US12258039B2
Methods and systems for determining a continuous driving path for a vehicle include: (i) automatically controlling movement of the vehicle along a path while prioritizing the movement so as to minimize vehicle maneuvers, via a processor; (ii) obtaining data including location information as to a location of the vehicle and map information pertaining to the location as the vehicle is travelling autonomously via by the processor; (iii) determining, via the processor, when a decision is needed with respect to further travel of the vehicle, based on the location information and the map information; (iv) requesting, via the processor, driver input as to a driver preference of a driver for movement of the vehicle with regard to the decision; (v) receiving, via one or more sensors, the driver input including the driver preference; and (vi) determining, via the processor, the continuous driving path based on the driver preference.
US12258036B2
A system for identifying manual use of a phone by the driver of a vehicle. The system has a smartphone with a memory programmed to collect heading, velocity and radial acceleration data already available to the operating system of all smartphones and uses the asymmetry with respect to right and left turns between a radial acceleration based on Earth-frame-based heading and speed data and a measured actual radial acceleration to detect manual phone usage by a driver. Detection may result in a visual and auditory warning that would incriminate the driver if the vehicle were to be stopped by law enforcement authorities or involved in an accident.
US12258035B2
A device for proposing autonomous driving includes a processor configured to identify an autonomously travelable section in which a vehicle is capable of traveling under autonomous driving control, make a proposal for travel under autonomous driving control to a driver of the vehicle via a notification device when a proposal determination value corresponding to the length of the identified autonomously travelable section satisfies a first proposal criterion, stop proposing travel through the autonomously travelable section under autonomous driving control to the driver when the proposal determination value corresponding to the length of the identified autonomously travelable section does not satisfy the first proposal criterion, and add a predetermined addition value to the proposal determination value corresponding to the length of the identified autonomously travelable section when an action of the driver to consent to the proposal for travel under autonomous driving control to the driver is not detected.
US12258025B2
A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an event camera disposed in a cabin of a vehicle and viewing the head of a driver of the vehicle. The dynamic range of the event camera is at least 100 dB. The response time of the event camera is less than 10,000 microseconds. The event camera has a quantum efficiency of at least 15% for near-infrared light having a wavelength of 940 nm. The system, responsive to processing of data output by the event camera, monitors the driver of the vehicle. Responsive at least in part (a) to monitoring of the driver of the vehicle and (b) to vehicle kinematic data provided to the ECU, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a driver attentiveness alert is generated, (ii) a driver drowsiness alert is generated, (iii) steering of the vehicle is controlled and (iv) braking of the vehicle is controlled.
US12258024B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing for vehicular monitoring operations. In a first aspect, a method of monitoring includes receiving first image data from a first camera oriented in a first direction with a first field of view facing a user; receiving second image data from a second camera oriented in a second direction different from the first direction, the second camera having a second field of view corresponding to a field of view of the user; determining a set of regions of interest based on the second image data; determining a gaze direction of the user based on the first image data; and determining an attentiveness score based on correspondence between the set of regions of interest and the gaze direction. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12258022B2
A vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first requested value of acceleration acting on a vehicle from a first system configured to request holding a stopped state of the vehicle. The processor is configured to receive a second requested value of the acceleration from a second system. The processor is configured to select one of the first requested value and the second requested value as an arbitration result. The processor is configured to set a priority for selecting the first requested value lower than a priority for selecting the second requested value when the processor acquires predetermined information from one of the first system and the second system while the vehicle is stopped.
US12258021B2
Methods and systems for controlling a hydromechanical transmission are proposed. In one example, a control method for a hydrostatic unit of a hydromechanical variable transmission (HVT) is presented, comprising controlling the hydrostatic unit via a feedforward control architecture including a non-linear, multi-coefficient model, wherein the hydrostatic unit comprises a hydrostatic pump and a hydrostatic motor and a desired differential pressure of the hydrostatic unit or a desired hydraulic pump displacement may be used as inputs for the model, where the model's output is a pressure difference for a pump control piston coupled to a swash plate of the hydrostatic unit. Use of the non-linear model permits the hydrostatic unit to be controlled based on load, speed, and/or torque, thereby increasing the adaptability of the control system.
US12258017B2
A vehicle controller includes: a surrounding area recognition unit that detects a state surrounding a subject vehicle; a human detection unit that detects a specific target object in a specific area into which entry of the specific target object is restricted; an automated driving control part that provides control such that the subject vehicle follows a vehicle traveling ahead thereof, based on a result detected by the surrounding area recognition unit. The automated driving control part makes the subject vehicle operate at at least one of a first support status, and a second support status which has an automated degree higher than that of the first support status or has a task required to be done by a vehicle occupant of the subject vehicle less than that of the first support status. When the subject vehicle is traveling at the first support status and the human detection unit has detected a specific target object, the automated driving control part keeps the support status of the subject vehicle unchanged at the first support status. When the subject vehicle is traveling at the second support status and the detection unit has detected therein a specific target object, the automated driving control part shifts the support status of the subject vehicle from the second support status to the first support status.
US12258016B2
Autonomous driving system methods and devices which trigger vehicular actions based on the monitoring of one or more occupants of a vehicle are presented. The methods, and corresponding devices, may include identifying a plurality of features in a plurality of subsets of image data detailing the one or more occupants; tracking changes over time of the plurality of features over the plurality of subsets of image data; determining a state, from a plurality of states, of the one or more occupants based on the tracked changes; and triggering the vehicular action based on the determined state.
US12258009B2
A cruise control method and system, and a vehicle, the method being applied to a first vehicle. When the first vehicle is driving in a first lane, before the first vehicle enters from the first lane into a preset recognition region to thereby complete vehicle identity recognition in the preset recognition region, the cut-in probability of a second vehicle cutting into the first lane can be predicted according to a movement parameter of the second vehicle that is in an adjacent second lane, and it is determined, according to the cut-in probability and the stopping time of the first vehicle, whether to brake to stop the first vehicle; therefore, during the process of controlling the first vehicle to pass through the preset recognition region, the driver is not required to temporarily take over control of the first vehicle.
US12258008B1
System, methods, and computer-readable media for an object path prediction model, and an associated training technique, to output a path that is considered an object collision path. The object path prediction model outputs a set of predicted paths for the object that are outputted to a trained planning algorithm, which includes paths that are most likely to occur and a path that is considered an object collision path. The predicted paths are sent to the trained planning algorithm and used for planning a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle that is associated with a low probability of colliding with or taking a sudden evasive action to avoid the object.
US12258000B2
Disclosed is a hybrid power system including a computing core, a power converter, a driving motor, an engine generator, a charging stand, and a battery pack. The power converter is coupled to the computing core. The driving motor is coupled to the power converter. The engine generator is coupled to the power converter. The charging stand is coupled to the power converter. The battery pack is coupled to the power converter. When inputting a required torque to the computing core and switching to a charging mode, an electric energy source is coupled to the charging stand and provides power to the battery pack through the power converter. The computing core executes an optimal power allocation algorithm.
US12257998B2
A body-size class specification device of the present invention comprises a class feature-quantity information memorizing section to memorize class feature-quantity information to correlate plural classes for classifying a body size according to a dimension ratio of prescribed parts of a body with plural prescribed feature quantities for characterizing the plural classes, a first input section as an example of a feature-quantity acquiring section to acquire feature quantity of an object person to be specified for the class, an eye-height measuring section and an upper-body-length-ratio processing section, and a class specifying section to specify the class corresponding to the feature quantity of the object person acquired by the feature-quantity acquiring section based on the class feature-quantity information memorized by the class feature-quantity information memorizing section.
US12257991B2
Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle. One example system includes a deceleration actuator coupled to a first wheel of the vehicle and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the deceleration actuator. The electronic processor is configured to receive a vehicle park command. The electronic processor is configured to, responsive to receiving the vehicle park command, determine a maximum holding pressure threshold. The electronic processor is configured to determine a requested braking pressure for the deceleration actuator. The electronic processor is configured to determine whether the requested braking pressure exceeds the maximum holding pressure threshold. The electronic processor is configured to, responsive to determining that the requested braking pressure does not exceed the maximum holding pressure threshold, control the deceleration actuator to apply, to the first wheel during a hold time, a holding braking pressure equivalent to the requested braking pressure.
US12257990B2
An all-terrain vehicle may include a frame and a plurality of ground-engaging members supporting the frame. The all-terrain vehicle may further include a powertrain assembly supported by the frame and shiftable transmission supported by the frame and operably coupled to the powertrain assembly. The all-terrain vehicle may also include a display, a back-up camera, and a controller supported by the frame. The controller may be configured to receive a signal from the shiftable transmission corresponding to the shiftable transmission being in a gear of the plurality of gears other than a reverse gear. Further, the controller may be configured to determine the all-terrain vehicle is moving backwards and send an activation signal to the back-up camera to display images of the back-up camera on the display.
US12257986B2
When a leak occurs in one service circuit of a multi-circuit braking system, the leak can prevent replenishing the non-leaking service reservoir. To address this problem, a shared backup reservoir can be used to replenish the non-leaking service reservoir. A valve can be used to allow flow from the backup reservoir to whichever service reservoir is under higher pressure, as low pressure would indicate a leak. Additional valve(s) can be used to impede flow from the service reservoirs to the backup reservoir to prevent the service reservoirs from being drained if the backup reservoir is subject to a leak.
US12257983B2
A bag holder that affixes mechanically or chemically to any surface and frictionally grips the back side of a polymer or paper bag so as to hold it vertically open and ready for the deposit of trash. It has two capture members that are hingeably connected. One of the capture members has a planar flange extending from its bottom perimeter from which the bag holder is attached.
US12257978B2
A system for key absence management in a vehicle configured to be started by an electronic key fob includes a key absence management controller that implements a method configured to authorize starting of the vehicle by monitoring presence and absence of the electronic key fob in the vehicle. If the controller finds the electronic key fob to be present in the vehicle, then the controller authorizes starting of the vehicle. If the controller finds the electronic key fob to be absent from the vehicle, then the controller authorizes starting of the vehicle based on detection of a keyless authority indicator. A vehicle configured to be started by an electronic key fob includes the system with the controller that implements the method.
US12257977B2
The present disclosure relates to a controller (20) for controlling operation of an access control device (2) for a vehicle (3). The access control device (2) is selectively operable in a first operating mode (P1) and a second operating mode (P2). The access control device (2) is in a limited response mode when operating in the first operating mode (P1). The controller (20) includes a processor (24) and a memory means (23). The processor (24) is configured to determine a position of the access control device (2) and to generate a control signal for activating the first operating mode (P1). The control signal is generated in dependence on the determined position of the access control device (2). The controller (20) may be provided in the access control device (2). The present disclosure also relates to a method of controlling operation of an access control device (2).
US12257975B2
Disclosed is a vehicle capable of performing digital key authentication more smoothly. The vehicle includes a reader provided to perform communication with a digital key through near field communication (NFC), and a controller configured to perform a preset function of the vehicle based on a success of a transaction with the digital key through the reader, wherein the reader operates in a first mode of detecting the presence of the digital key based on the success of the transaction, and does not start the transaction even when the digital key is detected while operating in the first mode.
US12257973B2
A system to locate seat controls and belt buckles includes a vehicle having at least one seat. A seat belt system is provided with the at least one seat having a seat belt, a belt latch and a seat belt buckle. A haptic device is provided with the seat belt system, the haptic device generating a haptic signal.
US12257962B2
An electrical assembly may include a housing and an inner housing. The housing may include a base and a cover. The cover may be releasably connectable to the base. The inner housing may be disposed at least partially in the housing. The inner housing may include a connection tower, which may be configured to receive at least a portion of a fastener. The cover may include a cover opening via which said fastener may be insertable into the connection tower. The base may include a base opening into which a portion of said fastener may be insertable. The connection tower may be configured to provide a seal for the cover opening.
US12257955B2
A mobile device case apparatus and method are provided that include a frame, a stand, at least one magnet, and rubber coating over the at least one magnet. The frame and stand can be 3D-printed. The frame is configured to secure a mobile device into the frame. The frame includes at least one magnet. The bottom of the stand can have a rubber coating to prevent the case from slipping when the case adheres to a metal. The stand is configured to support the weight of the apparatus and prop the mobile device up for viewing. The stand can also be configured to be a receive a mechanical element of a vehicle such as a wheelchair.
US12257936B2
A bracket for attaching an actuator is easily bonded to a side frame while avoiding interference with a shaft for driving a reclining mechanism. In a seat side frame which is provided at each of both ends of a seat back frame in the width direction, a reclining mechanism, and an actuator, the reclining mechanism is attached to a side wall of the side frame, and the actuator is fixed to an attachment bracket bonded to an inner surface of a portion to which the reclining mechanism is attached in the side wall in the width direction. An upper portion which is disposed above the attachment portion of the reclining mechanism and a lower portion which is disposed below the attachment portion thereof are connected to each other at the rear ends thereof and are separated from each other at the front ends thereof.
US12257930B2
A rail system includes a lower rail and an upper rail guided therein where the upper rail is adjustable in relation to the lower rail via a longitudinal adjustment device, the longitudinal adjustment device comprising a threaded spindle attached inside the lower rail and a spindle nut screwed onto the threaded spindle which is firmly affixed to the upper rail via a transmission housing so that the upper rail can be displaced in the longitudinal direction by motorised actuation of the longitudinal adjustment device, the threaded spindle being covered, at least in certain regions, in the lower rail by a deformable protective element which comprises longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction.
US12257924B2
An in-vehicle system includes a first battery and a second battery respectively connected to a first load and a second load, a relay that connects the two batteries in parallel, and a processor configured to control turn-on and turn-off of the relay to control a state of electric power supply from the first and second batteries to the first and second loads, detect an abnormality in the first and second batteries, and determine a difference between physical quantities of the two batteries. The processor is further configured to, when detecting the abnormality in the first or second battery, turn off the relay, and when no longer detecting the abnormality in the first and second batteries after the relay is turned off, turn on the relay when the processor determines that the difference between the physical quantities of the two batteries satisfies a predetermined condition.
US12257921B2
A vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The primary and secondary network nodes are configured to wirelessly communicate with each other using frames that share a common frame format. The frame format includes one or more bits and a status of the one or more bits indicates whether the secondary network node is to communicate with the primary network node on behalf of another secondary network node.
US12257917B2
In one embodiment, an EV charging system includes: a plurality of first converters to receive and convert grid power at a distribution grid voltage to at least one second voltage; a high frequency transformer coupled to the first converters to receive the at least one second voltage and output at least one high frequency AC voltage; and a plurality of port rectifiers coupled to a plurality of secondary windings of the high frequency transformer, each of the port rectifiers comprising a unidirectional AC-DC converter to receive and convert the at least one high frequency AC voltage to a DC voltage. At least some of the port rectifiers may be coupled in series to provide at least one of a charging current or a charging voltage to at least one dispenser to which at least one EV is to couple.
US12257916B2
A controller executes a process including: a step of acquiring weather information when a first state is attained; and a step of executing lift-up control in the case of precipitation or in the case where precipitation is predicted within a first time; a step of maintaining the second state in the case where the precipitation is ended; and a step of executing lift-down control in the case of passage of a second time.
US12257902B2
Display panel and display device are provided. Display panel has display area and bezel area and includes first and second panel edges connected and adjacent to each other and extending linearly in different directions, first functional circuit located in the bezel area and including first functional circuit units. First functional circuit units include first, second, and third circuit units. First circuit units are located at side of first panel edge and arranged linearly along first panel edge, second circuit units are located at side of second panel edge and arranged linearly along second panel edge, third circuit unit is located between first and second circuit units and close to position where first panel edge is connected to second panel edge. One third circuit unit is arranged in direction inclined to a direction in which one first circuit unit is arranged and direction in which one second circuit unit is arranged.
US12257894B2
A drive device for an electrically operated vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, with a drive unit in which an electric machine drives vehicle wheels via a gearbox. The electric machine is arranged transversely in the vehicle axle, and a stator housing of the electric machine is axially extended in the vehicle transverse direction with a gearbox housing. The drive unit is supported in a three-point bearing via three unit bearings in the vehicle body. The three-point bearing has two gearbox-side unit bearings via which the gearbox housing is supported in the vehicle body.
US12257888B2
The invention discloses a solar pickup truck bed cover with a lock bolt structure, wherein include a supporting system, a lock bolt clamp system, a lock bolt system, a solar panel, a power storage system and a fixing clamp assembly; the lock bolt clamp system is connected to the edge of the cargo hopper, the solar panel is connected with the supporting system; the power storage system includes a power storage box, the power storage box is connected to the supporting system through an anti-moving clamp system, the supporting system is connected to the lock bolt clamp system through a lock bolt system. The invention can convert light energy into electric energy and store it in the power storage box during driving by setting the solar panel, providing mobile power for the users in real time during outdoor activities. In addition, it can also provide emergency power when the new energy automobile is exhausted, allowing the car to travel about 30 kilometers in an emergency.
US12257886B2
A track extender for a sliding door track of an OEM passenger vehicle having a passenger opening, and a door operatively coupled to a sliding mechanism configured to slide along the sliding door track of the OEM vehicle. The sliding door track includes a track channel extending from the passenger opening toward a rear portion of the vehicle, wherein the sliding door track includes a first end located toward the passenger opening and a second end located toward the rear portion of the vehicle. The track extender includes a track extension body located at the second end of the track wherein the track extension body defines an extension channel. The extension channel is aligned with the track to lengthen the track and to extend a travel distance of the sliding mechanism along the track and to increase a width of the passenger opening.
US12257870B2
An electric suspension apparatus includes a return prevention circuit and a discharge controller. The return prevention circuit is configured to operate in one of operation modes including a return prevention mode of preventing a current from flowing from power storage to a power supply and a return allowance mode of allowing a current to flow from the power storage to the power supply. The discharge controller is configured to determine whether an electric motor is in regenerative operation. In response to determining that the electric motor is in regenerative operation, the discharge controller is configured to set the return prevention circuit to operate in the return prevention mode. In response to determining that the electric motor is not in regenerative operation, the discharge controller is configured to set the return prevention circuit to operate in the return allowance mode.
US12257869B2
This spring used for a suspension device for a vehicle is provided with: a metal wire material which constitutes a spring section and which has a cover layer provided on the surface thereof; and a seat section which is subjected to a load acting on the spring section, is formed from an elastically deformable material, and is bonded to the cover layer by an adhesive. The difference between the hardness of the seat section and the hardness of the adhesive is greater than the difference between the hardness of the adhesive and the hardness of the cover layer.
US12257858B2
A printing device includes a providing unit configured to provide to a printed material an identifier for managing the printed material. The providing unit prints the identifier with invisible ink on the printed material. The identifier is visually recognizable under special light and invisible under normal light.
US12257844B2
A liquid storage container includes a liquid absorber to absorb and hold a liquid, a storage portion storing the liquid absorber, a lid member having ribs, an air communication port provided in the lid member, and a liquid holding path. The storage portion has an opening facing a first surface of the liquid absorber and to be covered by the lid member. The ribs are in contact with the first surface when the lid member covers the opening. The air communication port communicates air to an internal space of the storage portion. The liquid holding path is provided on a rib adjacent to the air communication port and extends toward the lid member from a contact surface of the adjacent rib. The liquid holding path holds a liquid that has oozed from the first surface of the liquid absorber.
US12257837B2
In some examples, a fluidic die includes an arrangement of fluidic elements to dispense a fluid, where each fluidic element of the fluidic elements includes a fluidic actuator and a fluid chamber. The fluidic die includes an array of fluid feed holes in a plurality of dimensions to communicate the fluid with the fluidic elements, where each of multiple fluid feed holes along a first dimension of the plurality of dimensions is distinct from multiple fluid feed holes along a second dimension of the plurality of dimensions. The fluidic die includes circuit elements interspersed in regions between the fluidic elements along different axes of the fluidic die, where each circuit element of the circuit elements includes an active device. The fluidic elements and the circuit elements are formed on a common substrate.
US12257829B2
A recording apparatus includes a liquid ejection unit that moves in a first direction relative to a medium and eject liquid, and a control unit that controls the liquid ejection unit. The liquid ejection unit includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a direction different from the first direction and configured to eject the liquid, the control unit forms, by using a first nozzle of the nozzles, a first pattern with a first length in the first direction, the control unit forms, by using two or more nozzles different from the first nozzle, a second pattern including an image arrangement in which images are arranged so as to be displaced in a step-like manner in the first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, a region on the medium where the second pattern is formed has a second length in the first direction, and the first length is greater than the second length.
US12257825B2
A printer includes: a transfer unit configured to transfer printing paper in a printing direction; a printing unit configured to print information on transferred printing paper; a detection unit installed to face discharged printing paper on a printing paper discharge portion side, and configured to acquire measured values by detecting light while printing paper is transferred or when the transfer of printing paper is stopped; and a control unit configured to collect measured values of the detection unit while printing paper is transferred, to calculate a reference value by using the collected measured values, and to determine whether printing paper has been removed by comparing the calculated reference value with a measured value acquired by the detection unit when the transfer of printing paper is stopped.
US12257819B1
In one embodiment, a thin, lightweight, flexible, strong multi-layer barrier fabric is provided that offers extended breakthrough time against hazardous materials. The multi-layer barrier fabric is arranged as a layer stack that includes an inner layer of facing fabric, an adsorbent layer of adsorptive fabric, a barrier layer of low-permeability fabric and an outer layer of facing fabric. The facing fabric provides tensile strength. The adsorptive fabric and the low-permeability fabric interact synergistically. The barrier layer improves capture effectiveness of the adsorbent layer by both slowing down the hazardous material to increase its residence time in the adsorbent layer and decreasing the escape probability of stray molecules of hazardous material that are not initially intercepted by the adsorptive fabric. The adsorbent layer improves barrier effectiveness of the barrier layer by reducing the concentration of hazardous material challenging the low-permeability fabric of the barrier layer.
US12257816B2
A carrier material includes at least a first thermoplastic fiber layer and a second thermoplastic fiber layer. At least a part of the first thermoplastic fiber layer and/or the second thermoplastic fiber layer at at least one boundary of the carrier material is removed, to provide a first part of a form-fit connection. The carrier material can be used in bituminous roofing membranes, roofing underlayment sheets, carriers for filter media, primary backings for tufted carpets and (cushion) vinyl floor coverings.
US12257810B2
Specifically, the present invention provides a decorative sheet comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising at least a base material sheet and a first surface-protecting layer in sequence in the thickness direction; (1) the first surface-protecting layer comprising an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing two kinds of aliphatic urethane acrylates, i.e., resin A and resin B, wherein resin A is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an isocyanurate skeleton, and resin B is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an alicyclic skeleton without an isocyanurate skeleton, (2) the first surface-protecting layer having a nanoindentation hardness of 160 MPa or more and 240 MPa or less, and (3) the base material sheet comprising a polyolefin resin and having a nanoindentation hardness of 30 MPa or more and 80 MPa or less.
US12257807B2
The single facer includes a load-bearing frame for housing a first corrugating roller and a second corrugating roller, meshing with each other and mounted in the load-bearing frame. The single facer further includes a pivoting structure pivoted to the load-bearing frame about a pivoting axis and provided with a first guide roller and a second guide roller (35) pivotally supported for rotation on the pivoting structure. A continuous flexible member is guided about the guide rollers. Furthermore, provided for is a control system adapted to displace the pivoting structure to a working position, wherein the continuous flexible member is pressed against the second corrugating roller, and to a raised position, wherein the first guide roller and the second guide roller are spaced from the second corrugating roller.
US12257798B2
An envelope spreader system includes a chassis having an opening, a linkage assembly comprising a plurality of links rotatably coupled to the chassis and extending into the opening, and an actuator operably coupled to the linkage assembly and configured to operate the linkage assembly between a first position and a second position. The plurality of links includes a primary link having a primary link first end rotatably coupled to the chassis at a first fixed pivot point and a primary link second end configured to operably engage a portion of a tire envelope and a secondary link having a secondary link first end rotatably coupled to the chassis at a second fixed pivot point and a secondary link second end configured to engage a portion the tire envelope.
US12257795B2
A working station for deposition of elementary semifinished products for building tyres is, the working station includes an anthropomorphic robotized arm for moving an output end effector, a building drum, a feeding apparatus and a control apparatus. The control apparatus is configured to calculate, in a drive interval, a pulse with modulation (PWM) profile for a speed parameter and controlling the output end effector as a function of the PWM.
US12257787B2
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a composite structure can be formed of or including a plurality of composite strips. The plurality of composite strips include one or more filler strips which can have at least one filler edge having a filler edge geometry between a first surface and second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface. The filler edge geometry can be configured to prevent formation of one or more gaps between one or more adjacent composite strips.
US12257786B2
A molded article for laser welding is disclosed which has excellent visible light transmittance and laser transmittance and in which variation in laser transmittance is suppressed, and an agent for suppressing variation in laser transmittance of a molded article for laser welding. The molded article for laser welding includes a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition containing 100 parts by mass of (A) a polybutylene terephthalate resin, (B) a polycarbonate resin in which the melt viscosity at 300° C. and a shear rate of 1000 sec−1 is 0.20 kPa·s or greater, and 1 part by mass or greater and 10 parts by mass or less of (C) an epoxy-based compound, the molded article having a thickness at a welded part of 1.3 mm or greater, and an agent for suppressing variation in laser transmittance of a molded article for laser welding, the agent containing an epoxy-based compound.
US12257777B2
Provided herein is a fused filament fabrication system having a number of print heads, a print head mount, and a gantry. So-called filament modules can be connected to the print heads. The print heads can be docked into a special print head dock or into one of the filament docks if a filament module is arranged in between. Filament feeders feed filament to the filament modules. A control system controls the gantry to select one print head from the number of print heads. The selected print head can be used for a printing job having the current filament attached, or it can be moved to another filament dock to first pickup a different filament. The selected print head can also be parked to select another print head. Multiple print heads can thus be combined with multiple filaments without user intervention.
US12257772B2
A method and apparatus for the additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects are disclosed. Two or more materials are extruded simultaneously as a composite, with at least one material in liquid form and at least one material in a solid continuous strand completely encased within the liquid material. A means of curing the liquid material after extrusion hardens the composite. A part is constructed using a series of extruded composite paths. The strand material within the composite contains specific chemical, mechanical, or electrical characteristics that instill the object with enhanced capabilities not possible with only one material.
US12257771B2
Provided are a three-dimensional object additive manufacturing method and device, a storage medium and computer apparatus, where the method includes: forming a powder material layer by using a powder material; applying a liquid material onto the powder material layer according to layer printing data, where the liquid material dissolves at least part of the powder material, and the liquid material includes an active component capable of polymerization; and supplying energy to the powder material layer so that the active component in the liquid material is polymerized, the powder material itself is not polymerized and does not polymerize with the active component, and an area of the powder material layer to which the liquid material is applied is molded to obtain a slice layer of a three-dimensional object.
US12257762B2
A method for producing a channel-shaped hollow profile component from a nonwoven material includes providing first and second nonwoven material layers arranging the first and second nonwoven material layers in a mold tool having first and second mold tool halves and a core body wherein a formation of the first and second nonwoven material layers and the core body is arranged between the first and second mold tool halves, and wherein the core body is arranged between the first and second nonwoven material layers in the formation, and simultaneously forming the first and second nonwoven material layers in the mold tool to form a first nonwoven partial shell and a second nonwoven partial shell.
US12257760B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a coated plastic part (1) intended to be integrated into a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the coated plastic part including a base part comprising a raised section (6), and a sheet (3) comprising a useful surface (11), the method comprising a step of creating (102, 201) at least one flap (12) in the useful surface, a positioning step (103, 202) in which the sheet is positioned opposite a shaping tool (15) comprising a raised area (14) of a complementary shape to the raised section (6), a shaping step (104, 203), in which the sheet is pressed against the shaping tool (15), and a joining step (105, 204) in which the sheet and the base part are held against each other so as to facilitate the rigid connection of the sheet and the base part.
US12257734B2
Wood cutting and chipping equipment having saws and chippers mounted to an overhead support structure.
US12257732B2
A bread slicer includes: a slicer housing, accommodating a slicing blade rotatable in a slicing plane, the slicer housing including: a feed chute for introducing the loaf into the bread slicer; and a receiving chute, which adjoins the feed chute except for a blade gap; and a bagging aid configured for slipping packaging over the bagging aid together with the slices of the sliced loaf resting thereon, the bagging aid having a cantilevered portion. External dimensions of the feed chute parallel to the slicing plane are greater than or equal to maximum external dimensions in directions of loaves to be sliced. External dimensions of the cantilevered portion parallel to the slicing plane are smaller than external dimensions of the feed chute parallel to the slicing plane. The receiving chute is the bagging aid having the cantilevered portion and is inside a cover of the slicer housing.
US12257731B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a clutch assembly (100) for handling a container, and an associated method for using the clutch assembly. The clutch assembly includes a shaft (102) configured to rotate in a first direction and a second direction, opposite from the first direction. The clutch assembly further includes a clutch coupled to a first end of the shaft. The clutch includes at least two rollers (108) configured to move into a first position, extending radially beyond a periphery of the clutch, and out of the first position, extending radially flush with or inward from the periphery of the clutch.
US12257730B2
A blade-replaceable cutting tool includes: a first handheld portion; a second handheld portion rotatably connected to the first handheld portion; a cutting structure rotatably connected to the first handheld portion, the cutting structure including a blade mounting plate rotatably mounted to the first handheld portion and a blade detachably mounted to the blade mounting plate; and a locking mechanism configured to lock the blade on the blade mounting plate when in contact with the blade, and to unlock the blade when separated from the blade, so that the blade can be detached from the blade mounting plate.
US12257719B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for robotics planning. One of the methods comprises receiving data defining multiple skills to be performed by one or more robots in an operating environment; invoking a projection function implemented by each skill, wherein the projection function generates a skill footprint specifying resources requested for performing the skill and a volume occupied by a corresponding entity used to perform the skill; determining that the skill footprints generated by the projection functions are in conflict; and in response, executing the skills in sequence.
US12257705B2
The robot includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit acquires outside stimulus feature amounts that are feature amounts of an outside stimulus acting from outside, stores the acquired outside stimulus feature amounts in the storage unit as a history, compares outside stimulus feature amounts acquired at a certain timing with outside stimulus feature amounts stored in the storage unit to calculate a first similarity degree, and controls operations based on the calculated first similarity degree.
US12257695B2
A manufacturing system includes a stator base, a plurality of movers, one or more end effectors, and a controller. The stator base has a planar stator surface covering an array of electrical coils configured to generate an electromagnetic field. The movers each contain multiple permanent magnets configured to cause the movers to levitate and move relative to the stator surface in response to the electromagnetic field. The end effectors are coupled to the movers, and each end effector perform one or more functions in relation to a material sheet. The controller activates the electrical coils in a manner causing independent, coordinated movement of the movers over the stator surface, and causing the end effectors to engage with and operate on the material sheet.
US12257694B2
A door control apparatus is provided. The door control apparatus comprises a processor, a frame that includes a top frame portion and a bottom frame portion, a door control arm that is integrated as part of the frame and configured to move vertically between the top frame portion and the bottom frame portion, the door control arm including a door handle contact protrusion having a curve shaped end part, the door handle contact protrusion extending substantially perpendicularly relative to the frame, and a door interaction arm that is disposed on a surface of the frame and extends substantially perpendicularly relative to the frame.
US12257691B2
The present disclosure provides for a stand, the stand further comprised of a pair of collapsible supports for a surface such as a work bench or a press brake. The collapsible supports are secured to the bench or press brake by means of securing clamps. The collapsible supports each have a pair of legs terminating in a removeable and sliding wheel and also have telescopic arms to allow for the legs to independently pivot one from the other. An actuating mechanism is also disclosed to release and lock the legs, the actuating mechanism providing a range of motion between a first extended position to a second folded position.
US12257683B2
An electric hand-held power tool, in particular a hammer drill and/or chipping hammer, having an electropneumatic impact mechanism which has a transmission housing, a guide tube arranged at least partially in the transmission housing, an exciter piston that is movable in an axial direction in the guide tube, a connecting rod coupled to the exciter piston, and an eccentric wheel which is coupled to the connecting rod on one side and is mounted so as to be rotatable with respect to the transmission housing via an end plate of the transmission housing on the other side, wherein the transmission housing is subdivided at least into a main shell and a cover shell separate from the main shell, such that the guide tube is braced against the main shell at least partially by the cover shell.
US12257680B2
A nailing machine is a work machine, including: an ejection part to which a fastener is supplied; a striking part, striking the fastener supplied to the ejection part; a magazine part, having one end in a first direction attached to the ejection part, and movably supporting the fastener in the first direction; and a feeder part, supported by the magazine part while being movable in the first direction, and pushing the fastener toward one side in the first direction. The feeder part includes a contact part that contacts the fastener. The magazine part includes a first and a second guide rail arranged apart in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and facing each other with a feeder member therebetween. A gap between the first and second guide rails in the second direction is smaller than a width of the contact part in the second direction.
US12257677B2
A device includes a mounting portion including a lumen sized and shaped to at least partially encompass, and to be removably secured relative to, a conduit. At least one handle portion extends outward from the mounting portion and at a generally perpendicular angle relative to a central axis of the lumen of the mounting portion.
US12257674B2
A ratchet wrench including a bicycle toolset combined therewith includes a main body having a first end including a ratchet drive head and a second end including an accommodating cavity. A toolset in a combination configuration is detachably connected to the main body and includes a length disposed in the accommodating cavity. The toolset comprises at least one bicycle tool.
US12257667B2
A method of manufacturing a window may include cutting a window having a uniform thickness of about 20 μm to about 100 μm and polishing a cut surface of the window with a polishing pad having an elastic modulus less than an elastic modulus of the window while applying slurry to the cut surface of the window.
US12257659B2
An assembly for controlling waste material during a hybrid subtractive and additive manufacturing process is disclosed, including a machining tool held in a holder, a shroud disposed around the machining tool, and one or more ports configured to create a negative pressure within the shroud. A method of constraining waste material during a hybrid subtractive and additive manufacturing process of a part includes adding an amount of material to a part being additively manufactured, transforming the amount of material that was added, manipulating a tool to machine a portion of the part being additively manufactured and generating a waste material, sealing a portion of the tool and covering a portion of the part with a shroud, and applying a negative pressure to create an airflow to prevent the waste material from exiting the shroud.
US12257657B2
A tool head assembly for crimping, the assembly including an internal cam that spins freely on a stationary shaft in one direction and locks onto the shaft in the other direction. That cam rotates against the moving slide forcing to move away from the stationary shaft opening a gap between rollers. A controller is programmed to have the drive rotate in one direction for a set time period, then reverse the rotation to begin the crimp process. The start rotation of the drive rotates the cam and opens the roller gap. The forward rotation allows the cam to swing, closing the gap and rotating the rollers around a seal. The tool eliminates the air cylinder and related pneumatic hoses and valve making the head smaller and allows a controller to communicate with any OEM production system to verify the tool has been used and was used correctly.
US12257653B2
An internal clamping and welding device for joining tubes by their distal ends, the device comprising movement means in order to be moved inside the tubes, separate clamping means for cooperating with the inner surfaces of the tubes to be welded, and a welding head mounted so as to be able to both rotate about a longitudinal axis of the tubes, and also pivot in order to be tiltable relative to a support of the clamping means.
US12257650B2
A joined structure includes: a first member; and a second member that faces the first member and that is joined to the first member via a joining layer. The joining layer includes a metal material and a solder material, apart of the metal material has at least one pore, and the solder material is located in a part of an internal area of the at least one pore. Also disclosed is a joining method that makes it possible to produce the joined structure. Further disclosed is a joining material used in the joining method. The joining method makes it possible to achieve non-pressurization sintering processes while maintaining high precise thickness of a joining layer between the first layer and the second layer based on the spacer.
US12257645B2
A turbine housing assembly is disclosed, the assembly including a turbine housing defining a rotational axis for a turbine wheel. The assembly further includes a cartridge that is receivable by the turbine housing, the cartridge including spacer posts and a plate component that includes spacer post openings. The spacer posts may be laser beam welded into the spacer post openings to form laser beam welds as well as define an axial vane clearance between the plate component and a surface of the turbine housing. The turbine housing is further contacted by ends of the spacer posts. Each of the laser beam welds includes a power ramp-up area, an intermediate area and a power ramp-down area, where the power ramp-down area curves away from the power ramp-up area to reduce weld defects.
US12257640B2
A recip blade has a cutting edge defining a cutting direction and a repeating pattern of cutting teeth. Each repeating pattern includes (i) a leading tooth with respect to the cutting direction that includes a rake face defining a first rake angle that is negative, and (ii) a trailing tooth following the leading tooth with respect to the cutting direction that includes a rake face defining a second rake angle that is greater than the first rake angle.
US12257636B2
A lathe capable of facilitating maintenance of a chucking mechanism. A chuck operating apparatus includes a claw and a shifter to open and close a chuck provided on a spindle. The tilt claw provided outside the spindle has a first posture to bring the chuck into the opened state and a second posture to bring the chuck into the closed state. The shifter provided outside the spindle and movable in a spindle axis direction is brought in a first position to bring the claw into the first posture and in a second position to bring the claw into the second posture. A roller is mounted on the shifter in a contact position with the claw to roll in the spindle axis direction.
US12257635B2
A diamond coated tool includes a base material and a diamond layer provided on the base material. The diamond layer has a boron content of 1×103 ppma or more and 1×106 ppma or less and an oxygen content of 1×102 ppma or more and 1×105 ppma or less in a first region surrounded by a surface of the diamond layer and a first imaginary plane located at a distance of 1 μm from the surface in a thickness direction.
US12257626B2
Devices, systems, and methods for calibrating for an electron beam additive manufacturing system. The electron beam manufacturing system includes electron beam guns. A calibration system includes an optical pyrometer. The optical pyrometer captures thermal radiation emitted from raw material. An analysis component is communicatively coupled to the optical pyrometer. The analysis component is programmed to determine calibration parameters from information from the optical pyrometer and a phase transition temperature.
US12257616B2
A control system for forming a tapered structure includes a sensor providing feedback for a machine for forming a tapered structure including at least three rolls having at least one bend roll and at least two guide rolls. The guide rolls may include rollette banks having a plurality of rollettes. The machine may also include an adjustment mechanism to position at least one of the rolls, where a diameter of the tapered structure being formed is controlled by relative positions of the rolls. The machine may also include a joining element to join edges of a stock of material together as it is rolled through the rolls to form the tapered structure. The control system may also include a controller to receive feedback from the sensor and to send a control signal based on the feedback to the adjustment mechanism for positioning at least one of the rolls.
US12257613B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a flake-like composition that enables effective use of the waste discharged from a coal-fueled thermal power plant; and a method for producing said flake-like composition. This flake-like composition is characterized by containing, as a raw material, waste discharged from a coal-fueled thermal power plant.
US12257610B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for wafer cleaning. The apparatus can include a wafer holder configured to hold a wafer; a cleaning nozzle configured to dispense a cleaning fluid onto a first surface (e.g., front surface) of the wafer; and a cleaning brush configured to clean a second surface (e.g., back surface) of the wafer. Using the cleaning fluid, the cleaning brush can clean the second surface of the wafer with a scrubbing motion and ultrasonic vibration.
US12257604B2
Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for relabeling items. A computing device is communicatively coupled to a scanning device, a printing device, and an inventory system. The computing device identifies at least one of the items as missing an expected label type, the expected label indicating a location where the item should be stocked. The system scans the item via the scanning device, queries the inventory system to determine a location for the item. The system prints, via the printing device, a label indicating a location where the item should be stocked in the retail facility, applies the label to the item and sorts the item, via the sorting apparatus, to transport the item to one of the outlets based on the location indicated on the label.
US12257602B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an interconnect structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate. A dielectric structure is disposed over the interconnect structure. A plurality of cavities are disposed in the dielectric structure. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) substrate is disposed over the dielectric structure, where the MEMS substrate comprises a plurality of movable membranes, and where the movable membranes overlie the cavities, respectively. A plurality of fluid communication channels are disposed in the dielectric structure, where each of the fluid communication channels extend laterally between two neighboring cavities of the cavities, such that each of the cavities are in fluid communication with one another.
US12257596B2
An application nozzle for applying a viscous material to workpieces includes a nozzle body and an application duct for the viscous material, the duct extending inside the nozzle body from a material inlet opening to a material outlet opening. At least one filler element is located in the application duct, which filler element constricts the cross-section of the application duct and extends from a first end remote from the material inlet opening to a second end at the material outlet opening.
US12257595B2
Processing liquid supply device, substrate processing apparatus, and processing liquid supply method
According to one embodiment, a processing liquid supply device includes a plurality of tanks, a supply path that supplies a processing liquid to a processing device, a heating unit that heats the processing liquid, a dilution unit that dilutes the processing liquid, a new-liquid supply unit that supplies a new liquid, a common flow path through which the processing liquid of the plurality of tanks passes, a switching unit that switches between the plurality of tanks so that at least a tank is selected from which the processing liquid passes to the common flow path, a densitometer provided in the common flow path, and a control device that controls at least one of the heating unit, the dilution unit, and the new-liquid supply unit so that the concentration reaches a target value set in advance.
US12257591B2
A precision cleaning device for cleaning and clearing a glue-dispensing needle includes a base, a supporting unit disposed on the base, a moving unit movably connected to the supporting unit, a clearing needle connected to the moving unit and facing the supporting unit, and an adjusting unit connected to the moving unit. The adjusting unit adjusts a movement of the moving unit to drive the clearing needle to move towards the glue-dispensing needle on the supporting unit, allowing the clearing needle to pass through the glue-dispensing needle to completely clean and clear the glue-dispensing needle. The cleaning device also prolongs the service life of the glue-dispensing needle.
US12257582B2
The present disclosure discloses a sample preliminary screening chip, a specimen detecting method and a screening device. A data processor may be configured to control a sample solution containing a specimen to be added into a preliminary screening inlet of the sample preliminary screening chip, and control the sample solution in the preliminary screening inlet to enter a channel, successively to flow through a first preliminary screening area and a second preliminary screening area, and to flow out from a preliminary screening outlet so as to store a liquid with the specimen in a first preliminary screening area. In this way, the liquid containing the specimen may be screened preliminarily.
US12257579B2
A device is disclosed that comprises a base having first and second reservoirs, each having an inlet and an outlet, and a channel layer comprising an inlet channel in fluid communication with the inlets of the reservoirs, one or more outlet channels in fluid communication with the outlets of the reservoirs, and a channel network comprising at least one channel extending therebetween. In a forward tilted position, a first fluid circuit is formed from the outlet of the first reservoir, through the one or more outlet channels, through the channel network, through the inlet channel, to the both the inlet and outlet of the second reservoir. In a reverse tilted position a second fluid circuit is formed from the outlet of the second reservoir, through the one or more outlet channels, through the channel network, through the inlet channel, to both the inlet and outlet of the first reservoir. Methods of using the device are also disclosed.
US12257578B2
An integrated testing device and fluid module are disclosed, as well as a method of manufacture. Fluid module contains a reservoir containing a test fluid, and a control vessel. The reservoir discharges test fluid into the control vessel, which discharges the test fluid in a controlled way to a test component.
US12257571B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a bimetallic perovskite loaded grapheme-like carbon nitride photocatalyst, comprising: 11) dissolving SbCl3 and AgCl in HCl solution under heating and constant stirring; then adding CsCl in the heated solution to form sediment on the bottom of the beaker; collecting the sediment and wash it with ethanol, and finally drying in an oven to obtain Cs2AgSbCl6 powder; 12) adding melamine into an aluminum oxide crucible and placing it into a muffle furnace for calcination and finally cooling to room temperature naturally to obtain g-C3N4 samples; 13) adding the Cs2AgSbCl6 bimetallic perovskite and the g-C3N4 into a solvent, and stirring after subjecting to ultrasound, and drying after centrifuging to obtain the photocatalyst. Provided is a new idea for the combination of bimetallic halide perovskite and photocatalytic material, and the preparation method has mild conditions, simple operation, and is favorable for large-scale production.
US12257564B2
The invention describes a mass for scavenging mercaptans which is particularly suitable for the treatment of olefinic gasoline cuts containing sulfur such as gasolines resulting from catalytic cracking. The scavenging mass comprises an active phase based on group VIII, IB or IIB metal particles which is prepared by a step of bringing a porous support into contact with a metal salt of said group VIII, IB or IIB metal and a step heating the resulting mixture to a temperature above the melting point of said metal salt. The invention also relates to a process for using said scavenging mass for the adsorption of mercaptans.
US12257558B2
A nanocarbon immobilized membrane (NCIM) is disclosed. The nanocarbon immobilized membrane is sized to purify different organic-water mixtures. The nanocarbon immobilized membrane can be used to purify solvents, fuels, and other organic compounds. Data using heptane-water, octane-water, fuel-water, and paint thinner-water show 99.9% separation efficiency. High organic flux is also seen at relatively low pressure. This approach has numerous applications, including fuel purification, oil spills clean-up, separation of commercial emulsions, and solvent purification.
US12257556B2
The present disclosure relates to a process and a device for winding a strand of hollow fiber membranes.
US12257541B2
Air cleaner assemblies, components, and features are described. The features can be used to provide that the air cleaner assembly includes a housing and cover within which a filter cartridge having a media pack and a seal arrangement surrounding the media pack can be installed. The air cleaner assembly may also include a projection-receiver arrangement in which the filter cartridge has at least one first member and the housing has at least one second member that interacts with the first member. In one example, a portion of the seal arrangement is coplanar with the first member and a portion that is below the first member such that the first member is located between the seal arrangement and an inlet end of the filter cartridge.
US12257538B2
An apparatus and methods are provided for an air filter precleaner for an open air filter box. The air filter precleaner includes a filter medium between a base and a grating that are fastened over an opening into an interior of the air filter box. The filter medium comprises a sheet of filter material having a shape and a size suitable for being supported between the base and the grating. The base is a rigid member that supports the filter medium in a sheet configuration, such that the airstream passes through the filter medium before entering the air filter box. The grating is a rigid member comprising a screen portion surrounded by a frame that is configured to be fastened onto the air filter box. The screen portion comprises a shaped lattice that allows the airstream to pass through the filter medium before entering the air filter box.
US12257526B2
A polygonal three-dimensional building blocks comprises: a main body having a central area and at least three abutment side walls, the central area located among the abutment side walls; the abutment side walls connected to each other in a ring shape and having a slanted surface respectively, each one of the abutment side walls having a first side edge and a second side edge respectively, the first side edge and the second side edge arranged at two opposite sides of each one of the abutment side wall, the central area located between the first side edges of the abutment side walls, the abutment side walls having an inner surface and an outer abutment surface opposite from each other; the main body having a plurality of magnetic attachment areas; a plurality of magnetic members installed at the magnetic attachment areas.
US12257518B2
Method, modules and a system formed by connecting the modules for controlling payloads are disclosed. An activation signal is propagated in the system from a module to the modules connected to it. Upon receiving an activation signal, the module (after a pre-set or random delay) activates a payload associated with it, and transmits the activation signal (after another pre-set or random delay) to one or more modules connected to it. The system is initiated by a master module including a user activated switch producing the activation signal. The activation signal can be propagated in the system in one direction from the master to the last module, or carried bi-directionally allowing two way propagation, using a module which revert the direction of the activation signal propagation direction. A module may be individually powered by an internal power source such as a battery, or connected to external power source such as AC power. The system may use remote powering wherein few or all of the modules are powered from the same power source connected to the system in a single point. The power may be carried over dedicated wires or concurrently with the conductors carrying the activation signal. The payload may be a visual or an audible signaling device, and can be integrated within a module or external to it. The payload may be powered by a module or using a dedicated power source, and can involve randomness associated with its activation such as the delay, payload control or payload activation.
US12257516B2
A roulette machine having a launch device including an automatic ball-change device is described. The ball-change device includes a rotatable main wheel comprising a plurality of pockets, and a rotatable switch wheel switching between an open position and a closed position. The main wheel receives and stores a plurality of roulette balls for future use and facilitates changing of a current game ball and, with the switch wheel, delivering the roulette ball to a launch start position or other desired output. The main wheel and the switch wheel may be independently rotatable, and coordinate with one or more sensors to determine a timing and delivery of a specifically-selected game ball to start a game cycle.
US12257513B2
An object is to provide a user with motivation to enjoy waking up in the morning and guide the user to sufficient awakening by generating a breeding event in a breeding game of a virtual life form when the user wakes up in the morning. A game server that manages progress of a breeding game of a virtual life form can provide a user with motivation to enjoy waking up in the morning and guide the user to sufficient awakening by generating a breeding event in a breeding game of a virtual life form when the user wakes up in the morning. The game server includes circuitry configured to acquire a wake-up time of a user; and a update the breeding game in accordance with the acquired wake-up time.
US12257502B2
A game system operates by: receiving character attribute selection data to be associated with a game character, wherein the character attribute selection data indicates a unique subset of a set of character attributes of a character attribute database; generating, based on the character attribute selection data, display data associated with the game character; facilitating, based on the display data associated with the game character, generation of a player token NFT associated with the game character; and preventing use of the unique subset of character attributes of the character attribute database in generating other game characters.
US12257483B2
A head includes a face portion, a crown portion, a sole portion, and a hosel portion. The crown portion includes a protruding portion on a crown outer surface. The protruding portion does not form any part of an outer contour line of the head in a front view of the head as viewed from a face side. The protruding portion forms an outer contour line of the head in a heel projection figure in which the head that is placed on a ground plane such that a shaft axis line is perpendicular to the ground plane and a face angle is 0° is viewed from a heel side along the ground plane. In this head, aerodynamic drag and lifting force at a position at which the shaft axis line becomes parallel to the ground plane during downswing can be increased. In this head, air resistance at impact can be suppressed.
US12257481B2
The ball is a thin-walled hollow sphere that includes an array of apertures with dimples in a pattern that are concentric to the aperture array. Dimples are provided on the exterior surface of the ball between the apertures with the pattern and dimensions of the dimples varying based on proximity to the apertures. Internal protuberances are provided on the interior surface of the hollow ball such that the interior surface also manages aerodynamic airflow through the ball. Channels are also provided around each of the apertures within the ball which may intersect proximate dimples or be spaced therefrom. The ball also includes apertures having converging and diverging sidewalls that form a venturi shape to increase inflow air into the apertures and outflow air out of the apertures. Finally, the ball also maintains a weight:diameter ratio within a fixed range.
US12257480B2
An estimated goal time display system includes at least one processor; and at least one memory. The at least one processor is configured to perform the following according to a program stored in the at least one memory: first deriving that derives a pace that a user runs a distance set in advance based on exercise data obtained when the user is running; second deriving that derives an estimated goal time that the user will reach a preset goal point, a faster-pace estimated goal time that the user will reach the goal point if the user makes the pace a predetermined amount of time faster, and a slower-pace estimated goal time that the user will reach the goal point if the user makes the pace a predetermined amount of time slower; and display controlling that displays on a display the estimated goal time, the faster-pace estimated goal time and the slower-pace estimated goal time.
US12257467B2
An integrated fire suppression system includes a plurality of fire detection systems. Each of the fire detection systems is individually addressable. A control system is communicatively coupled to each of the fire detection systems. A plurality of building systems is communicatively connected to the control system. The plurality of building systems includes at least one of a fire suppression system, an alarm system, a heating ventilation and cooling (HVAC) system, a building power supply system, and a building security system. The control system is configured to provide a localized response to a fire detection by at least one fire detection system in the plurality of fire detection systems, the localized response being a response in at least one of the plurality of building systems.
US12257466B2
A sprinkler accelerator system includes an accelerator and at least one orifice. The accelerator is coupled with at least one pipe coupled with at least one sprinkler, and vents gas from the at least one pipe when the at least one sprinkler opens. The at least one orifice controls a rate of change of pressure in the at least one pipe to control operation of a flow control valve coupled with the accelerator.
US12257462B1
A rescue harness includes a strap. The rescue harness further includes at least one first responder fastener connected to a first portion the strap; and a head-rest support panel adjustably coupled to the strap to selectively adjust a position of the head-rest panel along a length of the strap relative to the at least one first responder fastener.
US12257460B2
The present invention relates to a therapeutic ultrasound generation device, and a handpiece for ultrasound treatment including same. The therapeutic ultrasound generation device comprises: a cartridge housing unit; an ultrasonic transducer unit that is located in the cartridge housing unit, is disposed inclined with respect to a rotational central axis direction, and generates ultrasonic waves in the inclined direction; an inclined block unit that is located in the cartridge housing unit, has an inclined surface on the lower surface thereof, and supports the upper surface of the ultrasonic transducer unit such that the ultrasonic transducer unit is inclined with respect to the rotational central axis direction; and a rotating motor that rotates the inclined block unit. The therapeutic ultrasound generation device simplifies the structure of moving the focal point of the ultrasonic waves, generated by the ultrasonic transducer unit, in a circular shape on the same plane.
US12257459B2
A method for delivering ultrasound therapy using open-loop controls comprises inserting a distal tip of a therapeutic ultrasound applicator into a patient's urethra, the distal tip including an ultrasound transducer; acquiring ultrasound images of the patient's urethra and prostate with an ultrasound imaging probe; aligning the distal tip of the therapeutic ultrasound applicator with the patient's prostate using the ultrasound images; delivering therapeutic ultrasound energy to the patient's prostate, with the ultrasound transducer, according to a treatment plan, the treatment plan including a predetermined limited angular range for the therapeutic ultrasound energy that avoids the patient's rectum and neurovascular bundles, wherein the therapeutic ultrasound is delivered without temperature feedback data.
US12257458B2
The present application provides an ultrasonic wake-up system. The system includes an ultrasonic imaging device, an ultrasound stimulation device, and an ultrasound stimulation effect evaluation device, and acquires an ultrasonic image of a target object through the ultrasonic imaging device, transmits an ultrasound to the target object based on the ultrasonic image through the ultrasound stimulation device, and adjusts the transmitted ultrasound required through the ultrasound stimulation effect evaluation device. Therefore, peripheral nerves are accurately stimulated, an uplink reticular wake-up system is activated, so as to wake up patients with disorders of consciousness.
US12257455B2
A computer-implemented method of performing radiation therapy on a target volume within an anatomical region of a patient includes: acquiring a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) image of the region while the region is positioned in a first preliminary treatment location; reconstructing a current digital volume of the region based on the CBCT image of the region; generating a first beam's-eye-view of the region based on the current digital volume and an offset between the first preliminary treatment location and a reference treatment location; modifying the first beam's-eye-view of the region with one or more visual cues associated with a treatment field for the target volume; and displaying the first beam's-eye-view with the one or more visual cues.
US12257448B2
The present invention generally relates to an image guided variable spot stimulation-based electrophysiology assessment device for different biomedical applications. Specifically, the invention relates to application of the device to perform image-guided functional assessment upon variable spot optical stimulation of light-activatable biological specimens to determine changes in the functional health during disease progression and therapy. More specifically, the invention relates to the application of the device in the diagnosis of visual and neurological disorders.
US12257446B2
Embodiments provide for systems and methods for modulating activity of a live neuronal circuit within the brain of a mammal. In one example, a method comprises applying a focused microwave pulse to a focal spot corresponding to the live neuronal circuit, while simultaneously monitoring a brain image produced by a brain imaging system. In this way, the focused microwave pulse may be used to transiently modulate the function of the live neuronal circuit, as guided by anatomical and functional information provided via the brain imaging system, useful for both research purposes and for treating psychiatric, neurological and neuroendocrine disorders.
US12257444B2
A defibrillation assembly energizable through pad removal is provided. The defibrillation assembly includes an electromechanical component; an energy storage element that supplies power to the electromechanical component; circuitry configured to generate a defibrillation waveform, wherein the circuitry is isolated from the energy storage element by the electromechanical component; and electrode pads through which the defibrillation waveform is delivered to a patient, wherein a removal of at least one of the electrode pads from an initial position to a further position causes the power to flow to the circuitry through the electro-mechanical component.
US12257442B2
This document discusses systems, devices, and methods for computer-assisted pain or paresthesia assessment and pain management in a subject. A system includes a programming aid device including a user interface, a transceiver circuit to receive information about pain management for the patient from one or more of a software-based virtual agent (SVA) or a human assistant other than the patient, and a controller circuit to initiate and manage information exchange session between the patient and one or more of the SVA or the human assistant, via the user interface, regarding pain or paresthesia sensation and pain management. Based on the information exchange, the controller determines a stimulation setting, and generate a therapy control signal to the neuromodulation device to initiate delivery of neuromodulation energy according to the determined stimulation setting.
US12257439B2
A leadless pacemaker device configured to provide for an intra-cardiac pacing, including: processing circuitry configured to generate ventricular pacing signals for stimulating ventricular tissue, and a reception device for receiving a sensing signal indicative of an atrial activity, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to detect an atrial event derived from said sensing signal, wherein the atrial event is a valid atrial sense event, where a series of atrial events lie within a range for a normal atrial rate, and/or when the atrial rate variability is within a certain range indicating a regular atrial rhythm, wherein in case a valid atrial sense event is detected, the processing circuitry is further configured to: determine ventricular pacing events according to atrial events, calculate ventricular-atrial time delays, determine a correction value based a measured time delay and the calculated time delay, and adjust the ventricular pacing timing based on the correction value.
US12257438B2
A system may be used with a first neuromodulator of a first neuromodulator type and a second neuromodulator of a second neuromodulator type where the first neuromodulator is programmed with a first set of modulation parameter settings. The system may comprise an input configured for receiving the first set of modulation parameter settings for the first neuromodulator type, a processor configured to execute a programmed set of instructions to determine a second set of modulation parameter settings for the second neuromodulator type based on the first set of modulation parameter settings for the first neuromodulator type, and an output configured present the second set of modulation parameter settings for entering into a neuromodulator programmer. The neuromodulator programmer may be configured to program the second neuromodulator with the second set of modulation parameters.
US12257436B2
Techniques for sensing neural responses such as Evoked Compound Action Potentials (ECAPs) in an implantable stimulator device are disclosed. A first therapeutic pulse phase is followed by a charge recovery phase that includes at least one high-impedance passive charge recovery duration. The ECAP is sensed during the high-impedance passive charge recovery duration. The time period of the passive charge recovery is lengthened and the high-impedance passive recharge duration entirely overlaps the ECAP (i.e., the neural response duration) at the sensing electrode.
US12257434B2
Methods and systems for stimulating nerve fibers to treat a condition in a patient are disclosed herein. Such methods can include stimulating, via an electrode device, afferent fibers associated with baroreceptors and/or a carotid sinus nerve of a patient; sensing a heart rate of the patient; and adjusting a stimulation frequency of the afferent fibers based on the sensed heart rate. The heart rate can be indicative of an activity level of the patient, and an increase in the sensed heart rate can cause an increase in the stimulation frequency.
US12257431B2
The invention relates to medical equipment and can be used to prevent human exposure to sources of negative energy in geopathic zones and to electromagnetic radiation. The device comprises two pyramids 1, 2 in the form of hollow vessels sharing a common apex 4 and interconnected by a tubular channel 11. A base 8 of an upper pyramid 2 is provided with a removable lid 9. An antenna represents an EH-antenna 3 having oscillators in the form of the pyramids 1, 2, the parameters of which are consistent with the golden section, satisfy an even number from the Fibonacci series (F2=1.62), and are specified by the formula: α=2h2/s, where a is the side length of the bases, h is the height of each pyramid, and s is the apothem. A toroidal permanent magnet 14 is assembled on the outer surface of the tubular channel 11, and an audio/video device 19 along with a means for monitoring the physical parameters of the liquid medium within the volume of the pyramids 1 and 2 are mounted in the leak-proof compartment of cavity 13 of the lower pyramid 1. Lid 9 of base 8 of the upper pyramid 2 has a photovoltaic power source 10 disposed thereon for providing operation of the audio/video device 19 and means 18 for monitoring the physical parameters of the liquid medium within the volume of the pyramids 1 and 2.
US12257427B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for improving connections between a heart pump, such a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), and the heart and/or tubing such as a graft tube. An apical connector including a cylindrical housing and a ring support connected to the housing is described. The apical connector may include a sewing ring to be connected to the patient's heart and a spring positioned within the cylindrical housing to engage a portion of the pump and secure the apical connector to the pump. Alternatively, an apical connector may include an upper and lower housing with locks positioned in channels between the housings and may include a handle and a ring to cause the locks to engage a portion of the pump. A quick connect assembly is also described for efficiently connecting a graft tube to an outlet of a heart pump using a flange with through-holes and protrusions.
US12257426B2
A rotor for a pump, such as a blood pump, may include a hub configured to rotate around a central axis, and at least one rotor blade coupled to and extending away from an outer surface of the hub, the rotor blade comprising a medical-grade polyurethane, the rotor blade configured to have a crimped state and a running state. The medical-grade polyurethane may be configured for casting or injection molding, and upon curing, the medical-grade material advantageously has a shore A hardness of 90-100, or a shore B hardness of 35-55, and a Young's modulus of 60 MPa-250 MPa. When crimped, the rotor blades are compressed and exposed to strains of up to about 160% in a dry environment at temperatures of 20-25° C. When running, the rotor blades are expanded and exposed to strains of up to 10% in a wet environment at temperatures of 36-38° C.
US12257415B2
A nest for the storage of medical device components, including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of receptacles for the storage of a plurality of medical device components therein. Each of the plurality of receptacles may include a sidewall portion extending downward from the bottom surface of the nest. Additionally, a plurality of ring-shaped protrusions may be provided to extend upward from the top surface of the nest and surround at least some of the plurality of receptacles. The plurality of ring-shaped protrusions may be sized and configured to receive a bottom portion of a corresponding one of the plurality of receptacles when a plurality of nests are vertically stacked relative to one another.
US12257406B2
A catheter system may include a catheter hub, a septum disposed within the catheter hub, a catheter tube extending from the catheter hub, a needle hub, and an introducer needle secured within the needle hub. The catheter hub may include a push tab and one or more ribs, which may extend outwardly from an upper surface of the catheter hub. The ribs may be shorter in height than the push tab and/or may be generally parallel to the push tab. The introducer needle may include a flashback notch. In response to insertion of the introducer needle into vasculature, blood may flow into the introducer needle, through the flashback notch, and into a flashback chamber disposed between the septum and the catheter tube. The flashback chamber may be disposed distal to the push tab and the ribs, which may improve visualization of the flashback chamber by a user.
US12257397B2
The present invention relates to a catheter that minimizes or eliminates the recirculation of oxygenated blood. The catheter of the present invention can be used to drain blood from multiple points in the patient, namely the superior vena cava, right atrium, and the right ventricle, while returning blood to the patient's pulmonary artery. Further, the catheter of the present invention is less likely to be moved or dislodged than catheters currently available in the art, thus making the catheter particularly useful for portable lung assist devices. The present invention also relates to methods for inserting the catheter into the patient and using the catheter with a lung assist device.
US12257395B1
An oxygen tubing box includes a box having a lid attached to a body forming an interior cavity; a channel extending through a portion of the interior cavity exiting to an exterior of the box, the channel to receive an end of oxygen tubing; a spindle positioned within the interior cavity and to connect to the channel; one or more pulleys positioned within the interior cavity along the channel; a control panel housed within the interior cavity, the control panel having a power source to provide power to the box; and a heater configured to heat the interior cavity of the box; a motor connected to the one or more pulleys; operation of the motor is to rotate the one or more pulleys; and the heater provides heat to relax the oxygen tubing.
US12257388B2
A cushion for use in providing a regimen of respiratory therapy to a patient includes a base that defines a main cavity therein an aperture for receiving a flow of breathing gas. A pair of nasal pillows each extend from the base, each having a cone-shaped head that tapers inward and upward from a base portion, that extends directly from the base, to a top opening. Each head is formed to engage an inner portion of a nare of the patient. Each head defines a passage extending between the main cavity and the top opening for further conveying the flow of breathing gas from the main cavity to a nasal passage of the patient. Each base portion includes an inner edge positioned near the center of the cushion that merges with the hollow base and an opposite outer edge spaced upward from an outer surface of the hollow base.
US12257385B2
A liquid ventilation system includes a reservoir holding a perfluorochemical (“PFC”) fluid, and a suction pump connected to the reservoir to reduce pressure within the reservoir. A sensor is configured to measure an intra-lung pressure. An appliance is configured to be disposed within a patient. The appliance carries an injector to supply the PFC fluid through the appliance. An extraction valve is disposed on an extraction line between the appliance and the reservoir. The extraction valve is arrangeable between a first position enabling fluid communication from the appliance to the reservoir and a second position disabling fluid communication from the appliance to the reservoir.
US12257379B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a mobile negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device comprising a negative pressure pump, where the NPWT device is adapted to ensure that an operation of the negative pressure pump is terminated if the NPWT device is operating outside of a predefined operational range. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding method for operating such an NPWT device and a thereto related computer program product.
US12257372B2
Described is an apparatus, system, and methods, for the diffusing of a liquid composition that has an embedded receptacle. The supporting element for the embedded receptacle serves as the base for the apparatus may contain a light emitting diode that illuminates the components of the apparatus. The apparatus can handle various types of liquid compositions and could also be utilized to diffuse compositions containing oil, fragrances and/or cannabinoids such as cannabidiol or tetrahydrocannabinol.
US12257367B2
The present provides a biomaterial for repairing biological tissues, the biomaterial comprising: a water-soluble polymer having a reactive functional group A; and a cell having tissue-regenerating capacity and having, on the surface thereof, a reactive functional group B that can covalently bind to the reactive functional group A, wherein the biomaterial presents a hydrogel state when the reactive functional group A covalently binds to the reactive functional group B. Thus, the present invention can provide a biomaterial for repairing biological tissues that can exert excellent effect in repairing biological tissues by utilizing a hydrogel encapsulating cells having tissue-regenerating capacity.
US12257361B1
A detector includes a housing assembly, a detection assembly and a shielding assembly. The detection assembly includes a first housing, a detection circuit board and a probe, the detection circuit board is disposed in the first housing and electrically connected with the probe, the detection circuit board includes a sensitive element, and a first end of the probe is fixed in the first housing while a second end stretches out of the first housing; the housing assembly includes a collision housing and a pressing portion that are capable of sliding in relative to each other, the detection assembly is located below a bottom of the pressing portion, the collision housing is used for abutting against a sampling part, and the pressing portion is used for driving the detection assembly to move towards the sampling part, so as to pierce the probe into the sampling part for detection.
US12257360B2
A sterilization cabinet, comprising a top panel, at least two side panels, and a floor panel forming a part of a chamber of the sterilization cabinet; at least one door connected to at least one of the at least two side panels of the sterilization cabinet; a vent formed in at least one of the two side panels; at least one first filter covering the vent and a filter cover configured to hold the first filter against the vent; a drain positioned in the floor panel, wherein the floor panel has a slope configured to cause condensate within the chamber to flow into the drain and wherein the drain is the only outlet for the condensate along the floor panel; and a second filter covering the drain such that condensate flowing into the drain passes through the second filter.
US12257357B2
An apparatus that can be connected to a conventional sprayer bottle that permits the sprayer bottle to generate ozonated and ionized water to be used as a cleaning fluid. The apparatus includes an ozonator element submerged in the bottle water via a first electrical conductor and an ionizer lead submerged in the water via a second electrical conductor which is connected to an ionizer that is not submerged. Respective apertures are formed in the sidewall of the bottle, each having respective electrical connectors to permit the respective electrical connections to different power sources. The dip tube of the spray head is then passed through the top opening and into the water in the bottle and the spray head is secured onto the bottle. Electrical energy is provided through the respective conductors to ozonate and ionize the water in the bottle for use a cleaning agent. Humidifier or vaporizer versions of this invention provide an ozonated and ionized water mist or vapor.
US12257354B2
The present invention corresponds to a device in which garments such as clothing, personal objects such as wallets, watches, shoes, coins are placed among a large number of objects, which have been carried as personal objects by a user and that by some reason they were exposed to microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and other pollutants found in the environment; Because these microorganisms use air or saliva, sweat, among other fluids that act as vectors and therefore personal objects have a high risk of being contaminated without the user noticing it visually or with any ease.
US12257353B1
Surfactin-based lipopeptides for mRNA delivery are made by a method including providing OleSurf lipids to form an organic phase, mixing a mRNA in 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 4 to form an aqueous phase, mixing one part of the organic phase with three parts of the aqueous phase to obtain mRNA loaded lipid nanoparticles, purifying the mRNA loaded lipid nanoparticle platform using dialysis, and purifying the mRNA loaded lipid nanoparticle platform using centrifugal filtration. The OleSurf lipids are made by modifying surfactin with oleylamine. The resulting nanoparticles may be useful as mRNA delivery vehicles.
US12257343B2
This invention concerns a series of excipients capable of effectively reducing the viscosity of protein formulations. The viscosity reducing excipients are oligopeptides (e.g., dipeptides, tripeptides) comprising at least one arginine. The peptides may also include basic or acidic or hydrophilic or hydrophobic/aromatic amino acids. An arginine residue may be either at the amino or the carboxyl end of the oligopeptide.
US12257342B2
This invention relates to a dilute, ready-to-use solution of phenylephrine hydrochloride having improved stability and utility. In a particular embodiment, the formulation consists of an injectable form of phenylephrine hydrochloride with edetate disodium chelating agent in place of any sodium metabisulfite antioxidants to improve the solution's ability to remain stable and active in a dilute state after prolonged storage. This invention also relates to a form for injection of the solution that includes packaging the solution in a single-use container, as well as a form for containing the ready-to-use solution in a sterile, sealed container. Lastly this invention relates to methods of making the injectable solution for use in a single-use container, as well as for containment in a sterile, sealed container.
US12257341B2
The present invention relates to an injectable pharmaceutical composition containing a prodrug of caspase inhibitors, and a preparation method therefor. More specifically, the present invention relates to an injectable pharmaceutical composition, and a preparation method therefor, the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, (2S,3S)-2-(fluoromethyl)-3-((R)-5-isopropyl-3-(isoquinolin-1-yl)-4,5-dihydroisoxazole-5-carboxamido)-5-oxotetrahydrofuran-2-yl acetate, which is a prodrug of caspase inhibitors, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or isomer thereof, and comprising, as a biocompatible polymer, microspheres containing poly(lactide-co-glycolide).
US12257337B2
The present disclosure relates to leave-on penetrating oil hair compositions that comprise a blend of non-cyclic silicone and non-silicone ingredients. The leave-on penetrating oil hair compositions, which do not contain D4, D5 or D6 silicones, are particularly useful in methods for imparting durable resistance to breaking, frizz control, shine and/or volume definition with a soft feel to hair.
US12257335B2
Described herein are personal care compositions comprising a solid vinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymer; a vinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymer; and a cosmetically acceptable carrier. Methods of making and using the same are also described.
US12257332B2
The aspects presented herein provide methods and compositions for the reduction of the peroxide value of perfume ingredients, formulated perfumes, formulated body care products, essential oils, and natural extracts.
US12257331B2
The present disclosure is drawn to methods for oxidatively bleaching or coloring hair. The methods employ a fortifying composition and a conditioning composition, which are used in various routines. Treating hair according to the routines prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to the hair caused by the oxidative bleaching or coloring process. The fortifying composition includes: (a) citric acid, a salt thereof, or a combination thereof; (b) cyclodextrin, a salt thereof, or a combination thereof; (c) one or more polyols; and (d) water. The conditioning composition includes: (a) one or more cationic surfactants; (b) one or more non-silicone fatty compounds; (c) one or more silicone oils; and (d) and water. The methods strengthen the hair, improve curl retention of the hair, prevent frizz of the hair, and remediate damage to the hair caused by chemical bleaching or coloring of the hair.
US12257330B2
The present disclosure relates to hair coloring compositions; and to methods for coloring hair using the compositions. The hair coloring compositions are substantially anhydrous and include: one or more colorant; one or more glycols; one or more monoalcohols having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms; one or more cationic surfactants; and one or more fatty compounds.
US12257321B2
This invention relates to polynucleotides encoding mini-dystrophin proteins, viral vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the same for delivery of mini-dystrophin to a cell or a subject.
US12257319B2
An optimized coding sequence of human blood clotting factor eight (VIII) and a promoter may be used in vectors, such as rAAV, for introduction of factor VIII, and/or other blood clotting factors and transgenes. Exemplary of these factors and transgenes are alpha-1-antitrypsin, as well as those involved in the coagulation cascade, hepatocyte biology, lysosomal storage, urea cycle disorders, and lipid storage diseases. Cells, vectors, proteins, and glycoproteins produced by cells transformed by the vectors and sequence, may be used in treatment.
US12257315B1
A method of cytotoxically treating cancer with aluminum silicate nanorods (SNRs) including aluminum, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, and oxygen comprises contacting the SNRs at a concentration of 0.5 to 2 μg/mL with a cancerous sample. The aluminum silicate nanorods have a longest dimension of 100 nanometers (nm) to 5500 nm and a diameter of 20 nm to 250 nm. The SNRs are porous with a pore size of 1 nm to 12 nm and include cisplatin in an amount of 20 to 300 mg/g. The cancerous sample has a reduced cell viability after the contacting.
US12257310B2
Reactive and sorbent materials including a non-encapsulated crosslinked biological material immobilized on a support matrix that includes a polyamine and at least one support material are described. The support material can be an inorganic or organic support material. The reactive and sorbent materials are formed by reacting the biological material with the polyamine, at least one support material, and a crosslinking agent. The materials exhibit enhanced properties generally, are capable of maintaining their reactive and sorbent properties in contact with digestive fluids, and exhibiting their reactive and sorbent properties as they pass throughout an organism's entire digestive system. Reactive and sorbent materials in contact with digestive juices at pH's ranging from about 3 to about 7 have maintained their reactive and sorbent properties for at least 4 hours.
US12257308B2
Described herein are thermally responsive polymer-therapeutic molecule conjugates comprising a therapeutic molecule conjugated to a thermally responsive polymer with an acrylate, methacrylate, acrylamide, and/or methacrylamide backbone and a plurality of oligoethylene glycol side chains.
US12257302B2
The disclosure relates to vaccination compositions, for example, against human papillomavirus, Zika virus, and flu virus. The disclosure also relates to vectors for producing the virus-like particles and immune complex platforms of the vaccination compositions.
US12257297B2
Disclosed herein are nanoparticles suitable for use in vaccines. The nanoparticles present antigens from pathogens surrounded to and associated with a detergent core resulting in enhanced stability and good immunogenicity. Dosages, formulations, and methods for preparing the vaccines and nanoparticles are also disclosed.
US12257294B2
The present invention concerns therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and provides removal of inflammation-causing autoantibodies. In order to target the disease in the most efficient manner, a nanoconjugate complex is provided, comprising at least one specific antigen component recognized by autoantibodies related to the autoimmune disease, at least one helper moiety, and a nanoparticle carrier connecting the components. Each component of the therapeutic nanoconjugate complex has a specific function, yielding a nanoconjugate complex which facilitates specific binding, forming a stable antibody-therapeutic complex in the blood stream and rapid clearance of this complex to the liver.
US12257293B2
This invention provides methods to treat or prevent cervical dystonia, a disorder related thereto, or a symptom thereof, with novel injectable compositions comprising botulinum toxin that may be administered to a subject suffering from such maledy. The injectable compositions and methods in which these compositions are used provide novel and advantageous treatments which result in high responder rates and long duration of effect, for example, a duration of effect for 24 weeks and longer.
US12257292B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and formulations for treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The present disclosure involves intranasal delivery of at least one antioxidant compound, allowing for effective treatment of a central nervous system disorder such as traumatic brain injury or stroke.
US12257289B2
Synthetic blood substitutes and methods for making them. A lipid-amphiphile blood-substitute precursor compound having a hydrophobic fatty acid/acyl moiety, a hydrophilic head moiety including a phosphate group, and a pH responsive moiety. The lipid-amphiphile precursor is configured to self-assemble from a solution mixture of phospholipid and cholesterol in the presence of hemoglobin and an allosteric effector into a hybrid-vesicle resulting from the combined self-assembly of both the amphiphilic lipid-oligomer and the lipids into an advanced vesicular structure containing a hemoglobin/allosteric effector payload.
US12257279B1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of traditional Chinese herbal composition, and in particular to a traditional Chinese herbal composition for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis and a preparation method thereof. The traditional Chinese herbal composition for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis provided by the present disclosure is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 40-50 parts of Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens, 35-45 parts of Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus, 30-40 parts of Cinnamomi Cortex, 30-40 parts of Artemisiae Argyi Folium, 25-35 parts of Codonopsis Radix, 25-35 parts of a compound traditional Chinese herbal fermentation broth, 20-30 parts of Pulsatillae Radix, 20-25 parts of Lonicerae Japonicae Flos, 15-20 parts of Taraxaci Herba, 15-20 parts of Akebiae Caulis, 10-15 parts of Polygoni Cuspidati Rhizoma et Radix, and 5-10 parts of Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma.
US12257278B2
Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, is a method of inhibiting or treating a cancer with use of a TNF expressing myxoma virus. Also disclosed herein are methods of inhibiting or treating a cancer with use of a mononuclear peripheral blood cells and/or a bone marrow cells treated with a TNF-expressing myxoma virus. Some aspects relate to engineered myxoma virus and pharmaceutical compositions for use with one or more of the methods described herein.
US12257273B2
Immunogenic compositions comprising (a) a bacterial population comprising at least three pathogenic bacterial species selected from the group consisting of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Moraxella catarrhalis, wherein the bacteria are inactivated bacteria comprising the whole bacterial cell wall, and (b) one or more tumor antigenic determinants. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the immunogenic compositions and methods for preventing and/or treating tumors in subjects in need thereof.
US12257270B2
The present disclosure relates to stem cells which express high levels of Angeopoetin-1 (Ang1) and uses thereof in inhibiting M1-type macrophage production and treating inflammatory disease such as diabetes.
US12257260B2
Use of anemoside B4 in the preparation of a medicament for treating acute gouty arthritis.
US12257259B2
Nutritional composition comprising 2′-Fucosyllactose (2′ FL) to improve the gastrointestinal barrier
The present invention relates to nutritional compositions comprising 2′-Fucosyllactose (2′FL) for use in improving the gastrointestinal barrier. In particular, the present invention relates to improving gastrointestinal barrier in an infant, a young child or children aged above 3 years to 8 years.
US12257243B2
The present invention provides 5-hydroxy-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-carboxamide derivatives of Formula (1) wherein the variables are as defined herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are used for inducing chondrogenesis, in methods of treating or preventing joint damage, resulting from joint injury or arthritis, and for inducing hyaline cartilage production. The present description discloses the preparation of exemplary compounds as well as pharmacological data thereof (examples 1 to 89; tables 1 and 2). An exemplary compound is e.g. rac-(1R,2R,3S,4R,5S)—N-(2-fluoro-5-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-5-hydroxy-3-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-7-oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-carboxamide (example 1).
US12257242B2
Roflumilast crystals have been shown to increase in size during storage. The size of the roflumilast crystals can affect the bioavailability and efficacy of a pharmaceutical composition. The growth of roflumilast crystals can be inhibited during storage by including hexylene glycol in the composition. The resulting composition has improved bioavailability and efficacy and can be used to inhibit phosphodiesterase 4 in a patient in need of such treatment.
US12257240B2
Among others, the present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling blood glucose or weight, including a combination of (i) a therapeutically effective amount of berberine (BBR), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, acid, ester, analog or derivative thereof, including dihydroberberine (DHB); and (ii) vitamin B12. The combination effectively ameliorates BBR or DHB side effects, including VB12 reduction, gastrointestinal discomfort, and slowed bowel movements, by promoting transcobalamin II receptors synthesis, decreasing homocysteine levels and maintaining intestinal balance, including short chain fatty acids content, gut microbiota diversity and richness.
US12257239B1
A method for cytotoxically treating cancer cells includes contacting the cancer cells with a composition comprising a compound of Formula I. The compound of Formula I is contacted with the cancer cells in an amount effective to reduce the number of cancer cells by at least 50%. A method for preparing the compound of Formula I.
US12257233B2
Provided are methods of using (1R,5S)-1-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane, in free or pharmaceutically acceptable salt form.
US12257225B2
The disclosure relates polyoxometalate complexes and uses in the management, treatment, or prevention of cancer. In certain embodiments, the polyoxometalate complexes comprise polydentate oxygen bridging ligands such as those of the following formula: [POM{(OCH2)3CX}2], [M6O13{(OCH2)3CX}2], [V6O13{(OCH2)3CX}2], salts, or derivatives thereof wherein POM is a polyoxometalate, M is a metal, and X is defined herein. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising polyoxometalate complexes disclosed herein.
US12257220B2
[Technical Problem] To provide a novel composition for more efficiently improving endurance than the conventional art. [Solution to Problem] A composition for improving endurance, comprising γ-aminobutyric acid.
US12257197B2
An apparatus is disclosed which enables a person to be moved into a seat which may be obstructed by an arm rest or another obstacle. In some implementations, an apparatus for seating a person into an obstructed seat may comprise a first support structure for supporting the person in a position adjacent the obstructed seat; a second support structure configured to be placed onto the seat; and a transfer structure configured to enable the person to move or be moved from the first support structure to the second support structure.
US12257188B2
A system for preparation of an implant and ab interno insertion of the implant into an eye including a handle having one or more actuators and an elongated shaft having an outer sheath and an elongate member positioned within a lumen of the tubular outer sheath. The system includes a recess sized for holding a patch of material fixed relative to the handle and a cutting member movable relative to the handle and to the recess. The cutting member cuts the patch of material into an implant as the cutting member moves towards a cutting configuration. The implant, once cut, is axially aligned with the lumen of the tubular outer sheath. The inner elongate member is movable relative to the tubular outer sheath to advance the implant into a deployment position in the lumen of the tubular outer sheath for delivery into the eye. Related devices and methods are provided.
US12257187B2
A device is described herein for performing capsulotomies that improves suction uniformity and produces rolled capsulotomy edges. The device includes a suction cup that forms a tapered circumferential suction chamber which enables suction to be applied to a tissue in a first direction. The tapered circumferential suction chamber decreases in cross-sectional area from a proximal end of the device towards a distal end of the device. The device further includes a stem coupled to the suction cup to provide suction to the suction cup. The stem forms a neck that enables fluid flow to the suction cup in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The device further includes a cutting element configured to excise the tissue.
US12257180B2
Hypothermic treatment sacks are provided. A hypothermic treatment sack includes a top sheet that defines a first outer perimeter. The hypothermic treatment sack further includes a bottom sheet that defines a second outer perimeter. The first outer perimeter of the top sheet is removably coupled to the second outer perimeter of the bottom sheet such that a patient receiving cavity is defined between the top sheet and the bottom sheet. The top sheet and the bottom sheet include a weather resistant external layer, a heat reflective interior layer, and an insulation layer. The insulation layer is disposed between the external layer and the heat reflective interior layer.
US12257179B2
A portable device for the thermal medical treatment of skin allows a treatment attachment to be coupled to a mobile data-processing unit, preferably a smartphone or a tablet, via an interface, wherein a housing of the treatment attachment which extends over the treatment attachment is provided with a heating element directly underneath the surface facing away from the data-processing unit in the coupled state, the heating element being coupled to a temperature sensor, wherein the heating element, with the interposition of a control unit, is connected to the electrically conductive interface or, via a Bluetooth connection, to the data-processing unit in such a way that the heating element is supplied with power via one or more rechargeable batteries integrated into the data-processing unit in such a way that the heating element can be heated to a temperature predefined via the control unit.
US12257166B2
The present disclosure describes treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is constrained to a reduced delivery diameter for delivery within the vasculature by at least one sleeve. The implant can be constrained to other diameters, such as an intermediate diameter. The sleeves can be expanded, allowing for expansion of the diameter of the expandable implant, by disengaging a coupling member from the sleeve or sleeves from outside of the body of the patient. The expandable implant can comprise a steering line or lines which facilitate bending and steering of the expandable implant through the vasculature of a patient.
US12257165B2
A method, system, or apparatus for stent delivery. Delivering one or more stents with a delivery tool that can include a kinetic transfer of energy to deliver one or more stents. The stents can include a modifiable stent that can change its overall shape and/or dimensions based on pre-configured design parameters. A coil stent that can engage with a vessel that surrounds the modifiable stent forming a dual stent configuration. The coil stent also includes anchor points that allow it to engage with a second vessel securing the first vessel and the second vessel together to aid in the healing process.
US12257161B2
An interbody fusion device with an internal rotating blade is presented. The interbody fusion device has two blades which sit fully within the central cavity of the interbody device during insertion of the device. Once inserted, the blades are rotated outward from the interbody device and into the vertebral bodies in order to secure the device to the spine.
US12257159B2
A spinal implant has a proximal region and a distal region, and includes an upper body and a lower body each having inner surfaces disposed in opposed relation relative to each other. A proximal adjustment assembly is disposed between the upper and lower bodies at the proximal region of the spinal implant and is adjustably coupled to the upper and lower bodies, and a distal adjustment assembly is disposed between the upper and lower bodies at the distal region of the spinal implant and is adjustably coupled to the upper and lower bodies. The proximal and distal adjustment assemblies are independently movable with respect to each other to change a vertical height of at least one of the proximal region or the distal region of the spinal implant.
US12257155B2
The invention relates to an endoprosthesis shaft system for elongate bones, comprising an anchoring part and a shaft, which is formed from module elements that can be coupled by means of a plug-in connection, wherein a mutual rotation of the elements along the shaft is adjustable and is blocked by means of an anti-rotation mechanism. In order to adjust the rotation, a rotation piece is provided as a further module element, which has a self-contained rotation adjustment device and a clamping device as a mechanism for blocking the rotation. The rotation piece comprises two end faces for the plug-in connection and a sleeve. The invention provides, with the rotation piece, a particular module element for the shaft, which as a structural unit allows both an adjustment of the rotation and a blocking against undesired rotation in a self-contained unit.
US12257146B2
An ophthalmosurgical injector includes a cannula, a barrel, an outer plunger mounted in the barrel and together with the barrel delimiting a barrel cavity arranged in the barrel, and into which an intraocular lens can be introduced, and an inner plunger mounted in the outer plunger and together with the outer plunger delimiting an outer plunger cavity arranged in the outer plunger and into which a liquid can be introduced. The injector is configured such that a first movement, executed by the inner plunger relative to the outer plunger such that the outer plunger cavity becomes smaller, causes the liquid to flow from the outer plunger cavity into the barrel cavity, and a second movement, executed by the outer plunger relative to the barrel such that the barrel cavity becomes smaller, causes the intraocular lens to be pressed out of the barrel cavity and into the cannula.
US12257145B2
There is provided an intraocular ring injector which allows an operator to stably and normally house the intraocular ring in the intraocular ring injector, which is an intraocular ring injector 20 with a container configured so that an intraocular ring injector 10 is housed in a container 4, for injecting an intraocular ring C into an eye for retaining a shape of a lens capsule, the intraocular ring injector comprising: a hollow body 1 having a hollow part in which the intraocular ring C is housed; a plunger 2 that moves through an inside of the hollow body 1 in an axial direction of the hollow body 1; and a pushing member 3 that pushes out the intraocular ring C by moving together with the plunger 2 through the inside of the hollow body 1 and toward front part of the hollow body 1 in the axial direction, wherein the container 4 has a moving mechanism of moving the hollow body 1 and the plunger 2 relatively in the axial direction, while housing the intraocular ring injector 10 in the container 4.
US12257141B2
The present invention provides a preparation method preparation method for three-layer artificial blood vessel and application thereof. The three-layer artificial blood vessel comprise three layers, electrospinning inner layer, dense middle layer and electrospinning outer layer, the three-layer structure is closely combined and difficult to separate. The inner layer with a cytoskeleton-like structure can promote the formation of intima; the dense middle layer can effectively prevent the leakage of biomacromolecules and increase the puncture resistance of the whole artificial blood vessel; and the outer layer can promote the growth of tissue cells and better integrate with tissue. The three-layer artificial blood vessel provided by the invention has excellent blood compatibility, good flexibility, good puncture resistance and interlayer peeling resistance. The preparation method is convenient and is suitable for industrial scale production.
US12257131B2
A method for producing an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article comprising a first corrugated web and a second web connected together, and at least one elastic element entrapped between said first web and said second web. The invention also relates to an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article.
US12257118B2
An electric toothbrush having bristle driven pulsation includes a brush head having a bristle holder and bristle tufts attached to the bristle holder. The bristle tufts and corresponding bristles are disposed at a perpendicular and/or a non-perpendicular angle with respect to a mounting surface of the brush head. The electric toothbrush also includes an electric toothbrush handle removably attached to the brush head. The electric toothbrush handle includes a linear motor configured to drive the bristle holder via a gearing structure coupled to the linear motor and the bristle holder. The linear motor causes the bristle holder to rotate clockwise and counterclockwise at a rotation frequency which exceeds a rotation frequency threshold (e.g., 100 Hz, 120 Hz, etc.). The linear motor also causes the brush head to vibrate in a direction toward and away from a contact surface in synchronization with the rotation of the bristles.
US12257117B2
A personal care appliance which includes at least one flexible spring. The flexible spring having an grounded section with an outer surface and an inner surface, a rotational member arranged radially within the grounded section, wherein the rotational member is arranged to rotate within the grounded section in a first rotational direction about an imaginary rotational axis, and a compliant member having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is operatively engaged with the inner surface of the grounded section and the second end operatively engaged with the rotational member. The compliant member has a first stiffness such that the compliant member is arranged to resist rotation of the rotational member in at least the first rotational direction.
US12257111B1
A dental flosser that includes a U-shaped portion having first and second arms, a handle portion, a floss strand attachment member and a floss strand. The floss strand attachment member is movable distally and proximally with respect to the handle portion. The floss strand attachment member includes a collar member that at least partially surrounds the handle portion and defines a collar member interior. The floss strand has a length and a first end fastened to the first arm and a second end attached to the floss strand attachment member. The middle portion of the floss strand extends through a channel in the second arm. The floss strand attachment member is movable between a first position and a second position to increase the tension on the floss strand.
US12257108B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe repeatedly performs scanning in which a plane wave or a diffused wave is continuously transmitted a plurality of times in the same direction in a plurality of directions. The processing circuitry performs processing of applying a moving target indicator (MTI) filter to an unequal interval data sequence in the same direction obtained by the scanning and extracting a blood flow signal in each of the plurality of directions, performs processing of generating an autocorrelation signal by performing an autocorrelation operation on a plurality of blood flow signals in the same direction for each of the directions, and estimates a velocity value of blood flow on the basis of a complex signal generated by performing complex addition of a plurality of autocorrelation signals generated for the plurality of directions.
US12257106B2
Provided are an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus connected to wireless ultrasound probes and a method of operating the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a communicator connected with a plurality of different wireless probes through a wireless communication method by receiving pairing reception signals from the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes; a controller configured to control the communicator to wirelessly connect the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus with the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes and to wirelessly receive status information regarding the connected plurality of wireless ultrasound probes; and a display configured to display a user interface (UI) indicating the received status information regarding the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes.
US12257087B2
Rapid and precise recording of a VOI is provided while monitoring a robot-assisted movement of a medical object through a hollow organ of a patient. For actuating an x-ray device that has a recording system, a user input for the recording of a recording region is accepted. A previously recorded three-dimensional volume image of at least part of the body, in particular of the hollow organ is provided. A length of travel covered by the object from measurement data and/or control data of the robotic system is ascertained. The current position of the object is ascertained on the basis of the three-dimensional volume image making use of the ascertained length of travel covered and a starting position of the object. The recording system of the imaging device is moved for isocentering and/or superimposing the recording region about the current position of the object. An image of the recording region is recorded.
US12257085B2
Provided are a CT scanning method and system, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first coordinate of a mark point of a part to be imaged in a dual-camera coordinate system; converting the first coordinate into a second coordinate of the mark point in a CT coordinate system according to coordinate system transformation parameters; generating first locating information according to the second coordinate to drive a scanning table to move to a first location designated by the first locating information; obtaining projection images of the part to be scanned; determining second locating information and scanning information of the part to be scanned according to the projection images; and driving the scanning table to move to a second location designated by the second locating information according to the second locating information and performing CT scanning according to the scanning information.
US12257083B2
Saturation in at least one saturated ray is in a method including identifying a saturated ray corresponding to a first ray of a radiation source received at a radiation detector after passing through a reference point during a current view of the radiation detector, identifying at least one non-saturated ray corresponding to a second ray of the radiation source received at the radiation detector, and responsive to the identifying, adjusting a value for the saturated ray based on a value of the at least one non-saturated ray. The non-saturated ray can be a ray from an adjacent view of a current rotation, an adjacent view of a previous or subsequent rotation, or a conjugate ray. Methods of selecting a gain level to avoid saturation are also disclosed.
US12257072B2
Provided herein are methods for in-vivo assessment of intraventricular flow shear stress, risk of hemolysis, also the location and extent of blood flow stasis regions and inside a cardiac chamber or blood vessel. Also provided herein are systems for performing such methods. Also provided herein are methods for assessing hemolysis and/or thrombosis risk in patients implanted with an LVAD. LVAD positioning and/or speed may be adjusted based on the results obtained by using methods described herein, and the risk for hemolysis and/or thrombosis can be minimized.
US12257066B2
An ORIF implant has an electronics module with a stimulus light and optical sensors for sensing fluorescent emissions coupled to a near-field digital radio. The implant is used with a near-field radio to receive a sequence of fluorescent emissions readings from the implant into a processor that fits the sequence of readings to a bone-specific kinetic model that is a superposition of a plug flow model of periosteal perfusion and a two-compartment model of endosteal perfusion of perfusion of bone. A system for use during ORIF surgery has an injector for fluorescent dye, a camera to send a sequence of images of fluorescent emissions from fluorescent dye in a bone of a subject to an image processor when the bone is illuminated with a stimulus light, the processor configured to fit the sequence of images to a model of perfusion of bone.
US12257065B2
Techniques for patient pressure injury prevention (PPIP) include receiving, from a plurality of pressure sensors configured to be disposed in a spatial arrangement in contact with a patient, samples that indicate pressure measurements by the plurality of sensors at each of a plurality of different times. At each of the plurality of different times an angular orientation of the pressure is determined based on the samples. A change in the angular orientation of the pressure is determined at each successive time of the plurality of different times. A value of a patient movement parameter is determined based on the change in angular orientation of the pressure. A pressure injury category for the patient based on the value of the patient movement parameter is presented on a display device for a caregiver. Treatment of the patient by the caregiver is based on the pressure injury category.
US12257064B2
Various techniques pertain to a user interface that includes an instructional display portion comprising one or more textual or graphical instructions pertaining to preparing for a body scan for body care of a client and a scan initiation display portion that includes a scan initiation widget which, when interacted by the client, invokes execution of a scan process and an analysis process for a respective body area of the client. The user interface further includes a scan result display portion including interactable textual or graphical information pertaining to a result of the body scan for the body care and an adjustment display portion having a plurality of adjustment widgets that transform at least a color index or value into a transformed color index or value in a L*A*B* color space or a Lch color space.
US12257063B2
Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a patient for a neurological movement disorder. A three-dimensional medical image of a brain of the patient is captured and provided to an artificial neural network having at least one convolutional layer to provide a set of output values. The set of output values is provided to a machine learning model to provide a clinical parameter representing one of a presence of the neurological movement disorder in the patient and a response of the patient to a specific treatment for the neurological movement disorder.
US12257059B2
A system and methods for the assessment of cardiac status of a subject are provided. In embodiments, a method includes an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine recording electrical ECG information for a plurality of ECG variables from an examined subject; digitally transforming the electrical ECG information to digital values of the ECG variables; comparing the digital values of the ECG variables from the examined subject with normative data stored in a database, wherein the normative data is based on healthy individuals; assigning predictive Z-scores to the digital values of the ECG variables based on the normative data; establishing a diagnosis of the examined subject based on a determination that the predictive Z-scores are within normal limits or are outside normal limits of the normative data; and generating a report including the diagnosis of the examined subject.
US12257051B2
Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber.
US12257044B1
A neuroactivity monitoring system includes a camera configured to acquire image data of a patient positioned on the patient support and a monitoring device in communication with the camera. The monitoring device uses the acquired image data of the camera to identify and track patient landmarks, such as facial and/or posture landmarks, and, based on the tracked movement, characterize patient neuroactivity.
US12257028B2
An electronic device may include body composition analysis circuitry that estimates body composition based on captured images of a face, neck, and/or body (e.g., depth map images captured by a depth sensor, visible light and infrared images captured by image sensors, and/or other suitable images). The body composition analysis circuitry may analyze the image data and may extract portions of the image data that strongly correlate with body composition, such as portions of the cheeks, neck, waist, etc. The body composition analysis circuitry may encode the image data into a latent space. The latent space may be based on a deep learning model that accounts for facial expression and neck pose in face/neck images and that accounts for breathing and body pose in body images. The body composition analysis circuitry may output an estimated body composition based on the image data and based on user demographic information.
US12257023B1
Described herein are apparatuses and methods for measuring stress with a wearable device. In one apparatus, a wearable device includes a housing formed and shaped to affix to a user, a sensor integrated into the housing operable to engage a body of the user to take physiological measurements of the user over a threshold period of time to obtain physiological data, and a processing device coupled to the sensor. The processing device may be operable to receive, from the sensor, a first physiological data; receive, from the sensor, a second physiological data; determine a correlation between the first physiological data and the second physiological data; and determine a stress level of a bodily system of the user based on the correlation.
US12257022B2
Medical patient monitoring sensor devices including a disposable sensor assembly and a reusable pairing device are disclosed. The disposable sensor assembly can collect patient physiological data and provide power for the reusable pairing device. The reusable pairing device can establish wireless communication with a monitoring device. Once the reusable pairing device receives patient physiological data from the disposable sensor assembly, the reusable pairing device can wirelessly transmit the data to the computing device via the wireless communication.
US12257016B2
A magnetic field generator that comprises at least three groups of magnets, the magnetic moment of each magnet being rotatable about a rotation axis, wherein each group comprises at least two magnets, and each group has an orientation in the sense that the rotation axes of the magnetic moments of the magnets of the same group extend in the group's orientation. The orientations of the different groups are linearly independent.
US12257011B2
A computer-assisted medical system includes manipulators, a user input system, a user output system comprising a display device, and a controller configured to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations include, in a pairing mode and in response to a first set of signals generated by the user input system, causing a virtual selector shown on the display device to move relative to an imagery shown on the display device. The operations further include, in the pairing mode, associating a first manipulator with a portion of the user input system based on movement of the virtual selector relative to a represented location of the first instrument, and, in a following mode, controlling motion of the first instrument in accordance to a second set of signals generated by the user input system in response to operation of the portion of the user input system by a user.
US12257006B2
Systems and methods for electromagnetic (EM) distortion detection and compensation are disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes an instrument, the system configured to: determine a reference position of the distal end of the instrument at a first time based on EM location data, determine that the distal end of the instrument at a second time is static, and determine that the EM location data at the second time is indicative of a position of the distal end of the instrument having changed from the reference position by greater than a threshold distance. The system is further configured to: determine a current offset based on the distance between the position at the second time and the reference position at the first time, and determine a compensated position of the distal end of the instrument based on the EM location data and the current offset.
US12257005B2
A system comprising: one or more field generating coils configured to generate a magnetic field; a sensor comprising a shell that contains a ferrofluid, the sensor configured to be introduced in proximity to the magnetic field, wherein the ferrofluid causes distortion of the magnetic field when the ferrofluid is in proximity to the magnetic field; and one or more field measuring coils configured to: measure a characteristic of the magnetic field when the ferrofluid is in proximity to the magnetic field; and provide, to a computing device, a signal representative of the measured characteristic of the magnetic field, wherein the computing device is configured to determine one or both of a position and an orientation of the sensor based on the measured characteristic of the magnetic field.
US12257000B2
According to some embodiments, the process includes the steps of: a) taking a sagittal preoperative x-ray of the vertebral column of the patient to be treated, extending from the cervical vertebrae to the femoral heads; b) on that x-ray, identifying points on S1, S2, T12 et C7; c) depicting, on the said x-ray, curved segments beginning at the center of the plate of S1 et going to the center of the plate of C7; e) identifying, on that x-ray, the correction(s) to be made to the vertebral column, including the identification of posterior osteotomies to make; f) pivoting portions of said x-ray relative to other portions of that x-ray, according to osteotomies to be made; g) performing, on said x-ray, a displacement of the sagittal curvature segment extending over the vertebral segment to be corrected; h) from a straight vertebral rod (TV), producing the curvature of that rod according to the shape of said sagittal curvature segment in said displacement position.
US12256990B2
There is provided a method of processing image data defining a fundus image of a retina to include supplementary information on a designated feature in the fundus image, comprising: designating (S10) a feature in the fundus image; receiving (S20) OCT data of a C-scan of the retina; selecting (S30) a subset of the OCT data representing a volumetric image of a part of the retina at a location on the retina corresponding to a location of the designated feature in the fundus image; processing (S40) the selected subset to generate, as the supplementary information, supplementary image data indicative of a variation, along a depth direction of the retina, of a measured reflectance of the eye in the selected subset; and combining (S50) the image data with the supplementary image data, such that an image defined by the combined data provides an indication of the variation at the designated feature.
US12256989B2
A catheter assembly is provided having a working lumen and a guide. The guide is configured to position a fragmentizing device within the working lumen. The guide is configured to prevent or minimize any unintended movement of a distal section of the fragmentizing device within the working lumen when the distal section of the fragmentizing device is positioned at a distal end of the working lumen.
US12256985B2
A medical device capable of improving handling properties and maintaining excellent insulation properties of conductive wires for supplying electricity to electrodes for performing treatment includes: an elongated shaft part having a guide wire lumen formed therein, the guide wire lumen being open at a distal part; a plurality of electrodes which are disposed on the distal side of the shaft part, extend in the longitudinal direction of the shaft part, and are deformable in the radial direction of the shaft part; and a plurality of conductive wires which extend from the proximal side of the shaft part to the distal side thereof and transfer electricity to an electrode layer. The conductive wires extend inside the electrodes and outside the guide wire lumen, and are electrically connected to the electrodes at the distal side of the electrodes.
US12256980B2
A method of producing an array of sharp tips including a biocompatible coating, wherein the biocompatible coating is thicker at a sharp end of the sharp tips than at a broader section of the sharp tips, the method including providing an array of sharp tips, and coating the sharp end of the sharp tips differentially from coating the broader section of the sharp tips. A method of treating skin including producing a hollow in the skin by heating and mechanically compressing epidermis while retaining a covering of stratum corneum. A method of treating tissue including heating a tip to a temperature suitable for producing a crater in the tissue, advancing the tip toward the tissue, detecting when the tip comes into contact with the tissue by detecting a change in mechanical resistance to the advancing, and measuring the mechanical resistance to the advancing. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US12256978B2
A method for making an electrode assembly comprises overlaying an electrode on an electrode support, the electrode comprising a plurality of openings extending at least partially through a thickness of the electrode; supporting the electrode support with a jaw body; stitching a filament made of electrically insulative material comprising a first inset segment and exposed segment into a first opening of the plurality of openings such that the first inset segment is positioned in the first opening and at least a portion of the exposed segment is positioned to overlie an exposed working surface of the electrode; and affixing at least an end portion of the first inset segment of the filament to the electrode, electrode support, and/or the jaw body.
US12256976B2
An electrosurgical system may include a medical delivery device and an electrosurgical device to perform an electrosurgical procedure. The electrosurgical device may have a monopolar configuration. An outer surface of the medical delivery device may include a conductive portion that is part of a return path for a bipolar configuration. Current may be supplied through an active member of the electrosurgical device to perform the procedure. After passing through tissue, the current may be drawn to the electrode portion of the medical delivery device to complete the circuit.
US12256966B2
A method for configuring a surgical guide and an associated implant. The implant and surgical guide are for maxillofacial osteosynthesis. Three-dimensional models of the pre- and post-operative anatomy are used to define attachment points. These attachment points are used to determine a structure for the implant and surgical guide.
US12256961B2
Devices, systems and methods for use in spinal surgeries. The system may include a fastener system comprising a fastener, a staple, and a locking cap. A cord may extend along the spine and through at least one fastener system. An instrument may be provided for tensioning the cord. The system may, for example, apply fixation on the convexity of the scoliotic vertebrae to limit growth on the convex side and allow unilateral growth on the concave side.
US12256958B2
A medical device to protect a body opening, the medical device including a sleeve having a proximal end and a distal end a proximal ring attached to the proximal end of the sleeve, and a guard assembly located a distal end of the sleeve.
US12256947B2
This disclosure relates to reaming assemblies and methods for repairing bone defects. The reaming assemblies disclosed herein may be utilized for removing bone prior to positioning a graft and/or implant at a surgical site.
US12256935B2
Blood flow affecting implant and implantation thereof in superior vena cava, optionally including disintegration of endothelium layer and inducing tissue ingrowth within implant. Implant includes elongated body with optional tubular inner layer forming orifice, shapeable to final orifice diameter for restricting blood flowing therethrough to chosen average flow rate; and/or tubular outer layer provided coaxially around inner layer. Outer layer is formed of second material provided in elastically deformable state for facilitating elastic radial self¬expanding from collapsed diameter up to relaxed maximal expanded diameter greater than diameter of inner wall portion of superior vena cava. Inner layer is formed of first material, in plastically or elastically deformable state.
US12256931B2
A fastener cartridge can include, one, a cartridge body comprising a deck and a plurality of fastener cavities and, two, a plurality of fasteners positioned in the fastener cavities. The cartridge body can further comprise extensions extending from the deck having different sizes and/or configurations. The extensions can control the flow of tissue relative to the deck and/or support the fasteners as they are ejected from the fastener cavities.
US12256907B2
The embodiments disclose a digitally enabled pelvic self-examination device including a first memory device to receive and store cervix images, a second memory device to receive and store heat detection sensor data, a first processor to convert the heat detection sensor data into superimposed overlays on the first memory device stored cervix images, a second processor to compare current stored cervix images to previously stored cervix images to determine any changes, an internet communication device coupled to a memory device and processor to receive an aggregation of data on disease prevalence and research, a third processor to generate a determination of any changes in the stored cervix images indicating any disease indications present including cervical cancer, a swab device configured to allow the user to collect a cervix tissue laboratory analysis sample, and a digitally enabled pelvic self-examination device configured to be used by user to perform a pelvic self-examination.
US12256906B2
A biliary diagnostic device comprises a tubular body comprising an outer wall and an internal lumen, and a biliary diagnostic sensor comprising for analyzing biological matter in contact with the tubular body. A method of guiding an endoscope to a bile duct comprises inserting the endoscope into a duodenum, engaging a sensor with biological matter, electrically analyzing biological matter with the sensor to identify an electrical parameter, identifying liver bile in the biological matter from the electrical parameter, and guiding the endoscope through the duodenum based on the bile. A method of identifying biological matter comprises engaging a medical device sensor with biological matter in a bile duct, electrically analyzing biological matter with the sensor to identify an electrical parameter, identifying biological matter from a liver, pancreas or gall bladder from the electrical parameter, and outputting indicia of the biological matter to a user of the medical device.
US12256887B2
A mobile robot of the present disclosure includes: a traveling unit configured to move a main body; a lidar sensor configured to acquire terrain information outside the main body; a camera sensor configured to acquire an image outside the main body; and a controller configured to fuse the image and a detection signal of the lidar sensor to select a front edge for the next movement and set a target location of the next movement at the front edge to perform mapping travelling. Therefore, in a situation where there is no map, the mobile robot can provide an accurate map with a minimum speed change when travelling while drawing the map.
US12256885B2
Provided are a vacuum head, a collection bin, a cleaning tray, a filter assembly, and a cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus includes: a housing, a rolling brush, and a cleaning assembly, where the cleaning assembly includes a cleaning medium inlet and a plurality of cleaning medium spray orifices; the plurality of cleaning medium spray orifices face the rolling brush, and lengths of flow channels from various cleaning medium spray orifices to the cleaning medium inlet are equal. According to the present disclosure, a cleaning medium may be sprayed to a rolling brush surface uniformly, so that the rolling brush may be cleaned completely, thereby improving the cleaning efficiency and the cleanliness of the rolling brush.
US12256872B2
A foldable bath tub includes a base, a rim, and a basin wall disposed between and interconnecting the base and the rim. The bottom wall has an upwardly extending crotch support. The basin wall includes at least one crease. The basin wall is configured to be positioned in one of a folded condition in which the basin wall is folded into itself at the at least one crease an extended condition in which the basin wall is configured to receive an associated child. Where in the extended condition of the basin wall a distance from the base to the at least one crease increases along a length direction of the bath tub from a first end of the bath tub to a second end of the bath tub.
US12256869B2
A touch-less, hands-free, automatic condiment dispenser which allows a user, through a mobile app interface, to dispense specific volumes of individual condiments. The automatic condiment dispenser includes UV LEDs for sanitation of the apparatus and temperature control for maintaining condiments at specific temperatures.
US12256857B2
The disclosure relates to the first seriously smart water bottle. The bottle is designed to provide an easier, more accurate approach to tracking and loggings one's water/fluid intake with minimal effort from the user. Mass utilization of this environmental-friendly hydration tool will also serve as a catalyst for the promotion of environmental consciousness and add value by helping push the conversation forward about global environmental protection. Variations of this mechanism will grant anyone, with a smart device, the ability to monitor the amount of water/fluid consumption, not only for themselves, but also for anyone else they care for, from infants to senior citizens. The device will operate in conjunction with its namesakes' software application. Regardless of gender, age, height, weight, health condition, or activity level this tool will undoubtedly aid the user in leading a healthier, more productive lifestyle and in some cases, be essential to the preservation of life.
US12256854B2
A beverage brewing pot and a beverage brewing method using the same. The brewing pot includes a first pot liner, a second pot liner, a water-air pump and a controller. A brewing chamber is arranged between the first pot liner and the second pot liner. The first pot liner, the second pot liner and the brewing chamber are in communication. At least the first pot liner is sealed during operation. A first water-level sensor is provided at the top of the first pot liner, and a second water-level sensor is provided at the top of the second pot liner. The controller controls the water-air pump to feed air to the first pot liner to direct the water to flow into the second pot liner. The controller controls the water-air pump to operate reversely, such that the water in the second pot liner is pumped back to the first pot liner.
US12256839B1
An assembly is configured for use with a firearm having a trigger guard. The assembly includes a firearm holder comprising a body and a trigger peg. The body includes an internal channel, a plunger lock, and a lock plate comprising a first interlock surface. The trigger peg includes a stem and a trigger flange. The stem is configured for insertion through the trigger guard and into the internal channel, the stem including a second interlock surface configured to mate with the first interlock surface. The trigger flange is sized to not pass through the trigger guard. A method of securing a firearm having a trigger guard is described. The method includes positioning the trigger guard at a body of a firearm holder, inserting a stem of a trigger peg through the trigger guard and into the body of the firearm holder, and locking the trigger peg to the body.
US12256838B2
A barbecue cooker supporting structure with a lifting base includes a frame, a lifting mechanism, and a barbecue cooker support. The lifting mechanism has a spiral guide rod with a first toothed disc, a rotating shaft configured to rotate the first toothed disc via a second toothed disc, and a sliding member configured to slide upward or downward when the spiral guide rod is rotated. The barbecue cooker support is configured to move along with the sliding member and has supporting guide plates each slidably received in a lifting guide rail. The barbecue cooker supporting structure helps reduce packaging materials and waste resulting therefrom and allows a barbecue cooker to be easily packaged, stored, and moved (e.g., lifted and lowered).
US12256836B2
A furniture kit is disclosed that includes a set each of floor ladders, longitudinal cross-bars, and longitudinal wind braces. Each of the floor ladders has two vertical supports connected via upper and lower rungs, each of the two vertical supports is equipped with a foot for placement on a floor. Each longitudinal end of the cross-bars is equipped with a latching claw mountable, without tools, on a floor ladder rung. Each of the wind braces is equipped at its longitudinal ends with a clamp designed to be mounted on a rung of a floor ladder by gripping the rung. Cross-bars and wind braces are designed such that a cross-bars can be mounted on upper rungs of first and second floor ladders, while one of the wind braces is mounted on the upper of the first of the floor ladders and the lower of the second of the floor ladders.
US12256830B2
A broom bracket for a push broom which serves to provide strength between the connection of the handle and the broom block while inhibiting the rotation of the handle relative to the block and any loosening of a threaded connection therebetween.
US12256826B2
An object carrier includes a sheet body, at least two first straps, a strap body, and at least two second straps. The sheet body has a receiving space therein and an upper opening and a lower opening. The sheet body has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface has a connecting portion for connecting to an object. Each of the first straps and the first surface are connected and jointly form at least one first through hole. The strap body has a free end and a connecting end connected to the first surface and located at the upper opening. The strap body has a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. The first surface extends to form the third surface. Each of the second straps and the fourth surface are connected and jointly form a second through hole.
US12256823B1
A fingernail and toenail trimmer is presented herein. The trimmer includes a stable, traction-providing base disposed on the bottom of a housing defining an interior portion. A nail cutting device with at least one blade is disposed at least partially within the housing and accessible through an opening in the housing. A high-torque drive mechanism drivingly engages the cutting device to effectively cut any fingernail or toenail. At least one camera, sensor and artificial intelligence module provides assistance with the accurate operation of the trimmer. The camera captures the environment surrounding the blades and transmits the images captured therefrom to the user device and artificial intelligence module for processing.
US12256821B1
The scalp applicator comprises an applicator comb, a snapping cap, a solution container, and a pair of finger rests. The scalp applicator is configured for use with a liquid phase cosmetic media. The scalp applicator may be a tool that is adapted to apply the liquid phase cosmetic media to a scalp of a patient. The pair of finger rests may be adapted to be pulled by a user's fingers while a user holds the solution container. Pulling the pair of finger rests may activate a pump to force the liquid phase cosmetic media from the solution container through the applicator comb onto the scalp of the patient.
US12256816B2
A fold-out accessory rest is for securement to a trekking or ski pole or tripod leg in a folded-up position and then easily deployed by unfolding the rest for supporting a firearm, scope, camera, or other accessory. The rest includes a rest body for mounting on a pole/leg, a strap-supporting flap rotatably connected at its lower end near a lower part of the rest body, and a rest-strap rotatably connected at a proximal end near the rest-body's middle part and at a distal end to the distal end of the strap-supporting flap. When the rest-body is deployed in its folded-out position, a firearm barrel or forestock or camera telephoto lens or other accessory may be laid upon the rest-body to steady the accessory for use.
US12256798B2
A flip-up helmet with a breathing nose mask includes a body, the front end of which is a hollow portion, and the body having a first side and a second side, the first side being combined with a first cheek lining, the second side being combined with a second cheek lining, the second cheek lining being provided with a first magnetic element, and the front end of the body being installed with a liftable face shield covered over the entire hollow portion; and a breathing nose mask, the first end of which is fixed to the first side of the body, the second end of the breathing nose mask being provided with a second magnetic element for attracting with the first magnetic element, so the second end of the breathing nose mask is movably combined with the second side of the body or away from it.
US12256794B2
Gloves including one or more layers having at least one radar detectable mark formed of radar detectable material and/or an infrared detectable mark formed of infrared absorbing ink disposed on the surface thereof are provided.
US12256786B2
A method of configuring a personal computing device for communication with an aerosol generation device involves launching a progressive web application, PWA, associated with a web browser on the personal computing device and connecting the personal computing device to the aerosol generation device via a short-range wireless communication connection. A consumer apparatus identifier for the aerosol generation device and files for running the PWA are stored in browser storage of the web browser.
US12256785B2
The heating engine control circuit includes a rail converter circuit and a gate driver circuit. The rail converter circuit is configured to convert a power supply voltage into a power signal based on a vaping enable signal, the vaping enable signal being a pulse width modulated signal. The gate driver circuit includes an integrated gate driver. The integrated gate driver is configured to control application of power to a heater of the non-nicotine electronic vaping device based on the power signal, a first enable signal and a second enable signal.
US12256784B2
A vaporization device includes a cartridge for a vaporizer device. For example, the vaporizer cartridge and/or features thereof may improve management of leaks of vaporizable material from the vaporizer cartridge, control of airflow within and/or near the vaporizer cartridge, heating of vaporizable material in the vaporizer cartridge, management of condensate in the vaporizer cartridge, and/or other assembly features of the vaporizer cartridge. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US12256777B2
An article for use within a non-combustible aerosol provision system includes an aerosol-generating material having a top side, a barrier positioned adjacent to the top side of the aerosol-generating material and at least one passageway defined by the barrier and extending away from the top side of the aerosol-generating material. The at least one passageway is configured to, in use, allow aerosol to escape from the aerosol-generating material and provide a condensation region for the escaping aerosol.
US12256775B2
A vaping device including a water chamber for filtering smoke or vapor prior to inhalation of the smoke or vapor. The device including a replaceable vaporization module with a vaporization chamber that contains a substance to be heated or burned. The device including an air flow chamber, herein the air flow chamber connects the vaporization chamber, wherein the air flow chamber is configured to provide a tunnel between an upper edge and a lower edge of the air flow chamber, for passage of air/vapor from an air/vapor entry port to a filtered air exit port for air/vapor at the water chamber, in a snake like manner; wherein the air/vapor entry port is located at a point where the vaporization chamber is joined to the water chamber. Also disclosed is a vaping system, including a device body and a plurality of interchangeable vaporization modules.
US12256771B2
The invention relates to a separating base paper, having a mass per unit area of at least 25 g/m2 and at most 40 g/m2 and a density of at least 0.90 g/cm3 and at most 1.15 g/cm3. The separating base paper comprises at least 50 wt % of long-fiber pulp and is coated on at least one side with at least two coatings. The first coating is located between a paper surface and the second coating. The second coating is a topmost coating and comprises a water-soluble film-forming polymer, nanofibrillated cellulose, microfibrillated cellulose or nanocrystalline cellulose. The Cobb-Unger (120 s) value of the surface having said first and second coatings is at least 0.01 g/m2 and at most 0.90 g/m2.
US12256767B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a gardenia blue pigment that exhibits a vivid blue tone that is bright and has reduced redness, and a method for producing the gardenia blue pigment. A gardenia blue pigment that exhibits a vivid blue tone that is bright and has reduced redness is obtained by carrying out the following first and second steps: the first step of reacting at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of soy peptide, sesame peptide, and rice peptide with genipin in a solvent without the supply of a gas containing oxygen; and the second step of treating the reaction solution obtained in the first step with the supply of a gas containing oxygen.
US12256760B2
High meat content extruded pet feeds and methods of preparation thereof, make use of relatively high meat contents which include quantities of previously dewatered meat. In an embodiment, the total meat content of the feeds consists essentially of dewatered emulsified poultry meat or other meat sources commonly used in the pet food industry. In the methods, mixtures containing starch, fat, and meat, the latter including dewatered meat, are passed through an extruder followed by staged drying. The extruder may be of twin screw design having hollow core screws permitting introduction of steam or other heat exchange media into the screws.
US12256754B2
Provided is a composition that is solid at 23° C. comprising, by weight based on the weight of the composition, (a) 0.4% to 12% one or more ethylcellulose polymers; (b) 0.5% to 8% stearic acid; (c) 15% to 90% one or more unsaturated oils; and (d) 6% to 70% one or more saturated fats. Also provided is a method of making a baked pastry composition comprising vertically compressing a structure (i) comprising a horizontal top layer, a horizontal intermediate layer, and a horizontal bottom layer, to reduce the thickness of the structure and produce a compressed structure (ii), wherein the top layer comprises dough, the intermediate layer comprises the above composition, and the bottom layer comprises dough. Also provided is a pastry composition comprising, by weight based on the weight of the pastry composition, ethylcellulose polymer, stearic acid, unsaturated oil, flour, and water.
US12256753B2
A metastable, translucent flavor nanoemulsion is provided. The nanoemulsion contains a flavor oil phase, an aqueous phase, and a surfactant system containing a first lecithin and a second lecithin. The nanoemulsion is free of any non-natural surfactant. The surfactant system contains free fatty acid 15% or less. The first lecithin has an HLB of 1 to 8, and the second lecithin has an HLB of 8 to 16 and contains phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylcholine 20% or greater. Also disclosed are a method for preparing the nanoemulsion and use of the nanoemulsion in liquid beverages and liquid beverage concentrates.
US12256749B2
Provided is a method for producing hen's egg improved in quality includes feeding a solid-cultured product of filamentous fungi blended with feedstuff of a hen or the solid-cultured product of the filamentous fungi alone to a hen to improve quality of the hen's egg, in which at least one quality among improvement in yolk color, improvement in eggshell strength, increase in an egg white height, increase in an eggshell thickness, increase in an egg weight, increase in a Haugh unit, increase in an egg production ratio, and reduction in a generation ratio of an abnormal egg is improved for hen's egg that the hen ingesting the solid-cultured product of the filamentous fungi produce.
US12256746B2
Provided is a sausage sticking system capable of changing a position and an interval at which a chain of sausages is hung on a stably held stick according to a length of a casing. The sausage sticking system includes a hook conveying unit, a stick holding unit, and a pivoting imparting unit. A loop of a chain of sausages hooked on each of the pivoting hooks of the hook conveying unit is configured to be dropped onto a stick passing through the loop by which pivoting hooks are pivoted. The stick holding unit holds both ends of the stick, and includes a fixed arm and a pair of actuating arms, wherein the pair of actuating arras alternately holds the stick and avoids the loop of the chain of sausages. The pivoting imparting unit sequentially pivots the plurality of pivoting hooks at a predetermined pivoting imparting position.
US12256741B2
Antimicrobial preservative compositions that can be incorporated in products to be preserved are disclosed herein. The disclosed compositions include immobilized biocidal enzymes, such as cross-linking enzymes or active enzymes falling into the zymogen-class, for the purpose of modifying amino acid residues on a protein or binding a molecule of interest to a protein. The compositions include enzymes that are immobilized on a polymeric solid support, which improve the shelf life of the enzyme and protect the enzyme from auto-cross-linking or other deterioration over extended storage periods. Also disclosed are methods of increasing the self-like of products, such as personal care, household and industrial products, by incorporating an effective amount of the disclosed compositions into the product.
US12256736B2
A compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, and a herbicide containing at least one selected from the group consisting of the compounds described above as an active ingredient. In formula (I), R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group, or the like, R2 represents H, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group, or the like, R3 represents H, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group, or the like, R4 represents a halogeno group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group, or the like, R5 represents H or a halogeno group, R6 represents H or a halogeno group, A represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C4 alkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C3 alkenylene group, or a C1 to C2 alkyleneoxy C1 to C2 alkylene group, X1 represents O or a sulfonyl group, X2 represents O, a sulfenyl group, or the like, m represents 0 or 1, n represents 0 or 1, and m+n=1 or 2, and when A is a substituted or unsubstituted methylene group, m+n=2.
US12256732B2
Hydrogels are blended with water to produce a hydrogel solution. Viscosity of the hydrogel solution is controlled by adjusting the ratio of hydrogel to water and/or by adjusting the blending conditions. The hydrogel solutions may be used to modify the rheology of agricultural compositions. The hydrogel may include lactose, which may be provided by a milk permeate waste stream from the dairy or food processing industry.
US12256727B2
A method and apparatus for hunting that enables hunters to remain concealed while still maneuvering with the blind constructed in an in-use configuration and without disturbing quarry. The hunting blind comprises a portable, collapsible, lightweight, pop-up frame enabling the gamesmen to gain closer proximity to small and large game while permitting movement during use without detection. When not in use, the frame of the hunting blind collapses into a compact, transportable configuration that slides into a carrying bag for easy transport. The hunting blind of the present invention offers 360 degrees of concealment, comfortably concealing two hunters. The blind comprises a cover adapted to swathe the frame and create a taut surface against which camouflage may be installed for concealment in a plurality of horizontal rows providing mechanisms for staggering the placement of camouflage on the cover to further enhance concealment.
US12256724B2
A system for targeting and damaging a growing plant includes an aircraft, a laser, and a controller. The laser and controller are mounted to the aircraft, which can position the laser and controller airborne at least 350 meters away from the growing plant to be damaged. The laser can generate a beam of energy sufficient to critically damage the plant when the plant is exposed to the beam and located at least 350 meters away. The controller can determine whether a target of the laser is a plant to be damaged. In response to this determination, the controller can also: a) prevent the laser's beam of energy from reaching the target, if the target is not a plant to be damaged, and b) cause the laser's beam of energy to reach the target, if the target is a plant to be damaged.
US12256723B2
A mounting and positioning device 10 comprises a disc 11 having a termite detection region in the form of a hole 12. The device entices termites to the detection region 12 using termite scaffold as an array of slats 13 made from a termite consumable material fitted around the hole 12 using an array of flanges 14 which frictionally grip the slats. Concentric frangible sections in the form of weakened rings 22, 23, 24 and 25 permit marginal sections of the device to be removed so that it may fit inside different sized termite monitors.
US12256722B1
A fishing reel is provided. The fishing reel includes one or more sensors that can obtain a rotation frequency of a spool of the fishing reel during a casting. The casting corresponds to a casting mode of a plurality of casting modes. The fishing reel also includes a computing device. The computing device can determine a braking force corresponding to the rotation frequency and the casting mode, based on data of a plurality of braking forces. The data of the plurality of braking forces are pre-determined and stored in a memory of the fishing reel. The computing device can apply the braking force to the spool.
US12256719B2
The present invention relates to the method and use of reef coral fluorescent proteins in making transgenic red, green and yellow fluorescent zebrafish. Preferably, such fluorescent zebrafish are fertile and used to establish a population of transgenic zebrafish and to provide to the ornamental fish industry for the purpose of marketing. Thus, new varieties of ornamental fish of different fluorescence colors from a novel source are developed.
US12256717B2
The application discloses a method, apparatus and system for scanning an animal. The method includes obtaining a species of an animal to be scanned, identifying a type of an animal cabin where the animal to be scanned is located, and determining whether the species of the animal to be scanned matches the type of the animal cabin, determining and presenting a corresponding scanning protocol that matches the species of the animal to be scanned if the species of the animal to be scanned matches the type of the animal cabin, and perform a scan according to the corresponding scanning protocol, or according to a user-defined scanning protocol.
US12256711B1
A hand-held snake snare comprises an elongate hollow rod with a bracket mounted on a proximal end. The bracket mounts a spindle coupled to a motor for rotation of the spindle, which carries a length of cable. A power supply powers the motor to rotate the spindle and shorten or lengthen the unspooled portion of the cable. The rod mounts a block at the distal end and the cable passes through the hollow rod and out an aperture of the block. The free end of the cable is then attached at the block, such that a portion of the cable exiting the rod forms an adjustable loop. A switch connects the motor to the DC power supply, thereby turning the spindle to shorten the third portion of the cable forming the loop, such that an animal can be captured within the loop as a circumference of the loop is reduced.
US12256707B2
A superior long-staple cotton variety allowing spinning 360 N ultra-fine and high-grade combed yarns, and a breeding method thereof are provided. The breeding method includes: conducting distant crossing with Gossypium barbadense (G. barbadense) L. BMC 1563 as a female parent and Xinluzhong 14 as a male parent; conducting backcrossing with an F1 hybrid as a female parent and BMC1563 as a male parent for three generations; harvesting hybrid seeds of first-generation backcrossing together; harvesting hybrid seeds of second-generation backcrossing separately, and screening; harvesting hybrid seeds of third-generation backcrossing, and screening to obtain an individual BC3F1; selling the individual BC3F1 for 5 generations to obtain BMC18394; and crossing Xinhai 40 as a female parent with the BMC 18394 as a male parent to obtain a first-generation hybrid, and conducting sealing-flower setting for 6 generations to finally obtain a long-staple cotton variety BMC79.
US12256702B2
The soybean variety 103324633 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and soybean lint as well as to hybrid soybean plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety 103324633 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of 103324633 and to plants of 103324633 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from 103324633.
US12256700B1
A novel maize variety designated X05V410 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05V410 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05V410 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05V410, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05V410 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05V410 and methods of using maize variety X05V410 are disclosed.
US12256699B1
A novel maize variety designated X85R249 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X85R249 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X85R249 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X85R249, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X85R249 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X85R249 and methods of using maize variety X85R249 are disclosed.
US12256694B1
A novel maize variety designated X14817NT and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X14817NT with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X14817NT through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X14817NT, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X14817NT are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X14817NT and methods of using maize variety X14817NT are disclosed.
US12256686B2
A method of producing pollen that reduces fitness of at least one weed species of interest is provided. The method comprises treating the pollen of plants of a weed species of interest with an irradiation regimen selected from the group consisting of: (i) X-ray radiation at an irradiation dose of 10-1600 Gy; (ii) gamma radiation at an irradiation dose of 10-2000 Gy; (iii) particle radiation; and (iv) UV-C radiation at an irradiation dose of 100 μJ/cm2-50 J/cm2, with the proviso that when said weed is A. palmeri, when said irradiation is X-ray, the irradiation dose is not 300 Gy and wherein when said irradiation is gamma irradiation the irradiation dose is not 100, 300 and 500 Gy, and wherein when said radiation is UV-C the dose radiation is not 2 J/cm2.
US12256684B2
A plant cultivation apparatus of the present disclosure is proposed. In the plant cultivation apparatus, a machine chamber is configured to be open forward of the cabinet so that indoor air is suctioned and discharged therethrough. Accordingly, even when the plant cultivation apparatus is provided in a specific place in a built-in method, air circulation is smoothly performed.
US12256680B2
Embodiments for crop-specific automated irrigation of an environmental medium and management of nutrients therein. In one aspect, operation of an irrigation apparatus can be regulated according to specific water demand of a crop. The water demand can be assessed by evaluating water content conditions of the environmental medium comprising the crop, medium characteristics, and/or nutrient delivery and transport characteristics at the medium. Regulation of operation of the irrigation apparatus can comprise control of one or more of water supply to the apparatus, positioning and/or movement of the irrigation apparatus, or configuration of sensing devices for collection of information suitable for such regulation.
US12256679B2
The invention provides highly nutritious microgreens in a manner that is highly efficient and easy-to-use even for consumers who are unfamiliar with growing plants. The invention provides plant growing apparatus, plant growing systems including water and plants, plant growing kits, and methods of growing plants. The invention reduces the frequency of watering and produces microgreen yields with surprisingly little water.
US12256678B2
An automated mushroom harvesting system for mounting to a vertical mushroom rack comprises a robot having a frame mounted to a vertical carriage assembly. A SCARA arm is slidably mounted to the vertical carriage assembly by a vertical stage, operable to move the SCARA arm along a vertical mast. The SCARA arm moves the end effector in a horizontal plane for harvesting mushrooms, above the surface of the mushroom bed and into and out of the confines of the mushroom rack, and the vertical stage moves the SCARA arm in a vertical direction so as to access the mushrooms in a bed and to access mushroom beds on different levels of the vertical mushroom rack. An end effector having a helically reinforced neck and a graduated elasticity modulus, with a lower elasticity modulus in the neck and a higher elasticity in the cup, is also provided.
US12256675B2
An impact processing system (10) having a central opening (12) enabling material flow into a primary impact zone (14) in which is located an impact mechanism (16) rotatable about a rotation axis (18). An impact structure (20) provided with a plurality of holes (22) surrounds the impact mechanism (16). The rotatable impact mechanism (16) impacts material entering the primary impact zone (14) from the central opening (12) and accelerate the impacted material in a radial outward direction toward the impact structure (20) to effect fragmentation of the impacted material so that when sufficiently fragmented the material is able to pass through the holes (22). An optional outer structure (30) is radially spaced from the impact structure (20) and may comprise one or more segments that cumulatively extend about the axis of rotation (18) for an angle from 30° and 270° inclusive. A rotatable set of impact members (50) may be located between the impact structure and the outer structure. One or more gaps (28) may be provided in the impact structure (20) to allow the passage of large and/or hard objects that cannot otherwise be fragmented. The outer structure (30) is positioned to span across the gaps (28) so that material passing there thought is directed onto the outer structure (30).
US12256672B2
An agricultural harvester has a frame and a spout that is movably mounted relative to the frame. A spout actuator drives movement of the spout relative to the frame based on a spout actuator control signal. Harvesting functionality engages material from a field and delivers the material through an outlet end of the spout as the agricultural harvester moves through the field in a direction of travel. A turn identifier identifies a location of a turn forward of the agricultural harvester in the direction of travel and generates a turn location indicator indicative of the location of the turn. A speed detector detects a speed of the agricultural harvester and generates a speed indicator indicative of the detected speed. A position compensation control system generates spout position compensation information for controlling the spout actuator based on the turn location indicator and the speed indicator, and a spout position controller generates the spout actuator control signal to control the spout actuator based on the spout position compensation information.
US12256666B2
A mowing cylinder cutter and a lawn care tool driven by a built-in outer rotor motor are provided. The cylinder cutter includes an outer rotor motor, blades and a reel. The blades are fixedly connected to the reel through support plates. At least one end of the reel is provided with the outer rotor motor. The outer rotor motor includes a stator assembly and an outer rotor. The stator assembly is connected to a frame through a connecting member, and the outer rotor is fixedly connected to the reel. The lawn care tool includes a working part, a main shaft, a motor shaft and an outer rotor motor. The motor shaft passes through the main shaft. One end of the main shaft is connected to the motor shaft through a bearing assembly. The outer rotor motor is located in the main shaft.
US12262649B2
The present description concerns a device including phase-change memory cells, each memory cell including a first resistive element in lateral contact with a second element made of a phase-change material.
US12262647B2
A semiconductor device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, a spacer adjacent to the MTJ, a liner adjacent to the spacer, and a first metal interconnection on the MTJ. Preferably, the first metal interconnection includes protrusions adjacent to two sides of the MTJ and a bottom surface of the protrusions contact the liner directly.
US12262639B2
A thermoelectric conversion material according to the present disclosure includes Ge, Te, and Sb. The thermoelectric conversion material includes a first region and a second region. The content of Sb in the first region in terms of number density of atoms is higher than the content of Sb in the second region in terms of number density of atoms. The first region includes a dispersed phase.
US12262621B2
A display device includes a light emitting sub-pixel disposed in a display area, a light receiving pixel disposed in one of the display area or a non-display area, and a touch sensing layer including a sensing conductive layer overlapping with the light receiving pixel.
US12262616B2
A touch panel display includes a pixel including an organic EL element, a first transistor electrically connected to the power supply line and the organic electroluminescence element, and a second transistor electrically connected to the data signal line and the first transistor, a touch sensor overlapping the pixel, and a shield electrode between the pixel and the touch sensor. The shield electrode includes an opening in a region overlapping with the second transistor, the third gate electrode is disposed inside the opening, and the third gate electrode and the fourth gate electrode are electrically connected, the first gate electrode is electrically connected to the shield electrode, and the second gate electrode is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the shield electrode is grounded.
US12262612B2
A light emitting display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged along a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction over a first substrate, a circuit layer including a pixel common voltage line in parallel with the second direction and disposed between the plurality of pixels along the first direction, a light emitting device layer including a self-emitting device disposed over the circuit layer and a common electrode disposed over the self-emitting device, a common electrode connection portion electrically coupling the pixel common voltage line to the common electrode, and an inner isolation portion surrounding the common electrode connection portion and isolating the self-emitting device disposed over the inner isolation portion.
US12262608B2
Disclosed is a display substrate including a base substrate, which includes first and second display regions, and at least one first data line. The first display region includes first and second sub-display regions located on opposite sides of the second display region along a first direction and a third sub-display region located on at least one side of the second display region along a second direction. The first data line includes a first sub-data line located in the first sub-display region and connected with a pixel circuit of the first sub-display region, a second sub-data line located in the second sub-display region and connected with a pixel circuit of the second sub-display region, and a third sub-data line which is connected with the first and second sub-data lines, located in the third sub-display region, and connected with at least one second pixel circuit of the third sub-display region.
US12262606B2
A display device including a substrate, a first upper power line, a conductive member, a protective insulating layer, an upper connection member, and a sub-pixel structure. The upper connection member is disposed in a first pad area and a first peripheral area on a planarization layer, and electrically connects the first upper power line and the conductive member through a first contact hole, which is formed in the protective insulating layer and the planarization layer located on the conductive member, and a second contact hole, which is formed in the protective insulating layer and the planarization layer located on the first upper power line.
US12262583B2
A display device includes a bending area at which the display device is bendable; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the organic light emitting element; and a bending area protection layer covering the bending area of the substrate. The upper surface of the encapsulation layer includes a nano structure defined by nano sized protrusions and depressions of the upper surface, and along the substrate, and the bending area is disposed separated from the encapsulation layer.
US12262578B2
An organic light-emitting device and a flat panel display device, the organic-light emitting device including an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer therebetween including an emission layer, a hole transport region between the anode and the emission layer, the hole transport region including at least one of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, and an electron blocking layer, an electron transport region between the emission layer and the cathode, the electron transport region including at least one of a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer, and a buffer layer between the emission layer and the electron transport region, wherein the buffer layer includes a biscarbazole-based derivative and triphenylene-based derivative, and a triplet energy (ET1) of the biscarbazole-based derivative or the triphenylene-based derivative and a triplet energy (ET2) of a dopant of the emission layer satisfy the following relationship: ET1>ET2.
US12262577B2
A method for preparing three-dimensional perovskite nanopixels of a digital display is provided. The method includes steps of preparing precursor ink by mixing methylammonium halide and lead halide and adding them into another mixture, adding the precursor ink into a nanopipette, placing the nanopipette with the precursor ink above a silicon substrate and apart from the silicon substrate by a certain distance, configuring the nanopipette to come into contact with the Si substrate such that a portion of the precursor ink having an interface surface of a shape of a meniscus is formed between the nanopipette and the silicon substrate, performing rapid evaporation of the portion of the precursor ink to facilitate crystallization of perovskite, moving the nanopipette upwardly at a constant speed such that the crystallization of perovskite proceeds upwardly, and terminating the crystallization of perovskite to generate a freestanding nanopixel for emitting light.
US12262573B2
A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first organic semiconductor material, a second organic semiconductor material, and a third organic semiconductor material that have mother skeletons different from one another. The first organic semiconductor material is one of fullerenes and fullerene derivatives. The second organic semiconductor material in a form of a single-layer film has a higher linear absorption coefficient of a maximal light absorption wavelength in a visible light region than a single-layer film of the first organic semiconductor material and a single-layer film of the third organic semiconductor material. The third organic semiconductor material has a value equal to or higher than a HOMO level of the second organic semiconductor material.
US12262561B2
The photovoltaic module includes at least one cell string, including multiple solar cell sheets, and adjacent solar cell sheets in the multiple solar cell sheets are connected to each other by multiple welding strips. In some embodiments, the photovoltaic module further includes multiple welding strips, where each of the multiple welding strips is in electrical contact with a corresponding bus bar, each of the multiple welding strips includes multiple bending portions arranged continuously along a second direction. In addition, along the second direction, an orthographic projection of a central line of each of the multiple welding strips on a back surface of the solar cell sheet coincides with an orthographic projection of a central line of the corresponding bus bar and/or an orthographic projection of a central line of each of the multiple bonding pads on the corresponding bus bar on the back surface of the solar cell sheet.
US12262558B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second regions, first and second active patterns provided on the first and second regions, respectively, a pair of first source/drain patterns on the first active pattern and a first channel pattern therebetween, a pair of second source/drain patterns on the second active pattern and a second channel pattern therebetween, first and second gate electrodes respectively provided on the first and second channel patterns, and first and second gate insulating layers respectively interposed between the first and second channel patterns and the first and second gate electrodes. Each of the first and second gate insulating layers includes an interface layer and a first high-k dielectric layer thereon, and the first gate insulating layer further includes a second high-k dielectric layer on the first high-k dielectric layer.
US12262546B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the upper surface portion of the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other, a plurality of emitter electrodes disposed to be overlapped with each of the plurality of gate electrodes, and a collector electrode disposed on the lower surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US12262544B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate; forming a first spin orbit torque (SOT) layer on the MTJ; forming a passivation layer around the MTJ; forming a second SOT layer on the first SOT layer and the passivation layer, and patterning the second SOT layer and the passivation layer.
US12262541B1
A device structure comprises a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, an etch stop layer laterally surrounding the electrode structure; a plurality of memory devices above the electrode structure, where individual ones of the plurality of memory devices comprise a dielectric layer comprising a perovskite material. The device structure further comprises a plate electrode coupled between the plurality of memory devices and the electrode structure, where the plate electrode is in direct contact with a respective lower most conductive layer of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices. The device structure further includes an insulative hydrogen barrier layer on at least a sidewall of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices; and a plurality of via electrodes, wherein individual ones of the plurality of via electrodes are on a respective one of the individual ones of the plurality of memory devices.
US12262540B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including, in a first area, a first semiconductor channel coupled to a portion of a first memory layer, and first, second, and third conductive structures. The first and third conductive structures are coupled to end portions of a sidewall of the first semiconductor channel, with the second conductive structure coupled to a middle portion of the sidewall. The semiconductor device includes, in a second area, a second semiconductor channel coupled to a first portion of a second memory layer, and fourth and fifth conductive structures. The fourth and fifth conductive structures are coupled to end portions of a sidewall of the second semiconductor channel, with no vertically extending conductive structure interposed between the fourth and fifth conductive structures.
US12262538B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first stack, forming a sacrificial structure and a first contact passing through the first stack, forming a second stack on the first stack, forming a first hole through the second stack to expose the sacrificial structure, forming a second hole through the first stack by removing the sacrificial structure, forming a channel structure in the first and second holes, and forming a second contact passing through the second stack and coupled to the first contact.
US12262531B2
Provided are a memory cell structure, a memory array structure, a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The memory cell structure includes: a substrate, an active region, a word line structure, an insulating dielectric layer, and a capacitor structure. The substrate has a bit line structure therein, and the active region is positioned on the bit line structure. In a direction perpendicular to the substrate, the active region includes a first connection terminal, a second connection terminal away from the first connection terminal, and a channel region positioned between the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal. In the direction perpendicular to the substrate, the word line structure covers a sidewall of the channel region. The insulating dielectric layer covers an outer side of the word line structure, an outer side of the first connection terminal, and an outer side of the second connection terminal.
US12262524B2
The present application provides a method for manufacturing a memory device having word lines with improved resistance, and a manufacturing method of the memory device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate defined with a peripheral region and an array region at least partially surrounded by the peripheral region; forming a first recess extending into the semiconductor substrate and disposed in the array region; and forming a word line disposed within the first recess. The formation of the word line includes disposing an insulating layer conformal to the first recess, and forming a conductive member surrounded by the insulating layer and having a second recess extending into the conductive member and toward the semiconductor substrate.
US12262519B2
A metal member includes a plate-shaped portion provided on an upper main surface of a substrate, and includes a front main surface and a back main surface arranged in a front-back direction when viewed in an up-down direction. A first electronic component is mounted on the upper main surface of the substrate and is disposed in front of the metal member. A second electronic component is mounted on the upper main surface of the substrate and is disposed behind the metal member. A sealing resin layer is provided on the upper main surface of the substrate and covers the metal member and the one or more electronic components. The plate-shaped portion is provided with one or more lower notches extending upward from the lower side. The metal member further includes a plurality of foot portions. All of the plurality of foot portions extend backward from the lower side.
US12262510B2
Quantum processing circuitry cooling systems are provided. The systems can include a first chamber maintained at a first pressure; a second chamber maintained at a second pressure; a cooler within the first chamber; and quantum processing circuitry within the second chamber, the circuitry being thermally coupled to the cooler. Cooling systems are provided that can include: a cooler configured to generate and/or store cryofluid; a device thermally coupled to the cooler; and a plurality of thermal couplings between the cooler and the device, at least one of the thermal couplings being a first conduit system configured to convey cryofluid between the cooler and the device, wherein the first conduit system includes a first heat exchanger within the cooler and is configured to receive the cryofluid from the device, cool the cryofluid using the heat exchanger and provide cooler cryofluid to the device. Methods for cooling quantum processing circuitry are provided.
US12262507B2
A heat dissipation structure is provided. The heat dissipation structure includes a heat dissipation unit and a fixation unit. The fixation unit has a bottom and a wall that jointly define a hollow area. The fixation unit is surroundingly arranged on a periphery of a heating source. The hollow area has a first non-masking area, a second non-masking area, and a masking area. The masking area corresponds to at least one part of the heat dissipation unit, and the first non-masking area and the second non-masking area are respectively arranged on opposite sides of the masking area. The first non-masking area has a first volume, the second non-masking area has a second volume, and a sum of the first volume and the second volume is at least greater than a predetermined volume change of the heat dissipation unit.
US12262505B2
There is provided a lighting system comprising a light source, and a cooling system with temperature sensing and responding capability coupled to the light source for maintaining a temperature of the light source within a defined variation from a set temperature. There are also provided a method of adjusting a temperature of a light source and a method of assembling the lighting system. There is further provided an additive manufacturing system for three-dimensional printing comprising the lighting system.
US12262500B1
A latch assembly provides options for the retention within a rack of a chassis, and the retention within the chassis of a device. With the device in a device slot of the chassis, and the chassis installed in the rack, a first latch in a completely extended position prevents the device from being removed from the slot and prevents a latch tooth from being disengaged from the rack. With the first latch in an intermediate position, the latch tooth may be disengaged from the rack and the chassis removed from the rack, but the device may not be fully removed from the device slot. With the first latch in a retracted position the chassis may be removed from the rack and/or the device may be removed from the device slot.
US12262493B2
A sensor assembly for sensing a physiological characteristic of a user includes a power source, a power control switch, and a power latch within a housing. The power control switch is electrically coupled to the power source, and is configured to inhibit delivery of power from the power source to one or more components of the sensor assembly before deployment of the sensor assembly to a user, and deliver power from the power source to the one or more components of the sensor assembly in response to the deployment of the sensor assembly to the user. The power latch is configured to, upon the deployment of the sensor assembly to the user, latch an output of the power control switch to maintain the delivery of power from the power source to the one or more components of the sensor assembly while the sensor assembly is in a deployed state.
US12262492B2
The disclosure provides a compressing structure for compressing a component, a power module and a method for compressing a component inside a chamber, the compressing structure is provided for compressing a component onto a fixed plate and comprises a plate-shaped structure, the component is secured to a first side of the plate-shaped structure, the outside of the plate-shaped structure is provided with a base; at least a steering compressing member is provided between a second side of the plate-shaped structure and the base, and mounted on the second side of the plate-shaped structure or the base, the steering compressing member is provided for transforming an rotational motion into a translational motion; and at least a positioning device mounted on the side of the plate-shaped structure and the base. The compressing structure provided by the disclosure compresses the component onto the fixed plate.
US12262488B2
A display device includes a display panel that displays an image and a roller connected to an end of the display panel. The roller includes a rolling member having a single body, the rolling member including a cut-off groove formed on at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the rolling member, and at least one support member disposed in an internal empty space of the rolling member.
US12262486B2
An electronic device cover is configured to accommodate an electronic device. A first air intake window and a first air exhaust window are disposed on the electronic device cover. The first air intake window is configured to communicate with an air intake vent of the electronic device to form an air intake channel, and the first air exhaust window is configured to communicate with an air exhaust vent of the electronic device to form an air exhaust channel. An air return channel is disposed inside the electronic device, and the air return channel is configured to communicate the air exhaust channel and the air intake channel.
US12262483B2
An electronic device housing includes: a case having a bottom-surface portion and side-surface portions; and a cover covering an opening enclosed by the side-surface portions. At positions along each of at least two opposing side lines of the cover, two flexible arm portions are provided so as to extend toward the bottom-surface portion, and two protrusions are provided between the two arm portions so as to protrude and are held between the two arm portions. Contact parts of either the arm portions or the protrusions have curved-surface portions, and contact parts of others have flat-surface portions. Two of the flat-surface portions provided on a side of each side line of the cover where the two arm portions are provided are inclined such that an interval between the flat-surface portions is narrowed toward the bottom-surface portion. The arm portions bend while pressing the protrusions at positions contacting with the protrusions.
US12262478B2
An apparatus is described. The electronic circuit board having electronic components thereon. A protective material coated on an exposed material of the electronic circuit board and the electronic components. The protective material being chemically inert with the exposed material. The protective material being chemically inert with an immersion bath cooling liquid that the electronic circuit board and the electronic components are to be immersed within. A thermal cooling structure of one of the electronic components that is designed to transfer heat into the immersion bath cooling liquid is not coated with the protective material.
US12262471B2
A data storage card insertable into a peripheral slot of host system is provided that houses storage devices on both sides of the data storage card. A heat sink member establishes a skewed offset stackup among a primary circuit board and a secondary circuit board, and a circuit interconnect element couples across the skewed offset stackup between the circuit boards. The primary circuit board comprises an edge connector insertable into a peripheral slot connector and is configured to carry host signaling for the computer peripheral device. The secondary circuit board comprises a first set of data storage device connectors on a first side and a second set of data storage connectors on a second side. The skewed offset stackup allows for a thickness of storage devices inserted on both the first side and the second side to fit within a slot width of the peripheral slot.
US12262468B2
The present disclosure relates to a copper-clad laminate that may include a copper foil layer and a dielectric coating overlying the copper foil layer. The dielectric coating may include a resin matrix component, and a ceramic filler component. The ceramic filler component may include a first filler material. The dielectric coating may have an average thickness of not greater than about 20 microns.
US12262465B2
A circuit board according to an embodiment includes an insulating layer; a second outer circuit pattern disposed on an upper surface of the insulating layer; and a via disposed in the insulating layer and connected to the second outer circuit pattern; wherein the second outer circuit pattern includes: a first pattern embedded in the insulating layer and having a first width; and a second pattern protruding on the upper surface of the insulating layer, having a second width greater than the first width, and connected to the first pattern through the via.
US12262463B2
A temperature control assembly that enables precise temperature control for radiation detectors, such as positron emission tomography (“PET”) detectors and other densely packed electronics is described. The temperature control assembly includes a liquid cooling assembly that generally includes a cold plate having formed therein one or more channels through which a liquid coolant is able to flow. The channels are enclosed by the cold plate, such that the liquid coolant does not come into contact with sensitive electronic components used in the radiation detectors. When a liquid coolant is flowing through the channels, a sufficiently low humidity level is maintained external the cold plate. The liquid cooling assembly is removable and can be arranged between layers of printed circuit boards in an array of radiation detectors. Heating elements can be coupled the liquid cooling assembly and operated to increase the temperature as necessary to maintain a precisely controlled temperature environment.
US12262461B2
Some embodiments are directed to a decomposing and collection apparatus for use with a fluid. The apparatus includes an assembly for generating ions via applying atmospheric pressure, low temperature plasma to the fluid and separating the generated ions. The assembly includes multiple plasma generator and separator units that are vertically stacked relative to each other. Each of the multiple plasma generator and separator units includes a plasma generator for generating the generating atmospheric pressure, low temperature plasma, and a separator disposed to receive the positively and negatively ions ejected from the plasma generator and configured to redirect the received positively charged ions in one direction and the received negatively charged ions are redirected to another direction different from the one direction. The apparatus also includes a collector configured to collect at least one of the redirected positively charged ions and the negatively charged ions.
US12262453B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for powering light sources to reduce optical and/or electrical interference between the light sources and optical components in the same environment. The light sources may be powered using power modulation signals, whose frequency may be varied across modulation periods. Optionally, the frequency may be varied randomly or pseudo randomly. The systems and methods may additionally or alternatively introduce phase modulation into the control signals for driving channels of light sources. A phase difference in the control signals to at least two channels can reduce or avoid simultaneous or synchronous driving of the channels. The systems and methods described herein can vary one or more properties (e.g., frequency, phase shift, delay, duty cycle, power, etc.) of the power modulation signals.
US12262446B2
Presented herein are techniques associated with replicating an OpenRoaming™ policy federation in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network environment. For example, techniques herein provide a roaming policy federation architecture for a 3GPP network environment. In one example a method is provided that may include encoding at least one multi-bit roaming policy for an identity provider and a plurality of bit-wise combinatorial permutations of the at least one multi-bit roaming policy within each of a plurality of multi-bit 3GPP broadcast identifiers, wherein the at least one multi-bit roaming policy includes bit-wise roaming policy information for the identity provider and configuring the multi-bit 3GPP broadcast identifiers for a mobile device associated with the identity provider, wherein the multi-bit 3GPP broadcast identifiers indicate that the mobile device is to connect to a visited radio access network associated with a local Internet Protocol (IP) access service or a home routed access service.
US12262444B2
Provided is a communication apparatus that can perform first communication in a network during a first period of a predetermined length having a predetermined cycle, and, in the network, can set a second period different from the first period based on the first communication and perform second communication during the second period while continuing the first communication. In a case where the second communication is to be ended, the communication apparatus notifies the partner apparatus of the second communication that the second communication is to be ended, and performs control so as to end the second communication with the partner apparatus according to transmission of the notification.
US12262434B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish a multi-access (MA) protocol data unit (PDU) in accordance with the examples described herein. The WTRU may establish a new packet data network (PDN) connection or identify a suitable existing PDN connection in an evolved packet core (EPC), establish a MA-PDU in a 5G core network (5GC), and associate the existing PDN with the MA-PDU. The WTRU may already have a MA-PDU session established in 5GC with both 3GPP access leg and non-3GPP access leg in 5GC, and the WTRU may replace the 3GPP access leg in 5GC with a suitable PDN connection in EPC. The WTRU may send a request for establishing a single-access PDU session in 5GC via non-3GPP access, and a 5GC network may upgrade a PDU session established for the WTRU to a MA-PDU with 3GPP access leg in EPC.
US12262433B2
A systems and methods for multi-node communication between wireless communication nodes and a single wireless communication device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the systems and methods are configured to receive, by a second wireless communication node from a first wireless communication node, a notification frame. The systems and methods can be further configured to perform joint transmission, by the second wireless communication node to a wireless communication device according to the notification frame received from the first wireless communication node. The systems and methods can also be configured to suspend, by the second wireless communication node, contention parameters of the second wireless communication node at the beginning of the transmission to the wireless communication device.
US12262432B2
A link identifier indication method includes: A multi-link device working on a plurality of links sends a radio frame, where the radio frame includes link information of at least one link in the plurality of links, and link information of one link is used to indicate the link and corresponds to a link identifier of the link; a receiving device that receives the radio frame may determine the link identifier of the link corresponding to the link information, so that in communication of the multi-link device, a link can be identified by using the link identifier.
US12262426B2
A transmit chain (TX chain) of a user equipment (UE) transmits an uplink signal to a first wireless network associated with a first base station or a second wireless network associated with a second base station. The uplink signal includes information indicative of a first receive chain (RX chain) of the UE being synchronized to the first base station to receive first traffic from the first wireless network, and a second RX chain of the UE being synchronized to the second base station to receive second traffic from the second wireless network. The UE transmits uplink traffic for the first wireless network and the second wireless network to the second base station via the TX chain of the UE.
US12262421B2
A radio terminal (2) attempts to receive a second message of a 2-step random access procedure after transmitting a first message of the 2-step random access procedure. In response to successfully receiving the second message of the 2-step random access procedure and determining that the second message explicitly or implicitly indicates a fallback to a 4-step random access procedure, the radio terminal (2) further attempts to receive a control message that contains an uplink grant indicating uplink resources available for transmission of a third message of a 4-step random access procedure. This contributes to, for example, reducing the load on a radio terminal that supports a fallback from the 2-step random access procedure to the 4-step random access procedure.
US12262420B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to the timing arrangements and the transmission gap configurations in 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedures to improve system latency and reliability of a RACH HARQ process are provided. The UE transmits a first message including a random access preamble and a payload, and then monitors for a second message in response to the first message during a random access response (RAR) window. In response to determining that no second message is received by the UE from the BS or a back off indicator is received within the RAR window, the UE re-transmits the preamble and payload of the first message after the RAR window lapses. In response to determining if the second message received within the RAR window carries a FallbackRAR or SuccessRAR, the UE then determines to re-transmit the payload of the first message based on the FallbackRAR, or to transmit an acknowledgement message based on the SuccessRAR.
US12262417B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a communication node for wireless communications. A communication node receives a first signaling; transmits a first signal; receives a second signal; transmits a third signal; and when a first condition is satisfied, transmits a fourth signal; the first signaling comprises K1 first-type signal(s) and K2 second-type signal(s); the K1 first-type signals(s) is(are) different from the K2 second-type signal(s); a sum of K1 and K2 is of a fixed magnitude; the K1 and the K2 are both positive integers; the first signal is one of the K1 first-type signal(s); the fourth signal is one of the K2 second-type signal(s); the second signal is used for determining time-frequency resources of the third signal; the first condition is related to a parameter of the third signal. The present disclosure allows that a preamble group is reselected to improve probability of random access success.
US12262404B2
An information transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: in a case where first wireless transmission and second wireless transmission overlap in a time domain, performing the following processing: comparing a first priority value corresponding to the first wireless transmission with a second priority value corresponding to the second wireless transmission, and discarding the wireless transmission corresponding to a higher priority value; or, comparing the first priority value corresponding to the first wireless transmission with a parameter value A, in a case where the first priority value is greater than or equal to the parameter value A, discarding the first wireless transmission, otherwise, discarding the second wireless transmission.
US12262393B2
Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal receives a grant for uplink multiple subframes from a base station. The terminal determines a first subframe for an SRS transmission of the terminal among the uplink multiple subframes on the basis of SRS transmission position information received from the base station. Further, the terminal transmits the SRS in the first subframe.
US12262390B2
A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A terminal device receives first indication information sent by a network device. The terminal device determines a target transmission mode of N TBs based on the first indication information, where the target transmission mode is a sequential transmission mode or an interleaved transmission mode. The terminal device receives the N TBs from the network device based on the target transmission mode. According to the method and the apparatus in this application, the terminal device can receive, based on different transmission modes, DCI and a plurality of TBs that are scheduled by using the DCI.
US12262386B2
A method for HARQ-ACK feedback for a PDCCH without scheduling data, and a device are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information of higher layer signaling, where the configuration information is used for determining a format of HARQ-ACK feedback information in a dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook for the PDCCH without scheduling data.
US12262377B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable medium for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. The method comprises receiving, from a network device, first control information at least comprising first channel indices for a first group of data channels and second channel indices for a second group of data channels, the first group of the data channels being at least part of a first set of data channels scheduled for data transmission from the network device to the terminal device and the second group of the data channels being at least part of a second set of data channels scheduled for the data transmission. The method also comprises generating, based on the first control information, feedback information indicating first reception states of data on the first group of data channels in association with the first channel indices and second reception states of data on the second group of data channels in association with the second channel indices. The method further comprises transmitting the feedback information via an uplink channel to the network device. In this way, for the case that the HARQ ACK/NACK feedback related to multiple PDSCH groups in a same PUCCH, the miss detection of DCI in multiple PDSCH groups may reflect in the bit sequence for the HARQ ACK/NACK feedback, so that the network device may be aware of the miss detection and determine the data to be retransmitted.
US12262375B2
Methods and apparatuses for coverage enhancement of Msg3. A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving a system information block (SIB) that provides information mapping physical random access channel (PRACH) resources to enable or disable repetitions for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a random access procedure and a first time domain resource allocation (TDRA) table. An entry of the first TDRA table indicates a number of repetitions of a PUSCH transmission. The method further includes determining a PRACH resource for transmission of a PRACH, determining, based on the PRACH resource, a TDRA table from between the first TDRA table or a predetermined second TDRA table. No entry of the second TDRA table indicates a number of repetitions for a PUSCH transmission. The method further includes receiving a first grant scheduling transmission of a first PUSCH and transmitting the first PUSCH.
US12262374B2
A method (400) performed by a UE (600). The method includes the UE receiving (s402) a message transmitted by a base station, wherein the message comprises: i) logical channel, LCH, information identifying a LCH and ii) configured grant, CG, information identifying at least one CG configuration to which the LCH is mapped.
US12262368B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may select a set of available sidelink resources in a selection window for communication by a second UE. The first UE may transmit, to the second UE, an inter-UE coordination message that indicates inter-UE coordination information identifying the set of available sidelink resources, wherein the selection window is of a length different than a length of a resource selection window of the first UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12262363B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for beam updating are provided. An example method includes receiving DCI. The method further includes determining, based on the DCI, whether the DCI is associated with a beam update for uplink, downlink, or a combination of the uplink and the downlink. The method further includes determining, from the DCI, a TCI state that indicates a beam for the uplink, the downlink, or the combination of the uplink and the downlink.
US12262357B2
Proposed is an operation method of a first device (100) in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: selecting a first resource, a second resource, a third resource, and a fourth resource; on the basis of at least one of the first resource, the second resource, the third resource, and the fourth resource, transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) to a second device (200); and on the basis of at least one of the first resource, the second resource, the third resource, and the fourth resource, transmitting a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to the second device (200).
US12262348B2
An alert peripheral device that provides sensory notification to a user of the device includes: a power subsystem; a communication mechanism by which notification signals is received from a first user equipment (UE) that generates and transmits the notification signals in response to detection of specific events at the first UE; and a response notification mechanism that provides a sensory response of the peripheral device following receipt of a notification of a detected event (NDE) signal. The device further includes an embedded controller coupled to each of the other components and which includes firmware that when executed on the embedded controller configures the embedded controller to: establish a communication link between the communication mechanism and the first UE; and in response to detecting a receipt of the NDE signal from the first UE, trigger the response notification mechanism to exhibit the sensory response.
US12262347B2
A first user equipment (UE) that does not support cross-slot scheduling (CSS) and a second UE that supports the CSS may share a paging occasion (PO), and a base station that supports CSS may configure a set of variable K0 greater than zero to the second UE. The base station may page both the first UE and the second UE in the shared PO by transmitting a first paging message for the first UE in the shared PO with K=0, and transmitting a second paging message for the second UE transmitted in the subsequent PO. The first UE may receive a paging scheduling physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with K0=0 in the shared PO and monitor consecutive POs subsequent to the shared PO to receive the paging message. The base station may also assign separate sets of POs to the CSS-capable UE and the CSS-incapable UE.
US12262337B2
A communication apparatus performs, during establishment of connection with a base station, synchronization processing for obtaining reference time information of a time synchronization system and establishing time synchronization, sets a time interval for performing the synchronization processing based on an error of an intra-apparatus time held in the communication apparatus with respect to time information represented by the reference time information, and in a non-connected state, based on the time interval, requests the base station to cause the communication apparatus to transition to a connected state at a timing when the synchronization processing should be performed, wherein the synchronization processing is performed at a timing based on the time interval, at which the communication apparatus is operating in the connected state.
US12262334B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for random access procedures triggered based on physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) orders. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12262324B2
An HARQ feedback method and an HARQ feedback apparatus. The method includes: receiving a power saving signal, the power saving signal being configured to indicate the terminal to perform a power saving related action; and performing HARQ feedback based on a receipt result of the power saving signal.
US12262322B2
A wireless communication device (100) comprises a first transceiver (110) comprising a first frequency synthesizer (112) which comprises a first digitally controlled oscillator (DCO1) and a crystal oscillator (XO). The wireless communication device (100) further comprises a second transceiver (120) comprising a wakeup receiver (Rx2), a second transmitter (Tx2) and a second digitally controlled oscillator (DCO2) connected to the wakeup receiver (Rx2) and second transmitter (Tx2). The wireless communication device (100) further comprises a control unit (170) configured to control operation of the wireless communication device. The second transmitter (Tx2) is configured to transmit periodically a signal to a base station. The signal is modulated by a code identifying the wireless communication device (100) and transmitted at a frequency set by the second digitally controlled oscillator (DCO2).
US12262319B2
A method for a base station (BS) instructing a UE to monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for power saving signaling is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration to the UE indicating to monitor a scheduling signal on the PDCCH within a DRX active time, and transmitting a configuration to the UE for monitoring the power saving signaling on the PDCCH, instructing the UE to wake up for monitoring the scheduling signal in the DRX active time, wherein the configuration includes a time in milliseconds prior to a start of a DRX on-duration time, and instructs the UE to start monitoring the PDCCH for the power saving signaling.
US12262316B1
An access repeater device that controls transmission of a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signals at a first transmit (Tx) power level, and detects a distribution of a set of user equipment (UEs), within a physical coverage zone of the access repeater device based on the transmitted first beam of RF signals, where a first UE of the set of UEs is detected at a first distance from the access repeater device at a first instance. The access repeater device controls decrease of the first Tx power level of the first beam of RF signals to induce a UE response at a second UE to increase a Tx radio power of an RF signal by the second UE. The access repeater device detects the second UE at a second instance based on the decrease of the first Tx power level.
US12262303B2
A UE activates a timer for applying access control to transmissions associated with a certain access category during an access control period, in response to a first system information message received via a radio interface and a mobile-originated access request (1702). While the timer is running, the UE receives a second message that indicates a potential transition of the UE (i) from a current state associated with a protocol for controlling radio resources to another state associated with the protocol, or (ii) from a current cell to a new cell (1704). In response to the second message, the UE continues to apply the access control to the transmissions for the access category, for a remainder of the access control period (1706).
US12262302B2
The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and processor readable media for distributing digital data over networks. Certain embodiments relate to systems, methods, and devices used within such networks where at least a substantial portion of the interconnected devices are capable of interacting with one or more neighbouring devices, and then to form such a time synchronous network using local network information.
US12262291B2
A vehicle management server configured to manage information on a control device mounted on a vehicle, and information on a plurality of information terminals connectable with the control device is provided. The vehicle management server includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a positional relationship between the information terminals and the control device; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information indicating the positional relationship, whether or not there is a first information terminal that is out of a setting range that includes the control device among the information terminals; and a notification unit configured to transmit, based on whether or not there is the first information terminal, a first message to at least one second information terminal different from the first information terminal among the information terminals.
US12262287B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a federated learning configuration that indicates one or more parameters of a federated learning procedure associated with a machine learning component. The base station may receive a local update associated with the machine learning component from the UE based at least in part on the federated learning configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12262282B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for population density approximation is provided. The embodiment may include identifying a device as entering a preconfigured distance of a preconfigured area, whereby the preconfigured area is one of a plurality of preconfigured areas. The embodiment may also include gathering device-identifying information corresponding to the device. The embodiment may further include creating a profile for each device using the device-identifying data. The embodiment may also include correlating device movements across the plurality of preconfigured areas using the profile associated with each device. The embodiment may further include calculating a population density based on the correlated device movements.
US12262280B2
A method being for facilitating positioning determination of a UE includes: obtaining motion information indicative of motion of the UE; obtaining positioning information based on positioning signals received by the UE; determining a validity status of map data based on whether the positioning information, the motion of the UE, and the map data, that include locations of physical environmental features, are consistent, wherein the validity status is determined to be valid in response to the positioning information, the motion of the UE, and the map data being consistent; and determining at least one of a position estimate for the UE, or a direction of motion of the UE, based on the map data and based on the validity status being valid.
US12262279B2
A measurement reporting and receiving method, a device and an equipment are provided. The method includes: measuring, by a terminal, positioning reference signals sent by a plurality of network side sending devices, and determining, according to a measurement result of the positioning reference signals sent by each network side sending device, angle of departure indication information of the each network side sending device; and sending, by the terminal, the angle of departure indication information of the plurality of network side sending devices to a network side positioning device.
US12262275B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein with respect to the mobility and multi-connectivity of wireless transmit receive units. These devices may be configured to perform conditional handovers and/or conditional second cell group reconfigurations including primary secondary cell additions or changes. The devices may exchange information with a network while performing the conditional reconfigurations and/or conditional handovers. The devices may be configured with rules to handle concurrent handover and reconfiguration tasks.
US12262274B2
Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining, by a terminal device, that a connection failure occurs between the terminal device and a first cell, where the first cell is a cell of a first network device. The terminal device determines signal quality of a second cell of a second network device, where both the first network device and the second network device provide communication services for the terminal device. If the signal quality of the second cell is greater than or equal to a first preset threshold, the terminal device performs a connection recovery process between the terminal device and the first cell by using the second cell.
US12262268B2
The present disclosure relates to performing measurement in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving, from a network, information for at least one of a first cell quality threshold or a second cell quality threshold, and information for at least one of a first triggering threshold or a second triggering threshold; identifying a representative cell of each of a plurality of frequencies for measurement; obtaining a representative cell quality for each of the plurality of frequencies based on a measurement on the representative cell of each of the plurality of frequencies; and performing a relaxed measurement on the plurality of frequencies based on a determination that a triggering condition for the relaxed measurement is satisfied, wherein the triggering condition comprises at least one of: a condition that a number of frequencies for which representative cell quality is higher than the first cell quality threshold among the plurality of frequencies is lower than the first triggering threshold; or a condition that a number of frequencies for which representative cell quality is lower than the second cell quality threshold among the plurality of frequencies is higher than the second triggering threshold.
US12262262B2
Techniques to configure a user equipment (UE) for a multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding a measurement report for transmission to the SBS. The measurement report is triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. Radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the SBS is decoded, the RRC signaling including a handover command in response to the measurement report. The handover command includes an indication for multi-connectivity support by the SBS and the TBS during the handover. A first protocol stack associated with the SBS and a second protocol stack associated with the TBS are configured at the UE. A packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) received at the UE during the handover is processed using the first protocol stack or the second protocol stack.
US12262261B2
Provided are a clock synchronization method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The clock synchronization method includes that: when a source base station determines that a user equipment (UE) satisfies a handover condition, the source base station sends a handover request to a target base station, where the handover request includes a request for precision clock information; and the source base station receives the precision clock information of the target base station.
US12262245B2
An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus may be a network node. The apparatus receives a set of uplink transmissions from a set of user equipments (UEs) via a first resource of a non-orthogonal channel, wherein the apparatus is unable to decode the set of uplink transmissions. The apparatus transmits a retransmission request to a subset of the set of UEs. The apparatus receives a retransmission of a first uplink transmission in the set of uplink transmissions via a second resource of the non-orthogonal channel in response to the retransmission request. The apparatus decodes a second uplink transmission in the set of uplink transmissions based on at least the retransmission of the first uplink transmission.
US12262234B2
Disclosed is a virtual base station capable of hosting multiple network operators and/or private networks in a single compute environment. The virtual base station includes a plurality of virtual baseband processors configured to communicate with the plurality of mobile network operators, a supervisor module, a fronthaul network interface configured to be coupled to one or more remote units, and a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) coordinator module coupled to the supervisor module and the one or more virtual baseband processors. The base station may have on or more CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) Daemons to act as a proxy for obtaining grants to CBRS channels and allocating the CBRS channels to the mobile network operators.
US12262223B2
Systems and methods for reference signaling design and configuration in wireless communication networks is discussed herein. In one embodiment, the systems and methods are configured to determine, by a wireless communication device, an activated beam state applicable to a downlink signal received from a wireless communication node. The systems and methods can be further configured to determine, by the wireless communication device based at least on the activated beam state, a first information of an uplink signal to the wireless communication node, the uplink signal associated with an uplink resource.
US12262219B2
Methods and apparatus in a communications network as described herein are suitable for determining a first model for use in predicting conditions on carrier frequencies in the communications network. In a method, network measurements are obtained (302) of conditions on a plurality of carrier frequencies. A first model is then determined (304) based on the obtained measurements that takes as input the conditions on a first subset of the plurality of carrier frequencies and outputs a prediction of the conditions on a second subset of the plurality of carrier frequencies, based on the conditions of the first subset of carrier frequencies.
US12262218B2
A system for assisting the positioning, in particular the orientation, with regard to a target position, of an antenna of a beacon intended to be in communication link by radio signal with a transmitter/receiver device, the system including a system for representation of a lobe of the radiation pattern of the antenna of the beacon on a projection surface of an environment in which said beacon is intended to be installed, and a system for measuring a distance separating the beacon and at least one point on the projection surface corresponding to the target position or positions.
US12262216B2
Apparatus and methods for coordinating operation of two or more wireless networks operating within a common area or venue. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide mechanisms for scheduling access node(s) of one or more of the wireless networks relative to others of the networks so as to minimize interference or contention for common frequency resources (e.g., unlicensed spectrum such as that used by WLAN, NR-U or LTE-U technologies). In one variant, a network coordinator process generates schedule data that is pushed to one or more of the wireless networks that specifies temporal and spatial aspects wherein access nodes of the recipient one or more networks can operate (e.g., transmit) with suitable levels of interference from other wireless network(s) operating within the area or venue. The schedule data is separate from underlying protocol scheduling by the access nodes, thereby preserving all operational aspects of the underlying ireless protocols.
US12262212B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12262210B2
Dynamic configuration of Overlapping Basic Set Service Preamble Detect (OBSS/PD) parameters for an Access Point (AP) may be provided. First, a plurality of stations within a Spatial Reuse (SR) range of the AP may be determined. Next, Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) calculations associated with the plurality of stations may be performed to determine an SINR impact on the plurality of stations if the AP performs an SR transmission given OBSS/PD parameters currently configured for the AP. Then, based on the SINR calculations, the OBSS/PD parameters for the AP may be dynamically adjusted.
US12262207B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying a user device. In one implementation, a method may include the steps of monitoring one or more user devices operating on a Wi-Fi network, analyzing usage parameters with respect to each of the one or more user devices, and identifying the one or more user devices based on the usage parameters. Also, according to additional implementations, the method may include analyzing, over time, the usage parameters with respect to each of the one or more user devices. Based on the usage parameters analyzed over time, the method may include the step of creating one or more behavioral models associated with one or more users, where each behavioral model may represent a usage pattern of a respective user according to how the user uses at least one of the user devices.
US12262199B2
An apparatus, which includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, is provided. The processor is configured to cause the apparatus to apply a first security key for a first cell group, wherein a first medium access control (MAC) entity of the apparatus is associated with the first cell group; and apply a second security key for a second cell group, wherein a second MAC entity of the apparatus is associated with the second cell group. The processor if further configured to receive a second reconfiguration message indicating a counter including a value for deriving at least in part a third security key for the second cell group; and apply the derived third security key for the second cell group, wherein the apparatus continues to use the first security key for the first cell group, and wherein the first MAC entity is not reset.
US12262190B2
Various implementations include computer-implemented methods and related systems for controlling the phantom center image of an audio output in an automobile. In one implementation, a method includes: receiving at least one user interface command to modify a phantom center image of audio output from the audio system in the automobile, wherein the phantom center image of the audio output includes a designated position of sound produced by a set of speakers in the audio system other than physical locations of the set of speakers in the audio system; and adjusting a perceived location of the phantom center image of the audio output from the audio system based upon the at least one user interface command to modify the phantom center image of the audio output.
US12262188B2
A bone conduction loudspeaker is disclosed. The loudspeaker includes a conductive case, a sound control plate arranged at one end of the conductive case and contacting with the conductive case, and an accommodating space surrounded by the conductive case and the sound control plate. The accommodating space accommodates a coil for generating a magnetic field and a magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly, the conductive case and the sound control plate form a magnetic circuit, and the conductive case and the sound control plate are respectively made of electroacoustic materials with different thicknesses. The magnetic assembly, the conductive case and the sound control plate form a magnetic loop to form a magnetic system, and after the coil is electrified, an alternating magnetic field is generated, the alternating magnetic field intensity of the magnetic system is changed.
US12262186B2
A system and method for delivering full-bandwidth sound to an audience in an audience space located in front of an acoustically reflective image screen such as a plasma, LCD, LED, or OLED screen. The sound delivery system provides for two separate and spatially displaced sound sources, namely, a high frequency loudspeaker for reproducing high frequency components of the sound associated with images displayed on the acoustically reflective image screen, and a separate low frequency loudspeaker for reproducing low frequency components of the image-associated sound. The high frequency loudspeaker or loudspeakers are positioned in front of the image screen to direct the high frequency components of the sound at the image screen where it is reflected back into the audience space, whereas the low frequency loudspeaker or loudspeakers are positioned at or about the acoustically reflective image screen and direct the low frequency components of the sound toward the audience space which are time-aligned with the high frequency components.
US12262178B2
A method, including an action of receiving first data based on data based on ambient sound captured with a first microphone, and further including an action of receiving second data based on data based on the ambient sound captured with a second microphone, wherein the first microphone is a part of a hearing prosthesis, the second microphone is part of an indoor sound capture system or indoor sound capture sub-system, and the method further comprises comparing the first data to the second data.
US12262175B2
An acoustic transducer includes: substrate including first silicon layer, first oxide layer and second silicon layer, back chamber is formed therethrough; second oxide layer on the substrate; piezoelectric unit on the second oxide layer and including first electrode layer, piezoelectric layer and second electrode layer; slit and opening formed in the second electrode layer; metal pad stacked on the first electrode layer at the opening; and additional film layer including first and second parts, the first part is lay on the second electrode layer and covers the slit, and the second part is lay on the metal pad, through slot is formed penetrating the second part to expose the metal pad. Compared with the related art, additional film layer is formed by vapor deposition, and the piezoelectric unit can vibrate with maximum displacement and lowest restriction, thereby effectively improving SPL and structural reliability, which is suitable for larger acoustic transducers.
US12262171B2
In an audio spot formation device D including a speaker unit 1 and a support stand 2 that supports the speaker unit 1, the speaker unit 1 includes a plurality of parametric speakers 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d that divide a sound wave into a carrier wave and a sideband wave and radiate the carrier wave and the sideband wave, and a speaker disposition unit 10 in which the plurality of speakers 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d are disposed, the speaker disposition unit 10 is attached to the support stand 2 at a support unit P, at least one of a height of the support stand 2, an angle of attachment of the speaker disposition unit 10 at the support unit P and a direction of at least one parametric speaker of the plurality of parametric speakers 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d is adjustable, and a position at which an audio spot is formed is adjusted via the adjustment.
US12262168B2
An active noise reduction earbud includes a housing and a first feedforward microphone disposed in the housing. A first sound inlet opening extends through the housing and is configured to conduct external sound to the first feedforward microphone. The first sound inlet opening is configured to sit within a concha cavum of a user's ear and faces toward an auricle of the user's ear when the earbud is worn.
US12262161B2
An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture, a membrane extending across the aperture, and a non-metallic woven support mesh disposed parallel to the flexible membrane and extending across the aperture. In at least one example, the membrane is acoustically transparent and the membrane is air permeable and water impermeable. In addition, the support mesh can be less flexible than the membrane such that the support mesh structurally supports the membrane.
US12262153B2
Techniques for remote monitoring of a patient and corresponding medical device(s) are described. The remote monitoring comprises determining identification data and identifying implantable medical device (IMD) information, initiating an imaging device and determining an imaging program, receiving one or more frames of image data including image(s) of an implantation site, identifying an abnormality at the implantation site, triggering a supplemental image capture mode, receiving one or more supplemental images of the implantation site, and outputting the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site.
US12262151B2
A position information providing system includes: an information device which includes a GPS sensor and a camera, the information device being configured to extract image data including subject identification information for identifying a photographing subject from image data acquired by the camera, and to generate subject location information that associates position information acquired by the GPS sensor and the subject identification information with each other; and a computer configured to generate information provision data based on the subject location information generated by the information device, wherein the information device has installed therein dedicated software for extracting, from a plurality of pieces of the acquired image data, image data including the subject identification information as required information worth information provision, and is configured to generate the subject location information for the image data extracted through use of the dedicated software, and to transmit the generated subject location information to the computer.
US12262143B2
The disclosure provides a video conference presentation method and apparatus, a terminal device and a storage medium. When content is shared during a video conference, a participant multimedia display area selected for amplified presentation and a shared content display area interchange presented contents mutually, such that interaction modes between users and terminal devices in a video conference are enriched, an interaction path is shorter to be more conformable to the intuition of users, and the participant multimedia data is less affected, thereby reducing disturbance to users, and improving users' visual perception for an entire interface.
US12262140B2
A first composite video depicting a media background shared by a first user of the users is transmitted for display at devices of users of a conference. A presentation content is received from a device of a second user of the users. A second composite video depicting the media background partially overlaid by the presentation content is transmitted to at least a subset of the devices for display at the at least the subset of the devices. A request may be received from a device of the first user to grant an access right to the second user to share the presentation content for depiction within the second composite video.
US12262121B2
Disclosed herein is provided is a visual presenter having a head structure capable of changing a photographing direction, the visual presenter including a base fixed to a floor by applying weight to prevent the presenter from falling down, a head part having one end provided with a camera lens facing the floor, a support part connecting the head part and the base and extending upward from the base to position the head part at a height of a learner's face, and a photographing mode switching module disposed adjacent to the camera lens and configured to switch between a learner photographing mode and a study material photographing mode without requiring manipulation of the head part.
US12262115B2
Methods and apparatus for stabilizing image data based on a lens polynomial. Non-rectilinear footage can be captured and rectified in-camera; the rectified images may be stabilized to provide rectified stable video. In one exemplary embodiment, the footage is rectified and stabilized based on a lens polynomial and the camera's own movement. In some variants, the rectified stable video may be stored along with its margin track. In-camera rectified stable video provides several benefits over traditional techniques (e.g., the ability to share rectilinear content from the camera without additional post-processing, as well as reduced file sizes of the shared videos). Lens-aware post-processing can reuse portions of the in-camera rectified stable videos while providing additional benefits (e.g., the ability to re-frame the video in post-production).
US12262111B2
While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each restricted application launch icon corresponding to an application. The device also detects user input to activate a respective restricted application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the user input to activate the respective restricted application launch icon, starts a restricted session for a respective application that corresponds to the respective restricted application launch icon, wherein the respective application is configured to generate one or more content items while in the restricted session, and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for applications in the device other than the respective application.
US12262110B2
Provided is a camera head having a capacitive sensing unit disposed along the outer surface of the camera head. The capacitive sensing unit includes a plurality of capacitive sensors. The camera head includes an electronic controller operable to process an actuation of the plurality of capacitive sensors to control a camera control function and determine a medical procedure and/or the identity of the user.
US12262107B2
An embodiment vehicle includes an image recording device, an ultrasonic sensor, and a controller configured to operate the ultrasonic sensor in response to parking of the vehicle, operate the image recording device to a standby mode, switch the image recording device to an active mode based on a detection of an object located around the vehicle by the ultrasonic sensor, and control the image recording device to store an image of surroundings of the vehicle obtained by the image recording device.
US12262105B2
A camera module according to an embodiment includes a circuit board; and an image sensor disposed on the circuit board; wherein the circuit board includes: an insulating layer; a pad disposed on the insulating layer; a terminal disposed on the insulating layer and spaced apart from the pad; a protective layer disposed on the insulating layer and including an opening exposing the pad and the terminal; a wire part disposed on the pad; and a connecting wire connecting the image sensor and the terminal, wherein a lower surface of the image sensor is in direct contact with the wire part, and wherein the wire part and the image sensor are electrically separated from each other.
US12262102B2
An image processing apparatus which is capable of calculating appropriate irradiation conditions for invisible light so as to improve the image quality of a visible light image. The image processing apparatus includes a lighting unit. A feature value of the visible light image obtained by shooting of a subject irradiated with visible light provided by the lighting unit is calculated. A feature value of invisible light image obtained by shooting of the subject irradiated with invisible light provided by the lighting unit is calculated. Irradiation conditions for the invisible light to be provided by the lighting unit are calculated based on the feature value of the visible light image and the feature value of the invisible light image.
US12262094B2
Methods and systems for using text data in content presentation and content search are disclosed. Text data and a plurality of video frames can be extracted from a content program and stored in a database. Extracted text data can be divided into a plurality of text segments. The plurality of text segments and the plurality of video frames can be presented in the form of an electronic book or guide. In addition, the content program can be divided into a plurality of content segments and stored in the database. The plurality of content segments and the plurality of text segments can be associated by time indices. A user can identify one or more content segments in the database by a query, and notifications can be sent according to the query.
US12262091B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a video playing method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: detecting that a preset application program is switched from a non-background running state to a background running state during the process of playing a first video; continuing to play the first video in the background by means of the preset application program, and determining a second video from a second video candidate set according to historical operation information of the current user for the preset application program and a preset background video recommendation model; and when a preset video switching event is detected, playing the second video in the background by means of the preset application program.
US12262090B2
Methods and systems for dynamically navigating content are provided. Media content is generated for display on a user device. A selectable indicator for incrementally skipping through the media content is also generated. An input indicating selection of the selectable indicator is received and, in response to receiving the input indicating the selection of the selectable indicator, at least two selectable navigation settings are generated for display. Each navigation setting is associated with a navigation interval within the content. An input of the selection of the navigation setting and the navigation interval is received. The current play position of the media content item is shifted based on the selected navigation setting and the navigation interval.
US12262086B2
A digital content controller system and interface limits media content from being viewed by using a rated numerical value system. Users will be able to block specific offensive content such nudity without blocking specific content such as violence. This system will simultaneously work with movies, music and video games.
US12262084B2
Systems and methods are described herein for selecting supplemental content for a viewer based on supplemental-content analytics for the view. Supplemental-content analytics are generated for the viewer based on historical viewer interactions with previously provided supplemental content by the viewer. While content is being provided to the viewer, a determination is made to pause the content and provide supplemental content to the viewer. The supplemental content is then selected and provided to the viewer based on the supplemental-content analytics for the viewer.
US12262074B2
A method for transmitting data streams, applicable to a stream distributing device including a plurality of transmitters, includes: acquiring a data stream to be transmitted; acquiring, from the data stream, a plurality of data segments corresponding to the plurality of transmitters, wherein each of the transmitters corresponds to at least one data segment, and different transmitters correspond to different data segments; and transmitting the corresponding data segments to a stream combining device using the plurality of transmitters, such that the stream combining device transmits the data stream to a playing device in response to acquiring the data stream by combining the plurality of data segments.
US12262073B2
Systems and methods for managing available bandwidth in a household are provided. A request to access a first media asset is received. A determination is made as to whether a bandwidth currently available in the household is sufficient for enabling access to the first media asset. When the bandwidth currently available in the household is insufficient for enabling access to the first media asset, a search is performed for a second media asset currently consuming a portion of the household bandwidth needed for enabling access to the first media asset. A third media asset is identified having a remaining duration that is more than a remaining duration of the second media asset. A message is displayed that indicates the bandwidth currently available in the household is insufficient to access the first media asset and that has an option to access the third media asset instead of the first media asset.
US12262071B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for audio/video recognition and adaptive packet transmission are disclosed. A first content item that includes audio content and video content may be received and processed to detect a set of one or more video characteristics and/or a set of one or more audio characteristics that may be analyzed to identify the first content item as corresponding to a service provider system. The first content item may be transferred for display with an endpoint media device. At least one electronic signal may be received and processed, the at least one electronic signal indicative of execution of at least one operation of a set of one or more operations relating to one or more images of the first content item consequent to the display of the first content with the endpoint media device.
US12262062B2
According to embodiments of the present document, information for carrying out in-loop filtering across virtual boundaries can be efficiently signaled. For example, in-loop filtering can be carried out on the basis of signaling of information which is related to whether in-loop filtering across virtual boundaries is enabled or not.
US12262058B2
Provided is an encoder including: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: performs a mapping process of Luma Mapping with Chroma Scaling (LMCS) for transforming a first pixel value space applied to a luma display image signal into a second pixel value space applied to a luma encoding process signal, using line segments forming a transform curve, each of which corresponds to a different one of sections obtained by partitioning the first pixel value space; and encodes an image, and in the performing of the LMCS, the circuitry determines the transform curve so that among boundary values in the second pixel value space, a first value obtained by dividing a boundary value by a base width defined according to a bit depth of the image is not equal to a second value obtained by dividing another boundary value by the base width.
US12262050B2
Decoding or encoding picture information can involve determining a value associated with a prediction of a pixel of a block of picture information, wherein, the prediction is based on an intra-prediction along a non-diagonal direction, determining, from among a plurality of decoded pixels neighboring the block on the top and the left, at least four reference samples for the block based on the non-diagonal direction, and wherein the determining of the value comprises an interpolation based on a quadratic model and the four reference samples; and decoding or encoding at least a portion of the picture information based on the value.
US12262045B2
Innovations in intra block copy (“BC”) prediction mode facilitate intra BC prediction that is more effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency of encoding and decoding. For example, some of the innovations provide ways to select block vector (“BV”) values more effectively. Other innovations provide ways to encode/decode BV values more efficiently. Still other innovations address how to perform in-loop deblock filtering when a block has intra BC prediction mode, or address how to perform intra BC prediction when constrained intra prediction is enabled.
US12262036B1
Image series transformation for optimal compressibility is performed with neural upsampling and error resilience. It incorporates a novel correlation network composed of convolutional layers for feature extraction and a channel-wise transformer with attention to capture complex inter-channel dependencies. The system includes an angle optimizer to further enhance the compressibility of an image and an error resilience subsystem to improve robustness against transmission errors and data loss. The convolutional layers extract multi-dimensional features from the image, while the channel-wise transformer learns global inter-channel relationships. The error resilience subsystem applies forward error correction coding, data partitioning based on importance, and embeds error concealment hints. This hybrid approach addresses both local and global features, mitigates compression artifacts, improves image quality, and enhances data integrity during transmission. The correlation network incorporates error correction and concealment techniques during decoding. The model's outputs enable effective image reconstruction, achieving advanced compression while preserving information for accurate analysis.
US12262034B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for interlayer prediction, and the method for interlayer prediction, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: deciding whether to apply an interlayer prediction to an enhancement layer; and performing a prediction on a current block of the enhancement layer based on reference information that is generalized and generated from a reference picture, which is decoded, of a reference layer, when the interlayer prediction is applied, wherein the reference layer information can be encoding information of a reference block, which corresponds to a current block of the enhancement layer, from the reference layer, and residual information.
US12262033B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data and scaling list-related information may be signaled hierarchically, thereby reducing the amount of data to be signaled for video/image coding and increasing coding efficiency.
US12262028B2
The present principles relates to a method for encoding an image unit comprising image data represented by a luminance channel and at least one chrominance channel, the method comprising obtaining a luma coding-tree by splitting a luminance unit representative of the luminance channel of said image unit and obtaining a chroma coding-tree by splitting a chrominance unit representative of at least one chrominance channel of said image unit. The method is characterized in that obtaining said chroma coding-tree comprises: determining whether said chroma coding-tree and said luma coding-tree are identical; and signaling an information data indicating whether said chroma coding-tree and said luma coding-tree are identical.
US12262023B2
To allow better quality rendering of video on any display, a method is proposed of encoding, in addition to video data (VID), additional data (DD) comprising at least one change time instant (TMA_1) indicating a change in time of a characteristic luminance (CHRLUM) of the video data, which characteristic luminance summarizes the set of luminances of pixels in an image of the video data, the method comprising: generating on the basis of the video data (VID) descriptive data (DED) regarding the characteristic luminance variation of the video, the descriptive data comprising at least one change time instant (TMA_1), and encoding and outputting the descriptive data (DED) as additional data (DD).
US12262017B2
Disclosed is a video encoding and decoding technology using a differential modulation technique for a residual signal in order to enhance compression performance in a transform skip mode. The differential modulation technique is applicable to both luma and chroma components as long as the chroma format is not monochrome (i.e. as long as chroma_format_idc=0 is not true).
US12262014B2
The present invention provides an image encoding apparatus for encoding a sequence of images, where the apparatus comprises a prediction unit which generates, for a target block to be encoded having a predetermined size in an image, a predicted image from both an intra-prediction image and an inter-prediction image, and obtains prediction errors that are differences between the target block and the predicted image; a transform unit which frequency-transforms the prediction errors, a quantization unit which quantize, using a quantization matrix, the transform coefficients, and an encoding unit which entropy-encodes quantized transform coefficients, wherein the quantization unit obtains the quantization matrix, using at least one of a predetermined quantization matrix for the intra-prediction and a predetermined quantization matrix for inter-prediction.
US12262003B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction are provided. An image decoding method of the present invention comprises deriving an intra-prediction mode for a current block, determining whether or not a left boundary or an upper boundary of the current block is a boundary of a predetermined image region, configuring a reference sample by using at least one reconstructed sample included in at least one reconstructed sample line adjacent to the current block based on the determination result, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample.
US12262002B2
An image prediction method according to the present invention may comprise: identifying a reference pixel region designated for obtaining correlation information; determining a reference pixel processing configuration on the basis of determination of the availability of the reference pixel region; and performing intra prediction according to the determined reference pixel processing. As described above, performing intra prediction on the basis of the availability of a reference pixel according to the present invention can improve encoding performance.
US12261992B2
Generating an image signal comprises a receiver that receives source images representing a scene. A combined image generator generates combined images from the source images. Each combined image is derived from source images. An evaluator determines prediction quality measures for elements of the source images where the prediction quality measure for an element of a source image is indicative of a difference between pixel values in the source image and predicted pixel values for pixels in the element. The predicted pixel values are pixel values resulting from prediction of pixels from the combined images. A determiner determines low-quality segments of the source images comprising elements for which the prediction quality measure is indicative of a difference between the pixels that is above a threshold. An image signal generator generates an image signal comprising image data representing the combined images and the low-quality segments of the source images.
US12261987B2
An image forming apparatus includes first and second processors controlling first and second image formers that form first and second images using color material having first and second color compositions, the second image to be superimposed on the first image; and a display displaying information. If an image formation instruction, including information indicating that the first and second images are to be superimposed is received, with a different image formation instruction being received, the first processor causes the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the different image formation instruction; and transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition. The second processor causes the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction.
US12261961B2
Blockchain systems operate over a network of computing devices. Proof of space blockchain consensus systems utilize data stored in storage devices across the computing devices within the network. These storage devices are utilized to generate and store proof of space consensus data. This data is then accessed at a later time to respond to challenges issued across the blockchain network. In order to limit successful submissions of these challenge responses, one or more filters are utilized. These filters result in only a fraction of the stored data on a storage device to be useable for solving the blockchain challenge. Attackers may attempt to circumvent this filter to increase their odds of submitting an approved solution to the blockchain challenge. In order to address this, additional data structures are stored within the storage device and are registered at the time of creation on the blockchain to make these filters more robust.
US12261958B2
Provided are procedure approval method and system based on a virtual authentication code. The method is executed by a server, and includes receiving, by the server, a virtual authentication code and a request for procedure approval, searching for, by the server, a storage location of user authentication information of a user in a storage location search algorithm, based on the virtual authorization code, extracting, by the server, user authentication information stored in the storage location and authenticating the user based on the user authentication information, and approving the procedure when the user authentication is finished.
US12261954B2
An apparatus for validating a rendered object using non-fungible tokens comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to determine one or more parameters associated with a rendered object in a virtual environment, wherein the rendered object is a visual display operable for engagement in an interaction within the virtual environment. The processor is further configured to generate a non-fungible token (NFT) for assignment to the rendered object and to receive a request to establish an interaction session to conduct an interaction between a first avatar associated with a first user and the rendered object. The processor is further configured to receive a request to validate the generated NFT and to conduct the interaction between the first avatar and the rendered object in response to validating the generated NFT.
US12261945B2
The disclosure herein describes providing access to documents in a document storage platform using a document access facilitator. A base address and a security key associated with the document storage platform is obtained. A document summary presentation message is received from a presenter including a document identifier of a document and a recipient identifier of a recipient. A document summary presentation notification is sent to the recipient using the recipient identifier, the notification including the document identifier, and a document presentation request is received from the recipient. A secure access link to the document is generated using the base address, the document identifier, and the security key associated with the document storage platform. The secure access link is then sent to the recipient in response to the received document presentation request, whereby the recipient is enabled use the secure access link to access the document in the document storage platform.
US12261943B2
A terminal device may receive information indicating a first key from a first communication device, receive information indicating a second key from a second communication device. receive first encrypted connection information from a first communication device as a response to a request, decrypt the first encrypted connection information by using the first key indicated by the information received from the first communication device so as to obtain connection information, generate second encrypted connection information by encrypting the obtained connection information by using the second key indicated by the information received from the second communication device; and send the second encrypted connection information to the second communication device, wherein the second communication device decrypts the second encrypted connection information received from the terminal device and establishes a wireless connection with a specific device by using the connection information.
US12261941B2
System, method, and apparatus embodiments for creating, using, and managing protected cryptography keys are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a decoder, an execution unit, and a cache. The decoder is to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first source operand to specify encrypted data and a second source operand to specify a handle including a first including ciphertext of an encryption key, an integrity tag, and additional authentication data. The execution unit is to execute the decoded single instruction to perform a first check of the integrity tag against the ciphertext and the additional authentication data for any modification to the ciphertext or the additional authentication data, perform a second check of a current request against one or more restrictions specified by the additional authentication data of the handle, decrypt the ciphertext to generate an encryption key only when the first check indicates no modification to the ciphertext or the additional authentication data and the second check indicates the one or more restrictions are not violated, decrypt the encrypted data with the encryption key to generate unencrypted data, and provide the unencrypted data as a result of the single instruction. The cache is to store the handle, wherein only a portion of the integrity tag is to be used in a lookup of the handle.
US12261940B2
Technologies for dynamic accelerator selection include a compute sled. The compute sled includes a network interface controller to communicate with a remote accelerator of an accelerator sled over a network, where the network interface controller includes a local accelerator and a compute engine. The compute engine is to obtain network telemetry data indicative of a level of bandwidth saturation of the network. The compute engine is also to determine whether to accelerate a function managed by the compute sled. The compute engine is further to determine, in response to a determination to accelerate the function, whether to offload the function to the remote accelerator of the accelerator sled based on the telemetry data. Also the compute engine is to assign, in response a determination not to offload the function to the remote accelerator, the function to the local accelerator of the network interface controller.
US12261939B1
A circuit and corresponding method enable mining for digital currency in a blockchain network. The circuit comprises a controller and at least one partial hash engine that (i) implements a hash function, partially, to compute a partial hash digest of a final hash digest for a block header of a block candidate and (ii) generates a notification based on determining that the partial hash digest satisfies a criterion. The controller includes a complete hash engine that implements the hash function, completely. In response to the notification generated, the controller activates the complete hash engine to compute, in its entirety, the final hash digest for the block header, effectuating a decision for submission of the block candidate with the block header to the blockchain network for mining the digital currency. Power savings and reduction in area are achieved relative to multiple hash engines that compute the entire final hash digest.
US12261936B2
Techniques for real-time updating of encryption keys are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, an encrypted link is established between a local and remote processor over a point-to-point interconnect. The encrypted link is operated for some time until the encryption key should be updated. The local processor sends a key update message to the remote processor notifying the remote processor of the change. The remote processor prepares for the change and sends a key update confirmation message to the local processor. The local processor then sends a key switch message to the remote processor. The local processor pauses transmission of encrypted message while the remote processor completes use of the encrypted message. After a pause, the local processor continues sending encrypted messages with the updated encryption key.
US12261934B2
A method of blockchain-based data management of distributed binary objects. The method includes identifying a binary object associated with a blockchain. The method includes storing the binary object in a first data store responsive to identifying the binary object. The method includes storing a reference to the binary object on the blockchain. The method includes generating, responsive to an interaction with the reference to the binary object and based on the binary object and a different binary object from a different data store, an additional binary object having a data size that exceeds a maximum data size associated with each block of the blockchain.
US12261928B2
Fast sampling phase and frequency acquisition suitable for incorporation into various high bandwidth receivers and receiving methods. One illustrative integrated circuit receiver or “deserializer” design has: a clock circuit that provides a sample clock; an analog to digital converter that samples a receive signal in accordance with the sample clock to provide receive signal samples; and a clock recovery circuit. The clock recovery circuit includes: a phase and frequency acquisition module to determine and correct an initial frequency offset and an initial phase offset of the sample clock; and a feedback circuit to minimize timing error of the sample clock after the initial frequency offset and initial phase offset have been corrected.
US12261918B2
A system for cross cloud workload identity virtualization including a program having instructions to route a first network call from a workload in a first cloud computing environment addressed to a first cloud computing environment instance metadata service (IMS) having destination data with an IP address of 169.254.169.254 to a universal IMS (UIMS) different from the first cloud computing environment IMS, route a second network call from the workload addressed to a destination other than the first cloud computing environment IMS to the destination indicated by the second network call, respond to the first network call with credentials valid for accessing a cloud service provided in a second cloud computing environment. The workload can access the cloud service from the first cloud computing environment, and access the cloud service from a third cloud computing environment different from the first cloud computing environment.
US12261917B2
A computing system receives a first geographic area indication that corresponds to a first geographic area of a plurality of different geographic areas, and provisioning information indicative of a first set of tasks to be performed on each computing host in the first geographic area. The computing system dynamically generates, based on the first geographic area indication, a first computing host list that identifies a first set of computing hosts in the first geographic area. The computing system sends, to a first provisioning node of a plurality of provisioning nodes, instructions to implement the first set of tasks on the first set of computing hosts identified in the first computing host list, the first provisioning node being associated with the first geographic area.
US12261908B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for synchronizing the simultaneous presentation of multimedia content across multiple devices. An example embodiment operates by generating a multimedia content synchronization request configured to instruct a second media device to synchronize a presentation of multimedia content on the second media device with a first media device. The multimedia content synchronization request can include, for example, a deep link indicative of a channel of the multimedia content, a position of the multimedia content, and a state of the multimedia content to start the presentation of the multimedia content. Subsequently, the example embodiment operates by transmitting the multimedia content synchronization request to the second media device.
US12261903B2
In some implementations, a device may determine whether an existing record for a file, received at a file storage location, is present in a record log. The device may generate, based on determining that the existing record for the file is not present in the record log, a record for the file in the record log. The record may identify the file and a first region. The device may determine, after generating the record, whether the record has been changed to identify a second region. The device may process the file based on determining that the record has not been changed to identify the second region.
US12261898B1
A split streaming system and method are provided in which a stream of data (that can be video, audio or textual data) is split and sent over a plurality of stream reflectors to a stream recipient. Each stream reflector performs time gradient replacement to manage the split streaming.
US12261889B2
Centralized request processing and security zone policy enforcement in a cloud infrastructure system
A cloud-based security solution that provides a robust and secure framework for managing and enforcing security policies related to various resources managed in the cloud is disclosed. The cloud-based security solution is implemented by a centralized application programming Interface (API) system and a security zone policy enforcement system in a cloud service provider infrastructure. The centralized API system receives an API request that identifies an operation to be performed on a resource in the CSPI. The system determines, from the API request, compartment information and context information associated with the resource. Responsive to determining the compartment information and the context information associated with the resource, the system determines that the resource resides in a compartment that is associated with a security zone. The system then processes the API request and transmits a result of processing of the API request to a user of the centralized API processing system.
US12261888B2
A system and method for authorization policy validation. A validator takes as input an authorization policy to be analyzed and a schema that specifies entity types and their attributes, types of entity parents in an entity hierarchy, and which entity types can be used with which actions. The validator checks that the policy conforms to the schema. If the check passes, then the policy is guaranteed to be free of both type errors and attribute access errors for any input that conforms to the schema.
US12261885B2
A system and method for altering client fingerprint that includes editing data components of network communication from a client device to a server, which comprises editing network protocol data from the client during negotiation of a cryptographic protocol; selectively enabling access to library components specified in the edited client network protocol data; and sending a client communication to the server using the edited client network protocol data.
US12261883B2
Classifying electronic communications is disclosed. An electronic communication is received. A first likelihood that a potential recipient of the electronic communication would conclude that the communication was transmitted on behalf of an authoritative entity is determined. An assessment of a second likelihood that the received communication was transmitted with authorization from the purported authoritative entity is performed. The electronic communication is classified based at least in part on the first and second likelihoods.
US12261876B2
Malware signature generation through combination rule mining is disclosed. A set of properties associated, collectively, with a plurality of data samples is received. A first data sample has a first set of properties and a second data sample has a second set of properties. A combination signature comprising at least a first property included in the first set of properties and a second property included in the second set of properties is generated.
US12261870B2
A device receives network segment information identifying network segments associated with a network, and receives endpoint host session information identifying sessions associated with endpoint hosts communicating with the network. The device generates, based on the network segment information and the endpoint host session information, a data structure that includes information associating the network segments with the sessions associated with the endpoint hosts. The device updates the data structure based on changes in the sessions associated with the endpoint hosts and based on changes in locations of the endpoint hosts within the network segments, and identifies, based on the data structure, a particular endpoint host, of the endpoint hosts, that changed locations within the network segments. The device determines a threat policy action to enforce for the particular endpoint host, and causes the threat policy action to be enforced, by the network, for the particular endpoint host.
US12261867B2
Provided are a method and system for estimating a time of occurrence of a security event. The method includes: transmitting an actual time to a gateway of a vehicle; obtaining, from the gateway, time history data storing an actual time flag data element; obtaining, from the gateway, logging data prepared during security event detection; and estimating a time of occurrence of a security event, based on the logging data and the time history data, wherein the time history data and the logging data are prepared based on a vehicle reference time including a timestamp value and reset counter value of the vehicle.
US12261864B2
An information analyzing apparatus 10 includes: a detection unit 11 configured to detect unknown word information expressing an unknown word contained in document information collected from web content; and a conversion unit 12 configured to, using forum expression information contained in the unknown word information detected, converting the forum expression information into formal expression information by referring to expression conversion information for converting a forum expression into a formal expression set in advance.
US12261863B2
Typical implementations of anomaly detection algorithms as means to detect failure of elements of the network are based on excessive processing due to AI and machine learning techniques adopted for big data analysis. Contrary to such approach, careful study of a network, particularly sensor and actuator rich network, allow for an efficient implementation-lower processing requirements and achieving better ratio of Probability-of-Detection (PD) to False-Alarm-Rate (FAR)—by segmentation of the data layers (grouping) and implement processing on smaller groups of data, eliminating unnecessary data values that add to the “noise”. Two different anomaly detection algorithm are employed: one detects anomaly of system and the other identifies defected programs, particularly by malware.
US12261855B2
The invention relates to a method for improving the security in an electronic communication network, in which lures and decoys are distributed in the communication network. The aim of the invention is that of providing a systemisation for the selection and positioning of lures and decoys, by means of which the lures and decoys are distributed as optimally as possible in the communication network. For this purpose, the invention proposes that an attack vector on the communication network be determined, an attack graph (1) be created on the basis of the attack vector, which graph shows possible attack paths as acyclic directed graphs, the type and the number of lures and decoys be determined on the basis of the structure of the attack graph, and the lures and the decoys be distributed in the communication network using a target function, wherein the target function takes account of parameters which detects, as quickly as possible and with as high a likelihood as possible, an attacker (4), using the available lures and decoys, and allows for an assessment of the distribution.
US12261850B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes by using physical environment information. A computing device may receive video depicting a physical environment and process that video to identify one or more first objects. The computing device may receive a request for access to an account. The computing device may send a prompt for a physical environment description and receive, in response, an indication of one or more second objects. The indication of the one or more second objects may comprise video of the physical environment, a verbal description of the physical environment, and/or text describing the physical environment. The computing device may grant the user device access to the account based on comparing the one or more first objects to the one or more second objects.
US12261849B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for performing operations using least-privilege access to and control of target network resources. Operations may include identifying a prompt associated with a least-privilege requesting identity to initiate an action on a target network resource; executing, in response to the prompt, a first set of executable code; initiating, based on the first set of executable code, execution of a second set of executable code on the target network resource, wherein the second set of executable code executes using a least-privilege credential or using least-privilege permissions, the least-privilege credential and the least-privilege permissions being determined according to a least-privilege security policy associated with a type of activity expected to be performed on the target network resource; and instructing the second set of executable code to perform the action remotely on the target network resource through a remote session.
US12261845B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus to share trust between networks includes trust link former circuitry to form trust with an identity provider (IDP) device separate from the apparatus; interface circuitry to obtain credentials from a client device, the client device and the apparatus connected in a network that does not include the IDP device; and mint requester circuitry to cause the IDP device to mint a token based on the credentials, wherein the interface circuitry further to: obtain the token from the IDP device; and forward the token to the client device.
US12261833B2
A system and method for providing secure access to an organization's internal resources by an application running on an external network. An agent accepts queries from the application which are passed to a relay with a dynamic filter. The relay establishes a secure connection with a connector through the organization's firewall and passes requests from the application to an authentication service running on the internal network to confirm that a user of the application is authorized and issue an authentication ticket which is returned to the application. The application then sends a request to access a specific internal resource based on the authentication ticket, which is passed to a ticket granting service running on the internal network, to verify that said user is authorized to access the specific internal resource, and, if so, issue a service ticket to grant access the application for that resource.
US12261816B2
Address resolution information acquisition (ARIA) for a computing device is described. In some examples, ARIA includes a computing device (e.g., an Internet of things (IoT) node, a gateway, a server) determining, without use of an address resolution protocol (ARP), address resolution information of one or more other computing devices (e.g., a IoT node, a gateway, a server). In one example, the computing device uses data flowing to or from its application layer, transport layer, or network layer to determine address resolution information of another computing device. The address resolution information can comprise one or more of a link layer address (e.g., a media access control (MAC) address) and an Internet layer address (e.g., an Internet protocol (IP) address). Usage of a cache for storing or deleting address resolution information can also be part of ARIA.
US12261812B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for identifying offensive content. A method can include for each particular responsive message received in response to an initial message: providing the particular responsive message as an input to a machine learning model trained to predict a likelihood that an initial message includes offensive content based on processing of a responsive message received responsive to the initial message, processing the content of the particular responsive message through the machine learning model to generate output data indicating a likelihood that the initial message includes offensive content, and storing the generated output data. The method can further include determining, based on the stored output date for each of the responsive messages, whether the initial message likely includes offensive content, and based on a determination that the output data for each of the responsive messages indicates that the initial message likely includes offensive content, performing a remedial operation.
US12261805B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to computer processes adapted to identify influencers and other users interested in certain topics and uses thereof.
US12261801B2
The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatus. In one example method, a terminal device receives first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate grouping information of N control resource sets in M control resource sets, N is less than M, and N and M are positive integers greater than or equal to 1. The terminal device determines grouping information of K control resource sets other than the N control resource sets in the M control resource sets based on the first indication information.
US12261797B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine to perform a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with an antenna port switch operation, wherein the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch operation is performed during an SRS transmission occasion comprising one or more symbols of a slot and apply one or more scheduling restriction rules corresponding to the SRS transmission with the antenna port switch to provide one or more scheduling restrictions for the UE, wherein the scheduling restrictions cause the UE to omit performing at least one of transmission operations or reception operations during one or more symbols of the slot or one or more symbols of an adjacent slot.
US12261795B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to indicate transmit and receive beam patterns within an SRS resource set configured for beam management. For example, a base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for beam management, where the configuration may indicate a transmit beam pattern. The SRS resource set may include one or more groups of SRS resources which may be used to indicate the transmit beam pattern. A transmit beam may be the same for each SRS resource within a respective group, but may be different across different groups. The UE may transmit one or more SRS to the base station, each using a respective transmit beam according to the configuration. The base station may indicate a transmit beam to the UE based on the SRS.
US12261793B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive configuration information indicating sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets, the configuration information indicating: a first set of SRS resource sets, of the SRS resource sets, associated with a first downlink control information (DCI) format, and a second set of SRS resource sets, of the SRS resource sets, associated with a second DCI format, wherein at least one of the first set or the second set comprises at least two of the SRS resource sets. The mobile station may transmit, based at least in part on the configuration information, at least one uplink communication using at least one SRS resource of at least one of the SRS resource sets of at least one of the first set or the second set. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12261786B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for beam-based PDCCH Transmission in NR. Control resource sets may be assigned for multi-beam control transmission. A PDCCH may be transmitted with multiple beams. CCEs may be mapped for multi-beam transmission. DCI may support multi-dimensional transmission with primary and secondary dimensions. Search space may support multi-beam, multi-TRP transmission.
US12261785B2
The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving multiplexing related configuration information of a mobile termination (MT) of the IAB node and a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node from an upper IAB node, the multiplexing including spatial division multiplexing (SDM), frequency division multiplexing (FDM), and time division multiplexing (TDM), performing fallback from the FDM or the SDM to the TDM, and in response to the fallback, based on the configuration information, transmitting and receiving data of the DU of the IAB node.
US12261783B2
Aspects described herein relate to transmitting an indication of a capability to support concurrent or time division multiplexed uplink transmission of at least one of multiple uplink channels across multiple component carriers. In addition, a configuration to transmit over the at least one of the multiple uplink channels over the multiple component carriers using concurrent transmission or time division multiplexed transmission can be received based on the indication.
US12261779B2
In some examples, an apparatus for protocol independent deterministic transport of data in a time-sensitive network comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to store program code executable by the processor, the program code comprising one or more instructions, whereby to cause the apparatus to receive synchronisation data from the network, the synchronisation data comprising a measure for a clock frequency supporting transport of deterministic data traffic over the network, receive multiple input packets, the input packets comprising deterministic data traffic and non-deterministic data traffic, and generate, from the multiple input packets and using the synchronisation data, a set of isochronous output packets comprising respective payloads and headers.
US12261770B2
A primary internet connection via a gateway or router located at a premises may be used to route internet traffic from devices located at the premises. A change in the primary internet connection, such as a loss or a degradation of the connection, may occur. Based on the change in the primary internet connection, metrics of alternative internet connections, such as cellular or hotspot connections, may be used to select one of the alternative internet connections. Internet traffic may be routed via the selected alternative internet connection until the primary internet connection is reestablished or improves.
US12261763B2
Systems and methods are provided for addressing the complexity inherent in evaluating Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems by using meta-agent based adaptation in multi-agent systems. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-agent based automated evaluation capability for distributed, SOA systems that can dynamically adapt to the non-deterministic nature of such systems to enable a continuous monitoring capability for detecting and circumventing operational errors as they arise.
US12261762B2
Collect a full band capture spectral reading from a plurality of cable/fiber broadband network customer units (e.g., cable modems or equivalent optical units); for each of the cable/fiber broadband network customer units, construct an ideal spectral reading. For each of the cable/fiber broadband network customer units, subtract the ideal spectral reading from the full band capture spectral reading to obtain a resultant spectrum. For at least one of the cable/fiber broadband network customer units, identify a persistent deviation from zero in the resultant spectrum that does not match a known impairment type. Identify at least one new impairment type corresponding to the persistent deviation from zero. Remediation of the new impairment type can be carried out as appropriate, and/or a detection pattern can be deployed to identify future occurrences of the new impairment type.
US12261759B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a real-time Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) fronthaul analyzer and graphical user interface (FHA/GUI) are provided. In one example, a method describes receiving an O-RAN fronthaul (OFH) packet traffic flow; parsing packet headers of the OFH packet traffic flow; identifying and tracking active flows in the OFH packet traffic flow using the parsing; and presenting a visual representation of the active flows using the tracking of active flows. In some examples, the real-time O-RAN FHA/GUI may be used for testing an OFH link for compliance with the O-RAN standards.
US12261757B2
Described herein are systems and methods of for measuring and assuring performance in networked applications where edge computing is utilized, which may comprise determining or improving network and computational performance by the use of edge probing. Edge probing enables rapid measurement and assessment of networking and computational performance, where performance comprises speed latency, for a device using an edge compute node. Edge probing can be used to assess performance of and assign converged networking and computing infrastructure to applications and devices.
US12261756B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method of wireless communication includes receiving from an application server, at a network node of a wireless communication system, an indication of data to be delivered to at least one wireless device; determining a handling of the data; and transmitting at least one report relating to the handling of the data to the application server. Another method of wireless communication includes receiving from an application processor of a wireless device, at a modem of the wireless device, a request to receive at least one report on events monitored at the modem; and transmitting the at least one report to the application processor.
US12261754B2
Provided are methods and systems for using synthetic resource records to configure and manage web applications and various online services. A user is provided with the ability to setup a single synthetic resource record for their domain such that all of the associated dependent resource records are automatically configured and added to the domain as well. The methods and systems provided utilize synthetic resource records as a way of logically grouping resource records into “human readable” sets of resource records. Through synthetic resource records, users are able to address common configuration issues without having to know the technical specifications of associated zone files or resource records. Additionally, users can complete a variety of configuration tasks related to setting-up web applications without having to look-up resource record values from external sites (e.g., from the domain host).
US12261753B2
A method of supporting Packet Flow Descriptor, PFD, management in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said telecommunication network comprises an Application Function, AF, that is arranged for implementing an Packet Flow Descriptor, PFD, management service allowing request and response message from and to a Network Exposure Function, NEF, comprised by said telecommunication network, said method comprises the steps of receiving, by said AF, from said NEF, a request message for requesting a PFD, wherein said request message comprises an application identification for identifying an application transmitting, by said AF, to said NEF, a response message comprising said application identification and said requested PFD. A complementary method and corresponding network functions and a computer program product are also presented herein.
US12261751B2
In one embodiment, a device causes, in accordance with a probing strategy, performance of a probing test by one or more agents in a network and with respect to an online application. The device obtains quality of experience measurements for the online application. The device adjusts, using reinforcement learning, the probing strategy based on how well a predictive model was able to predict the quality of experience measurements given results of the probing test. The device repeats the causing, obtaining, and adjusting steps using the probing strategy adjusted by the device, to find a minimally disruptive probing strategy that provides acceptable performance by the predictive model.
US12261749B2
Configuring a mesh network of node devices for routing data is described. Based on detecting a connection to a second device, a first node device sends a mesh node signature to the second device and receives a mesh node signature from the second device. The mesh node signature list of the first node device is updated to include the mesh node signature of the second device. If mesh network requirements are satisfied based on the mesh node signature list, a mesh network configuration is generated by the first node device based on mesh network configuration rules and the updated mesh node signature list. The mesh network configuration is sent to at least the second device by the first node device based on the mesh node signature list. The first node device routes network traffic data to at least the second device based on the mesh network configuration.
US12261748B2
A method of automatic and dynamic environment discovery and policy adaptation for a containerized environment is disclosed. A plurality of traffic monitoring policies for acquiring and monitoring data traffic transmitted between one or more components of a containerized environment are accessed. The containerized environment includes a plurality of software-implemented containers. The traffic monitoring policies are caused to be applied to one or more components in the containerized environment. A change to a configuration of the containerized environment is automatically detected. In response, one or more containers of the plurality of software-implemented containers are automatically identified as containers affected by the change. Based on that identification, a modification of a traffic monitoring policy is then automatically determined to produce a modified traffic monitoring policy, and the modified traffic monitoring policy is caused to be applied to one or more components in the containerized environment.
US12261745B2
Embodiments of this application disclose example communication port management methods and example related devices to manage a plurality of communication ports on a communication device connection panel. One example method includes obtaining at least two local images of the communication device connection panel, where each local image corresponds to one local area of the communication device connection panel, and where each of the plurality of communication ports is attached with a port label that identifies each communication port. An overall port information matrix of the communication device connection panel is generated based on the at least two local images, where the overall port information matrix indicates a port identifier of each communication port in the plurality of communication ports and a relative location of each communication port in an overall area of the communication device connection panel. Communication port management is performed based on the overall port information matrix.
US12261739B2
Provided are a data processing method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a blockchain from a second network element, where the configuration information includes: application layer blockchain on-chaining auxiliary information, or application layer blockchain uplink auxiliary information and application layer blockchain configuration information; and putting terminal application layer information on the blockchain according to the application layer blockchain on-chaining auxiliary information.
US12261735B2
A user equipment starts a first timer and a second timer in response to different respective network events. The starting of the first and second timers causes the first and second timers to simultaneously elapse. In response to one of the simultaneously elapsing timers expiring, the user equipment indicates, to a network node, which of the simultaneously elapsing timers expired.
US12261733B2
A resilient incident management system is provided that continues operation when certain outages occur. An RSS feed is utilized to indicate incident-related information despite the certain outages. In an embodiment, the incident management system includes a redundant architecture that comprises a traffic manager and a backup traffic manager. The incident management system receives a client request for incident-related information and determines a priority level or a performance level of end points associated with the request. Based on a status of the traffic manager and the backup traffic manager, as well as based on the priority level or the performance level, the incident management system causes a computer operation to be executed via the redundant architecture to retrieve a response from a producer and generate the RSS feed. In this manner, incident-related information is provided to the client even when the components responsible for providing the incident-related information themselves experience outages.
US12261732B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node used for wireless communications. A communication node receives first information and second information; and transmits a first radio signal, an SCS of a subcarrier occupied by the first radio signal is equal to a first SCS; a sum of a first timing adjustment and a second timing adjustment is used to determine a transmission timing for the first radio signal, and the first timing adjustment is used to determine a transmission timing for a radio signal transmitted earlier than the first radio signal; the second timing adjustment is equal to a sum of a first sub-adjustment and a second sub-adjustment, the first information is used to determine the first sub-adjustment, and the second information is used to determine the second sub-adjustment. The present disclosure improves scheduling flexibility.
US12261722B2
A method of processing a signal in a compressive sensing receiver, includes: obtaining a first signal received via an antenna; generating a first baseband signal by mixing the first signal with a second signal generated by a local oscillator based on a pseudo random binary sequence (PRBS); removing a spurious from the first baseband signal based on a pre-stored estimation value obtained by estimating the spurious generated by the local oscillator in advance; and detecting a spectral slice including the first signal based on the first baseband signal from which the spurious is removed and a measurement matrix.
US12261719B2
Method and one or more first devices for supporting calibration of a multi-antenna array comprised in a first antenna device operative with a wireless communication network. The first device(s) provide phase correcting information, to be used in calibration of the multi-antenna array, based on covariances corresponding to recurrent displacement vectors of the multi-antenna array. Said covariances being based on channel estimates estimated from certain radio signals received after transmission over radio propagation channels between said multi-antenna array of the first antenna device and one or more second antenna devices operative with the wireless communication network.
US12261718B2
A method and apparatus for providing a point-to-point connection are disclosed. The method queries for a next available label for a first provider edge router and a next available label for a second provider edge router, performs a first configuration at the first provider edge router and a second configuration at the second provider edge router, wherein the performing the first configuration comprises configuring a first interface and configuring a label for using at least one tunnel by a second interface, wherein the performing the second configuration comprises configuring a third interface and configuring a label for using the at least one tunnel by a fourth interface, and performs a first mapping for the first provider edge router from the first interface to the second interface, and a second mapping for the second provider edge router from the third interface to the fourth interface.
US12261716B2
The present disclosure relates to a Controller Area Network (CAN) system including: a CAN device and a monitoring device. The CAN device includes a transmit data (TXD) interface, a transmitter, a CAN BUS interface, and a control unit. The control unit reads out an identifier from a TXD message and compares the identifier with a reference tag. The CAN device generates a CAN BUS signal based on the TXD message at the CAN BUS interface. The control unit, if the comparison indicates that the identifier does not correspond to the reference tag, invalidates a representation of the TXD message by the CAN BUS signal and temporarily prevents another CAN BUS signal from being generated by the CAN device at the CAN BUS interface. The monitoring device receives an instruction message over a CAN BUS network and, in response, tests for reachability other CAN devices on the CAN BUS network.
US12261715B2
The present invention relates to a CAN module configured to be arranged between a CAN controller and a CAN transceiver. The CAN module received a TXD input signal from the CAN controller and is configured to transmit an TXD output signal to the CAN transceiver, wherein the TXD output signal is adapted by the CAN module to also comprising a test impulse. When monitoring the CAN BUS, the CAN transceiver will feed back an RDX signal to the CAN module and the CAN controller. The CAN module is configured to detect an error on the CAN transceiver or the CAN BUS depending on the transmitted test impulse and the test impulse received via the RDX signal. The present inventio also relates to a system comprising the CAN module and a method for the CAN module.
US12261713B2
For each discovered smart socket, the smart socket is automatically added to a supervisor database and a predetermined set of two or more objects for the smart socket are automatically added to the supervisor database. One or more predetermined alarm extensions are automatically added to predetermined ones of the two or more objects of the smart socket in the supervisor database. One or more predetermined history extensions are automatically added to predetermined ones of the two or more objects of the smart socket in the supervisor database. Predetermined ones of the two or more objects and/or extensions of each of the discovered smart sockets are automatically mapped to a predetermined dashboard.
US12261700B2
The present application is related to a method and apparatus for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. A method for semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook determination includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a data transmission in a set of candidate data transmission occasions; transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook for the set of candidate data transmission occasions; receiving another DCI scheduling another data transmission in another set of candidate data transmission occasions; and transmitting another HARQ-ACK codebook for the abovementioned another set of candidate data transmission occasions.
US12261693B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for selecting a base graph to be used for wireless communications. Selection can be based on a variety of factors. Abase graph can be used to derive a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code used for encoding a retransmission of an original transmission. An exemplary method generally includes selecting, based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a resource allocation (RA) for transmitting a codeword, a base graph (BG), from which to derive a low density parity check (LDPC) code for use in encoding data bits in the codeword (e.g., encoding data bits of a bitstream such that some redundant bits are included in the codeword), encoding the data bits to generate the codeword using the LDPC code derived from the selected BG, and transmitting the codeword using the MCS via resources of the
US12261689B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product receive a traffic redundancy indication from a user equipment in a communication network or from a policy controller. The method, apparatus and computer program product determine whether traffic redundancy is needed for the radio access network and the user plane function based on the traffic redundancy indication. The method, apparatus and computer program product request the radio access network to not establish redundancy mechanisms in a circumstance where traffic redundancy is not needed for the radio access network. The method, apparatus and computer program product request the user plane function to not establish redundancy mechanisms in a circumstance where traffic redundancy is not needed for the user plane function.
US12261684B1
A plurality of signal quality values that characterize signal qualities of the corresponding OFDM channel's subcarriers of a channel used by a first cable modem to communicate with an aggregation device are received. Due to in-band interference it is determined that a first subcarrier has a first signal quality value outside of a desirable signal quality threshold range for a pre-determined period of time. The aggregation device that provides data to the first cable modem is identified. To mitigate the interference impact, a signal analyzer sends an instruction to the aggregation device that identifies the first subcarrier and the first cable modem and that instructs the aggregation device to reduce a first transmission data rate used to transmit data on the first subcarrier.
US12261681B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are a network access method and apparatus for a terminal, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes a terminal determining a beam sweeping interval and a sweeping frequency point, and receiving a base station signal sent or forwarded by a satellite; determining the downlink signal quality of the base station according to the base station signal; and if it is determined, according to the downlink signal quality, that the terminal can successfully find a satellite, executing a network access process of the terminal. In the embodiments of the present application, the downlink signal quality of a base station is determined by means of a base station signal sent or forwarded by a satellite; and it is further determined, according to the downlink signal quality, whether a terminal can successfully find a satellite.
US12261676B2
An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of signals received by a plurality of antennas included in a wireless communication device that moves in a predetermined orbit above a celestial body. A parameter determination unit determines a synthesis parameter of the plurality of signals according to the position of a transmission terminal provided on the celestial body, the orbit, and the reception time of the plurality of signals. A synthesis unit synthesizes a transmission signal of the transmission terminal according to the plurality of signals and the synthesis parameter.
US12261671B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals. A UE may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a PUCCH which is dedicatedly configured for secondary BFR transmission, such as a PUCCH-BFR, when it is multiplexed with at least one other signal. The PUCCH-BFR and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a CC or in multiple CCs. The UE may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that UE can transmit an uplink signals with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. The UE may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the UE may scale transmission power within a CC and/or across CCs. The UE may multiplex the PUCCH-BFR with the at least one other signal according to the rules.
US12261666B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to quasi co-location assumptions for aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signals (RS) in communications systems operating according to NR techniques. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes determining a quasi-co-location (QCL) relationship of an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) to a physical channel and processing the aperiodic CST-RS according to the determined QCL relationship.
US12261653B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating beam management enhancements in model-based channel tracking are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first network entity includes receiving from a second network entity, a model configuration indicative of a model condition of a channel between the first network entity and the second network entity for multiple beam pairs. The example method also includes tracking a variation in a channel condition relative to the model condition of the channel based on the model configuration for each of multiple beam pairs separately in multiple tracking sessions that overlap in time. Each beam pair may include a transmission beam and a reception beam.
US12261636B2
A system for communicating information about a drilling operation comprises a drill string comprising a bottom-hole assembly, a data transmission line operably coupled to the bottom-hole assembly to receive data relating to the drilling operation, and a wireless transmission system operably coupled to the data transmission line and configured to receive and relay the data from the data transmission line. The wireless transmission system comprises a wireless transmitter comprising a beam forming antenna array. Devices and methods relate to communicating information about a drilling operation.
US12261633B1
A brokering architecture is disclosed. The brokering architecture focuses on storing changes to the building system. Measurements are quantized to an integer representation and encoded so that time series data is stored in a series of changes of value. The encoded timeseries may be compressed using compression schemes that advantageously make use of small changes between adjacent stored values of the timeseries. Compressed timeseries values allow more data to be stored in RAM or other short-term storage and provide a more responsive system to control physical systems like buildings. Timeseries compression may be provided through extensions accessed through a structured data format on the message bus. Extensions can cause the execution of certain instructions based on the fields in the structured data and may be used to provide functionality in addition to timeseries compression including BACnet communications, predictions, and simulations.
US12261630B2
A differential delta-sigma-modulator has an integrator including a pair of single-ended amplifiers. A sample clock is driving a first switchable capacitor configuration and a second switchable capacitor configuration at a predetermined switching cycle. The first switchable capacitor configuration is adapted for sampling respective outputs from the pair of single-ended amplifiers on a pair of output sampling capacitors in the first part of the switching cycle. The second switchable capacitor configuration is adapted for charging a common mode capacitor with the average voltage of the voltage sampled by the pair of output sampling capacitors in the second part of the switching cycle. The voltage across the common mode capacitor represents the common mode voltage for the integrator.
US12261626B2
A coding circuit includes an encoder circuit configured to generate an input codeword by concatenating an input data and a parity generated by processing the input data using an odd parity generator matrix; and a decoder circuit configured to correct a double error from an output codeword, and to detect a triple error using a syndrome generated by processing the output codeword using the odd parity generator matrix, wherein each column of the odd parity generator matrix has a respective odd number of 1's.
US12261597B2
In embodiments, a capacitance is coupled to a source of electrical charge via a drain to source current flow path through a field-effect transistor. The capacitance is pre-charged by making the field-effect transistor selectively conductive in response to the gate-source voltage of the field-effect transistor exceeding a threshold. The difference between the gate-source voltage of the field-effect transistor and the threshold provides an overdrive value of the field-effect transistor. The gate of the field-effect transistor is driven with a variable gate-source voltage having as a target maintaining a constant overdrive value. Electrical charge is controllably transferred from the source to the capacitance via the drain to source current flow path through the field-effect transistor avoiding undesirably high inrush currents.
US12261592B2
A delay line for radio frequency circuits comprises a piezoelectric substrate, a transmission single phase unidirectional transducer (SPUDT) disposed on the piezoelectric substrate, and a receive SPUDT disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and separated from the transmission SPUDT in a direction of transmission of a main acoustic wave mode utilized by the transmission SPUDT.
US12261586B2
A surface acoustic wave resonator device, and method for manufacturing the same and filter, the method includes: forming an interdigital transducer including interdigital electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate; forming the interdigital transducer includes: forming initial interdigital electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein each initial interdigital electrode has a first width, and every two adjacent initial interdigital electrodes have an initial interdigital gap with a first spacing therebetween; and forming additional interdigital electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate, wherein each initial interdigital gap has a portion filled by one of additional interdigital electrodes; each interdigital electrode includes an initial interdigital electrode and an additional interdigital electrode connected to each other; each interdigital electrode has a second width, and every two adjacent interdigital electrodes have a second spacing therebetween; the second width is greater than the first width, and the second spacing is smaller than the first spacing.
US12261581B2
Systems and methods for generating a radio frequency (RF) signal by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with transmission frequency within a wide transmission frequency range are described. An output reactance of the DAC coupled (directly or indirectly) to one or more antennas corresponds to the transmission frequency of the RF signals. Multiple embodiments of the DAC are described to include circuitry for tuning the output reactance of the DAC, and therefore, shifting a center frequency to select a transmission frequency range (from multiple transmission frequency ranges) for providing the RF signals.
US12261575B1
The present application provides a signal amplifying circuit and a display device. In the signal amplifying circuit, a gate of a driving transistor of a first inverter is connected to an output terminal of a reset module, and thereby a potential of the gate of the driving transistor of the first inverter changes when an impedance of an optoelectronic device changes, so that a potential change of each node of the first inverter amplifies the signal. Besides, a first compensation transistor is connected between a second gate of the first driving transistor and a first output node, and the potential of the first output node precharges to the second gate of the first driving transistor to adjust a threshold voltage of the first driving transistor, thereby erasing the difference of the threshold voltages in different transistors, and solving the technical problem of bad uniformity of signals amplified by the inverter.
US12261574B2
A wide band matching network for power amplifier impedance matching, the wide band matching network comprising: a power amplifier transistor connected to an output network; the output network including: a series capacitor; an on-chip transformer connected to the capacitor in series, wherein the transformer and the capacitor act as a second order filter; and a port connected to the capacitor and a receiver switch.
US12261559B2
A motor control device executes fluctuation suppression control when a power supply voltage for driving a motor supplied from a power supply temporarily decreases and then increases to a normal power supply voltage after recovery. The fluctuation suppression control suppresses fluctuation in a rotation speed of the motor which is caused by following fluctuation in the power supply voltage.
US12261543B2
A power module (2) including a molded package (4), three power terminals (6, 8, 10) protruding from a first side (40) of the molded package (4) is disclosed. The power terminals (6, 8, 10) include a positive DC terminal (6), a neutral terminal (8) and a negative terminal (10). The power module (2) includes a phase output power terminal (12) protruding from a second side (42) of the molded package (4). The power module (2) is a three-level power module including a plurality of control pins (14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36) protruding from the second side (42) of the molded package (4).
US12261538B2
A zero voltage switching circuit includes a zero voltage switching unit which forms a full-bridge circuit at the primary side of a converter and comprises a plurality of switches for zero voltage switching; an adjustable inductor which performs zero voltage switching in resonance with a parasitic capacitor of the zero voltage switching unit, and is adjusted according to control of a control unit; and the control unit which controls inductance of the adjustable inductor according to an input voltage of the zero voltage switching unit or an electric current flowing in the adjustable inductor.
US12261536B2
A power supply device for suppressing noise includes a first bridge rectifier, a second bridge rectifier, a coupling inductive element, a first power switch element, a first output stage circuit, a switch circuit, a transformer, a second output stage circuit, and an auxiliary control circuit. The first bridge rectifier and second bridge rectifier generate a first rectified voltage and a second rectified voltage according to a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The coupling inductive element receives the first rectified voltage and the second rectified voltage. The switch circuit generates a control voltage. The second output stage circuit generates an output voltage. The auxiliary control circuit includes a second power switch element. The second power switch element is coupled to the coupling inductive element, and is selectively enabled or disabled according to the control voltage.
US12261534B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes an aerosol precursor composition and a quasi-resonant flyback converter configured to cause components of the aerosol precursor composition to vaporize to produce an aerosol. The quasi-resonant flyback converter includes a transformer including an induction transmitter and an induction receiver, a capacitor that with the induction transmitter forms a tank circuit. The quasi-resonant flyback converter also includes a transistor that is switchable in cycles to cause the induction transmitter to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the induction receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, the alternating voltage causing the induction receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.
US12261533B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe power converters. A power converter in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure may comprise a first stage, a second stage electrically coupled to the first stage, the second stage including an energy transfer element, and a sensor. The sensor may include a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit and the second circuit may respond differently to an output of the energy transfer element. The sensor may be configured to selectively provide power to the first stage based on a difference in response of the first circuit and the second circuit.
US12261531B2
A voltage driver includes a voltage input. A voltage regulation controller is operatively connected to receive input voltage from the voltage input and includes an on/off input. The voltage regulation controller is configured to control a switching converter in a first mode, a second mode, at least one buck mode, and at least one boost mode. The switching converter is configured to operate as an open pass switch in the first mode, configured to operate as a closed pass switch in the second mode, configured to operate as an overcurrent and overvoltage protection switch in the at least one buck mode, and configured to operate as an undercurrent and undervoltage protection switch in the at least one boost mode.
US12261522B2
Controlling power factor correction (PFC) in a secondary-controlled alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) (AC-DC) power adapter is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transformer, a primary-side controller coupled to the transformer, a PFC component coupled to the primary-side controller, and a secondary-side controller coupled to the transformer. The secondary-side controller is configured at least to obtain data informative of an amount of power, and control, based on the amount of power, a PFC operating mode of the PFC component.
US12261516B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a power converter apparatus that includes at least two switching bridges connected to a Direct Current (DC) bus and both generating pulse-width-modulated (PWM) voltages to non-isolated outputs, and an isolation transformer having a primary winding connected across the outputs of the two switching bridges and a secondary winding connected to isolated outputs. In a non-isolated mode, the two switching bridges are configured to operate in a parallel mode, and power is transferred between the DC bus and the non-isolated outputs. In an isolated mode, the two switching bridges are configured to operate in a full bridge mode, and power is transferred between the DC bus and the isolated outputs through the transformer.
US12261515B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit control method and a circuit control apparatus, which are applied to a hybrid flyback circuit. The method includes: determining an acquisition time point according to a turn-on alternating duration of a first MOS switch and a second MOS switch on a main side of the hybrid flyback circuit and a preset time coefficient; acquiring a midpoint voltage between the first MOS switch and the second MOS switch according to the acquisition time point to obtain a first voltage signal; and adjusting negative excitation current in the hybrid flyback circuit according to a comparison result of the first voltage signal and a preset voltage value, so that the negative excitation current meets zero voltage switching of a primary-side switch of the hybrid flyback circuit.
US12261508B2
A system having a damper with six or more indentations on alternating sides of the damper, where each indentation is open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper and extends over halfway through a width of the damper, and six or more slots, each slot open to an undulating inner circumferential surface of the damper and extending through the width of the damper.
US12261505B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of new energy, and provides a drive assembly with a motor controller and a vehicle including the same. A cylindrical housing is provided therein with a chamber, a partition wall provided on an inner wall of the housing divides the chamber into a motor mounting chamber and a controller mounting chamber. The present disclosure utilizes a space at a rear end in an axial direction of a motor, and designs a partition wall and a bearing, such that a rotor is rotatably provided in a motor mounting chamber and a motor controller is provided in a controller mounting chamber. The present disclosure designs a drive assembly with a motor controller at a rear end in the axial direction, thereby improving the device integration and space utilization, effectively reducing the occupied space, and realizing high integration of the motor controller and the drive assembly.
US12261495B2
An electrical machine includes a rotor, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, with which an axial direction is defined, and a stator having stator windings, a coolant distribution chamber and a coolant collecting chamber arranged axially at a distance thereto, the coolant distribution chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collecting chamber for cooling the stator windings, a cooling duct and a stator winding are embedded in an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling, the stator has stator teeth which extend along the axial direction, are spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction and bear the stator windings, the electrically insulating plastic is arranged together with the cooling duct and the stator winding in an intermediate space, and the electrically insulating plastic is formed by a first plastic mass of a first plastic material and by a second plastic mass of a second plastic material.
US12261493B2
A motor, a compressor and a refrigeration device are provided. The motor has a stator, a plurality of coil sets and a rotor. The stator has multiple stator teeth arranged along a peripheral direction. Every two adjacent stator teeth define a stator groove. Each coil set has multiple coils wound on the stator teeth. Each coil bypasses a corresponding stator tooth. The rotor is arranged inside the stator and has a rotor core and multiple permanent magnets. The rotor core has multiple slots. The slots are distributed circumferentially around a rotation center line of the rotor core. The permanent magnets are arranged in the slots.
US12261490B2
A varnish application system includes an electric motor, a clamp, and a varnish injector. The clamp includes a beam, a first end plate fixed to the beam and engageable to a first end of the electric motor, and a second end plate releasably connected the beam and engageable to a second end of the electric motor. The varnish injector is arranged to apply varnish to the electric motor when the clamp engages the electric motor.
US12261486B2
A system includes: a set of magnetic elements arranged radially about a motor axis; and a set of coil modules. The set of coil modules includes: a first subset of coil modules defining a first independent phase configuration; and a second subset of coil modules defining a second independent phase configuration, different from the first independent phase configuration. The controller is configured to: drive a first current at a first magnitude through the first subset of coil modules to induce magnetic coupling between the first subset of coil modules and the set of magnetic elements; and drive a second current at the first magnitude through the second subset of coil modules to induce magnitude coupling between the second subset of coil modules and the set of magnetic elements, and maintain a target power output.
US12261475B1
A system for engaging cinematography battery packs with a cinematography device includes two cinematography battery packs, and a fastening plate. A first cinematography device includes a first magnetic member for magnetically connecting with a third magnetic member of a second cinematography device, and a second magnetic member for magnetically connecting with a fourth magnetic member of the fastening plate. The first cinematography device also includes a first electrical connection configured to electrically connect with a fourth electrical connection of the fastening plate, and a second electrical connection configured to electrically connect with a third electrical connection of the second cinematography battery pack.
US12261472B2
A rechargeable device and a charging method are disclosed. The rechargeable device includes a charging interface, a battery unit, a first switch unit and a second switch unit, a first control unit coupled to the first switch unit, and a second control unit coupled to the second switch unit. The first control unit is configured to control the first switch unit to be turned on in response to the charging path being needed to be on, and to control both the first switch unit and the second switch unit to be turned off in response to the charging path being needed to be off. The second control unit is configured to control the second switch unit to be turned on or off in response to the first control unit controlling the first switch unit to be turned on.
US12261469B2
An electric device includes: an electric circuit; a power supply circuit configured to feed electric power to the electric circuit and stop the feed; and a housing containing the electric circuit and the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit is configured to, in response to a first operation performed from outside the housing while the power supply circuit is in an OFF state, the OFF state being a state in which the battery feeds no electric power to the electric circuit, transition to an ON state, the ON state being a state in which the battery continuously feeds electric power to the electric circuit even after an end of the first operation, and in response to a second operation performed while the power supply circuit is in the ON state, transition to the OFF state.
US12261467B1
A portable electronic device charger system includes (I) electrical interface electrically couplable with the at least one portable electronic device; (II) electronic control assembly for controlling electrical charging of the portable electronic device accessory with the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is electrically coupled with the electrical interface; (III) light emitting assembly configured to project amount of light when activated by the electronic control assembly; and (IV) a base assembly, wherein the light emitting assembly is positioned to project at least a majority of the amount of light in a direction onto a horizontally oriented surface when the base of the portable electronic device accessory system is positioned upon the horizontally oriented surface. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US12261461B2
A power transmission apparatus configured to wirelessly transmit power to a power reception apparatus executes, when wirelessly transmitting power, detection processing for detecting an object different from the power reception apparatus, using a power loss, obtains, from the power reception apparatus, reference value information regarding a reference value of received power used to obtain the power loss, and performs a specific control after the power loss has been obtained and in a case where a predetermined time has elapsed since a predetermined timing associated with a timing at which information is obtained from the power reception apparatus, without obtaining the reference value information that is valid, the specific control being a control to prevent a power transmission output from being increased, regardless of received power in the power reception apparatus.
