic packages. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a base substrate. The base substrate may have a plurality of through substrate vias. In an embodiment, a first die is over the base substrate. In an embodiment a first cavity is disposed into the base substrate. In an embodiment, the first cavity is at least partially within a footprint of the first die. In an embodiment, a first component is in the first cavity.
US12243805B2
An integrated circuit (IC) with through-circuit vias (TCVs) and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The IC includes a semiconductor device, first and second interconnect structures disposed on first and second surfaces of the semiconductor device, respectively, first and second inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layers disposed on front and back surfaces of the substrate, respectively, and a TCV disposed within the first and second interconnect structures, the first and second ILD layers, and the substrate. The TCV is spaced apart from the semiconductor device by a portion of the substrate and portions of the first and second ILD layers. A first end of the TCV, disposed over the front surface of the substrate, is connected to a conductive line of the first interconnect structure and a second end of the TCV, disposed over the back surface of the substrate, is connected to a conductive line of the second interconnect structure.
US12243802B2
A method of manufacturing a chip assembly comprises joining an in-process unit to a printed circuit board; reflowing a bonding material disposed between and electrically connecting the in-process unit with the printed circuit board, the bonding material having a first reflow temperature; and then joining a heat distribution device to the plurality of semiconductor chips using a thermal interface material (“TIM”) having a second reflow temperature that is lower than the first reflow temperature. The in-process unit further comprises a substrate having an active surface, a passive surface, and contacts exposed at the active surface; an interposer electrically connected to the substrate; a plurality of semiconductor chips overlying the substrate and electrically connected to the substrate through the interposer, and a stiffener overlying the substrate and having an aperture extending therethrough, the plurality of semiconductor chips being positioned within the aperture.
US12243799B2
An electronic device includes a substrate and a first gallium nitride (GaN) transistor formed on a first semiconductor die that is electrically coupled to the substrate. A second GaN transistor is formed on a second semiconductor die and is also electrically coupled to the substrate. An integral heat spreader is thermally coupled to the first and the second gallium nitride semiconductor dies and is electrically coupled to the substrate. A first bias voltage is applied to the first GaN transistor via the integral heat spreader and a second bias voltage is applied to the second GaN transistor via the integral heat spreader.
US12243798B2
Disclosed are semiconductor packages and their fabrication methods. The semiconductor package comprises a circuit substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the circuit substrate, and a thermal radiation film covering the semiconductor chip on the circuit substrate. The semiconductor chip includes first lateral surfaces opposite to each other in a first direction and second lateral surfaces opposite to each other in a second direction that intersects the first direction. A first width of the first lateral surface is less than a second width of the second lateral surface. The thermal radiation film covers a top surface of the semiconductor chip and entirely surrounds the first and second lateral surfaces of the semiconductor chip. The thermal radiation film has slits directed toward the first lateral surfaces from ends of the thermal radiation film.
US12243797B1
A packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system resulting in an ultra-high bandwidth system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die can be a first logic die (e.g., a compute chip, CPU, GPU, etc.) while the second die can be a compute chiplet comprising ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. Both dies can include ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. The ferroelectric/paraelectric logic may include AND gates, OR gates, complex gates, majority, minority, and/or threshold gates, sequential logic, etc. The IC package can be in a 3D or 2.5D configuration that implements logic-on-logic stacking configuration. The 3D or 2.5D packaging configurations have chips or chiplets designed to have time distributed or spatially distributed processing. The logic of chips or chiplets is segregated so that one chip in a 3D or 2.5D stacking arrangement is hot at a time.
US12243794B2
Methods and structures for manufacturing one or more System in a Package (SiP) devices, where the functionality of a packaged SiP device may be modified by additional components.
US12243792B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge.
US12243786B2
An embodiment includes a device including a first semiconductor fin extending from a substrate, a second semiconductor fin extending from the substrate, a hybrid fin over the substrate, the hybrid fin disposed between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin, and the hybrid fin having an oxide inner portion extending downward from a top surface of the hybrid fin. The device also includes a first isolation region between the second semiconductor fin, the first semiconductor fin, and the hybrid fin, the hybrid fin extending above a top surface of the first isolation region, a high-k gate dielectric over sidewalls of the hybrid fin, sidewalls of the first semiconductor fin, and sidewalls of the second semiconductor fin, a gate electrode on the high-k gate dielectric, and source/drain regions on the first semiconductor fin on opposing sides of the gate electrode.
US12243784B2
A method for forming source/drain regions in a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device including source/drain regions formed by the method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes etching a semiconductor fin to form a first recess, the semiconductor fin defining sidewalls and a bottom surface of the first recess, the semiconductor fin extending in a first direction; forming a source/drain region in the first recess, the source/drain region including a single continuous material extending from a bottom surface of the first recess to above a top surface of the semiconductor fin, a precursor gas for forming the source/drain region including phosphine (PH3) and at least one of arsine (AsH3) or monomethylsilane (CH6Si); and forming a gate over the semiconductor fin adjacent the source/drain region, the gate extending in a second direction perpendicular the first direction.
US12243782B2
The present disclosure describes fabricating devices with tunable gate height and effective capacitance. A method includes forming a first metal gate stack in a dummy region of a semiconductor substrate and a second metal gate stack in an active device region of the semiconductor substrate, and performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process using a slurry including charged abrasive nanoparticles. The first and second metal gate stacks are different in composition. The charged abrasive nanoparticles include a first concentration in the active device region different from a second concentration in the dummy region.
US12243777B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active pattern, a first interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, the first interlayer dielectric layer including a recess on an upper portion thereof, and a lower connection line in the first interlayer dielectric layer, the lower connection line being electrically connected to the active pattern, and the lower connection line including a conductive pattern, the recess of the first interlayer dielectric layer selectively exposing a top surface of the conductive pattern, and a barrier pattern between the conductive pattern and the first interlayer dielectric layer, the first interlayer dielectric layer covering a top surface of the barrier pattern.
US12243752B2
The present disclosure provides a system for etching an exposed material on a substrate disposed within a process chamber using a hybrid atomic layer etching (ALE) process that combines a gas-phase surface modification step with a liquid-phase dissolution step within the same process chamber. In the hybrid ALE process disclosed herein, a gas-phase reactant is used to modify an exposed surface of the material to create a modified surface layer, and one or more liquid-phase reactants are used to selectively dissolve the modified surface layer without dissolving the material underlying the modified surface layer. Once the modified surface layer is selectively dissolved, the substrate may be dried and the gas-phase surface modification and liquid-phase dissolution steps may be repeated for one or more ALE cycles until a desired amount of the material is etched.
US12243751B2
According to one embodiment, a chemical solution comprises a mixed acid including an inorganic acid, an oxidizing agent, a carboxylic acid, and water; and polyethyleneimine of a concentration in the chemical solution in a range of 0.05 wt % to 10 wt %.
US12243749B2
Embodiments of a wet etch process and methods are disclosed herein to provide uniform wet etching of material within high aspect ratio features. In the present disclosure, a wet etch process is used to etch material within high aspect ratio features, such as deep trenches and holes, provided on a patterned substrate. Uniform wet etching is provided in the present disclosure by ensuring that wall surfaces of the material being etched (or wall surfaces adjacent to the material being etched) exhibit a neutral surface charge when exposed to the etch solution used to etch the material.
US12243740B2
A perovskite material that has a perovskite crystal lattice having a formula of CxMyXz, where x, y, and z, are real numbers. Bulky organic cations reside near a surface or a grain boundary of the perovskite crystal lattice. C includes one or more cations selected from the group consisting of Group 1 metals, Group 2 metals, methylammonium, formamidinium, guanidinium, and ethene tetramine. M includes one or more metals each selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Fe, Cd, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Au, Hg, Sn, Ge, Ga, Pb, In, Tl, Sb, Bi, Ti, Zn, Cd, Hg, and Zr and combinations thereof. X includes one or more anions each selected from the group consisting of halides, sulfides, selenides, and combinations thereof.
US12243735B2
An imaging unit includes a MCP, a fluorescent body, and an imager. The MCP is provided on a flight route of an ionized sample that is a component of a sample ionized and emits electrons in accordance with the ionized sample. The fluorescent body is disposed in a subsequent stage of the MCP and emits fluorescent light in accordance with the electrons emitted from the MCP. The imager is disposed in a subsequent stage of the fluorescent body and has a shutter mechanism configured to be capable of switching an open state in which the fluorescent light is imaged by allowing the fluorescent light from the fluorescent body to pass through and a close state in which the fluorescent light is not imaged by blocking the fluorescent light from the fluorescent body. An afterglow time of the fluorescent body is 12 ns or shorter.
US12243727B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a chuck body which supports a substrate, at least one pin hole penetrating the chuck body in a vertical direction, a lift pin disposed in one of the at least one pin hole, wherein the lift pin moves along the one of the at least one pin hole, and an expansion member which is provided at an inner circumference of the one of the at least one pin hole, the expansion member having an inner circumferential surface that, in response to a first power, selectively holds or releases an outer circumferential surface of the lift pin.
US12243720B2
A gas supply block may include a first block, a second block and a third block. The first block may include a first gas inlet passage configured to supply a first process gas. The second block may include a second gas inlet passage configured to supply a second process gas. The third block may be combined with the first block and the second block. The third block may be configured to diffuse and supply the first process gas and the second process gas into gas supply lines connected to the processing spaces.
US12243696B2
A system for adjusting a length of an insulating rod of a high voltage circuit breaker includes a clutch and a fitting. The clutch includes a thread with a given thread pitch, and the fitting includes a thread with a given thread pitch formed in coordination with the thread of the clutch. The fitting is adjustably coupled with the clutch by means of the threads and the fitting is configured to be fixedly coupled with the insulating rod such that with respect to an assembled state of the system with insulating rod and with respect to a longitudinal axis the length of the insulating rod is adjustable due to rotation of the clutch relative to the fitting.
US12243695B2
A load break tool for opening a high load electrical switch having a first switch contact and a second switch contact. The load break tool includes a main body extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The main body is movable between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. A first contact is coupled to the first end and configured to selectively couple with the first switch contact. A second contact is coupled to the second end and configured to selectively couple with the second switch contact. In the retracted configuration the first contact is in electrical communication with the second contact. A spring assembly is mounted in the main body for biasing the main body to the retracted configuration, the spring assembly including a compression spring.
US12243693B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and a liquid component. The capacitor element includes an anode body that includes a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode body and a conductive polymer that covers a part of the dielectric layer. The liquid component includes a sugar alcohol component and a polyalkylene glycol component. The sugar alcohol component contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a sugar alcohol having four or more hydroxy groups and a derivative of the sugar alcohol.
US12243692B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers stacked together, and external electrodes. The multilayer body includes an inner layer portion and outer layer portions in a stacking direction, and an electrode opposing portion and gap portions in a length direction. The multilayer body further includes conductor portions in the two outer layer portions in the gap portions, and each includes conductor layers stacked in the stacking direction. One of that conductor layers that is closest to a middle in the stacking direction of the multilayer body is closer to the middle in the stacking direction of the multilayer body than another of the internal electrode layers closest in the stacking direction to a main surface of the multilayer body.
US12243689B2
A method for manufacturing a chip ceramic electronic component that includes an outer electrode including a glass-free sintered layer including no glass. A glass-free conductive paste including a nickel powder, a metal powder, such as tin, having a melting point of lower than about 500° C., and a thermosetting resin, and not including glass, is applied to cover a portion of a surface of a ceramic body. The ceramic body to which the glass-free conductive paste has been applied is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than or equal to a temperature about 400° C. higher than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin. The thermosetting resin is thermally decomposed or burned such that little or none remains, and the nickel powder and metal powder having a melting point of lower than about 500° C. are sintered to form a unified sintered metal body.
US12243679B2
A tablet stand is disclosed which incorporates a near field antenna configuration which couples to a near field antenna in the back of a tablet and provides a near field antenna coupling region for near field communication at the front of the tablet. The stand may be completely passive and use conductive antenna elements and passive resonance matching circuit elements to provide efficient coupling. In another aspect a thin profile passive keyboard adapted for use with a near field enabled tablet is provided. In another aspect a mounting bracket or holder, embedded antenna, and passive keyboard combination is provided adapted for converting a tablet into a notebook type configuration.
US12243673B2
An inductor device includes a first face, a first inductive path, and magnetic permeable material. The first face couples the inductor device to a circuit board. The first inductive path extends between a first terminal on the first face to a second terminal on the first face. A portion of the first inductive path is exposed on a second face of the inductor device. The second face is disposed opposite the first face. The second face supports dissipation of heat conveyed by the first inductive path from the first face to the second face. The magnetic permeable material is disposed between the first face and the second face and carries magnetic flux associated with the first inductive path.
US12243663B2
A radiation and impact-protected radioactive waste cask, comprising a container for radioactive waste including an outer steel wall, an inner steel wall, a layer of lead located between the two steel walls, a steel base, a steel cover, a volume of quartz sand located inside the container, at least one internal vessel that is surrounded at least partially by the volume of quartz sand; and radioactive waste located inside the receptacle, wherein the radiation and impact-protected radioactive waste cask further comprises a removable outer transportation canister, wherein the removable outer transportation canister comprises a hollow cylindrical or polygonal body with a lower end and an upper end, configured for fittingly receiving therein the container for radioactive waste, wherein the lower end is closed by a fixed bottom and the upper is closed with a removable canister cover, wherein the hollow cylindrical or polygonal body, the fixed bottom and the removable canister cover are made of at least three layers, an outer layer made of armor grade steel, an inner layer made of high strength steel, and an intermediate layer between said outer and inner layers, said intermediate layer being made of one or more strati comprising ceramic material, wherein said ceramic material is selected from oxide ceramics, non-oxide ceramics and mixtures thereof.
US12243662B2
A neutron absorbing insert for use in a fuel rack. In one aspect, the insert includes: a plate structure having a first wall and a second wall that is non-coplanar to the first wall; the first and second walls being formed by a single panel of a metal matrix composite having neutron absorbing particulate reinforcement that is bent into the non-coplanar arrangement along a crease; and a plurality of spaced-apart holes formed into the single panel along the crease prior to bending.
US12243658B2
A method for restraining a sleeve lining a tube passing through a nuclear reactor pressure vessel is provided. The method includes attaching in situ a radial protrusion on an external surface of the sleeve; and attaching a collar to an end of the tube and coupling the radial protrusion with the collar to retain the thermal sleeve in position.
US12243657B2
System for emergency cooling of a nuclear reactor. The system uses passive convection cooling and endothermic reactant cooling.
US12243649B2
Data streams are received from each of the plurality of sensors. These data streams comprise varying values generated by the sensors and characterize an associated physiological parameter. A parameter score is repeatedly determined for each physiological sensor that is based on whether the varying values for the associated physiological parameter deviate from at least one pre-defined threshold. A patient health index is repeatedly generated by combining each of the determined parameter scores to characterize an overall health of the patient. Data characterizing the patient health index is repeatedly provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12243645B2
A computer-implemented method includes defining model attributes including a training iteration value that defines a set of training iterations to be used in machine learning to associate portions of feedback data with a set of topic groups based on similarities in concepts conveyed in the feedback data. The method includes removing at least some of the confidential information from the feedback data. The method includes receiving a topic model number selection that indicates a subset of the set of topic groups. The method includes using machine learning to train a machine model based on the model attributes and the topic model number selection. The method includes generating a display showing at least one of a topic cluster graph or a word cloud based on the machine model.
US12243643B2
An arrangement for determining external damage to hair is given. A device comprising: a reading unit adapted to obtain optical characteristics of hair; and a processing unit adapted to receive the optical characteristics from the reading unit and to determine surface properties of the hair from the optical characteristics, wherein the processing unit implements a pattern recognition algorithm and is adapted to assign, by employing the pattern recognition algorithm, the surface properties to a predetermined damage including at least one damage type and an associated damage level and to output the damage.
US12243637B2
Presented herein are systems and methods that provide for improved detection and characterization of lesions within a subject via automated analysis of nuclear medicine images, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images. In particular, in certain embodiments, the approaches described herein leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to detect regions of 3D nuclear medicine images corresponding to hotspots that represent potential cancerous lesions in the subject. The machine learning modules may be used not only to detect presence and locations of such regions within an image, but also to segment the region corresponding to the lesion and/or classify such hotspots based on the likelihood that they are indicative of a true, underlying cancerous lesion. This AI-based lesion detection, segmentation, and classification can provide a basis for further characterization of lesions, overall tumor burden, and estimation of disease severity and risk.
US12243635B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating synthetic medical images, including images presenting rare conditions or morphologies for which sufficient data may be unavailable. In one aspect, style transfer methods may be used. For example, a target medical image, a segmentation mask identifying style(s) to be transferred to area(s) of the target, and source medical image(s) including the style(s) may be received. Using the mask, the target may be divided into tile(s) corresponding to the area(s) and input to a trained machine learning system. For each tile, gradients associated with a content and style of the tile may be output by the system. Pixel(s) of at least one tile of the target may be altered based on the gradients to maintain content of the target while transferring the style(s) of the source(s) to the target. The synthetic medical image may be generated from the target based on the altering.
US12243633B2
An apparatus (1), for use in conjunction with a medical imaging device (2) having an imaging device controller (4) that displays a graphical user interface (GUI) (8) including a preview image viewport (9), includes at least one electronic processor (20) programmed to: perform an image analysis (38) on a preview image displayed in the preview image viewport to generate preview-derived image label information; extract GUI-derived image label information from the GUI excluding the preview image displayed in the preview image viewport; and output an alert (30) when the preview-derived image label information and the GUI-derived image label information are not consistent.
US12243628B2
Data processing systems for identifying new indications for a drug can include a computer-readable memory including computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute executable logic including the computer-executable instructions and at least one machine learning model to perform one or more operations. The one or more operations can include receiving data representing medical records of a plurality of patients; selecting a set of patients; determining a plurality of patient characteristics of the set of patients; grouping, in accordance with the plurality of patient characteristics, the set of patients to generate a plurality of distinct groups, each of the distinct groups including at least one patient of the set of patients; selecting, based on one or more group selection criteria, a set of distinct groups of the plurality of distinct groups; and identifying one or more relevant patient characteristics by analyzing each distinct group of the set of distinct groups.
US12243627B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing virtual assays of an oil sample such as crude oil based on Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectroscopy carried out on the oil sample, and the density of the oil sample. The virtual assay provides a full range of information about fractions of the oil sample including naphtha, gas oil, vacuum gas oil, vacuum residue, and other information about the properties of the oil sample. Using the system and method herein, the virtual assay data pertaining to these several fractions of the oil sample and the oil sample itself are obtained without fractionation of the oil sample into the several components.
US12243624B2
A facility providing systems and methods for discovering novel features to use in machine learning techniques. The facility receives, for a number of subjects, one or more sets of data representative of some output or condition of the subject over a period of time or capturing some physical aspect of the subject. The facility then extracts or computes values from the data and applies one or more feature generators to the extracted values. Based on the outputs of the feature generators, the facility identifies novel feature generators for use in at least one machine learning process and further mutates the novel feature generators, which can then be applied to the received data to identify additional novel feature generators.
US12243612B2
A memory system includes: a first wiring board having first and second interconnections and a first side surface; a second wiring board having third and fourth interconnections and a second side surface; first and second projecting parts each provided at one of the first and second side surfaces; first and second recessed parts each provided at the other of the first and second side surfaces; and a memory and a memory controller mounted on the first and second wiring boards, respectively. The first and second projecting part are connected to one of the first and third interconnections and one of the second and fourth interconnections, respectively. The first and second recessed parts is connected to the other of the first and third interconnections and the other of the second and fourth interconnections, respectively. The first projecting part is engaged with the first recessed part to electrically connect the memory to the memory controller via the first and third interconnections. The second projecting part is engaged with the second recessed part to electrically connect the memory to the memory controller via the second and fourth interconnections.
US12243604B1
An array of memory cells includes a scan chain with one or more chain segments of storage memory cells. Chain segments are separated by chain buffer memory cells. Memory cells of each chain segment are coupled with a sequence generator that generates a sequence of non-overlapping pulses from a pulse in a scan clock (SCLK) signal. The duration of the sequence equals at most a cycle of the SCLK signal. The scan chain applies the pulses to the memory cells backwards starting from the chain buffer memory cell. Memory cells may include a single latch. The array of memory cells may be included in a semiconductor memory subsystem. A scan chain that has a fault condition may be repaired by rerouting the scan chain to avoid the location of the fault condition and to add one or more redundant chain segments.
US12243596B2
A flash memory device includes a memory array, a first global bit line, and a sense amplifying device. The memory array includes a first memory block having a plurality of first memory cells. In a leakage current detection operation, the sense amplifying device detects a leakage current generated by the first memory cells on the first global bit line to obtain leakage current simulation information. In a program operation, the sense amplifying device provides a reference current according to the leakage current simulation information, and compares a sensing current generated by a selected memory cell in the first memory cells on the first global bit line with the reference current to perform a program verification.
US12243591B2
The memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of word lines. Control circuitry is in communication with the plurality of memory blocks. In operation, the control circuitry receives a data write instruction and programs the memory cells of the memory blocks to a one bit per memory cell (SLC) format. In response to the data programmed to the memory cells of the memory blocks in the SLC format reaching an SLC limit prior to completion of the data write instruction, without erasing the memory cells programmed to the SLC format, the control circuitry programs the memory cells of at least some of the plurality of memory blocks from the SLC format to a two bits per memory cell (MLC) format.
US12243590B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory comprising a group of memory cells coupled to a wordline; and a controller configured to skip programming of one or more pages of the group of memory cells responsive to a sequential write operation; and program the one or more pages of the group of memory cells responsive to one or more random write commands.
US12243585B1
An example described herein is a circuit including a dynamic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) inverter level translator circuit and a capacitor. The dynamic CMOS inverter level translator circuit is electrically connected to a first power domain and has a first input node configured to receive a first trigger signal generated in the first power domain. The dynamic CMOS inverter level translator circuit has a second input node configured to receive a second trigger signal generated in a second power domain different from the first power domain. The capacitor is electrically coupled to an output node of the dynamic CMOS inverter level translator circuit. The capacitor selectively charges to the first power domain through the dynamic CMOS inverter level translator circuit based on the first trigger signal. The capacitor selectively discharges to provide a negative coupling voltage to a write assist supply node.
US12243584B2
An in-memory compute (IMC) device includes an array of memory cells and control logic coupled to the array of memory cells. The array of memory cells is arranged as a plurality of rows of cells intersecting a plurality of columns of cells. The array of memory cells includes a first subset of memory cells forming a plurality of computational engines at intersections of rows and columns of the first subset of the array of memory cells. The array also includes a second subset of memory cells forming a plurality of bias engines. The control logic, in operation, generates control signals to control the array of memory cells to perform a plurality of IMC operations using the computational engines, store results of the plurality of IMC operations in memory cells of the array, and computationally combine results of the plurality of IMC operations with respective bias values using the bias engines.
US12243577B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device receives a plurality of codewords; determines that one or more codewords of the plurality of codewords are corrupt; selects a first read voltage associated with the one or more codewords, such that the first read voltage is based on a second read voltage utilized for reading the one or more codewords in a previous read operation; and applies the first read voltage to a set of memory cells storing the one or more corrupted codewords.
US12243576B2
A method for performing stutter of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) where a system on a chip (SOC) initiates bursts of requests to the DRAM to fill buffers to allow the DRAM to self-refresh is disclosed. The method includes issuing, by a system management unit (SMU), a ForceZQCal command to the memory controller to initiate the stutter procedure in response to receiving a timeout request, such as an SMU ZQCal timeout request, periodically issuing a power platform threshold (PPT) request, by the SMU, to the memory controller, and sending a ForceZQCal command prior to a PPT request to ensure re-training occurs after ZQ Calibration. The ForceZQCal command issued prior to PPT request may reduce the latency of the stutter. The method may further include issuing a ForceZQCal command prior to each periodic re-training.
US12243574B2
A content addressable memory device including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, each of which has a ferroelectric tunnel field effect transistor (FeTFET), and a match amplifier connected to the plurality of memory cells through a plurality of match lines may be provided. The FeTFET includes a first doped region including a first conductivity type, a second doped region including a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, a channel region formed between the first doped region and the second doped region, and a gate formed on the channel region and including a ferroelectric layer.
US12243571B2
The present technology provides a magnetic recording medium of a tape form, including: a magnetic layer; and an underlayer, in which a core part level difference Rk is 5.5 nm or less in a bearing curve generated on the basis of height data of a magnetic layer-side surface acquired using an atomic force microscope, and an average thickness of the underlayer is 1.50 μm or less. In addition, the present technology also provides a tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium of the tape form.
US12243548B2
Some noise compensation methods involve receiving microphone signals corresponding to ambient noise from a noise source location in or near an audio environment, determining or estimating a listener position in the audio environment and estimating at least one critical distance, which is a distance from the noise source location at which directly propagated sound pressure is equal to diffuse field sound pressure. Some examples involve estimating whether the listener position is within the at least one critical distance and implementing a noise compensation method for the ambient noise based, at least in part, on an estimate of whether the listener position is within the critical distance.
US12243539B2
Examples relate to a surgical microscope system and to a corresponding system, method and computer program for a surgical microscope system. The system comprises one or more processors and one or more storage devices. The system is configured to obtain an audio signal from a microphone of the surgical microscope system. The system is configured to analyze the audio signal locally to detect one or more spoken commands within the audio signal. A user-specific voice profile is used to determine whether the one or more spoken commands are uttered by a user associated with the user-specific voice profile. The system is configured to control the surgical microscope system based on the detected one or more spoken commands if the one or more spoken commands are uttered by the user associated with the user-specific voice profile.
US12243531B2
A method of presenting a signal to a speech processing engine is disclosed. According to an example of the method, an audio signal is received via a microphone. A portion of the audio signal is identified, and a probability is determined that the portion comprises speech directed by a user of the speech processing engine as input to the speech processing engine. In accordance with a determination that the probability exceeds a threshold, the portion of the audio signal is presented as input to the speech processing engine. In accordance with a determination that the probability does not exceed the threshold, the portion of the audio signal is not presented as input to the speech processing engine.
US12243530B2
Described herein is a system for enabling a user to perform complex goals using multiple skills/applications of an intelligent assistant device. Skills may register as consumers of an action or providers of an action, and the consumer skills may be configured to invoke provider skills to perform actions. The system receives a request to perform an action from a skill along with some action data. The system validates the action data, selects another skill to perform the action, and forwards the request to the selected skill to perform the action.
US12243525B1
Techniques for using establishing a communication session using a third-party (3P) communications service are described. When a request is received to integrate the 3P service with a first-party (1P) service, a username and password associated with the 3P service are sent to it, and a contact list associated with the 3P service is received in return. When a user of a first device sends a request to communicate with a recipient, if the recipient is represented in the 3P contact list, the system sends a request to the second communication system to establish a communication session.
US12243524B2
An assistance device that assists with the generation of a computer program for controlling operations of a device to be controlled, the assistance device including an output control unit that controls operations of an output unit that outputs an utterance inputted into an input unit that receives an input of an utterance which is information outputted by an output source, wherein, in a case in which information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in a human-device conversation, that is, an interaction between the device to be controlled and a user of the device to be controlled, is inputted, the output control unit causes the output unit to output an event indicating the inputted information, and in a case in which information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in an (N−1)th place (where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) during the human-device conversation is inputted into the input unit, the output control unit causes the output unit to output information prompting for an input of information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in the Nth place during the human-device conversation.
US12243523B2
This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide a handsfree notification management system. An example method includes displaying one or more notifications by the electronic device. In response to displaying the one or more notifications, the method includes detecting a visual interaction of a user with the one or more notifications, identifying a notification from the one or more notifications based on the visual interaction, receiving a speech input related to the notification from the user, determining one or more actions associated with the notification based on the speech input, and performing the one or more actions.
US12243522B2
Methods and devices are provided in which one or more identifiers are registered based on a user setting made by a user of an electronic device. Each of the one or more identifiers corresponds to at least one activated service module. A registered identifier, of the one or more identifiers, is extracted from a user command input through an input device. The user command is changed using a basic identifier preset for a first service module corresponding to the registered identifier. The changed user command is transmitted to a server configured to control execution of the first service module. A result of executing the changed user command based on the first service module is received from the server.
US12243520B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining a direction associated with a detected spoken keyword, forming an acoustic beam in the determined direction, and listening for subsequent speech using the acoustic beam in the determined direction.
US12243514B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining one or more speech signals from a first device, thus defining one or more first device speech signals. One or more speech signals may be obtained from a second device, thus defining one or more second device speech signals. A noise component model may be selected from a plurality of noise component models based upon, at least in part, the one or more first device speech signals and the one or more second device speech signals. The one or more second device speech signals may be augmented, at run-time, based upon, at least in part, the noise component model.
US12243512B2
An incorrect conversion dictionary generating system includes a term input unit, a voice conversion unit 5 that converts an input term to voice to obtain input-term voice, a voice analysis unit that receives the input-term voice output from the voice conversion unit, performs a voice analysis to convert the input-term voice to a term, and obtains a voice analyzed term, and an incorrectly converted term determining unit that receives the input term from the term input unit or the voice conversion unit, receives the voice analyzed term from the voice analysis unit, and determines the voice analyzed term as an incorrectly converted term of the input term when the input term does not match the voice analyzed term. The incorrect conversion dictionary generating system receives the input term and the incorrectly converted term, associates the input term with the incorrectly converted term, and stores in an incorrect conversion dictionary.
US12243498B2
An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
US12243494B2
A display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; and an auxiliary ground voltage line disposed between two adjacent data lines of the plurality of data lines.
US12243493B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device, and can provide a display panel and a display device that have a clock signal line arrangement structure that is advantageous to electrostatic discharge.
US12243486B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a first voltage terminal, a data signal line, a light emission control sub-circuit, and a photoelectric sensing sub-circuit. The light emission control sub-circuit is connected with the first voltage terminal, the data signal line and the light-emitting element. The photoelectric sensing sub-circuit is connected with the first voltage terminal and the data signal line.
US12243482B2
A display device excellent in downsizing, reduction in power consumption, or layout flexibility of an arithmetic device is provided. The display device includes a pixel circuit, a driver circuit, and a functional circuit. The driver circuit has a function of outputting an image signal for performing display in the pixel circuit. The functional circuit includes a CPU including a CPU core including a flip-flop electrically connected to a backup circuit. The display device includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes the driver circuit and the CPU. The second layer includes the pixel circuit and the backup circuit. The first layer includes a semiconductor layer including silicon in a channel formation region. The second layer includes a semiconductor layer including a metal oxide in a channel formation region. The CPU has a function of correcting the image signal in accordance with the amount of current flowing through the pixel circuit.
US12243479B2
A pixel circuit and a display panel including the same are disclosed according to embodiments. The pixel circuit according to embodiments includes a first pixel circuit including a first EM transistor to which a pulse of a first EM signal is applied, and a first driving transistor for driving a first light emitting element; and a second pixel circuit including a second EM transistor to which a pulse of a second EM signal is applied, and a second driving transistor for driving a second light emitting element. A node between the first EM transistor and the first driving transistor and a node between the second EM transistor and the second driving transistor are connected.
US12243478B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to corresponding data lines and respectively connected to corresponding scan lines, a data driving circuit for driving the corresponding data lines, a scan driving circuit for driving the corresponding scan lines, and a driving controller for, during a multi-frequency mode, dividing the display panel into a first display area and a second display area and controlling the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit so that the first display area is driven at a first driving frequency, and the second display area is driven at a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency. During the multi-frequency mode, the driving controller divides the second display area into a plurality of blocks and alternately drives the plurality of blocks every frame.
US12243474B2
An emissive display device includes a driving transistor that includes a driving gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a storage capacitor that includes a first electrode connected to the driving gate electrode and a second electrode; a hold capacitor that includes a first electrode connected to the second electrode of the storage capacitor and a second electrode to which a driving voltage is applied; and a light emitting diode that includes an anode, it further includes a connector that connects the first electrode of the hold capacitor and the second electrode of the hold capacitor, the first electrode of the hold capacitor is in a first gate conductive layer, and the second electrode of the storage capacitor is in a second gate conductive layer, the connector is in a first data conductive layer on the first gate conductive layer and the second gate conductive layer.
US12243473B2
An electronic device able to be operated with a first state and a second state includes a substrate and electronic units. In a top view, the substrate has a first area in the first state and a second area in the second state, and the second area is greater than the first area. The electronic units are disposed on the substrate. The number of the electronic units being in a mode of ON in the second state is greater than that in the first state. The electronic device has a PPA_1 that is defined as a number of the electronic units being in the mode of ON per unit area of the substrate while in the first state, and a PPA_2 that is defined as a number of the electronic units being in the mode of ON per unit area of the substrate while in the second state, 1.5×PPA_1≥PPA_2≥0.5×PPA_1.
US12243468B2
A display device includes a display panel divided into panel blocks including pixels, and a display panel driver which drives the display panel, sets a time point to which a set time elapses from a time point when input image data is determined to be a still image as an operation time point, decreases a luminance gain from the operation time point, determines the set time based on accumulated deterioration amounts of the panel blocks, and applies the luminance gain to the input image data.
US12243467B2
An image signal adjustment method of a detection device is provided. The detection device outputs an image signal including multiple subpixels. The image signal adjustment method includes the following steps: locating a subpixel to be adjusted; analyzing gray-scale values of subpixels in a first direction passing through the subpixel to be adjusted; and using the gray-scale values of the subpixels in the first direction to calculate a gray-scale value of the subpixel to be adjusted.
US12243466B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a driving method thereof. The electronic device includes a pixel compensation circuit and a display panel. The pixel compensation circuit receives a pixel signal. The pixel signal includes multiple sub-pixel gray-scale values. The pixel compensation circuit compensates the sub-pixel gray-scale value according to the difference between the sub-pixel gray-scale values and the first threshold value to output an adjusted pixel signal. The display panel displays an image screen according to the adjusted pixel signal.
US12243456B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being grouped into a plurality of pixel blocks, a nonvolatile memory configured to store previous accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to a previous driving period, a controller configured to calculate current block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks in a current driving period, to calculate current accumulated block degradation information for the plurality of pixel blocks up to the current driving period by adding the current block degradation information to the previous accumulated block degradation information in response to a power control signal indicating a power-off, and to determine whether a sensing operation for each of the plurality of pixel blocks is to be performed by comparing the current accumulated block degradation information for each of the plurality of pixel blocks with a sensing reference degradation amount, and a sensing circuit configured to selectively perform the sensing operation for each of the plurality of pixel blocks.
US12243454B2
Apparatus, Methods and System for displaying a mobile image is provided. A mobile image display apparatus is provided. The mobile image display apparatus comprises a fixing unit having a means capable of being fixed to a moving means; a display for displaying an image, in which a checksum pattern for determining whether a screen is normally output is inserted; a processor for reproducing image data so that the image is displayed through the display; and a sensor for detecting an illuminance value of a position where the checksum pattern is displayed by the display.
US12243443B2
A system for treatment and/or psychology intervention of attention deficit disorders in a user in need thereof. The system uses a head mounted display equipped with an eye tracking device. The system is configured to display a scene that includes a principal object and at least one secondary object, then use the eye tracking device to determine whether the user's gaze is directed to one of the objects. If the user's gaze is directed to one of the secondary objects beyond a threshold criterion, that secondary object is removed from the scene. If the user's gaze is directed to the principal object beyond a threshold criterion, a previously removed secondary object is reintroduced into the scene. The principal object is a desired object of the user's attention, while the secondary object(s) may be potentially or known distracting objects. Corresponding software and methods are also disclosed.
US12243438B2
A computer processing system is provided for enhancing video-based language learning. The system includes a video server for storing videos that use one or more languages to be learned. The system further includes a video metadata database for storing translations of sentences uttered in the videos, character profiles of characters appearing in the videos, and mappings between the sentences and a learner profile. The system also includes a learner profile database for storing learner profiles. The system additionally includes a semantic analyzer and matching engine for finding, for at least a given video and a given learner, alternative sentences for and responsive to the translations of the sentences uttered in the given video that conflict with a respective learner profile for the given learner. The computer processing system further includes a presentation system for playing back the given video and providing the alternative sentences to the given learner.
US12243437B2
Aspects of embodiments pertain to a method for determining an Input/Output (I/O) device configuration for a music teaching system. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of I/O device configurations of a music teaching system; receiving, for a given I/O device of the music teaching system, an initial I/O device configuration; and determining an updated I/O device configuration for the given I/O Device, based on the initial I/O device configuration of the given I/O Device and at least one of the plurality of received I/O device configurations. The determining is performed such that the updated I/O device configuration has improved device performance compared to the initial I/O device configuration.
US12243434B2
The control unit 16 of the UAV 1 detects the UAV 50 as a search target on the basis of the sensing data obtained by sensing of the sensor unit 14, and moves the UAV 1 to a position above the detected UAV 50. Then, the control unit 16 identifies a current position of the UAV 1 when the UAV 1 has moved to the position above the UAV 50, and transmits search position information indicating the identified current position as the current position of the UAV 50.
US12243431B2
Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles.
US12243430B2
Various embodiments provide a method for controlling platooning of a first platooning group by a first device in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a second device, information on a second platooning group controlled by the second device; on the basis of the information on the second platooning group, transmitting a merging request message for merging with the second platooning group; and on the basis of merging of a first platooning group with the second platooning group, updating platooning information related to platooning, wherein the platooning information is updated to include first platooning information relating to the existing first platooning group, which corresponds to sub-group information, and second platooning information relating to the merged first platooning group and the second platooning group.
US12243425B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for communication between road users, including at least one motor vehicle, in a traffic situation, wherein each road user has a communication device that uses a communication channel to periodically transmit basic information comprising at least one operating parameter and a position of the road user, wherein, to form a communication group for an application, in particular a movement maneuver, a road user that is planning to perform the application transmits a request message via the communication channel, wherein a response message from at least one further road user that is likewise planning or performing the application results in the communication group being established with said further road user, wherein at least one group member of the communication group periodically transmits a group status message via the communication channel as communication leader representing all group members, said group member status message using identification information to describe the group members as a joint object, performing the application, in such a way that an additional message sent to the object with the identification information is received and evaluated by all group members.
US12243424B2
A vehicle flow monitoring system for detecting both a car count and direction of movement of vehicles passing a point of interest. The vehicle flow monitoring system generally includes a car counter which may include a microcontroller and a pair of distance sensors. Each of the distance sensors is oriented toward a unique point of interest. Each of the distance sensors includes a threshold distance reading which is used to detect whether a vehicle has passed underneath the car counter. The system may determine direction of travel of the vehicle based on which of the distance sensors is passed by the vehicle first. The microcontroller may assign an Event ID to each time a vehicle passes each of the sensors, with the Event ID being used to identify when and if the vehicle should be counted, or whether a non-vehicle object has passed the car counter.
US12243422B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the performance of a device in different geographic locations by using transfer learning to provide a customized learning model for the different locations. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving segments of a model from separate members in a geographic hierarchy and assembling the segments into the model. The segments include at least a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. The method includes processing sensor data using the model to provide an output for assisting a device.
US12243421B2
Real state information, which influences the switching times of a light signal system, is supplied as input signals to a first neural network in a fixed time cycle. The first neural network calculates estimated state information as a replacement for real state information or parts of the real state information which are not received in good time or are received incorrectly in the fixed time cycle. This estimated state information is output to artificial intelligence which predicts the switching times. The first neural network allows the artificial intelligence to also make good predictions for the switching times of signal groups when one of the many communication paths involved fails or is overloaded. It is therefore possible to predict signal group states in the fixed time cycle in real time with a high degree of robustness and tolerance with respect to gaps in the time cycle of the real state information provided.
US12243412B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting false alarms are disclosed. An indication may be received that a sensor device has changed state. Data indicative of movement of the sensor device may also be received. Based on the received data indicative of movement of the sensor device, it may be determined whether the movement of the sensor device is abnormal. Based on the changed state of the sensor device and based on determining that the movement of the sensor device is abnormal, an indication of a false alarm may be caused to be output.
US12243411B2
Devices, methods, and systems for monitoring a self-testing fire sensing device are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive, from a self-testing fire sensing device, measurements of outputs of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) of the self-testing fire sensing device during operation of the self-testing fire sensing device, determine when a deviation in the measured outputs of the LEDs of the self-testing fire sensing device meets or exceeds a threshold deviation amount, determine an action to take on the self-testing fire sensing device upon determining the deviation in in the measured outputs of the LEDs meets or exceeds the threshold deviation amount, and send a notification of the determined action to take on the self-testing fire sensing device to an additional computing device.
US12243401B2
A security device system including portions configured to have a combined state and a separated state. In the combined state, circuitry is configured to have an armed state and a not-armed state, and to trigger an alarm during a breach of the armed state. Depending on the embodiment, at least one of the portions, and in some embodiments more than one of the portions, participate in the armed and not-armed states. In some embodiments, the security device system includes an alarm device portion, a cradle portion, and a stratum portion.
US12243396B2
A computer-implemented method for demonstrating a personalized automated teller machine (ATM) presentation to a user may include: obtaining transaction data of the user via a device associated with the user; obtaining, via the one or more processors, geographic data of the user based on the transaction data; generating, via the one or more processors, ATM data based on the geographic data of the user; obtaining, via the one or more processors, user feedback data based on the ATM data, wherein the user feedback data comprises a selection of an ATM of the list of the ATMs; transmitting, to the selected ATM of the list of the ATMs, presentation data based on the transaction data and the user feedback data; and demonstrating, via the selected ATM of the list of the ATMs, the personalized ATM presentation to the user based on the presentation data.
US12243394B2
An arcade game system, comprising a physical see-through game box, an external game control panel, an internal color game display, a hopper for ball dropping coupled with a hopper sensor for detecting said ball dropping, a flat tray, a sweeper, a ball funnel, an internal ball purveyor, a prize pickup bin, a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a memory component, a circuit board, an audio output device, a gameplay, and a prize package. The game control panel further comprises a coin input device operable to accept a coin from a player. The color game display is operable to display a graphical interface of the gameplay in response to a coin input. The microprocessor, GPU, and circuit board, together, provide and control the gameplay, which comprises a graphical interface that in turn comprises a left virtual wheel and a right virtual wheel, a left virtual X sign and a right virtual X sign, a prize drop progress bar, a prize ticket counter, a ball counter, and a coin counter.
US12243392B2
Embodiments of this concept are directed to a method of operating a gaming device to determine game outcomes by using a range of game numbers for winning game outcomes. That is, the gaming device includes a range of numbers associated with a generic winning outcome or each winning outcome to ensure that a winning outcome or specific winning outcome will hit within the specified range. This method may be used a variety of game types including slot machines, video poker, keno, video pachinko, etc. These gaming machines may additionally include one or more proximity indicators or meters associated with the various outcomes.
US12243388B2
A casino credit access instrument comprises a source of funds for a player, such as for placing wagers to play casino-style games or to purchase other goods or services. The instrument defines a period of timed during which credit may be accessed up to a predetermined amount, defines a redemption period during which any accessed credit may be re-paid, and defines settlement terms if the instrument is not redeemed. Controls may be utilized which control access to the credit. Credit may be granted based upon financial collateral, which collateral may be executed upon to settle the instrument. The instrument provides a convenient source of funding for players at low risk to the casino or other lender.
US12243384B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, retrofit card readers for gaming machines, and methods of operating gaming machines and retrofit card readers. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an indication that a wireless communication module has wirelessly communicated with a player credential, synthesizing a state change that emulates a physical card insertion event in response to receiving the indication that the wireless communication module has wirelessly communicated with the player credential, and communicating the synthesized state change to a Slot Machine Interface Board (SMIB). The synthesized state change may be communicated with a set of electrical signals that include a card detection state and data read from the player credential.
US12243372B2
In various embodiments a display may allow a secondary player to select a game of an appropriate primary player.
US12243370B2
The present application concerns the visual identification of materials or documents for tracking or authentication purposes. It describes methods to automatically authenticate an object by comparing some object images with reference images, the object images being characterized by the fact that visual elements used for comparison are non-disturbing for the naked eye. In some described approaches it provides the operator with visible features to locate the area to be imaged. It also proposes ways for real-time implementation enabling user friendly detection using mobile devices like smart phones.
US12243347B1
Some methods may involve receiving fingerprint image data and a first set of background image data from a fingerprint sensor and determining first processed fingerprint image data via a subtraction of the first set of background image data from the fingerprint image data. Some methods may involve obtaining force data corresponding to a force applied to the fingerprint sensor when the fingerprint image data were obtained. Some methods may involve obtaining a second set of background image data corresponding to the force data. Some methods may involve determining second processed fingerprint image data based, at least in part, on the first processed fingerprint image data and the second set of background image data, and outputting the second processed fingerprint image data. In some examples, determining the second processed fingerprint image data may involve a machine learning model. Some examples may involve estimating residual noise based on the force data.
US12243345B2
An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch is provided. An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch with a small number of components is provided. An electronic device capable of executing various types of processes with simple operation is provided. The electronic device includes a control portion and a display portion. The display portion has a function of displaying an image on a screen and includes a detection portion. The detection portion has a function of detecting a touch operation and a function of imaging, at least twice, a detection object touching the screen. The control portion has a function of calculating a difference between the area of the detection object in first imaging and the area of the detection object in second imaging to execute a different process depending on whether the difference is larger or smaller than a reference.
US12243342B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for extracting data from an architectural drawing. The technique includes performing one or more operations via one or more machine learning models to extract a first image of a floorplan area from the architectural drawing. The technique also includes generating a boundary segmentation based on the first image of the floorplan area, wherein the boundary segmentation includes one or more boundary types for one or more portions of the floorplan area.
US12243340B2
A system and method for domain aware document classification and information extraction from consumer documents are disclosed. A particular embodiment is configured to: establish, by use of a data processor and a data network, a data connection with at least one applicant platform; receive an upload of documents from the applicant platform via the data network; classify each document as being of a particular document type; determine an information extraction strategy based on a document type classification of a particular document; and extract information from the particular document based on the information extraction strategy.
US12243328B2
A road sign interpretation system includes a front-facing camera mounted on or in a vehicle collecting image data of multiple road signs. A first convolutional neural network (CNN) receives the image data from the front-facing camera and yields a set of sign predictions including one or more sign text instances. A second CNN defining a text extractor receives the image data from the front-facing camera and extracts text candidates including the multiple sign text instances. Sign and sign data localization is provided in the second CNN to compute a text order from the multiple sign text instances. A sign text synthesizer module receives individual sign text instances from the first CNN and individual ones of the sign text instances in digitized forms from an optical character recognizer (OCR). A semantic encoding and interpretation module receives the sign text instances and identifies semantics of the multiple road signs.
US12243327B2
In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system collecting first sensor data, of a particular geographic location, from a first type of sensor. The computing system may process the first sensor data to identify one or more first objects at the particular geographic location. The computing system may access an existing high-definition (HD) map associated with the particular geographic location. The existing HD map includes one or more second objects and is generating using second sensor data collected with a second type of sensor. The computing system may determine whether the one or more first objects are included in the existing HD map. In response to determining that the one or more first objects are not included in the existing HD map, the computing system may update the existing HD map to generate an updated HD map that includes the first objects and the second objects.
US12243325B2
A method for self-calibrating alignment between image data and point cloud data utilizing a machine learning model includes receiving, with an electronic control unit, image data from a vision sensor and point cloud data from a depth sensor, implementing, with the electronic control unit, a machine learning model trained to: align the point cloud data and the image data based on a current calibration, detect a difference in alignment of the point cloud data and the image data, adjust the current calibration based on the difference in alignment, and output a calibrated embedding feature map based on adjustments to the current calibration.
US12243319B2
A target object tracking system (1) includes a processor (5) for receiving image data (S1) captured by one or more sensor (7) disposed on the vehicle (2). The processor (5) is configured to analyse the image data to identify image components (IMC(n)) and to determine a movement vector (V(n)) of each image component (IMC(n)). The movement vectors each include a magnitude and a direction. At least one of the image components (IMC(n)) is classified as a target image component relating to the target object and at least one of the remaining image components (IMC(n)) as a non-target image component. The movement vector (V(n)) of the at least one target image component is modified in dependence on the movement vector of the or each non-target image component. The target object (3) is tracked in dependence on the modified movement vector of the at least one target image component. The disclosure also relates to a method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US12243317B1
A system and method for real-time monitoring of personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance at a worksite. The system includes a processor, a host memory, a graphical processing unit (GPU), a GPU memory, a storage device, an input device, a plurality of cameras, and a display device. The system creates multiple inference engines and loads input frames from the storage device for pre-processing. The pre-processed frames are processed to obtain annotations and generate an output file. The system also includes a preparatory area and an operations area with cameras configured to capture and transmit video frames. The system can process input frames at a rate of at least 15 frames per second, providing real-time PPE compliance information.
US12243314B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for recognizing human action in an apron based on thermal infrared vision, the method comprises: acquiring a plurality of video sequences from an infrared monitoring video; labeling a set target in each image frame in each video sequence with a target box to obtain a target tracking result; intercepting, for each image frame in the video sequence, a target-box enlarged area according to the labeled target box; adding, for each image frame in the video sequence, the position information of the image labeled with target box to the target-box enlarged area to obtain a three-channel sub-image; training an action recognition model by using three-channel sub-image sequences corresponding to a plurality of video sequences as a training set, to obtain a trained action recognition model; obtaining a to-be-recognized video sequence from another infrared monitoring video, and obtaining a three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence; inputting the three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence into the trained action recognition model to output a target action type.
US12243311B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for vehicle verification. The method may include receiving vehicle verification information related to a vehicle to be verified from a client, wherein the vehicle verification information includes a plurality of images acquired by the client via an imaging device, and the vehicle verification information responds to at least one vehicle verification instruction. The method may further include determining a verification result of the vehicle based on the vehicle verification information.
US12243307B2
Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities.
US12243302B2
A device may receive tracking data identifying trajectories of objects, and may annotate the tracking data to identify object categories for the tracking data. The device may identify objects based on the object categories, and may determine object trajectories for the objects. The device may transform the object trajectories to overhead planar trajectories, and may generate simplified object trajectories. The device may convert a continuous space associated with the simplified object trajectories into a discrete space, and may convert the discrete space to a lower dimensional space. The device may transform the object trajectories to binary feature vectors, and may process the binary feature vectors, with a clustering model, to determine trajectory clusters. The device may train a classification model with the binary feature vectors and the trajectory clusters, and may cause the trained classification model to be implemented.
US12243301B2
Disclosed systems and methods relate to remote sensing, deep learning, and object detection. Some embodiments relate to machine learning for object detection, which includes, for example, identifying a class of pixel in a target image and generating a label image based on a parameter set. Other embodiments relate to machine learning for geometry extraction, which includes, for example, determining heights of one or more regions in a target image and determining a geometric object property in a target image. Yet other embodiments relate to machine learning for alignment, which includes, for example, aligning images via direct or indirect estimation of transformation parameters.
US12243300B2
Various embodiments of the present technology relate to using neural networks to detect objects in images. More specifically, some embodiments relate to the reduction of computational analysis regarding object detection via neural networks. In an embodiment, a method of performing object detection is provided. The method comprises determining, via a convolution neural network, at least a classification of an image, wherein the classification corresponds to an object in the image and comprises location vectors corresponding to pixels of the image. The method also comprises, for at least a location vector of the location vectors, obtaining a confidence level, wherein the confidence level represents a probability of the object being present at the location vector, and calculating an upper-bound score based at least on the confidence level. The method further comprises, for at least an upper-bound score based at least on the confidence level, performing an activation function on the upper-bound score, and classifying, via a detection layer, the object in the image.
US12243296B2
The embodiments herein provide a method of obtaining a weighted combination of dynamic vision sensor (DVS) measurements and contact image sensor (CIS) measurements for determining visual inference in an electronic device, the method includes receiving, by the electronic device, a DVS image and a CIS image from the image sensor; determining, by the electronic device, a plurality of parameters associated with the DVS image and feature velocities of a plurality of CIS features present in the CIS image; determining, by the electronic device, a determined DVS feature confidence based on the plurality of parameters associated with the DVS image; determining, by the electronic device, a determined CIS feature confidence based on the feature velocities of the plurality of features present in the CIS image; and calculating, by the electronic device, a weighted visual inference based on the determined DVS feature confidence and the determined CIS feature confidence.
US12243288B2
Certain aspects and features of this disclosure relate to chromatic undertone detection. For example, a method involves receiving an image file and producing, using a color warmth classifier, an image warmth profile from the image file. The method further involves applying a surface-image-trained machine-learning model to the image warmth profile to produce an inferred undertone value for the image file. The method further involves comparing, using a recommendation module, and the inferred undertone value, an image color value to a plurality of pre-existing color values corresponding to a database of production images, and causing, in response to the comparing, interactive content including the at least one production image selection from the database of production images to be provided on a recipient device.
US12243287B2
An image analysis device (BA) is configured to recognize imaged objects. A plurality of training images (TPIC) assigned to an object type (OT) and an object sub-type (OST) are fed into a first neural network module (CNN) to detect image features. Training output data sets (FEA) of the first neural network module are fed into a second neural network module (MLP) to detect object types using the detected image features. For each object type: training images assigned to the object type (OT1, OT2) are fed into the trained first neural network module, the first neural network module training output data set (FEA1, FEA2) generated for the respective training image is assigned to the object sub-type (OST) of the respective training image, and by means of the aforementioned sub-type assignments, a sub-type detection module (BMLP1, BMLP2) is configured to detect object sub-types.
US12243284B2
This application relates to an image recognition technology in the field of computer vision in the field of artificial intelligence, and provides an image classification method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an input feature map of a to-be-processed image; performing convolution processing on the input feature map based on M convolution kernels of a neural network, to obtain a candidate output feature map of M channels, where M is a positive integer; performing matrix transformation on the M channels of the candidate output feature map based on N matrices, to obtain an output feature map of N channels, where a quantity of channels of each of the N matrices is less than M, N is greater than M, and N is a positive integer; and classify the to-be-processed image based on the output feature map, to obtain a classification result of the to-be-processed image.
US12243283B2
A computer-implemented method for determining an output signal characterizing a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of an image. The method includes: determining a first intermediate output signal from a machine learning system, wherein the first intermediate output signal characterizes a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of the image; adapting parameters of the machine learning system based on a loss function, wherein the loss function characterizes an entropy or a cross-entropy of the first intermediate output signal; determining the output signal from the machine learning system based on the image and the adapted parameters.
US12243275B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: determining a first maximum bit count for encoded data obtained after encoding at least one of (i) a divisional data unit obtained when point cloud data indicating a three-dimensional point cloud is divided or (ii) a point cloud data unit of the point cloud data before the dividing; and generating a bitstream by encoding (i) items of divisional data obtained by dividing the point cloud data or (ii) the point cloud data before the dividing, to satisfy the first maximum bit count determined. The bitstream includes first bit count information indicating the first maximum bit count.
US12243267B2
A system and computer-implemented method for facilitating a user of a mobile device obtaining image data of damage to a vehicle for damage assessment includes capturing image data of a vehicle with the mobile device. The mobile device may include an orientation model for capturing the image data. The captured image data is analyzed, and a determination is made of the orientations of the images of the captured image data. In addition, a determination is made as to whether the captured image data can be used for the damage assessment. The captured image data may then be transmitted to a damage estimator computing device for estimating an amount of damage to the vehicle.
US12243253B2
There is provided a depth information generating apparatus. A first generating unit generates first depth information on the basis of a plurality of viewpoint images which are obtained from first shooting and which have mutually-different viewpoints. A second generating unit generates second depth information for a captured image obtained from second shooting by correcting the first depth information so as to reflect a change in depth caused by a difference in a focal distance of the second shooting relative to the first shooting.
US12243241B2
A method for tracking and/or characterizing multiple objects in a sequence of images. The method includes: assigning a neural network to each object to be tracked; providing a memory that is shared by all neural networks; providing a local memory for each neural network, respectively; supplying images from the sequence, and/or details of these images, to each neural network; during the processing of each image and/or image detail by one of the neural networks, generating an address vector from at least one processing product of this neural network; based on this address vector, writing at least one further processing product of the neural network into the shared memory and/or into the local memory, and/or reading out data from this shared memory and/or local memory and further processing the data by the neural network.
US12243235B2
Various embodiments contemplate systems, architectures and methods for extracting and selecting headshots of human or non-human entities from catalogs of images of such subjects. The methods described may find and extract faces from within groups of subjects, verify that the extracted faces correspond to the desired subject, determine cropping or masking regions, or both, of rectangular, circular, elliptical or some other geometry to provide an easily recognized image of the desired subject, expand the output image by synthesizing pixels as may be needed for a desired cropping or masking region, select preferred images among a collection of images of the desired subject, and perform other useful functions. The resulting output images may be in either direct form, reference form or both forms.
US12243218B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for scanning wafer. The system captures a defect image of a wafer, and generates a reference image corresponding to the first defect image based on a reference image generation model. The system generates a defect marked image based on the defect image and the reference image.
US12243214B2
A method for identifying inaccurately depicted boxes in an image, such as miss detected boxes and partially detected boxes. The method obtains a 2D RGB image of the boxes and a 2D depth map image of the boxes using a 3D camera, where pixels in the depth map image are assigned a value identifying the distance from the camera to the boxes. The method generates a segmentation image of the boxes using a neural network by performing an image segmentation process that extracts features from the RGB image and segments the boxes by assigning a label to pixels in the RGB image so that each box in the segmentation image has the same label and different boxes in the segmentation image have different labels. The method analyzes the segmentation image to determine if the image segmentation process has failed to accurately segment the boxes in the segmentation image.
US12243211B2
In a method for training a neural network to recognize a tool condition based on image data, the neural network is trained to recognize the tool condition of a first tool type, and image data of a second tool type is applied. The image data is subjected to image processing. Via this, the image data of the second tool type is converted into image data of the first tool type. The neural network is trained based on the converted image data. In a method for machining and/or production via the first tool type, the tool condition of the first tool type is recognized via a neural network that is trained in accordance with such a method.
US12243207B2
The invention is an image taking method in which images are taken with a microscope in an analyzing space at focal plane positions shifted with an equal step size, and an image is selected from the taken images for further image processing; the images are taken of a sediment of a liquid; the method includes: taking, in a first spatial region of the analyzing space, a first depth image sequence, and selecting from the first depth image sequence the image with the best contrast for further image processing, and taking, in a second spatial region of the analyzing space, a second depth image sequence with fewer images by taking into account the previous step, and selecting from the second depth image sequence the image with the best contrast for further image processing. The invention further includes an image analysis neural network for use with the above method.
US12243192B2
An apparatus to facilitate video motion smoothing is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors including a graphics processor, the one or more processors including circuitry configured to receive a video stream, decode the video stream to generate a motion vector map and a plurality of video image frames, analyze the motion vector map to detect a plurality of candidate frames, wherein the plurality of candidate frames comprise a period of discontinuous motion in the plurality of video image frames and the plurality of candidate frames are determined based on a classification generated via a convolutional neural network (CNN), generate, via a generative adversarial network (GAN), one or more synthetic frames based on the plurality of candidate frames, insert the one or more synthetic frames between the plurality of candidate frames to generate up-sampled video frames and transmit the up-sampled video frames for display.
US12243191B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain plural images each including any of plural objects; and determine, based on an analysis result regarding the plural objects in the plural images, according to which of two or more objects, among the plural objects, included in an image the image is corrected.
US12243189B2
A viewer may zoom in on an image to see a portion of the image. The image may be analyzed to determine if zoom enhancement is necessary. The zoomed region may be matched to a replacement texture. The replacement texture may be used to enhance the image by replacing some or all of the image data.
US12243179B2
Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for digital advertising. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes presenting virtual items at a virtual user engagement station. The virtual user engagement station may include a threshold radius for activation of a change in configuration. Upon an avatar crossing the threshold radius, the avatar may be allowed to temporarily wear or interact with the presented virtual items, display different virtual items, and/or purchase virtual items.
US12243176B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, through a user interface (UI) of an artificial-reality (AR) design tool, a selection of a configurable interface element to place the AR design tool and the UI into a configure phase to configure an AR effect. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving, through the UI of the AR design tool after the AR design tool and the UI are placed into the configure phase in response to selecting the configurable interface element, instructions to add a voice-command module to the AR effect. The computer-implemented method further includes configuring, while the AR design tool and the UI are placed into the configure phase, one or more parameters of the voice-command module. The computer-implemented method further includes generating the AR effect utilizing a particular voice command at runtime based on configured one or more parameters of the voice-command module.
US12243174B2
Methods for rendering augmented reality (AR) content are presented. An a priori defined 3D albedo model of an object is leveraged to adjust AR content so that is appears as a natural part of a scene. Disclosed devices recognize a known object having a corresponding albedo model. The devices compare the observed object to the known albedo model to determine a content transformation referred to as an estimated shading (environmental shading) model. The transformation is then applied to the AR content to generate adjusted content, which is then rendered and presented for consumption by a user.
US12243172B2
An information processing system that acquires image data captured by an image capturing device; identifies a density of distribution of a plurality of feature points in the acquired image data; and controls a display to display guidance information based on the density of the distribution of the plurality of feature points.
US12243169B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present a view of a device user's face portion, that would otherwise be blocked by an electronic device positioned in front of the face, on an outward-facing display of the user's device. The view of the user's face portion may be configured to enable observers to see the user's eyes and facial expressions as if they were seeing through a clear device at the user's actual eyes and facial expressions. Various techniques are used to provide views of the user's face that are realistic, that show the user's current facial appearance, and/or that present the face portion with 3D spatial accuracy, e.g., each eye appearing to be in its actual 3D position. Some implementations combine live data with previously-obtained data, e.g., combining live data with enrollment data.
US12243163B2
Systems and methods are provided for pitch determination. An example method includes obtaining an image depicting a structure, the image being captured via a user device positioned proximate to the structure. The image is segmented to identify, at least, a roof facet of the structure. An eave vector and a rake vector which are associated with the roof facet are determined. A normal vector of the roof facet is calculated based on the eave vector and the rake vector, and compared to a vector indicating a vertical direction such as gravity. The angle made out by the normal and a gravity vector may be utilized to calculate the pitch of the roof facet.
US12243160B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for in-application virtual object sharing include (i) responsive to a first acquiring a virtual object recognized by a software application, identifying a first user identifier associated with the first user, (ii) identifying a virtual object identifier associated with the virtual object, (iii) identifying a user group representing a plurality of users including the first user (iv) associating the virtual object identifier with one or more additional user identifiers associated with users within the user group, and (v) updating in a non-transitory memory, a profile corresponding to each user associated with the user group, that also has the virtual object identifier associated with a user identifier corresponding to said user, wherein said update to the profile is based on the properties of the virtual object.
US12243157B2
An apparatus to facilitate inferred object shading is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors to receive rasterized pixel data and hierarchical data associated with one or more objects and perform an inferred shading operation on the rasterized pixel data, including using one or more trained neural networks to perform texture and lighting on the rasterized pixel data to generate a pixel output, wherein the one or more trained neural networks uses the hierarchical data to learn a three-dimensional (3D) geometry, latent space and representation of the one or more objects.
US12243144B2
This application provides a display method and an electronic device. The method includes: The electronic device may generate a transition animation of the electronic device based on a user selection and a video stored in the electronic device.
US12243131B2
An operator interface for a combine harvester, having a display device, input means and a processor configured to activate the display device such that the display device depicts having an elongated element, a scale being assigned thereto, and a first marking, the position thereof relative to the elongated element depending on an operating parameter of the threshing device and/or the cleaning device. A second marking and/or third marking, which represents a lower and/or upper limit of the setting range of the operating parameter which is predetermined depending on the type of crop, is assigned to the elongated element in the diagram.
US12243125B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.
US12243121B2
In implementations of systems for generating and propagating personal masking edits, a computing device implements a mask system to detect a face of a person depicted in a digital image displayed in a user interface of an application for editing digital content. The mask system determines an identifier for the person based on an identifier for the face. Edit data is received describing properties of an editing operation and a type of mask used to modify a particular portion of the person depicted in the digital image. The mask system edits an additional digital image identified based on the identifier of the person using the type of mask and the properties of the editing operation to modify the particular portion of the person as depicted in the additional digital image.
US12243119B2
A graphics processor including geometry and fragment processing logic, and a memory manager arranged to allocate and deallocate memory for use to hold tile data. The memory manager tracks which memory regions are allocated to hold tile data of which subdivisions (e.g. macrotiles) of the render area. Once the fragment processing logic has finished processing the tile data of a subdivision, it sends an identifier of that subdivision to the memory manager for deallocation. The processor further comprises a blocking circuit enabling the fragment processing logic to start processing tile data of a second task while the memory manager is still deallocating some of the memory regions allocated to the subdivisions of a first task; by preventing identifiers of subdivisions of the second task being passed to the memory manager until it has completed deallocating the memory regions allocated to the first task.
US12243118B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to indicate contextual information to be used by available logical processors. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to indicate a first set of contextual information to be used by a first subset of available processors.
US12243114B2
A method for tracking, managing, and fulfilling data loading service request includes: receiving a data loading service request for loading oilfield-related data to an application; generating a service ticket based on the request, the service ticket identifying details of the data loading service request; assigning one or more tasks associated with the service ticket to one or more resources; receiving, from the one or more resources, information regarding status of completion of the requested service; and providing one or more updates on the status of the requested server to the user through an oilfield-related user interface.
US12243108B1
A method for determining a financial valuation for a business including: receiving a set of user inputs having at least one of the following: a total income, a cost of sales, a total expense, a depreciation, an amortization, a shared-based compensation, an owner compensation, a cash and marketable security, and a long term debt; receiving a set of fixed inputs having at least one of the following: a discount rate, and a tax rate; calculating at least one financial valuation using a modified discounted cash flow valuation method; determining when a trigger condition has been met based on the at least one financial valuation; when the trigger condition has been met, sending a business owner a recommendation to take a subsequent action.
US12243104B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system that may facilitate communications so that parents or other superiors may monitor driving behavior of a vehicle carrying children or other subordinates. The system may allow communications to be sent from a parent computing device to a particular child computing device to set conditions for notifying the parent or superior of the driving behavior of a vehicle. Child computing devices may collect drive data (e.g., vehicle telematics data) for the system to evaluate and determine whether conditions are met (e.g., whether parental restrictions, like a geo-fence, are violated). Further, the system may send notifications to child computing devices and parent computing devices indicating whether the drive data meets the conditions of an agreement between a parent and teen. The system may also provide a web portal for use in forming the agreement between parents and their teens.
US12243102B1
Disclosed are method and systems to program a server to identify the value of a fund comprising shares of multiple private entities. The server receives transaction data associated with a fund where the transaction data identifies a proportion of shares within the fund associated with each private entity, price per share of each private entity, and other relevant data. The server then executes multiple artificial intelligence models to identify comparable public entities to each private entity. The server then retrieves stock price data for each public entity and calculates a value for each private entity in real time. The server also displays a value of the fund in real time where identification of each private entity is anonymized.
US12243100B2
Systems and methods for implementing a confirmation period are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a market condition associated with a quantity of a tradeable object of a trading strategy, wherein the market condition triggers an adjustment to the trading strategy; initiating a confirmation period in response to the market condition; when a reevaluation of the market condition during the confirmation period indicates that the market condition has ceased, preventing the adjustment to the trading strategy; and when the market condition persists throughout the confirmation period, proceeding with the adjustment to the trading strategy.
US12243098B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for enabling and facilitating automated real-time dynamic valuation and trading in restricted securities of publically-traded companies via a centralized computer network system. The method includes steps of: defining a set of restricted securities transaction qualification factors and storing them on computer memory storage; defining a set of regulatory compliance standards and storing them on computer memory storage; qualifying parties using the system in accordance with the qualification factors; establishing an initial online bidding and offering procedure, which functions as an auction for facilitating a primary placement of restricted securities; monitoring respective transactions to ensure compliance standards are maintained; and effecting the transfer of restricted securities in a manner that ensures that parties to a transaction are legally qualifies and the transfer is accomplished in accordance with the regulatory compliance standards.
