US12255537B2
An LLC resonant converter comprises, an LLC resonant converter circuit with an output line and an input line. The LLC resonant converter circuit includes a switch array operatively connecting between the input line and the output line. A controller is connected to the input line by a feed forward line and connected to a respective gate of each switch in the switch array. The controller includes machine readable instructions configured to cause the controller to receive feed forward input from the input line and control switching of the switch array with a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) switching pattern to regulate voltage of the output line.
US12255532B2
A modular AC/DC power conversion module for power sources and loads and a method of driving the same is provided. When an AC/DC converter is electrically coupled to an external power source, a microprocessor is electrically energized by a buck auxiliary circuit, under control of the microprocessor, a DC/DC converter is activated for a certain time period, and then, the AC/DC converter is activated. Thereafter, an output voltage of the AC/DC converter is boosted, and an output voltage of the DC/DC converter is boosted accordingly. Power elements in the downstream side DC/DC converter are activated first, and then power elements in the upstream side AC/DC converter are activated, thereby an inrush current is suppressed. Once the external power source is connected, the buck auxiliary circuit will automatically reduce a voltage of the power input to activate the module. It realizes that the module will autonomously operate after being electrically energized.
US12255518B2
Provided is a driving motor having a slim BLDC motor vertically mounted in a housing and a swivel actuator using same. The swivel actuator has an annular stator arranged on the bottom of the housing and a rotor arranged therein and having a worm gear integrally formed on the upper side thereof. A worm wheel of a power transmission shaft forming a gear train is gear-engaged with the worm gear of the rotor, a worm gear formed on the other end of the power transmission shaft is coupled to a worm wheel located at the lower end of a pinion gear unit, and a pinion gear located at the upper end of the pinion gear unit is coupled to a ring gear formed inside a lateral surface portion of a rotating table, so as to rotate the rotating table to which a passive object is fixed.
US12255509B2
An electrical machine (1) operating by switching of magnetic flux comprises a rotor (10), a stator (20) and a winding (30). The stator has at least two stator discs (22) magnetically connected in series via rotor discs (12). The electric machine topology implements the magnetic gearing effect, and has simple winding loops (32) enclosing magnetic structures (70). The magnetic structures are securely fixed to the winding.
US12255503B2
A motor system includes a motor including a motor cover and a shaft of which a first end portion is exposed to an outside of the motor cover, a permanent magnet provided at the exposed first end portion of the shaft, and a rotation angle detector disposed at a periphery of the permanent magnet, and configured to detect a magnetic field change due to rotation of the permanent magnet during rotation of the shaft to detect a rotation angle of the motor.
US12255495B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a rotor lamination comprising: a first material; and a second material. The first material is at least partially soft magnetic. The second material has a higher mechanical tensile strength than the first material. The first material and the second material are connected with a material bond.
US12255493B2
An axial field rotary energy device can include a rotor comprising an axis of rotation and a magnet. In addition, a stator can be coaxial with the rotor. The stator can include a plurality of stator segments that are coupled together about the axis. Each stator segment can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having a PCB layer comprising a coil. Each stator segment also can include only one electrical phase. The stator itself can include one or more electrical phases.
US12255491B2
Disclosed is a power loss protection integrated circuit. According to one embodiment, the power loss protection integrated circuit includes a buck/boost converter controller that operates in buck mode in a normal power supply state such that a portion of the power is used to store energy in a low voltage capacitor and operates in boost mode when the power supply is cut off such that the energy charged in the low voltage capacitor is utilized to supply emergency power to a main system.
US12255490B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a backlight; a main circuit; a power supply configured to output a first power to drive the backlight and a second power to drive the main circuit; a first battery configured to be charged by the first power and supply power to the backlight; a second battery which is connected to the first battery in series, and configured to be charged by the first power and supply power to the backlight and the main circuit; and a control circuit configured to control the first battery and the second battery to be charged with the first power for a first time period, and drive the backlight with first battery power of the first battery and second battery power of the second battery for a second time period.
US12255489B2
An uninterruptible power supply system that includes a selection unit that selects, of a plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices, a necessary number of uninterruptible power supply devices to supply power to a load. Each of the uninterruptible power supply devices performs, when this device is selected, an operating action of supplying power to the load, when this device is not selected, a standby action of not supplying power to the load, and during the standby action, a diagnostic action of diagnosing whether or not a predetermined part of this device has a failure. The selection unit changes uninterruptible power supply devices to be selected, such that the plurality of uninterruptible power supply devices have an equal operating time.
US12255488B2
A power circuitry has a first input circuit for coupling to a first energy source, a second input circuit for coupling to a second energy source, a third circuit coupled to the first and second input circuits for combining outputs of the first and second circuits and outputting electrical energy via a direct-current output thereof, and a control circuit coupled to the first, second, and third circuits for controlling the output of the third circuit by controlling parameters of the first, second, and third circuits based on output voltages of the first and second energy sources, outputs of the first and second input circuits coupling to the third circuits, and an output voltage of the third circuit.
US12255475B2
The present disclosure discloses a charger, including a shell, at least one stretchable cable assembly, and a charging head assembly. The shell includes an annular shell, a surface shell arranged at a top of the annular shell, and a bottom shell arranged at a bottom of the annular shell; the annular shell, the surface shell, and the bottom shell are enclosed to form an accommodating chamber; a cable accommodating slot is further provided in the accommodating chamber; the stretchable cable assembly is arranged in the cable accommodating slot; the annular shell is provided with a cable outlet hole; a cable of the stretchable cable assembly extends or retracts along the cable outlet hole; the charging head assembly is arranged in the accommodating chamber.
US12255474B2
A battery pack power cutting off apparatus is discussed, and includes a power cutoff configured to block a line through which a charge/discharge current of a battery module flows, a communicator configured to receive an operation signal of the power cutoff from an external device, and a switching configured to control to apply power to a heater resistor included in the power cutoff based on an operation signal of the power cutoff, wherein when power is applied to the heater resistor and generates heat, the power cutoff operates to block the current flowing through the line.
US12255473B2
A mobile system includes a first mobile device configured to output a signal having a level less than or equal to a reference level on the basis of a charged state of a battery in the first mobile device and a second mobile device configured to receive the signal and to selectively provide power to the first mobile device on the basis of a duration time for which a level of the signal is maintained to be less than or equal to the reference level and a toggle time for which the signal is toggled.
US12255472B2
A battery system includes: two battery modules, each including three strings of battery cells that are configured to, at different times be: connected in series and to a first positive terminal via first ones of switches; connected in parallel and to a second positive terminal via second ones of the switches; and disconnected from both of the first and second positive terminals; and a switch control module configured to: determine state of charges (SOCs) of the strings, respectively; determine periods of phases, respectively, based on the SOCs; determine first periods for connecting ones of the strings in parallel; divide one of the phases into N equal length periods; selectively decrease N; when a number of the first periods that end closest to one of N period endings is at least a predetermined value, adjust the first periods to the respective closest ones of the N period endings.
US12255468B2
Electromagnetic shields, vehicles, wireless charging systems, and related methods are disclosed. An electromagnetic shield includes a shield member including a coil side to face one or more inductive coils. The electromagnetic shield also includes one or more perimeter shield members configured in a loop proximate to a perimeter of the coil side of the shield member. The shield member and the one or more perimeter shield members are configured to shield electromagnetic radiation emitted by the one or more inductive coils.
US12255464B2
An islanding detection method includes: an alternating current frequency of an inverter is monitored. The alternating current frequency fluctuates within a preset range when in a normal mode. When an instantaneous shifting value of the alternating current frequency exceeds the preset range, a frequency detected before instantaneous shifting is a first frequency. When a frequency in first frequency data within a first preset time period is greater than or less than only the first frequency, an alternating current frequency detected when the first preset time period ends is a second frequency. Output power of the inverter is continuously adjusted based on a change in the current alternating current frequency. When a frequency in second frequency data within a second preset time period is greater than or less than only the second frequency, it may be indicated in time that islanding occurs in the inverter, and an islanding status is reported.
US12255461B2
A charging station for electric vehicles includes a central part for converting a grid AC voltage from an electrical grid into a high frequency AC voltage; a distribution network for distributing the high frequency AC voltage; and a plurality of coils directly connected to the distribution network, wherein each coil is adapted for transferring energy to an electrical vehicle.
US12255454B2
A system and method for supplying power to a power grid. The system includes a battery storage system; and a power management system, the power management system including a storage management system with a processor configured to: direct generated energy to the battery storage system; discharge battery-stored energy from the battery storage system to the power grid; and control the discharge of the battery-stored energy from the battery storage system to the power grid based on a demand index.
US12255451B2
Distributed grid intelligence can enable a modular power grid. Multiple consumer nodes are coupled to a same point of common coupling (PCC). Local power sources are coupled to the PCC. None of the power sources has sufficient generation capacity alone to meet peak demand of the multiple consumer nodes of the grid segment. The grid segment includes multiple control nodes to control distribution of power from the power sources to the multiple consumer nodes based on power demand from the multiple consumer nodes and based on operation of the other power sources. Thus, consumer nodes can share power generated locally, but operate independently without the need for central management or a central power plant, and different independent segments can be coupled to each other to expand the grid network.
US12255444B2
A wire harness includes an electric wire, an exterior member, and a protector integrally holding an end portion of the exterior member and a portion of the electric wire led out from the end portion of the exterior member. The protector includes a protector main body having a routing space portion in which the electric wire and the exterior member are routed along an axial direction, a lid portion attached to the protector main body to close the routing space portion, and a plurality of first protrusions and second protrusions protruding from the lid portion toward the protector main body and locking the exterior member, and height positions of distal ends of the plurality of first protrusions and second protrusions varies according to a formation position.
US12255442B2
An electrical power conductor support includes an upper support assembly comprising having a base and a pair of arms extending upwardly from the base. A lower support assembly is configured for releasable attachment to a utility truck and includes an upper face plate sized to match the base, an upper support arm extending downwardly from the base, and a bolt rotatingly attaching the upper face plate to the base. The bolt extends upwardly from the base, through the upper face plate and into the upper support arm. A nut is screwed onto the bolt and locked into the upper support arm via locking plates that prevent the bolt from rotating inside the upper support arm.
US12255427B2
An electrical junction box includes: a first housing configured to hold a first terminal having a flat plate shape; a second terminal configured to allow the first terminal to be inserted thereinto such that the second terminal is conductively connected to the first terminal when the first terminal is inserted into the second terminal; and a second housing configured to be engaged with the first housing. The first housing has a first space defining, together with a second space of the second housing, a space configured to accommodate the second terminal. The first space is configured to accommodate a part of the first terminal. When the first housing is engaged with the second housing, the first terminal is allowed to be inserted into the second terminal such that the first terminal and the second terminal are conductively connected.
US12255423B2
A contact arrangement for a connector includes a plurality of contact elements each extending from a first connection side to a second connection side. A plurality of first end sections of a first subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a first plane at the first connection side and a plurality of first end sections of a second subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a second plane at the first connection side. The second plane is parallel to and spaced from the first plane in a height direction. A plurality of intermediate sections of at least some of the contact elements lie in a single common plane.
US12255415B2
Provided is a board-to-board socket, including a socket body, socket terminal, and socket strengthener. The socket body includes a bottom wall, socket side walls, socket guide parts formed at lateral ends of the socket body, and an island part protruding upwards from the bottom wall. Socket guide parts each include a plug guide part receiving cavity, longitudinal outer peripheral wall, and lateral outer peripheral walls. The socket strengthener includes a main body part, lateral outer peripheral wall, and elastic arm parts. Tops of the elastic arm parts bend and extend towards longitudinal outer sides to form hitching part cavities hitched on top faces of the lateral outer peripheral walls.
US12255408B2
A phased array transceiver element comprises a local oscillator stage for generating beamformed in-phase and quadrature local oscillator signals, the local oscillator stage comprising a phase shifter connectable to a reference frequency source and applying a first phase shift; a primary frequency multiplier input from the phase shifter and applying a primary frequency multiplication factor; a phase-splitting arrangement input from the primary frequency multiplier and having a first output and a second output, the phase-splitting arrangement applying a second phase shift at the first output and a third phase shift at the second output; a first secondary frequency multiplier input from the first output of the phase-splitting arrangement, having an output for the in-phase local oscillator signal, and applying a secondary frequency multiplication factor; and a second secondary frequency multiplier input from the second output of the phase-splitting arrangement, having an output for the quadrature local oscillator signal, and applying the secondary frequency multiplication factor.
US12255406B2
An antenna calibration system for a phased array antenna in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure generally includes: a beamformer corresponding to a subset of antenna cells of a plurality of antenna cells, wherein the beamformer includes a calibration section for comparing a reference signal to a non-reference signal and a first operating antenna within the subset of antenna cells corresponding with the beamformer. In some implementations, the first operating antenna is configured to deliver a first reference signal (mTx) from the beamformer to be received by a second operating antenna for comparison with a first non-reference signal (Rx) in the beamformer, and/or the first operating antenna is configured to deliver a second non-reference signal (Tx) from a third operating antenna for comparison with a second reference signal (mRx) in the beamformer.
US12255402B2
An optically transparent antenna stack includes at least two stacked optically transparent antennas. Each antenna includes an electrically conductive metal mesh including a plurality of interconnected electrically conductive metal traces defining a plurality of enclosed open areas. The metal mesh of each antenna and each lead has a percent open area greater than about 50%. The at least two stacked optically transparent antennas includes a first antenna configured to operate over a first, but not a second, frequency band and a second antenna configured to operate over the second, but not the first, frequency band. The optically transparent antenna stack has an optical transmission of at least about 50% for at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 600 nm.
US12255379B2
An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eyewear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.
US12255373B2
A digital phase shifter includes a plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in cascade and one or more bend-type connection units each configured to make a connection between two digital phase shift circuits of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits. Each of the digital phase shift circuits includes at least a signal line, a pair of inner lines provided at both sides of the signal line, a pair of outer lines provided outside of the inner lines, a first ground conductor connected to one ends of the inner lines and the outer lines, a second ground conductor connected to the other ends of the outer lines, and a pair of electronic switches provided between the other ends of the inner lines and the second ground conductor. Each of the digital phase shift circuits is a circuit set in a low-delay mode in which a return current flows through the inner line or a high-delay mode in which a return current flows through the outer line. The plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in cascade are arranged in a spiral shape via the connection units.
US12255363B2
An integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly includes a combustor that is fluidly coupled with at least one upstream compressor that generates compressed air. A fuel cell stack having a cathode and an anode is fluidly coupled to the combustor. The fuel cell stack is configured to receive intake fuel and a portion of the compressed air as intake air, to generate a fuel cell power output using the intake fuel and the intake air, and to direct a fuel and air exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the combustor. A self-reliant air supply system is fluidly coupled with the at least one upstream compressor and the fuel cell stack, and is configured to supply the intake air to the fuel cell stack. A fault-tolerant controller is configured to detect a transient event within the combustor and to control the self-reliant air supply system during the transient event.
US12255357B2
A battery cell has asymmetrically formed electrode leads, and a battery module including the same. The spatial efficiency and the mechanical strength of the battery module are improved.
US12255350B2
Provided are a composition for coating a separator, a method of preparing a separator by using the same, a separator, and a lithium battery employing the separator. The composition for coating a separator includes: a polyacrylamide-based copolymer including a cross-linking reactive group; inorganic particles; and water, and the cross-linking reactive group includes at least two functional groups cross-linkable with each other. The composition for coating a separator may be used as a one-component type without a crosslinker, and a separator having high thermal resistance characteristics may be prepared by using the composition.
US12255346B1
The present invention relates to a lamp with a quick-release battery, which is technically characterized by including a lamp holder, a lamp body, and a battery pack. A battery compartment with an opening at one side and capable of allowing the battery pack to be inserted is arranged in the lamp holder, a sub-buckle is arranged on an end face of the battery pack, a clamping component capable of being clamped and mated with the sub-buckle is arranged on a corresponding side wall of the battery compartment, the clamping component includes a clamping box, a sliding block capable of sliding inside and outside is arranged in the clamping box, and an elastic female buckle capable of extending out or retracting into the clamping box and capable of being clamped and mated with the sub-buckle when retracting into the clamping box is arranged at an outer end of the sliding block.
US12255334B2
An electrochemical device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode includes a negative current collector and a negative active material layer formed on the negative current collector. The negative active material layer contains a negative active material. A conductive material is disposed between the negative active material layer and the negative current collector. An average particle diameter of the conductive material is smaller than that of the negative active material. The negative active material layer possesses a specific weight. The electrochemical device improves high-temperature cycle expansion performance and overcharge protection performance.
US12255332B2
Provided are a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack and an electric device. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolytic solution configured to infiltrate the electrode assembly, wherein the electrode assembly includes a negative electrode plate, a separation film and a positive electrode plate, and the negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode material layer located on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector; and by setting a tortuosity of the negative electrode plate as τ, the τ satisfies Formula I below: τ=0.5(ε)−α Formula I where, ε is a porosity of the negative electrode material layer, and α is a Bruggeman index of the negative electrode material layer, and the τ and a conductivity σ of the electrolytic solution satisfy Formula II below: (2τ)0.5+6≤σ≤(2τ)0.5+10 Formula II. Therefore, the secondary battery has an excellent fast-charging performance.
US12255331B2
A lithium-sulfur secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution are provided. The positive electrode has an SC factor value of 0.45 or more. The electrolyte solution includes a solvent and a lithium salt, and the solvent includes a first solvent having a DV2 factor value of 1.7 or less, and a second solvent which is a fluorinated ether-based solvent.
US12255324B2
The present invention relates to a negative electrode including a negative electrode collector, a first negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode collector, and a second negative electrode active material layer disposed on the first negative electrode active material layer, wherein the second negative electrode active material layer includes a second negative electrode active material and a second conductive agent, wherein the second negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based active material, the silicon-based active material includes SiOx (0≤x<2), the second conductive agent includes a carbon nanotube structure in which 2 to 5,000 single-walled carbon nanotube units are bonded side by side, and the carbon nanotube structure is included in an amount of 0.01 wt % to 1.0 wt % in the second negative electrode active material layer, and a secondary battery including the same.
US12255317B2
A positive electrode material for a secondary battery and a method of making the same is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide includes 60 mol % or more of the nickel (Ni) among metals excluding lithium, and a coating layer is formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein the coating layer includes a lithium-polymer compound which is formed by a reaction of a lithium by-product with a polymer.
US12255307B2
The present invention provides a fabrication method of a negative electrode for a secondary battery, including: (a) heating a slurry composition for a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, a binder, and a solvent to a temperature lower than a boiling point (Tb) of the solvent; (b) applying the heated slurry composition for a negative electrode onto a current collector; and (c) cooling the applied slurry composition for a negative electrode.
US12255306B2
The disclosure relates to a method for producing a solid-state lithium ion conductor material in which the use of water and/or steam is a medium when the obtained intermediate product is cooled or quenched and, if needed, comminution of the intermediate product and/or carrying out of a cooling process with the production of a powder in one comminution step or in a plurality of comminution steps leads or lead to especially advantageous production products. The subject of the disclosure is also the solid-state lithium ion conductor material that has an ion conductivity of at least 10−5 S/cm at room temperature as well as a water content of <1.0 wt %. The disclosure further relates to the use of the solid-state lithium ion conductor material in the form of a powder in batteries or rechargeable batteries, preferably lithium batteries or rechargeable lithium batteries, in particular, separators, cathodes, anodes, or solid-state electrolytes.
US12255305B2
Battery electrodes using VACNT forests to create 3D electrode nanostructures, and methods of making, are described. The VACNTs are electrically and mechanically attached to the anode or cathode substrates, providing a large area of 3D surfaces for coating with active materials and high-conductivity electron pathways to the cell current collectors. A number of different active materials suitable for anodes and cathodes in lithium-ion batteries may be used to coat the individual carbon nanotubes. The high surface area provided by the VACNT forest and the nano-dimensions of the coated active materials enable both high energy-density and high power-density to be achieved with the same battery. Complete conformal coating of the individual CNTs may be achieved by a number of different methods, and coating with multiple active materials may be used to create nanolaminate coatings having improved electrochemical characteristics over single materials.
US12255304B2
A processing system for producing a product material from a liquid mixture includes an array of one or more power jet modules adapted to jet the liquid mixture into one or more streams of droplets and force the one or more streams of droplets into the processing system adapted to process the one or more streams of droplets into the product material. A method for producing a product material from a liquid mixture on a processing system includes moving each of the one or more power jet modules and be connected to an opening of a dispersion chamber, opening one or more doors of the one or more power jet modules, processing the one or more streams of droplets inside a reaction chamber, closing the one or more doors of the power jets modules and moving each of the one or more power jet modules in a second direction.
US12255303B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules respectively having at least one battery cell, a rack case configured to accommodate the plurality of battery modules, a fire distinguishing water supply unit disposed at the rear of the rack case and connected to the plurality of battery modules, and a bracket unit configured to cover the fire distinguishing water supply unit and disposed at the rear of the rack case.
US12255300B2
The present disclosure relates to a plate-like fluid container for the temperature control of an accumulator device for electrical energy or of an electrical consumer, for example in a motor vehicle, having two layers contacting one another at least regionally, an inlet for pouring a fluid into the fluid container, an outlet for discharging the fluid from the fluid container, and a fluid channel system arranged between the layers that connects the inlet to the outlet and is configured to be flowed through by the fluid during the temperature control, wherein a spacing of at least two first channel sections of the fluid channel system extending parallel to one another is larger in a first region of the fluid channel system disposed upstream than a spacing of at least two second channel sections of the fluid channel system extending parallel to one another in a second region of the fluid channel system disposed downstream to improve the temperature control performance of plate-like fluid containers for temperature control.
US12255296B2
A method and system for dispersing stored energy in an energy storage system to delay or arrest propagation of thermal runaway and thermally-induced cascading failures. The system includes a plurality of battery sub-assemblies and DC-DC converters connected to a shared DC bus through which energy may be exchanged. The system may be interfaced to an AC power grid or DC power system through an additional power converter. The method of dispersing stored energy uses this system to charge and discharge sub-assemblies such that the system is less susceptible to propagation of thermal runaway. The method determines, based on awareness of current system state, battery types, and electrical and thermal structure, the sequence of charging and discharging actions to best inhibit thermal runaway while preserving the system's ability to perform subsequent energy redistribution.
US12255293B2
A method for detecting internal short circuit within an electrochemical cell, from on-line measuring and processing thermodynamics data and kinetics data on the electrochemical cell. The thermodynamics data comprises open-circuit voltage data, entropy variations and/or enthalpy variations data, and combinations thereof. The kinetics data comprises cell voltage, cell temperature, cell internal resistance and current, and combinations thereof.
US12255289B2
Provided is a secondary battery where a positive electrode includes a first covered part covered with a positive electrode active material layer and a positive electrode active material non-covered part on a positive electrode foil, and a negative electrode includes a second covered part covered with a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material non-covered part on a negative electrode foil, one or both of the positive electrode active material non-covered part and the negative electrode active material non-covered part have a surface formed by bending toward the central axis of the wound structure and overlapping each other, and the surface is joined to the positive electrode current-collecting plate or the negative electrode current-collecting plate.
US12255287B2
According to an embodiment of the present inventive concept, an electrolyte additive represented by the compounds of Chemical Formulas 1 to 4 may be provided. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present inventive concept, a method for preparing an electrolyte additive of the compounds of Chemical Formulas 1 to 4 may be provided, wherein the method for preparing the electrolyte additive includes reacting hexafluorophosphate and 2-monofluoromalonic acid, further adding an HF scavenger to the mixed solution produced by the reaction, and concentrating and drying the reaction solution obtained therefrom.
US12255285B2
Gel polymer electrolytes comprising molybdate(VI) salts dispersed in a hydrogel matrix. The hydrogel matrix contains reacted units of an acrylamide (e.g. 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid) and optionally an additional monomer. A supercapacitor including the gel polymer electrolyte and electrodes arranged between the electrolyte is also specified. This supercapacitor is evaluated on its specific capacitance, energy density, power density, resistance, as well as cycling stability.
US12255284B2
A battery material includes a compound having an imidazoline ring and an aromatic ring. The compound has a molecular weight of less than 350. The compound is, for example, 2-benzylimidazoline. The battery material, for example, further includes a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte has, for example, a particle shape. The compound is, for example, located between a plurality of particles of the solid electrolyte.
US12255279B2
A light-emitting diode package structure includes a heat dissipation substrate, a redistribution layer, and multiple light-emitting diodes. The heat dissipation substrate includes multiple copper blocks and a heat-conducting material layer. The copper blocks penetrate the heat-conducting material layer. The redistribution layer is disposed on the heat dissipation substrate and electrically connected to the copper blocks. The light-emitting diodes are disposed on the redistribution layer and are electrically connected to the redistribution layer. A side of the light-emitting diodes away from the redistribution layer is not in contact with any component.
US12255276B2
A method for manufacturing an image display device includes: providing a semiconductor growth substrate comprising a semiconductor layer on a first substrate, the semiconductor layer comprising a light-emitting layer; providing a second substrate comprising a circuit, wherein the circuit comprises a circuit element; forming a light-shielding layer on the second substrate; forming an insulating film on the light-shielding layer; bonding the semiconductor layer to the second substrate on which the insulating film is formed; forming a light-emitting element by etching the semiconductor layer; forming an insulating layer that covers the light-emitting element; and electrically connecting the light-emitting element to the circuit element. The light-shielding layer is located between the light-emitting element and the circuit element. In a plan view, the light-shielding layer covers the circuit element.
US12255275B2
The present disclosure provideds a side-view type semiconductor light emitting device of the disclosure includes a multilayer substrate having a plurality of substrates, a plurality of conductive layers, and a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements. The multilayer substrate has a main surface on which the semiconductor light emitting elements are mounted, a back surface facing an opposite side of the main surface and having external electrodes formed thereon, and a mounting surface intersecting both the main surface and the back surface. The plurality of conductive layers have conductive exposed portions exposed from the mounting surface.
US12255273B2
A display device includes a substrate and a light emitting layer on the substrate. The display device further includes a sealing portion on the light emitting layer. The sealing portion comprises a first inorganic layer. The first inorganic layer comprises at least one layer including silicon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. The at least one layer of the first inorganic layer includes a content of silicon of about 30-40 (at %), a content of oxygen of about 15-35 at %, a content of nitrogen of about 10-20 at %, a content of hydrogen of about 20-30 at %.
US12255270B2
A display device includes a light emitting element disposed on a substrate. A color conversion layer is disposed on the light emitting element, the color conversion layer including color conversion particles that convert light of a first color emitted from the light emitting element into light of a second color. An insulating layer is disposed on the color conversion layer. The insulating layer includes a first inorganic layer overlapping the color conversion layer, a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer, and a third inorganic layer disposed on the second inorganic layer. A second porosity of the second inorganic layer is greater than a first porosity of the first inorganic layer. A second porosity of the second inorganic layer is greater than a third porosity of the third inorganic layer.
US12255269B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting laminated structure, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first electrode has a reflection layer, an intermediate layer, and an electrically conductive layer. The intermediate layer includes a barrier layer having a first repeating paired layer unit and a second repeating paired layer unit, each of which has a platinum layer. The first repeating paired layer unit is closer to the electrically conductive layer than the second repeating paired layer unit, and a thickness of the platinum layer of the first repeating paired layer unit is greater than a thickness of the platinum layer of the second repeating paired layer unit.
US12255266B2
Lighting module disclosed in an embodiment of the invention, a substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate; a first reflective layer disposed on the substrate; a resin layer disposed on the first reflective layer and the light emitting device; and a second reflective layer disposed on the resin layer, wherein the resin layer is a front side surface on which light generated from the plurality of light emitting devices is emitted, a rear side surface facing the front side surface, and first and second side surfaces connecting the front side surface and the rear side surface with each other. A distance between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer is smaller than a distance between the front side surface and the rear side surface of the resin layer, and the front side surface of the resin layer has a plurality of convex portions convex toward the front side surface from the light emitting device and a plurality of concave portions recessed in a direction of the rear side surface.
US12255263B2
A method for producing a radiation emitting semiconductor chip may include providing a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region configured to generate electromagnetic radiation, applying a reflective layer sequence over the semiconductor layer sequence, generating a first recess through an opening of a mask where the first recess completely penetrates the reflective layer sequence and the active region, and applying a dielectric mirror layer in the first recess through the same opening of the same mask. Furthermore, a radiation emitting semiconductor chip is disclosed.
US12255258B1
A multilayered semiconductor device including a substrate including n-type or p-type doped silicon carbide (SiC), an epitaxial oxide layer above the substrate, and a metal layer above the epitaxial oxide layer. In some cases, the epitaxial oxide layer includes n-type conductivity and the substrate is p-type doped, and the substrate and the epitaxial oxide layer form a p/n junction. In some cases, the device can further include an epitaxial transition layer between the substrate and the epitaxial oxide layer, where the epitaxial transition layer includes an n-type doping density that is at least an order of magnitude greater than an n-type doping density of the epitaxial oxide layer. In some cases, the substrate can be a composite substrate including a surface layer including single crystal SiC on a polycrystalline SiC layer. In some cases, a second metal layer is in contact with the substrate.
US12255256B2
A transistor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a channel region, and a first conductive region. The semiconductor substrate has a semiconductor surface. The gate structure is above the semiconductor surface, and a first concave is formed to reveal the gate structure. The channel region is under the semiconductor surface. The first conductive region is electrically coupled to the channel region, and a second concave is formed to reveal the first conductive region. A mask pattern in a photolithography process is used to define the first concave, and the mask pattern only defines one dimension length of the first concave.
US12255252B2
A vertical field effect transistor, including a drift region having a first conductivity type, a trench structure on or above the drift region, a shielding structure, and a source/drain electrode. The trench structure includes at least one side wall at which a field effect transistor (FET) channel region is formed. The FET channel region includes a III-V heterostructure for forming a two-dimensional electron gas at a boundary surface of the III-V heterostructure. The shielding structure is situated laterally adjacent to the at least one side wall of the trench structure and extends vertically into the drift region or vertically further in the direction of the drift region than the trench structure. The shielding structure has a second conductivity type that differs from the first conductivity type. The source/drain electrode is electroconductively connected to the III-V heterostructure of the trench structure and to the shielding structure.
US12255249B2
The present disclosure is directed to method for the fabrication of spacer structures between source/drain epitaxial structures and metal gate structures in nanostructure transistors. The method includes forming a fin structure with alternating first and second nanostructure elements on a substrate. The method also includes etching edge portions of the first nanostructure elements in the fin structure to form spacer cavities, and depositing a spacer layer on the fin structure to fill the spacer cavities. Further, treating the spacer layer with a microwave-generated plasma to form an oxygen concentration gradient within the spacer layer outside the spacer cavities and removing, with an etching process, the treated portion of the spacer layer. During the etching process, a removal rate of the etching process for the treated portion of the spacer layer is based on an oxygen concentration within the oxygen concentration gradient.
US12255241B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of forming a low-k dielectric material, for example, a low-k gate spacer layer in a FinFET device. The low-k dielectric material may be formed using a precursor having a general chemical structure comprising at least one carbon atom bonded between two silicon atoms. A target k-value of the dielectric material may be achieved by controlling carbon concentration in the dielectric material.
US12255234B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower silicon portion, an intermediate germanium portion on the lower silicon portion, and a silicon germanium portion on the intermediate germanium portion. An isolation structure is along sidewalls of the lower silicon portion of the fin. A gate stack is over a top of and along sidewalls of an upper portion of the fin and on a top surface of the isolation structure. A first source or drain structure is at a first side of the gate stack. A second source or drain structure is at a second side of the gate stack.
US12255231B2
Provided is a nanowire array, in which a plurality of nanowires are densely packed and in contact with each other via side walls to form a three-dimensional, compact layer structure, wherein the plurality of nanowires are formed from InGaN-based material. Also provided is an optoelectronic device comprising the nanowire array which is epitaxially grown on a surface of a substrate (12). Further provided are methods for preparing the nanowire array and the optoelectronic device.
US12255228B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes, on a front surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a first semiconductor region of the first conductivity type selectively provided on a first side of the third semiconductor layer opposite to a second side thereof facing the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type that have an impurity concentration higher than that of the second semiconductor layer, trenches, gate electrodes provided via gate insulating films, an interlayer insulating film, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first semiconductor region is thinner than a portion of the third semiconductor layer between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor layer.
US12255227B2
An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor layer including an SiC monocrystal that is constituted of a hexagonal crystal and having a first main surface as a device surface facing a c-plane of the SiC monocrystal and has an off angle inclined with respect to the c-plane, a second main surface at a side opposite to the first main surface, and a side surface facing an a-plane of the SiC monocrystal and has an angle less than the off angle with respect to a normal to the first main surface when the normal is 0°.
US12255219B2
Some embodiments are directed towards an image sensor device. A photodetector is disposed in a semiconductor substrate, and a transfer transistor is disposed over photodetector. The transfer transistor includes a transfer gate having a lateral portion extending over a frontside of the semiconductor substrate and a vertical portion extending to a first depth below the frontside of the semiconductor substrate. A gate dielectric separates the lateral portion and the vertical portion from the semiconductor substrate. A backside trench isolation structure extends from a backside of the semiconductor substrate to a second depth below the frontside of the semiconductor substrate. The backside trench isolation structure laterally surrounds the photodetector, and the second depth is less than the first depth such that a lowermost portion of the vertical portion of the transfer transistor has a vertical overlap with an uppermost portion of the backside trench isolation structure.
US12255213B2
A highly functional photoelectric conversion element is provided. The photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric converter that detects light in a first wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light; a second photoelectric converter that detects light in a second wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light to obtain distance information of a subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter, and allows the light in the second wavelength range to pass therethrough more easily than the light in the first wavelength range. The first photoelectric converter includes a stacked structure and an electric charge accumulation electrode. The stacked structure includes a first electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode that are stacked in order, and the electric charge accumulation electrode is disposed to be separated from the first electrode and be opposed to the first photoelectric conversion layer with an insulating layer interposed therebetween.
US12255205B2
A semiconductor device with isolation structures of different dielectric constants and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes fin structures with first and second fin portions disposed on first and second device areas on a substrate and first and second pair of gate structures disposed on the first and second fin portions. The second pair of gate structures is electrically isolated from the first pair of gate structures. The semiconductor device further includes a first isolation structure interposed between the first pair of gate structures and a second isolation structure interposed between the second pair of gate structures. The first isolation structure includes a first nitride liner and a first oxide fill layer. The second isolation structure includes a second nitride liner and a second oxide fill layer. The second nitride layer is thicker than the first nitride layer.
US12255203B2
A monolithic three dimensional integrated circuit is provided. The monolithic three dimensional integrated circuit includes a first cell layer having a first cell having a first active component of the monolithic three dimensional integrated circuit. A second layer having a second cell including a second active component. The second cell layer is formed vertically above the first cell layer. The first cell layer having the first active component and the second cell layer having the second active component are formed in a single die. The first cell has a smaller metal pitch than the second cell. A buried via electrically couples the first active component of the first cell of the first cell layer with the second active component of the second cell of the second cell layer.
US12255201B2
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) structures are provided. An ESD structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxy region with a first type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, a second epitaxy region with a second type of conductivity over the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor layers. The semiconductor layers are stacked over the semiconductor substrate and between the first and second epitaxy regions. A first conductive feature is formed over the first epitaxy region and outside an oxide diffusion region. A second conductive feature is formed over the second epitaxy region and outside the oxide diffusion region. A third conductive feature is formed over the first epitaxy region and within the oxide diffusion region. A fourth conductive feature is formed over the second epitaxy region and within the oxide diffusion region. The oxide diffusion region is disposed between the first and second conductive features.
US12255199B2
An integrated circuit is provided and includes a multi-bit cell having multiple bit cells disposed in multiple cell rows. The bit cells include M bit cells, M being positive integers. A first bit cell of the bit cells and a M-th bit cell of the bit cells are arranged diagonally in different cell rows in the multi-bit cell. The multi-bit cell includes first to fourth cell boundaries. The first and second boundaries extend in a first direction and the third and fourth boundaries extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The first bit cell and a second bit cell of the bit cells abut the third cell boundary, and the first bit cell and a (M/2+1)-th bit cell of the bit cells abut the first cell boundary.
US12255196B2
Manufacturing method of semiconductor package includes following steps. Bottom package is provided. The bottom package includes a die and a redistribution structure electrically connected to die. A first top package and a second top package are disposed on a surface of the redistribution structure further away from the die. An underfill is formed into the space between the first and second top packages and between the first and second top packages and the bottom package. The underfill covers at least a side surface of the first top package and a side surface of the second top package. A hole is opened in the underfill within an area overlapping with the die between the side surface of the first top package and the side surface of the second top package. A thermally conductive block is formed in the hole by filling the hole with a thermally conductive material.
US12255194B2
A display device includes a first electrode, second electrodes, light emitting elements, a bank layer, and connection electrodes. Each of the second electrodes comprises an electrode stem part overlapping the bank layer and electrode branch parts branching from the electrode stem part and disposed partially in an emission area, and the connection electrodes comprise a first connection electrode disposed on the first electrode, overlapping an upper bank part of the bank layer and having a part disposed in a first sub-area, a second connection electrode disposed on a first electrode branch part of one of the second electrodes, overlapping a lower bank part of the bank layer and having a part disposed in a second sub-area, and a third connection electrode disposed on second electrode branch parts of different second electrodes of the second electrodes and on the first electrode and surrounding a part of the first connection electrode.
US12255193B2
The present invention discloses a method for transferring a micro LED that is capable of easily mounting a micro LED or a nano LED on a desired position on a substrate by using an electric field.
US12255187B2
The present invention may be applied to display device-related technical fields and relates to a display device using a semiconductor light-emitting element, such as a micro light-emitting diode (LED), and a manufacturing method therefor. The present invention, according to one embodiment, may comprise: a substrate; a stepped film positioned on at least some pixel regions, among a plurality of individual pixel regions positioned on the substrate; an assembly electrode positioned on the substrate or the stepped film; an insulation layer positioned on the assembly electrode; a partition wall positioned on the insulation layer and defining an assembly groove having mounted therein a semiconductor light-emitting element forming the individual pixel; the semiconductor light-emitting element mounted in an assembly surface of the assembly groove; and a lighting electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor light-emitting element.
US12255178B2
An electronic device includes a first integrated circuit (IC) die and a second IC die. The first IC die includes a first set of contact pads arranged in a first geometrical pattern on a first surface of the first IC die, the second IC die includes a second set of the contact pads that are arranged, on a second surface of the second IC die, in a second geometrical pattern that is a mirror image of the first geometrical pattern. The second surface of the second IC die is facing the first surface of the first IC die, and the contact pads of the first and second sets are aligned with one another and mounted on one another.
US12255177B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked semiconductor dies electrically connected with each other, a first power line electrically connected to a lowermost semiconductor die among the stacked semiconductor dies, a second power line formed over an uppermost semiconductor die among the stacked semiconductor dies, and an external connection line electrically connecting the first power line and the second power line.
US12255169B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor module comprising a semiconductor device removably pressed-fit in a cavity formed in a printed circuit board and methods for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device and the cavity of the printed circuit board can cooperate with each other and act as an electrical plug and an electrical socket respectively. Soldering the semiconductor device on the printed circuit board can be avoided. Therefore, the packaging process can be more flexible and reliability issues with solder joints can be eliminated. Moreover, heatsink can be mounted on top and/or bottom of the semiconductor device after being received in the cavity of the printed circuit board. Thermal dissipation efficiency can be greatly enhanced.
US12255162B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first major surface, a second major surface opposing the first major surface and at least one transistor device structure, a source pad and a gate pad arranged on the first major surface, a drain pad and at least one further contact pad coupled to a further device structure. The drain pad and the at least one further contact pad are arranged on the second major surface.
US12255154B2
An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Memory openings and support openings are formed through the alternating stack. The memory openings are arranged in a first hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is parallel to a first horizontal direction, and the support openings are arranged in a second hexagonal array having a nearest-neighbor direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. Memory opening fill structures are formed within a respective one of the memory openings, and support pillar structures within a respective one of the support openings.
US12255153B2
Apparatuses relating generally to a microelectronic package having protection from interference are disclosed. In an apparatus thereof, a substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface and has a ground plane. A first microelectronic device is coupled to the upper surface of the substrate. Wire bond wires are coupled to the ground plane for conducting the interference thereto and extending away from the upper surface of the substrate. A first portion of the wire bond wires is positioned to provide a shielding region for the first microelectronic device with respect to the interference. A second portion of the wire bond wires is not positioned to provide the shielding region. A second microelectronic device is coupled to the substrate and located outside of the shielding region. A conductive surface is over the first portion of the wire bond wires for covering the shielding region.
US12255152B2
A semiconductor device is formed by providing a semiconductor package including a shielding layer and forming a slot in the shielding layer using a laser. The laser is turned on and exposed to the shielding layer with a center of the laser disposed over a first point of the shielding layer. The laser is moved in a loop while the laser remains on and exposed to the shielding layer. Exposure of the laser to the shielding layer is stopped when the center of the laser is disposed over a second point of the shielding layer. A distance between the first point and the second point is approximately equal to a radius of the laser.
US12255144B2
A graphene liner deposited between at least one liner material (e.g., barrier layer, ruthenium liner, and/or cobalt liner) and a copper conductive structure reduces surface scattering at an interface between the at least one liner material and the copper conductive structure. Additionally, or alternatively, the carbon-based liner reduces contact resistance at an interface between the at least one liner material and the copper conductive structure. A carbon-based cap may additionally or alternatively be deposited on a metal cap, over the copper conductive structure, to reduce surface scattering at an interface between the metal cap and an additional copper conductive structure deposited over the metal cap.
US12255140B2
A semiconductor device, includes a plurality of semiconductor elements, each of the plurality of semiconductor elements including a gate structure extending in a first direction and an active region provided on both sides of the gate structure in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a plurality of interconnection patterns connected to the plurality of semiconductor elements, wherein the plurality of interconnection patterns include a plurality of upper interconnections provided above the plurality of semiconductor elements in a third direction, a plurality of intermediate interconnections provided between the plurality of semiconductor elements and the plurality of upper interconnections in the third direction, and a routing interconnection adjacent to at least one of the plurality of semiconductor elements in the second direction, wherein the routing interconnection is connected to at least one of the plurality of intermediate interconnections in the first direction or the second direction.
US12255136B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a via structure. The via structure is through the substrate. The via structure includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion, a first barrier portion, a second barrier portion, and a third barrier portion. The first conductive portion has a ring-shaped cross section. The second conductive portion is disposed at an inner side of the first conductive portion. The second conductive portion has a ring-shaped cross section. The first barrier portion is disposed at an outer side of the first conductive portion. The second barrier portion is disposed between the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion. The third barrier portion is disposed at an inner side of the second conductive portion. At least one of the first barrier portion, the second barrier portion, or the third barrier portion includes an insulating 2D material.
US12255131B2
A method includes depositing a first passivation layer over a conductive feature, wherein the first passivation layer has a first dielectric constant, forming a capacitor over the first passivation layer, and depositing a second passivation layer over the capacitor, wherein the second passivation layer has a second dielectric constant greater than the first dielectric constant. The method further includes forming a redistribution line over and electrically connecting to the capacitor, depositing a third passivation layer over the redistribution line, and forming an Under-Bump-Metallurgy (UBM) penetrating through the third passivation layer to electrically connect to the redistribution line.
US12255128B2
A semiconductor device assembly is provided. The semiconductor device assembly includes a package substrate and a silicon spacer disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, the silicon spacer having a plurality of trenches extending into the silicon spacer from a top surface thereof. The semiconductor device assembly further includes one or more semiconductor devices disposed over the silicon spacer. Moreover, the semiconductor device assembly includes an encapsulant material at least partially encapsulating the one or more semiconductor devices and the package substrate, the encapsulant material at least partially filling the plurality of trenches of the silicon spacer.
US12255122B1
A water-cooled electronic system includes a tank filled with an array of microelectronic modules spaced apart in the tank, creating water channels between the modules. A water conduit connects between the tank output and the tank input and includes a variable pump. The modules are cooled by water flowing in the channels, and a system controller implements a master control algorithm to maintain an optimal balance between single-phase and two-phase cooling, by controlling the output pressure of the variable pump in addition to monitoring and controlling local temperatures and pressures and throttling input power when necessary to meet pre-determined safety conditions.
US12255108B2
A device includes a substrate and at least one electrically conducting portion supported by the substrate, the at least one electrically conducting portion including a signal line and a ground plane electrically isolated from the signal line. The electrically conducting portion includes a layer of a first electrically conducting material and a layer of a metal oxide material including anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) and one or more nanowires (NW) of a second electrically conducting material each formed within a corresponding pore extending through the AAO from a first side of the layer to a second side of the layer of the metal oxide material opposite the first side.
US12255094B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including an etching stop film which is placed disposed on a substrate; an interlayer insulating film which is disposed on the etching stop film; a trench which penetrates the interlayer insulating film and the etching stop film; a spacer which extends along side walls of the trench; a barrier film which extends along the spacer and a bottom surface of the trench; and a filling film which fills the trench on the barrier film. The trench includes a first trench and a second trench which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and have different widths from each other in the first direction. A bottom surface of the second trench is placed disposed below a bottom surface of the first trench.
US12255093B2
The present disclosure provides a 3D memory structure such as 3D Flash memory structure applying for 3D AND flash memory and a method of forming the same. An etching stop layer is formed on a substrate including active elements. A stacked layer is formed on the etching stop layer. The stacked layer includes insulation layers and sacrificed layers stacked alternatively on the etching stop layer. A patterning process is performed on the stacked layer to form a first stacked structure above the active elements, a second stacked structure surrounding the first stacked structure, and a trench pattern separating the first stacked structure and the second stacked structure and exposing the etching stop layer. The trench pattern includes asymmetric inner sidewalls and outer sidewalls. The inner sidewalls define sidewalls of the first stacked structure. The outer sidewalls define sidewalls of the second stacked structure that face the first stacked structure.
US12255086B2
A wafer processing method includes sticking an adhesive tape to the front surface of a wafer, disposing a thermocompression bonding sheet on the adhesive tape stuck to the front surface of the wafer. The thermocompression bonding sheet is heated and pressed by a flat member to execute pressure bonding of the thermocompression bonding sheet to the adhesive tape and integrate the thermocompression bonding sheet with the wafer. The processing method also includes holding the side of the thermocompression bonding sheet on a chuck table of a grinding apparatus and grinding the wafer into a desired thickness while supplying grinding water to the back surface of the wafer. The integrated wafer is separated from the chuck table and the thermocompression bonding sheet is separated from the adhesive tape.
US12255081B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes multiple first substrate processing devices, one or more second substrate processing devices and a transfer unit. Each of the multiple first substrate processing devices is configured to process a substrate one by one. The one or more second substrate processing devices are configured to simultaneously process multiple substrates, which are processed in the multiple first substrate processing devices. The transfer unit is configured to simultaneously carry the multiple substrates, which are processed in the multiple first substrate processing devices, into a same second substrate processing device.
US12255071B2
A grinding apparatus includes a holding table that holds a wafer, a grinding unit that grinds an exposed surface of the wafer held by the holding table, a detecting unit that detects a physical quantity used for determination of the state of exposure of a separation surface of the wafer, and a control unit having an exposure determining unit that determines the state of exposure of the separation surface on the basis of the physical quantity detected by the detecting unit.
US12255068B2
A method for forming an electrical contact is provided. The method includes grinding a silicon carbide surface using a grinding disk which includes a grinding face containing nickel or a nickel compound, such that particles of the nickel or nickel compound from the grinding disk are embedded in the ground silicon carbide surface, and hardening the ground silicon carbide surface with the aid of a laser, such that at least some of the embedded nickel particles form a nickel silicide with silicon from the silicon carbide.
US12255065B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming electrode holes by etching a mold structure including a mold layer and a support layer which are stacked on a substrate; forming lower electrode pillars filling the electrode holes; etching a portion of the support layer between the lower electrode pillars to form a support pattern having a through-hole exposing a portion of a top surface of the mold layer; removing the mold layer through the through-hole to expose sidewalls of the lower electrode pillars; and selectively forming lower electrode patterns on the sidewalls and top surfaces of the lower electrode pillars.
US12255060B2
A charge detection mass spectrometer may include an ion source to generate ions, a mass spectrometer to separate the generated ions as a function of ion mass-to-charge ratio to produce beam of separated ions, an electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT) including a charge detection cylinder disposed between a pair of coaxially aligned ion mirrors, and means for controlling a trajectory of the beam of separated ions entering the ELIT to cause the ions subsequently trapped in the ELIT to oscillate therein with different planar ion oscillation trajectories angularly offset from one another about the longitudinal axis with each extending along and crossing the longitudinal axis in each of the ion mirrors or with different cylindrical ion oscillation trajectories radially offset from one another about the longitudinal axis to form nested cylindrical trajectories each extending along the longitudinal axis.
US12255053B2
Plasma-assisted methods for depositing materials and related systems are described. The methods described herein comprise ending a deposition process when a plasma characteristic matches a pre-determined criterion.
US12255048B2
An apparatus and method to produce a waveform. The apparatus includes a first node to couple to a substrate support and a power supply coupled to a second node wherein the power supply is configured to provide a DC voltage to set an ion-energy at a surface of the substrate. The apparatus also includes a first switch that couples the second node to the first node, and responsive to the first switch being closed, a first voltage is applied at the first node. A second switch of the power supply couples a third node to the first node, and responsive to the second switch being closed, a second voltage is applied at the first node to effectuate a negative voltage at the surface of the substrate.
US12255039B2
An ion implanter includes a crucible provided inside a vacuum chamber, and including an internal space configured to accommodate a solid sample which is a raw material of a source gas, a laser source provided outside the vacuum chamber, and irradiating the crucible with a laser beam, an arc chamber including an internal space for converting the source gas into plasma to generate ions, and in which an ion beam is extracted from the internal space, and a nozzle connecting the internal space of the crucible and the internal space of the arc chamber, and introducing the source gas vaporized in the internal space of the crucible into the internal space of the arc chamber.
US12255038B2
The present invention relates to an electron gun cathode mount adapted at one end to secure a thermionic cathode and at the other end to be connected to an attachment member, wherein the electron gun cathode mount is structured so as to be capable of, when in use, reducing heat transfer from the thermionic cathode to the attachment member, and the material forming the electron gun cathode mount has a thermal conductivity of less than 10 Wm−1K−1 at the operating temperature of the thermionic cathode in a direction from the thermionic cathode to the attachment member. The present invention also relates to an electron gun assembly having the electron gun cathode mount installed therein.
US12255037B2
The invention relates to a nanoplasma switch device, comprising: —multiple electrically isolated electrodes; —a gap separating the two electrodes; wherein the gap has a width which is dimensioned to effect the generation of a plasma by electric-field electron emission.
US12255031B2
A switching device for an on-board electrical system of an electrically driven motor vehicle includes an electromechanical switch which is designed to connect and interrupt a supply line of the on-board electrical system. The electromechanical switch has: a stationary first switching contact, a movable second switching contact, and an actuation unit which has a mechanical force-transmitting element and a drive element. In order to switch from an open switching state to a closed switching state of the electromechanical switch, the drive element moves the transmitting element along a movement path, and the force-transmitting element moved along the movement path acts mechanically on the second switching contact and moves the second switching contact toward the first switching contact. In order to maintain the closed switching state of the electromechanical switch, the force-transmitting element applies, at the end of the movement path, a pressing force to the second switching contact for pressing against the first switching contact, without further driving by way of the drive element.
US12255030B2
A keyswitch assembly is provided. The keyswitch assembly includes a base plate, at least one pressing mechanism disposed on the base plate, a plurality of elastic members disposed on the base plate, and a keycap covering the at least one pressing mechanism and the plurality of elastic members. In the embodiments, a plurality of elastic members is disposed at equal intervals to support the keycap. By way of such configuration, the user experiences the same or similar hand feeling when pressing any point of the keycap. There is no difference in the pressing feel due for pressing the middle or two ends of the keycap. Meanwhile, the problem of the poor electrical conduction resulted from the deformation of the keycap may be avoided.
US12255029B1
A rotor rotator and rotor system for a multi-pole electrical rotary battery switch having a rotor with a top surface and a bottom surface and a key insert opening on the top surface. One or two bus plate connectors are held in chambers on the bottom surface of the rotor. A rotor rotator has a servo motor with a motor gear in the rotor rotator, a switch nob connector at a top end of the rotor rotator, and a rotor key shaft at a bottom end of the rotor rotator which inserts into the key insert opening of the rotor. A programmable printed circuit board with a processor and memory are positioned around the rotor rotator and provide electrical current to the servo motor. Electrical connector poles provide electrical current to the printed circuit board by means of electrical conducting springs. The switch operates both automatically and manually.
US12255025B2
An electronic component includes: a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes, and including first to sixth surfaces; a first external electrode including a connection portion on the third surface, and first and third band portions respectively on the first and second surfaces; a second external electrode including a connection portion on the fourth surface, and second and fourth band portions respectively on the first and second surfaces; an insulating layer disposed on the connection portions, and covering the second surface and the third and fourth band portions; plating layers respectively disposed on the first and second band portions; and first and second additional electrode layers respectively disposed between the connection portion and the third surface and between the connection portion and the fourth surface. The first or second external electrode includes copper. The first or second additional electrode layer includes one of nickel and an alloy of nickel.
US12255024B2
A capacitor includes a stack and an external electrode located on a surface of the stack. The stack includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers alternately stacked on one another. Crystal grains include first crystal grains having a small grain size and second crystal grains having a larger grain size. The first crystal grains satisfy 0.13 μm≤d1<0.30 μm, where d1 is the grain size of the first crystal grains. The second crystal grains satisfy 0.30 μm≤d2<0.50 μm, where d2 is the grain size of the second crystal grains. The second crystal grains have a higher additive element content than the first crystal grains.
US12255023B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: preparing a dielectric magnetic composition including base material powder particles including BaTi2O5 or (Ba(1-x)Cax)Ti2O5 (0≤x≤0.1), the base material powder particles having surfaces coated with one or more of Mg, Mn, V, Ba, Si, Al and a rare earth metal; preparing ceramic green sheets using dielectric slurry including the dielectric magnetic composition; applying an internal electrode paste to the ceramic green sheets; preparing a green sheet laminate by stacking the ceramic green sheets to which the internal electrode paste is applied; and preparing a ceramic body including dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes arranged to face each other with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween by sintering the green sheet laminate.
US12255021B2
A multilayer electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed; and external electrodes disposed on the body, wherein the body includes a capacitance formation portion forming capacitance by including the first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween and margin portions formed on opposite side surfaces of the capacitance formation portion, respectively, the dielectric layer and the margin portion include a BaTiO3-based main component, and the margin portion includes an oxide including Zn as a first accessory component and includes Zn in an amount of 0.5 mol % or more and less than 1.5 mol % based on 100 mol % of Ti included in the margin portion.
US12255015B1
Examples disclosed herein are relevant to a wearable device configured to selectively receive a primary magnet set selected from among multiple primary magnet sets of varying magnetic strengths. A supplemental magnet set is used with the wearable device to supplement the selected primary magnet set to increase a strength of a magnetic connection. The wearable device can selectively couple with a selected cover. The cover can be an accommodating cover configured to accommodate the at least one supplemental magnet set or a non-accommodating cover for use as the selected cover when a supplemental magnet set is not being used.
US12255012B2
The present disclosure relates to a bushing-type current transformer, and a switchboard having the bushing-type current transformer applied thereto, comprising: a binding plate; a bushing including a first fixing part and a second fixing part located on each of the two sides of the binding plate and each providing an accommodating space; and a current transformer fitted and fixed to the first fixing part of the bushing.
US12255009B2
A bobbin, which may comprise a hollow cylindrical shell, wherein the hollow cylindrical shell may define or otherwise comprise an inner cavity. The bobbin may comprise one or more flanges located near an end of the hollow cylindrical shell, wherein the flange(s) extends, at least in part, radially away from the inner cavity, wherein the flange(s) comprises a region of partial conductivity.
US12255008B2
An inductor component includes an element body, a coil provided in the element body, and an outer electrode provided to the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The outer electrode includes an underlying layer embedded in the element body in which part of the underlying layer protrudes from a surface of the element body, and a coating film that covers a portion of the underlying layer exposed at the element body.
US12255007B2
A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a first flange portion, a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the winding core portion in the same direction, and a first terminal electrode that is disposed on the first flange portion and that is connected to a first end portion of the first wire. The shape of an outer edge of the first terminal electrode includes a convex curve.
US12254999B2
Qubit devices require fast operation, long coherence, and large scalability to be viable for implementation in quantum computing systems. A qubit platform device having long coherence, scalability, and fast operation includes a substrate, or trap region, configured to structurally support solid neon thereon. A trap electrode is configured to provide a trap voltage to the trap region and which creates a confining electrical field to a confining region adjacent to the trap region. The confining region being a region of space to confine an electron therein, confining the electron against the solid neon. First and second sets of guard electrodes are configured to provide variable electric potentials to first and second guard regions to allow for trapping and manipulation of a single electron in the confining region.
US12254997B2
Provided herein is a method for fabricating a heat source for a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). The method may include reducing a particle size in a strontium compound by powdering and sieving the strontium compound and/or dissolving the strontium compound into an aqueous solution; mixing the strontium compound with graphite to obtain a strontium-graphite mixture; performing a press to the strontium-graphite mixture; and encapsulating the pressed strontium-graphite mixture into an x-ray shielding to obtain the heat source.
US12254994B1
A nested pebble bed blanket surrounds a fusion reactor's vacuum chamber. The blanket includes stacks of nested pebbles composed of neutron multiplier shells filled with breeding spheroids. The shells have perforations passing through their inner and outer surfaces. The shells include therein perforated coolant distributor elements coupled to or unitary with the inner surfaces. Each perforated element is in line with a respective shell perforation, which allows coolant to flow into the sphere through the perforations and elements. When bombarded by neutrons, the nested pebbles produce fusion fuel to sustain fusion reactions. The coolant sweeps out the fusion fuel, and cools the breeding spheroids. Pebbles in the blanket are replenished with conveyor systems. A separator extracts the fusion fuel from the blanket coolant. Heat from the walls and the nested pebble bed is extracted by inert gases and then conveyed to a thermal storage and/or a power cycle.
US12254987B2
Methods and systems of using at least one hardware processor to train a machine learning algorithm to identify one or more predictive drug molecular features and/or predictive gene biomarkers for cancer treatment is provided. In some embodiments, the method uses at least one cancer drug discovery data set to train at least one learning algorithm in a prediction model, and uses a xenograft mouse model to validate the prediction model, with biological response fed back to the prediction model to further train the learning algorithm.
US12254986B2
A computer-implemented method of analysing transcript data, comprising: receiving a plurality of transcripts and a set of outcome data for each transcript, the outcome data associating each transcript with one or more outcomes; receiving a query transcript; processing the query transcript and each transcript within the plurality of transcripts; comparing, the processed data representing the query transcript with the processed data representing the plurality of transcripts, to identify a subset of the plurality of transcripts that meet a threshold similarity criterion with respect to the query transcript; and thereby determining a relationship between the query transcript and one or more outcomes.
US12254981B2
A method and computer-readable recording media using a self-describing module for updating data in a medical monitoring device. The self-describing module includes a metadata block (MDB) that includes at least identification (ID) data and corresponding configuration data. The medical monitoring device includes a plurality of sub-systems. Associating ID data from the MDB with ID data of the plurality of sub-systems of the medical monitoring device, and then updating configuration data of at least one sub-system with the configuration data in the MDB based on the result of the association.
US12254977B2
A computing device, such as a surgical hub, may obtain performance data associated with a device, such as a surgical device in an operation room. Based on the performance data, a computing device may identify a performance signature associated with the surgical device. A computing device may determine whether the surgical device is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) device or a counterfeit device. A computing device may compare the operation data and/or the performance signature to data (e.g., data from a ML trained model) associated with OEM devices. Based on the comparison, a computing device may determine whether the operation data associated with the surgical device is within a normal operation parameter. If a computing device determines that the operation data outside of the normal operation parameter, the computing device may send a message to a health care professional.
US12254965B2
Various systems and devices are provided for facilitating communication in a healthcare setting. In one example, a system for providing medical information can include a processor that, in response to executing machine-readable instructions, can generate a patient dashboard comprising the medical information for a patient and a patient communication thread. The processor can also output the patient dashboard to a display, wherein the patient dashboard further comprises a first link proximate to a displayed parameter from the medical information and the processor can obtain communication among care providers monitoring the patient and virtual healthcare assistants configured to communicate on the communication thread. The processor can also output the communication from the care providers, the virtual healthcare assistances, or any combination thereof, in the patient communication thread of the patient dashboard provided by the display.
US12254945B2
A neuromorphic device includes a memory cell array including first resistive memory cells connected to word lines, bit lines and source lines, second resistive memory cells connected to the word lines, at least one redundancy bit line and at least one redundancy source line, third resistive memory cells connected to at least one redundancy word line, the bit lines and the source lines. The memory cell array stores data corresponding to a weight of a neural network in the first resistive memory cells, and is configured to generate a plurality of read currents based on input signals and the data. The neuromorphic device further includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit configured to convert the plurality of read currents into a plurality of digital signals.
US12254944B2
Disclosed are a test system and a test method for a DRAM module of an INTEL system. The test system includes at least one memory module slot and a processing unit. When performing a test, a memory temperature sensing of a BIOS is turned off through an operating system. Then, an operation register in the INTEL central processing unit that has a function of connecting the DRAM module is detected, and a memory module transfer register determines whether the DRAM module is correctly plugged in. Then, the operation register accesses the EEPROM of the DRAM module, and writes test data to and reads the test data from the EEPROM by switching different storage pages of the EEPROM to complete the test.
US12254937B2
A semiconductor device includes a self-test circuit configured to generate an internal clock having a higher frequency than a clock applied from a device external to the semiconductor device, to generate an instruction signal from a pre-instruction signal extracted through a data line, and to generate an internal control signal from the instruction signal. The semiconductor device also includes a command control circuit configured to generate a test command to perform a self-test for determining whether a defect has occurred in first memory cells and second memory cells based on the internal clock and the internal control signal. The semiconductor device further includes a data control circuit configured to output data stored in the first memory cells based on the test command, and to store data output from the first memory cells in the second memory cells.
US12254934B2
A memory device, such as a 3D AND type flash memory, and a compensation method of data retention thereof are provided. The compensation method includes the following. A reading operation is performed on each of a plurality of programmed memory cells of the memory device. Whether a charge loss phenomenon occurs in the programmed memory cells is determined through the reading operation to set the programmed memory cells to be charge loss memory cells. A refill program operation is performed on the charge loss memory cells.
US12254915B1
The integrated circuit structure includes a substrate and a memory cell over the substrate. The memory cell includes a channel layer, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first ferroelectric layer, and a first gate layer. The first doped region is at a first side of the channel layer and doped with a first dopant being of a first conductivity type. The second doped region is at a second side of the channel layer opposing the first side and doped with a second dopant being of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. The ferroelectric layer is over the channel layer and between the first and second doped regions. The gate layer is over the ferroelectric layer.
US12254912B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, a method of reading data from the semiconductor structure, and a method of writing data into the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes: a memory matrix, including a plurality of magnetic storage domains arranged in a staggered manner and including a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion; and a reading and writing circuit, connected to the intermediate portion of the memory matrix and configured to write data into the magnetic storage domains and read data from the magnetic storage domains.
US12254909B2
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising one or more disks, an actuator arm assembly comprising one or more disk heads and a voice coil motor (VCM), the VCM configured to operate in a PWM mode and a linear mode, and one or more processing devices configured to: seek the VCM towards a target track in the PWM mode; transition the VCM from the PWM mode to the linear mode, wherein the transitioning comprises switching an offset compensation value from a first offset compensation value to a second compensation offset value to compensate for a transition offset induced while transitioning the VCM from the PWM to the linear mode, wherein the first and the second offset compensation values correspond to the PWM and linear modes, respectively, and seek the VCM towards the target track in the linear mode for a linear mode time.
US12254903B2
Locations in which a person is depicted within video frames may be determined to identify portions of the video frames to be included in a composite video. A background image not including any depiction of the person may be generated, and the identified portions of the video frames may be inserted into the background image to generate the composite video.
US12254899B1
A method of reading data from a rotating magnetic storage medium, having at least one read head, includes storing respective digitized data samples from each respective read head of the at least one read head in a respective timing buffer, determining a zero-phase start phase angle from a preamble of the digitized data samples, feeding forward the zero-phase start phase angle to an interpolator, selecting an interpolation filter based on the fed-forward zero-phase start phase angle, releasing the respective digitized data from the respective timing buffer after a duration sufficient for completion of the determining, the feeding forward and the selecting, and interpolating samples of the digitized data released from the respective timing buffer.
US12254890B2
A voice signal conversion model learning device includes: a generation unit configured to execute generation processing of generating a conversion destination voice signal on the basis of an input voice signal that is a voice signal of an input voice, conversion source attribute information that is information indicating an attribute of an input voice that is a voice represented by the input voice signal, and conversion destination attribute information indicating an attribute of a voice represented by the conversion destination voice signal that is a voice signal of a conversion destination of the input voice signal; and an identification unit configured to execute voice estimation processing of estimating whether or not a voice signal that is a processing target is a voice signal representing a vocal sound actually uttered by a person on the basis of the conversion source attribute information and the conversion destination attribute intonation, wherein the conversion destination voice signal is input to the identification unit, the processing target is a voice signal input to the identification unit, and the generation unit and the identification unit pertain learning on the basis of an estimation result of the voice estimation processing.
US12254889B2
A method of decoding an original speech signal for hybrid adversarial-parametric speech synthesis comprising: (a) receiving quantized original linear prediction coding parameters estimated by applying linear prediction coding analysis filtering to an original speech signal and a quantized compressed representation of a residual of the original speech signal; (b) dequantizing the original linear prediction coding parameters and the compressed representation of the residual; (c) inputting the dequantized compressed representation of the residual into a decoder part of a Generator for applying adversarial mapping from the compressed residual domain to a fake (first) signal domain; (d) outputting, by the decoder part of the Generator, a fake speech signal; (e) applying linear prediction coding analysis filtering to the fake speech signal for obtaining a corresponding fake residual; (f) reconstructing the original speech signal by applying linear prediction coding cross-synthesis filtering to the fake residual and the dequantized original linear prediction coding analysis parameters.
US12254888B2
Techniques are described herein for multi-factor audio watermarking. A method includes: receiving audio data; processing the audio data to generate predicted output that indicates a probability of one or more hotwords being present in the audio data; determining that the predicted output satisfies a threshold that is indicative of the one or more hotwords being present in the audio data; in response to determining that the predicted output satisfies the threshold, processing the audio data using automatic speech recognition to generate a speech transcription feature; detecting a watermark that is embedded in the audio data; and in response to detecting the watermark: determining that the speech transcription feature corresponds to one of a plurality of stored speech transcription features; and in response to determining that the speech transcription feature corresponds to one of the plurality of stored speech transcription features, suppressing processing of a query included in the audio data.
US12254884B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining a first value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes a hotword. The actions further include receiving a second value corresponding to a likelihood that the utterance includes the hotword, the second value being determined by a second computing device. The actions further include comparing the first value and the second value. The actions further include based on comparing the first value to the second value, initiating speech recognition processing on the audio data.
US12254883B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an automated calling system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance spoken by a user who is having a telephone conversation with a bot. The actions further include determining a context of the telephone conversation. The actions further include determining a user intent of a first previous portion of the telephone conversation spoken by the user and a bot intent of a second previous portion of the telephone conversation outputted by a speech synthesizer of the bot. The actions further include, based on the audio data of the utterance, the context of the telephone conversation, the user intent, and the bot intent, generating synthesized speech of a reply by the bot to the utterance. The actions further include, providing, for output, the synthesized speech.
US12254882B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for speech detection from facial skin movements. In one implementation, a system may include at least one light source, at least one sensor configured to receive light reflections from the at least one light source; and a processor configured to control the at least one light source to illuminate a region of a face of a user in a time interval. The processor may receive reflection signals indicative of light reflected from the face in the time interval. The reflection signals may be analyzed to determine facial skin movements in the time interval, wherein determining the sequence of words includes using an artificial neural network and a motion-to-language analysis. Then, based on the determined facial skin movements, the processor may determine a sequence of words associated with the facial skin movements, and output a textual transcription corresponding with the determined sequence of words.
US12254881B2
Techniques for altering default language, in system outputs, with language included in system inputs are described. A system may determine a word(s) in user inputs, associated with a particular user identifier, correspond to but are not identical to a word(s) in system outputs. The system may store an association between the user identifier, the word(s) in the user inputs, and the word(s) in the system outputs. Thereafter, when the system is generates a response to a user input, the system may replace the word(s), traditionally in the system outputs, with the word(s) that was present in previous user inputs. Such processing may further be tailored to a natural language intent.
US12254859B2
A system including a noise analyzer, a filter, and a memory. The noise analyzer configured to review a captured audio signal, wherein the captured audio signal comprises baseline noise parameters and clean audio. The filter configured to remove the baseline noise parameters from the captured audio signal so that the clean audio is free of the baseline noise parameters. The memory stores the clean audio.
US12254853B2
An electromagnetic scanning metronome comprises a laser to produce a beam of light, and comprises a surface to reflect the beam of light to produce a visible line of light which extends over an image of sheet music. The metronome includes apparatus to move the laser and visible line of light from left to right with respect to the image of sheet music.
US12254843B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a data driver which applies a first data voltage to a first display area of the display panel during a first frame and applies a second data voltage to a second display area of the display panel during a second frame; and an emission driver which controls an emission of light on the first display area based on the first data voltage during the second frame and an emission of light on the second display area based on the second data voltage during a third frame. An area of a first visual image recognized to a user due to the emission of the light on the first display area is partially overlapped with an area of a second visual image recognized to the user due to the emission of the light on the second display area in a plan view.
US12254839B2
A pixel of a light-emitting display device includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor including a gate receiving a gate writing signal, a third transistor including a gate receiving a scan signal, a fourth transistor including a gate receiving a gate initialization signal, a fifth transistor including a gate receiving a first emission signal, a sixth transistor including a gate receiving a second emission signal, and a light-emitting diode. The scan signal and the gate writing signal may be provided at a first frequency, and the first emission signal, the second emission signal and the gate initialization signal may be provided at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US12254837B2
A display panel, including: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; a second conductive layer including more than one gate line located in the display region, and more than one virtual gate line located in the non-display region; a virtual conductive part, located in the non-display region, where the virtual conductive part is located in a different conductive layer from the virtual gate line, an orthographic projection of the virtual conductive part on the substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the virtual gate line on the substrate, and the virtual conductive part is configured to form an equivalent capacitance with the virtual gate line; and a RC load of the virtual gate line matches with a RC load of the gate line.
US12254829B2
In a pixel circuit, a first reset transistor is coupled between a gate of a drive transistor and an initialization signal terminal, and a gate of the first reset transistor is coupled to a reset control terminal; a compensation transistor is coupled between the gate and a first electrode of the drive transistor, and a gate of the compensation transistor is coupled to a first scan control terminal; a data writing transistor is coupled between a second electrode of the drive transistor and a data signal terminal, and a gate of the data writing transistor is coupled to a second scan control terminal; a first light emitting control transistor is coupled between the second electrode of the drive transistor and a first power supply terminal, and a gate of the first light emitting control transistor is coupled to a light emitting control terminal.
US12254828B2
A method for controlling dynamic change of a screen refresh rate and an electronic device are provided. In a scenario of dynamic change of the refresh rate, a refresh rate switching instruction may be sent immediately through an added refresh rate setting interface (displaySetFps) within a current ith frame period before a current Vsync periodicity ends. After receiving the refresh rate switching instruction, a DDIC drives a display screen to switch a screen refresh rate, and then the DDIC returns a new TE signal. After receiving the new TE signal, SurfaceFlinger starts a new Vsync periodicity corresponding to a switched screen refresh rate. In an embodiment of this application, a switching speed at which the screen refresh rate is switched may be increased by adding a new path. For example, it may be ensured that each switching of the screen refresh rate is completed within one frame.
US12254827B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first pixel, a first emission signal line and a second emission signal line. The first pixel includes a blue sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a red sub-pixel. The blue sub-pixel includes a first emission control switch. The green sub-pixel includes a second emission control switch. The red sub-pixel includes a third emission control switch. The first emission signal line is electrically connected to the first emission control switch and the second emission control switch. The second emission signal line is electrically connected to the third emission control switch.
US12254820B2
A dual-line cascade application system for simultaneously supplying electrical power and transmitting data, including a controller, cascade chips connected to the controller, and LED lights connected to the cascade chips. Each cascade chip is provided with a voltage clamp module, an electrical power supply module, a data storage module, a PWM constant current output driving circuit, an R end (Red LED output end), a G end (Green LED output end), a B end (Blue LED output end), a W end (White LED output end), a VCC/DATA end and a GND/DATA end, as well as a data sampling and calibration module, a power line data sampling and transmission module, a chip initial address setting by command module, a module which determines if E-fuse address of the chip is identical to an address of received data, and an E-fuse module which are sequentially connected. A method using the system is also provided.
US12254812B2
A display apparatus and a control device and a control method thereof are provided. A controller of the control device controls a gate driver of a display panel. The controller selects a first selected frame and a second selected frame in each frame group, wherein an adjacent position between a first partition and a second partition of the display panel corresponds to a corresponding time point in each frame of the first selected frame and the second selected frame. The controller transmits a reset pulse to the first gate driver at the corresponding time point in the second selected frame to clear a scanning pulse in the gate driver, and cancels the reset pulse at the corresponding time point in the first selected frame. Thus, the control device enables different display partitions of the display panel to have different frame rates or refresh rates.
US12254806B2
A pixel circuit in a display panel includes a drive transistor and a first transistor, a first terminal of the drive transistor is electrically connected to a power signal line, a first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to an initialization signal line; a second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the drive transistor or a light-emitting element; drive modes of the display panel include an i-th drive mode and a j-th drive mode, and the i-th drive mode corresponds to an i-th drive frequency Fi and an i-th initialization signal Vrefi, the j-th drive mode corresponds to a j-th drive frequency Fj, a signal writing stage in the j-th drive mode corresponds to a j1-th initialization signal Vrefj1, and a light emission holding stage in the j-th drive mode corresponds to a j2-th initialization signal Vrefj2.
US12254802B2
A light-emitting device driving circuit is provided. The light-emitting device driving circuit includes a current source, a light-emitting device series and an input-side voltage-stabilizing circuit. The input-side voltage-stabilizing circuit is electrically connected between the current source and the light-emitting device series to provide a driving current. The input-side voltage-stabilizing circuit includes a normally-on transistor, a first resistor and a compensation capacitor. The first resistor is electrically connected to the normally-on transistor. The compensation capacitor is electrically connected to the normally-on transistor and the light-emitting device series.
US12254801B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include: a first housing, a second housing configured to be movable with respect to the first housing, a flexible display coupled to the first housing or the second housing to be movable together with a coupled housing, an illuminance sensor, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: measure an illuminance value using the illuminance sensor, determine an area of interest based on a movement of the flexible display, obtain color information on an image displayed in the area of interest, calculate a correction value using the obtained color information, correct the measured illuminance value based on the calculated correction value, and adjust luminance of the flexible display using the corrected illuminance value.
US12254790B2
A system for increasing the life of an outerwear garment or an outdoor dear item with an outerwear garment or an outdoor gear item having an outer layer formed of a first material, a hangtag that is attachable to the garment, the hangtag including a patch made out of the first material, the patch for covering a hole or blemish formed in the outer layer of the outerwear garment of outdoor gear item.
US12254781B1
An educational multiplayer card game, system, and method of play that combines strategy and randomization is provided. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an educational card game including cards having synonym and antonym attributes, wherein cards can be chained together according to a synonym attribute and cards can perform contrast strikes according to an antonym attribute. Further, the educational card game can include more than one language on each card.
US12254778B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for generating verifiable conflict-free flight plans for aircraft are disclosed. In an embodiment, a server computer receives a set of air traffic flight plans for an airspace that includes elements, and receives at least two of aerodynamic constraint data, business constraint data and operational constraint data for an aircraft. The server computer then generates using a first constraint satisfaction solver, a plurality of candidate flight plans for the aircraft based on the at least two of the aerodynamic constraint data, the business constraint data and the operational constraint data. The server computer next checks, utilizing a second constraint solver, for conflicts with the elements of the air traffic flight plans for the airspace, and provides at least one verifiable conflict-free flight plan for the aircraft from the plurality of candidate flight plans when a candidate flight plan is conflict-free from all of the elements of the set of air traffic flight plans.
US12254774B2
A server includes: a communication device configured to acquire information on a user who is to receive a physical exam, the information including a residence of the user and an examination item of the user; and one or more processors configured to determine a travel schedule of a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform one or more of a plurality of the examination items of the physical exam, the travel schedule being a schedule for the vehicles that offer the examination items of a plurality of the users to travel around the residences of the users.
US12254772B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a program, and a mobile device enabling to obtain an occupancy grid map in which an appropriate path can be set. The signal processing device includes: a map creation unit configured to create an occupancy grid map indicating a presence or absence of an object in a unit of a grid on the basis of first sensor data from a first sensor used to detect the object in surroundings of a mobile device; an attribute setting unit configured to set an attribute of the grid of the occupancy grid map on the basis of an attribute of the object; and a correction unit configured to correct the occupancy grid map on the basis of an attribute of the grid. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that controls automatic driving.
US12254771B2
An approach is provided for determining placement location(s) in a public space for a shared micro-mobility vehicle. The approach involves identifying a candidate placement location in the sidewalk area. The approach also involves determining factor(s) associated with the location and/or nearby location(s) in the sidewalk area. The approach further involves making a determination of whether the location is suitable for temporary placement of a shared micro-mobility vehicle based on whether the location enables: (i) avoiding interference between the vehicle and a current/predicted people flow, a bicycle lane, and/or one or more objects, (ii) preventing the vehicle from hindering usage of a point of interest, a vehicle parking area, and/or a transit station, or (iii) accommodating the vehicle to a sidewalk configuration. The approach further involves based on the determination, outputting an indication of whether the location is suitable for temporary placement of the vehicle.
US12254768B2
A remote monitoring system (100) according to the present disclosure includes: an observation unit (101) configured to observe traffic in a network that corresponds to a movement section where a mobile object moves, the mobile object serving as a target to be monitored; and a specification unit (102) configured to divide the movement section on the basis of the observed traffic, and specify a delay jitter distribution in each divided section.
US12254767B2
A control system for an ego-vehicle traveling in a first direction in a first lane on a road segment where the vehicle has a driver support function for autonomously maneuvering the vehicle. The control system includes control circuitry configured to obtain sensor data including information about a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The control circuitry determines a relative velocity of at least one external vehicle traveling in a second lane adjacent to the first lane based on the obtained sensor data. Moreover, the control circuitry is configured to generate a control signal in to control an availability of the driver support function for the road segment based on the comparison in order to make the driver support function available for an occupant of the vehicle if at least one external vehicle of the external vehicle(s) has been confirmed to have a relative velocity below the maximum velocity threshold.
US12254764B2
A system for capturing location-based data includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a location-based data description for capturing the location-based data. The processor is configured to determine a location based at least in part on the location-based data description, create a location-based data identification job based at least in part on the location, cause execution of the location-based data identification job to a set of vehicle event recorder systems, wherein the location-based data identification job is executed by a vehicle event recorder system of the set of vehicle event recorder systems to acquire sensor data in response to a vehicle being able to acquire the sensor data related to the location of the location-based data identification job, receive the sensor data from the vehicle event recorder system, and determine the location-based data based at least in part on the sensor data.
US12254756B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods of providing a personal air quality monitor. The personal air quality monitor may include a housing suitable for physical association with a person; an air inlet capable of providing air flow from an environment outside the housing to a chamber within the housing; a plurality of sensor resident within the chamber, suitable for receiving the airflow and measuring air quality factors associated with the airflow; and a communication system suitable for processing the air quality factor measurements and communicating the processed air quality factor measurements to a user interface cognizable to the person.
US12254753B2
Methods, systems, and devices for determination and notification of a location of a building safety system event are described herein. One embodiment includes a method for notifying a user of a fire system event, comprising detecting an event in a building through an event detection device and transmitting information about at least one of the event or the event detection device to a remote server and to a first computing device. The first computing device may include a memory wherein floorplans of each floor of the building are stored. The method may further comprise determining, based on the information and through the first computing device, a floor of the building on which the first event was detected; transmitting a particular floorplan of that floor to the remote server; determining a specific location within the floor at which the first event was detected; generating a visual floor representation, including an indication of the specific location, based on the particular floorplan and the specific location; and transmitting the visual floor representation to a software application comprised of executable instructions stored in the memory of a second computing device to present the visual floor representation to a user.
US12254739B2
A gaming system provides a center control unit and a plurality of gaming stations. The center control unit is provides a main game to a plurality of players. The center control unit is configured to randomly establish an outcome of the main game from a plurality of potential outcomes. The gaming stations accept a wager on the main game from respective players, receives the outcome of the main game and pays an award to one of the players as a function of the outcome of the main game. The center control unit randomly establishes one of the players as eligible for a bonus game, selects one of the potential outcomes of the main game as a bonus game eligible outcome, and if the bonus game eligible outcome is the outcome of the main game, provides a bonus game to the bonus game eligible player.
US12254735B2
A system, computer-implemented method and gaming device are provided. A system includes a processor circuit, a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes two axis display control to determine a selected event group from multiple event groups and to determine multiple events from multiple events, receive wager amount data and wager type data via the GUI, after receiving the wager amount data and the wager type data via the GUI, receive event selection inputs corresponding to the events and determine an aggregate total amount of wager investment and winnings based on outcomes of selected ones of the events.
US12254721B2
Techniques for inspecting a vehicle using a robot and a home base configured to be situated on a vehicle lot are presented. The robot has a vertical dimension that permits the robot to pass under a vehicle on the vehicle lot. The robot includes at least one sensor and is configured to perform actions including: receiving charging at the home base; traversing a distance from the home base to a vehicle present on the vehicle lot; determining an identification of the vehicle; passing under the vehicle; and obtaining sensor data regarding the vehicle. A computer in communication with the robot is configured to perform actions including: receiving the identification of the vehicle and the sensor data from the robot; analyzing the sensor data based on at least comparison data; determining, based on the analyzing, to send an alert regarding the vehicle; and sending the alert regarding the vehicle.
US12254720B2
A ticket issuing system has a processor and a storage with instructions thereon. The storage stores a feature value table that associates and stores feature value data including feature information pertaining to biometric information and a feature ID for identifying the feature value data. The instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire user feature information pertaining to biometric information of a user of a ticket to be issued; identify, from among the feature value data stored in the feature value table, similar feature value data for which a similarity with the user feature information satisfies a predetermined criterion to obtain a feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data; and issue a ticket on which authentication information that includes the feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data is recorded.
US12254715B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a recognition method, apparatus, device, and storage medium and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technology. The method includes obtaining a second decision-making threshold of a feature-matching model in a target scenario by joint testing of the feature-matching model and auxiliary detection model. The method takes into full consideration the mutual influence between different algorithm models in a scenario when multiple algorithm models are used for facial recognition. Compared to manually setting a decision-making threshold for each algorithm model independently, the methods in the disclosure are more adaptable to changing scenarios and scenarios with multiple models used in facial recognition. This improves the accuracy and efficiency of the obtained decision-making thresholds, thereby enhancing the accuracy of multi-model facial recognition.
US12254700B2
A system comprising at least one hardware processor for updating a cloud-based road anomaly database is disclosed, wherein the system receives information from a vehicle regarding an object detected by one or more sensors of the vehicle, the information may include a location and/or a size of the detected object; compares the location and/or the size of the first detected object against data stored in a road feature database regarding the first detected object; determines, based on comparing the location and/or the size, an accuracy score associated with the first detected object and the second detected object; and updates the cloud-based road anomaly database with the received information for the second detected object based on the associated accuracy score being higher than at least one of a threshold accuracy score or an accuracy score associated with corresponding object information stored in the cloud-based road anomaly database.
US12254698B2
In accordance with one disclosed method, a computing system may cause a first computing device to display a first notification of a first event detected at a monitored location, and may cause a second computing device to display a second notification of a second event detected at the monitored location. The computing system may additionally cause the second computing device to cease display of the second notification in response to a change of status of the first event.
US12254694B2
Embodiments provide a method of using image-based tube top circle detection based on multiple candidate selection to localize the tube top circle region in input images. According to embodiments provided herein, the multi-candidate selection enhances the robustness of tube circle detection by making use of multiple views of the same tube to improve the robustness of tube top circle detection. With multiple candidates extracted from images under different viewpoints of the same tube, the multi-candidate selection algorithm selects an optimal combination among the candidates and provides more precise measurement of tube characteristics. This information is invaluable in an IVD environment in which a sample handler is processing the tubes and moving the tubes to analyzers for testing and analysis.
US12254692B2
The present invention discloses construction method and system of a descriptive model of classroom teaching behavior events. The construction method includes steps as the followings: acquiring classroom teaching video data to be trained; dividing the classroom teaching video data to be trained into multiple events according to utterances of a teacher by using a voice activity detection technology; and performing multi-modal recognition on all events by using multiple artificial intelligence technologies to divide the events into sub-events in multiple dimensions, establishing an event descriptive model according to the sub-events, and describing various teaching behavior events of the teacher in a classroom. The present invention divides a classroom video according to voice, which can ensure the completeness of the teacher's non-verbal behavior in each event to the greatest extent. Also, a descriptive model that uniformly describes all events is established by extracting commonality between different events, which can not only complete the description of various teaching behaviors of the teacher, but also reflect the correlation between events, so that the events are no longer isolated.
US12254691B2
Systems and methods for multi-view cooperative contrastive self-supervised learning, may include receiving a plurality of video sequences, the video sequences comprising a plurality of image frames; applying selected images of a first and second video sequence of the plurality of video sequences to a plurality of different encoders to derive a plurality of embeddings for different views of the selected images of the first and second video sequences; determining distances of the derived plurality of embeddings for the selected images of the first and second video sequences; detecting inconsistencies in the determined distances; and predicting semantics of a future image based on the determined distances.
US12254672B1
A system or technique can analyze metadata from a first set of images using a neural network to identify classification information about individuals depicted in the images. The system generates data based on this classification information, including attributes of the individuals, and compares this data against predefined criteria for image presentations. If any attributes are found to be non-compliant with the criteria, the system queries a database of second image metadata linked to a set of images. This database includes data generated from prior presentations and classification information provided by individuals depicted in the images. The system locates compliant attributes in the second image metadata, retrieves an image linked to these compliant attributes, and modifies a presentation to include the retrieved image.
US12254670B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving raw data from a millimeter-wave radar sensor; generating a first radar-Doppler image based on the raw data; generating a first radar point cloud based on the first radar-Doppler image; using a graph encoder to generate a first graph representation vector indicative of one or more relationships between two or more parts of the target based on the first radar point cloud; generating a first cadence velocity diagram indicative of a periodicity of movement of one or more parts of the target based on the first radar-Doppler image; and classifying an activity of a target based on the first graph representation vector and the first cadence velocity diagram.
US12254668B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for object matching in image data. In various examples, first image data and second image data may be received. A first feature map representing the first image data and a second feature map representing the second image data may be generated. The first feature map and second feature map may be combined and a first and second segmentation mask may be generated using the combined feature map. The first segmentation mask may be used to filter the first feature map to generate a filtered representation. The second segmentation mask may be used to filter the second feature map to generate a filtered representation. A determination may be made that a first object depicted in the first image data corresponds to a second object depicted in the second image data using the filtered representations.
US12254659B2
One aspect provides a method for object detection including detecting, using an electronic processor, a plurality of candidate objects in a video using a convolutional neural network detection process and a background subtraction detection process and identifying, using the electronic processor, a candidate object from the plurality of candidate objects. The candidate object detected by the background subtraction detection process in a location of the video with no candidate objects detected by the convolutional neural network detection process. The method also includes determining, using the electronic processor, a background subtraction confidence level of the candidate object and categorizing, using the electronic processor, the candidate object as a detected object in the video in response to the background subtraction confidence level satisfying a background subtraction confidence threshold.
US12254657B2
The disclosed technique detects a foreground region accurately even with a neural network. A first region detection unit detects, by a DNN, a predetermined foreground region in an inputted image. A weak region identification unit detects, by a DNN, a weak region having a possibility that misdetection or non-detection occurs during the region detection on the inputted image using a DNN that has the same detection target as that of the DNN of the first region detection unit. A second region detection unit detects, by a method other than a neural network, a foreground region that is a detection target same as that of the first region detection unit in the weak region detected by the weak region identification unit within the inputted image read from an input device. An integration unit integrates detection results by the first region detection unit and by the second region detection unit.
US12254656B2
An apparatus includes a control unit configured to control an illumination unit such that two or more light sources from among the plurality of light sources of the illumination unit are turned on when an image of an object is captured, and a derivation unit configured to derive a reflection characteristic of the object based on image data obtained by capturing the image of the object, wherein the control unit turns on the two or more light sources such that a distance between the two or more light sources is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
US12254652B2
Disclosed is a method for determining the three-dimensional positions of points in a target region on a patient in a reference coordinate system of a surgical visualization system. The method includes generating at least one light marking in the target region. Using at least one imaging unit to capture at least one image representation containing the at least one light marking. Determining a three-dimensional position of the at least one light marking in the reference coordinate system proceeding from image coordinates of the light marking in the captured image representation, with the known pose of the at least one light source and/or the light path and the known pose of the at least one imaging unit being taken into account. Repeating measures multiple times, with a position of the at least one light marking within the target region being changed each time, and providing the determined three-dimensional positions.
US12254647B2
Described are techniques and systems for secure camera based IMU calibration for stationary systems, including vehicles. Existing vehicle camera systems are employed, with enhanced security to prevent malicious attempts by hackers to try and cause a vehicle to enter IMU calibration mode. IMU calibration occurs when a calibration system determines the vehicle is parked in a controlled environment; calibration targets are positioned at different viewing angles to vehicle cameras to act as sources of optical patterns of encoded data. Features of the patterns are for security as well as for alignment functionality. Images of the calibration targets enable inference of a vehicle coordinate system, from which calculations for IMU mounting error compensations are performed. A relative rotation between the IMU and the vehicle coordinate system are applied to IMU data to compensate for relative rotations between the vehicle and the IMU, thereby improving vehicle slope and bank metrics.
US12254646B2
A system for refining a six degrees of freedom pose estimate of a target object based on a one-dimensional measurement includes a camera and a range-sensing device. The range-sensing device is configured to determine an actual distance measured between the range-sensing device and an actual point of intersection. The range-sensing device projects a line-of-sight that intersects with the target object at the actual point of intersection. The system also includes one or more processors in electronic communication with the camera and the range-sensing device and a memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores data into one or more databases and program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the system to predict the six degrees of freedom pose estimate of the target object. The system also determines a revised six degrees of freedom pose estimate of the target object based on at least an absolute error.
US12254639B2
A method of automatically determining boundaries of a z-stack of images of an object, the z-stack of the images acquired by imaging the object at different focal positions, is provided. The method includes generating a set of images of the object, each image being captured at a different focal position, and applying a blurriness-W metric function to each image. The blurriness-W metric function is a blurriness or sharpness metric function having a focal position as a variable, and shows a global extremum for maximal or minimal sharpness at the focal position and secondary extrema adjoining the global extremum. The method includes calculating, by the blurriness-W metric function, a metric value for each image, and based on the blurriness-W metric function showing a primary extremum and two of the secondary extrema adjoining the primary extremum, determining the z-stack boundaries in dependence of the focal positions assigned to the two secondary extrema.
US12254638B2
A method and system of recognizing object edges and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining an input image; recognizing the input image and obtaining a relative position of each object vertex and a corresponding image vertex thereof; determining a reference position of each object vertex in the input image according to the relative position of each object vertex and the corresponding image vertex thereof; performing corner point detection in a predetermined area where the reference position of the object vertex is located for each object vertex; determining an actual position of each object vertex in the input image according to a result of the corner point detection; and sequentially connecting adjacent object vertices to form edge lines to obtain the edges of the object with edges in the input image according to the actual position of each object vertex in the input image.
US12254632B2
A thermal image processing device includes: an acquirer that acquires a thermal image from a thermal image sensor; a first processor that performs, on a high temperature pixel indicating a temperature higher than a first temperature among a plurality of pixels included in the thermal image acquired, image processing for decreasing the temperature indicated by the high temperature pixel; and a second processor that performs high frequency enhancement processing for enhancing a high frequency component included in a converted image serving as the thermal image on which the image processing has been performed.
US12254615B1
Disclosed are method and device for automatically pre-detecting paper cup design defects. The method includes: receiving an imported design drawing to be detected, and obtaining a corresponding fan-shaped image mask through the trained image segmentation model; converting the fan-shaped image mask into a real fan-shaped frame; calculating and obtaining a corresponding target model design drawing according to the real fan-shaped frame, and mapping to the specification data of a corresponding model; and partitioning the real fan-shaped frame according to the mapped specification data, detecting corresponding defects in each partition through a preset detection module, and outputting defect detection results. The present disclosure enables identification of design defects solely through graphic design drafts, thereby reducing costs, enhancing flexible production capabilities, and filling a gap in the paper cup industry. Defect detection functions are pluggable, that is, ineffective detection modules can be replaced, and new detection items can be added.
US12254614B2
An automated method for detecting glass-ceramic materials in cullet, includes detecting the glass-ceramic material in cullet, during which fragments thought to be glass-ceramic material are identified in the cullet, obtaining a digital image resulting from the detecting of the glass-ceramic material, the image including at least one group of pixels corresponding to a fragment thought to be glass-ceramic material, colorimetrically processing the image, during which at least the group of pixels of the image corresponding to fragments thought to be glass-ceramic material is processed by a colorimetric image processing module according to an RGB model.
US12254613B2
In an approach to non-destructive inspection of IC devices, one or more images of a Device Under Test (DUT) are received from one or more imaging devices. Observed features are detected in the one or more images and producing a first synthetic representation of a part design of the DUT that includes the observed features. The presence of one or more first unobserved features are inferred, where the one or more first unobserved features are inferred using a mapping and inference model (MIM). The one or more first unobserved features are added to the first synthetic representation of the part design of the DUT.
US12254609B2
A video management apparatus 100a includes: an abnormality video registration unit 135 configured to associate a plurality of abnormality video data obtained in a respective plurality of first worksites at an abnormality occurrence time with the respective pieces of first worksite information related to safety of the respective first worksites, and to register the plurality of abnormality video data in an abnormality video database 125, in response to obtaining each of a plurality of pieces of abnormality occurrence information indicating abnormalities that have occurred at the respective plurality of first worksites; a notification processing unit 137 configured to notify a second terminal associated with a second worksite, of information related to the registration of these abnormality video data; and a video distribution processing unit 139 configured to distribute the abnormality video data associated with the second worksite from among the plurality of abnormality video data to the second terminal.
US12254606B2
This application relates to the field of terminal technologies, and provides an image display method and apparatus, a terminal device, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes: obtaining, in response to a first instruction entered by a user, a first offset corresponding to a first display specification; and displaying a first target image on a display based on the first display specification, where the first target image is obtained by cropping a first original image based on the first display specification, an offset between a center of the first target image and a center of the first original image is the first offset, and the first original image is an image shot by using a front-facing camera as a center.
US12254604B2
A system comprises a picture and metadata captured by a content capture system; a recognizable characteristic datastore configured to store recognizable characteristics of different users; a module configured to identify a time and a location associated with the picture based on the metadata, and to identify one or more potential target systems within a predetermined range of the location at the time; a characteristic recognition module configured to retrieve the recognizable characteristics of one or more potential users associated with the potential target systems, and evaluate whether the picture includes one or more representations of at least one actual target user from the potential users based on the recognizable characteristics of the potential users; a distortion module configured to distort a feature of the representations of the least one actual target user in response to the determination; a communication module configured to communicate the distorted picture to a computer network.
US12254599B2
A system for generating motion blur comprises: a frame camera, an event camera and an accumulator for accumulating event information from a plurality of events occurring within a window around the exposure time of an image frame in a plurality of event frames. A processor determines from the events in at least a first of the plurality of event frames, one or more areas of movement within the field of view of the event camera; determines from the events in at least a second of the plurality of event frames, a direction of movement for the one or more areas of movement; and applies blur in one or more areas of the image frame corresponding to the one or more determined areas of movement in accordance with at least the direction of movement for each of the one or more areas of movement to produce a blurred image.
US12254597B2
An item recommendation system receives a set of recommendable items and a request to select, from the set of recommendable items, a contrast group. The item recommendation system selects a contrast group from the set of recommendable items by applying a image modification model to the set of recommendable items. The image modification model includes an item selection model configured to determine an unbiased conversion rate for each item of the set of recommendable items and select a recommended item from the set of recommendable items having a greatest unbiased conversion rate. The image modification model includes a contrast group selection model configured to select, for the recommended item, a contrast group comprising the recommended item and one or more contrast items. The item recommendation system transmits the contrast group responsive to the request.
US12254592B2
A direct structured illumination microscopy (dSIM) reconstruction method is provided. First, a time domain modulation signal is extracted through a wavelet. Then, an incoherent signal is converted into a coherent signal. Next, an accumulation amount at each pixel is calculated. Finally, a super-resolution image is generated by using a correlation between signals at different spatial positions. An autocorrelation algorithm of dSIM is insensitive to an error of a reconstruction parameter. dSIM bypasses a complex frequency domain operation in structured illumination microscopy (SIM) image reconstruction, and prevents an artifact caused by the parameter error in the frequency domain operation. The dSIM algorithm has high adaptability and can be used in laboratory SIM, nonlinear SIM imaging systems, or commercial systems.
US12254589B2
Embodiments are disclosed for generating 360-degree panoramas from input narrow field of view images. A method of generating 360-degree panoramas may include obtaining an input image and guide, generating a panoramic projection of the input image, and generating, by a panorama generator, a 360-degree panorama based on the panoramic projection and the guide, wherein the panorama generator is a guided co-modulation generator network trained to generate a 360-degree panorama from the input image based on the guide.
US12254578B1
Systems and methods for device integration in augmented reality environments are disclosed. For example, prior to an AR session being initiated, smart devices within a physical environment where the AR session is to be utilized may be identified and selected based on the functionality of the smart devices and the capabilities of an AR application associated with the AR session. Location information about the smart devices may also be determined and this information may be utilized to generate configuration data, which may be used by the AR application to cause device state transitions on the smart devices in response to events that occur in an AR environment of the AR session.
US12254577B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for applying augmented reality elements to a person depicted in an image. The operations include receiving an image that includes data representing a depiction of a person; extracting a portion of the image; applying a first machine learning model stage to the portion to predict a depth of a point of interest for the data representing the depiction of the person; applying a second machine learning model stage to the portion of the image to predict a relative depth of each pixel in the portion of the image to the predicted depth of the point of interest; generating dense depth reconstruction of the data representing the depiction of the person based on outputs of the first and second stages of the machine learning model; and applying one or more AR elements to the image based on the dense depth reconstruction.
US12254575B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a position and orientation of a virtual viewpoint and a position and orientation of each of one or more virtual objects, a movement unit configured to move the virtual viewpoint, a control unit configured to control each of the one or more virtual objects to be interlocked or not to be interlocked with movement of the virtual viewpoint based on whether the virtual object satisfies a predetermined condition, and a generation unit configured to generate a virtual image including the controlled one or more virtual objects at a viewpoint as a result of moving the virtual viewpoint.
US12254563B2
Systems and methods for creating a two-dimensional orthographic map that models an environment using images captured with a camera and an augmented reality (AR) engine. The interior has at least one object with one or more planes that are parallel to each other. A method can include annotating the at least one image with a plurality of horizontal lines or vertical lines, each horizontal line or vertical line corresponding to an edge of the at least one object in at least one of the one or more planes, determining, an orientation of a projection plane that is parallel to each of the one or more planes, estimating an offset for each of the one or more planes relative to the projection plane, and rendering, based on the offset for each of the one or more planes, a two-dimensional orthographic map that models the interior environment.
US12254561B2
Methods and apparati for using an avatar (2) to help produce a digital image representation (17) of a body (1). A method embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of capturing (21) measurements of the body (1) and combining the measurements with an avatar (2) to produce a set of avatar images (11); invoking (22) a neural network (3) to generate a set of photorealistic face and hair images (12); combining (26) the avatar images (11) and the face and hair images (12) to produce a set of composite images (16); and converting (27) the set of composite images (16) into a set of final images (17) representing the body (1).
US12254560B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for identifying induced deformation of a 3D object is provided. The embodiment may include receiving an unaltered three-dimensional (3D) rendering of an object and attribute information of the object. The embodiment may include identifying one or more influencing factors of forecasted local deformation of one or more portions of the 3D rendering based on the attribute information. The embodiment may include creating, via a generative adversarial network (GAN), a 3D rendering of the object showing the forecasted local deformation. The embodiment may include identifying induced deformation of one or more other portions of the 3D rendering caused by the forecasted local deformation. The embodiment may include creating, via the GAN, a 3D rendering of the object showing the identified induced deformation.
US12254545B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly generating modified digital images utilizing a novel swapping autoencoder that incorporates scene layout. In particular, the disclosed systems can receive a scene layout map that indicates or defines locations for displaying specific digital content within a digital image. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize the scene layout map to guide combining portions of digital image latent code to generate a modified digital image with a particular textural appearance and a particular geometric structure defined by the scene layout map. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize a scene layout map that defines a portion of a digital image to modify by, for instance, adding new digital content to the digital image, and can generate a modified digital image depicting the new digital content.
US12254539B2
Systems and methods of image reconstruction are disclosed. A positron emission tomography (PET) dataset is acquired from a PET imaging modality and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset is obtained from an MRI modality. The MRI dataset is registered to the PET dataset. An MRI reconstructed image is generated from the MRI dataset and is registered to the PET dataset. An iterative reconstruction process is applied to the PET dataset using the MRI reconstructed image as guidance. The iterative reconstruction process includes one or more similarity coefficients and a spatially variant adaptive hyperparameter is calculated for each iteration of the iterative reconstruction process. A reconstructed image is output from the iterative reconstruction process.
US12254538B2
Images are synthesized from a source to a target nature through unsupervised machine learning (ML), based on an original training set of unaligned source and target images, by training a first ML architecture through an unsupervised first learning pipeline applied to the original set, to generate a first trained model and induced target images consisting in representations of original source images compliant with the target nature. A second ML architecture is trained through a supervised second learning pipeline applied to an induced training set of aligned image pairs, each including first and second items corresponding respectively to an original source image and the induced target image associated with the latter, to generate a second trained model enabling image syntheses from the source to the target nature. Also, applications to effective medical image translations.
US12254537B2
A system for PET image reconstruction is provided. The system may obtain PET data of a subject. The PET data may be associated with a plurality of coincidence events, which includes scattering events. The system may also generate a preliminary scatter sinogram relating to the scattering events based on the PET data. The system may also generate a target scatter sinogram relating to the scattering events by applying a scatter sinogram generator based on the preliminary scatter sinogram. The target scatter sinogram may have a higher image quality than the preliminary scatter sinogram. The system may further reconstruct a target PET image of the subject based on the PET data and the target scatter sinogram.
US12254534B2
For creation of a movement-compensated image reconstruction in an x-ray based imaging method an optimal object movement trajectory is determined by application of a trained algorithm to an optimal latent vector and the movement-compensated image reconstruction is created depending on projection images, with the assumption that the object would have moved in accordance with the optimal object movement trajectory while the imaging method was being carried out. The optimal latent vector is determined by a predetermined cost function being minimized using the latent vector as an optimization parameter, wherein for each optimization step with a current latent vector, a current object movement trajectory is determined by application of a trained algorithm to the current latent vector, and a current value of the cost function is computed depending on the plurality of projection images, with the assumption that the object would have moved in accordance with the current object movement trajectory while the imaging method was being carried out.
US12254532B1
A color correction system comprises a correction information generator and an image processor. The correction information generator generates color correction information from a color correction image associated with a plurality of images. The image processor automatically processes the plurality of images based on the color correction information to generate a plurality of color-corrected images. In operation, images and a color correction image associated with the images are received. Next, color correction information is generated from the color correction image. For example, color correction information includes a color correction matrix or white balance parameters. Next, the images are automatically processed based on the color correction information thereby generating color-corrected images. The system automates color correction processing of studio images to provide highly scalable and reliable color correction. Significant quantities of studio images are consistently color-corrected based on processing of the color correction image.
US12254531B2
An electronic device for image color adjustment includes a display and a processor. The processor includes a display processing unit (DPU). The DPU obtains a to-be-displayed image, obtains, based on a first color mode, a target three-dimensional (3D) lookup table used to adjust the to-be-displayed image, maps a color of the to-be-displayed image based on the target 3D lookup table, to obtain an adjusted image, and sends the adjusted image to the display for displaying.
US12254525B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a signaling location beacon are provided. Specifically, a collection location for collecting, by an agent, an item is determined. Also, a physical beacon associated with the pickup location can be identified. Further, an interaction between the physical beacon and the agent can be detected. For example, the interaction can occur based on the physical beacon and the agent being in physical proximity to each other during a process of the agent collecting the item at the collection location. As follows, in response to the interaction, transmission of a sensory signal to the agent can be facilitated to provide perceivable direction information associated with the physical location to the agent. The sensory signal can be specific to the agent based on the interaction between the physical beacon and the agent.
US12254524B2
A system for providing a taxi service includes an integrated terminal connected to a payment server through a network, wherein the integrated terminal includes a meter unit configured to calculate an operation fee of a vehicle by using global positioning system (GPS) information or information collected by a sensor of the vehicle, transmit event information comprising operation fee payment information or destination arrival information to the vehicle, and be switched to be in an empty vehicle mode when receiving payment completion information from the payment server in response to a payment request.
US12254523B1
The event detection system and method employs at least one biometric capture device or mechanism disposed within a controlled-environment area configured to capture biometrics of residents of the controlled-environment facility within the controlled-environment area. The system also identifies the conditions that define an occurrence of an event. The system monitors the conditions within the facility to detect the conditions associated with an event. The computing system detects such events as delivery of meals, medicines, commissary items, and other goods and services. Such delivery of meals, medicines, and commissary items may be identified by proximity of a resident with personnel or identifying the location of the resident.
US12254517B2
A system and method for analyzing a service provider of a retirement plan and comparing the service provider against the service providers associated with a group of similar plans is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system for evaluating a service provider of a retirement plan comprises a computer server having a database comprising a plurality of data defining a plurality of characteristics of each of a plurality of retirement plans, software configured to identify a subset of the plurality of retirement plans having characteristics comparable to characteristics of the selected retirement plan in view of the type and characteristics of the service provider, software configured to permit the selection of at least one report providing the comparison of the service provider, and software configured to automatically generate and deliver the selected at least one report to a user for display on a user interface.
US12254516B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine readable mediums that provide a network-based joint investment platform that enforces agreed-upon decision rules on jointly managed investments and provides collaboration and decision-making support tools for joint managers to make decisions about taking actions related to one or more jointly-managed assets. The platform may provide for configuring a plurality of decision rules that identify which managers can take which actions and under what conditions. The joint investment platform may enforce the decision rules by requesting any specified approvals according to the decision rules. Once those rules are satisfied, the joint investment platform may execute the requested actions. If the required approvals are not obtained, or the rules provide no path to approval, the action may not be executed.
US12254513B2
Systems, methods, and devices, are disclosed in which a graphical user interface is presented. The graphical user interface includes a first interface that displays a plurality of odds selection buttons for making a selection of one or a plurality of time-varying odds offered for trade on one or more outcomes in a betting marketplace and a buy button for communicating the odds selection over a network interface for matching as a bet. The graphical user interface further includes a second interface that displays at least one bet selection button for making a selection of one or more previously matched bets and a sell button for communicating the bet selection over the network interface for divestment of the selected bet. The second interface can be reached directly from the first interface via a single action of a user input device.
US12254511B2
A request to separate a transfer into a plurality of parts may be received, the request defining a total amount and a total time period. A plurality of request for transfer links may be prepared. Each of the links may be associated with a different transfer time period, each transfer time period being less than or equal to the total time period. Each of the links may be associated with a separate transfer part amount, and a summation of the separate transfer part amounts may be equal to the total amount. A plurality of request for transfer links may be provided to a transferor device, each link allowing a transfer to fulfill the separate transfer part amount to be performed without requiring input of the separate transfer part amount or recipient information.
US12254504B2
Product recommendations are selected according to a model. Product recommendations may be annotated with rules of the model used to select the products. A user may modify the model and be provided with a URL and a cookie associated with the modified model. Subsequent requests or the URL and presenting the cookie are processed using the modified model. A context may be associated with the cookie and modified by the user to observe performance of the model for the context. An interface may permit a user to specify rules for the model or otherwise model its behavior. User interactions with a website result in recommendations according to the model. A journey is recorded that records content, recommendations, and parameters of the model corresponding to the recommendations. The journeys of users may be filtered and visually presented to a user.
US12254497B2
Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include communication using a payment processing device. Various other embodiments are described.
US12254492B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for converting mobile notifications to content using a local content exchange. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for content from a mobile application; querying a data store of available content, the data store of available content populated with one or more notifications received by other mobile applications installed on the mobile device; identifying a responsive notification for the request for content based on the querying, the content item identified based on bid parameters associated with the one or more notifications; and transmitting the responsive notification to the mobile application.
US12254490B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. Search results responsive to a query are identified including a first search result in a top set of search results, the first search result associated with a first entity. A first eligible content item is identified for presentation along with the search results, the first eligible content item associated with the first entity. A combined content item is identified that is a combination of the first search result and first eligible content item and is to be presented as a search result responsive to the query. The combined content item is augmented including: identifying entities related to the first entity, identifying content items that are associated with the related entities, selecting at least one identified content item, and using content from the selected content items to augment the combined content item.
US12254488B2
A technique for dynamic digital ad configuration of digital ads being displayed on web pages and other digital properties is discussed. In one embodiment a site-specific Ad Tag is used to formulate a request for ad creatives for a publisher web page based on previously stored website configuration settings and dynamically retrieved targeting parameters. Ad creatives satisfying the request are identified and advertiser configuration settings for the identified and retrieved ad creative may be further adjusted based on the publisher website configuration settings before the ad creative is displayed on the website. Further, the site-specific Ad Tag may continue to monitor a performance of the displayed ad creative after the ad creative has been displayed on the web page of the publisher to optimize display and acquire information.
US12254473B2
Systems, methods, and devices for integrating a first party service into a second party computer application are disclosed. In one embodiment, in a financial institution comprising at least one computer processor, a method for integrating a financial services payment service into a merchant computer application may include (1) receiving customer electronic device information from a customer electronic device using a first communication channel; (2) transmitting a passcode to the customer electronic device using a second communication channel; (3) receiving the passcode from the customer electronic device over the first communication channel; (4) sending a session identifier to electronic device over first communication channel; (5) receiving the session identifier from a merchant host; and (6) sending an authentication value to a merchant host. The merchant host may provide the authentication value to the customer electronic device.
US12254465B2
A self-custody wallet combination payment card includes an electronic component with storage, a processor, and a near field communications interface. Two programs are stored at the electronic component and, once provisioned, the electronic component stores one or more blockchain addresses and security keys. The two programs can include a payment application which can interface with point of sale terminals (e.g., following EMV specifications) and a crypto application which has the capability to securely store keys and return a signature for blockchain transaction.
US12254458B2
A payment processing system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: associate a plurality of customers; specify a product acquired by each of the plurality of customers in a store; and perform at least one of: processing of collective payment by a customer who is a payer among the plurality of customers when it has been determined that all of the plurality of customers have left the store, for products acquired by the plurality of customers, or processing of separate payment by the customer who is the payer when it has been determined that each of the plurality of customers has left the store, for products acquired by the customer.
US12254455B2
A method operates a sales device for goods. The method includes: detecting, using a shelf with automatic removal monitoring, a removed item and determining item data of the removed item; reading out a customer identification number of a customer in a vicinity of the shelf from which the removed item has been removed; receiving, by a controller, the item data of the removed item and the customer identification number; adding, with the controller, the item data of the removed item and the customer identification number to a list of items intended for payment; and detecting, with a detector, items for which a payment transaction is to be executed. The detector has at least one sensor and an evaluator and for detecting articles, at least the data of the sensor and the list of items intended for payment are being made available to the evaluator as input variables.
US12254454B2
Aspects provided may allow for a user to block charges from an entity without having to contact the entity. After detecting that the user has enrolled in a trial or subscription of an entity offering, the user may be provided with the option to block charges from the entity. Using incoming data, charges from the blocked entity may be identified and prevented from being applied to the user. Further aspects may provide for more discrete charge blocking, such as blocking charges for one activity while allowing other charges for different activities from the same entity to go through, and training an identification model that isolates the entity identifier from the incoming data and matches the entity identifier to known entities.
US12254442B2
A system for and method of providing a package for retrieval are presented. The disclosed techniques include receiving a package for retrieval by a recipient; placing the package in a customer inaccessible smart staging area; determining, using a sensor, a size of the package; retrieving, by a robot, the package; conveying, by the robot, the package through a first side of the customer accessible repository to a customer accessible repository selected according to the size of the package, where the package is retrievable by a customer through a second side of the customer accessible repository; electronically storing an identification of the customer accessible repository in association with package identification information; receiving, at an electronic customer interface located at the delivery facility, the package identification information; and unlocking the customer accessible repository, such that the package is retrievable from the second side of the customer accessible repository by the recipient.
US12254436B1
A package securing system operable to facilitate the ability for an individual expecting to receive a package to provide and control a secure environment for receiving the package wherein the individual can execute the security protocols remotely. The package securing system further includes a lock having a body, a shank with keeper operably secured thereto, a solenoid with piston, a scanner and a controller. The controller provides operation of the lock and is operably coupled to the Internet via a wireless communication protocol. The controller is communicably coupled to a software application wherein the software application provide an interface for operation of the package securing system. The lock is unlocked and locked utilizing a machine-readable dataset wherein the machine-readable dataset is associated with an expected package and communicated to the controller via the software application. A server is provided to execute portions of the operational method of the present invention.
US12254432B2
A method of automating a workflow may include obtaining a completeness graph including conditions applied to attributes of an entity, determining that a missing attribute subset of the attributes lacks a corresponding value, determining that a condition corresponding to a missing attribute of the missing attribute subset is satisfied, and obtaining a value for the missing attribute. The value may be a result of performing a task in the workflow. The method may further include modifying a state of the entity by assigning the value to the missing attribute to obtain a modified state of the entity.
US12254431B1
A system and method are disclosed for training a probabilistic graphical model based on historical attributes of a supply chain to represent supply chain performance, selecting supply chain entity target variables, collating with the use of machine learning models, a list of features and classes pertaining to selected supply chain entity target variables, calculating first and second level features associated with the list of features and classes, generating supply chain predictions based on the trained probabilistic graphical model, where the supply chain predictions are based on test data, comparing the supply chain predictions to desired supply chain outputs to determine a delta distance, and generating resolution actions, to decrease the delta distance between the supply chain output predictions and the desired supply chain outputs.
US12254423B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamic selection of anomaly detection options for particular metric data. Metric data corresponding to one or more configuration items of an information technology (IT) infrastructure is collected. A selected anomaly detection action option that applies to the metric data is identified. An action is performed using the metric data, based upon the selected anomaly detection action option. A dashboard graphical user interface (GUI) display results of the action.
US12254419B2
A method includes collecting current data and architecture state, collecting future data and architecture state; analyzing the current and/or future data and architecture state to generate deployment options; and causing the summary of options to be displayed. A computing system includes a processor and a memory comprising instructions, that when executed, cause the system to collect current data and architecture state, collect future data and architecture state; analyze the current and/or future data and architecture state to generate deployment options; and cause the summary of options to be displayed. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium includes executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computer to collect current data and architecture state, collect future data and architecture state; analyze the current and/or future data and architecture state to generate deployment options; and cause the summary of options to be displayed.
US12254414B2
Techniques for using a deep generative model to generate synthetic data sets that can be used to boost the performance of a discriminative model are described. In an example, an autoencoding generative adversarial network (AEGAN) is trained to generate the synthetic data sets. The AEGAN includes an autoencoding network and a generative adversarial network (GAN) that share a generator. The generator learns how to the generate synthetic data sets based on a data distribution from a latent space. Upon training the AEGAN, the generator generates the synthetic data sets. In turn, the synthetic data sets are used to train a predictive model, such as a convolutional neural network for gaze prediction.
US12254406B2
A method including, in a training phase, training a gaze prediction model including a first model and a second model, the first model and the second model being configured in conjunction to predict segmentation data based on training data, training a third model together with the first model and the second model, the third model being configured to predict a training characteristic using an output of the first model based on the training data, and in an operational phase, receiving operational data and predicting an operational characteristic using the trained first model and the trained third model.
US12254405B2
Technologies are provided for processing data in neural networks. An example method can include processing, by each layer of a neural network, a row in a first stripe of a data input, the row being processed sequentially in a horizontal direction and according to a layer-by-layer sequence; after processing the row, processing, by each layer, subsequent rows in the first stripe on a row-by-row basis, each subsequent row being processed sequentially in the horizontal direction and according to the layer-by-layer sequence; generating an output stripe based on the processing of the row and subsequent rows; processing, by each layer, a second stripe of the data input, each row in the second stripe being processed in the horizontal direction and according to the layer-by-layer sequence, wherein rows in the second stripe are processed on a row-by-row basis; and generating another output stripe based on the processing of the second stripe.
US12254402B2
An optimization device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: perform, as annealing operations, a process including, with respect to a change in a value of any of state variables included in an evaluation function representing an energy, based on a change in the energy, determining which change of value of the state variables is accepted, and determining a value of each of the state variables; retain correspondence information in which identification information that identifies the annealing operations is arranged; cause start of the process by each of the annealing operations, determine whether or not to perform, when the processes by two of the annealing operations corresponding to two temperatures are completed, exchange of the temperatures assigned to the two annealing operations; update the correspondence information when performing the exchange; and supply temperature information representing the temperatures to the two annealing operations.
US12254397B2
An apparatus and a method of implementing activation logic for a neural network are described. The apparatus comprises an input unit, a first address translated look-up table, an intermediate storage unit, a second address translated look-up table, and an output unit. The first address translated look-up table includes (2{circumflex over ( )}n1) first entries that map to (2{circumflex over ( )}n1) addresses based on the n bits of the input unit. Each the (2{circumflex over ( )}n1) first entries includes (n1−1) first preset values. The intermediate storage unit includes (n−1) bits. The second address translated look-up table includes (2{circumflex over ( )}(n−1)) second entries that map to the (2{circumflex over ( )}(n−1)) bit addresses based on of the (n−1) bits of the intermediate storage unit. Each the (2{circumflex over ( )}(n−1)) second entries includes (n2+1) second preset values. The output unit is used for outputting n output data values by combining the (n1−1) first preset values and the (n2+1) second preset values.
US12254396B2
A multiply-accumulate calculation device includes: a plurality of first multiple calculation elements configured to generate first output signals by multiplying a first input signal corresponding to an input value by a weight and output the first output signals; and an accumulate calculation unit configured to calculate a sum of the first output signals output from the plurality of first multiple calculation elements in a calculation period from a point in time at which transition to a steady state has occurred after transient responses caused by charging to parasitic capacitors of the plurality of first multiple calculation elements according to input of the first input signal to a point in time after transient responses caused by discharging from the parasitic capacitors of the plurality of first multiple calculation elements according to input of the first input signal have started to be generated.
US12254395B2
Systems and methods are provided to improve traditional chip processing. Using crossbar computations, the convolution layer can be flattened into vectors, and the vectors can be grouped into a matrix where each row or column is a flattened filter. Each submatrix of the input corresponding to a position of a convolution window is also flattened into a vector. The convolution is computed as the dot product of each input vector and the filter matrix. Using intra-crossbar computations, the unused space of the crossbars is used to store replicas of the filters matrices and the unused space in XIN is used to store more elements of the input. In inter-crossbar computations, the unused crossbars are used to store replicas of the filters matrices and the unused XINs are used to store more elements of the input. Then, the method performs multiple convolution iterations in a single step.
US12254381B1
A scalable platform for generating time-frequency-multiplexed cluster states and utilizing them for large-scale quantum computing. Kerr microcombs and continuous-variable (CV) quantum information are used to formulate a one-way quantum computing architecture that can accommodate hundreds of simultaneously addressable entangled optical modes multiplexed in the frequency domain and an unlimited number of sequentially addressable entangled optical modes in time domain. One-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional CV cluster states can be deterministically produced using robust integrated photonic circuit technology is leveraged that is readily available and experimentally viable.
US12254380B2
The disclosure claims a method of stimulating a conditional quantum master equation in a quantum transport process by a recurrent neural network, comprising the following steps of: establishing a recurrent neural network which is a long short term memory network (LSTM), wherein the LSTM comprises TLSTM cells arranged in chronological order, and each LSTM cell has an input value xt and an output value ht, and there is a parameter (W, b) in the LSTM cell; replacing the input value xt with a shot noise spectrum S(ω) of the current obtained according to the conditional quantum master equation; replacing the output value ht with a trace of density matrices in the conditional quantum master equation; and replacing the parameter (W, b) with a connection between density matrices in the conditional quantum master equation at imminent moments.
US12254375B2
A reading controller includes an open/closed state determination part that determines an open/closed state of a door of a load chamber of a vehicle, a tag information acquisition part that acquires tag information stored in a tag attached to a load, via a communication element that is installed in the load chamber and reads the tag, and a radio wave control part that controls a radio wave strength of radio waves emitted by the communication element for reading the tag to be a first radio wave strength when the open/closed state determination part determines that the door is in the closed state, and controls the radio wave strength to be a second radio wave strength, which is lower than the first radio wave strength, when the door is in the open state.
US12254369B2
Systems and methods for operating a Security Tag (“ST”) coupled to an item. The methods comprise: storing first Item Related Information (“IRI”) is a datastore of ST that is associated with an output device and second IRI in an integrated RFID element of ST; receiving third IRI at a microcontroller of ST; performing comparison operations by the microcontroller to compare the third IRI with the first and/or second IRI; using the third IRI to write over the first and/or second IRI based on results of the comparison operations; and synchronizing advertised information and register information for the item by outputting the third IRI from the output device and the integrated RFID element.
US12254366B2
There is provided markers, systems, and methods for creating and utilizing a marker containing identification information. The embodiments include an identifying marker comprised of high temperature material for tracking a component in a high temperature environment. The marker may be disposed on the component such that the marker is subject to high temperatures while affixed to the component. The marker may provide the ability to track a history of the component the marker is attached to for maintenance.
US12254365B2
The invention relates to an RFID tag (2, 3) for being fastened to a textile (30), the RFID tag (2, 3) having a transponder unit (5), which is attached to a bendable carrier material (4) and has an integrated circuit (6) having a conductor structure (8, 9) electrically connected via contact surfaces (7). The carrier material (4) is designed as a conductor structure (8) having a longitudinal slot (10, 11), which separates the contact surfaces (7) of opposite polarity from each other, the carrier material (4) being strip-shaped and having a length (L)-to-width (W) ratio which is a multiple of ten of the width. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for fastening the RFID tag (2, 3) to a textile (30).
US12254362B2
An information processing apparatus for editing a document including first and second types of different objects. The apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least the processor and having stored thereon instructions, when executed by the at least the processor, and cooperating to act as a change unit configured, based on a user instruction, to change a paper size of the document from a first paper size to a second, different from the first, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a size of the object included in the document based on the second. The adjustment unit adjusts the size of a first type of object in the plurality of objects such that an aspect ratio of the specific object is maintained and an aspect ratio of the second type of object corresponds to an aspect ratio of the second paper size.
US12254357B2
A method and a first agent controlling computing resources in a first edge cloud, for supporting a machine learning operation. When detecting that additional computing resources outside the first edge cloud are needed for the machine learning operation, the first agent obtains said additional computing resources from a second edge cloud. The machine learning operation is then performed by using computing resources in the first edge cloud and the additional computing resources obtained from the second edge cloud.
US12254353B2
In order to efficiently process graphics data, operations are performed including allocating a first set of resource slots for a first execution instance of a pipeline shader program; correlating the first set of resource slots with graphics pipeline passes; and on a second execution instance of the pipeline shader program, assigning resource slots, from the first set of resource slots, to the graphics pipeline passes, based on the correlating.
US12254340B2
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (e.g., a group of tenant machines), some embodiments define two different forwarding planes: (I) a guest forwarding plane and (2) a service forwarding plane. The guest forwarding plane connects to the machines in the group and performs L2 and/or L3 forwarding for these machines. The service forwarding plane (1) connects to the service nodes that perform services on data messages sent to and from these machines, and (2) forwards these data messages to the service nodes. In some embodiments, the guest machines do not connect directly with the service forwarding plane.
US12254338B2
Page table entries for a maximum number of virtual functions configurable by a physical function of a single root input-output virtualization (SR-IOV) device can be pre-allocated to provide access for nested virtual machines and containers. For example, a computing device can allocate, by an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU), a page table comprising page table entries to a physical function executed by an SR-IOV device. The number of page table entries can be the maximum number of virtual functions that are configurable by the physical function. A virtual IOMMU executing in a virtual machine deployed by the computing device can map a virtual page table comprising virtual page table entries to the page table comprising page table entries. The virtual machine can assign a virtual function using a virtual page table entry. The virtual page table entry can include a function number and a virtual memory address.
US12254333B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for providing context specific schema files that allow an automated assistant to broker human-to-computer dialogs between a user and an application that is separate from the automated assistant. The context specific schema file can provide the automated assistant with sufficient data to be responsive to user queries without necessarily communicating with a remote device, such as a server. Multiple different context specific schema files can be made available to the automated assistant according to a context in which a user is interacting with the automated assistant. In this way, latency otherwise exhibited by the automated assistant can be mitigated by providing the automated assistant with the information needed to respond to a user without continually retrieving the information over a network.
US12254329B2
Systems and methods for servicing page requests from a cloud-based software service. In particular, page tree elements defining a page requested from a backend of a cloud-based software service can be can be transmitted in a manner that prioritizes elements and functionality likely to be interacted with by a particular user first (e.g., within a threshold time of apparent pageload completion). Other elements unlikely to be interacted with by the user may be loaded asynchronously and/or on a deferred basis. Inputs provided to these elements can be buffered by an input buffer script to capture unexpected inputs thereto.
US12254326B1
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for receiving field data associated with industrial equipment from one or more field devices operating under an event-based data transmission schema to, storing the field data at a remote computing system, receiving a request for the field data from an industrial data polling system operating under a polling protocol, and transmitting the field data, from the remote computing system and to the industrial data polling system, as a polling protocol reply.
US12254319B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement toggle point insertion for a clustered decode pipeline are described. In one example, a hardware processor core includes a first decode cluster comprising a plurality of decoder circuits, a second decode cluster comprising a plurality of decoder circuits, and a toggle point control circuit to toggle between sending instructions requested for decoding between the first decode cluster and the second decode cluster, wherein the toggle point control circuit is to: determine a location in an instruction stream as a candidate toggle point to switch the sending of the instructions requested for decoding between the first decode cluster and the second decode cluster, track a number of times a characteristic of multiple previous decodes of the instruction stream is present for the location, and cause insertion of a toggle point at the location, based on the number of times, to switch the sending of the instructions requested for decoding between the first decode cluster and the second decode cluster.
US12254313B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to code transparency. In one example of the technology, raw input data that includes version information that is associated with code is received. The version information includes pull requests associated with the code. Extracted key phrases are provided by performing a key-phrase extraction on the raw input data. A list of documents and a list of people are determined based at least in part on the extracted key phrases. A relevance ranking is performed on the list of documents and the list of people. Based on the relevance ranking, relevant documents and relevant people are determined, such that the relevant documents and the relevant people are relevant to the code. To a developer environment that is associated with the code, information associated with the relevant documents and/or the relevant people is provided.
US12254297B2
A build of a software solution that is cooperatively performed is automated. A broadcasting computing entity broadcasts a request to perform each of the functional operations in the selected set. Each of a plurality of listening computing entities connected to the network receives the request and determines capability of performing each of the functional operations in the selected set. After determining itself capable, a capable one of the plurality of listening computing entities transmits a response to the request indicating such capability, and then performs each of the functional operations in the selected set, thereby generating and transmitting to the broadcasting computing entity the output of the selected set of functional operations. The broadcasting computing entity then performs an action using the output of the functional operation received.
US12254294B2
Disclosed herein is a software technology for facilitating an interactive conversational session between a user and a digital conversational character. For instance, in one aspect, the disclosed process may involve two primary phases: (1) an authoring phase that involves a first user accessing a content authoring tool to create a given type of visual conversation application that facilitates interactions between a second user and a digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session, and (2) a rendering phase that involves the second user accessing the created visual conversation application to interact with the digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session. In one implementation, accessing the created visual conversation application may involve detecting an object and identifying information associated with the detected object. The digital conversational character involved in the interactive conversational session may be superimposed onto a real-world environment.
US12254290B2
An online software development platform providing an integrated resource for design, development, and purchase of customer-desired software applications for software projects created by customers. The platform comprising one or more computers configured using computer readable instructions stored in non-transitory computer memory to provide the software development platform, wherein the software development platform is configured to implement a plurality of electronic operational domains providing user-interactive capabilities or internal functionalities of the software development platform. The domains comprising a project scope process, a pricing process, and a project development process. The platform is configured to use a configuration involving knowledge graph to recommend features.
US12254289B2
Systems and methods for generating custom applications for querying a multidimensional database of a target platform include, responsive to receiving a custom application request, an application definition is discovered based on data received from one or more sources. The application definition indicates target outputs of the custom application, influencers for each of the target outputs that correspond to members of one or more first dimensions of the multidimensional database, and granularity definitions relative to second dimensions of the multidimensional database for each influencer. Mutually exclusive groups each including two or more target outputs are generated by applying a weighting algorithm to the application definition, and resource-efficient machine written code is dynamically generated based on the groupings and the results of the weighting algorithm. The machine written code is compiled into an application package, which is then deployed to the target platform for execution on the multidimensional database.
US12254284B2
A multiplication-and-accumulation (MAC) circuit includes a MAC operator and a data input circuit. The MAC operator selectively performs a MAC arithmetic operation of weight data and vector data or an element-wise multiplication (EWM) arithmetic operation of the weight data and constant data. The data input circuit provides the MAC operator with the weight data and the vector data when the MAC operator performs the MAC arithmetic operation and provides the MAC operator with the weight data and the constant data when the MAC operator performs the EWM arithmetic operation.
US12254280B2
The system provides the ability to understand the contextual values of an image-based document, regardless of the sender format. The system may analyze the contextual values associated with the different formats and classify the documents based on the contextual values and a business process. The system may provide filters that may be defined by the business process. The system may be adapted for different business process types, input formats and languages. The system may filter out documents that are not intended for a particular business process. The system may also create and send exemption reports about the rejected documents.
US12254271B1
A method is provided for improved understanding of text or speech sequences utilizing language neutral verb expression patterns (LNVEP). The LNVEP system deconstructs the text or speech sequences to uncover the LNVEP, which includes one or more essential component categories with a certain verb to yield a universally understandable, appropriate verb expression. The LNVEP identifies the semantic meaning of the text or speech sequences. Each LNVEP corresponds to one of more LNVEP Model that identifies the syntax of the text or speech sequences.
US12254262B2
A calibration method for emulating a Group III-V semiconductor device, a method for determining trap location within a Group III-V semiconductor device and method for manufacturing a Group III-V semiconductor device are provided. Actual tape-out is performed according to an actual process flow of the Group III-V semiconductor device for manufacturing the Group III-V semiconductor devices and PCM Group III-V semiconductor device. Actual electrical performances of the Group III-V semiconductor devices and the PCM Group III-V semiconductor device are obtained and the actual electrical performances of the Group III-V semiconductor devices and the PCM Group III-V semiconductor device are compared to determine locations where one or more traps appear.
US12254258B2
A method includes receiving a pattern layout for a mask, shrinking the pattern layout to form a shrunk pattern, determining centerlines for each of a plurality of features within the shrunk pattern, and snapping the centerline for each of the plurality of features to a grid. The grid represents a minimum resolution size of a mask fabrication tool. The method further includes, after snapping the centerline for each of the plurality of features to the grid, fabricating the mask with the shrunk pattern.
US12254244B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determines two-dimensional (2D) floorplans based on image data and refines the 2D floorplans using various user interface controls. For example, an example process may include obtaining a floorplan that is generated based on a sequence of images of a physical environment, identify a type of an object depicted in the floorplan, identify a context of the object depicted in the floorplan, and modify the floorplan based on the type and the context of the object.
US12254243B1
An audio playback method includes: performing, in a parallel manner, digital audio signal encoding on original audio data to be played back, to obtain a plurality of pieces of target encoded audio data; performing encapsulation on the plurality of pieces of target encoded audio data to obtain a plurality of target audio frames, and synchronizing the plurality of target audio frames to all communication-capable audio playback devices; in response to a switching command for switching an audio playback device, determining at least one candidate audio playback device indicated by the switching command; where the switching command is used to indicate an audio switching position; performing optimal playback device recognition on the at least one candidate audio playback device, to obtain a target audio playback device; and sending an audio switching playback command to the target audio playback device.
US12254242B2
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for processing media streams. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that sends a message to a media aware network element that is configured to process a plurality of audio streams of a conference call. The message indicates that the plurality of audio streams is to be down mixed by the media aware network element. The processing circuitry receives the down mixed plurality of audio streams from the media aware network element and decodes the down mixed plurality of audio streams to receive the conference call.
US12254228B2
A printing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information about software applicable to the printing apparatus from a management server, a notification unit configured to transmit the acquired information about the software as a device information notification to the print system, a request unit configured to issue an event request to the print system, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information about software used for an update from the print system in a case where an event of updating the software based on an operation input to the print system is included in a response received in response to the event request, and an update unit configured to perform processing for updating the software of the printing apparatus based on the information about the software acquired by the second acquisition unit.
US12254223B2
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a multifunction peripheral or multifunction printer that includes a method of operating a multifunction printer. The method includes receiving, by the multifunction printer, a selection of a function of the multifunction printer; displaying, on a display panel of the multifunction printer, a code for the selection of the function of the multifunction printer; receiving, by the multifunction printer, a request for operating assistance for the function of the multifunction printer based on the displayed code from the client device; and sending, by the multifunction printer, the operating assistance to the client device of the user on the function of the multifunction printer.
US12254214B2
An input output control device between a verification circuit and a semiconductor memory device includes: a first port that receives a read transaction for requesting reading of data in the semiconductor memory device from the verification circuit, and outputs a read response to the verification circuit; a second port that outputs the read transaction to the semiconductor memory device, and receives the read response output from the semiconductor memory device in response to the read transaction; and a buffer device that delays at least one of an output of the read transaction to the semiconductor memory device and an output of the read response to the verification circuit.
US12254196B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for moving data from a memory in a computing system to an I/O device. A system includes a processor, memory, I/O controller, and power management circuitry. An application stores data in the memory that is to be ultimately conveyed to an I/O device. The I/O controller is configured to convey the data to an I/O device according to a service interval. The I/O controller is configured to fetch a first data item from the memory stored by the application, and prefetch one or more additional data items from memory. The first data and prefetched data are stored in a locally accessible buffer of the I/O controller. The I/O controller is then configured to convey each of the first data and one or more data items from the buffer to the I/O device at regular intervals of time during a given period of time, prior to initiating a fetch of additional data from the memory. During the given period of time, the power management circuitry is configured to cause at least the memory to enter a reduced power state.
US12254190B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. Based on the present technology, a storage device providing an improved security function may include a memory device including a protected memory block that is configured to store information for authenticating data to be read from or written to the memory device and is protected by a security protocol and a memory controller configured to receive a command protocol unit associated with the security protocol in a command including a host side protection message requesting data from a host be written in the protected memory block and perform a computation of a device message authentication code to be used in an authentication operation of the protected memory block, wherein the computation is performed concurrently with receiving a plurality of data units including the data from the host that is to be written in the protected memory block.
US12254188B1
Systems and methods for memory snapshots are disclosed. In particular, a memory device may include a volatile section and a backup persistent storage section. A snapshot manager circuit is positioned between a host control circuit or central processors. This snapshot manager circuit acts as a memory virtualization layer within the memory device and may use a redirect on write type command to put a snapshot of actively changed memory to a reserved memory area in the volatile section. A background function may copy the snapshots to the persistent storage section. Because the snapshot manager circuit is in the hardware memory access layers of the memory device, operation of the application is not interrupted or paused to access the specific memory sections. Further, snapshots are more readily available in the memory used by the host control circuit.
US12254184B1
A method comprising: receiving a first workload data set, the first workload data set specifying a cache hit outcome distribution that is associated with a plurality of input-output (I/O) operations; identifying a plurality of workload portions of the first workload data set, each of the workload portions identifying: (i) a rate of a cache hit outcome that is associated with a respective I/O operation, and (ii) a data size that is associated with the respective I/O operations; generating a plurality of initial vectors, each of the initial vectors being generated based on a different one of the plurality of workload portions, each of the initial vectors being generated by a different sub-network of a correlation neural network; generating a context vector based on the plurality of initial vectors; processing the context vector with a decoder to generate a plurality of data points in a response curve of a storage system.
US12254172B2
Embodiments according to examples aspects of the present disclosure provide for an example computer-implemented method. The example method can include obtaining a data structure configured for rendering a plurality of content containers on a user device, the plurality of content containers providing a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The example method can include rendering, based on a first rate parameter descriptive of a user input associated with the user device, one or more of the plurality of content containers according to the collapsed configuration. The example method can include rendering, based on a second rate parameter, at least one of the plurality of content containers according to the expanded configuration.
US12254170B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing a design language model and a generative language model to generate digital design documents with design variations. In particular embodiments, the disclosed systems implement the design language model to tokenize the design of a document into a sequence of language tokens. For example, the disclosed systems tokenize visual elements and a layout of the document—in addition to optional user-added content. The generative language model utilizes the sequence of language tokens to predict a next language token representing a suggested design variation. Based on the predicted language token, the disclosed systems generate a modified digital design document visually portraying the suggested design variation. Further, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems perform iterative refinements to the modified digital design document.
US12254157B2
A touch display panel and an electronic product. The touch display panel includes a display substrate, a first conductive layer, a touch insulation layer, a second electrode layer, and a shielding conductive pattern; the display substrate includes a signal line, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer; the first conductive layer includes a touch conductive structure, which includes touch electrodes, the first electrode layer includes first electrodes, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes; an orthographic projection of the shielding conductive pattern on the base substrate overlaps with that of the signal line and that of at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes respectively, the shielding conductive pattern is located in the first conductive layer and insulated from the touch conductive structure, or the shielding conductive pattern is located in the second electrode layer and insulated from the second electrode.
US12254155B2
An asynchronous capacitance-to-digital conversion is described that allows for very low-power operation when during inactive periods (when no conductive object is in contact or proximity to the sensing electrodes). Asynchronous operation of a capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) provides for capacitance-to-digital conversion without the use of system resources and more power intensive circuit elements.
US12254150B2
A touch screen operator control and/or display device (1), for a motor vehicle has a display element (2). At least one graphics element (3) can be represented on the display element (2) by visible light radiation. A sensor (4) detects the representation of the graphics element (3). The sensor (4) detects in particular, changes in brightness on the display element (2).
US12254145B2
A touch display device includes a touch display panel, a timing-control circuit board, and a first driving circuit board. The timing-control circuit board outputs first display data. The first driving circuit board is electrically coupled between the touch display panel and the timing-control circuit board. The first driving circuit board includes a first interface and a second interface. The first interface receives the first display data from the timing-control circuit board. The second interface outputs first touch data to the timing-control circuit board. The first interface and the second interface are differential signal interfaces.
US12254138B2
A method for calibrating a functional icon display position of a control device is provided. The control device includes a transparent key and a display panel. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, an image capturing device is used to photograph a functional icon, and thus a real spatial relationship of the functional icon in a visible region of the transparent key is obtained. Then, a position offset amount is obtained according to a result of comparing the real spatial relationship with a reference spatial relationship. If the position offset amount is larger than the enable calibration threshold value, a calibrated icon display start coordinate position is obtained according to the position offset amount. The present invention also provides a control device using the calibrating method.
US12254136B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide haptic button assemblies in which the haptic button has a low profile while still providing a satisfying tactile response or sensation to a user. Advantageously, the haptic button assemblies may have a profile that, for example, enables the assembly to be incorporated into the free space along an edge of a portable computing device. The haptic assemblies may, for example, be arranged to move the button perpendicularly with respect to the edge of the device.
US12254131B1
Disclosed is an imaging system of a display apparatus with gaze-tracking means and processor(s). The processor(s) is/are configured to: process gaze-tracking data, collected by the gaze-tracking means, to detect gaze directions of a user's eyes; determine a gaze convergence distance, based on a convergence of the gaze directions of the user's eyes; identify a region of interest in a given image frame, based on a gaze direction of a given eye of the user from a perspective of which the given image frame is rendered; and generate a reprojected image frame, by reprojecting the region of interest using six degrees-of-freedom reprojection, whilst considering the gaze convergence distance as an optical depth of pixels of the region of interest.
US12254118B2
An electronic device and an operating method of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device receives, from a first server, access information about a second server for accessing the second server, receives access information about a third server from the second server accessed based on the access information about the second server, in response to a service connection request using the third server of an application, checks the validity of the application based on data for verifying the validity of the application included in the access information about the third server, and performs the service by accessing the third server based on the result of identifying the validity of the application.
US12254115B2
A system and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy-risk of a dataset is disclosed. The system and method include an input-output (IO) interface for receiving at least one input dataset, on at least one of which a measurement of the risk is to be performed, and a configuration file governing the anonymization; a scoring engine including: a uniqueness sub-engine for determining uniqueness scores at data and data-subject level across both individual columns and combinations of columns; a similarity sub-engine that calculates the overlap, reproducibility and similarity by comparing all columns and subsets of columns between at least two datasets, where one dataset is the original version and the other one is transformed, modified, anonymized or synthetic version of original dataset; a statistical sub-engine that calculates statistics that are an indication of privacy-risks and re-identification risks; a contextual sub-engine for quantifying contextual factors by considering weighted approaches and producing a single context-centric score; and a recommendation engine identifying mitigating measures to reduce the privacy-risks by taking in to account the factors that are contributing to higher risk.
US12254111B2
A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores classification models that indicate a data classification to apply to data columns of one or more databases. The processor is configured to periodically access one or more databases and determine that a data table has been newly created or modified. The processor is further configured to determine whether a data column of the data table has an existing data classification, and in response to determining that the data column does not have an existing data classification, determine from the plurality of classification models a particular classification model to use for the data column. The processor is further configured to send instructions to a classification server to apply a particular data classification of the particular classification model to the data column in the classification database.
US12254107B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an administrative unit management process. An object membership request that includes a membership access change for an object for one or more administrative units of a plurality of administrative units is received at a management service from a client device. Membership evaluation information associated with the object is obtained from a directory service for the plurality of administrative units. A membership change action is determined based on the membership evaluation information. Instructions are provided to at least one administrative unit of the plurality of administrative units to implement the membership change action. A membership change notification is sent to the client device.
US12254104B1
First data is received which encapsulates second data in a hidden compartment. Thereafter, a password is received by a password encoder which uses such password to generate a key. The first data and the key are combined to generate the second data (i.e., the hidden data). The second data is then provided to a consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12254103B2
A system, mobile device, and method for managing security policies for data items stored in an electronic identification (eID) wallet on the mobile device. Security policies are associated with each of a plurality of supported namespaces on a mobile device and a verifier terminal operates to select a namespace to access a data item stored on the mobile device based on the security policies associated with the plurality of supported namespaces on the mobile device.
US12254098B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for exploit detection via induced exceptions. One embodiment of a method can include generating an inspection point, the inspection point causing an exception when a set of software instructions encounters the inspection point during an execution of the set of software instructions by a processor, registering an exception handler to handle the exception associated with by the inspection point; receiving, in response to the set of software instructions encountering the inspection point, an indication of an exception, accessing a context record associated with the execution of the set of software instructions, evaluating the context record to determine if an exploit is present using the first reputation information, and based on a determination that an exploit is present, performing a corrective action for the exploit.
US12254084B2
A Secure Environment Public Register (SEPR) provides a method and system that allows precious metals in the shape of bar(s) or units to be certified, specially numbered to provide exact linkage to an owner, allow secure movement of precious metals between secure facilities, and though Blockchain allow secure transfer of ownership between individuals and organizations. The SEPR allows gold and other precious metals to be easily held and traded in commerce with all the advantages of holding precious metals. The SEPR system allows exact audits of the metal bars on hand and avoids over-selling units since each bar is serialized and ownership is documented in a public register.
US12254082B1
A method validating commands for a software platform. The platform receives user input to specify a command for the software platform to perform an action. The command is expressed in an extended formal language including elements in a Boolean Algebra. The platform retrieving validation rules for the software platform. The validation rules are expressed in the extended formal language. The platform combines the command and the validation rules to build a formula in the extended formal language, including one or more logical quantifiers. The platform expresses the formula in disjunctive normal form, with an existential innermost quantifier and constructs a new formula in the extended formal language that is logically equivalent to the formula and has no quantifiers. The planform evaluates the truth of the new formula and executes the command to perform the action when the new formula is true. Otherwise, the platform rejects the command.
US12254073B2
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable program code are disclosed for offline authentication of users for access to web applications. The method includes requesting, by a processor, access for a user to one or more relying party applications; receiving, by the processor, a redirection request from the one or more relying party applications to retrieve an authentication token for the user from an identity service provider; determining, by the processor, that the identity service provider is not available to provide the authentication token for the user; retrieving, by the processor, the authentication token for the user from a trusted source; forwarding, by the processor, the authentication token for the user retrieved from the trusted source to the one or more relying parties; and receiving, on the processor, authentication from the one or more relying parties for the user to access the one or relying party applications.
US12254071B2
A semiconductor device including a biometric recognition function and a touch sensor or near touch sensor function is provided. The semiconductor device includes a light-emitting device and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a gate driver circuit and m rows of pixels (m is an integer more than or equal to 2). The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first register circuits and second register circuits whose number is less than that of the first register circuits. The first register circuits are connected with each other in series and the second register circuits are connected with each other in series. The gate driver circuit has a function of operating in the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the first register circuits are in the on state and the second register circuits are in the off state, and in the second mode, the second register circuits are in the on state and the first register circuits are in the off state.
US12254062B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for domain adaptation. According to the method, a source model of a source domain is obtained, where the source model is trained to generate a label indicating a predicted category of data from the source domain. A training sample from a target domain is obtained, where the training sample comprises training data from the target domain and a true label indicating a true category of the training data from the target domain. A first label is generated for the training data by using the source model. The first label indicates a predicted category of the training data. A target model of the target domain is trained based on the training data, the true label and the first label.
US12254060B2
A system for modifying a website or interactive application, including a published database accessible via an end user data service to present the most up to date version of objects of the website, viewable and editable by at least one user, a draft database accessible via a designer data service and viewable and editable by at least one designer to store edits to the objects of the published database; a published database request handler to coordinate concurrent viewing and updating of the objects between the end user data service and the published database and a draft database request handler to coordinate concurrent viewing, editing and updating of the objects between the designer data service and the draft database and to merge edits and updates to the objects in both the published database and the draft database and to return the merged version of the objects without modifying the published database.
US12254052B2
Provided is a method for providing a wish list-to-content matching service through a communication linkage between a device and a server. The present method includes a process of receiving, by the server, wish information including text and images regarding a user's wish list from the device, a process of generating, by the server, keyword information by analyzing morphemes of the text included in the wish information and generating, by the server, content information corresponding to the keyword information, and a process of generating, by the server, a double-sided wishing card including a front surface region configured based on the wish information and a back surface region configured based on the content information and providing the double-sided wishing card to the device.
US12254047B2
A method for controlling a first electronic device that manages a user query in an Internet of Things (IoT) network is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first query from the user, identifying whether the received first query is a static event in which a complete response can be generated by the first electronic device or a dynamic event in which a complete response cannot be generated by the first electronic device, based on the first query being identified as the static event, processing the first query, and based on the first query being identified as the dynamic event, transmitting the first query to a second electronic device.
US12254046B2
An overlay system including a storage element and processing circuitry is provided. The storage element stores an executable graph-based model that includes various active nodes and various micro-overlay nodes. Further, each active node includes multiple node elements, where each micro-overlay node is associated with at least one node element, and extends the functionality of the corresponding node element. The processing circuitry receives a contextualized stimulus. Further, the processing circuitry identifies an active node, node elements of the active node associated with the processing of the contextualized stimulus, and one or more micro-overlay nodes associated with each identified node element. The processing circuitry executes an operation associated with the contextualized stimulus based on the identified node elements and one or more micro-overlay nodes associated with each identified node element.
US12254036B2
A multimedia content item is summarized based on its audio track and a desired compression budget. The audio track is extracted and processed by an automatic speech recognizer to obtain a time-aligned text transcript. The text-transcript is partitioned into a plurality of segment sequences. An informativeness score based on a salience score and a diversity score is computed for each of the segments. A coherence score is also computed for the segments in the plurality of sequences. A subsequence of one of the segment sequences that optimizes for informativeness and coherence is selected for generating a new content item summarizing the multimedia content item.
US12254033B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for searching a graph representing content of digital objects. A set of operations for traversing the graph may be determined according to a search request. The set of operations may be executed, resulting in intermediate result vectors of nodes and a result vector of nodes, wherein the result vector of nodes is associated with a result set of one or more object units of the digital objects. Intermediate result vectors may be selected from of the intermediate result vectors. A set of result entities may be identified. The set of result entities are entities which are part of the object units and part of entities represented by nodes of said selected intermediate result vectors. The set of result entities and the result set of object units may be provided as a result of the search request.
US12254032B2
System and method for the indexing and searching of multilingual documents are disclosed.
US12254031B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for interaction. The method includes: presenting a target interface including an information flow area and an information input area; in a case that input information to be released is detected in the information input area and the input information satisfies a preset condition, presenting query keyword prompt information; and in response to a triggering operation on the query keyword prompt information, presenting query result content. This is substantially meant that the input information is automatically identified, during the editing of the input information by a user, the input information is converted into the query keyword prompt information for presentation, and in a case that the query keyword prompt information is triggered by the user, the query result content is directly presented, so as to assist the user in quickly obtaining the query result thereof.
US12254028B2
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: determining a first, a second, and a third logical partition separation indicator in a string file, wherein the first logical partition separation indicator is for a first partition level, the second partition separation indicator is for a second level, and the third logical partition separation indicator is also for the first partition level, each in a partition hierarchy; setting a first variable value to a value of the first logical partition separation indicator and a second variable value to a value of the second logical partition separation indicator; writing the first variable value to a data structure and writing the second variable value to the data structure; persisting the data structure to a search index; and clearing the first variable value and the second variable value.
US12254021B2
A method and system according to embodiments enable generalized program to program interoperability. The method and system employ an automatic or substantially automatic transform adapter for using a given exchange standard for two-way communication with a program. In order for the adapter to employ the exchange standard, a discovery manager may learn the program's data communications structure and/or format, and may learn data meaning information from the program. An adapter creator may derive a transform which converts the program's data communications structure and data meaning into the exchange standard. The transform may be used by the adapter to enable two-way communication with any adapter and/or program similarly employing the given exchange standard to achieve interoperability.
US12254016B2
Various aspects of this disclosure provide digital data processing systems for using encrypted variant data objects to facilitate queries of sensitive data. In one example, a digital data processing system can receive sensitive data about an entity. The digital data processing system can create, in an identity data repository and from the sensitive data, a searchable secure entity data object for the entity. The searchable secure entity data object is usable for servicing a query regarding the entity. For instance, a transformed query parameter can be generated from a query parameter in the query. The query can be serviced by matching the transformed query parameter to tokenized variant data in the searchable secure entity data object and retrieving tokenized sensitive data from the searchable secure entity data object.
US12254013B2
A computer-implemented method for analysis of data from multiple data sources and a computing system therefor is provided. The method includes receiving a query instance. The query instance may be processed to generate one or more relational query instances based, at least in part, on the query instance. The generated one or more relational query instances may be distributed among one or more nodes. Each of the generated one or more relational query instances may be processed by at least one node of the one or more nodes to extract data from at least one data source of multiple data sources in communication therewith corresponding to the one or more relational query instances. One or more insights may be generated based on the extracted data. The one or more insights generated may be stored in relevant cache to be retrieved therefrom.
US12254005B1
A system for retrieving patient information using large language models including a computing device configured to receive a natural language query as a function of a user input, input the natural language query into a large language model communicatively connected to the least a processor, receive a computer language query comprising a plurality of nodes from the large language model, map the plurality of nodes to one or more entries in a patient database, receive a database response from the patient database as a function of the mapping, generate a final database query as a function of the database response. query the patient database using the final database query, receive a user response as a function of the final database query, and transmit the user response to a graphical user interface as a function of the final database query.
US12254002B2
Techniques for obtaining information about data entity instances managed by a data processing system using at least one data store. The techniques include obtaining a query comprising a first portion comprising information for identifying instances of a first data entity stored in at least one data store; and a second portion indicating at least one attribute of the first data entity; generating, from the query, a plurality of executable queries including a first set of one or more executable queries and a second set of one or more executable queries, the generating comprising: generating, using the first portion, the first set of executable queries for identifying instances of the first data entity, and generating, using the second portion, the second set of executable queries for obtaining attribute values for instances of the first data entity; and executing the plurality of executable queries to obtain results for the query.
US12253998B1
An improvement to a system for identity verification is provided in which data records are continuously updates to provide the validation, verification and trusted confidence values of an entity (an individual person or organization) for each type and level of identification needed. In addition to the iterative updating of conventional data, the historical change in recorded data is compared with newly received entity identification verification parameters, with changes and an analysis of the changes also iteratively tracked and stored as part of the data record with continuous updating. The data record may also include emotional, mood or feelings responses to emotional, mood or feeling prompts. Similarly, the historical change in emotional, mood or feeling responses is compared with newly received responses to similar or different prompts, with changes and an analysis of the changes also iteratively tracked and stored as part of the data record with continuous updating.
US12253995B2
Increasing index search efficiency and availability in a database is provided. An index space matrix corresponding to a plurality of mini-indices of the database is built using ordered boundary values that correspond to key value ranges of each respective mini-index to increase index search efficiency by removing redundant mini-index accesses. Mini-indices of the plurality of mini-indices are consolidated asynchronously without suspending access to the mini-indices using a particular consolidation policy of a plurality of consolidation policies that corresponds to an amount of key value overlap identified between the mini-indices. Data operations corresponding to transactions are performed using the index space matrix during consolidation of the mini-indices without suspending access to the mini-indices.
US12253993B2
A data dimensionality reduction method includes: a step of dimensionally reducing a group of data from a high-dimensional space to a low-dimensional space using a distance function that defines a distance between any two vectors in the high-dimensional space; a step of dividing the dimensionally-reduced low-dimensional space into multiple subspaces; an analysis step of performing a regression analysis using a regression model based on at least one belonging data for each divided subspace; and a step of updating p first parameters included in the distance function based on results of the regression analysis in the multiple subspaces.
US12253991B2
Provided is a system for analyzing features associated with entities using an embedding tree, the system including at least one processor programmed or configured to receive a dataset associated with a plurality of entities, wherein the dataset comprises a plurality of data instances for a plurality of entities. The processor may be programmed or configured to generate at least two embeddings based on the dataset and determine split criteria for partitioning an embedding space of at least one embedding tree associated with the dataset based on feature data associated with an entity and embedding data associated with the at least two embeddings. The processor may be programmed or configured to generate at least one embedding tree having a plurality of nodes based on the split criteria. Methods and computer program products are also provided.
US12253990B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for tier-specific data compression, comprising comparing costs associated with a plurality of storage configurations for storing data based on one or more usage characteristics of data, wherein each storage configuration of the plurality of storage configurations corresponds to a particular storage tier of a plurality of storage tiers and a particular compression algorithm of a plurality of compression algorithms and based on the comparison of the costs, storing the data using a storage configuration of the plurality of storage configurations.
US12253985B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for monitoring and improving data quality of transaction data that may include receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of payment transactions from an acquirer system. The transaction data may include a transaction record associated with each payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions. Each transaction record may include a plurality of data fields. Each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be categorized into a respective type of a plurality of types. A data quality score for each respective data field of the plurality of data fields may be determined based on the respective type of the respective data field. A system and computer program product are also provided.
US12253967B2
Apparatuses and methods for enabling an MFi stack and corresponding MFi application to be authenticated in an emulator operating using one or more processors/CPUs are presented. In one aspect, a computer may include a memory and processor configured to execute the operating system. The computer may include a USB bus coupled through USB interface to a dongle. The dongle may include an authentication coprocessor for use in an integrated circuit (I2C)-to-USB configuration, and an I2C-to-USB computer. Driver code running on the computer may manage the data exchanged between the authentication coprocessor and a virtual emulator on the computer. The emulator may include a USB-to-I2C driver that virtualizes the authentication coprocessor as an I2C device running with the MFi application like CarPlay.
US12253966B2
A Peripheral Component Interface Express (PCIe) card includes a circuit board, a device mounted on the circuit board, and a PCIe processor mounted on the circuit board. The PCIe processor is communicatively coupled to the device and a host processor of a host system. The PCIe processor is configured to detect a power signal on an auxiliary (AUX) power rail of the PCIe card. A periodic detection of a state of the device is performed based on detecting the power signal on the AUX power rail. A signal indicative of the state of the device is encoded for transmission to the host processor of the host system. PCIe link training is performed via a PCIe interface with the host system. The PCIe link training is initiated based on the signal indicative of the state of the device.
US12253963B2
A method for managing data exchange via at least three interfaces of a ventilator, at least one interface being configured for a data exchange with at least one counterpart station that is spatially separate from the ventilator. The data exchange comprises a data input and a data output, and a data output and/or data input is possible during an ongoing operation of the ventilator via at least one of the at least three interfaces only if it is determined that sufficient system resources and a reliable power supply are available.
US12253947B2
Examples described herein relate to programming a memory rule for a home agent, wherein the programming a memory rule for a home agent comprises: receiving at least one memory rule programming and based on a cluster associated with the home agent, configuring a memory rule register using a memory rule programming from among the at least one memory rule programming. In some examples, receiving at least one memory rule programming includes receiving a first memory rule programming and receiving a second memory rule programming. In some examples, a mask is applied to reject the first memory rule programming; and applying the mask to accept the second memory rule programming and program the memory rule for the home agent.
US12253942B2
In certain aspects, the memory controller includes a controller memory for storing a logical-to-physical (L2P) address mapping table corresponding to a file, and a controller processor configured to control a memory device, receive a mapping update command, and update the L2P address mapping table according to the mapping update command by replacing original logical addresses of logical block address (LBA) segments of the file with new continuous logical addresses of a merged LBA segment of the file, and changing an original mapping relation between the original logical addresses of the LBA segment of the file and physical addresses of the file, to a new mapping relation between the new continuous logical addresses of the merged LBA segment of the file and the physical addresses of the file.
US12253934B2
A method and system are provided for code coverage for test systems for testing source code. The method obtains a trace with trace records written at entry and exit to one or more test modules for function calls to the test modules. The method compares response codes for the functions extracted from the trace with a finite list of response codes retrieved from metadata for the source code for the functions and analyzes a code coverage based on the comparison.
US12253933B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable mediums storing instructions for performing a connection test prior to bringing an application on-line. The method determines a best time to perform a connection test on an application that is currently off-line and at that time performs the connection test. The connection test is performed between the first application and those applications and components to which it is related. The connection test establishes whether prior to bringing the application on-line, for example after a migration, the connections between it and all the applications and components that are related to it have been re-established with performance within a predetermined threshold.
US12253928B2
Methods for active data center management by injecting randomized controlled signals in the operational controls of the cooling infrastructure of the data center and receiving response signals corresponding with the injected signals. The injected signals are used to adjust the operational controls of the cooling infrastructure, and the response signals relate to the operational conditions in the data center. Based upon the response signals along with independent and external variables, the randomized signals are continually injected into the cooling infrastructure and fine-tuned based upon the response signals. Optimum or improved parameters for controlling the cooling infrastructure of the data center are determined based upon the signal injections and corresponding responses.
US12253920B2
Systems and methods that make use of cluster-level redundancy within a distributed storage management system to address various node-level error scenarios are provided. Rather than using a generalized one-size-fits-all approach to reduce complexity, an approach tailored to the node-level error scenario at issue may be performed to avoid doing more than necessary. According to one embodiment, after identifying a missing branch of a tree implemented by a KV store of a first node of a cluster of a distributed storage management system, a branch resynchronization process may be performed, including, for each block ID in the range of block IDs of the missing branch (i) reading a data block corresponding to the block ID from a second node of the cluster that maintains redundant information relating to the block ID; and (ii) restoring the block ID within the KV store by writing the data block to the first node.
US12253911B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates a first set of scrambler bits based on a destination page number associated with data, generates a second set of scrambler bits based on a programmable nonlinear function, and combines the first set of scrambler bits and the second set of scrambler bits into a scrambler seed. In one example, the technology also randomizes the data based on the scrambler seed to obtain outgoing randomized data and writes the outgoing randomized data to a non-volatile memory.
US12253905B2
Methods and systems for managing operation of a data pipeline are disclosed. To manage the operation, a system may include one or more data sources, a data manager, and one or more downstream consumers. Requests for data from the downstream consumers may have unexpected characteristics that may cause misalignment of application programming interfaces used by the data pipeline. To remediate the misalignment and reduce occurrences of future misalignments, an error message may be obtained indicating a type of error associated with the request. The error message may be used to obtain an error classification for the request and an action set may be performed based on the error classification. In addition, data provided to the downstream consumers may cause misalignment of an application programming interface used by the downstream consumers. Similarly, an error message may be obtained and used to identify an appropriate action set to remediate the misalignment.
US12253903B2
A controller includes a link interface that is to couple to a first link to communicate bi-directional data and a second link to transmit unidirectional error-detection information. An encoder is to dynamically add first error-detection information to at least a portion of write data. A transmitter, coupled to the link interface, is to transmit the write data. A delay element is coupled to an output from the encoder. A receiver, coupled to the link interface, is to receive second error-detection information corresponding to at least the portion of the write data. Error-detection logic is coupled to an output from the delay element and an output from the receiver. The error-detection logic is to determine errors in at least the portion of the write data by comparing the first error-detection information and the second error-detection information, and, if an error is detected, is to assert an error condition.
US12253892B2
Package lids with carveouts configured for processor connection and alignment are described. Lid carveouts are configured to align and mechanically secure a cooling device to the package lid by receiving protrusions of the cooling device. Because the lid carveouts ensure precise alignment and orientation of a cooling device relative to a package lid, the lid design enables targeted cooling of discrete portions of the lid. Lid carveouts are further configured to expose one or more connectors disposed on a surface that supports package internal components. When contacted by corresponding connectors of a cooling device, the lid carveouts enable direct connections between the package and the attached cooling device. By creating a direct connection between package components and an attached cooling device, the lid carveouts enable a high-speed connection for proactive and on-demand cooling actuation.
US12253864B2
An apparatus and method for controlling driving of a moving object that climbs up or down stairs comprises a tilt sensor configured to sense a slope of the moving object in a pitch direction, and a processor configured to reduce a speed of the moving object in a specific section while the moving object climbs up or down the stairs, based on the sensed slope.
US12253861B2
A multi-robot collaboration method in a flexible hardware production workshop is provided, by which allocation of workpiece machining tasks and transfer of workpieces in different workstations can be achieved and meanwhile relatively high calculation cost is avoided. According to the method, a distributed collaboration method is fully used, and in allusion to the current technical condition, the allocation of the workpiece machining tasks and the transfer of the workpieces in different workstations can be achieved and meanwhile the relatively high calculation cost is avoided. A multi-AGV path conflict eliminating method is used for avoiding possible collision of AGVs during movement. A centralized intervention and adjustment method is used for discovering and predicting system conflicts and failure problems and making timely dispatching and adjustment so as to improve the automation level and the flexibility level of a hardware workshop.
US12253860B2
Embodiments provide systems, method, and computer-readable storage media for performing robotic tasks in a distributed and coordinated manner. A fleet of robots may use a sequence of messages to appoint supervisors for a set of tasks, where the supervisor robots are responsible for ensuring that their supervised tasks are completed by other robots of the fleet. The supervisors may solicit requests from other robots to perform available tasks and select a robot to perform an available task. Once a robot is appointed, the supervisor and the worker may use messaging sequences to monitor the status of the task and participating robots (e.g., the supervisor and the worker). The monitoring may enable the supervisor to detect a failed worker and enable other robots to detect a failed supervisor. When failed robots are detected, the robot(s) detecting the failure may initiate operations to take over the role(s) of the failed robots to ensure operation of the fleet of robots continues in a smooth manner and the tasks are completed efficiently.
US12253855B2
Provided is a method for an unmanned aerial vehicle to handle goods in cooperation with an autonomous vehicle. The method performed by the unmanned aerial vehicle includes at least: capturing an image of the autonomous vehicle having a goods storage box; recognizing a marker displayed in the goods storage box by analyzing the captured image; identifying a region occupied by the marker on the captured image; adjusting a relative position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the autonomous vehicle. The marker displayed in the goods storage box is covered by a lid of the goods storage box and placed in a state that cannot be captured by the unmanned aerial vehicle. The marker is exposed in a state that can be captured by the unmanned aerial vehicle only when the lid of the storage box is opened by communication between the unmanned aerial vehicle and the autonomous vehicle.
US12253841B2
Provided is a technology with which it is possible to access a function unit to be accessed without ascertaining an IP address of the function unit. Provided is a unit comprising: a communication unit for relaying a communication between an external device connected to a first network and another unit connected to a second network; a setting unit for acquiring address information of the other unit in the second network from the other unit and generating setting information in which the address information is associated with an identifier which substitutes for the address information; and a link information generation unit for generating, on the basis of the identifier, link information used to access information on the other unit from the external device.
US12253822B2
A transfer nip is formed between a transfer member and a photosensitive drum. The transfer member is configured to transfer a toner image formed on the photosensitive drum to a sheet that passes through the transfer nip. A humidity sensor is configured to detect humidity. A sheet sensor is arranged upstream of the transfer member in a sheet conveyance direction. The sheet sensor is configured to detect a trailing end of the sheet. A controller is configured to: in response to an elapse of a particular period after the sheet sensor detects the trailing end of the sheet, change a transfer bias to be applied to the transfer member from a first transfer bias to a second transfer bias, the second transfer bias having a smaller absolute value than the first transfer bias; and change the particular period based on the humidity detected by the humidity sensor.
US12253799B2
A photo nanoimprint lithography (P-NIL) resin is disclosed. The P-NIL resin comprises: a cross-linkable organic binder; solvent based inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in the P-NIL resin; and a solvent configured to be evaporated; the P-NIL resin having a viscosity in the range of 4,000 to 6,000 centipoise at 25° C. after the solvent is evaporated prior to curing the P-NIL resin; and the P-NIL resin having a refractive index of greater than 1.6 at 589 nm and glass transition temperature of greater than 50° C. after curing by a photo initiator.
US12253794B2
A VCM is disclosed, the VCM including a rotor having a first driving unit and arranged therein with a lens, a stator having a second driving unit wrapping the first driving unit and being opposite to the first driving unit, a base supporting the stator and having an opening formed at a position corresponding to that of the lens, a connection terminal including a pair of first and second connection terminals arranged at an upper surface of the base, and an elastic member including a first elastic member coupled to the rotor and electrically connected the first connection terminal and a second elastic member coupled to the rotor and electrically connected the second connection terminal.
US12253787B2
A method of making a microstructured optical fiber including loading the core and cladding materials of the fiber with hydrogen and deuterium at a loading temperature; annealing the fiber at a selected temperature Tanneal; pumping the fiber with radiation; and reducing the temperature of the fiber and storing the fiber at the reduced temperature before the step of pumping the fiber; and wherein the method allows the hydrogen and the deuterium to become bound to the core material and the cladding material.
US12253776B2
A method of forming an electronic device including: providing an assembly, wherein the assembly includes a substrate, an optical film, a plurality of color filters and a defect, wherein the plurality of color filters and the defect are disposed between the substrate and the optical film; and using a laser pulse to form a first processed area that corresponds to the defect in the optical film, wherein the first processed area at least partially overlaps at least two of the plurality of color filters.
US12253774B2
A display panel comprising a plurality of sub-pixels, wherein the display panel comprises: a first substrate; a data wire disposed on the first substrate; one or more shield electrodes disposed on a side of the data wire away from the first substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on a side of the shield electrodes away from the data wire, wherein the plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels, respectively, and wherein in each of the sub-pixels, the shield electrode comprises a first electrode and a second electrode that are independent of each other.
US12253771B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a frame area adjacent to the display area. The display panel further includes: an array substrate; a light-shielding electrode, arranged on the array substrate and located in the frame area; and a light-shielding liquid crystal layer, arranged on a side of the light-shielding electrode away from the array substrate and located in the frame area. The light-shielding electrode is configured to control deflection angles of liquid crystals in the light-shielding liquid crystal layer to block light from passing through the frame area.
US12253750B2
Provided is a liquid crystal handwriting board. The liquid crystal handwriting board includes: a liquid crystal panel, a photosensitive assembly, and a control assembly; wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite; the photosensitive assembly includes a plurality of photosensitive elements; and the control assembly is electrically connected to the liquid crystal panel and the photosensitive assembly, and is configured to determine position information of a pixel region for erasure by detecting position information of target light irradiated to the liquid crystal panel by the photosensitive assembly and supply a pixel voltage to the plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel region for erasure, such that a voltage difference is present between the plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel region for erasure and the common electrode.
US12253748B2
A switchable privacy display device comprises a spatial light modulator and a switchable diffractive view angle control retarder arrangement arranged between a display polariser of the spatial light modulator and an additional polariser. The display achieves high image visibility to an off-axis user in a share mode of operation and high image security to an off-axis snooper in privacy mode of operation.
US12253731B2
A cable management panel for optimizing management and storage of a slack portion of a fiber optic cable includes a base portion and a cable support portion that is configured to extend from the base portion. The cable support includes a curved portion configured to prevent a fiber optic cable that is wrapped around the curved portion from being bent beyond a minimum bend radius. The cable support is configured to provide a path structure for optimizing management and storage of different lengths of slack of fiber optic cables such that a selected path length from an end of the base portion to the curved portion of the cable support and back to the end of the base portion substantially matches a length of slack of a fiber optic cable such that the length of slack is maintained within the height of the base so as to eliminate the need for slack cable management structures in space about a rack to which the panel is mounted.
US12253726B2
A system for coupling at least one optical beam includes at least one optical beam entry port, an optical beam exit port, the optical beam exit port including a lens performing a Fourier Transform, at least one optical beam deflector, and an optical base element, wherein the at least one directly fixed optical beam deflector is allowed to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the corresponding at least one optical beam and/or its assigned optical beam entry port is configured such that the semi-major axis of the elliptical cross section of the optical beam on a deflection surface of a respective optical beam deflector is oriented parallel to the rotation axis, and wherein, after having passed the optical beam exit port, the elliptical cross section of the at least one optical beam overlaps the circular cross section of the light receiver.
US12253721B2
A microscope may receive a fiber optic connector via a connector adapter that includes an opening and may align a ferrule of the fiber optic connector with the opening of the connector adapter, where the ferrule includes a ferrule endface. The microscope may transmit light onto the ferrule endface and may receive reflected light, as an image of the ferrule endface, with a camera of the microscope. The microscope may determine intensities of brightness of the image and may create a topographical map of the intensities of the brightness of the image. The microscope may determine a radius and an apex of the ferrule endface based on the topographical map and may calculate an apex offset of the ferrule endface based on the radius and the apex of the ferrule endface. The microscope may perform one or more actions based on the apex offset of the ferrule endface.
US12253719B2
An optical phase shift circuit can include: a first Mach Zehnder lattice and a second Mach Zehnder lattice. Each Mach Zehnder lattice can have a first waveguide and a second waveguide, with a set of active phase shifters disposed along one of the waveguides and a plurality of directional coupler regions disposed along both waveguides between the active phase shifters. A first passive phase shifter can be coupled between one output path of the first Mach Zehnder lattice and one input path of the second Mach Zehnder lattice, and a second passive phase shifter can be coupled between the other output path of the first Mach Zehnder lattice and the other input path of the second Mach Zehnder lattice. Optical phase shift circuits of this kind can be used to implement phase shifters in a Generalized Mach Zehnder interferometer.
US12253709B2
A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; and a resin layer disposed on the substrate and the plurality of light sources, and a first reflective layer disposed on the resin layer, wherein the resin layer includes an exit surface facing the light sources, the exit surface of the resin layer includes a plurality of convex portions, the plurality of light sources are disposed on a virtual curve, wherein a straight line passing through centers of the first and second light sources adjacent to each other and the centers of each convex portion may be disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to a straight line connecting the adjacent first and second light sources.
US12253708B2
Provided is a front light source module. The front light source module is configured to be arranged on a display side of a reflective display, and the front light source module comprises: a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source; wherein a light exit surface of the light source faces a side of the light guide plate; and a plurality of dots and a plurality of release coatings in one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of dots are disposed on a first surface of the light guide plate, and an orthographic projection of the release coating on a second surface of the light guide plate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the dot corresponding to the release coating on the second surface of the light guide plate.
US12253704B2
A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include an array of support-ribs on a substrate. Sides of the support-ribs can be inclined to one side. A wire can be applied on an upper-side and distal end of each support-rib, each wire being separate from wires on adjacent support-ribs. The WGP can be made with reduced or no etching.
US12253698B2
A multilayer light-filtering structure includes a substrate, a light-filtering layer and a patterned light-blocking layer. The light-filtering layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate, in which the light-filtering layer has a first surface away from the substrate, and the light-filtering layer includes a plurality of high refractive index films and a plurality of low refractive index films. The low refractive index films are correspondingly overlapped with the high refractive index films. The patterned light-blocking layer is disposed on the first surface and includes a plurality of metal material films and a plurality of dielectric films. The dielectric films are correspondingly overlapped with the metal material films.
US12253696B2
An optical filter includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas spaced apart from each other and a light-blocking area between the plurality of pixel areas, a plurality of color filters arranged on a first surface of the substrate and corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas, and a plurality of conversion layers arranged on the first surface of the substrate and corresponding to the plurality of color filters. Each of the conversion layers includes inclined side surfaces. The optical filter further includes a reflective layer on the inclined side surfaces of each of the plurality of conversion layers. The reflective layer extends to the light-blocking area and is arranged consecutively on two adjacent inclined side surfaces from among the inclined side surfaces of the plurality of conversion layers and the light-blocking area between the two adjacent inclined side surfaces.
US12253679B2
An optical system for an augmented reality (AR) display comprises an image generator for generating image light, and an optical combiner for location in a field of view of a user of the optical system between the user and a scene. The optical combiner is configured to transmit ambient light from the scene towards an eye of the user, the ambient light being incident on a first side of the optical combiner. The image generator and the optical combiner are arranged so that the image light is incident on a second side of the optical combiner, the second side of the combiner being opposite to the first side of the optical combiner. The optical combiner is configured to reflect the image light so that the image light traverses the optical combiner four times and exits the optical combiner from the second side of the optical combiner, and the optical combiner is configured to transmit the ambient light so that the ambient light traverses the optical combiner only once and exits the optical combiner from the second side of the optical combiner.
US12253678B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for extracting and displaying information and data from a stream of information on a pair of smart glasses. One or more content filters describing the desired information and data may be communicated to a content filtering module. The content filtering module may process the stream of information to search for the desired information and data. When the desired information is found within the stream of information, the content filtering module may highlight the desired information, while blurring all other information, within a display on the pair of smart glasses.
US12253672B2
A light-guide optical element (LOE) includes a transparent substrate having two parallel major external surfaces for guiding light within the substrate by total internal reflection (TIR). Mutually parallel internal surfaces within the LOE are provided with a structural polarizer which is transparent to light polarized parallel to a primary polarization transmission axis, and is partially or fully reflective to light polarized perpendicular to the primary polarization transmission axis. By suitable orientation of the polarization axis of successive internal surfaces together with the polarization mixing properties of TIR and/or use of birefringent materials, it is possible to achieve the desired proportion of coupling-out of the image illumination from each successive facet.
US12253662B2
In an embodiment, a method includes obtaining radiation emitted from a radiation source. The method includes modulating the radiation with a time-varying modulation to generate a time-varying illumination pattern with a known modulation. The illumination pattern includes a time-varying intensity for each of a plurality of spatial locations. The method includes illuminating a target volume with the illumination pattern. The method includes collecting a signal generated by one or more objects within the target volume in response to illumination by the illumination pattern. The method includes estimating a location of each of the one or more objects based on the collected signal and the known modulation.
US12253661B2
A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness using three interactions in a first portion of light and two interactions in a second portion of light. Those interactions includes two refractions either with an intermediate reflection or not, all of which are necessary to achieve the improved performance of the multi-color LED illumination device and lens hereof.
US12253658B2
An imaging lens includes a front group having negative power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive power, in order from an object side. In the front group, a first lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side. In the rear group, a second lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side, a third lens surface has a convex shape toward the image side, and the third lens surface has an infrared ray cut coat. A curvature radius of the second lens surface is represented by Rr, a curvature radius of the third lens surface is represented by Re, a distance from the second lens surface to the third lens surface on an optical axis is represented by Da, and the following condition is satisfied: 1.6<(Rr+|Re|)/Da<2.3.
US12253649B1
A method and apparatus for measuring optical turbulence using an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle may include a central body, at least one motor operatively connected to the central body, a mounting element, a three-dimensional anemometer mounted on the mounting element, a first differential temperature sensor mounted on the mounting element, a second differential temperature sensor mounted to the mounting element, and a base mounted to the central body via a payload mounting interface including a first barometric pressure sensor, a central processing board, memory operatively connected to the central processing board, and a processor configured to generate refractive-index structure coefficient information.
US12253648B2
Described herein is a high-energy x-ray imaging system including a stationary gantry, a conveyor assembly configured to convey an object to be imaged through the gantry, a plurality of linear accelerators, a detector array, and a control system. The linear accelerators are arranged in an array within the gantry and are configured to generate high-energy x-ray fan beams to be transmitted through the object. The detector array is positioned opposite the linear accelerators and is configured to collect the high-energy x-ray fan beams transmitted through the object. The control system is configured to energize the linear accelerators according to a predetermined control sequence to generate the high-energy x-ray fan beams, and construct a 3-D image of the object based on data received from the detector array and representative of the high-energy x-ray fan beams transmitted through the object.
US12253647B1
The disclosure relates to a multi-probe NMR rock soil in-situ monitoring method, which includes: placing a multi-probe component to a target layer in a soil drill hole, where the multi-probe component includes NMR probes respectively located at the soils at different depths and having different measurement frequencies; performing in-situ NMR measurement on soils at different depths at the same time; by using a spectrometer component, receiving measurement signals from all NMR probes and performing frequency mapping analysis to distinguish NMR raw measurement data collected by each NMR probe; by using the spectrometer component, transmitting the raw measurement data to an industrial control computer to perform an inversion processing on the measurement data of the NMR probes and obtain T2 distribution mapping of the soils at different positions; based on the T2 distribution mapping, obtaining a water ratio of soil, a soil-water characteristics curve, soil non-homogeneity information and oil pollutant information.
US12253644B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for monitoring fluid flow in a rock formation that include utilizing a tracer fluid containing a homogeneous dispersion of ultrastable magnetic nanoparticles which can be injected into the rock formation. A series of EM signals can be emitted in formation by a transmitter at a first plurality of discrete depths along a first path, that can be recorded by a receiver at a second plurality of locations at a second plurality of discrete depth. The received EM signals can be processed to generate a set of EM permeability data that is indicative of variations in magnetic permeability between the first path and the second path. A magnetic permeability map can be generated that is indicative of a location of the tracer fluid.
US12253636B2
A photoelectric conversion panel includes multiple thin-film transistors (TFTs) formed on an substrate, photodiodes respectively connected to the TFTs, and a metal layer formed on a light incident side of the photodiodes. The metal layer is formed in a position to overlap a subset of the photodiodes in a plan view.
US12253628B2
A LiDAR system may include an optical component module including a housing including a plurality of slots and a plurality of posts. A first spring may be coupled to a first post at a first radial orientation so that the first spring extends into a first slot of the plurality of slots. A second identical spring may be coupled to a second post in a second radial orientation, different than the first radial orientation, so that the second spring extends into a second slot of the plurality of slots. A first optical component may be positioned in the first slot so that the first spring exerts a first clamping force retaining the first optical component within the first slot, and a second optical component may be positioned in the second slot so that the second spring exerts a second clamping force retaining the second optical component within the second slot.
US12253623B2
Example embodiments relate to corrugated radomes for protecting and concealing components of radar units. An example radar system may include a radar unit that includes at least one antenna having a radiation pattern. The radar unit is configured to transmit a radar signal based on the radiation pattern and receive radar signals. In addition, the radar system further includes a radome located in a direction of transmission of the radiation pattern. Particularly, the radome includes a stepped surface having at least one step that includes a height equal to one-quarter of a wavelength at a frequency of operation of the radar unit. The least one step is positioned on the radome such that the at least one step causes deconstructive interference of reflections of the transmitted radar signal caused by the radome.
US12253622B2
Method for providing reduced interference for at least two co-located FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) Doppler radars, each of said radars being used in a system to detect respective distances to and velocities of objects moving through space, can include a propagation determination step, in which expected electromagnetic wave propagation times are determined between pairs of radars; a sweep time offset synchronizing step, in which different respective sweep time offsets are selected, with respect to each radar in a first group of radars; and a sweep frequency offset synchronizing step, in which a second sweep frequency offset is selected with respect to a second group of radars, the second sweep frequency offset being relative to a sweep frequency pattern used for radars belonging to said first group. The invention also relates to a system and to a computer software product.
US12253621B2
A first apparatus is provided that is configured to receive, from a wireless device, an indication enabling radar measurement sharing; receive a first set of configuration parameters for the radar measurement sharing; perform a radar measurement based on the first set of configuration parameters and network state information; and transmit a first set of radar measurement transmissions at a first radar measurement transmission rate selected based on the first set of configuration parameters and the network state information. In some aspects, a second apparatus is provided that is configured to select a first set of UEs from a plurality of UEs for radar measurement sharing; transmit, to each UE in the first set of UEs, an indication enabling the radar measurement sharing; and receive, from each UE in the first set of UEs, a radar measurement transmission based on a radar measurement performed at a corresponding UE.
US12253615B2
A beacon map construction method, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, obtaining measured positions of beacons at the (i−1)-th station point by a measuring equipment; obtaining a first pose constraint relationship of the measuring equipment at the i-th station point relative to the (i−1)-th station point; obtaining a second pose constraint relationship of the i-th station point relative to beacons at the i-th station point, based on a pose of each of the beacons at the i-th station point, and the positions of the beacons at the (i−1)-th station point; determining an error equation of the i-th station point based on the first pose constraint relationship and the second pose constraint relationship; and optimizing the error equation to determine a position of the i-th station point, and constructing a beacon map based on the determined position of the i-th station point.
US12253613B2
A method and device for determining a time of arrival (TOA), a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: determining a detection start time on a correlation waveform based on a leading edge detection threshold; determining a noise threshold on the correlation waveform, and determining a quasi-TOA according to the detection start time; and determining the TOA according to data information in a target area of the correlation waveform and the noise threshold, where the target area is determined based on the quasi-TOA and a detection length.
US12253608B2
A measurement vehicle (101) acquires measurement environment data indicating a measurement environment from a measurement system and transmits the acquired measurement environment data to a base station (104). The measurement vehicle (101) receives movement measurement instruction data indicating an instruction on the movement measurement from the base station (104). The measurement vehicle (101) controls the measurement system in accordance with the instruction indicated by the received movement measurement instruction data.
US12253582B1
Described herein relates to an apparatus and method for holding a solid state NMR rotor under vacuum gas exposure during ssMAS experiments. As such, in an embodiment, the novel gas loader cell apparatus may be miniaturized and/or formed from a material other than glass to provide ease of use, efficient use of gaseous materials, affordability, and portability. Additionally, in an embodiment, a novel forming tool may be used to form the cavity holding the rotor end cap.
US12253579B2
A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic field converter, a magnetic field detector, and a plurality of shields aligned in a Y direction. The magnetic field converter includes a plurality of yokes. Each yoke has a shape elongated in the Y direction, and is configured to receive an input magnetic field component in a direction parallel to a Z direction and to output an output magnetic field component in a direction parallel to an X direction. The magnetic field detector includes a plurality of trains of elements. Each train of elements includes a plurality of MR elements that are aligned in the Y direction along one yoke and connected in series. Each shield has such a shape that its maximum dimension in the Y direction is smaller than its maximum dimension in the X direction.
US12253577B2
The present invention relates to methods and (bio)sensor systems. Herein, magnetic fields are applied in order to transport magnetic particles laterally over a sensor surface with analyte specific probes. The methods of the invention allow the specific binding of magnetic particles to the sensor surface, while aspecific and unbound particles are removed.
US12253570B2
A method for determining a state of health of at least one electrochemical energy store includes bringing the electrochemical energy store to a predefined voltage state, after which the electrochemical energy store is discharged for a predefined time period and using predefined electric currents, and determining a rate of voltage change during the discharge, on the basis of which the state of health is determined.
US12253565B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for a battery. The system may provide a fuel gauge circuit configured to select an energy curve from a plurality of energy curves and determine a remaining energy value based on the selected energy curve and a computed remaining capacity of the battery. The fuel gauge circuit controls a current to a load based on the remaining energy value.
US12253559B2
An alignment method of a probe card includes a plurality of probe groups provided corresponding to a plurality of chips, comprising: a first mode for calculating a gradient and a center of a probe group based on position information of two or more probes included in the probe group for each of the plurality of chips and calculating a gradient and a center of the probe card based on the calculated gradients and the calculated centers of the plurality of probe groups.
US12253558B2
A circuit test structure includes a chip including a conductive line which traces a perimeter of the chip. The circuit test structure further includes an interposer electrically connected to the chip, wherein the conductive line is over both the chip and the interposer. The circuit test structure further includes a test structure connected to the conductive line. The circuit test structure further includes a testing site, wherein the test structure is configured to electrically connect the testing site to the conductive line.
US12253557B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of signal lines and a testing circuit. The testing circuit includes a plurality of output channels electrically connected to some of the plurality of signal lines and a plurality of switches. The plurality of switches are connected to the plurality of signal lines via the plurality of output channels. The overall plurality of output channels of the testing circuit are less than the overall plurality of signal lines in quantity. There are at least two via holes overlapping one of the plurality of output channels.
US12253556B2
The present disclosure provides an arcing detection device. The arcing detection device may include a detection coil and a processing circuit operably connected to the detection coil. The detection coil may be configured to detect a current variation of a system. The processing circuit may be configured to determine information of an arcing event of the system based on the current variation of the system. The information of the arcing event of the system may include a position where the arcing event occurs in the system.
US12253555B2
Systems, methods and tools for the interrogation of fiber-reinforced composite strength members to assess the structural integrity of the strength members. The systems and methods utilize the transmission of light through optical fibers that are embedded along the length of the strength members. The inability to detect light through one or more of the optical fibers may be an indication that the structural integrity of the strength member is compromised. The systems and methods may be implemented without great difficulty and may be implemented at any time in the life cycle of the strength member, from production through installation. The systems and methods have particular applicability to bare overhead electrical cables that include a fiber-reinforced strength member.
US12253545B2
System and methods for high accuracy, non-intrusive current sensing are provided. A system may include two magnetic field sensors configured for differential sensing. The system may further include frontend circuitry configured to remove direct current (DC) offset of the magnetic field sensors, upconvert the outputs of the magnetic field sensors, and filter out at least one frequency component from the up-converted signals. The system may receive output signals from the front-end circuitry corresponding to each sensor. The system may further calculate a differential signal based on the output signals. The system may apply optimal detection based on the differential signal and a reference signal to calculate a measurement of current flow. The system may determine a phase angle measurement between the differential signal and the reference signal to calculate a direction of the current flow in the conductor and output various measurement information related to the detected current.
US12253537B2
A method of measuring a minimum pressure for gas bubble generation (MPGBG) value of a capillary tube is disclosed. The capillary tube has an inlet and an output portion including an outlet. The inlet is connected to a regulated pneumatic system, configured to supply a gas to the inlet under pressure. The output portion is immersed in a liquid. The gas is supplied to the inlet under a range of pressures including a higher pressure range and a lower pressure range. In the higher pressure range, gas bubbles are generated in the liquid from the outlet. In the lower pressure range, no gas bubbles are generated in the liquid from the outlet. A value of the minimum pressure for gas bubble generation (MPGBG) for the liquid is determined. Other methods include a method of measuring and storing MPGBG values of capillary tubes, methods of selecting at least one capillary tube from a plurality of capillary tubes, and a method of cutting a capillary tube to a desired MPGBG value.
US12253534B2
Disclosed is a sample analyzer including a storage section configured to store a plurality of containers for containing a sample, and including a discharge port through which the container is discharged; a production lot information acquisition unit that acquires production lot information on a production lot of the container; an analysis processing unit that performs analysis processing of the sample contained in the container discharged through the discharge port; a recorder that records the production lot information, an analysis result of the sample contained in the container, and time information related to time of analyzing the sample; and a display information generation unit that generates, based on information recorded in the recorder, display information for displaying at least one analysis result of at least one sample analyzed during a period of time on a display unit in a manner that associates the at least one analysis result with the production lot information.
US12253530B2
A method for diagnosing or prognosing, multiple sclerosis including the steps of (a) measuring the amount of at least one first protein as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, the at least first protein belonging to the group of proteins: a first protein, a second protein, a third protein, a fourth protein and a fifth protein, as set forth in SEQ ID NO 1 to 5, (b) comparing the amount of the at least first protein with the amount of the same protein in a control sample, and (c) determining the status of the biological sample.
US12253527B2
The invention features compositions and methods treating or preventing for age-related insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disorders. The method involves depleting fTreg cells with an anti-ST2 antibody to decrease age-related fTreg accumulation and restore insulin sensitivity, thereby treating age-related insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disorders.
US12253524B2
Heritable mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 and other genes in the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway increase risk of breast, ovarian and other cancers. In response to DNA breaks, the proteins encoded by these genes bind to each other and are transported into the nucleus to form nuclear foci and initiate homologous recombination. Flow cytometry-based functional variant analyses (FVAs) were developed to determine whether variants in BRCA1 or other DSB repair genes disrupted the binding of BRCA1 to its protein partners, the phosphorylation of p53 or the transport of the BRCA1 complex to the nucleus in response to DNA damage. Each of these assays distinguished high-risk BRCA1 mutations from low-risk BRCA1 controls. Mutations in other DSB repair pathway genes produced molecular phenocopies with these assays. FVA assays may represent an adjunct to sequencing for categorizing VUS or may represent a stand-alone measure for assessing breast cancer risk.
US12253519B2
The present invention relates to a method for improving the detection and diagnosis targeting biomarkers using an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS). In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for improving a diagnostic procedure involving the detection or quantification of one or more biomarkers in liquid biopsy, the method comprises contacting a porous material embedded with ATPS components with a liquid biopsy containing the biomarkers, purifying and concentrating the target biomarkers, and providing a product comprising the target biomarkers for performing the diagnostic procedure.
US12253509B2
A multiphase flow cylindrical model test system includes a loading structure, a multiphase flow displacement model bucket, a data acquisition and analysis system, a flexible seepage model bucket and a dynamic control system. A multi-parameter test method in the displacement process of pollutants in three-dimensional multi-field and multiphase media is reasonably configured based on the sequential and superimposed application requirements of heat and steam in the thermal enhanced soil vapor extraction process. The disclosure has the following effects: it can conduct array-type measurement of deformation of specimen during the thermal enhanced soil vapor extraction process, measure the temperature field, conductivity field, moisture field, matrix suction distribution, soil pressure distribution, pore water pressure distribution and pollutant discharge rate of the specimen during the test, and realize the flexible wall permeability triaxial test with bidirectional control of the water head and overcome the influence of the polluted liquid on the test equipment.
US12253505B2
An embodiment contact combustion type hydrogen sensor includes a substrate including silicon, lamination layers disposed over a top surface of the substrate and including a first thin oxide layer and a first thin nitride layer, a heater over the lamination layers, the heater including a connecting part electrically connected to a predetermined part and a heating part configured to be heated in response to power being applied, insulating layers covering a top surface of the heater and configured to perform an insulating operation, the insulating layers including a second thin oxide layer and a second thin nitride layer, a platinum catalyst over the insulating layers and configured to be heated by the heater to perform a hydrogen reaction, and a slit outside the heating part and passing through the substrate and the lamination layers.
US12253504B2
The invention provides a sensitive and cost-effective hydrogen sensor manufactured by a simple method from organometallic precursors.
US12253493B2
The objective of the present invention is to measure gas concentration with a high degree of accuracy. A gas sensor is provided with: a sensor enclosure: an ultrasonic transducer provided at one end of the sensor enclosure; an ultrasonic wave reflecting surface which is provided at the other end of the sensor enclosure and which intersects an axial direction of the sensor enclosure; and a plurality of ventilation holes provided in a side wall of the sensor enclosure. The plurality of ventilation holes are provided at positions such that one side of the sensor enclosure cannot be seen from the other side thereof when viewed from a side surface side of the sensor enclosure, and each ventilation hole has a shape extending in the axial direction of the sensor enclosure.
US12253487B2
Circuitry for and methods of analyte measurement Circuitry for measuring a characteristic of an electrochemical cell, the circuitry comprising: a hysteretic comparator having a first comparator input, a second comparator input and a comparator output; a feedback path between the comparator output and the second comparator input configured to provide a feedback signal to the second comparator input; and a loop filter configured to apply filtering to the feedback path to generate the feedback signal, wherein the loop filter comprises the electrochemical cell.
US12253486B2
A gas-sensitive material, a preparation method therefore and an application thereof, and a gas sensor using the gas-sensitive material are provided. The gas-sensitive material is a carbon material-metal oxide composite nanomaterial formed by compounding a carbon material and metal oxides. The content of the carbon material is 0.5˜20 wt. % and the content of the metal oxides is 80˜99.5 wt. %; the metal oxides contain tungsten oxide and one or more selected from tin oxide, iron oxide, titanium oxide, copper oxide, molybdenum oxide, and zinc oxide; the metal oxides are formed on the carbon material in the form of nanowires, and the nanowires are tungsten oxide-doped nanowires. The gas-sensitive material has reduced resistance, is capable of responding to various gases at a reduced working temperature.
US12253485B2
A combination weighing device includes: an electroconductive plate opposed, with an interval, to an electroconductive part enabling detection of water intrusion inside the combination weighing device; a voltage wire for application of voltage to the electroconductive plate; and a detector that detects a potential difference between the electroconductive part and the electroconductive plate, wherein the detector or a controller of the combination weighing device determines presence or absence of water intrusion inside the interval, based on the detected potential difference.
US12253479B1
A space-based x-ray imaging system comprising a spacecraft frame, a shutter apparatus, and a detector. The frame comprises: radiation shielding for shielding an inner cavity from solar radiation; and an input window opening on a section of the radiation shielding to enable passage of the solar radiation into the inner cavity. The shutter apparatus is near the input window and configured to be selectively opened and closed, to selectively enable and prevent passage of the solar radiation into the inner cavity via the input window. The detector is in the inner cavity and aligned with the input window, such that the detector is impinged by the solar radiation passing through the input window, such that an x-ray flux from the solar radiation is usable for x-ray imaging of a target located between the detector and the input window.
US12253473B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic system with defect identification function and a method of qualifying a photoresist pattern formed using a lithography process. The electronic system includes an inspection apparatus and a processor associated with the inspection apparatus. The inspection apparatus is used for acquiring at least one image of the specimen on which a photoresist pattern is formed using a lithography process. The processor is configured to automatically apply machine learning processes implemented through one or more neural networks to identify at least one defect present in the photoresist pattern.
US12253472B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a system and a method for detecting a defect in a specimen. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a lithography exposure system and a method for detecting a dispensing error in a wafer The present disclosure provides a system for detecting a defect in a specimen having a lithography exposure tool including a measurement unit and a stage, the measurement unit is configured to obtain topography data of the specimen placed on the stage by illumination of a surface of the specimen with an optical signal, and a processor configured to generate a statistical data from the topography data and produce a defect notification if the statistical data is outside of a control limit.
US12253467B2
Optical properties of a tracer in water are measured at varying concentrations. A reference curve is built based on the measured optical properties at varying concentrations. An emulsion is mixed with the tracer. The emulsion is demulsified into an oil component and an aqueous component. Optical properties of one of the components are measured. A partition coefficient is determined based on the measured optical properties of a demulsified component and the reference curve.
US12253464B2
A detection system and method using multiple detector arrays for single or multi-frequency imaging of an object or scene, with one or more channels arranged along perpendicular axes. A polarizing beam element can be arranged to pass or reflect radiation to first and second detector blocks of the detection system.
US12253461B2
Method for open-loop or closed-loop control of a process, in particular a downstream bioprocess, based on the projection of an unknown concentration of at least one substance in a sample using spectroscopy, in particular UV/vis spectroscopy, comprising the steps: Detect spectrums of a plurality of concentration samples, wherein at least two concentration samples have differing concentrations of the substance; generate several quantitative models based on the spectrums of the concentration samples, wherein the models each have a mapping of at least one spectral measurand of the spectrums to concentrations in concentration ranges, wherein the concentration ranges of two models are not identical; detect at least one sample spectrum of the sample; map the sample spectrum to at least one quantitative model of the generated quantitative models; apply the at least one quantitative model that was mapped to the sample spectrum against the sample spectrum to determine a projected value for the unknown concentration; and apply open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the process for at least one parameter based on the projected value for the undetermined concentration.
US12253458B2
A dryness detection method of detecting dryness of a liquid resin composition containing a solvent. The dryness detection method includes a wavelength selection step of selecting a light absorption wavelength of the solvent, a light source selection step of selecting a light source that emits light including light of the selected wavelength, a light receiving step of applying the light that has been emitted from the light source to the liquid resin composition, and receiving light that has passed through the liquid resin composition, and a determination step of finding whether or not the light of the selected wavelength after absorption in the solvent in the light receiving step exceeds in quantity a predetermined threshold, and if the threshold is found to be exceeded, determining that the solvent has evaporated and the liquid resin composition has dried. A dryness determination apparatus is also disclosed.
US12253457B2
A refrigerant detection assembly operable to detect refrigerant mixed with air includes a housing having an internal cavity fluidly connected with an ambient atmosphere surrounding the housing via an opening. A subassembly mounted within the internal cavity includes an air chamber fluidly connected with the internal cavity, a non-dispersive infrared sensor operably coupled to the air chamber, a printed circuit board, and a heat conduction plate mechanically and thermally coupled to the printed circuit board. At least one insulator is arranged within the internal cavity at a position between a portion of the subassembly and the housing. A shell is connectable to the housing in overlapping arrangement with the opening. The shell has at least one shell opening formed therein such that a flow path extends from the shell opening, through the opening formed in the housing to the internal cavity, and into the air chamber.
US12253455B2
A device for optically identifying surfaces, in particular for optically identifying structured and/or pictorial surfaces, spaces and/or e.g. paintings or sculptures is simple to use independently of the location. For this purpose, the device includes a housing in which light-emitting and light-receiving elements are arranged, and the device also includes a first portion having at least one lens, a portion that follows the first portion in the longitudinal direction and has a screen, and an adjoining handle portion.
US12253453B2
Technical equilibrium can be used to measure a single gas isotherm in a relatively fast and continuous manner rather than, for example, in a batch manner. Further, an expansion vessel can be used for successive desorption a multicomponent gas in combination with determining the composition of the multicomponent gas in combination with a calculation that provides both qualitative and quantitative information about the multicomponent gas. Moreover, a multicomponent gas can be flowed through an adsorbent bed and the and the flow of the multicomponent gas flow is shut off and isolated when equilibrium is reached.
US12253445B2
A specimen pretreatment method for transferring a specimen supported by a first specimen supporting tool to a second specimen supporting tool, the specimen pretreatment method including: transferring a specimen supported by the first specimen supporting tool to a film; immersing the film and the specimen on the film in a liquid to dissolve the film; and recovering the specimen from the liquid and supporting the specimen with the second specimen supporting tool.
US12253443B2
An elemental analysis device includes a heating furnace in which a test sample that is placed in a crucible is heated so that a sample gas is generated from the test sample, an inflow path through which a carrier gas is introduced into the heating furnace, an outflow path through which a mixture gas made up of the carrier gas and the sample gas is led out from the heating furnace, a dust filter that is provided on the outflow path, an analysis mechanism that is provided on the outflow path on a downstream side from the dust filter, and that detects one or a plurality of predetermined components contained in the mixture gas, and a cleaning gas supply mechanism that supplies cleaning gas to the dust filter in an opposite direction from a direction in which the mixture gas is flowing.
US12253435B2
An oil leak detection device includes a pair of permanent magnets, a plurality of commutators, a coil, a pair of brushes, and a current sensor. An N-pole and an S-pole of the pair of permanent magnets face each other. The plurality of commutators are attached to an output shaft. The coil is wound onto the output shaft inside the pair of permanent magnets in the radial direction of the output shaft. The coil is electrically connected to the plurality of commutators. The pair of brushes are attached to a housing and are capable of coming into contact with each of the plurality of commutators. The current sensor detects an induction current flowing between the pair of brushes and the housing.
US12253431B1
A method for monitoring a bleed valve of an aircraft engine includes obtaining operational data of the aircraft engine, the operational data indicative of operational performance of the aircraft engine. The method further includes utilizing one or more neural networks to determine a health status of a bleed valve of the aircraft engine based on the operational data, the bleed valve configured to bleed air from a compressor section of the aircraft engine, wherein the one or more neural networks have been trained with root cause data relating to a plurality of potential failure modes of the bleed valve.
US12253421B2
A temperature estimation device includes: an initial value estimation unit that estimates an initial temperature value of an estimation target component at the start of operation of a power converter electrically connected to a power storage device; a variation estimation unit that estimates a temperature variation of the estimation target component based on the value of an electric current supplied from the power converter by the operation of the power converter; and a temperature estimation unit that calculates an estimated temperature of the estimation target component based on the initial temperature value and the temperature variation. The initial value estimation unit estimates the initial temperature value based on time elapsed between the previous issuance of a temperature estimation stop instruction for the estimation target component and the current issuance of a temperature estimation start instruction for the estimation target component.
US12253419B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for determining and/or monitoring a temperature of a medium in a containment, comprising a measuring insert having a temperature sensor for registering temperature, a protective tube, in which the temperature sensor is arranged, and a heat conductive, formed piece, which is arranged in the protective tube and surrounds the measuring insert at least sectionally.
US12253418B2
A method for in situ measurement of temperature at microwave-induced microscopic hot spots, temperature measuring particles and the device used are provided. For the temperature measurement demand of the microscopic hot spot of microwave field, loading fluorescent temperature measuring particles on the surface of solid particles, and the actual temperature of particles in micro scale can be measured by using its temperature sensitive fluorescence characteristics. The present disclosure builds a microwave field in-situ fluorescence test device to disperse the test particles loaded with fluorescent temperature measuring materials in the liquid solvent and place in the quartz sample tank in the microwave cavity, which can measure the actual temperature of the particles to be measured under microwave radiation. The present disclosure breaks through the difficult problem of measuring micro scale temperature in microwave field and can realize the quantitative measurement of microwave-induced overheating temperature in micro scale.
US12253409B2
A light sensing method having a sensing order adjusting mechanism is provided. The method includes steps of: in a previous sensing cycle, sensing a first light signal that is emitted by both of an ambient light source and a light-emitting component and then is reflected by a tested object; in the previous sensing cycle, sensing a second light signal that is emitted by both of the ambient light source and the light-emitting component and then is reflected by the tested object; in the previous sensing cycle, sensing an ambient light signal emitted by only the ambient light source; and in a next sensing cycle, sensing the first light signal, the second light signal and the ambient light signal in an order different from that in the previous sensing cycle.
US12253408B2
A battery malfunction detection method includes: applying a preset number of vibration signals with different frequencies to a battery to be detected through a vibration generation device; collecting a response signal of the battery to be detected through a response collection device, where the response signal includes the preset number of vibration response amplitudes of the battery to be detected; determining whether the battery to be detected is malfunctioning according to the response signal.
US12253405B2
Devices and methods for monitoring the weight of animals in an animal housing facility including a support surface configured so that at least one of the animals can stand on the support surface, a force sensor, attached to the support surface, for measuring a force indicative of a weight of the animal on the support surface, a rail system actuator for suspending the device from a rail or track of a rail system and propelling it along the rail or track, a processor receiving a signal from the force sensor indicative of a weight of the animal or animals on the support surface when the support surface is located at a target position, and determining a weight measurement of an individual animal based on the signal.
US12253401B2
Systems and methods for ultrasonic liquid level sensing. A circuit causes an ultrasonic transducer to transmit a sequence of ultrasonic pulses and receive a sequence of reflected signals. Each reflected signal includes at least one first reflection associated with at least one non-moveable surface and at least one second reflection associated with a moveable surface. A digital controller, for each reflected signal: determines at least one of a magnitude and a variance of the respective signal to form at least one output signal, identifies, in the at least one output signal, at least one first pulse indicative of the at least one non-moveable surface and at least one second pulse indicative of the moveable surface, and determines a distance of the moveable surface relative to the at least one non-moveable surface based on the identified first and second pulses.
US12253389B2
A system includes a longitudinal rack storing a plurality of items, a shoe movably attached to the rack, a magnet coupled to the shoe and a longitudinal circuit board arranged along the length of the rack. The circuit board includes an array of sensors along the length of the rack. Each sensor generates a value depending on a position of the magnet in relation to the sensor. The circuit board further includes a memory storing values generated by the sensors, and a processor configured to determine a position of the shoe/magnet based on the values and determine a count of the items based on the position of the shoe/magnet.
US12253388B2
A system for tracking a medical device, the system comprising a support having a channel extending therethrough, the channel being defined circumferentially by a surface, at least one encoder configured to track movement of a medical device through the channel, and one or more processors configured to receive input from the at least one encoder, receive an instruction from a user to store a zero position of the medical device relative to the channel, determine relative movement of the medical device from the zero position, and communicate the relative movement of the medical device from the zero position.
US12253386B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining an effective altitude in relation to a moving sports object. In some examples, a method includes determining respective values for an air temperature, an air pressure, and a relative humidity of an environment of interest. Based on the determined respective values of the air temperature, the air pressure, and the relative humidity, an air density for the environment of interest is calculated to derive a first air density value. A second air density value is derived for a reference environment. An absolute value of a difference between the first and second air densities is compared against a preset comparison value and, based on the comparison being equal to or smaller than the preset comparison value, an output including an indicator of the effective altitude is generated.
US12253375B2
Path specific rolling resistance is determined in a method including: receiving, from a first source, first rolling resistance data of a first set of road surface portions of a corresponding first set of times; receiving, from a second source, second rolling resistance data of a second set of road surface portions of a corresponding second set of times; determining, using any of the first rolling resistance data and the second rolling resistance data, a path specific rolling resistance for a given path including one or more of the road surface portions selected from the first and second set of road surface portions; and providing at least one target vehicle with the path specific rolling resistance or a derivative of the path specific rolling resistance.
US12253372B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a transportation task within a dynamic transportation network, accessing a database of door closing event locations, wherein the database is populated from observed door closing events within the dynamic transportation network, determining location information specifying at least one of a pickup location and a drop-off location for the transportation task based at least in part on the database of door closing event locations, and providing the location information to a transportation provider computing device, wherein a transportation provider performs the transportation task that comprises at least one of picking up a transportation requestor at the pickup location and dropping off the transportation requestor at the drop-off location. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US12253370B1
A travel time estimation system receives trip requests including pair of addresses and a desired time of travel. A processor is programmed to convert the addresses into grid points (Encoded Addresses—EAs) in an array of regularly spaced grid points in a Cartesian Coordinate system. The processor reads a record associated with the EA's to determine a covering grid point (Unique Encoded Address—UEA) associated with each EA, where the associated UEA is located no more than a predetermined maximum distance away from the EA. The processor accesses a second record associated with the pair of UEAs that references a location in a memory that stores estimated travel times between the UEAs at one or more requested trip times. The stored travel time between the UEAs at a time that closest matches the desired time of travel is returned by the processor as the estimated travel time between the addresses provided to the travel time estimation system.
US12253367B2
A navigation system can identify locations of interest at a route destination. Those locations of interest at the destination can fall within a predetermined distance of the destination or those that are responsive to a query that includes the destination as a parameter. The navigation system can receive a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination, and update a route to terminate at the identified location of interest rather than the original destination. Information identifying the origin and destination for the route can be collected at a first user device and the route can be displayed at a second user device. Additional information is then received from the first user device (such as a selection of an identified location of interest near the destination). This additional information received at the first user device is used to update the route that is displayed on the second user device.
US12253363B1
The present disclosure relates to system that includes a database including data associated with one or more building features of a building. The system includes a processor of a computing device. The processor is configured to determine an absolute position of the computing device within the building. The processor is configured to identify at least one of the building features located within a threshold distance of the absolute position of the computing device based on a query of the database. Additionally, the processor is configured to generate an alert configured to cause the computing device to display information associated with the at least one of the building features or output an audible signal associated with the at least one of the building features.
US12253356B2
A calibration circuit providing a programmable voltage generator that is selectively connectable to a first capacitor plate of a capacitive structure to supply a voltage thereto. A reference voltage generator is coupled to the output of the programmable voltage generator and generates a reference voltage. A comparator receives the reference voltage and a discharging voltage from the capacitive structure during a discharge period and, based on those inputs, generates a signal that is output to a digital controller. A constant current source is selectively connectable to the capacitive structure to generate a constant current. Based on the output of the comparator, the constant current, and a count representing a time during which the discharging voltage decreases, the digital controller measures capacitance to calibrate a movable mirror of the capacitive structure. During calibration, the digital controller controls the programmable voltage generator and a second capacitor plate of the capacitive structure.
US12253353B2
Various surface and structural defects are currently inspected visually. This method is labor intensive, requiring large maintenance man hours, and is prone to errors. To streamline this process, herein is described an automated inspection system and apparatus based on several optical technologies that drastically reduces inspection time, provides accurate detection of defects, and provides a digital map of the location of defects. The technology uses a sensor that includes a pattern projection generator for generating a pattern image on the structural surface and a camera for detecting the pattern image generated by the pattern projection generator on the structural surface. Furthermore, the technology utilizes an image processing and correction apparatus for performing a pattern image and structural surface defect map correction and generate a distortion corrected defect map for a surface scan area on the structure that is incident on the sensor.
US12253344B2
A dart may comprise—in order from the front thereof—a point, a barrel, a shaft, and a flight. The flight may comprise a plurality of fins. The fins may comprise mesh-like reinforcing ribs that protrude from surfaces thereof. The fins may further comprise, at peripheries thereof, fin rims formed so as to be of increased thickness. Reinforcing ribs may be formed over the approximate entireties of the fins. The shaft may comprise an insertion portion at the back end thereof. The flight may comprise a central axial hole having an opening at the front end thereof. The shaft may be removably installable with respect to the flight by virtue of a cap-like arrangement by which the insertion portion is inserted within, and is coupled and secured to, the central axial hole. The central axial hole may be formed from the front end of the flight to the back end thereof.
US12253343B1
A medium caliber polymer-based ammunition cartridge has an insert forming a base end and engaged to a polymer body forming an internal propellant chamber. The polymer body is engaged at its forward end to a polymer nose which has a shoulder that transitions directly into a projectile opening. The shoulder is inwardly radially thickened to increase lateral support about a medium caliber projectile loaded into the cartridge. The thickness of the shoulder may vary along its longitudinal length. One or more crush seals may be integrally formed about an outer surface of the cartridge nose. The crush seals include an annular tip seal and one or more annular shoulder seals. Each of the crush seals deform into an obturating ring to form a seal between the outer surface of the medium caliber polymer cartridge and the inner walls of the firing chamber.
US12253342B1
An impulse cartridge (IC) cup has at least one aperture defined in a cylindrical sidewall. The first aperture extends radially relative to a primary axis through the cylindrical sidewall from an inner surface to an outer surface. A first electrical connector is disposed in the first aperture. The first electrical connector is adapted to physically contact the impulse cartridge at a first location. The IC cup is adapted to be connected to a canister that houses a payload of a countermeasure defense system, wherein the payload is to be deployed in response to explosion of the impulse cartridge.
US12253341B1
A guidance system for a guided munition has an inertial measurement unit (IMU) or another type of first sensor on the guided munition, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor on the guided munition, and a guidance computer assembly (GCA) having a Programmable Real-Time Unit Industrial Communication SubSystem (PRU-ICSS), wherein the PRU-ICSS is in operative communication with the IMU or another type of first sensor and the EO/IR. The PRU-ICSS has a first Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU), wherein the first PRU is programmed to receive and process input data from the IMU or another type of first sensor on the guided munition, and the PRU-ICSS has a second PRU, wherein the second PRU is programmed to receive and process input data from the EO/IR sensor on the guided munition.
US12253338B2
A ballistic-resistant garment having a tensioning fastening system, and methods of making and using such a ballistic-resistant garment, whereby the ballistic-resistant garment includes (i) a front panel having a front panel pocket configured to receive a first ballistic-resistant insert; (ii) a back panel having a back panel pocket configured to receive a second ballistic-resistant insert; (iii) a front panel elastic elongate member coupled to the front panel; (iv) a front panel first fastener coupled to a front panel elastic elongate member first end; (v) a front panel second fastener coupled to a front panel elastic elongate member second end; (vi) a back panel elastic elongate member coupled to the back panel; (vii) a back panel first fastener coupled to a back panel elastic elongate member first end; and (viii) a back panel second fastener coupled to a back panel elastic elongate member second end.
US12253334B2
Sight systems comprise a sight receiver and a base attachable to and detachable from a sight receiver. A base carries a sighting component, such as an iron sight or optic sight. A sighting component may be attachably and detachably mounted to a base, or a sighting component may be made integrally with a base. A base may carry plural sighting components. Sight systems may include plural interchangeable sight receivers, bases, and/or sighting components. In some embodiments, interfitting structures at least partially restrain or retain a base and a sight receiver in longitudinal and lateral alignment, with such structures being longitudinally oriented. In some embodiments, interfitting structures at least partially restrain or retain a base and a sighting component in longitudinal alignment and lateral alignment, with such structures being longitudinally oriented. Some embodiments provide a fastener operable with a compatible and/or complementary surface, together used to urge interfitting parts together tightly.
US12253332B2
An electronic aiming system includes an electro-mechanical reticle having a plurality of electrically powered holdover indicators disposed on a primary crosshair of the reticle, the holdover indicators configured to be individually selected and energized to a visible state, a rangefinder configured to generate range data, a computing device configured to generate ballistics data; and a processor configured to receive the range data and ballistics data, select, based at least in part on either or both of the range data and ballistics data, one or more of the holdover indicators, and energize the selected holdover indicator or indicators to the visible state.
US12253327B2
A firearm includes a barrel portion, a slide, and a frame. The frame includes a grip, and the grip includes a magazine chamber and a rear surface adjacent the slide. At least one sensor is carried by the grip, and the at least one sensor adapted to sense a state of the magazine detachably received in the magazine chamber corresponding to a number of cartridges of ammunition remaining in the magazine. A display is carried on the rear surface of the grip, and the display includes a plurality of illuminating devices. The display is operatively coupled to the at least one sensor and is operable to visually present the number of cartridges of ammunition remaining in the magazine by illuminating at least one of the plurality of illuminating devices.
US12253321B2
The inventive technology comprises a novel thermal indicator system that incorporates one or more thermogenic compounds that may be applied to a gun component and indicate the temperature of a gun component during and after use. This novel thermal indicator system may indicate the temperature at which the gun component will cause burns, is unsafe to store, or if a pre-determined threshold temperature has been reached resulting in a loss of firing accuracy, as well as imminent, or actual component failure.
US12253316B2
A heat exchange structure includes: two flow channels stacked in a stacking direction (Y direction) and thermally coupled to each other; and a fin structure detachably installed in at least one flow channel of the two flow channels. The fin structure includes fins arranged in a longitudinal direction (Z direction) of the at least one flow channel in which the fin structure is installed, the fins configured to form openings alternately arranged along the at least one flow channel on one side and the other side of the at least one flow channel in a width direction (X direction).
US12253308B1
The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system. The disposable has a spray drying head and a plasma drying chamber. The head has a spray dry nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the plasma source and the pressurized aerosol gas source. The pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern that atomizes plasma droplets in the chamber. The head also includes a plenum has uniform air pressure of the drying gas. A baffle plate forms the floor of the plenum having drying gas jets that supply drying gas to the chamber. The atomized plasma droplets evaporate in the presence of the drying gas emitted from the jets to obtain dried plasma particles and humid air. A capture filter captures the dried plasma particles and allows the humid air to pass. The humid air passes through the gas outlet and the exhaust port.
US12253285B2
A geothermal energy storage/converting system utilizes hot water and pressure, such as steam, generated by the geothermal heat/ground water to store energy and/or generate electricity. The system utilizes a motion of a piston, driven by steam generated by geothermal heat, to control movement of an amount of water, which is used to store the energy by compressing gas as energy storage. When electricity is needed, the compressed gas provides a force to push the stored water to drive a hydrogenerator to generate electricity. In a geothermal energy converting embodiment, system utilizes a motion of a piston, driven by steam generated by geothermal heat, to control movement of an amount of water to drive a hydrogenerator to generate electricity.
US12253280B2
A fresh air conditioning system includes a first cooling device having a first cooling end and a first heating end; a dehumidifying rotary defining a first section and a second section. An airflow switching device directs a fresh airflow toward the first cooling end or the first heating end, and then flows to the first section. A return airflow passes through a first heat exchanger, and conducts heat exchange with the other end of the first cooling device, and then flows to the second section. Or switching opposite ends of the first cooling device to selectively cool or heat, the fresh airflow conducts heat exchange with one end of the first cooling device, and then flows to the first section. The return airflow conducts heat exchange with the other end of the cooling device and then flows to the second section.
US12253278B2
A dehumidifier includes a water tank, a machine body configured to be at least partially accommodated in the water tank in an idle state, and a position limiting structure including a stopper movably mounted at a side wall of the water tank. The stopper is configured to move between a first position and a second position. At the first position, the stopper is located on a movement path of the machine body moving toward inside of the water tank, to restrict the machine body from moving to the idle state. At the second position, the stopper avoids the movement path of the machine body moving toward the inside of the water tank, to allow the machine body to move to the idle state.
US12253272B1
Methods and related systems for controlling indoor relative humidity include (a) determining a target dew point temperature based on desired indoor conditions for the indoor space, and (b) determining an initial dew point temperature based on an initial set of current indoor conditions of the indoor space. The method includes (c) determining a target coil temperature of a coil of an indoor heat exchanger of the climate control system based on the target dew point temperature and the initial dew point temperature, and (d) adjusting a speed of air flowing across the coil or a speed of a compressor of the climate control system after (c) based on the target coil temperature to reduce a difference between a coil temperature of the coil and the target coil temperature.
US12253268B1
A method including: during a colloid cooking period, cooking food using a gaseous colloid and sampling a cavity measurement. The method can optionally include transmitting the sampled measurements to a remote computing system; automatically cooking food according to adjusted colloid cooking parameters determined based on the measurement; and/or other processes.
US12253262B2
An ignition device of a gas cooktop, and a gas cooktop. The ignition device of the gas cooktop includes a discharge end, a receiving end and an ignition control module. An ignition frequency generated by the ignition control module is within a range of [15 kHz, 22 kHz], a distance between the discharge end and the receiving end is within a range of [2 mm, 5 mm], and at ignition, a continuous arc is generated between the discharge end and the receiving end to ignite gas. When the ignition device of this scheme is ignited, an ignition sound is extremely low and there is no noise pollution.
US12253261B2
A low-concentration gas differential combustion device includes a low-concentration gas super-cooling dehydration and demisting device, a gas pretreatment device, a burner, a long-term burning open fire device, a high-energy self-heat dispersion rapid ignition device, a combustion chamber, and a waste-heat utilization device. With the low-concentration gas differential combustion device, the problems of gas escaping, forced direct emission, low heat extraction efficiency, concentration over-limit explosions, increase in equipment volume and increase in investment caused by the reversal process in the existing ventilation air oxidation technology, and the problems of narrow gas adaptation concentration range, small adaptive concentration and pressure change amplitude, poor combustion temperature adjustability, high NOx content, high shutdown rate, and low gas utilization rate in the low-concentration gas internal combustion engine power generation technology are solved.
US12253239B2
The invention provides a module for installation of a lighting unit in a recess, wherein the module comprises: a first body comprising a first collar; a second body comprising a second collar; at least one flexible strut; wherein the first body and/or the second body is configured to hold said lighting unit; wherein the first body and the second body are rotatable relative to each other around a rotation axis, and are positionally fixed relative to each other in the axial direction of said rotation axis; wherein the at least one flexible strut comprises a respective first end and a respective second end, wherein said first end is fixed to a respective first connection point on the first collar and said second end is fixed to a respective second connection point on the second collar; wherein the at least one flexible strut comprises a strut length, wherein the strut length is at least a factor 1.2 longer than the shortest distance between the respective first connection point and the second collar; wherein the at least one flexible strut is configured to deform in a direction away from the rotational axis when a rotation of the first body and the second body relative to each other reduces the distance between said first connection point and said second connection point. The invention further provides a lighting device comprising said lighting unit and said module.
US12253235B2
A vehicular lamp fitting according to the present invention comprises: a light guiding body; a first light source; and a second light source, wherein the light guiding body includes a first rod-shaped light guiding portion which guides first light emitted by the first light source, a second rod-shaped light guiding portion which guides second light emitted by the second light source, an intermediate portion which is arranged between the first rod-shaped light guiding portion and the second rod-shaped light guiding portion, a first coupling portion which couples a base end portion side of the first rod-shaped light guiding portion and the intermediate portion together such that a part of the first light, which enters the first rod-shaped light guiding portion through a light entering surface of the first rod-shaped light guiding portion, enters an inside of the intermediate portion.
US12253228B2
Illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight for producing segmented full beam distribution (FL), wherein the illumination device (10) comprises the following for this purpose: an optical element (100), comprising light guiding bodies (200) for forming the definable segment full beam distribution (FL), which light guiding bodies (200) respectively have a light entry surface (210) and an exit surface (220), projection optics (300) arranged downstream of the beam path of the optical element (100) having an optical axis (A), which projection optics (300) are designed to project the light exiting from the common exit surface (200a) in front of the illumination device (10) in the direction of a main emission direction (X), and wherein each light guiding body (200) has two lateral side surfaces (230a, 230b) and an upper and a lower side surface (240a, 240b), wherein the optical element (100) has a first and a second light emission half (L1, L2), which can be delimited from one another by a virtual vertical plane (VE), wherein the first light guiding body (200a) of the first light emission half (L1) helps produce the first maximum illuminance (M1), and wherein the first light guiding body (200b) of the second light emission half (L2) helps produce the second maximum illuminance (M2), wherein the surface centre (FM2) of the entry surface (210) has a horizontal offset (H-off) and a downwards vertical offset (V-off) to the surface centre (FM1) of the associated exit surface (220), and wherein the lateral side surface (230a) of these first light guiding bodies (200a, 200b), which faces away from the virtual vertical plane (VE), is convex and combined with the offset of the entry surfaces (210) is designed to direct light from the corresponding light source (50) in the direction of the optical axis (A) in order to increase the illuminance between the first and the second maximum illuminance (M1, M2) in the full beam distribution (FL) such that the intersection HV of an aiming screen is arranged within the isolux line for 80% of the maximum illuminance of the full beam distribution (FL).
US12253224B1
An interactive illumination apparatus and methods and systems for executing functions of the interactive illumination apparatus are disclosed. The interactive illumination apparatus includes a housing, a light emitting device arranged on a first end of the housing, a first button on the housing configured to detect a first input, a touch input device on the housing configured to receive a touch input from a user, and a battery in the housing. The light emitting device may be configured to generate a first illumination based on the first input. The light emitting unit may be configured to generate a second illumination based on the touch input.
US12253223B2
An inflatable solar-powered light is provided. The solar-powered light includes a bladder and a solar-powered light assembly disposed entirely within the bladder. The solar-powered light assembly includes a solar panel, a rechargeable battery in electrical communication with the solar panel, and at least one light-emitting diode in electrical communication with the rechargeable battery. The bladder is substantially transparent, flexible, inflatable, and collapsible.
US12253221B2
A multifunctional and variable lamp sheet and lamp are provided. A light-emitting diode (LED) multifunctional light-emitting assembly of the lamp sheet includes a light-emitting region and a control region; the light-emitting region is any geometric light-emitting shape; and the light-emitting style is divided into a plurality of sub-regions connected into the control region of the lamp sheet to perform partition control on the light-emitting region. The present disclosure has the beneficial effects: The structures of existing LED-molded lamp sheets and lamp bulbs are optimized. Meanwhile, LED chips with different light-emitting colors and a control single-chip microcomputer are added, so that when the control region inputs different control signals to the corresponding sub-regions, the lamp can emit light to achieve a dynamic water flowing effect and color changing and pattern changing effects.
US12253209B2
The present disclosure provides a universal dovetail mount that can support both the Arca standard dovetail slide plate and the Manfrotto standard dovetail slide plate.
US12253192B2
A lockable pipeline seal, pipeline sleeve, and sealed pipeline connection for a pipeline. The pipeline seal includes a ring-shaped body having a head along a first ring end and a tail along a second ring end of the ring-shaped body, with a body portion therebetween. The ring-shaped body has an outer surface and an inner surface along its periphery. A deflection surface and abase surface are defined along the outer surface. The deflection surface is at an angle to a horizontal axis of the ring-shaped body, and a recessed grip is defined along the inner surface. The ring-shaped body is compressible such that, when the pipeline seal is installed between the pipeline sleeve and the pipeline pipe, the deflection surface is urged against the pipeline pipe and the recessed grip grippingly engages the pipeline sleeve whereby a locked seal is formed between the pipeline sleeve and the pipeline pipe.
US12253191B2
A pipeline assembly and an air conditioning system. The pipeline assembly includes a first steel pipe, a second steel pipe, a first copper sleeve and a second copper sleeve, wherein the first copper sleeve is fixed at an end of the first steel pipe, and the first copper sleeve includes a first section sleeved on the periphery of the first steel pipe and a second section extending beyond the end of the first steel pipe; the second copper sleeve is fixed at an end of the second steel pipe, and the second copper sleeve is sleeved on the peripheral side of the second steel pipe; and the second section and at least part of the second copper sleeve are sleeved with and welded to each other.
US12253190B2
Non-elastomeric, non-polymeric, non-metallic membrane valves for use in high-vacuum applications are disclosed. Such valves are functional even when the fluid-control side of the valve is exposed to a sub-atmospheric pressure field which may generally act to collapse/seal traditional elastomeric membrane valves.
US12253188B2
A method for determining the degree of wear of a valve, the degree of wear of the valve being dependent on the degree of wear of an operating element that is made of an expandable material and performs a mechanical movement each time the temperature changes, the change in temperature resulting in wear, the operating element made of an expandable material being mechanically connected to a piston; the movements of the operating element made of an expandable material are calculated by initially sensing the change in temperature on the operating element, whereupon the changes in temperature are recalculated as movements on the basis of the temperature/expansion curve applicable to the operating element made of an expandable material.
US12253185B2
A valve assembly consists essentially of a valve body having an inlet port and an outlet port; a valve retainer at least partially housed within the valve body; a valve poppet positioned within the valve body; a magnet affixed within the valve body near the valve body inlet port; and a solenoid coil mounted around the valve body.
US12253178B2
An indexing valve for a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO). A valve housing includes a diverter assembly further comprising: a pipe shaft, the pipe shaft disposed through the valve housing; a diverter blade subassembly connected to the pipe shaft between the pipe shaft ends for rotating within the valve housing, the rotation of which is supported by a bearing assembly at the base; the diverter blade subassembly further comprising a pair of opposing diverter plates, each of the diverter plates curved, wherein a large-volume inlet plenum is defined between the diverter plates for receiving fluid flow from one of the ports. To aid in sealing, the corner section ends within the housing extend beyond a width of each corner and are chamfered to limit wear of the seal. Fluid flow is either atmospheric pressure or negative pressure relative to said valve housing to further aid in sealing.
US12253176B2
A valve assembly wherein the inner wall of the valve body comprises at least one opening for the entry of a liquid under pressure following output of a slurry or liquid from a tube or pipe. The valve assembly is particularly useful in maintaining a semi-continuous or continuous pressurized flow of biomass from an extruder and extending the reaction zone downstream from the extruder. An advantage of having an extended reaction zone allows for a complete treatment of materials without further wear on the extruder and also allows manipulation of the upstream treatment of materials in the tube or pipe.
US12253171B2
A type IV conformable pressure vessel has improved mechanical coupling between an outer composite shell and a boss. The pressure vessel comprises an inner polymeric liner having a flare edge fixedly coupled to the boss. The boss has a bore in fluid communication with an interior of the pressure vessel. In addition, the boss has a shank extending between the liner and the outer composite shell. The shank includes a plurality of spikes projecting radially away from the boss. The outer composite shell of resin and fiber surrounds an outer periphery of the liner and an outer periphery of the shank. The spikes are embedded into the outer composite shell to mechanically fasten the outer composite shell to the boss.
US12253167B2
A system includes a power transmission mechanism having a rotation shaft, a power transmission gear, a dog ring, a dog clutch, a switching mechanism to move the dog ring in an axial direction to switch a power transmission state, and a switching controller to control an operation of the switching mechanism. The switching controller determines whether the dog clutch is in an engaged state when giving a switching command to cause the dog ring to be moved to a side of the power transmission gear in the axial direction. After the dog clutch is determined not to be in the engaged state, the switching controller causes the dog ring to be moved to the side opposite to the power transmission gear, and then retries movement of the dog ring to the side of the power transmission gear.
US12253162B2
An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system includes a planetary gear assembly, a torque sensor, and a controller. The planetary gear assembly includes a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears, a first ring gear, and a second ring gear. Each planet gear of the plurality of planet gears includes a main gear, a first lateral gear, and a second lateral gear. The main gear is engaged with the sun gear, the first lateral gear is engaged with the first ring gear, and the second lateral gear is engaged with the second ring gear. The torque sensor assembly contacts the second ring gear. The torque sensor assembly is configured to generate an output signal corresponding to an axial deflection of the second ring gear. The controller is configured to calculate a torque applied to the output shaft by the planetary gear assembly using the output signal.
US12253158B2
A Powersports vehicle is disclosed which includes a frame, ground engaging members supporting the frame, comprising at least two front wheel, and a power source for driving the front wheels. A front drive is coupled to the power source and to the front wheels, the front drive being coupled to the frame through isolation mounts to reduce vibration of the front drive through the frame.
US12253156B2
A track system may include a track assembly and a support assembly. A track assembly may include a toothed portion. The support assembly may include a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly. The toothed portion may include a plurality of track teeth. The support member may include an adjuster pinion. The adjuster pinion may include a plurality of pinion teeth configured to engage the plurality of track teeth. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to a disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another.
US12253155B2
A gearbox assembly includes a first gear and a second gear. The first gear includes a plurality of first gear teeth. The second gear includes a plurality of second gear teeth. The plurality of first gear teeth and the plurality of second gear teeth mesh with each other as the first gear and the second gear rotate. A profile shape of at least one first gear tooth of the first gear is characterized by a total profile modification between 66 micrometers and 120 micrometers.
US12253153B1
An electric drive system in a battery electric vehicle (BEV) includes an output shaft, configured to couple with a drive wheel of the BEV, having a face gear at a distal end; a differential, including a pinion gear cage receiving pinion gears rotatably connected to the pinion gear cage via gear pins; and a housing that receives the differential having an outer surface that is configured to couple to a rotating electrical machine of the BEV, wherein the pinion gears engage the face gear and permit angular displacement of the output shaft relative to another output shaft.
US12253152B2
An electric drive device includes a transmission with a first planetary gear set having a first element, a second element, and a third element. The transmission includes a second planetary gear set having a fourth element connected to the third element for conjoint rotation, a fifth element and a sixth element. A first output shaft is connected to the fifth element for conjoint rotation and a second output shaft is connected to the fourth element for conjoint rotation. A first electric machine has a first rotor that is or can be coupled to the sixth element such that torques provided by the first rotor can be introduced into the transmission via the sixth element.
US12253149B2
A differential gear unit includes an annular ring gear having a rotational axis in an axial direction; side gears respectively distribute torque to drive shafts; differential pinion gears are rotatably arranged on a pinion pin, where the pinion gears respectively engage the side gears. A decoupling element inside the ring gear is rotatably arranged in relation to the ring gear. The pinion pin is connected to and extends diametrically across the decoupling element. A clutch sleeve slides relative to the ring gear and the decoupling element. The clutch sleeve, upon axial displacement, disconnects the ring gear from the decoupling element in a first position, allowing rotational movement of the decoupling element relative to the ring gear; connects the ring gear to the decoupling element in a second position, preventing the rotational movement of the decoupling element; and connects the ring gear to a park-lock structure in a third position.
US12253134B2
A coil spring includes a main body spring and an insulator, the insulator is provided with a support groove which extends around a coil axis and into which a lower end portion of the main body spring is fitted, a lower end portion of the main body spring adheres to an inner surface of the support groove, the inner surface of the support groove is provided with a plurality of spacer protrusions which support an outer peripheral surface of a wire rod, the support groove extends in an angle range of 180° or more and 360° or less around the coil axis, and a ratio of a volume of the spacer protrusions occupying a gap between the inner surface of the support groove and the outer peripheral surface of the wire rod at a center portion in the gap in a circumferential direction around the coil axis is larger than that at the other portions in the gap in the circumferential direction.
US12253133B2
A clutch assembly for a motor vehicle drivetrain includes a rigid support and a wet friction material fixed to a surface of the rigid support. The wet friction material includes a base material including a matrix of fibers and filler particles embedded in the matrix of fibers. The filler particles include calcined kaolin clay, and the base material includes, by percent weight, 5 to 60% of calcined kaolin clay. The wet friction material also includes a binder embedded in the base material. The binder is tung modified phenolic resin.
US12253129B2
The application relates to a brake pad assembly (10) for a disk brake system and to a disk brake system. The proposed brake pad assembly (10) comprises a back plate (5) having a front side (4) for facing a brake disk (1) of the disk brake system and a friction layer (3) arranged on the front side (4) of the back plate (5) for contacting a friction surface of the brake disk (1). The back plate (5) comprises a guiding protrusion (9) configured to be slidably received within a guiding recess (19) of a carrier (20) of the disk brake system. The brake pad assembly (10) further comprises a pad spring (16) configured to be arranged between the guiding protrusion (9) of the back plate (5) and the guiding recess (19) of the carrier (20). The pad spring (16) is attached to the guiding protrusion (9) of the back plate (5).
US12253128B2
A brake fluid pipe detector is provided. The brake fluid pipe detector which is arranged between a brake hose and a brake caliper include a main body which is provided with a fastening end for connection to the brake caliper and is communicating with the brake hose for delivering brake fluid. The brake fluid pipe detector features on that at least one installation port is arranged at the main body and installed with a sensor correspondingly. Thereby brake data and information such as working temperature and brake pressure of the brake fluid in the brake hose and the brake caliper can be detected by the sensor so as to ensure driving safety.
US12253120B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a cam and a one-way cam clutch that realize a reduction in weight and production cost, provide more design freedom in setting the center of gravity of the cam, and achieve high responsiveness. The above object is achieved by a cam configured to make contact with an inner race and an outer race by a rotational moment applied in an engaged direction by an annular spring, in which a plurality of cam plates having an identical outer contour and arranged in parallel along a direction of the pivot axis are coupled together and united by a connecting pin extending in the direction of the pivot axis, and the annular spring is configured to be mountable between adjacent cam plates and/or on an outer side of the plurality of cam plates in the direction of the pivot axis.
US12253112B2
A bushing for use in an aircraft includes a hollow cylindrical shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a radially outwardly extending flange disposed at the first end of the hollow cylindrical shaft, an entry way disposed along the radially outwardly extending flange, and a lubrication passageway fluidly coupled to the entry way. The lubrication passageway extends between the first end and the second end.
US12253111B2
An internal combustion engine, including a pair of opposed pistons, a pair of opposed cylinders, and an output shaft, wherein each of the pistons is arranged for reciprocating motion within a respective one of the cylinders, driven by combustion, and the pistons are coupled to the output shaft by a coupling such that said reciprocating motion of the pistons drives rotation of the output shaft, wherein the coupling includes a connecting rod coupled to the opposed pistons, and the coupling further includes a crankshaft rotatably mounted within a slider bearing, the slider bearing being formed of separable parts and having unitary sides for sliding contact within the connecting rod.
US12253105B2
A method for securing a first part to a second part where the first part has a locking oblong hole. The method includes passing a locking threaded rod through the locking oblong hole and into the second part. The locking threaded rod is oversized with respect to a width of the locking oblong hole such that the locking threaded rod widens the locking oblong hole as the locking threaded rod is passing through the locking oblong hole.
US12253102B2
A clamp assembly includes a main body having a through-hole for accommodating a component. The main body includes first end opposite of a second end. A center portion is disposed on the first end. A top portion and a bottom portion are disposed on the second end. The center portion is disposed between the top portion and the bottom portion. The center portion includes an elongated bore. The top portion includes a first bore and the bottom portion includes a second bore. The center portion has a slanted top surface inverse to a bottom surface of the top portion. When the bolt is seated through the elongated bore, the first bore and the second bore and the nut is rotated along the bolt and slides the center portion with respect to the top portion and bottom portion, narrowing or opening the through-hole of the main body.
US12253086B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) including: a switched reluctance motor (SRM) including stator coils. The number of the stator coils is a multiple of three, surface electronics that drive the SRM, a cable that connects the SRM to the surface electronics. The cable includes conductors in a number equal to the number of the stator coils, each cable includes a push-pull driver that connects the cable to a ground, a DC voltage different from the ground, or disconnects the cable.
US12253073B2
A method of transporting a material includes at least one series of interconnected tube sections that can be opened or closed. At least one downstream tube section holds the material to be transported. A liquid jet is generated which accelerates the held material upstream out of at least the first downstream tube section into at least one opening upstream tube section which then holds a material part waiting for a next liquid jet to propagate that part to the next upstream tube section.
US12253069B2
A compressor is provided that may include a cylinder comprising at least one gas inlet formed on an outer circumferential surface, the cylinder being formed in a cylindrical shape; a piston disposed inside of the cylinder and configured to reciprocate axially; a spring supporter disposed outside of the cylinder and coupled to a rear of the piston; a resonant spring coupled to the spring supporter; a magnet frame coupled to a front of the spring supporter; and a mover disposed on the magnet frame. The at least one gas inlet may include a first gas inlet, and a second gas inlet disposed at a rear of the first gas inlet. A straight line extending radially from a center of mass of the piston, the spring supporter, the magnet frame, and the mover may be disposed between the first gas inlet and the second gas inlet.
US12253068B2
A method for capturing energy from an oscillating object, in which at least one unbalanced rotor is oscillated to rotate the rotor(s) while reciprocally pivoting each of the rotor(s) about a respective counter-oscillation axis that is substantially perpendicular to both a rotation axis of the rotor and the oscillation axis for the oscillating object. Reciprocally pivoting the rotor(s) about the respective counter-oscillation axis urges the rotor to rotate continuously instead of reciprocally, and energy from rotation of the rotor can be captured, for example mechanically or electrically. Optionally, the counter-oscillation axis may be moved to maintain the counter-oscillation axis perpendicular to the oscillation axis for the oscillating object.
US12253056B2
A fuel injector that supplies fuel to a cylinder, having a casing (11) for mounting, a valve body interacting with a valve seat, acting on a valve stem, for opening a fuel flow, away from the casing or towards the outside, a guide and seat body having a guide portion and a seat portion mounted to the casing. The guide portion of the guide and seat body guides the valve stem The seat portion of the guide and seat body provides the valve seat. The guide portion of the guide and seat body is flowed about by fuel. The seat portion of the guide and seat body is flowed through by the fuel. The guide portion and the seat portion an intermediate portion of the guide and seat body having a recess is formed, via which the fuel is conducted from the guide portion towards the seat portion.
US12253054B1
Intake manifolds for an internal combustion engine include a first insert configured as a port cap that has a bottom surface defining a first perimeter recess configured to receive a first sealing member, a second insert configured as a port cap that has a bottom surface defining a second perimeter recess configured to receive a second sealing member, and a main body having a first set of runners extending in a first direction therefrom and a second set of runners extending in an opposite direction therefrom. Both the first set of runners and the second set of runners each terminate at a back end with a flange that defines a socket configured to receive one of the first and second inserts, respectively. The first insert and the second insert are seated in their respective socket, and each are made of a material that is chemically resistant to coolant fluid.
US12253049B2
The present invention provides a hypersonic large internal contraction ratio air inlet channel having stepless adjustable air release valve, including an air inlet channel front body, an air-discharging slit cover plate, sidewalls, a lip cover, air-discharging cavities, valve plates, partition plates, a rotatable shaft, an expansion section and a driver. The valve plates are rotated through the driver according to the actual working conditions of air inlet channel, the minimum cross-section of the air discharging flow path is thus changed, and a stepless dynamic adjustment of the air discharging flow of the air inlet channel can be realized, so that the aerodynamic performance of the air inlet channel is improved, and the air discharging resistance of the air vehicle is reduced.
US12253035B2
An engine control device includes: a compression release cylinder selecting part that selects, from a plurality of cylinders, one or more compression release cylinders to which fuel is not to be injected, depending on the magnitude of a required torque of an engine having the plurality of cylinders connected to an exhaust pipe provided with a catalyst for purifying exhaust gas; an exhaust valve control part that opens the exhaust valve of the compression release cylinder; a fuel injection amount determining part that determines the amount of fuel to be injected into an operating cylinder that differs from the compression release cylinder among the plurality of cylinders, according to a load torque generated by opening the exhaust valve and the required torque; and an injection control part that causes fuel, according to the determined amount of fuel injection, to be injected into the operating cylinder.
US12253033B2
A system for detecting hydrogen leaks within a vehicle includes a hydrogen sensor for generating data indicative of a level of hydrogen present within a compartment of the vehicle and a computing system. The computing system determines at least one of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment or a rate of change of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment and compares the determined at least one of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment or the rate of change of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment to a threshold value. When the determined at least one of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment or the rate of change of the level of hydrogen present within the compartment exceeds the threshold value, the computing system initiates a control action for reducing the level of hydrogen present within the compartment.
US12253031B1
A bleed arrangement of a gas turbine engine of an aircraft includes a core casing having one or more bleed openings define therein. The core case separates a core flowpath from a bypass flowpath of the gas turbine engine. A slider is positioned radially inboard of a case inner surface of the core casing relative to an engine central longitudinal axis. The slider is configured to be moved circumferentially between a closed position blocking the one or more bleed openings and an open position in which at least a portion of a core airflow is diverted from the core flowpath into the bypass flowpath as bleed airflow.
US12253030B2
Examples described herein provide a method for restarting an engine of an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft. The method includes detecting a shutdown of the engine. The method further includes setting a flag to prevent a quick-relight situation. The method further includes performing an auto-relight procedure to attempt to restart the engine. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the auto-relight procedure failed to restart the engine, selectively performing at least one of a windmilling restart of the engine or a starter assist restart of the engine.
US12253028B2
An apparatus contains a dihydrogen tank and/or a dihydrogen circuit, and a device for regulating a concentration of dihydrogen located outside the tank and/or the circuit. The device includes at least one pair of electrical conductors including a first electrical conductor supplied with a first voltage and a second electrical conductor supplied with a second voltage which is different from the first voltage. At least one controller repeatedly commands the application of a predetermined voltage difference between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor so that an electric arc of controlled power is formed in order to burn dihydrogen possibly coming from the tank and/or from the circuit. Thus, dihydrogen does not accumulate in undesired places in the apparatus.
US12253027B2
An apparatus is provided for a gas turbine engine. This engine apparatus includes a lubricant reservoir, a lubricant circuit and a compressed air circuit. The lubricant reservoir includes an internal cavity, a compressed air passage and a reservoir wall at least partially forming an outer peripheral boundary of the internal cavity. The internal cavity is configured to contain lubricant. The compressed air passage extends within the reservoir wall along at least a portion of the outer peripheral boundary of the internal cavity. The lubricant circuit is fluidly coupled with the internal cavity. The compressed air circuit is fluidly coupled with the compressed air passage.
US12253026B1
A rear bearing air cooling system including an engine inlet section housing a nose cone; a central rotor shaft interior of the nose cone; a rear bearing supporting the central rotor shaft; and a cooling air passage formed through the nose cone and the central rotor shaft, the cooling air passage in fluid communication with the nose cone, the rear bearing and a nose cone vent.
US12253011B2
A flexible power plant based on supercritical carbon dioxide power circulation is provided. The plant includes a heat source circulation system, a thermodynamic circulation system, a desalination system and a control system. The heat source circulation system is connected to the thermodynamic circulation system and the seawater desalination system, and provides heat source required for their operations, respectively; the control system is simultaneously connected to respective actuators of the heat source circulation system, the thermodynamic circulation system and the seawater desalination system, and controls their operations, correspondingly.
US12252995B2
Health monitoring systems and associated methods for gas turbine engines are provided. A health monitoring method includes using a microphone to acquire operation data indicative of acoustic energy generated in a core gas path of the gas turbine engine. The operation data is compared to reference data indicative of an acoustic signature of fluid noise associated with a non-normal condition in the core gas path of the gas turbine engine. Based on the comparing of the operation data to the reference data, the non-normal condition is determined to exist within the core gas path of the gas turbine engine. A signal indicative of the existence of the non-normal condition within the core gas path of the gas turbine engine is output.
US12252993B1
A system for actuating fluid flow is disclosed. The system includes a fluid actuator, an electric motor for driving the fluid actuator, a motor controller for controlling the motor, a local energy storage device for powering the motor, a stability monitor that assesses instability of operation of the fluid actuator, and a mitigation control that mitigates instability of the fluid actuator via the motor controller based on the assessment of the stability monitor, wherein a response time of the mitigation is faster than changes in fluid flow in the system during fluid actuation.
US12252989B1
The invention provides an induced polarization method and system mounted on a while drilling-type drill rig based on a long-length power source for water detection in tunnels, wherein the IP system comprises a long-length power source module for power supply while drilling, comprising a long-length power source and an electrode being a drill pipe of the while drilling-type drill rig; an array-type data collection module; and, a positioning and interpretation module, that may interpret and image data induced separately when a point power source is located near a drill bit at a current time obtained by differentiating an IP signal for water detection in tunnel at the current time from an IP signal for water detection in the tunnel at a previous time, to realize a dynamic identification of hazardous water sources in front of the tunnel face, and the detection while drilling or multi-detection while drilling.
US12252972B1
A fluidized coal mining method utilizing self-energy storage of a coal seam is provided, and includes developing a mine roadway, uncovering coal actively, mining coal in fluidization, and backfilling a goaf. Dynamic phenomenon is induced by uncovering the coal actively, a coal-mining drilling well is established from a ground to the coal seam, and the coal seam is subjected to hydraulic in-situ cutting, and a coal-rock mixture subjected to hydraulic cutting flows into a roadway system along a floor roadway, and then coal, gangue and water in the mixture are separated and recycled in a subsequent circulating coal mining process.
US12252966B2
A lower completion assembly includes a tubular comprising an interior passageway defined by an internal surface of the pipe and a port extending between external and internal surfaces of the tubular. The port is defined by a first surface that extends between the internal and external surfaces. The assembly also includes an inflow control device that is coupled to the external surface of the pipe and that comprises a fluid exit that is adjacent the port. The assembly has a first configuration and a second configuration. When in the first configuration a dissolvable plug extends across the fluid exit to fluidically isolate the fluid exit from the interior passageway and a gap is defined adjacent the first surface. When in the second configuration, the dissolvable plug does not extend across the fluid exit and the fluid exit is in fluid communication with the interior passageway.
US12252956B2
A system includes a first tubular string within a wellbore and a collar coupled to a top of the first tubular string. The collar may include a body extending from a first end to a second end. The body includes an internal ring extending radially inward from an inner surface of the body. The internal ring includes at least two holes extending through a top surface of the internal ring to a bottom surface internal. Additionally, a second tubular string within the wellbore extends through the first tubular string. An outer ring of the second tubular string lands on the internal ring.
US12252941B2
An installation system for installing a control line clamp onto a tubular string includes a first load plate, a second load plate that is offset from the first load plate, the first and second load plates being configured to engage a first clamp member and a second clamp member, respectively, positioned on a tubular string, a retention lid positioner configured to couple the retention lid with the first and second clamp members, a sensor system configured to provide feedback signals representing that the first and second load plates are received around the tubular and aligned with a control line, the retention lid is positioned at a target location and aligned with the control line, and the first and second load plates are adducted together to press the first and second clamp members together, and an indication device configured to indicate a state of the installation system.
US12252939B2
A system can be used to connect downhole fiber optic wet mates. The system can include a first completion system and a second completion system. The first completion system can include a stinger sub-system that can include a first energy transfer line coupled to a first wet mate connector. The second completion system can include a deflector sub-system that can include a deflector positioned adjacent to a second wet mate connector that can be coupled with a second energy transfer line. The deflector can be positioned in the second completion system to deflect the stinger sub-system laterally outward to cause the second wet mate connector to couple with the first wet mate connector.
US12252937B2
The present invention relates to a drilling device. The device comprises at least one drill rod, the or each drill rod having a first cylindrical wall defining an elongate chamber for receiving a working fluid to form a fluid column, the length of the fluid column being equal to a total length of the elongate chambers of the or each drill rod. The device also comprises a displacement excitation device arranged at a proximal end of the fluid column and configured to excite the fluid column to cause the working fluid in the fluid column to oscillate, wherein the excitation device is configured to excite the fluid column at an excitation frequency at or within 10% of a natural frequency of the fluid column determined based on the fluid column having a fixed boundary condition at a proximal end thereof. The device further comprises a tool piston moveably mounted at a distal end of the fluid column and a drilling tool connected to the tool piston such that the oscillation of the working fluid in the fluid column imparts an oscillating force to the drilling tool.
US12252920B2
A device for assisting the opening and closing of a door in a structure. The device may comprise: a door shaft configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis thereof in both a first direction and in a second opposite direction, and configured to be mounted to the structure to form a hinge about which the door may rotate in the both the first and second directions relative to the structure; a first actuator linked to the door shaft and configured to control a speed of rotation of the door shaft in the first direction; and a second actuator linked to the door shaft and configured to drive rotation of the door shaft in the second direction. The second actuator is an electromechanical actuator.
