US12274297B2
Provided herein is an aerosol generation device with a reduced preheating time. The aerosol generation device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a case including an opening formed in one surface, and an article insertion portion into which an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-generating substrate is inserted, an opening/closing type cover which is disposed on the one surface of the case to open and close the opening, and a heater configured to heat the inserted aerosol-generating article. Here, the opening/closing type cover is configured to, when closing the opening, mechanically press an aerosol-generating substrate portion of the inserted aerosol-generating article so that the entire aerosol-generating substrate portion is rapidly heated, and in this way, a preheating time of the device may be reduced.
US12274280B2
A method for extracting oils from sauces while simultaneously determining fat content, peroxide value, and acid value is disclosed. The method is simple to operate and requires uncomplicated equipment. It features a short testing cycle and high efficiency, and suitable for the extraction of oils from oil-rich emulsified encapsulated sauces (such as salad dressings) with high extraction rates. The determination of peroxide value and acid value is not affected by pretreatment methods, ensuring more representative results. It addresses the challenges of difficult oil separation and extraction from oil-rich emulsified encapsulated sauces and solves significant issues encountered when using acid hydrolysis and alkaline hydrolysis methods to determine peroxide value and acid value. It enables the simultaneous monitoring of three physicochemical indicators (fat content, peroxide value, and acid value). This high-efficiency method is particularly suitable for tracking and monitoring during the production process, thereby enhancing production efficiency and reducing production costs.
US12274273B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to protein granules containing a whey protein as a main component, the protein granules having an average particle diameter of 207 μm to 570 μm, a homogeneity U of 0.58 or less, a content ratio (volume ratio) of coarse powder having a particle diameter of 500 μm or more of 22% or less, and a content ratio (volume ratio) of fine powder having a particle diameter of 150 μm or less of 31% or less.
US12274267B2
Quat-free surface treatment powders comprising a peroxide source, an acyl group donor and an alkalinity source are used to disinfect and/or sanitize hard surfaces. The surface treatment powders can be applied to a hard surface and left there for a period of time. The surface treatment powders are ambient moisture activated, which means that they can generate peracetic acid when a portion or all of the powder that is on the hard surface adsorbs water from the atmosphere. In addition or alternatively, the surface treatment powders are activated, i.e., generate peracetic acid through the incidental or purposeful addition of liquid thereto.
US12274266B2
The invention relates to solid formulations (especially water-soluble granules (SG)) of insecticide active tetramic acid derivatives, to a process for production thereof and to the use thereof for application of the active ingredients present, especially for drip & drench applications.
US12274259B2
A waterfowl decoy comprising a molded body with an interior cavity, a first and second keel, and an opening through the upper side of the molded body and oriented to allow air to pass from the interior cavity through the molded body.
US12274246B2
Various embodiments relating to insulated and ventilated shellfish storage, for transport for example, are disclosed. An insulated container includes a bottom and walls defining an interior space to accommodate live shellfish. A CO2 handling feature to handle CO2 that is released into the interior space by the live shellfish is also provided. The CO2 handling feature could include, for example, a ventilated wall having a vent at a location toward the bottom of the insulated container, CO2 scrubbing, a CO2 accumulation structure to accumulate CO2 below the live shellfish, and/or a ventilated wall substantially parallel to the bottom to divide the interior space into an animal section to accommodate the live shellfish and a CO2 accumulation section to accumulate CO2. Embodiments are based on a discovery by the inventor that CO2 is a limiting factor for storage time of crustaceans out of water.
US12274241B1
A pet collar. A plurality of connecting rods is pivotally connected via a ball-and-socket connection to a plurality of socket segments. A center section is pivotally connected via a ball-and-socket connection to two innermost socket segments. A collar connector is pivotally connected via a ball-and-socket connection to two outermost socket segments. In a preferred embodiment the collar connector includes a slidable magnet for locking the collar connector. Also, in a preferred embodiment the center section includes a NFT tag for pet safety and identification.
US12274236B2
A system for removing manure from a floor in an animal shed includes an autonomous manure removal vehicle with a manure storage container, which is provided with an interior, and a manure discharge opening for discharging manure from the interior of the manure storage container. A manure introduction device is configured for introducing manure from the floor and moving the introduced manure to the interior of the manure storage container. A dump is provided with a dump opening in the floor for dumping manure from the manure discharge opening of the manure storage container through the dump opening into a manure reservoir which extends under the floor. A flushing device is provided for flushing the interior of the manure storage container with flushing liquid, such as water.
US12274232B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM9038, tomato line PSQ-9Z19-9220, and tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9257. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9038, tomato line PSQ-9Z19-9220, and tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9257 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9038, tomato line PSQ-9Z19-9220, and tomato line PSQ-9Z20-9257 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12274231B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTD8601 and tomato line FDR-9Q16-0349 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12274219B1
A novel maize variety designated X13R107 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 X13R107 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13R107 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13R107, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13R107 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13R107 and methods of using maize variety X13R107 are disclosed.
US12274217B2
Modular environmental control systems and methods for enclosed structures are described. In an embodiment, a first air chamber having one or more first openings receives air from an enclosed structure. The first air chamber includes one or more second openings configured to receive ambient air. The one or more second openings are selectively closable. A first duct delivers air from the enclosed structure to the first chamber via the one or more first openings in the first air chamber. A second air chamber receives air from the first air chamber and has one or more openings configured to deliver air to the enclosed structure. A plurality of air conditioning modules are removably mounted to a divider positioned between the first air chamber and second air chamber. Air from the first chamber is selectively received into the second chamber by passing through the air conditioning modules. A second duct is configured to deliver air from the one or more openings of the second chamber to the enclosed structure.
US12274215B2
A hydroponic grow assembly including an assembly base and at least one plant structure removably connectable to the assembly base to form a plant wall for growing plants. The plant structure includes a plurality of plant wells opened to a root chamber and the base includes a bottom structure enclosed by a perimeter wall to form an inner cavity of a reservoir tank to supply water to the root chamber of the plant structure. The bottom structure includes a support feature within the inner cavity of the reservoir tank to support the at least one plant structure in an upright position to form the plant wall of the assembly.
US12274206B2
A universal crop head assembly is carried at the front of and by a harvester. The new crop head assembly includes a frame assembly, an intermediate multi-crop reel assembly carried by the frame assembly and having selectively extendable and retractable fingers for small grain harvesting. A lower cutter bar assembly is carried by the frame assembly and for cutting grain stalks. An upper forward cutter bar assembly is carried by the frame assembly and supports an upper cutter bar for cutting corn stalks about an upper end, an adjustable air knife assembly for blowing against severed corn stalks upper ends; and a lower draper belt assembly carried by the frame assembly and for moving grain cut by the lower cutter bar assembly.
US12274202B2
Each side frame that supports a traveling machine body includes a front insertion support member and a rear insertion support member that can be inserted into a front support member and a rear support member, respectively. The grass mower includes bolts that are couplable selectively in a first state where the front insertion support member and the rear insertion support member are inserted between a front upper member and a rear upper member, and a front lower member and a rear lower member, respectively, and a second state where the front insertion support member and the rear insertion support member are mounted on lower surfaces of the front lower member and the rear lower member, respectively.
US12274197B2
A method for planning spreading of a spreading material mixture with an agricultural spreading machine includes steps of: identifying individual components of the spreading material mixture, determining component-related setting parameters for the agricultural spreading machine for a planned spreading operation for several or all of the individual components of the spreading material mixture, and evaluating joint spreadability of the individual components of the spreading material mixture on the basis of the determined component-related setting parameters by a calculating device.
US12274192B2
A communication system for an agricultural machine includes an information terminal to transmit first information to an agricultural machine, a first communicator provided in or on an unmanned aerial vehicle to receive the first information transmitted from the information terminal, and a second communicator provided in or on the agricultural machine to receive the first information transmitted to the first communicator. The second communicator is operable to transmit second information about the agricultural machine to the first communicator, and the first communicator is operable to transmit the second information to the information terminal.
US12279530B2
An augmented logarithmic spiral antenna structure includes a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first spiral arm and a plurality of second spiral arms. The first spiral arm includes a first initial radius. The second spiral arms are disposed around and connected to the first spiral arm, and each of the second spiral arms includes a second initial radius. The dielectric layer has a top surface and a bottom surface, and the top surface is connected to the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is connected to the bottom surface. A plurality of the second initial radii of the second spiral arms are different from each other, and different from the first initial radius.
US12279527B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one organic layer among the organic layers includes a fused polycyclic compound in which a dibenzoheterocyclic derivative and a monoheterocyclic derivative containing at least one nitrogen atom as a ring-forming atom are connected via a linker to form a ring, thereby showing improved emission efficiency and improved device reliability.
US12279524B2
An organic electric element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic material layer formed between the anode and the cathode. The organic material layer includes a compound of Formula 1. The driving voltage of the organic electric element can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life time of the organic electric element can be improved.
US12279521B2
The invention relates to fluorene derivatives and electronic devices, particularly organic electroluminescent devices in which said compounds are used, particularly as a matrix material for phosphorescent emitters.
US12279515B2
A light emitting device of an embodiment includes oppositely disposed first electrode and second electrode, and multiple organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one among the organic layers includes a fused polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below, thereby showing improved emission efficiency. In Formula 1, the substituents are the same as defined in the Detailed Description.
US12279512B2
A deposition mask includes a first area defining a clamping portion at ends of the deposition mask and to which a force is applied to extend the deposition mask in a length direction thereof, a recess area adjacent to the first area and defining a recess at the ends; and a pattern portion including a plurality of pattern holes through which a deposition material passes. Along the length direction, a plurality of first pattern portions are arranged in the first area and a plurality of second pattern portions arranged in the recess area. When the force is applied to the clamping portion, the deposition mask is extended in the length direction thereof and defines non-extended positions of the pattern portions, and for the non-extended positions of the first and second pattern portions, a first distance between adjacent first pattern portions is less than a second distance between adjacent second pattern portions.
US12279511B2
A display panel, a mask used for evaporation, a mask assembly and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes: a base substrate; and a display area and a peripheral area; wherein, the peripheral area is provided with two types of dummy sub-pixel units, each type of dummy sub-pixel unit includes a dummy light-emitting material layer and a dummy auxiliary light-emitting layer, wherein, a first structure layer of a first dummy light-emitting material layer and a first dummy auxiliary light-emitting layer is arranged in the same layer as a second structure layer of a second dummy light-emitting material layer and a second dummy auxiliary light-emitting layer, and at least one of a size and a shape of an orthographic projection of the second structure layer on the base substrate is different from that of an orthographic projection of the first structure layer on the base substrate.
US12279509B2
A light emitting device has a light emitting panel and a light guiding structure. The light emitting panel has a pixel, and the pixel has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. An area of the first sub-pixel is greater than an area of the second sub-pixel. The light guiding structure is set on the light emitting panel and has a first amount of light guiding units overlapping with the first sub-pixel and a second amount of light guiding units overlapping with the second sub-pixel. The first amount is greater than the second amount.
US12279507B2
A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a transmit/receive area (120,122) of a display. The transmit/receive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the transmit/receive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements (1242), and as light blocking layer (1222, 1260) to prevent light from diffracting from gaps formed by circuit elements (1242).
US12279505B2
A display device and a touch controller are disclosed. The display device includes a protective screen, a display panel, a photosensitive element, and a light-concentrating element. The protective screen is arranged on a light-emitting surface of the display device. The photosensitive element is arranged between the display panel and the protective screen. The photosensitive element includes a photosensitive surface that receives light, and a light-concentrating element is arranged on the photosensitive surface of the photosensitive element.
US12279498B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a lower substrate, a sub-pixel structure, an upper substrate, a sealant, and a first power supply wire. The lower substrate has a display area, a peripheral area, and a pad area. The sub-pixel structure is disposed in the display area on the lower substrate. The upper substrate is disposed on the sub-pixel structure. The sealant is disposed in the peripheral area between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. The first power supply wire is disposed between the lower substrate and the sealant, and overlaps the lower substrate and the sealant. The first power supply wire includes a first protrusion protruding in a first direction that is a direction from the pad area to the display area in the first peripheral area.
US12279492B2
An optical module of the present disclosure includes a first panel including a first light-emitting element, a first power supply wiring and a second power supply wiring; a second panel including a second light-emitting element having light emission luminance per unit current lower than that of the first light-emitting element, a third power supply wiring and a fourth power supply wiring; and a prism configured to synthesize first image light emitted from the first panel and second image light emitted from the second panel. A first potential difference is smaller than a second potential difference, the first potential difference being a difference between a potential applied to the first power supply wiring and a potential applied to the second power supply wiring, the second potential difference being a difference between a potential applied to the third power supply wiring and a potential applied to the fourth power supply wiring.
US12279490B2
A display device including a substrate; a signal line disposed on the substrate and to which a predetermined voltage signal is applied; a power auxiliary line to which a first source voltage is applied; a first driving voltage line to which a first driving voltage higher than the first source voltage is applied; and a first transistor disposed between the signal line and the first driving voltage line. The first transistor includes a first lower gate electrode connected to the power auxiliary line and a first upper gate electrode connected to the signal line.
US12279482B2
A light emitting display device includes: a flexible substrate including a display area and a peripheral area having a bending area. The display area includes: a plurality of inorganic layers; first and second organic layers that are disposed on the plurality of inorganic layers; a black pixel defining layer that is disposed on the second organic layer; and a spacer that is disposed on the black pixel defining layer. In the bending area, the plurality of inorganic layers include a first opening formed at a position corresponding to the bending area. The first opening is filled with the first organic layer, the second organic layer is disposed on the first organic layer, the black pixel defining layer includes a second opening at a position corresponding to the bending area, and the second opening is filled with an organic layer for the spacer, formed of a same material as the spacer.
US12279481B2
A display device includes a first electrode and a second electrode extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, a first insulating layer disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, a bank layer disposed on the first insulating layer and comprising an outer bank part extending in the first direction and the second direction and inner bank parts extending in the first direction in an area surrounded by the outer bank part, a second insulating layer disposed on the inner bank parts and the first insulating layer, and light emitting elements disposed on the second insulating layer between the inner bank parts, wherein each of the inner bank parts is connected to a part of the outer bank part extending in the second direction.
US12279478B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a display area and a transmissive area, a first blocking layer that is disposed on the display area of the substrate, and disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a second blocking layer that is disposed in the display area of the substrate, and disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface, an insulation layer that is disposed on the first blocking layer, a transistor that is disposed on the insulation layer, and a light emitting element that is connected to the transistor.
US12279476B2
A light emitting device including a first light emitting element disposed on a main surface of a substrate, and a first lens fixed to the substrate and overlapping a center of a first light-emission region of the first light emitting element in plan view in a direction perpendicular to the main surface. In the plan view in the direction perpendicular to the main surface, the center of the first light-emission region and a center of the first lens are separated from each other by a first distance in a direction parallel to the main surface.
US12279472B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a quantum dot light emitting diode, a method for manufacturing a quantum dot light emitting diode and a display device. The quantum dot light emitting diode includes an anode layer, a cathode layer, a quantum dot light emitting layer between the anode layer and the cathode layer, and an electron transport layer between the cathode layer and the quantum dot light emitting layer, the electron transport layer includes at least a first energy level structure layer, a second energy level structure layer, and another first energy level structure layer, which are sequentially stacked, the first energy level structure layer is different from the second energy level structure layer, and a Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital energy level of the first energy level structure layer is different from that of the second energy level structure layer.
US12279470B2
An electroluminescent device, a display substrate, and a display apparatus. The electroluminescent device comprises: an electron transport layer (1) and a quantum dot light emitting layer (3) that are arranged in a stack mode; and an ionic complex layer (2) located between the electron transport layer (1) and the quantum dot light emitting layer (3), wherein a built-in electric field is formed in the ionic complex layer (2).
US12279466B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device may include a first and second semiconductor layer having a first and second conductivity type, respectively, a first contact structure, a contact layer, and a separating layer. Contact holes are arranged in the separating layer. The optoelectronic semiconductor device may include portions of a conductive layer arranged over a side of the separating layer facing away from the contact layer. The portions of the conductive layer are each connected to a conducting material in the contact holes. The first contact structure is connected to the contact layer via the portions of the conductive layer and the conducting material. A length of each of the portions is greater than a greatest width of the portions. The length denotes a shortest distance between an associated contact hole and a conductive material between adjacent portions, and the width is measured perpendicular to the length.
US12279464B2
An optical detection device includes an optical semiconductor element having a plurality of light receiving portions and a light transmitting substrate bonded to the optical semiconductor element directly or via only a light transmitting adhesive layer. A surface of the light transmitting substrate on a side opposite to the optical semiconductor element is provided with a first refractive index changing layer having a projecting and recessed structure in which a refractive index continuously changes from a refractive index of air to a refractive index of the light transmitting substrate toward the light transmitting substrate. When a distance between the optical semiconductor element and the first refractive index changing layer is A, a distance between adjacent light receiving portions of the plurality of light receiving portions is B, and a refractive index of the light transmitting substrate to a refractive index of the air is n, A>B/[2 tan{sin−1(sin 1°/n)}] is established.
US12279462B2
Provided are a color separation element and an image sensor including the same. The color separation element includes a spacer layer; and a color separation lens array, which includes at least one nano-post arranged in the spacer layer and is configured to form a phase distribution for splitting and focusing incident light according to wavelengths, wherein periodic regions in which color separation lens arrays are repeatedly arranged are provided, and the color separation lens array is configured to interrupt phase distribution at the boundary of the periodic regions.
US12279456B2
The present disclosure provide a semiconductor device and a method for preparing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first buried gate structure and a second buried gate structure disposed in a semiconductor substrate. The first buried gate structure includes a first gate dielectric layer, and a first lower semiconductor layer disposed over the first gate dielectric layer. The first lower semiconductor layer has a T-shaped profile in a cross-sectional view. The first buried gate structure also includes a first upper semiconductor layer disposed over the first lower semiconductor layer. The second buried gate structure includes a second gate dielectric layer, and a second lower semiconductor layer disposed over the second gate dielectric layer. The second lower semiconductor layer has a U-shaped profile in the cross-sectional view. The second buried gate structure also includes a second upper semiconductor layer disposed over the second lower semiconductor layer.
US12279452B2
A device comprises a first interconnect structure, a second interconnect structure, a stacked complementary transistor structure, a first contact, and a second contact. The stacked complementary transistor structure is disposed between the first and second interconnect structures. The stacked complementary transistor structure comprises a first transistor of a first type, and a second transistor of a second type which is opposite the first type. The first contact connects a first source/drain element of the first transistor to the first interconnect structure. The second contact connects a first source/drain element of the second transistor to the second interconnect structure. The first and second contacts are disposed in alignment with each other.
US12279439B2
A memory includes first and second wires. First and second transistors are connected to the first wires and transfer a first and second voltage. Third and fourth transistors are connected to the second wires and transfer the first and second voltages to the second wires. A first memory cell includes a first diode and a first memory element connected in series. The first diode is connected so that a forward bias direction thereof is from the one first wire to the first signal line. A second memory cell includes a second diode and a second memory element connected in series. The second diode is connected so that a forward bias direction thereof is from the second signal line to the one first wire.
US12279433B2
A semiconductor device includes a cell region and a peripheral circuit region. The cell region includes gate electrode layers stacked on a substrate, channel structures extending in a first direction, extending through the gate electrode layers, and connected to the substrate, and bit lines extending in a second direction and connected to the channel structures above the gate electrode layers. The peripheral circuit region includes page buffers connected to the bit lines. Each page buffer includes a first and second elements adjacent to each other in the second direction and sharing a common active region between a first gate structure of the first element and a second gate structure of the second element in the second direction. Boundaries of the common active region include an oblique boundary extending in an oblique direction forming an angle between 0 and 90 degrees with the second direction.
US12279430B2
A stack of alternating layers of dielectric and conductive materials are formed on a substrate. A first portion of the stack of alternating layers forms a plurality of blocks of NAND memory. A second portion of the stack of alternating layers forms a configurable capacitor structure. The configurable capacitor structure is configurable to form one or more capacitors of configurable capacitance.
US12279428B2
In one example, a system comprises an array comprising selected memory cells; an input block configured to apply, to each selected memory cell, a series of input signals to a terminal of the selected memory cell in response to a series of input bits; and an output block for generating an output of the selected memory cells, the output block comprising an analog-to-digital converter to convert current from the selected memory cells into a digital value, a shifter, an adder, and a register; wherein the shifter, adder, and register are configured to receive a series of digital values in response to the series of input bits, shift each digital value in the series of digital values based on a bit location of an input bit within the series of input bits, and add results of the shift operations to generate an output indicating values stored in the selected memory cells.
US12279425B2
Three-dimensional memory device with staircase etch stop structures and methods for forming the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and memory opening fill structures vertically extending through the alternating stack. An insulating liner overlies stepped surfaces of the alternating stack in a staircase region. A plurality of discrete dielectric plates can be formed over the insulating liner. In one embodiment, the plurality of discrete dielectric plates can function as etch stop structures for formation of contact via structures that contact underlying portions of the electrically conductive layers. In another embodiment, the plurality of discrete dielectric plates may be replaced with a metallic material that forms extensions of the electrically conductive layers, and can be employed as etch stop structures during formation of contact via structures.
US12279420B2
The present disclosure includes memory having a continuous channel, and methods of processing the same. A number of embodiments include forming a vertical stack having memory cells connected in series between a source select gate and a drain select gate, wherein forming the vertical stack includes forming a continuous channel for the source select gate, the memory cells, and the drain select gate, and removing a portion of the continuous channel for the drain select gate such that the continuous channel is thinner for the drain select gate than for the memory cells and the source select gate.
US12279415B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The device includes a substrate including an active pattern with doped regions, a gate electrode crossing the active pattern between the doped regions, a bit line crossing the active pattern and being electrically connected to one of the doped regions, a spacer on a side surface of the bit line, a first contact coupled to another of the doped regions and spaced apart from the bit line with the spacer interposed therebetween, a landing pad on the first contact, and a data storing element on the landing pad. The another of the doped regions has a top surface, an upper side surface, and a curved top surface that extends from the top surface to the upper side surface. The first contact is in contact with the curved top surface and the upper side surface.
US12279408B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a logic cell region and a connection region, a dummy transistor on the connection region, an intermediate connection layer on the dummy transistor, the intermediate connection layer including a connection pattern electrically connected to the dummy transistor, a first metal layer on the intermediate connection layer, an etch stop layer between the intermediate connection layer and the first metal layer, the etch stop layer covering a top surface of the connection pattern, and a penetration contact extended from the first metal layer toward a bottom surface of the substrate penetrating the connection region.
US12279403B2
The present application provides a power supply system for supplying power to network device, comprising power supply module, housing, and stereoscopic accommodating space therebetween. The power supply module without a fan comprises: a primary circuit comprising at least one primary switch and configured to receive AC input voltage and convert the AC input voltage into a first voltage; a transformer comprising primary and secondary windings and configured to convert the first voltage into a second voltage, the primary winding is coupled to the primary circuit; and a secondary circuit comprising at least one secondary switch and configured to convert the second voltage into a DC output voltage for the network device, the secondary circuit is coupled to the secondary winding, the secondary switch adopts SMT package, and power density of the power supply module is 60 W/inch3 or more. The stereoscopic accommodating space is filled with liquid coolant for cooling.
US12279400B2
A liquid cooled server chassis comprising a chassis, at least one electronics module having at least one heat generating component mounted thereon, and a liquid cooling unit, having at least one liquid plate heat exchanger, a liquid row heat sink, an inlet chassis manifold, and an outlet chassis manifold, is provided. The at least one liquid plate heat exchanger, mounted and thermally coupled to the at least one heat generating component, is in fluid communication with the inlet chassis manifold and outlet chassis manifold, transporting heat away from the at least one heat generating component. The liquid row heat sink, in fluid communication with the inlet chassis manifold and outlet chassis manifold, is configured to lower a flowthrough temperature of ambient airflow flowing through the liquid row heat sink. The at least one electronics module and liquid row heat sink are parallel arranged, whereby cooling power is evenly distributed thereamong.
US12279399B2
Presented herein is a plurality of arrangements of cold plates having interior chambers. The interior chamber includes a plurality of fins with a first fin zone and a second fin zone. The cold plate further includes a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet. The cold plates can be connected such that each cold plate allows unidirectional flow or counter flow configurations. Unidirectional flow or counter flow cold plates can be arranged in rows and in combination of rows.
US12279391B1
The present disclosure discloses an emergency starting power supply for vehicles, belonging to the technical field of emergency starting power supply for vehicles. The emergency starting power supply for vehicles includes a shell, a power source, a circuit board, and an output terminal. The shell is provided with a first accommodating space and a first mounting part. The power source and circuit board are housed in the first accommodating space. The power source is electrically connected to the circuit board and the output terminal, respectively. The first mounting part is provided with a second accommodating space. At least a portion of the output terminal is housed in the second accommodating space. The output terminal is configured to output a current for starting an engine of the vehicle.
US12279389B1
An emergency starting power supply for vehicles includes a shell, a power source, a circuit board, and an output terminal. The shell is provided with a first accommodating space and a first mounting part. The power source and circuit board are housed in the first accommodating space. The power source is electrically connected to the circuit board and the output terminal, respectively. The first mounting part is provided with a second accommodating space, and at least a portion of the output terminal is housed in the second accommodating space. The output terminal is configured to output a current for starting an engine of the vehicle. The first mounting part is provided with at least one first opening configured for mounting cables connected to the output terminal, and a second opening is provided below the first opening.
US12279375B2
An information handling system can comprise first and second housings having pivotally coupled rear edge portions such that the housings are pivotable between open and closed states. A hinge cover can extend along at least a portion of each housing's rear edge portion. A flexible printed circuit having opposing upper and lower surfaces can extend between the housings. The circuit can include a cover segment in which the circuit's upper surface is fixed to the hinge cover's inner surface, two housing segments that are each fixed to a respective one of the housings, and two free segment that each connect a respective one of the housings segments to the cover segment, are movable relative to the hinge cover and to the housings when the housings pivot between the open and closed states, and underlie the inner surface of the hinge cover when the housings are in the open state.
US12279365B2
A flexible circuit board for transmitting a signal in a frequency band includes an intermediate region in which a signal line is disposed as a transmission line for transmitting the signal in the frequency band, and a pad region extending from the intermediate region and disposed at one end or both ends of the flexible circuit board, a pad electrically connected to the signal line and formed to face a first direction of the flexible circuit board, and a ground pattern overlapping at least a portion of the pad and formed to face a second direction of the flexible circuit board and disposed in the pad region where the second direction is opposite to the first direction.
US12279355B2
An induction device includes an induction unit including a sensor unit which is arranged above the induction unit in a mounted position and includes a plurality of activity sensor elements arranged in a distributed manner and configured to detect a sensor parameter in the form of an activity parameter of the induction unit. A control unit is provided to analyze the sensor parameter.
US12279354B1
A splicing-lamp lighting-effect application method includes displaying a plane composition of a target splicing-lamp, which includes form patterns corresponding to multiple lamp blocks of the target splicing-lamp and each form pattern includes multiple light-emitting areas; loading effect configuration information corresponding to each layer described in a lighting-effect template into a lighting-effect editing area for display; in response to a layer on-top event, marking the effective light-emitting area in the form pattern of each lamp block according to the area information of a current layer set-on-top, obtaining a plane topological pattern corresponding to the current layer, and applying the lighting-effect information of the current layer to the plane topological pattern to display a preview lighting effect of the current layer; and responding to a lighting-effect application instruction, encapsulating edited effect configuration information of each layer in a lighting-effect application package, and pushing it to the target splicing-lamp.
US12279353B2
Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such front end system includes a low noise amplifier in a receive path and a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in a transmit path. The low noise amplifier includes a first inductor, an amplification circuit, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor to provide negative feedback to linearize the low noise amplifier. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.
US12279352B2
A string light circuit with human body sensing includes a main control MCU module, a timer module, an audio output module, LED lights with multiple circuit-driven channels, an infrared receiving module, a mode switching module, a body-sensing module, and a power supply module. The timer module provides periodic pulse signals to the main control MCU module; the audio output module drives a speaker to generate sound; the LED lights with multiple circuit-driven channels are controlled by the main control MCU module and generate light signals; the infrared receiving module receives infrared signals to control the main control MCU module to operate in a preset mode; the mode switching module receives external mechanical actions to control the main control MCU module to operate in a preset mode; the body-sensing module senses the presence of people nearby to control the main control MCU module to operate in a preset mode.
US12279348B2
An isolated driver generates a PWM load drive level signal at the primary side and provides this to the secondary side via an optocoupler. Power consumption of the load is also sensed at the primary side. A drive level is sensed at the secondary side and compared at the secondary side with the load drive level to provide an error signal for the primary side controller. A frequency of the PWM load drive level signal is adjusted and the power consumption of the load is monitored in response to the frequency adjustment. The duty cycle of the PWM load drive level signal can then be adapted to compensate for errors introduced by the optocoupler.
US12279347B2
A light fixture includes an array of light-emitting diode (“LED”) light sources, a driver circuit that drives the array of LED light sources, and a controller. Controlling the light fixture includes receiving a first output color spectrum for the array of LED light sources that corresponds to a fixture color output spectrum, performing an optical modification of the fixture output color spectrum, determining, based on the optical modification, a compensation value to modify the first output color spectrum to a second output color spectrum that compensates for changes to the fixture output color spectrum resulting from the optical modification, generating, based on the compensation value, a first control signal to drive the array of LED light sources at the second output color spectrum, and controlling the driver circuit using the first control signal.
US12279341B2
Disclosed is a method for heating liquid in a tank, including: providing at least one heating element of PTC type; providing a pulse width modulation regulator; measuring parameters including the temperature of the liquid and the voltage applied across the terminals of each heating element; heating the liquid without regulation, insofar as the temperature of the liquid is below a first threshold temperature; applying pulse width modulation regulation to the electrical supply to each heating element for which the supply voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold insofar as a measured temperature is above a second threshold temperature determined as a function of measured parameters; and determining a duty cycle for the modulation of the electrical supply to each heating element and transitioning progressively from a duty cycle of 1 to the determined duty cycle.
US12279333B2
A multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) receiving method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining a first MBMS to be initiated; determining, according to a mapping relationship, a state instruction corresponding to the first MBMS, and the state instruction is used for instructing a terminal to receive the first MBMS in an RRC connected state or a non-RRC connected state; if the state instruction is used for instructing the terminal to receive the first MBMS in the RRC connected state, the terminal determining whether the terminal is currently in the non-RRC connected state; and if the terminal is currently in the non-RRC connected state, sending an RRC connection establishment request to a network device, and the RRC connection establishment request includes first instruction information, and the first instruction information is used for indicating that the reason for establishing the present connection is to receive an MBMS.
US12279327B2
A communication configuration method and apparatus are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device, the electronic device includes at least two Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, where the first SIM card of the electronic device is used to provide mobile data service communication, and the second SIM card is registered with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service. The method includes: in a case that the electronic device is used as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) client, configuring that the second SIM card communicates with a SIP server by using a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transmission mode, or configuring that the second SIM card communicates with the SIP server by using a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transmission mode, and after determining that the second SIM card has completed sending of a SIP request and receiving of a SIP response, interrupting an established TCP socket.
US12279325B2
According to an aspect, a user equipment, UE, in a suspended state in a Radio Access Network, RAN, in response to expiration of a first timer, transmits an RRCResumeRequest message. The UE receives a reject message in response to the RRCResumeRequest message. In response to the reject message, the UE starts a second timer and subsequently transmits a further RRCResumeRequest message. The further RRCResumeRequest message is received by the network during a period bounded approximately by the lesser of a duration of the second timer and a period of the periodic UE event and the greater of the duration of the second timer and the period of the periodic UE event.
US12279324B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for enabling reporting of a subset of measurements performed by a wireless device when in an idle or inactive state to a cellular communications network. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless device for reporting measurements to a cellular communications network comprises performing measurements while in an idle or inactive state, storing the measurements, determining a subset of the measurements to be reported by the wireless device, and reporting the determined subset of the measurements to the cellular communications network. In this manner, only desired measurements can be reported, which reduces the amount of information that needs to be reported by the wireless device.
US12279309B2
Examples include a method to communicate between a first and a second synchronized mobile devices, the method comprising sensing a plurality of preconfigured radio resources and identifying for each sensed preconfigured radio resource, whether it is occupied. The method also comprises receiving an indication of future occupied preconfigured radio resource utilization by further mobile devices in the spatial domain, and selecting a specific pre-configured radio resource reducing or preventing communication collisions in the spatial domain. The method further comprises the first and the second mobile devices communicating using the selected specific preconfigured radio resource.
US12279307B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for transmitting a capability signal to a network entity, wherein the capability signal indicates whether the UE is capable of supporting an uplink (UL) bandwidth that is equal to or less than a downlink (DL) bandwidth for communication over an unlicensed band; and exchanging a signal between the UE and the network entity over the unlicensed band according to the capability signal. Some alternative or additional aspects include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for receiving a signal from a network entity, wherein the signal indicates that short control signal exemption (SCSt) is applied to a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission of one or more network entities over an unlicensed band; and skipping SSB presence detection of the one or more network entities in response to the signal.
US12279304B2
This application provides a random access preamble transmission method and an apparatus. In one example method, a terminal receives indication information, and may indicate, with reference to the indication information, whether a first path loss is the same as a second path loss, and determine the first path loss based on the second path loss. Then, the terminal may set, based on a path loss for transmitting a random access preamble between the terminal and a network device, a transmit power for sending the random access preamble.
US12279297B2
A method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and a device for supporting same are provided. The method may comprise: selecting a synchronization reference based on a sidelink (SL) synchronization priority; obtaining synchronization based on the synchronization reference; transmitting, to a second device, a first physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the first PSCCH; transmitting, to the second device, a second PSCCH and a second PSSCH related to the second PSCCH; receiving, from the second device, first SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information through a first physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) related to the first PSSCH; and receiving, from the second device, second SL HARQ feedback information through a second PSFCH related to the second PSSCH.
US12279293B2
Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may identify at least one scheduling offset associated with a propagation delay between a base station of a NTN and the UE. The apparatus may also select a first scheduling offset of the at least one scheduling offset associated with the propagation delay between the base station and the UE. Additionally, the apparatus may transmit, to the base station, an uplink transmission based on the first scheduling offset, the uplink transmission being associated with a PUSCH, a PUCCH, or a PRACH.
US12279292B2
This application discloses a resource scheduling method, an apparatus, and a system, to provide a resource scheduling manner based on sidelink transmission. The method includes: A scheduling terminal device determines a resource for a sending terminal device to perform sidelink (sidelink) transmission; and the scheduling terminal device sends a first message to the sending terminal device, where the first message is used to indicate the transmission resource, where the resource is specifically used to perform a part or all of the following: transmission of data information, transmission of control information, and transmission of feedback information. A manner in which the scheduling terminal device determines, for the sending terminal device, the transmission resource for data transmission is provided, and is an enriched and complete sidelink-based resource configuration manner.
US12279282B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for communicating DU resource configuration information of a child IAB node to a parent IAB node. An example method includes identifying distributed unit (DU) resource configuration information for an IAB node device functioning as an IAB node in the IAB network, wherein the IAB node is associated with a parent IAB node, and transmitting the DU resource configuration information to the parent IAB node.
US12279274B2
A method for carrier scheduling includes a first terminal device receiving a first configuration information. The first configuration information is used to indicate the first terminal device to configure at least a first cell and a second cell. The first cell is a primary cell, the second cell is a secondary cell, and at least a portion of data transmission of the first cell is scheduled by a control information transmitted on the second cell.
US12279266B2
An information transmission method, a base station and a terminal are provided. The information transmission method of the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: configuring monitoring information for at least one scheduling window, wherein the monitoring information is configured to indicate that PDCCH monitoring is to be performed in a first target time unit of the scheduling window and/or that the PDCCH monitoring is to be skipped in a second target time unit of the scheduling window; notifying a terminal of the monitoring information.
US12279265B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to change a value of a first parameter in accordance with a history of uplink multi-user transmission or whether capability of uplink multi-user transmission is in an enabled or disabled state, the first parameter defining an upper limit of duration during which a wireless medium is allowed to be occupied; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame.
US12279254B2
The invention relates to a user equipment for being scheduled with uplink radio resources. The user equipment receives from a radio base station a first-stage uplink resource scheduling message, indicating uplink radio resources usable by the UE to perform an uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell. The receiver further receives a second-stage uplink resource scheduling message, which is related to the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message. Upon reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message, a processor of the UE determines that an uplink transmission is scheduled in case the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is valid. The first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is determined valid based on a determination as to whether an uplink transmission has been triggered by another second-stage uplink resource scheduling message within a predetermined time period prior to reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message. The UE then performs an uplink transmission.
US12279232B2
A method for beam determination may include receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, configuration parameters indicating transmission configuration indication (TCI) state pools, wherein each TCI state pool, of the TCI state pools, comprises TCI states. The method may also include transmitting an indication of a TCI state pool from the TCI state pools.
US12279229B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. According to embodiment, the method comprises identifying whether a timer related with a small data transmission (SDT) procedure is running at the UE in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state, while the timer is running, performing at least one of monitoring of a system information (SI) change indication or an emergency notification in any paging occasion at least once per a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle and obtaining at least one of the SI change indication or the emergency notification, based on a result of the monitoring.
US12279226B2
Communication device comprising circuitry configured to measure a first phase of a first measurement signal transmitted by a first node to a second node, measure a second phase of a second measurement signal transmitted by the second node to the first node, repeat the measurements of the first and second phases one or more times, receive phase information from the first node and/or the second node, the phase information including third phase information acquired by the second node from measurements of a third phase of the first measurement signals and/or fourth phase information acquired by the first node from measurements of a fourth phase of the second measurement signals, and estimate a distance difference using the measured first and second phases and the received phase information.
US12279225B2
A method and system for fingerprint positioning based on 5G multi-beam downlink signals, includes: extracting multi-beam SSB from 5G downlink signals, and obtaining multi-beam SSS signal and DM-RS signal from multi-beam SSB; calculating multi-beam reference signal received power RSRP based on multi-beam SSS signal and DM-RS signal; calculating the RSSI of 5G downlink synchronization channel based on multi-beam SSB autocorrelation, and calculating the multi-beam reference signal received quality RSRQ based on multi-beam RSRP and RSSI; stacking the multi-beam RSRP and RSRQ to form multi-beam fingerprint features; inputting multi-beam fingerprint characteristic into neural networks, and the neural networks output positioning results.
US12279219B2
Appropriate timing control is realized in accordance with propagation delay between a terminal and a base station. This terminal includes: a control unit that controls a transmission timing on the basis of first information relating to control of transmission timing of signals in a transmission increment of the signals, and second information relating to control of transmission timing in a finer increment than in the transmission increment; and a wireless transmission unit that performs signal transmission on the basis of control of the transmission timing by the control unit.
US12279218B2
A base station that determines a slot for uplink reception for a non-terrestrial network link between a base station and a user equipment is described. In exemplary embodiments, the base station determines a timing advance based on at least a random access preamble reception and determines an uplink offset based on the timing advance. The base station may further determine a candidate slot for an uplink reception based on at least the offset. In addition, the base station may determine if the candidate slot is available for the uplink reception. The base station may use the candidate slot for the uplink reception when the candidate uplink slot is available and may use the next available slot for the uplink reception when the candidate uplink slot is not available.
US12279210B2
Various embodiments include method performed by a processor of a roadside unit (RSU) processing system for controlling a message transmissions. In various embodiments, the RSU processing system may receive vehicle-to-everything (V2X) information from a vehicle, determine, based on the received V2X information, a minimum reception distance at which the vehicle or operator of the vehicle will reliably receive a message from the RSU and have time for the vehicle to react to the message, determine a transmission power level based on the determined minimum reception distance, and transmit the message to the vehicle using the determined transmission power level. In various embodiments, the RSU processing system may determine the transmission power level taking into account vehicle speeds, vehicle locations, road conditions, weather conditions and/or the type of message being transmitted.
US12279202B2
The embodiments of the present application relate to the field of wireless communications, and provide a device-to-device relay processing method, device and apparatus, and a storage medium, which are used for implementing an activation or deactivation function of the device-to-device relay. Said method includes according to channel quality information of a direct link between a first device and at least two second devices, the first device determining a processing manner of the first device for a device-to-device relay function, the processing manner including activating the device-to-device relay function or deactivating the device-to-device relay function.
US12279193B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for terminal devices influenced network slice selection. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a new terminal device influenced network slice selection is proposed. The NRF updates the application profile for the terminal device based on the change of the applications on the terminal device. The NRF may notify the PCF about the application profile and the PCF generates the route policy for the application on the terminal device. In this way, problems regarding the affected terminal devices of application influenced network slice selection are solved.
US12279188B2
An information processing device comprising a processor configured to determine a first timing designated for a product registered as a purchased product. The processor is also configured to determine a first registration position where the product is designated. The processor is also configured to determine a second timing designated for the product. The processor is also configured to determine a second registration position where the product is designated. The processor is also configured to determine, based on the first timing, the first registration position, the second timing, and the second registration position, a first reliability of the first registration position. The processor is also configured to generate first tracking data relating to the product by associating the second timing, the second registration position, and the first reliability.
US12279171B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing a channel validation by an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and non-AP MLD are described. An AP MLD may transmit information about multiple affiliated APs. A non-AP MLD and AP MLD may validate multiple links for communication.
US12279169B2
A user device operating in dual-mode connectivity with a master node and a secondary node detects a failure of a secondary cell group associated with the secondary node (1104). In response, the user device suspends an secondary cell group transmission (1106). The user device generates a message related to a status of the SCG for transmission to the MN (1108) and transmitting the message to the MN when the SCG transmission is suspended (1110).
US12279163B2
Presented are systems and methods for acquiring channel state information. A wireless communicate node may transmit a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) to a wireless communication device via a first antenna port of a plurality of antenna ports of the wireless communication node. The wireless communication node may receive a channel state information (CSI) report from the wireless communication device.
US12279160B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques may enable a first wireless device (e.g., a parent node) to transmit a control message to a second wireless device (e.g., a child node). The control message may include a resource reservation for communication with the second wireless device. The second wireless device may receive the control message and may transmit an acknowledgment message acknowledging successful reception of the resource reservation. The first wireless device may monitor for the acknowledgment message and may communicate with the second wireless device based on whether the acknowledgment message is received. For example, if the first wireless device receives feedback acknowledging successful reception of the resource reservation at the second wireless device, the devices may communicate data in the reserved resources. Otherwise, the first wireless device may retransmit a control message if the first control message was not successfully received.
US12279158B2
A wireless communication network resource allocation method implemented in a server in a wireless communication network, includes: obtaining task feature information of each user device and a CPU frequency of the server in each time slot; obtaining a task data volume average value; determining, based on a knowledge base including sample data groups and optimal resource allocation models, a target optimal resource allocation model matched with the task data volume average value and the CPU frequency of the server; obtaining, based on the task feature information of the user devices in the time slot and the target optimal resource allocation model, resource allocation results of the user devices, and transmitting task data to the user devices based on the results. A width of a dynamic neural network can be automatically adjusted according to task features and computational capacity, and on-demand adjustment of decision speed and resource optimality can be realized.
US12279149B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for prioritizing sidelink communication transmissions. In accordance with one example embodiment, a WTRU may include a processor, configured to receive vehicle-to-x communication (V2X) configuration parameters from a V2X network node. The V2X communication parameters may be associate with sidelink communications for a V2X service. The WTRU may send a user equipment (UE) information message to a gNB. The UE information message may include quality of service (QoS) information associated with the V2X service. The WTRU may further receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message from the gNB. The RRC configuration message may include an indication of a logical channel to be used for communication sidelink data associated with the V2X service, and one or more logical channel configuration parameters for the logical channel to be used for communication of the sidelink data associated with the V2X service. The WTRU may send at least one sidelink transmission comprising the sidelink data associated with the V2X service.
US12279148B2
Systems and methods related to congestion monitoring in a mobile communications network; in particular, a congestion monitoring unit that sends congestion information to a policy control unit for a plurality of mobile entities, wherein each of the mobile entities is connected to a respective radio access network and associated with the policy control unit, the congestion information indicates congestion of the respective radio access network. The congestion monitoring unit sends a request message to a policy control unit for transmitting congestion information of a mobile entity, the message routed by a Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) and includes congestion information and an identity for a given mobile entity; in response, the policy control unit sends a response message including an identity of the policy control unit. The congestion monitoring unit can then send aggregated congestion information for a plurality of mobile entities associated with the policy control unit.
US12279132B2
An example method includes receiving, by a wireless device, downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may schedule transport blocks (TBs) via physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) at a first slot and a second slot. The DCI may also indicate a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for reception of the TBs. The method may also include receiving, based on a second TCI state, a first TB, of the TBs, at the first slot. The method may also include receiving, based on the first TCI state, the second TB, of the TBs, at the second slot in response to a time difference between the first slot and the second slot being larger than a time gap.
US12279127B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12279119B2
A wireless communication system includes an external provider subsystem and an electronic network subsystem in operable communication with the external provider subsystem. The electronic network subsystem is configured to provide a first microservice and a second microservice different from the first microservice. The wireless communication system further includes an in-home subsystem (i) separate from the external provider subsystem, (ii) in operable communication with the electronic network subsystem, and (iii) including a first micronet and a second micronet different from the first micronet. The first micronet is configured to operably interact with the first microservice, and the second micronet is configured to operably interact with the second microservice. The wireless communication system further includes at least one electronic device configured to operably connect with one of the first micronet and the second micronet.
US12279118B2
A method performed by a Radio Area Network, RAN, function node for handling connectivity in a RAN is provided. The RAN function node receives from a network node, a first subscription request for one or more RAN insights relating to the connectivity, requested for an application related to a wireless device. The RAN function node identifies RAN data needed to fulfil the subscription request and sends to a RAN node, a second subscription request for the identified RAN data. The RAN function node receives published RAN data according to the second subscription request and generates the RAN insights according to the first subscription request based on the received RAN data. The RAN function node establishes which domain out of a trusted domain or an untrusted domain the generated RAN insights are to be exposed in and publishes the generated RAN insights according to the first subscription request.
US12279111B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network element. Said method comprises: determining a first target mode corresponding to a first operation, the first operation comprising at least one of authorization, authentication, re-authorization or re-authentication; and sending, on the basis of the first target mode, information for performing the first operation. In the embodiments of the present application, a first target mode corresponding to a first operation is determined, so that a terminal device can send, on the basis of the first target mode, information for performing the first operation.
US12279110B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed that are associated with cellular communications for unmanned aerial vehicles and associated devices. A WTRU may initiate multiple PDU sessions. The WTRU may initiate a first protocol data unit (PDU) session. The WTRU may receive one or more session parameters for a second PDU session. The one or more session parameters for the second PDU session may be received via the first PDU session. The WTRU may initiate the second PDU session using the one or more session parameters (e.g., based on an authentication and authorization associated with the first PDU session being successful). The WTRU may send or receive an operation communication via the second PDU session. The operation communication may comprise an unmanned aerial vehicle command and control message or an unmanned aerial vehicle payload message.
US12279105B2
An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a user position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain a user position value; obtain at least one input audio signal and associated metadata enabling a rendering of the at least one input audio signal; generate an intermediate format immersive audio signal based on the at least one input audio signal, the metadata, and the user position value; process the intermediate format immersive audio signal to obtain the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal; and encode the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal are configured to at least in part generate the spatialized audio output.
US12279090B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio capture requirement(s) and position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; and transmitting the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.
US12279087B2
Various implementations include a speaker resonator device. The device includes a base plate, one or more spacers, and a resonator plate. The base plate has a first base side and a second base side. The spacers each have a first spacer end and a second spacer end. The second spacer end of each of the spacers contacts the first base side. Each of the spacers extends away from the first base side. The resonator plate has a first resonator side and a second resonator side. The second spacer end of each of the spacers contacts the second resonator side. The first base side and the second resonator side are spaced apart from each other such that, when a speaker is disposed on the first resonator side, the sound from the speaker resonates between the resonator plate and the base plate.
US12279085B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an acoustic apparatus. The acoustic apparatus may include a support assembly. The support assembly may include a first portion and a second portion. When a user is wearing the acoustic apparatus, the first portion may be hung between a first side of an ear and a head of the user, the second portion may contact a second side of the ear. The first portion may cause the second portion to provide a compressive force on the second side of the ear.
US12279084B2
The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-shaped component may be configured to hang between a rear side of an ear of a user and a head of the user. The holding component may be configured to contact a front side of the ear. The connecting component may be configured to connect the hook-shaped component and the holding component and extend from the head to an outside of the head to cooperate with the hook-shaped component to provide the holding component with a pressing force on the front side of the ear.
US12279069B2
Provided is a video processor. The video processor includes: a receiving module, configured to receive source video display data and parse the source video display data as valid video display data; a pre-processing module, configured to generate valid video display data in a predetermined video format; an image quality processing module, configured to adjust image quality parameters to output a first video screen; a post-processing module, configured to extract video parameters, generate a blended screen, and blend the blended screen on the first video screen; and a video output module, configured to perform data format conversion on valid video display data of the first video screen and valid video display data of the blended screen to encapsulate as output video display data, and output the output video display data to an external display to blend the blended screen on the first video screen.
US12279060B2
A method of operating an imaging system is described. The method comprising transferring first image charges accumulated during a long exposure period of a first image frame to respective floating diffusion regions of a first pixel and a second pixel, reading out long exposure image signals from the respective floating diffusion regions to a first storage capacitor associated with the first pixel and a second storage capacitor associated with the second pixel, transferring second image charges accumulated during a short exposure period of the first image frame to the respective floating diffusion regions of the first pixel and the second pixel, reading out a short exposure image signal from a corresponding one of the floating diffusion regions to the second storage capacitor, and reading out storage charge signals from the first storage capacitor and the second storage capacitor to generate image data for the first image frame.
US12279058B2
An image sensor includes: a pixel including a boosting capacitor with one electrode connected to a first node to which a charge generated from a photoelectric element is transmitted, and outputting a pixel voltage based on the first node; a row driver outputting a reset-signal that resets the first node, a boosting control-signal applied to the other electrode, and a transmission-signal transmitting the charge to the first node; a read-out-circuit receiving the pixel voltage as a first-signal before the transmission-signal is output to the pixel, and receiving the pixel voltage as a second-signal after the transmission-signal is output to the pixel. A controller controlling the row driver to change the boosting control-signal from a first-level to a second-level lower than the first-level after changing the reset-signal from an enable to a disable, and controlling the read-out-circuit to receive the first-signal and the second-signal during which the boosting control-signal is at the second-level.
US12279057B2
Disclosed is an image sensing system including a first sub-pixel array having an arrangement of K×K pixels, where “K” is a natural number greater than 4, wherein the first sub-pixel array includes: first pixels disposed in a first diagonal direction and each having a green filter; second pixels disposed in a second diagonal direction that intersects the first diagonal direction and each having a red filter, and third pixels disposed in the second diagonal direction and each having a blue filter; and fourth pixels each having a white filter and disposed at the other positions except for arrangement positions of the first to third pixels disposed in the first and second diagonal directions, and fifth pixels suitable for measuring depth information, and the fourth pixels and the fifth pixels are disposed in a first pattern.
US12279050B2
An imaging system comprising a phase-detection image sensor comprising a plurality of phase-detection pixel units and a processor configured to: interpolate a green image to obtain a full resolution interpolated green image including defocused portions having artifacts and in-focus portions having sharp image, low-pass filter the full resolution interpolated green image to obtain a blurred image of the interpolated green image, combine the full resolution interpolated green image and the blurred image of the full resolution interpolated green image to obtain a corrected full resolution interpolated green image, where the artifacts of the defocused portions of the full resolution interpolated green image are removed, and the sharp image of the in-focus portions of the full resolution interpolated green image is unaffected.
US12279044B1
An image capture device may be moved while capturing a distance-lapse video. Distance traveled by the image capture device may be used to determine when video frames of the distance-lapse video are generated. Video frames of the distance-lapse video may be generated when the image capture device travels over a certain amount of distance. Distance interval, rather than time interval, may be used to generate the distance-lapse video.
US12279041B2
An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.
US12279025B2
A content interaction system and method allow a user to simultaneously interact with a piece of content using three, four or five senses (such as sound, sight and smell in one example) of the user. In one embodiment, a presence detection element may detect the presence of a person adjacent to a piece of smart furniture of the content interaction system, may determine an identity and emotional state of the person and may recommend a piece of interactive content based on the emotional state of the person adjacent to a piece of smart furniture of the content interaction system.
US12279024B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating and storing data snippets. A data file can be obtained from a data source through a plug-in interface. The data file can be played to a user through an application running on a computing device. An indication can be received from the user, through the application, to tag an entity depicted in the data file during playback of the data file. A snippet of the data file can be stored, wherein the snippet is a portion of the data file corresponding to the entity tagged by the user.
US12279019B2
Various aspects include methods for supporting Enhancement for Television (ENTV) service delivery to a user equipment (UE) in a fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) radio access network (RAN). Various aspects may include generating an ENTV capability message, the ENTV capability message indicating one or more ENTV parameters of the UE, and sending the ENTV capability message to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) of the 5G-NR RAN. Various aspects may include receiving a ENTV capability message from the UE, the ENTV capability message indicating one or more ENTV parameters of the UE, determining one or more radio resource configurations for the UE based at least in part on the one or more ENTV parameters of the UE, and generating a configuration message indicating the one or more radio resource configurations for the UE, and sending the configuration message to the UE.
US12279006B2
The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the playback of a video that is being viewed synchronously with at least one other device. The second client device can process the event so the video can reflect the received input. The second client device can also send a collaboration message to a synchronized video viewing service to inform other client devices of the command. Since the second client device is aware of its own event, the second client device can ignore processing any other collaboration messages until it receives the collaboration message it initiated echoed back to it. Thereafter it can resume processing received collaboration messages.
US12279002B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a threshold value of a streaming-media key performance indicator (KPI) based on a predetermined target portion of end-user devices that provide an acceptable performance. Performance records are obtained for a content delivery network (CDN) adapted to cache and serve media content requested by the end-user devices. Predicted values of the streaming-media KPI are generated according to the performance records of the CDN and compared to the threshold value of the streaming-media KPI to obtain a comparison. An anomaly is detected according to the comparison, to indicate that a predetermined number of the predicted values of the streaming-media KPI fail to satisfy the threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12279001B2
A method for the transmission of video signals from a video signal source to a playback device is proposed. The signal is output in a stream from the video signal source and subsequently fragmented according to a known format into packets, the size of which corresponds at least to one video frame with associated audio information. The packets are transmitted to the playback device with the aid of which the contents of the packets is displayed.
US12278999B2
A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes detecting cultural context and accents of speakers portrayed in a video stream and/or an audience of the video stream. Accent tags are selected for the speakers according to the cultural context and accents of the speakers and/or the audience of the video stream. A textual representation of spoken words of the speakers is translated from a source language to a target language. The accent tags are applied to the textual representation of the spoken words in the target language according to the speakers corresponding to the textual representation of the spoken words in the target language. Speech lip movements of the speakers portrayed in the video stream are modified to match the target language and the locale accent tags. A translated video stream having the speakers appearing to speak in the target language with the modified lip movements is output.
US12278995B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to sample enabled views per atlas in immersive video are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interface to obtain a bitstream corresponding to an immersive video; a bitstream analyzer to determine that metadata corresponding to an atlas of the bitstream identifies that at least part of a view of interest corresponds to the atlas, the metadata included in the bitstream; and a filter to generate a filtered bitstream by removing atlases that do not identify at least part of a view of interest from the bitstream, the interface to provide the filtered bitstream to a decoder.
US12278984B2
Provided are inter prediction methods and a decoder. In the method, a bitstream is parsed to determine a prediction mode parameter of a current block; a Geometrical Partition Mode (GPM) parameter of the current block and a merge candidate list of the current block and attribute information of motion information in the merge candidate list are determined when the prediction mode parameter indicates to determine an inter prediction value of the current block by using GPM; a first motion information mapping table of a first partition and a second motion information mapping table of a second partition are determined according to the GPM parameter, merge candidate list and attribute information; and the inter prediction value of the current block is determined based on the first and second motion information mapping tables and merge candidate list.
US12278980B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video encoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines whether a block is under a local dual tree structure, and disallows a palette based coding mode for encoding the block in response to the block being under the local dual tree structure.
US12278979B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: deriving a chroma quantization parameter table on the basis of quantization parameter data; deriving a quantization parameter for combined chroma coding on the basis of the chroma quantization parameter table; deriving prediction samples of a current chroma block on the basis of prediction information; deriving transform coefficients of the current chroma block on the basis of residual information; deriving residual samples by dequantizing the transform coefficients on the basis of the quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples.
US12278973B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of tiles. A number of the tiles are included in a tile group. The mechanism determines whether the tile group is a raster scan tile group or a rectangular tile group. The number of tiles in the tile group is determined based on whether the tile group is the raster scan tile group or the rectangular tile group. The tiles are encoded into a bitstream based on the tile group. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.
US12278967B2
A method for reconstructing a picture block is disclosed, wherein the block is predicted using local illumination compensation. The parameters of local illumination compensation are determined according to a selection of reconstructed samples located to the left and above of the current block. In the case where some of them are unavailable, they may be replaced using different techniques.
US12278963B2
A method for decoding an image performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information.
US12278960B2
Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequentially subject to spatial prediction using the intra-prediction coding mode signaled for the certain block followed by correcting the thus obtained predictor using a prediction residual so that for preceding partitions a reconstruction of the samples is available to the decoder at the time of processing the next, then current, partition.
US12278949B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a video component of a video comprising a current video block and a bitstream representation of the video, that a first coding tool is used based on a rule for the current video block; and performing the conversion according to the determining, wherein the first coding tool includes transforming a representation of a visual signal between two color spaces, and where the rule specifies that a first quantization parameter (QP) offset for a luma channel of the current video block is equal to K1 and a second QP offset for a first chroma channel of the current video block is K1+O, where K1 and O are integers.
US12278948B2
A transform method and a decoder. The encoder determines a prediction mode parameter of a current block; determines a cross-component linear model (CCLM) parameter when the prediction mode parameter indicates that CCLM prediction is used for the current block to determine an intra prediction value; determines the intra prediction value of the current block according to the CCLM parameter, and calculates a residual value between the current block and the intra prediction value; determines a low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) transform kernel used for the current block according to the CCLM parameter, sets an LFNST index, and signals the LFNST index into a bitstream of a video, when LFNST is used for the current block; and transforms the residual value with the LFNST transform kernel.
US12278936B2
Methods and/or apparatus provide for acquiring a first image obtained by imaging an event taking place in a real space; generating a display image by merging the first image into a second image representing a virtual space that establishes an alternative version by: (i) reproducing real elements that are a focus of the event, (ii) omitting real peripheral elements, and (iii) presenting alternative virtual elements, such that the first image has an inconspicuous border when the display image is presented to a user.
US12278934B2
An information processing apparatus includes an image sensor and circuitry. The image sensor captures an image of an automatic document feeder of an image reading apparatus with a document set on the automatic document feeder. The circuitry acquires information related to the automatic document feeder from an information medium placed on the image reading apparatus. Based on the captured image of the automatic document feeder and the acquired information, the circuitry estimates setting information of a reading operation performed by the image reading apparatus, and instructs the image reading apparatus to perform the reading operation on the document based on the estimated setting information.
US12278915B2
The present disclosure provides a provisioning method and a terminal device. The provisioning method is applied to the terminal device, including: the security module establishes a secure channel with the certificate authority CA server through one or more session keys shared by the security module and the CA server; and obtains one or more digital certificates from the CA server; wherein, the security module is to implement Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) functions.
US12278908B2
A laser-scanning method may include obtaining scan data captured by a laser scanner in which the laser scanner includes a first private key that uniquely corresponds to the laser scanner. The laser-scanning method may include obtaining a first digital signature corresponding to the obtained scan data that is generated based on the scan data and the first private key. The laser-scanning method may include validating the first digital signature using a first public key that corresponds to the first private key and generating a report that summarizes results of the validating. The laser-scanning method may include transforming and aggregating, by a scan data aggregator, the scan data as aggregated scan data and generating a second digital signature corresponding to the aggregated scan data. The second digital signature may be generated by signing hashes corresponding to the aggregated scan data using a second private key corresponding to the scan data aggregator.
US12278904B2
A computer-implemented method to generate a unidirectional commitment channel to send one or more tokens from a sender node to a recipient node using a blockchain is disclosed. The method is implemented by a processing resource that performs steps comprising: generating a first commitment transaction representing a commitment component in which a specified set of tokens is sent or committed for transfer from the first node to the second node; generating a return transaction which returns all tokens from the second node to the first node; signing the return transaction and, based on the signing of the return transaction, signing the commitment transaction; creating one or more further return transactions to reflect the transfer of tokens being made off the blockchain.
US12278897B2
A system and method for inspecting encrypted disks for a cybersecurity object using a custom key are disclosed. The method includes detecting an encrypted disk in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment including a security policy service; authorizing a key policy on the security policy service for a custom key of an inspector account, wherein the key policy is a policy authorized to decrypt the encrypted disk; generating a second encrypted disk based on the encrypted disk; inspecting the second encrypted disk for a cybersecurity object with the custom key; and releasing a resource allocated to the second encrypted disk in response to completing the inspection.
US12278881B1
The techniques disclosed herein provide a synchronization engine that operates in conjunction with a service worker to dynamically store and update a working set of user data and single page application (SPA) resources from a network server to a user device. The working set can be hosted across several domains and identified by association with a user account. Accordingly, the synchronization engine retrieves the working set from the network server to enable offline execution of the single page applications. As such, subsequent requests for interacting with a single page application are then serviced by the synchronization engine using the working set retrieved from the network server. For instance, the service worker can bind user data to the application resources to enable progressive rendering through an application controller using locally available resources. In this way, the disclosed system provides a consistent user experience irrespective of network connectivity.
US12278875B2
The system and methods described herein can classify electronic activities based on sender and recipient information. The system can determine a relationship between a sender of an electronic activity and at least one recipient of the electronic activity using a sender node profile and a recipient node profile. The system can assign a tag to the electronic activity based on the relationship between the sender and one or more recipients of the electronic activity. The system can process the electronic activity based on the assigned tag.
US12278870B1
A computer product and methodology is contemplated for adaptively serving hold content during an automated communication session. This includes training a machine learning model with a set of training data that includes a feature of hold duration times during historical automated communication sessions. In response to encountering a computer transaction request during a new automated communication session, a hold time duration is predicted for executing the computer transaction request based on obtaining an inference from the machine learning model. Whether to serve hold content in response to the computer transaction request is determined, based on a comparison of the predicted hold time duration to a predetermined threshold time interval.
US12278862B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for supporting edge data network discovery. One apparatus receives a first request from a function in a mobile communication network, the first request including a UE ID and a UE network address. The apparatus may determine whether the UE is located in a first service area based at least in part on a UE location and forward a DNS request to a first DNS server associated with the first service area based at least in part on a determination that the UE is located in the first service area. The apparatus may further receive a DNS reply and transmit a second request to a policy function in the mobile communication network based at least in part on a determination that the DNS reply includes a first IP address.
US12278849B2
A method and a computing system for detecting, at an ATM, an input event indicating that a user of the ATM wants to communicate with a bank teller; responsive to detecting the input event, by the ATM, establishing a first communication link with a computing device of a selected remote bank teller and requesting the user to place a mobile device of the user within a detection range of an electromagnetic signal reader of the ATM; and responsive to the user placing the mobile device within the detection range of the electromagnetic signal reader, establishing, by the ATM, a second communication link with the mobile device; thereby establishing a point-to-point communication link between the computing device and the mobile device.
US12278841B2
A secured exploration agent for reinforcement learning (RL) is provided. Securitizing an exploration agent includes training the exploration agent to avoid dead-end states and dead-end trajectories. During training, the exploration agent “learns” to identify and avoid dead-end states of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The secured exploration agent is utilized to safely and efficiently explore the environment, while significantly reducing the training time, as well as the cost and safety concerns associated with conventional RL. The secured exploration agent is employed to guide the behavior of a corresponding exploitation agent. During training, a policy of the exploration agent is iteratively updated to reflect an estimated probability that a state is a dead-end state. The probability, via the exploration policy, that the exploration agent chooses an action that results in a transition to a dead-end state is reduced to reflect the estimated probability that the state is a dead-end state.
US12278840B1
A system and method for generating a security graph utilizing a unified model based on multiple cloud environments are provided. The method includes receiving data from a first cloud environment pertaining to: resources, principals, and permissions; generating for each resource a corresponding resource node in the security graph, the corresponding resource node including an identifier of the resource, wherein the resource is a cloud entity deployed in the first cloud environment; generating for each principal a corresponding principal node in the security graph, the corresponding principal node including an identifier of the principal, wherein the principal is a cloud entity in the first cloud environment that generates an operation request in the first cloud environment; and generating a connection between at least a principal node and at least a resource node in the security graph, in response to detecting a permission indicating that a principal can access a resource.
US12278839B2
Systems, methods, and storage media for assessment of identity resources in an identity infrastructure are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: assess the identity infrastructure with at least one discovery agent element; identify, by the at least one discovery agent element, one or more infrastructure elements within the identity infrastructure; intercept, by the at least one discovery agent element, first network traffic in the identity infrastructure; assess, by the at least one discovery agent element, at least one of a status and a structure of the identity infrastructure; and report, by the at least one discovery agent element, at least one of the status and the structure of the identity infrastructure to one or more of an administrator and a centralized server.
US12278837B2
Methods for securing an electronic communication is provided. In a registration process, an anti-phish, personalized, security token may be created and/or selected for a predetermined account. The token may be stored in a database at an enterprise location. An electronic communication may be generated at a third-party location on behalf of the enterprise. The communication may be forwarded from the third-party location to a recipient associated with the account. The communication may be intercepted at an edge server. The edge server may be located at the third-party location or the enterprise location. The edge server may be in communication with the database. The edge server may select, from the database, the anti-phish token that is associated with the account. The selected token may be injected into the communication. The communication with the token may be transmitted to the recipient.
US12278825B2
A system and method for improved endpoint detection and response (EDR) in a cloud computing environment initiates inspection based on data received from a sensor deployed on a workload. The method includes: configuring a resource, deployed in a cloud computing environment, to deploy thereon a sensor, the sensor configured to detect runtime data; detecting a potential cybersecurity threat on the resource based on detected runtime data received from the sensor; and initiating inspection of the resource for the potential cybersecurity threat.
US12278820B1
Various embodiments described herein relate to a call management system that aims to provide a more efficient, secure, and dynamic technique for authenticating a user based on a location of the user. A server of the call management system receives a phone call from a user device. The server transfers the phone call to an analyst device. When the analyst device accepts the phone call, the server starts an electronic communication session between the user device and the analyst device. The server then determines a current location of the user. The server further determines a question for authentication of the user based on the current location. The server transmits the question to the analyst device. The analyst device transmits the question to the user device via the server. In response to an answer received from the user device, the server authenticates the user.
US12278802B2
A system generates vector representations of entries of traffic logs generated by a firewall. A first model learns contexts of values recorded in the logs during training, and the system extracts vector representations of the values from the trained model. For each log entry, vectors created for the corresponding values are combined to create a vector representing the entry. Cluster analysis of the vector representations can be performed to determine clusters of similar traffic and outliers indicative of potentially anomalous traffic. The system also generates a formal model representing firewall behavior which comprises formulas generated from the firewall rules. Proposed traffic scenarios not recorded in the logs can be evaluated based on the formulas to determine actions which the firewall would take in the scenarios. The combination of models which implement machine learning and formal techniques facilitates evaluation of both observed and hypothetical network traffic based on the firewall rules.
US12278801B2
A method is provided that is performed for a wireless network that includes one or more wireless client devices that may rotate their media access control (MAC) address used for wireless communication with one or more wireless access point devices in the wireless network. The method includes determining an impact of MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices on operational resources of one or more networking devices or networking processes in a network infrastructure associated with the wireless network. The method further includes scheduling MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices according to the impact on operational resources of the one or more networking devices or networking processes in the network infrastructure.
US12278789B2
Various aspects relate to indicating bundling across carriers (e.g., across cells). In some aspects, bundling may involve sending information sent over multiple carriers (e.g., information sent from or to multiple cells) where the information sent over the carriers is combinable at a receiver. For example, a communication device may send the same set of information (e.g., transport blocks with the same content) via multiple carriers, send different redundancy versions of a set of information via different carriers, send information via different beams on different carriers, or send information using a combination of these techniques. The disclosure relates in some aspects to indicating whether bundling is applied across carriers. For example, downlink control information (DCI) that schedules transmissions on multiple carriers (e.g., multiple component carriers) may include an indication of whether bundling is applied across all or a subset of the scheduled carriers.
US12278786B2
A user equipment (UE) includes: a first subscriber identity module (SIM) associated with a first service provider subscription and a second SIM associated with a second service provider subscription; the US is configured to operate the first service provider subscription in an active-mode and operating the second service provider subscription in an idle mode; and the UE is further configured to signal a changing quantity of multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) layers available to the first service provider subscription in response to radio frequency (RF) resource sharing with the second service provider subscription for a paging operation of the second service provider subscription.
US12278782B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: obtaining first channel measurement data for a primary component carrier used for communications between a device and a network node of a mobile communication system; providing the first channel measurement data as an input to an algorithm to obtain a first embedding output; comparing the first embedding output with embedding outputs of a plurality of reference channel measurement data input to said algorithm to identify a closest reference channel measurement data to the first channel measurement data; identifying a set of reference channel information associated with the identified closest reference channel measurement data, wherein the identified set of reference channel information includes a carrier aggregation policy defining one or more secondary communication channels; and setting a carrier aggregation policy for the primary component carrier in accordance with the carrier aggregation policy.
US12278778B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring a sensing reference signal. One method includes receiving, at a first device, configuration information from a second device. The configuration includes: a set of sensing reference signal sequence generation parameters; a set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters, wherein a pattern corresponding to the set of sensing reference signal resource pattern parameters includes time domain locations of symbols within a sensing reference signal, frequency domain locations of resource elements within the sensing reference signal, or a combination thereof; and information indicating to map a generated sequence based on the pattern on at least one antenna to create a sensing reference signal pattern. The method includes generating a sensing reference signal. The method includes transmitting and/or receiving the sensing reference signal according to the configuration information.
US12278777B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for configuring tones for a distributed resource unit (RU) across a channel bandwidth to improve frequency diversity and available transmit power. A distributed RU may include a set of tones that may be allocated across a bandwidth that is greater than a bandwidth of the aggregate quantity of tones. The set of tones may include a set of data tones grouped into contiguous groups of one or more data tones and a set of non-contiguous pilot tones. The data tones may be mapped to useful tones over a center portion of a half-bandwidth of the channel. The pilot tones may be mapped near edge tones at edges of the channel bandwidth or near direct current tones at a center of the channel bandwidth. A system bandwidth may include one or more channel bandwidths associated with distributed RUs.
US12278772B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a CQI measurement reporting method, an apparatus, a network side device, and a terminal. The CQI measurement reporting method includes a network side device determining, for multiple coordinated transmission TRPs or antenna panels, a CSI measurement resource used for CQI measurement; generating network side configuration information, the network side configuration information being used for indicating the network side device to configure a terminal to perform, according to the CSI measurement resource, CQI measurement corresponding to a TDM transmission mode, obtain a corresponding CQI measurement result, and then report the CQI measurement result to the network side device; and sending the CSI measurement resource and the network side configuration information to the terminal.
US12278771B2
A method for latency control in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes identifying that a service is currently associated with a user device associated with the communication network, wherein a deviation between a latency requirement of the service and an internal latency performance of the communication network is bounded, and dynamically adjusting a configuration of the communication network for the service. In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment is performed only for user devices associated with services with bounded deviation between the latency requirement of the service and the internal latency performance of the communication network. In some embodiments, dynamically adjusting the configuration of the communication network comprises controlling the communication network to provide latencies below a maximum latency threshold for the service. In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment of the configuration of the communication network is based on the current traffic load.
US12278765B2
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for managing congestion within a network with a controller. The techniques include identifying a first designated memory location from which a first destination device reads first data, identifying a second designated memory location from which a second destination device reads second data, writing the first data to the first designated memory location, incrementing, based at least in part on writing the first data, a write index; sending a first indication to the first destination device that the first data is ready to be consumed, determining that the first destination device retrieved the first data from the first designated memory location, and decrementing the write index.
US12278763B2
A fabric control protocol (FCP) is a data transmission protocol that enables spraying of individual packets for a given packet flow across a data center from an ingress interface of the source data processing unit (DPU) across a plurality of parallel data paths of a logical tunnel in the network fabric to the egress interface of the destination DPU. The FCP has congestion control mechanisms used to determine a degree of congestion at the egress interface of the destination DPU and to modify a send window size at the source DPU based on the degree of congestion. Reliable FCP (rFCP) extensions provide reliability enhancements and improved failure resilience within the data center. The rFCP extensions provide an unsolicited mode for low latency operation with enhanced reliability mechanisms. The rFCP extensions provide failure resilience mechanisms to identify and avoid failed paths among multiple parallel data paths within the logical tunnel.
US12278755B2
A switch, communication system, and method are provided. In one example, a communication system is described that includes a plurality of communication nodes and a switch that interconnects and facilitates a transmission of packets between the plurality of communication nodes. The communication system may be configured such that the packets are transmitted between the plurality of communication nodes by draining a demand matrix.
US12278746B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for updating configurations in sensors deployed in multi-layer virtualized environments. In some examples, a system can track information of sensors and collectors in the network. In response to determining that a specific collector becomes unavailable (e.g., the specific collector is down, offline or becomes unsupported), the system can determine affected sensors corresponding to the specific collector, determine a new collector among active collectors of the network for each of the affected sensors, and dynamically update configuration and settings of the affected sensors to maintain proper collector-to-sensor mappings and other settings on the affected sensors.
US12278741B2
Direct to systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices.
US12278740B2
This invention relates to methods and systems of procuring services in the cloud and specifically procurement where the requirements are defined by the consumer in a machine understandable knowledge representation language such as RDF and OWL using semantic web technology to establish a cloud agent for discovery of a service provider and effectuate the automatic generation of a contract, or service-level agreement, that can be monitored due to the coupling between the machine understandable knowledge representation language and the contract.
US12278725B2
The present disclosure may provide a device and method for independent phase adjustment of a PAM receiver. The device includes: a plurality of samplers configured to perform sampling for signal level decision of multi-level input data; a global clock source configured to provide a common sampling clock to the samplers; and a plurality of phase adjusters configured to respectively adjust a phase of the common sampling clock to provide a sampling phase applied to a corresponding sampler. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to achieve reliable BER performance by independently adjusting a sampling phase of a sampler corresponding to each eye opening even in the presence of unsymmetric eye openings.
US12278719B2
A receiver with feed-forward equalization is disclosed. A receiver includes a delay circuit configured to receive a first signal that encodes a serial data stream having a plurality of data symbols. The delay circuit includes at least one T-coil circuit and is configured to generate a plurality of delayed signals using the first signal. The receiver further includes a front-end circuit configured to generate an equalized signal using the at first signal and one or more delayed signals of the plurality of delayed signals. A sample circuit is configured to sample the equalized signal to generate a plurality of samples. A recovery circuit configured to generate a plurality of recovered data symbols using the plurality of samples.
US12278718B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, a supported channel latency indication that indicates a supported channel latency for time domain equalization by the UE. The UE may receive, from the network node, a downlink communication based at least in part on the supported channel latency indication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12278707B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling, receives a first signal in a first time window, and transmits a first bit block in a first radio resource block. The first signaling is used for indicating configuration information for the first signal; the first time window is one of M time windows, and any two time windows of the M time windows are orthogonal, M being a positive integer greater than 1; the first radio resource block belongs to a target time window in time domain, and any of the M time windows is associated with the target time window. The above method not only saves the dynamic signaling overhead, but also avoids the impact of miss detection.
US12278703B1
Systems and methods for data transmission protocols are disclosed. For example, a receiving device is selected to send retransmission requests when data packet loss occurs, and then a unicast transmission of data packets may be sent to that selected receiving device. Other receiving devices may be configured to receive the unicast transmission as sent to the selected receiving device and to process the transmission as a multicast transmission. Alternatively, a multicast transmission may be sent to all of the receiving devices, and the selected receiving device may be configured to process the multicast transmission as a unicast transmission for the purpose of sending retransmission requests indicating packet loss. Backup packets may be generated and sent to all of the receiving devices to improve content output quality.
US12278702B2
This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses an encoding method and apparatus, to improve accuracy of reliability calculation and ordering for polarized channels. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence used to encode K to-be-encoded bits, where the first sequence includes sequence numbers of N polarized channels, the first sequence is same as a second sequence or a subset of the second sequence, the second sequence comprises sequence numbers of Nmax polarized channels, and the second sequence is the sequence shown in Sequence Q11 or Table Q11, K is a positive integer, N is a positive integer power of 2, n is equal to or greater than 5, K≤N, Nmax=1024; selecting sequence numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence; and performing polar code encoding on K the to-be-encoded bits based on the selected sequence numbers of the K polarized channels.
US12278700B2
A method of transmitting data from a transmitting terminal to a receiving terminal over a channel is provided in which a series of locations for each of the receiving terminals is determined. The method further includes the steps of determining a link geometry of the channel between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal for each location in the series of locations, wherein determining the link geometry comprises determining a distance between the transmitting and receiving terminals for each location in the series of locations; determining channel impairments for the link geometries; predicting signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the channel for the link geometries and the channel impairments; storing channel parameters based on the predicted SNRs in a lookup table; retrieving the channel parameters from the lookup table using the distance between the transmitting and receiving terminals; and transmitting data from the transmitting terminal using the channel parameters.
US12278695B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for acquiring a timestamp of a data stream, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus. The method for acquiring the timestamp of the data stream includes: receiving a data stream to be transmitted, and acquiring a first frame header identifier of the data stream to be transmitted in a serializer-deserializer (SERDES) clock mode, the first frame header identifier being used for representing a position of a frame header of the data stream to be transmitted; determining, based on the first frame header identifier, a timestamp of the data stream to be transmitted under a system clock; encapsulating the timestamp to obtain a first target data frame; and outputting the first target data frame.
US12278676B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first antenna, a second antenna segmented from the first antenna, a switch selectively coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna, a front end module connected to the switch, and a radio frequency (RF) communication circuit, wherein the RF communication circuit controls to communicate using the first antenna, determines whether radiation power through the first antenna is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and if the radiation power through the first antenna is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, checks the in-phase quadrature phase (IQ) value of the first antenna, determines whether the IQ value corresponds to a switching condition of the second antenna, and if the IQ value corresponds to the switching condition of the second antenna, may switch the first antenna to the second antenna.
US12278660B2
Provided is a pattern division multiple access (PDMA) communication system based on optimal frequency-hopping patterns, which includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter modulates an input baseband signal into a modulated signal, and then converts the modulated signal into a signal that hops in frequency according to the optimal frequency-hopping pattern. The receiver reverts the received frequency-hopping signal to an output modulated signal using an optimal frequency-hopping pattern same as that of the transmitter, and then demodulates the modulated signal into a baseband signal. The optimal frequency-hopping patterns are obtained by applying two-dimensional cyclic shift to a Golomb Costas array constructed based on an extension field, and thus are frequency-hopping patterns with ideal autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties.
US12278658B2
Disclosed are covers for a mobile phone including aspects that protect the phone from impact and/or provide shock absorbance characteristics. Covers can include one or more protrusions that reduce the contact surface to the phone and dissipate energy. Advantageously, the one or more protrusions work with intermittent spaces to provide shock absorbing characteristics and reduce the contact surface area between the cover and the phone. In some embodiments, the protrusions can include a soft-side rectangular shape, where the protrusions are placed in an ordered array in the back wall of a cover. In some embodiments, the one or more protrusions can include a row of x-shaped protrusions interspersed with air pockets along the inside wall of the cover.
US12278655B2
A self-loopback radio transmitter having a transmitter with a modulator configured to up-convert a first baseband signal into a first RF (radio frequency) signal in accordance with a first LO (local oscillator) signal, and a power amplifier configured to receive the first RF signal and output a second RF signal to be emitted by an antenna and a third RF signal to be looped back, wherein the third RF signal is magnetically coupled from the second RF signal; and a loopback network having a shielded serial inductor configured to receive the third RF signal and output a fourth RF signal, and a demodulator configured to down-convert the fourth RF signal into a second baseband signal in accordance with a second LO signal, wherein the shielded serial inductor has a serial inductor of spiral topology and a coil laid out on a lower metal layer.
US12278647B2
A D/A converting unit generates a comparative voltage corresponding to a target bit falling within a range from a most significant bit through a least significant bit. A comparator determines a value of the target bit by comparing a differential voltage between an output signal of an input switching unit and a comparative voltage generated by the D/A converting unit with a reference voltage. An integrator integrates a conversion error. In a first conversion operation of converting a first signal, a control unit sets, based on a result obtained by the integrator, the reference voltage for use when the first signal to be provided next time as the output signal by the input switching unit is A/D converted. In a second conversion operation of A/D converting a second signal, the control unit sets the reference voltage at a constant voltage level.
US12278645B2
An analog to digital conversion (ADC) circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based quantizer that receives a voltage input signal to be quantized and provides a digital output. A predictor samples the digital output, evaluates correlation between successive samples, and predicts a predicted input sample from the correlation to minimize voltage-to-frequency transfer of the VCO. A feedback loop L1 with a digital to analog converter (DAC) receives the predicted input sample, converts it and subtracts it from the voltage input signal. A feedback loop L2 adds the predicted sample to the digital output.
US12278642B2
A time-synchronization apparatus and/or method involves identifying a frequency offset by implementing a frequency-offset-acquisition process which includes counting cycles of a local clock signal within a period of a reference pulse train. A phase offset of the local clock signal is determined, a residual frequency error is generated based on the phase offset, and at least one timer-adjustment signal that is based on the frequency offset and the residual frequency error is provided.
US12278628B2
A proximity sensor for a portable wireless connected device, the sensor being arranged to determine whether a part of a user's body is near the portable connected wireless device. The sensor generates a time-averaged proximity that is alerted when the device is brought near a part of a user's body for a given time and may be periodically reset momentarily during the periods of proximity. An integration time comparable with that used in SAR testing, enables the sensor to reduce the radio power emitted by a portable device when it is near the body. The integration time can be obtained by a sigma/delta modulator configured as rate-compression unit.
US12278623B2
One example discloses a power on reset (POR) circuit, wherein a first circuit is configured to un-couple a power supply input from a resistor divider when the voltage on a second end of the capacitor is above a first circuit threshold; a second circuit configured to couple the second end of the capacitor to the power supply input when a voltage on at least one tap point of the resistor divider is above a second circuit threshold; wherein the comparator is coupled to at least one of the tap points, the reference potential, and a POR output; and wherein the comparator is configured to ramp-up a POR signal on the POR output when a voltage on the at least one of the tap points is greater than the comparator threshold.
US12278619B2
A filter with bulk acoustic wave devices is disclosed. The filter includes a first bulk acoustic wave resonator and a second bulk acoustic wave resonator. The first bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a first raised frame structure. The first raised frame structure is a multi-layer raised frame structure. The second bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a second raised frame structure. The first raised frame structure has at least one more raised frame layer than the second raised frame structure.
US12278615B2
A quartz crystal resonator includes a quartz crystal resonator element, a thermistor, and a package base having a first principal surface and a second principal surface having an opposed surface relationship with each other, the quartz crystal resonator element is mounted on the first principal surface side, the thermistor is housed in a recessed section of the second principal surface side of the package base, a plurality of electrode terminals connected to the quartz crystal resonator element or the thermistor is disposed on the second principal surface side of the package base, and a distance in a first direction perpendicular to the first principal surface from a mounting surface of the electrode terminals to the thermistor is equal to or longer than 0.05 mm.
US12278608B2
A process for fabricating a substrate for a radiofrequency device includes providing a piezoelectric substrate and a carrier substrate, depositing a dielectric layer on a surface of the piezoelectric substrate, assembling together the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate with a polymerizable adhesive directly between the dielectric layer and the carrier substrate to form an assembled substrate, and polymerizing the polymerizable adhesive layer to form a polymerized layer bonding the piezoelectric substrate to the carrier substrate, the polymerized layer and the dielectric layer together forming an electrically insulating layer between the piezoelectric substrate and the carrier substrate.
US12278607B2
A method of manufacture for an acoustic resonator or filter device. In an example, the present method can include forming metal electrodes with different geometric areas and profile shapes coupled to a piezoelectric layer overlying a substrate. These metal electrodes can also be formed within cavities of the piezoelectric layer or the substrate with varying geometric areas. Combined with specific dimensional ratios and ion implantations, such techniques can increase device performance metrics. In an example, the present method can include forming various types of perimeter structures surrounding the metal electrodes, which can be on top or bottom of the piezoelectric layer. These perimeter structures can use various combinations of modifications to shape, material, and continuity. These perimeter structures can also be combined with sandbar structures, piezoelectric layer cavities, the geometric variations previously discussed to improve device performance metrics.
US12278606B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to forming an epitaxial layer of aluminum on an aluminum-nitride compound. The aluminum is epitaxially grown on the crystalline aluminum-nitride compound by maintaining temperature of a crystalline aluminum-nitride compound below a cluster-favoring temperature threshold within a vacuum chamber. Then, the crystalline aluminum-nitride compound is exposed to atoms of elemental aluminum for a predetermined time duration. The aluminum is epitaxially grown in this fashion for a predetermined time duration so as to produce a layer of epitaxial aluminum of a predetermined thickness. Such epitaxially-grown mono-crystalline aluminum has a lower resistivity than poly-crystalline aluminum.
US12278604B2
A voltage follower circuit includes a first MOS transistor which has a source connected to an input port, a second MOS transistor which has a source connected to an output port and has a gate and a drain connected to a gate of the first MOS transistor, a first constant current source connected between a drain of the first MOS transistor and a second power supply terminal, a second constant current source connected between the drain of the second MOS transistor and the second power supply terminal, and a depletion type third MOS transistor which has a gate connected to the drain of the first MOS transistor, has a drain connected to a first power supply terminal, and has a source connected to the output port.
US12278598B2
Provided is a low noise amplifier circuit for a quantum computer. The low noise amplifier circuit comprises a plurality of input stages, a shared output stage, and a voltage controller. Each input stage is coupled to one or more qubits. The shared output stage is coupled to the plurality of input stages. The voltage controller is coupled to the plurality of input stages and the shared output stage. The voltage controller is configured to selectively activate an input stage of the plurality of input stages in order to read a qubit coupled to the input stage.
US12278594B1
A solar panel support structure has two inclined extruded first members with upper heads and lower parts fastened by brackets to horizontal beams. Clamping members with diamond shaped bases extend into the first member heads which communicate with upper and lower tapped holes. The heads have lips disposed to underlie a solar panel extending between the two first members. Set screws with conical interior ends are insertable into the holes. When the screws are in the lower holes, the clamping member flanges are spaced above a solar panel. When in the upper holes, the set screws hold the clamping member flange secured against the solar panel. The first members have U-shaped channels which receive water which is captured in a rain tray extending between the first members. For extending the panel support additional first members with two cylindrical splicing channels allow a lengthened support surface.
US12278586B2
Braking a power tool motor based on a phase voltage of the motor. The power tool includes a motor and a power source providing operating power to the motor. A power switching network is between the power source and the motor to drive the motor. An actuator is operable to provide an input. An electronic controller is connected to the actuator and the power switching network. The electronic controller is configured to receive an indication related to initiating braking of the motor, control the power switching network to allow the motor to coast, monitor a phase voltage of the motor, determine whether the phase voltage of the motor is equal to or less than a phase voltage threshold, and control, in response to the phase voltage of the motor being equal to or less than the phase voltage threshold, the power switching network to brake the motor.
US12278582B2
To provide a controller for rotary machine which can reduce the effective value of the bus line AC component, by utilizing the degree of freedom that two set of armature windings and two sets of inverters are provided, without necessity to synchronize the on/off control timing of the switching devices of first set, and the on/off control timing of the switching devices of second set. A controller for rotary machine calculates the utilization factor setting command which makes the utilization factor ratio change from 1 to 1 so that an effective value of a bus line AC component which is an AC component superimposed on a bus current which flows through a bus line connecting between the DC power source and the two set of inverters becomes lower than a case where the utilization factor ratio is 1 to 1.
US12278575B2
A motor drive receives a position feedback signal from an encoder operatively connected to a motor. The motor drive executes multiple position determination modules to determine multiple approximate motor shaft positions. On each iteration of a position determination module, the motor drive samples the feedback signal, increments a pulse counter when a new encoder pulse is received, adds the pulse counter to a high-resolution pulse counter register, and calculates an approximate motor position as a function of the value of the high-resolution pulse count register. The motor drive averages the multiple approximate positions, and the result is used by a speed regulator module executed on the same motor drive to achieve the desired operation of the motor. The speed regulator iterates at a slower rate than any of the multiple position determination modules.
US12278574B2
A control system (200) of an electric machine (80) includes a position sensor (51) configured to detect the angular position of a rotor of the electric machine (80); at least two alternate current sensors (52), each one of the alternate current sensors (52) being configured to detect the value of the alternate current (ia, ib, ic) to an input phase to the electric machine (80), and being electrically connected to a phase of the supply circuit of the electric machine (80), the electric machine (80) being electrically connected to an inverter (60) configured to transform a continuous voltage supplied by the electric supply means into an alternate voltage for a power supply of the electric machine (80); and a measuring circuit (100) of a voltage of an electric machine.
US12278563B2
A linear regulator adjusts an intermediate voltage VREGOUT at an output node such that an output voltage VOUT at an output terminal approaches a first target voltage VOUT(REF1). A Dixon-type charge pump circuit enters a disable state when the output voltage VOUT is higher than a threshold voltage VTH(CP) determined to be lower than the first target voltage VOUT(REF1), outputs the intermediate voltage VREGOUT at a first input node to the output node in the disable state, enters an enable state when the output voltage VOUT is lower than the threshold voltage VTH(CP), and stabilizes the output voltage VOUT at the output terminal to a second target voltage VOUT(REF2) determined to be lower than the first target voltage VOUT(REF1) in the enable state.
US12278559B2
A power factor correction circuit configured to increase the amount of useful power in an AC electrical system. The power factor correction circuit optionally includes one or more capacitors and one or more resistors configured to realign a phase angle between a voltage and current of an AC power source. Examples are offered illustrating the disclosed circuit in use with a single phase or multi-phase AC power source ranging in voltage from 100 volts or less to 500 volts or more.
US12278553B2
Provided is a power semiconductor element gate driving circuit that performs ON/OFF control on main current of a power semiconductor element having a gate electrode by charging the gate electrode of the power semiconductor element with electric charges and discharging the electric charges on the basis of an inputted gate signal. When the gate signal is switched to an OFF signal, control is performed such that gate current for discharging the electric charges from the gate electrode increases in association with increase in a temperature of the power semiconductor element and decreases in association with increase in the main current.
US12278552B2
A system can include a bi-directional converter circuit comprising a plurality of switches and a flying capacitor configured to experience a low voltage or a high voltage, and a control module operatively connected to the plurality of switches to control a state of the plurality of switches. The control module can be configured to receive a sense signal indicative of a flying capacitor voltage and to control the one or more switches of the plurality of switches to charge or discharge the flying capacitor to maintain a target voltage or target voltage range.
US12278546B2
A heat pump system includes a regenerative thermal machine (1*, 1**, 1***) in fluid communication with one or more heat reservoirs (21; 31), wherein the regenerative thermal machine (1, 1**, 1***) comprises working fluid compression (12) and expansion (11) spaces; and an electrical machine (130) that is electrically connectable via interconnector (3) to an electricity distribution grid (2); characterised in that the regenerative thermal machine (1*, 1**, 1***) further comprises a phase change means (160) operable to change the phase relationship between the said working fluid compression (12) and expansion spaces (11) of the regenerative thermal machine (1*, 1**, 1***).
US12278545B2
An output shaft is configured by connecting a first shaft and a second shaft, coaxially arranged with each other, by a reverse input cutoff clutch 20; an end portion on one side in an axial direction of the second shaft located on an opposite side from the first shaft with a gear portion sandwiched in between in the axial direction being rotatably supported with respect to a fixed portion by a bearing device; the reverse input cutoff clutch having a function that, when rotational torque is input to the first shaft, transmits the rotational torque input to the first shaft to the second shaft, and when rotational torque is reversely input to the second shaft, completely cuts off the rotational torque reversely input to the second shaft and does not transmit the rotational torque to the first shaft, or transmits part of the rotational torque to the first shaft and cuts off the remaining portion.
US12278544B2
An actuator for generating vibration, including a middle supporter to form a first space; a shaft provided in the middle supporter and exposed in the first space; a circuit board having a driving coil and a hollow formed through the middle supporter; a housing having an inner space formed to accommodate the middle supporter and the circuit board so that the circuit board is fixed thereto; a first yoke plate having a first magnet installed to face an upper surface of the driving coil and fixedly coupled to an upper portion of the middle supporter; a second yoke plate having a second magnet installed to face a lower surface of the driving coil and fixedly coupled to a lower portion of the middle supporter; and a weight installed to at least one of the first and second yoke plates.
US12278543B2
A rotor including a shaft, and a rotor core fixed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, with a key portion provided in an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core being fitted in a keyway provided in the outer circumferential surface of the shaft. The key portion includes an opposed part opposed to the keyway, wherein the opposed part is constituted by a core bottom portion, a core inclined portion and a core curved portion of the inner circumferential surface of the rotor core, which are contiguous in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The core inclined portion and a shaft inclined portion of the outer circumferential surface of the shaft are in contact at with each other. The core curved portion and a shaft curved portion of the outer circumferential surface of the shaft cooperate to define a clearance in a radial direction of the rotor.
US12278537B2
A method for achieving a desired vibration resonance frequency of electromagnetic energy harvesters that includes the step of providing a harvester that includes a coil wound along a core, a magnet, a suspending device that includes a base connected to the body and a hinge connected to the magnet, and a stationary magnet attached to the body or the base when the positive poles of the magnets faces each other and the repulsive magnetic force between them restore the magnet. The gravity center of the hinge and the magnet is shifted off the rotation axis of the hinge so that body vibrations cause a relative alternating movement between the core and the magnet that creates alternating voltage between in the coil, and the step of determining the specific distance between the magnets based on the magnetic flux strength of the stationary magnet for achieving the desired frequency.
US12278533B2
The present disclosure relates to a winding for an electrical machine. The winding comprises at least one flat conductor having at least one turn to form the winding, and the at least one flat conductor comprises a substantially L-shaped, U-shaped or V-shaped cross-section. The present disclosure also relates to an electrical machine that includes the winding and an aircraft that includes the electrical machine.
US12278528B2
A method for manufacturing a laminated body includes: laminating an electromagnetic steel plate to form the laminated body; performing an annealing process on the laminated body; acquiring a before-annealing lamination thickness information on a thickness of the laminated body before performing the annealing process on the laminated body; and when the before-annealing lamination thickness information does not satisfy a before-annealing criterion which is predetermined, adjusting a lamination condition of the electromagnetic steel plate such that the before-annealing lamination thickness information satisfies the before-annealing criterion.
US12278525B2
A drive device includes an electric motor and a control unit which are integrated together. The control unit is configured to control the electric motor by using an electric power supply and a signal supplied through an external cable. The control unit includes: a parent circuit board, which is installed to the electric motor; and a connector module, which is configured to connect the parent circuit board to an external connector of the external cable. The connector module includes: a connector portion that is configured to be coupled with and decoupled from the external connector; a wiring module that is configured to receive the electric power supply and the signal from the external cable through the connector portion; and a plurality of connecting conductors that electrically connect the wiring module to the parent circuit board.
US12278523B2
An electrical machine for use in an aircraft. The electrical machine includes a rotor that includes a plurality of rotor poles, and a stator including a plurality of phases. Each respective phase occupies at least one elementary block. The at least one elementary block of each phase includes a set of conductors of the respective phase wound around a plurality of slots of the respective elementary block in a concentrated winding configuration. The stator further includes at least one sensor located between two elementary block. The at least one sensor being configured to measure at least one parameter of the rotor.
US12278514B2
Operational instability is prevented without compromising the state transition speed. A mask control circuit is a circuit which generates a mask signal masking a control signal during a period in which a voltage level of a monitoring target terminal to be monitored is transitioning. The mask control circuit includes: a first input port which receives a signal supplied to the monitoring target terminal; a second input port which receives a signal representing the voltage level of the monitoring target terminal; a logic circuit which determines whether the voltage level of the monitoring target terminal is in transition based on signals received from the first input port and the second input port; and an output port which outputs a signal indicating a determination result of whether the voltage level of the monitoring target terminal is in transition as the mask signal.
US12278513B2
A charge/discharge control circuit controls charging and discharging using a discharge control FET which opens and closes a discharge path and a charge control FET which opens and closes a charge path. The charge/discharge control circuit includes a charge/discharge monitoring circuit; and a control circuit, turning on and off the discharge control FET connected between a secondary cell and a load and the charge control FET connected between the discharge control FET and a charger in response to a detection signal from the charge/discharge monitoring circuit and a voltage of a negative electrode of the charger, and opening and closing the discharge path and the charge path. The control circuit turns off the discharge control FET and turns on the charge control FET, and then turns off the charge control FET when detecting that the voltage of the negative electrode of the charger reaches a predetermined voltage or higher.
US12278501B2
The present application relates to an apparatus which comprises a wireless power transmission system. This system comprises features which allow it to transfer more power wirelessly to multiple devices simultaneously, each at extended distances than other systems operating in the same frequency range. The system including heat dissipation features, allowing the system to operate effectively in elevated-temperature environments and to transfer power at higher levels and/or greater distances than a typical power-transfer system. The system also may include design features to withstand mechanical shocks, stresses, and impacts for use in a rugged environment. The system may include features to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and/or specially shaped components with magnetic/ferrimagnetic properties that enhance performance. Other potential features include power conditioning by combining, within one circuit or one board, multiple elements that protect against excessive current, over-voltage, and/or reverse voltage.
US12278497B2
A wireless charging assembly including a base body, a charging coil, a magnet and a plurality of partitions. The charging coil is disposed in the base body. The magnet includes a body part and a plurality of protruding parts. The plurality of protruding parts protrude from a side of the body part. The body part and the plurality of protruding parts are integrally formed as a single piece. The body part is disposed in the base body. The plurality of partitions are connected to the base body. The plurality of protruding parts of the magnet are spaced apart from each other by the plurality of partitions.
US12278495B1
In a networked solar power generation plant system, solar power generation plants are virtually integrated for accurately and suitably discharge-outputting electric power stored in the networked solar power generation plants, at optional time and in an optional amount, to a power transmission network. Solar power storage battery units are provided as terminal units, the networked solar power generation plant system is controlled by an external management computer, an information network is provided such that the external management computer is capable of accessing to identification informations of communication controllers, specific informations of the solar power storage battery units, power storage informations of the solar power storage battery units and electric power demand informations, and the external management computer controls each of the solar power storage battery units, so as to produce and control a discharge output plan of each of the solar power storage battery units.
US12278494B2
Described are systems and methods for black-starting an electrical grid, comprising disconnecting an energy farm from the grid at a first location, said first location being located between the electrical grid and the energy storage with the associated converter, providing a synchronous condenser, energizing the AC export cable using said energy storage and the associated converter, energizing at least one part of the energy farm electrical infrastructure via said AC export cable using said energy storage and the associated converter, re-establishing energy supply to said energy farm electrical infrastructure by said electric generators, energizing said synchronous condenser, and reconnecting the energy farm to said electrical grid at said first location.
US12278492B1
The present invention provides a method and system of self-adaptive setting of closed-loop parameters for suppressing PV coupling harmonics, comprising: acquiring node voltages and node currents of PV grid-connected inverters; constructing harmonic coupling admittance matrix according to the node voltages and node currents; calculating an amplitude of each element in the constructed harmonic coupling admittance matrix; screening contribution sources of coupling harmonics according to the calculated amplitude of the each element; evaluating quantitatively harmonic admittance of the PV grid-connected inverter according to screened contribution sources; and, carrying out optimization iteration for double-closed-loop PI control parameters of inverter with objective of minimizing the coupling harmonics of the PV grid-connected inverter according to results of the quantitative evaluation of the harmonic admittance, to complete self-adaptive setting of closed-loop parameters for suppressing PV coupling harmonics.
US12278487B2
An IC layout of a pre-driving circuit, comprising: a plurality of type one transistor regions, having a density smaller than a predetermined level; and a type two bulk region, surrounding the type one transistor regions.
US12278471B2
A saddle for supporting elongated bodies such as cables, pipes and the like includes a body with a rectangular or quadrangular section, obtained by coupling two half-saddles. Each half-saddle has an outer portion or shell made from a plastic material and an internal portion or core made from an elastomeric material, on which one or more grooves are defined for housing the elongated bodies and which, when the two half-saddles are coupled, define one or more continuous rings for retaining an elongated body.
US12278453B2
An electrical ground assembly for a vehicle component includes a bushing including an upper serrated surface and a lower serrated surface opposite the upper serrated surface, a ground strap including a terminal, and a fastener including a head portion, a shaft extending from the head portion, and a flange extending radially between the head portion and the shaft portion. The terminal is electrically connected to the bushing between the upper serrated surface and the lower serrated surface. The flange includes a lower serrated surface configured to mate with the upper serrated surface of the bushing.
US12278451B2
A coaxial cable connector includes an inner sleeve, a nut, a first outer sleeve and a coupling sleeve. The first outer sleeve is coaxially arranged outside the inner sleeve. An inner wall of the first outer sleeve and the inner sleeve cooperate to define a first space. The nut is arranged outside the inner sleeve. The coupling sleeve is coaxially arranged inside the first outer sleeve. The coupling sleeve has a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein the first end portion of the coupling sleeve moves into the first space and resists against the inner sleeve as the coupling sleeve moves axially toward the nut so that one end of the inner sleeve radially deformed to press a metal layer of the coaxial cable, wherein the second end portion of the coupling sleeve is deformed radially to press an outer jacket of the coaxial cable.
US12278435B2
An antenna comprises a planar radiating structure, a ground plane and a feed structure. The radiation structure comprises a plurality of slots arranged symmetrically in concentric rings around an inner portion of the radiating structure. The slots are arranged to create a meandering current path on the radiating structure. The antenna produces an omnidirectional, monopole-like radiation field, and is relatively small with relatively high performance making it suitable for use in a wide variety of applications including those with challenging environments.
US12278431B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an antenna assembly and a communication terminal, where a layout region is arranged at an edge position on a base frame, and a radiation pattern and a parasitic branch are arranged together on the layout region. Thus, in an aspect, when the communication terminal is assembled, it is convenient to observe the connection between a feed point and a ground point of the antenna assembly, thereby improving the assembly efficiency of the communication terminal. In another aspect, a parasitic branch is arranged near a second branch, so that the antenna has a larger bandwidth in a high frequency band. In yet another aspect, configuring a shape of a first slot, a second slot, and the parasitic branch enables direct adjustment to a resonance frequency of the antenna, which improves the adaptability of the antenna to different applications.
US12278427B2
A four element folded slot-based multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for use with CubeSats is described. The MIMO antenna includes a dielectric circuit board, and a metallic layer that covers a top side of the dielectric circuit board and covers a first portion and a second portion of a bottom side. A first meandering slot wraps from the top side, over the first edge and into the first portion on the bottom side. A second meandering slot wraps from the top side, over the second edge and into the second portion of the bottom side. A first feed horn is directed towards the first meandering slot. A second feed horn is directed towards the second meandering slot. A first capacitor is connected to the metallic layer across a slot section of the first meandering slot. A second capacitor connected to the metallic layer across a slot section of the second meandering slot.
US12278424B2
A method of constructing an antenna of a portable communication device. The method includes wrapping a conductive element around a flexible support, coupling the conductive element and the flexible support to a rigid connector to assemble an antenna core, and coating the antenna core with a room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone layer. The method further includes fitting a first half of a silicone rubber sheath and a second half of a silicone rubber sheath around the antenna core, compression molding the first half of the silicone rubber sheath and the second half of the silicone rubber sheath around the antenna core, and bonding, by the RTV silicone layer, the silicone rubber sheath to the antenna core.
US12278422B2
Provided is an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus that can suppress fluctuations in a directivity pattern due to reflection at an antenna-mounting member to which a service link antenna is mounted, stably fix a footprint of a cell, and as a result, prevent deterioration of communication quality. The communication relay apparatus includes an antenna having plural antenna elements that form a cell for performing a radio communication of a service link to and from the terminal apparatus and an antenna-mounting member to which the antenna is mounted, and a layer of radio wave absorber or a layer of frequency-selective electromagnetic shielding member that selectively shields radio waves having a frequency of the service link, which is provided on an outer surface exposed to an outside of the antenna-mounting member. Phases and amplitudes of signals transmitted and received via each of the plural antenna elements of the antenna may be controlled.
US12278419B2
In one aspect, an apparatus is described that includes a transparent pane having a first surface and a second surface. An electrochromic device (ECD) is arranged over the second surface that includes a first conductive layer adjacent the second surface, a second conductive layer, and an electrochromic layer between the first and the second conductive layers. The apparatus further includes at least one conductive antenna structure arranged over the second surface.
US12278414B1
A device and method for transitioning between a rectangular waveguide (RWG) and a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) or air-filled SIW (AFSIW) in millimeter wave communication systems. The transition apparatus includes a pair of hollow metallic structures, each featuring a tapered body connecting RWG and SIW (or AFSIW) interfaces. The tapered bodies facilitate a seamless transition with lengths ranging from approximately 1 mm to 15 mm, accommodating SIW and AFSIW substrate heights from about 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm. The apparatus ensures impedance matching within a specified range, maintains a voltage standing wave ratio between 1 and 5, and achieves a total reflection coefficient between −20 dB and −10 dB. Additionally, the apparatus exhibits high modal purity, with dominant mode levels between −1 dB and 0.25 dB, and significantly attenuated non-dominant modes. The apparatus supports efficient signal transmission within the frequency range of approximately 50 GHz to 75 GHz.
US12278410B2
A fuel cell system includes a membrane electrode assembly, a first plate separator and a second plate separator on opposite sides of the membrane electrode assembly. The first plate separator and the second plate separator have exterior ends laterally spaced from the membrane electrode assembly. A first gas diffusion layer is located between the first plate separator and the membrane electrode assembly. A second gas diffusion layer is located between the second plate separator and the membrane electrode assembly. The sub-gasket extends laterally from the membrane electrode assembly. A first seal is located between the first plate separator and the sub-gasket. A conductive trace is attached to the sub-gasket and extends laterally on the sub-gasket away from the first seal and upwardly away from the subgasket to contact the first plate separator.
US12278408B2
An electrochemical element including a conductive plate-like support provided with an internal passage therein. The plate-like support includes, in at least a portion of a metal support included in the plate-like support: a gas-permeable portion through which gas is permeable between the internal passage, which is located inside the plate-like support, and the outside; and an electrochemical reaction portion that entirely or partially covers the gas-permeable portion and includes at least a film-like electrode layer, a film-like electrolyte layer, and a film-like counter electrode layer in the stated order. The plate-like support is provided with a plurality of passages in the internal passage.
US12278385B2
A power supply system includes a first battery module 21, a second battery module 31, a first maintenance plug 7 that, when detached from the first battery module 21, isolates the first battery module 21 from a power circuit 5, a second maintenance plug 8 that, when detached from the second battery module 31, isolates the second battery module 31 from the power circuit 5, and a locking mechanism that locks the second maintenance plug 8. The first maintenance plug 7 includes an unlocking key for unlocking the second maintenance plug 8 locked by the locking mechanism.
US12278382B1
An end cover assembly, an energy-storage device, and an electricity-consumption device are disclosed in the present disclosure. The end cover assembly includes a top cover, an explosion-proof valve, and a protective sheet. The top cover has a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface. The top cover defines a first mounting recess, an explosion-proof hole, and a vent recess, where the first mounting recess is recessed from the first mounting surface, and the vent recess is in communication with the explosion-proof hole. The explosion-proof valve is attached to the second mounting surface and covers an opening of the explosion-proof hole positioned on the second mounting surface. The protective sheet is attached to the bottom wall of the first mounting recess and covers an opening of the explosion-proof hole positioned on the bottom wall of the first mounting recess and the other part of the vent recess.
US12278381B2
Provided is a laminate battery in which a short circuit between a negative electrode active material and a positive electrode due to expansion of the negative electrode active material during discharging is prevented. A laminate battery includes a battery case that serves as an outer case. The laminate battery includes an inner case within a battery case 11, and the inner case is formed of a positive electrode storage case and a separator. An inside of the inner case serves as a positive electrode storage portion that stores a positive electrode. An outside of the inner case serves as a negative electrode storage portion that stores a negative electrode. The negative electrode uses a particulate negative electrode active material (e.g., zinc or zinc oxide).
US12278374B2
A carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, a dispersant and a solvent, and is characterized in satisfying (1) to (3) below: (1) the average outer diameter of the carbon nanotubes ranging from more than 3 nm to 25 nm; (2) the BET surface area of the carbon nanotubes ranging from 150 m2/g to 800 m2/g; and (3) the fiber length of the carbon nanotubes in the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid ranging from 0.8 μm to 3.5 μm.
US12278354B2
A battery containment construct is provided that includes a unitary tray having a bottom and a set of walls including a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall. The set of walls extending from the bottom of the tray and defining a cavity within the tray. A cover removably attached to the plurality of walls of said tray opposite the bottom of said tray. Energy absorption components attached to the bottom of the tray external to at least one of the set of walls in some versions to enhance impact resistance. The construct has high strength, is light weight and well suited for containing and protecting energy cells or batteries that adjusted to impact resistance, fire resistance, and fluid penetration prevention.
US12278352B2
The present disclosure relates to methods by which lead from spent lead-acid batteries may be extracted, purified, and used in the construction of new lead-acid batteries. A method includes: (A) forming a mixture including a carboxylate source and a lead-bearing material; (B) generating a first lead salt precipitate in the mixture as the carboxylate source reacts with the lead-bearing material; (C) increasing the pH of the mixture to dissolve the first lead salt precipitate; (D) isolating a liquid component of the mixture from one or more insoluble components of the mixture; (E) decreasing the pH of the liquid component of the mixture to generate a second lead salt precipitate; and (F) isolating the second lead salt precipitate from the liquid component of the mixture. Thereafter, the isolated lead salt precipitate may be converted to leady oxide for use in the manufacture of new lead-acid batteries.
US12278339B2
A solid-state battery cell, such as a lithium-ion cell, is assembled with a solid electrolyte layer member positioned between co-extensive surface layers of an anode active layer member and a cathode active material layer member. At least one of the engaging surfaces of the solid electrolyte layer is not flat. It is formed with a topographical pattern comprising recesses in a flat surface, or a surface of projections and recesses, and placed against a compatibly-shaped, mating surface of the anode layer and/or the cathode layer. The re-shaping of the surface(s) of the solid electrolyte layer and adjoining electrode layer(s) is to significantly increase the effective contact area with the facing layer of electrode material and improve the conduction of ions across the interface. A thin film of interlayer material may be placed between the surfaces of the facing cell members with the specially shaped adjacent faces.
US12278338B2
An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a compound represented by Formula 1. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and the electrolyte.
US12278331B2
An all solid battery includes: an oxide-based solid electrolyte layer; a first electrode provided on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer; a second electrode provided on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the solid electrolyte layer is a sintered structure of solid electrolyte powder, wherein the solid electrolyte powder has D10% diameter of 0.05 μm or more and 0.6 μm or less, D50% diameter of 0.08 μm or more and 1.5 μm or less, D90% diameter of 4 μm or less, and a BET value of 3 m2/g or more and 20 m2/g or less.
US12278330B2
A lithium-ion battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode active material layer containing lithium cobalt oxide formed on the positive current collector. The positive electrode active material layer is provided with a first recess accommodating a positive lead coupled with the positive current collector and disposed on a surface of the positive current collector facing a center of the battery. The negative electrode includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite or silicon formed on the negative current collector. The negative electrode active material layer is provided with a second recess accommodating a negative lead coupled with the negative current collector and disposed on a surface of the negative current collector facing away from the center of the battery.
US12278327B1
Disclosed is a densified cell assembly and methods for preparing the same. In one embodiment, an isostatic press is applied to a bag which contains a plate and two elastic substrates enveloping a cell pouch, wherein one or more tabs are extended from the cell pouch, wherein the cell pouch accommodates a cell stack comprising one or more electrode layers and one or more electrolyte layers. In one embodiment, the tabs are not damaged or disconnected from the cell pouch due to compression.
US12278320B2
In a light emitting device, in a bottom surface of a cavity of a Si substrate, slit-shaped through holes and through electrodes that fill the through holes are provided at a position facing a first element electrode of a light emitting element. A length of an upper surface of the through electrode in a long axis direction is larger than a height of the through electrode in a thickness direction of the Si substrate. A joining layer having a shape corresponding to a shape of the upper surface of the through electrode is disposed between the first element electrode of the light emitting element and the upper surface of the through electrode facing the first element electrode. The entire upper surface of the through electrode is joined to the first element electrode via the joining layer.
US12278316B2
The bonding layer bonds the electrode on the first surface of the ultraviolet light emitting element and a part of the mounting surface of the substrate. The adhesive layer adheres the substrate to the light transmitting member. The substrate and the light transmitting member are disposed in a state where the ultraviolet light emitting element is sandwiched therebetween. The fluorocarbon compound is a liquid at normal temperature and pressure. The fluorocarbon compound fills a gap between the second surface of the ultraviolet light emitting element and the light transmitting member in a state of being in contact with the second surface and the light transmitting member. The fluorocarbon compound is in contact with the side surface of the ultraviolet light emitting element. The fluorocarbon compound is not in contact with the adhesive layer.
US12278313B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor diode structure with one or more light-emitting active layers, an anti-reflection coating on its front surface, and a redirection layer on its back surface. Active-layer output light propagates within the diode structure. The anti-reflection coating on the front surface increases transmission of active-layer output light incident below the critical angle Θc. Active-layer output light incident on the redirection layer at an incidence angle greater than Θc is redirected to propagate toward the front surface at an incidence angle that is less than Θc. Device output light is transmitted by the front surface to propagate in an ambient medium, and includes first and second portions of the active-layer output light incident on the front surface at an incidence angle less than Θc, the first portion without redirection by the redirection layer and the second portion with redirection by the redirection layer.
US12278305B2
A glass panel and silicon wafer separation device for photovoltaic module recovery includes a tank body, a supporting plate and at least two floating blocks. The supporting plate is positioned in the tank body. A vertically arranged first cylinder is arranged at a lower end of the tank body. An output end of the first cylinder is fixedly connected to a lower end of the supporting plate. A groove is formed in an upper end of the supporting plate, and the groove is matched with a photovoltaic plate. A heating block is mounted at a lower end of an inner wall of the tank body. The at least two floating blocks are columnar. Lower ends of the at least two floating blocks are fixedly connected to chucks, and the chucks are downwards opened. Fixed pipes are connected between the at least two floating blocks.
US12278297B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a photonic structure with at least one tapered coupler positioned laterally adjacent and along the length of a sidewall of a layer, such as a light absorption layer (LAL), of a photodetector to facilitate mode matching. Some embodiments include a vertically oriented photodetector, which is on an insulator layer and has an LAL stacked between bottom and top semiconductor layers, and a coupler, which is on the insulator layer positioned laterally adjacent to the photodetector and has stacked cores with one of the cores being at the same level as the LAL. Other embodiments include a horizontally oriented photodetector, which is on an insulator layer and has an LAL on a recessed section of a bottom semiconductor layer between side sections, and coupler(s), which is/are above side section(s) of the bottom semiconductor layer and, thus, positioned laterally adjacent to one or both sides of the LAL.
US12278291B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of transistors; each of the plurality of transistors includes a first insulator, a first oxide, a second oxide, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third oxide, a second insulator, and a third conductor; the third oxide included in one of the plurality of transistors and the third oxide included in another of the plurality of transistors, which is adjacent to the one of the plurality of transistors, are provided to be apart from each other in the channel width direction of the plurality of transistors; the second insulator included in one of the plurality of transistors includes a region continuous with the second insulator included in another of the plurality of transistors, which is adjacent to the one of the plurality of transistors; and the third conductor included in one of the plurality of transistors includes a region continuous with the third conductor included in another of the plurality of transistors, which is adjacent to the one of the plurality of transistors.
US12278285B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of channel layers disposed on an active region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a first gate structure surrounding the plurality of channel layers, first source/drain regions disposed on the active region on both lateral sides of the first gate structure and contacting the plurality of channel layers and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, an element isolation layer disposed on an upper portion of the first gate structure, a semiconductor layer disposed on the element isolation layer and having a vertical region extending in the first direction and including second source/drain regions spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and a second gate structure disposed to surround a portion of the vertical region. The semiconductor device further includes first to fourth contact plugs.
US12278284B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the devices are provided. Semiconductor devices include a semiconductor layer structure comprising a trench in an upper surface thereof, a dielectric layer in a lower portion of the trench, and a gate electrode in the trench and on the dielectric layer opposite the semiconductor layer structure. The trench may include rounded upper corner and a rounded lower corner. A center portion of a top surface of the dielectric layer may be curved, and the dielectric layer may be on opposed sidewalls of the trench. The dielectric layer may include a bottom dielectric layer on a bottom surface of the trench and on lower portions of the sidewalls of the trench and a gate dielectric layer on upper portions of the sidewalls of the trench and on the bottom dielectric layer.
US12278280B2
A semiconductor device includes: an N− drift layer of a first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate; a P base layer formed on the N− drift layer; and an N buffer layer of the first conductivity type formed under the N− drift layer and higher in peak impurity concentration than the N− drift layer. The N buffer layer includes: a first buffer layer in which a trap level derived from lattice defect is not detected by a photoluminescence method; and a second buffer layer provided between the first buffer layer and the N− drift layer and in which two types of trap levels derived from lattice defect are detected by the photoluminescence method.
US12278272B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming a transistor device. The method includes forming a source contact over a substrate, forming a drain contact over the substrate, and forming a gate contact material over the substrate. The gate contact material is patterned to define a gate structure that wraps around the source contact along a continuous and unbroken path.
US12278268B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a main surface, a first conductivity type drift layer formed in a surface layer portion of the main surface, a trench gate structure formed in the main surface such as to be in contact with the drift layer, a second conductivity type channel region formed in the drift layer such as to cover a side wall of the trench gate structure, and first and second source/drain regions formed at intervals in a region along the side wall of the trench gate structure in the drift layer such as to oppose each other across the channel region.
US12278260B2
A capacitor includes a first electrode including a first reinforcement material having a perovskite crystal structure; and a first metallic material having a perovskite crystal structure; a second electrode on the first electrode; and a dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first metallic material has greater a greater electronegativity than that of the first reinforcement material.
US12278254B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes forming a first image sensor element within a first substrate and a second image sensor element within a second substrate. The first image sensor element is configured to generate electrical signals from electromagnetic radiation within a first range of wavelengths and the second image sensor element is configured to generate electrical signals from electromagnetic radiation within a second range of wavelengths. A plurality of deposition processes are performed to form a band-pass filter over the second substrate. The band-pass filter has a plurality of alternating layers of a first material having a first refractive index and a second material having a second refractive index that is less than the first refractive index. The first substrate is bonded to the band-pass filter.
US12278253B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device that includes a first die bonded to a second die with interconnect structures in the first die. The first die includes a photodiode having first and second electrodes on a first side of a first dielectric layer, and first, second, and third interconnect structures in the first dielectric layer. The first and second interconnect structures are connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. The second electrode has a polarity opposite to the first electrode. The second and third interconnect structures extend to a second side opposite to the first side of the first dielectric layer. The second die includes a second dielectric layer and a fourth interconnect structure in the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is bonded to the second side of the first dielectric layer. The fourth interconnect structure connects the second and third interconnect structures.
US12278249B2
In some embodiments, an image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a photodetector disposed in a semiconductor substrate. A wave guide filter having a substantially planar upper surface is disposed over the photodetector. The wave guide filter includes a light filter disposed in a light filter grid structure. The light filter includes a first material that is translucent and has a first refractive index. The light filter grid structure includes a second material that is translucent and has a second refractive index less than the first refractive index.
US12278242B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a manufacturing method of the array substrate are provided, including a thin film transistor layer, a passivation layer, and a pixel electrode layer which are sequentially disposed on one above another. The passivation layer is provided with a first via hole and a second via hole staggered from each other. The pixel electrode layer includes a pixel electrode connected to a first conductive layer through the first via hole and the second via hole. Therefore, a problem of grayscale dark spots caused by the pixel electrode being broken at a connection point with the first conductive layer is avoided.
US12278237B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a first FET device stacked over a second FET device, wherein the first FET device contains a first functional gate structure containing a first work function metal and the second FET device contains a second functional gate structure containing a second work function metal. In the structure, the first work function metal is absent from an area including the second work function metal, and vice versa. Thus, no shared work functional metal is present in the semiconductor structure.
US12278234B2
A multi-fin FINFET device may include a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor fins extending upwardly from the substrate and being spaced apart along the substrate. Each semiconductor fin may have opposing first and second ends and a medial portion therebetween, and outermost fins of the plurality of semiconductor fins may comprise an epitaxial growth barrier on outside surfaces thereof. The FIN FET may further include at least one gate overlying the medial portions of the semiconductor fins, a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor source regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the first ends thereof, and a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor drain regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the second ends thereof.
US12278231B2
An apparatus includes a junction termination edge, a unipolar power transistor, and an RC snubber. The RC snubber has a capacitor between a poly silicon structure and a semiconductor substrate, and part of the junction termination edge. The capacitor has a p-n junction. The RC snubber has a poly silicon resistor between a source of the unipolar power transistor and a first layer forming the capacitor. The unipolar transistor and the RC snubber are coupled in parallel. The RC snubber and the unipolar power transistor are formed monolithically on the semiconductor substrate.
US12278224B2
A method for obtaining mesas that are made at least in part of a nitride (N), the method includes providing a stack comprising a substrate and at least the following layers disposed in succession from the substrate a first layer, referred to as the flow layer, and a second, crystalline layer, referred to as the crystalline layer; forming pads by etching the crystalline layer and at least one portion of the flow layer such that: —each pad includes at least: —a first section, referred to as the flow section, formed by at least one portion of the flow layer, and a second, crystalline section, referred to as the crystalline section, framed by the crystalline layer and overlying the flow section, the pads are distributed over the substrate so as to form a plurality of sets of pads; and epitaxially growing a crystallite on at least some of said pads and continuing the epitaxial growth of the crystallites until the crystallites carried by the adjacent pads of the same set coalesce.
US12278222B2
A semiconductor package may include a package substrate, a first interposer substrate mounted on the package substrate, and a first semiconductor chip disposed on the first interposer substrate. The first interposer substrate may include a first base layer, a second base layer disposed on the first base layer, circuit patterns provided in each of the first base layer and the second base layer, and an integrated device embedded in the first base layer and connected to at least one of the circuit patterns. A top surface of the first base layer may contact a bottom surface of the second base layer.
US12278221B2
Discussed is a display device including a base portion; assembly electrodes that extend in one direction and are disposed on the base portion at predetermined intervals; a dielectric layer deposited on the base portion to cover the assembly electrodes; a first wiring electrode that extends in the same direction as the assembly electrodes and is disposed on the dielectric layer so as not to overlap the assembly electrodes; a partition wall portion deposited on the dielectric layer while arranging cells at predetermined intervals to overlap the assembly electrodes and the first wiring electrode along an extension direction of the assembly electrodes; and semiconductor light-emitting elements seated in the cells, respectively, wherein a solder layer electrically connecting a semiconductor light-emitting element seated in a cell and the first wiring electrode overlapping the cell is filled in the cell from among the plurality semiconductor light emitting elements and the cells.
US12278218B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; first and second vertical MOS transistors provided in the semiconductor layer; a metal layer in contact with and connected to an entire back face of the semiconductor layer; and a support bonded to the back face side of the metal layer via a conductive adhesive. In a plan view, the support is larger in area than the semiconductor layer and encompasses the semiconductor layer. A thickness of the support is greater than a thickness of the semiconductor layer. In a cross-sectional view of the semiconductor device including a center of the semiconductor layer and an outer periphery of the semiconductor layer in the plan view, a semiconductor chip resulting from excluding the support and the conductive adhesive from the semiconductor device is in a curved shape projecting in a direction away from the support.
US12278203B2
A semiconductor structure including a first die, a second die stacked on the first die, a smoothing layer disposed on the first die and a filling material layer disposed on the smoothing layer. The second die has a dielectric portion and a semiconductor material portion disposed on the dielectric portion. The smoothing layer includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The dielectric portion is surrounded by the smoothing layer, and the semiconductor material portion is surrounded by the filling material layer. A material of the first dielectric layer is different from a material of the second dielectric layer and a material of the filling material layer.
US12278197B2
A package board that includes an inductor layer having: a first magnetic layer including first magnetic particles and a resin; an inductor wiring that functions as an inductor in the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer on at least one surface of the first magnetic layer, including second magnetic particles that are higher in average flatness than the first magnetic particles and a resin, the second magnetic particles having a shape where the dimension in a direction along the main surface of the second magnetic layer is longer than the dimension in the thickness direction of the second magnetic layer.
US12278194B2
An optoelectronic component includes at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip and an electronic first storage medium. The first storage medium electrically stores first component information. The component can be uniquely identified via the first component information. The optoelectronic component also includes a second storage medium which can be read out wirelessly at least in an unmounted state of the component. The second storage medium stores second component information that is representative of the first component information.
US12278189B2
An electronic package is provided, in which a circuit board and a circuit block are embedded in an encapsulating layer at a distance to each other, and circuit structures are formed on the two opposite surfaces of the encapsulating layer with electronic components arranged on one of the circuit structures. The circuit block and the circuit board embedded in the encapsulating layer are spaced apart from each other to allow to separate current conduction paths. As such, the circuit board will not overheat, and issues associated with warpage of the circuit board can be eliminated. Moreover, by embedding the circuit block and the circuit board in the encapsulating layer at a distance to each other, the structural strength of the encapsulating layer can be improved.
US12278184B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a system. The system includes multiple tracks. Further, one track includes a power rail for a first voltage. The system also includes a first via, disposed beneath, and in electrical contact with, the power rail. The system additionally includes a first contact, beneath, and in electrical contact with, the first via. The system further includes a first field effect transistor (FET), beneath, and in electrical isolation with, the first contact. Additionally, the system includes a second FET, beneath, and in electrical contact with, the first FET. Further, the system includes a second contact, beneath, and in electrical contact with, the second FET. Also, the system includes a second via, beneath, and in electrical contact with, the second contact. The system additionally includes a buried power rail (BPR), beneath, and in electrical contact with, the second via, wherein the BPR comprises a second voltage.
US12278174B2
A power semiconductor device including a first and second die, each including a plurality of conductive contact regions and a passivation region including a number of projecting dielectric regions and a number of windows. Adjacent windows are separated by a corresponding projecting dielectric region with each conductive contact region arranged within a corresponding window. A package of the surface mount type houses the first and second dice. The package includes a first bottom insulation multilayer and a second bottom insulation multilayer carrying, respectively, the first and second dice. A covering metal layer is arranged on top of the first and second dice and includes projecting metal regions extending into the windows to couple electrically with corresponding conductive contact regions. The covering metal layer moreover forms a number of cavities, which are interposed between the projecting metal regions so as to overlie corresponding projecting dielectric regions.
US12278166B2
A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a first workpiece that includes a first substrate and a first interconnect structure, providing a second workpiece that includes a second substrate, a second interconnect structure, and a through via extending through a portion of the second substrate and a portion of the second interconnect structure, forming a first bonding layer on the first interconnect structure, forming a second bonding layer on the second interconnect structure, bonding the second workpiece to the first workpiece by directly bonding the second bonding layer to the first bonding layer, thinning the second substrate, forming a protective film over the thinned second substrate, forming a backside via opening through the protective film and the thinned second substrate to expose the through via, and forming a backside through via in the backside via opening to physically couple to the through via.
US12278158B2
A semiconductor device module may include a leadframe spacer that provides the functions of both a leadframe and a spacer, while enabling a double-sided cooling configuration. Such a leadframe spacer may include a leadframe surface that provides a die attach pad (DAP) that is shared by at least two semiconductor devices. The leadframe spacer may include at least one downset, where the semiconductor devices may be attached within a recess defined by the at least one downset. A first substrate may be connected to a first side of the leadframe. A second substrate may be connected to downset surfaces of the at least one downset, and positioned for further connection to the semiconductor devices in a double-sided assembly.
US12278146B2
In an embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin protruding above a substrate; forming a gate structure over the fin; forming a recess in the fin and adjacent to the gate structure; performing a wet etch process to clean the recess; treating the recess with a plasma process; and performing a dry etch process to clean the recess after the plasma process and the wet etch process.
US12278143B2
Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a workpiece including a first metal feature in a dielectric layer and a capping layer over the first metal feature, selectively depositing a blocking layer over the capping layer, depositing an etch stop layer (ESL) over the workpiece, removing the blocking layer, and depositing a second metal feature over the workpiece such that the first metal feature is electrically coupled to the second metal feature. The blocking layer prevents the ESL from being deposited over the capping layer.
US12278138B2
The present application provides a method of manufacturing a memory device. The method includes steps of providing a semiconductor substrate including an active area disposed over or in the semiconductor substrate; disposing a patterned photoresist layer over the semiconductor substrate; removing a first portion of the semiconductor substrate exposed through the patterned photoresist layer to form a first trench; removing the patterned photoresist layer; forming a first isolation member within the first trench; disposing an energy-decomposable mask over the semiconductor substrate and the first isolation member; irradiating a portion of the energy-decomposable mask with an electromagnetic radiation; removing the portion of the energy-decomposable mask irradiated with the electromagnetic radiation to form a patterned energy-decomposable mask; removing a second portion of the semiconductor substrate exposed through the patterned energy-decomposable mask to form a second trench; removing the patterned energy-decomposable mask; and forming a second isolation member within the second trench.
US12278134B2
A lift apparatus includes a lift assembly and a servo-control system. The lift assembly includes at least one pneumatic actuator including a movable member to provide a load to transfer a substrate between a support and a transfer plane. The lift assembly further includes at least one proportional pneumatic valve to control fluid flow between the actuator and a pressurized fluid supply or a vent, a plurality of pressure sensors each to measure pressure in a respective supply line to the actuator, and at least one position sensor to measure a position of the movable member. The servo-control system includes a controller to determine an output force based on a commanded force and an estimated force, generate a control signal based on the output force, and apply the control signal to the proportional valve to move the movable member.
US12278132B2
A substrate transfer robot for transferring a substrate in a vacuum chamber, includes: a transfer arm platform having coupling holes, each compartmentalized into a lower and an upper space, wherein link connecting members with blades are engaged at front and rear areas of the transfer arm platform and a support shaft of a lower support is inserted into the lower space of one of the coupling holes, and a first and a second transfer arm part each including an end effector for supporting the substrate, multiple transfer link arms, multiple subordinate link arms and a common link arm that are connected to each other or to the transfer arm platform, wherein, for each transfer arm part, drive shafts, interlocked with transfer driving motors or speed reducers installed on one of the transfer link arms, and output shafts interlocked with the drive shafts are installed on the transfer link arms.
US12278130B2
A substrate storing and aligning apparatus is proposed. The substrate storing and aligning apparatus is capable of efficiently using space in substrate bonding equipment. The substrate storing and aligning apparatus in the substrate bonding equipment for bonding substrates includes a front end buffer including a front end storing slot configured to temporarily store a substrate, and a front end opening configured such that a transfer robot is movable therethrough to transfer the substrate from the front end storing slot, and a front end aligner provided to be stacked on an upper portion of the front end buffer, and configured to rotate the substrate so as to align the substrate.
US12278127B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a method of setting a target profile. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a first gain curve for one or more temperature sensor offsets, and obtaining a second gain curve for one or more zone multipliers. In an embodiment, the method further comprises combining the first gain curve and the second gain curve into a thermal model. In an embodiment, the method further comprises obtaining a reference data set, and using the thermal model to generate temperature sensor offsets and/or zone multipliers to apply to the reference data set in order to generate the target profile.
US12278126B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a substrate support on which a substrate is supported; a detector configured to detect a temperature of the substrate support; a measurement unit configured to measure, by the detector, a temperature change of the substrate support while the temperature of the substrate support is increasing after igniting plasma or while the temperature of the substrate support is decreasing after the plasma processing is completed and the plasma is extinguished, based on the temperature of the substrate support detected by the detector; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a thermal resistance between the substrate and the substrate support based on the temperature change of the substrate support measured by the measurement unit.
US12278124B2
A load lock in which the pumping speed is controlled so as to minimize the possibility of condensation is disclosed. The load lock is in communication with a vacuum pump and a valve. A controller is used to control the valve such that the supersaturation ratio within the load lock does not exceed a predetermined threshold, which is less than or equal to the critical value at which vapor condenses. In certain embodiments, a computer model is used to generate a profile, which may be a pumping speed profile or a pressure profile, and the valve is controlled according to the profile. In another embodiment, the load lock comprises a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor. The controller may calculate the supersaturation ratio based on these parameters and control the valve accordingly.
US12278122B2
A heating device for heating a substrate is provided. The heating device comprises a support portion configured to support the substrate, and a light irradiation unit configured to heat the substrate by irradiating the substrate supported by the support portion with light. A plurality of zones are set in the light irradiation unit, and each of the plurality of zones set in the light irradiation unit irradiates different portions of a surface of the substrate supporeted by the support portion with light. During the heating by the light irradiation unit, the plurality of zones take turns so that some zones of the plurality of zones are utilized.
US12278121B2
The inventive concept provides a support unit for supporting a substrate. The support unit includes a support plate that has an interior space and on which the substrate is placed, a heating member that is provided in the interior space and that heats the substrate placed on the support plate, a heat insulating plate provided in the interior space and disposed under the heating member, a reflective plate provided in the interior space and disposed under the heat insulating plate, and a heat dissipation plate provided in the interior space and disposed under the a reflective plate.
US12278114B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, including: an insulating layer includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, a protective layer covers an upper surface of the second dielectric layer and a bottom and sidewalls of the first trench; removing part of the protective layer to expose at least part of a surface of the second dielectric layer; removing the second dielectric layer by a first wet etching process, the first wet etching process has a first etch selectivity of a material of the second dielectric layer to that of the first dielectric layer; and removing the protective layer by a second wet etching process, the second wet etching process has a second etch selectivity of a material of the protective layer to that of the first dielectric layer, and the second etch selectivity is greater than the first etch selectivity.
US12278109B2
According to one embodiment, an etching apparatus includes a first container including an opening covered by a semiconductor substrate; a second container including an opening covered by a catalyst layer; a first flow path configured to communicate with the first container; a second flow path configured to communicate with the second container; a cation exchange film interposed between the first flow path and the second flow path and allowing at least protons to pass through; and an electric field applier configured to apply an electric field to the semiconductor substrate.
US12278103B2
A technique includes: (a) providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; (b) modifying the first surface to be terminated with a hydrocarbon group by supplying a hydrocarbon group-containing gas to the substrate; and (c) forming a film on the second surface by supplying a precursor and an oxygen- and hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate after modifying the first surface.
US12278102B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor stacking portion formed on the substrate, a silicon nitride passivation film covering the surface of the semiconductor stacking portion, and oxygen atoms existing at an interface between the silicon nitride passivation film and the semiconductor stacking portion. The semiconductor stacking portion includes a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers. The interfacial oxygen content at the passivation film and stacking portion interface is 0.6×1015 oxygen atoms/cm2 or less.
US12278101B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of processing substrates in a tool. In an embodiment, the method of processing the substrate in the tool, comprises receiving an augmented recipe with a machine learning (ML) and/or an artificial intelligence (AI) module. In an embodiment, the augmented recipe comprises, a recipe for processing the substrate in the tool, and a matrix identifier that corresponds to one or more substrate properties. In an embodiment the method further comprises using the ML and/or AI module to retrieve a data set from a database, where the data set is associated with the matrix identifier, and using the ML and/or AI module to modify the augmented recipe to form a modified recipe, where the modification is dependent on the data set.
US12278090B2
A radio frequency (RF) power generation system includes a RF power source that generates a RF output signal delivered to a load. A RF power controller is configured to generate a control signal to vary the RF output signal. The controller adjusts a parameter associated with the RF output signal, and the parameter is controlled in accordance with a trigger signal. The parameter is adjusted over a predetermined number of bins. The parameter is adjusted in accordance with a cost function, and the cost function is determined by introducing a perturbation for each bin into an actuator that affects the cost function. The actuator may control an external RF output signal, and the trigger signal may vary in accordance with the external RF output signal. The perturbation is determined in accordance with a basis set having fewer dimensions than the number of bins.
US12278081B2
A multi-beam inspection apparatus including an adjustable beam separator is disclosed. The adjustable beam separator is configured to change a path of a secondary particle beam. The adjustable beam separator comprises a first Wien filter and a second Wien filter. Both Wien filters are aligned with a primary optical axis. The first Wien filter and the second Wien filter are independently controllable via a first excitation input and a second excitation input, respectively. The adjustable beam separator is configured move the effective bending point of the adjustable beam separator along the primary optical axis based on the first excitation input and the second excitation input.
US12278078B2
A field emission cathode device comprises a field emission cathode including a cylindrical substrate and a field emission material deposited on a cylindrical surface thereof. The field emission cathode defines a longitudinal axis. A solenoid extends concentrically about the cylindrical surface, and defines a gap therebetween. The solenoid defines opposed open ends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. A current source directs a constant polarity (DC) current to the solenoid, that forms a magnetic field along the solenoid. A gate voltage source electrically connected to the solenoid or the field emission cathode interacts therewith to generate an electric field inducing the field emission cathode to emit electrons from the field emission material into the gap. The emitted electrons are responsive to the magnetic field to spiral within the gap and about the longitudinal axis, in correspondence with the current flow in the solenoid, through the first open end of the solenoid.
US12278077B2
The invention relates to an actuation device (3) for installing on a vehicle part (2), in particular in the form of a door or a hatch, having an electric switch means (30) with at least one switch element (31) for initiating a vehicle function and having a housing unit (10) with at least one first and second housing section (11, 12), wherein the second housing section (12) can be moved from a rest position (I) into an actuation position (II) at least in some regions relative to the first housing section (11) in order to actuate the switch element (31). The invention additionally relates to a vehicle (1) and to an actuation method (100).
US12278075B2
A fuse comprising including a housing, a fusible element disposed within the housing, first and second terminals extending from opposite ends of the fusible element and out of the housing, and a quantity of arc suppressing material disposed on the fusible element, wherein the arc suppressing material is formed of a polyamide hotmelt adhesive mixed with a flame retardant.
US12278074B2
A protection circuit for a simulated battery cell having an output comprising an output voltage includes: at least one MOSFET connected to the output of the simulated battery cell for short-circuiting the output of the simulated battery cell; a capacitor connected to a gate electrode of the at least one MOSFET; an overvoltage detection device configured to charge the capacitor with the output voltage based on an overvoltage limit of the output voltage being exceeded; and a threshold voltage detection device configured to release the gate electrode based on a threshold value of a voltage at the capacitor not being reached.
US12278073B2
Multi-pole and single-pole circuit breakers include a housing and a reset lockout mechanism disposed within the housing. The reset lockout mechanism disables electrical communication between line and load terminals of the circuit breaker if a predefined condition exists. Some circuit breakers include a single actuator, transition between ON and OFF states, and are capable of performing test functions. The test functions may involve testing AFCI and/or GFCI functions of the circuit breakers. The test functions may be performed when the circuit breaker transitions from an OFF state to an ON state. Some circuit breakers including a reset lockout mechanism may be powered only on its line side. Some circuit breakers provide an electrical indication when they are in the OFF state.
US12278070B2
An electromechanical power switch device and methods thereof. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are devices including a semiconductor substrate, at least one integrated circuit device on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer on the at least one integrated circuit device, and an electromechanical power switch on the insulating layer. By way of example, the electromechanical power switch may include a source and a drain, a body region disposed between the source and the drain, and a gate including a switching metal layer. In some embodiments, the body region includes a first body portion and a second body portion spaced a distance from the first body portion and defining a body discontinuity therebetween. Additionally, in various examples, the switching metal layer may be disposed over the body discontinuity.
US12278059B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover terminals.
US12278052B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer including a plurality of dielectric grains and internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layer in a first direction and external electrodes disposed on the body, wherein at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-shell structure including an inner core and a shell covering at least a portion of the core, a ratio of an average size of the core to an average size of the dielectric grains having the core-shell structure is 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less, a ratio ((Dy+Tb)/Sn) of the sum of the moles of dysprosium (Dy) and the moles of terbium (Tb) to the moles of tin (Sn) included in the dielectric layer satisfies 0.7 or more and 1.5 or less, and at least one of the dielectric layers has four or more dielectric grains in the first direction.
US12278050B2
A method for manufacturing a chip ceramic electronic component that includes an outer electrode including a glass-free sintered layer including no glass. A glass-free conductive paste including a nickel powder, a metal powder, such as tin, having a melting point of lower than about 500° C., and a thermosetting resin, and not including glass, is applied to cover a portion of a surface of a ceramic body. The ceramic body to which the glass-free conductive paste has been applied is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than or equal to a temperature about 400° C. higher than the curing temperature of the thermosetting resin. The thermosetting resin is thermally decomposed or burned such that little or none remains, and the nickel powder and metal powder having a melting point of lower than about 500° C. are sintered to form a unified sintered metal body.
US12278044B2
Disclosed are a method for preparing an anisotropic flake nanocrystalline rare earth permanent magnet material and a rare earth permanent magnet material. In the disclosure, the method includes: step 1, preparation of a precursor flake nanocrystal magnetic powder, where a number of grains of flake nanocrystals inside the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder accounts for not less than 85% of a total number of grains inside the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder; step 2, orientation treatment by hot deformation: subjecting the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder or a green body prepared from the precursor flake nanocrystalline magnetic powder to the hot deformation, such that flake nanocrystals are regularly arranged; and step 3, post-processing for optimizing orientation.
US12278033B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer. The nonmagnetic layer is between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. At least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer is a Heusler alloy layer. The nonmagnetic layer includes a first region and a second region in a plane. Both of the first region and the second region are formed of a metal. The second region is different in constituent material from the first region. The second region has a crystal structure of a body-centered cubic lattice structure (bcc).
US12278032B2
The main object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition with which a cured film that exhibits a high magnetic permeability real part μ′ and a low magnetic loss tan δ in the high frequency region can be formed.
US12278031B2
A powder including a plurality of particulates, each particulate including a soft magnetic metallic core coated with a continuous dielectric coating having a thickness selected from a range of 100 nanometers to 100 micrometers. The particulates have a mean particle size selected from a range of 100 nanometers to 250 micrometers. Methods for forming the powder are disclosed. A soft magnetic composite component includes a soft magnetic material in a dielectric matrix, wherein (i) the soft magnetic material comprises a plurality of particulates comprising metallic cores, (ii) each metallic core is coated by a continuous dielectric coating covering >90% of a surface area of the metallic core, (iii) the metallic cores are electrically isolated from each other, and (iv) the dielectric coatings of adjacent metallic cores are consolidated together. Methods for formation of the soft magnetic component by additive manufacturing and hot isostatic pressing are disclosed.
US12278030B2
A method for manufacturing a multilayer varistor includes: a first step including providing a multilayer stack in which a plurality of green sheet layers, each containing a Zn oxide powder as a main component and a Pr oxide powder as a sub-component, and a plurality of internal electrode paste layers, each containing a Pd powder, are alternately stacked; and a second step including forming a sintered compact, including an internal electrode inside, by baking the multilayer stack. The second step includes: a first sub-step including baking the multilayer stack by setting an oxygen concentration in an atmosphere at 1000 ppm by volume or less while increasing a temperature from 500° C. to 800° C.; and a second sub-step including baking, after the first sub-step, the multilayer stack by setting the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere at 1000 ppm by volume or more while increasing the temperature to a maximum allowable temperature.
US12278023B1
The present disclosure provides an insulated wire and a preparation method therefor, a winding wire and an electrical device, relating to the technical field of electrochemical elements. The insulated wire includes a conductive wire and an insulating layer coated on the conductive wire, where the insulating layer includes polyetheretherketone and thermoplastic polyimide, and a mass percentage of the polyetheretherketone in the insulating layer is not more than 20%; and the conductive wire is in direct contact with the insulating layer; and after extrusion and cooling for 24 h, under a condition that the insulated wire is ring cut and stretched by 15%, a length of the insulating layer losing adhesion is not greater than 1.9 mm.
US12278020B1
The present disclosure discloses a supporting insulation base of a negative high-voltage potential neutron target of a compact neutron source, including a cylindrical coolant liquid channel, a cylindrical high-voltage channel, an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate, which are integrally formed by 3D printing using a PEEK material. The cylindrical coolant liquid channel respectively provides coolant liquid for a extraction electrode and a neutron target; the cylindrical high-voltage channel provides a negative high voltage for the extraction electrode and the neutron target; the cylindrical channel is connected to the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate; a cooling channel is provided inside the upper cover plate, the lower cover plate is used for sealing a vacuum chamber and supporting the cylindrical channel, and a sealing groove is provided on a surface of the lower cover plate for sealing the vacuum chamber; the PEEK material has higher voltage resistance; and 3D printing can omit the design of a butt seal between the cylindrical channel and the upper and lower cover plates, reducing the cost and improving economic efficiency. The structure of the present disclosure has the functions of insulation, vacuum sealing and reducing y rays while ensuring the negative high voltage and cooling for the electrode and the neutron target, so as to support the application of the compact negative high-voltage neutron source.
US12278017B2
The present application relates to nuclear fuel claddings, and more particularly to zirconium alloy tubes with a ceramic covering. A first coating layer is applied to the ceramic covering. A second coating layer is over the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes Nb. The second coating layer includes Cr.
US12278013B2
A device configured to determine a level or concentration of a disease-related analyte in a person's blood from volatile analyte(s) in the person's breath. The device includes one or more sensors configured to detect the volatile analyte(s) in the person's breath, a microcontroller in communication with each sensor, a transmitter, a battery, and a housing. The microcontroller contains logic that correlates parameter values from the sensor(s) or the level/concentration of the volatile analyte(s) to the level/concentration of the disease-related analyte. The transmitter is configured to transmit the parametric value from each sensor and/or the level/concentration of the volatile analyte(s) and/or the disease-related analyte. The housing surrounds, encloses and/or secures the sensor(s), the microcontroller, the transmitter and the battery, and contains a tube or opening through which the person exhales so that the person's breath contacts the sensor(s).
US12278007B2
[Problem] To compress the number of records and make consistent records with good visibility by arranging medicine, disease, and symptom/finding entries in a tree structure having a hierarchical structure and recording common attributes in an entry at an appropriate level. [Solving Means] A medicine prescription assistance system includes medicine information recording means related to medicine entries including medicine names and class names grouping the medicine names. The medicine information recording means each include (1) medicine entry attribute recording means that is recording attributes about the medicine names and the class names grouping the medicine names, (2) medicine entry parent-child relationship link means that defines parent-child relationships between the medicine entries, and (3) medicine information recording means including medicine entry attribute record parent-child inheritance means configured to inherit an attribute recorded in the medicine entry attribute recording means of a parent to the medicine entry attribute recording means of a child through the medicine entry parent-child relationship link means.
US12278002B2
Triggering information that defines conditions for presenting a virtual clinical exam may be downloaded to a user device. The user device may collect sensor data and use the sensor data to evaluate the conditions. When certain conditions are fulfilled, the user device may present the virtual clinical exam at the user device.
US12278001B2
In response to request signals transmitted from a terminal, a server generates prediction information relating to pharmacokinetics of a peptide. The server then transmits the prediction information to the terminal.
US12277996B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for hardware metering using a memory-type camouflaged cell. The apparatus includes memory including at least one camouflaged memory cell in which a key is hidden by a designer in advance and a controller for controlling whether to block the supply of power to the memory. The controller may perform reading a key from a corresponding key location in the multiple memory cells of the memory based on key location information stored in the controller when a key is input from the outside, determining whether the key input from the outside is the same as the key read from the memory, setting an authentic flag based on the determination result, and performing control based on the set authentic flag such that the memory operates normally or the supply of power is blocked.
US12277995B2
A non-volatile memory device includes: a memory cell; a bit line connected to the memory cell; a first cross coupled inverter for storing data sensed from the memory cell through a sensing node connected to the bit line; a first transistor and a second transistor respectively connected to respective ends of the first cross coupled inverter and respectively transmitting a ground voltage to respective ends of the first cross coupled inverter; and a control circuit for operating the first transistor and the second transistor at least once for at least one of an initialize period in which the sensing node is discharged and a precharge period in which the bit line is precharged.
US12277982B2
There is provided a verifiable OTP memory device, the memory device including an MTP memory block and an OTP memory block for storing data, and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to handle write requests and read requests. Each write request and read request pertains to writing data to, and reading data from, respectively, a requested position in either the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block. The memory controller is configured to, in response to the write requests, write the data to the requested position in either the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block. The memory controller is configured to, in response to the read requests, output data as combined from the requested position in the MTP memory block and the requested position in the OTP memory block, regardless if the read requests are for the MTP memory block or the OTP memory block.
US12277981B2
An anti-fuse cell structure includes: a first anti-fuse transistor having a first end and a second end; a first selection transistor having a first end and a second end, the first end of the first selection transistor being electrically connected to the second end of the first anti-fuse transistor; and a Blow Enable (BE) line electrically connected to a first end of the first anti-fuse transistor, and configured to perform programming operation on the first anti-fuse transistor.
US12277976B2
Provided are a non-volatile memory device, a storage device including the same, and a method of performing a programming operation on the same. The method includes performing a program operation including applying a desired first program voltage to a selected word line of the memory device, the selected word line including a plurality of memory cells, performing a verification operation including sensing a first sensing value corresponding to an output of the selected word line based on a first verify voltage, and counting a number of on-cells of the selected word line based on the first sensing value to determine a first count value, determining whether a first program state of the selected word line has been verified based on the first count value and at least one reference value, and setting a second program voltage based on results of the determining whether the first program state has been verified.
US12277963B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to voltage management of memory apparatuses/systems are described. The memory device can include circuitry configured to determine an operating frequency of a clock signal for an ongoing or an upcoming memory operation. The memory device may generate a control indicator for increasing a system voltage for higher operating frequencies, for decreasing the system voltage for lower operating frequencies, or a combination thereof.
US12277961B2
A semiconductor device includes memory cells connected to word lines, bit lines, and one source line, a row decoder connected to the word lines, and a sense amplifier circuit connected to the bit lines. In a program operation for two or more selected memory cells, a reference voltage is applied to the one source line, the sense amplifier circuit inputs a selected voltage to one selected bit line connected to the selected memory cells, and the row decoder inputs, to selected word lines connected to respective ones of the selected memory cells, a first program voltage lower than the reference voltage or a second program voltage higher than the reference voltage. Each of the memory cells includes a ferroelectric layer in which at least one of a polarization direction and a polarization degree changes depending on a voltage input to each of the word lines.
US12277960B2
A memory device with modified top electrode contact includes a memory pillar composed of a bottom electrode, a magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) stack above the bottom electrode, and a top electrode above the MRAM stack. A first portion of an encapsulation layer is disposed along opposite sidewalls of the bottom electrode, on opposite sidewalls of the MRAM stack and on opposite sidewalls of a bottom portion of the top electrode, a second portion of the encapsulation layer is located above a second dielectric layer. A metal cap is located above an uppermost surface and opposite sidewalls of a top portion of the top electrode and above an uppermost surface of the first portion of the encapsulation layer. A second conductive interconnect is formed above a top surface of the metal cap wrapping around opposite sidewalls of the first portion of the encapsulation layer and opposite sidewalls of the metal cap.
US12277956B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a first MA amplifier that drives a first micro actuator that positions a corresponding magnetic head, a second micro actuator that positions a corresponding magnetic head, a second MA amplifier that drives the second micro actuator, and a controller that, when performing switching from an MA amplifier of a switching source in an on state to an MA amplifier of a switching destination in an off state, starts up the MA amplifier of the switching destination while maintaining the MA amplifier of the switching source in the on state, and performs the switching from the MA amplifier of the switching source to the MA amplifier of the switching destination after a predetermined time elapses.
US12277945B2
The present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of linear prediction in combination with a filterbank. A method for estimating a sample of a subband signal from two or more previous samples of the subband signal is described. The subband signal corresponds to a plurality of subbands, having an equal subband spacing, of a subband-domain representation of an audio signal. The method comprises determining signal model data using a model parameter; determining a first prediction coefficient in response to the model parameter using a first lookup table and/or a first analytical function; determining a second prediction coefficient in response to the model parameter using a second lookup table and/or a second analytical function; and determining the estimate of the sample by applying the first prediction coefficient to the first previous sample and applying the second prediction coefficient to the second previous sample.
US12277937B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for storing incomplete dialog sessions between a user and an automated assistant in order that the dialog sessions can be completed in furtherance of certain actions. While interacting with an automated assistant, a user can become distracted and not complete the interaction to the point of the automated assistant performing some action. In response, the automated assistant can store the interaction as a dialog session. Subsequently, the user may express interest, directly or indirectly, in completing the dialog session, and the automated assistant can provide the user with a selectable element that, when selected, causes the dialog session to be reopened. The user can then continue the dialog session with the automated assistant in order that the originally intended action can be performed by the automated assistant.
US12277923B2
An electronic apparatus includes an inner microphone provided on a first surface of the electronic apparatus; an outer microphone disposed on a second surface opposite the first surface; and a processor configured to: receive a voice signal of a counterpart and a voice signal of a wearer of the electronic apparatus that are input through the inner microphone and the outer microphone, based on a size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone being greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, remove the voice signal of the wearer input through the outer microphone based on the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone, and amplify the voice signal of the counterpart input through the outer microphone and from which the voice signal of the wearer is removed and output the amplified voice signal, wherein the size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the inner microphone is greater than a size of the voice signal of the wearer input through the outer microphone.
US12277919B2
Apparatus 2 for supporting a musical keyboard 112 between two microphone stands 100, 106 comprising a body member 4 having a first end portion 6 and a second end portion 8. A first clamping arrangement 10 is provided at the first end portion 6 and configured to releasably clamp a microphone stand 100. A second clamping arrangement 12 is provided at the second end portion 8 and configured to releasably clamp a microphone stand 106. The body member 4 is arranged with respect to the first clamping arrangement 10 and the second clamping arrangement 12 such that, when the first clamping arrangement 10 is clamped to a first microphone stand 100 and the second clamping arrangement 12 is clamped to a second microphone stand 106 which is spaced from the first microphone stand 100, the body member 4 is arranged to support a musical keyboard for use of the keyboard.
US12277914B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display region including a first and second region adjacent in a first direction, a substrate with a width of the second region in the first direction being greater than a width of the first region, a plurality of first and second gate bus lines extending in a second direction and arranged in the first and second regions, and a first and second gate driver connected to the plurality of first and second gate bus lines, respectively. A first scanning period in which the first gate driver scans the first gate bus lines overlaps a part of a second scanning period in which the second gate driver scans the second gate bus lines.
US12277913B2
The present disclosure relates to display device, display panel, and display driving method. Disclosed herein is a display device including a display panel in which a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current to a light emitting element using a driving voltage, and a plurality of switching transistors configured to control driving of the driving transistor are disposed; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines; an emission driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of emission signals to the display panel through a plurality of emission signal lines; a data driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel; and a timing controller configured to, in a low speed mode in which the display panel is operated at a low driving frequency, control the driving current to be applied to the driving transistor during a first emission control period after a bias voltage is applied to the driving transistor, and control the driving current to be applied to the light emitting element through the driving transistor during a second emission control period.
US12277911B2
A scan driving circuit includes: a driving circuit configured to output a scan signal to an output terminal in response to clock signals and a carry signal; and a masking circuit configured to stop the driving circuit from outputting the scan signal in response to a masking signal and a signal indicating an operating state of the driving circuit.
US12277908B2
A display apparatus includes where one pixel line including a plurality of pixels are provided in plurality, a gate driver configured to apply a gate signal to the one pixel line, and a source driver configured to apply a data signal to the one pixel line. The source driver includes amplifier circuits, output switches, a source output control circuit, and an offset control circuit. The source output control circuit applies sequentially delayed source output enable signals to the output switches to delay an output period of the data signal by units of source output channels, based on a degree of delay of the gate signal. The offset control circuit applies an offset control signal generated based on the sequentially delayed source output enable signals to the plurality of amplifier circuits to change an offset of each of the plurality of amplifier circuits in a masking period of the data signal.
US12277904B2
A display device can include at least one subpixel connected to a data line and a gate line; a first gate driving circuit connected to a first end of the gate line; a second gate driving circuit connected to a second end of the gate line, the second end being opposite to the first end. Also, the first and second gate driving circuits are configured to double feed gate pulses to the first and second ends of the gate line based on a first condition being satisfied, and single feed the gate pulse to only one of the first and second ends of the gate line based on a second condition being satisfied.
US12277897B2
A display device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arrayed in a display region, a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit coupled to each of the light-emitting elements, a first drive transistor provided to the first pixel circuit and configured to supply a first drive current to the light-emitting element, a second drive transistor provided to the second pixel circuit and configured to supply a second drive current to the light-emitting element, a drive circuit configured to supply a video signal to the first drive transistor and the second drive transistor, a first coupling switching transistor provided between the first drive transistor and the light-emitting element, and a second coupling switching transistor provided between the second drive transistor and the light-emitting element. The first coupling switching transistor and the second coupling switching transistor are turned off in a non-emission period of the light-emitting element.
US12277894B2
A gate driving circuit includes: a first pull-down circuit controlled by a Q node to transmit a low voltage to a first output node; a first pull-up circuit controlled by a QB1 node to transmit a high voltage to the first output node; a QB2 node control circuit to transmit a voltage of the QB1 node to the QB2 node; a second pull-down circuit controlled by the Q node to transmit a low voltage to a second output node; and a second pull-up circuit controlled by the QB2 node to transmit a high voltage output clock signal to the second output node. A pulse width of a signal output to the first output node is the same as a pulse width of the Q node. A pulse width of a signal output to the second output node is the same as a pulse width of the output clock signal.
US12277886B2
An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
US12277856B2
A multiply redundant safety system that protects humans and assets while transfer(s)/fuelling of on road/off road, rail, marine, aircraft, spacecraft, rockets, and all other vehicles/vessels utilizing Compressed and or Liquefied Gas Fuels/compound(s). Utilizing Natural Gas Chemical Family of Hydrogen/Propane/ethane/ammonia/and any mixtures along with or with out oxidizer(s), such as Liquefied Oxygen, Oxygen Triplet (O3)/ozone/hydrogen peroxide/peroxide/solid oxidizer(s) one or more processors, utilizing Artificial Intelligence techniques/machine learning in combination with one or more sensors; in combination with one or more micro switches/actuator(s) combine to detect any leaks/fire(s)/or explosion hazards/vehicle motion/arc's, spark(s)/and other hazards for quickly mitigating/locking out/stopping fueling/gas/transfers/vehicle releasing system(s).
US12277854B2
The subject disclosure relates to solutions for testing lighting systems and in particular, for verifying lighting system operability in the event of a power failure. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving an interrupt command, toggling an interrupt relay in response to the interrupt command, and measuring one or more lighting characteristics of the lighting array to determine if the second power supply can power the lighting array. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12277839B2
A blockchain system for providing ticketing within a blockchain network of participating electronic devices includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) configured to participate in the blockchain network. The EGM a memory storing a local blockchain and a system blockchain. The EGM also includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to identify a first ticket creation blockchain transaction in the local blockchain from a ticket creation device of the first plurality of electronic gaming devices, the first ticket creation blockchain transaction including at least a ticket value and a ticket identifier (ID), create a system ticket creation blockchain transaction including at least the ticket value and the ticket ID, and broadcast the system ticket creation blockchain transaction to the system blockchain.
US12277824B2
A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit, a collation unit, a time measurement unit, and a threshold change unit. The face image acquisition unit acquires a face image of an authentication target. The collation unit performs face authentication on the face image of the authentication target on the basis of a threshold. The time measurement unit measures the elapsed time from the time of starting operation of the face authentication apparatus. The threshold change unit restricts changing of the threshold to a value larger than a value determined depending on the measured elapsed time.
US12277819B2
A credentialing method and apparatus for facility access. The apparatus can include a system that includes one or more BLE beacons located within proximity to a facility, where one or more of the beacons identifies a location or other information unique to its proximity to the facility. The apparatus can further include an eBadge used by a person seeking access to the facility. The eBadge can also in some embodiments be a BLE beacon. Interaction between the one or more BLE beacons, a credentialing provider's app operating on the person's mobile device, and the person's eBadge operate in the system to perform a method of controlled access to the facility. In some embodiments, administrators with access to the credentialing provider's app also can control, monitor, report, and observe details concerning such facility access.
US12277818B1
A remote programming system for engine control units of vehicles operates by coupling an onboard diagnostic interface device with an engine control unit of a vehicle, communicatively linking the interface device with a hand held device, communicatively linking the hand held device with a back end programming machine that is remotely located from the vehicle, communicating identifying information about the vehicle to the programming machine via the interface device, the hand held device, and the communication network(s), determining an action and programming information needed to program the engine control unit of the vehicle to accept a replacement key, sending the action and programming information from the programming machine to the hand held device via the communication network(s), and programing the engine control unit of the vehicle to accept the replacement key to activate the vehicle using or responsive to use of the action and programming information.
US12277815B2
Disclosed are a vehicle and a vehicle occupant check method. The vehicle occupant check method comprises checking whether a vehicle occupant is inside a vehicle based on a first preset condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when a current driver of the vehicle matches an existing driver, and a driving pattern of the current driver matches a driving pattern of the existing driver. The vehicle occupant check method further comprises checking whether the vehicle occupant is inside the vehicle based on a second condition, comprising checking a presence of the vehicle occupant inside the vehicle through a detection sensor, when the current driver of the vehicle does not match the existing driver, or the driving pattern of the current driver does not match the driving pattern of the existing driver.
US12277811B1
A method for performing a vehicle diagnostic process for diagnosing, scanning and/or programming a vehicle includes recording a diagnostic message from a diagnostic computer device to generate a recorded diagnostic message, transmitting the recorded diagnostic message to a local computer at a repair facility, with the diagnostic computer device being located remotely from the repair facility, and playing the recorded diagnostic message at the local computer for delivery via an interface device to an electronic system of a vehicle. The method then further includes recording with the local computer a vehicle message from the electronic system of the vehicle to generate a recorded vehicle message in response to playing the recorded diagnostic message, and transmitting the recorded vehicle message from the local computer to the diagnostic computer device.
US12277808B2
A system for identifying likely defects with an asset within a fleet of assets comprises sensors to detect asset sensor data, user input devices/user output terminals associated with the plurality of assets, and a server device. The server device collects historical data comprising historical asset sensor data generated by the sensors and historical inspection report data from the user input devices. The server device further uses an algorithm to identify correlations in the historical data, obtains current asset sensor data generated by sensors on a given asset and/or obtains current inspection report data from a user input device associated with the given asset, calculates one or more likely defects with the asset based on the identified correlations, and based on the current asset sensor data and/or the current inspection report data, and sends the calculated likely defects to user output terminal associated with the given asset for display thereof.
US12277807B2
An electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a plurality of electric drive systems each including a drive motor for turning a rotor and a drive unit for driving the drive motor includes: a drive information detection unit that detects, for each of the plurality of electric drive systems, drive information including at least one of motor information serving as an indicator of the deterioration state of the drive motor and drive unit information serving as an indicator of the deterioration state of the drive unit; and a maintenance necessity detection unit that detects the necessity or lack of necessity of maintenance on each of the plurality of electric drive systems based on the detected drive information.
US12277804B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining that a subject is a live person include obtaining, by an image capture device, a set of subject images. Each image is captured at a different corresponding relative location of the image capture device with respect to the subject. Parameters are determined from the set of images of the subject. The parameters represent corneal reflections of at least one object in at least one eye of the subject. A determination is made, based on the parameters, that the subject is a live person. Responsive to determining that the subject is a live person, an authentication process is initiated to authenticate the subject.
US12277800B2
The subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods and systems for stabilizing video. A computing system determines a stabilized location of a facial feature in a frame of video accounting for its location in a previous frame. The computing system determines a physical camera pose in virtual space and maps the frame into virtual space. The computing system determines an optimized virtual camera pose using an optimization process that determines (1) a difference between the stabilized location of the facial feature and a location of the facial feature when viewed from a potential virtual camera pose, (2) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and a previous virtual camera pose, and (3) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and the physical camera pose. The computing system generates the stabilized view of the frame using the optimized virtual camera pose.
US12277790B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for automated industrial hygiene assessment and display comprising receiving sampling results for a stressor, such as a harmful environmental artifact in a physical environment; deriving one or more codes for the stressor from a digital record via an indexing module and/or from other data sources; generating a health effect rating (HER) based on the code; generating an exposure rating (ER) based on the sampling results; generating an uncertainty rating (UR) based on the sampling results; displaying, an interactive UIto facilitate approval or selection of at least one of the HER, the ER, or the UR; generating at least one of a risk rating (RR) or an information gathering priority rating (IGPR) based on a selection of the at least one of the HER, the ER, or the UR; and displaying via the interactive UI at least one of the RR or the IGPR.
US12277777B2
[Problem] The estimation accuracy of a class of an object is to be effectively improved. [Means of Solution] Provided is an information processing device including an estimation unit that estimates, based on an input image, a class of an object that is present in a real environment corresponding to an imaging range of the input image, wherein the object includes an acoustically useful object having an acoustic feature useful for class estimation, and the estimation unit estimates a class of the acoustically useful object based on acoustic data collected from around the acoustically useful object.
US12277770B2
A system and method for receiving, using one or more processors, image data, the image data including a first training video representing performance of one or more steps on a first workpiece; applying, using the one or more processors, a first set of labels to the first training video based on user input; performing, using the one or more processors, extraction on the image data, thereby generating extracted information, the extracted information including first extracted image information associated with the first training video; and training, using the one or more processors, a process monitoring algorithm based on the extracted information and the first set of labels.
US12277768B2
A method for generating at least one segment of a video by an electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying at least one of a context associated with the video and an interaction of a user in connection with the video, analyzing at least one parameter in at least one frame of the video with reference to at least one of the context and the interaction of the user, wherein the at least one parameter includes at least one of a subject, an environment, an action of the subject, and an object, determining the at least one frame in which a change in the at least one parameter occurs, and generating at least one segment of the video comprising the at least one frame in which the parameter changed as a temporal boundary of the at least one segment.
US12277764B2
The aim of the invention is to analyze and evaluate a data set of action objects which arise in audio and/or visual media contents. The action objects are visual and/or audible objects or elements in an audio and/or visual media content which can be perceived by a viewer and/or listener and are not physical characteristics of the digital data of a video file or an audio file. Another aim of the invention is to analyze and evaluate the action objects described in the data set by means of parameters and parameter values according to the significance of the parameters and parameter values and the quality of the data set with respect to the action objects and to make the same measurable.
US12277763B2
According to one embodiment, a load estimation apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires sensor data from a measurement target, calculates one or more posture loads relating to one or more body parts of the measurement target based on the sensor data, and displays display data including a posture load graph in which the one or more posture loads are illustrated in time series.
US12277758B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a text prompt describing a scene; processing the text prompt using a text encoder neural network to generate a contextual embedding of the text prompt; and processing the contextual embedding using a sequence of generative neural networks to generate a final video depicting the scene.
US12277757B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for classifying objects in an image using a color-based neural network. A method may include: training a neural network to classify an object in a given image into a color class from a set of color classes; determining, from the set of color classes, a subset of color classes that are anticipated to be in a received input image based on image metadata; generating a matched mask input indicating the subset; inputting both the input image and the matched mask input into the neural network, wherein the neural network is configured to: determine a first semantic embedding of the input image and the matched mask input; outputting a color class associated with a second semantic embedding with a least amount of distance to the first semantic embedding from a plurality of semantic embeddings.
US12277753B1
An exemplary method for reducing bias in a training image dataset for training a machine-learning model comprises: receiving a plurality of text strings comprising at least one text string describing each image in the training image dataset; generating a plurality of embeddings based on the plurality of text strings; identifying, based on the plurality of embeddings, a plurality of visual features in the training image dataset; identifying one or more correlations between the plurality of visual features in the training image dataset; receiving a user input identifying at least one biased correlation from the one or more correlations; and training the machine-learning model at least partially by adjusting one or more data sampling weights associated with one or more training images in the training image dataset based on the user input.
US12277737B2
The disclosure relates to a method of encoding a digital image in order to compress same, the digital image being defined as a point cloud associating a set of N pixels, designated as vertices, to a scalar intensity value. The method aims at establishing triangulation vertices of the digital image and implements the principles of algorithmic topology.
US12277726B2
An imaging system can receive an image of a portion of an environment. The environment can include an object, such as a hand or a display. The imaging device can identify a data stream from an external device, for instance by detecting the data stream in the image or by receiving the data stream wirelessly from the external device. The imaging device can detect a condition based on the image and/or the data stream, for instance by detecting that the object is missing from the image, by detecting that a low resource at the imaging device, and/or by detecting visual media content displayed by a display in the image. Upon detecting the condition, imaging device automatically determines a location of the object (or a portion thereof) using the data stream and/or the image. The imaging device generates and/or outputs content that is based on the location of the object.
US12277724B2
At a first time point, a first light capturing device at a first spatial location in a three-dimensional (3D) space captures first light rays from light sources located at designated spatial locations on a viewer device in the 3D space. At the first time point, a second light capturing device at a second spatial location in the 3D space captures second light rays from the light sources located at the designated spatial locations on the viewer device in the 3D space. Based on the first light rays captured by the first light capturing device and the second light rays captured by the second light capturing device, at least one of a spatial position and a spatial direction, at the first time point, of the viewer device is determined.
US12277721B2
This application provides a method for optimizing a depth estimation model. The method includes obtaining a video of an object and capturing a first image and a second image from the video. An initial depth estimation model is obtained. An updated depth estimation model is obtained by performing an optimization process on the initial depth estimation model, and the optimization process is repeatedly performed on the updated depth estimation model. Once the updated depth estimation model meets predetermined requirements, the updated depth estimation model meeting predetermined requirements is determined as a target depth estimation model.
US12277717B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an object detection method and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. In the object detection method, multiple candidate bounding boxes of an interest object in a current image frame are obtained. Based on a determined bounding box of the interest object in a previous image frame, the multiple candidate bounding boxes are filtered to obtain a determined bounding box of the interest object in the current image frame.
US12277713B2
The invention discloses a method and system for detecting and repairing sun glint in UAV optical RGB ocean image, introduces a sun glint attention module, and constructs a semantic segmentation network model based on attention mechanism. The sun glint region is segmtioned by semantic segmentation network model based on attention mechanism, and the optical flow field of high-resolution UAV optical RGB ocean image is extracted by RAFT optical flow estimation network. sun glint region and optical flow field are used for optical flow propagation to repair the sun glint in UAV optical RGB ocean images and restore the real benthic image features.
US12277710B2
A program causes a computer to perform processing of: acquiring an endoscopic image obtained by capturing a subject using an endoscope; extracting region-of-interest information from the acquired endoscopic image; acquiring a three-dimensional medical image obtained by capturing an inside of a body of the subject using at least one of X-ray CT, X-ray cone beam CT, MRI-CT, and an ultrasonic diagnostic device; deriving position information in a coordinate system of the three-dimensional medical image specified by the region-of-interest information and the three-dimensional medical image; and storing the region-of-interest information and the three-dimensional medical image in association with each other based on the derived position information and a capturing time point of each of the endoscopic image and the three-dimensional medical image.
US12277707B2
A method for generating treatment recommendations based on images of a facial region of a human subject comprises the steps of acquiring at least one image of the facial region and generating image data representing the at least one image; processing the image data and additional information, including at least an indication of a condition affecting an appearance of the facial region and a treatment type to treat the condition, to obtain a treatment recommendation and outputting the obtained treatment recommendation. The processing step includes a comparison substep to compare information derived from the image data with reference information to obtain a reference measure. The processing step further includes a classifying substep to obtain the treatment recommendation (63.1 . . . 8, 64.1 . . . 8) based on the reference measure.
US12277706B2
A method for visualization of digitized slides is disclosed. The method comprises retrieving, by one or more computer processors, a digitized slide, determining, by the one or more computer processors, one or more visualization components of the digitized slide, generating, by the one or more computer processors, a virtual slide corresponding to the digitized slide based on the one or more visualization components, and displaying, by the one or more computer processors, a visualization of the virtual slide.
US12277704B2
Methods and systems for predicting post-operative complications after EVAR, including calculating a post-operative complication probability of a patient after EVAR, which comprises generating a plurality of 3D CTA reconstruction images of the patient with abdominal aortic aneurysm; and providing the plurality of 3D CTA reconstruction images of the patient to a prediction neural network configured to predict post-operative complications after endovascular aneurysm repair. The prediction neural network is trained by generating one or more datasets including a plurality of post-operative 3D CTA reconstruction images of patients after EVAR; selecting a first set of images showing positive post-operative complications and a second set of images showing negative post-operative complications in accordance with a determined positive:negative ratio; determining a training input by downsampling the second set of images and augmenting the first set of images and the downsampled second set of images; and providing the training input to the prediction neural network.
US12277688B2
A multi-task text infilling system receives a digital image and identifies a region of interest of the image that contains original text. The system uses a machine learning model to determine, in parallel: a foreground image that includes the original text; a background image that omits the original text; and a binary mask that distinguishes foreground pixels from background pixels, The system receives a target mask that contains replacement text. The system then applies the target mask to blend the background image with the foreground layer image and yield a modified digital image that includes the replacement text and omits the original text.
US12277681B2
Techniques to temporally filter images via a filtering weight computation are disclosed. A first image having a first timestamp and a second image having a second timestamp are acquired. These images are generated by a camera, and the first timestamp is before the second timestamp. A motion compensation (MC) operation is performed on the first image to produce an MC image. A difference image is generated using the MC image and the second image. The difference image reflects differences in intensities that exist between the two images. A local weight map is generated based on those differences. A global weight map is generated based on certain IMU data. A final weight map is generated based on a combination of the local weight map and the global weight map. The final weight map is used to generate a filtered image.
US12277674B2
A semantics-based high resolution reconstruction method of a nighttime light remote sensing image includes: constructing a sample data set; the sample data set includes a plurality of data groups, and each data group includes a LR NTL image, and a HR NTL image and light semantics information consistent in spatial position with the LR NTL image; constructing a reconstruction model; performing training and validation on the reconstruction model by using the sample data set to obtain an optimized reconstruction model; and taking a to-be-reconstructed LR NTL image and light semantic information corresponding to the to-be-reconstructed LR NTL image as an input of the optimized reconstruction model, and outputting, by the optimized reconstructed model, a HR NTL image obtained through resolution reconstruction.
US12277668B2
A system for determining volume of a selectable region is configurable to (i) obtain user input directed to a 3D representation of a set of 2D images and (ii) based on the user input, selectively modify one or more mask pixels of one or more respective selection masks. Each 2D image of the set of 2D images is associated with a respective selection mask. The 3D representation represents pixels of the set of 2D images with corresponding voxels. The user input selects one or more voxels of the 3D representation. The one or more mask pixels is associated with one or more pixels of the set of 2D images that correspond to the one or more voxels of the 3D representation selected via the user input.
US12277664B2
A method for fabricating a custom cranial remodeling device for correction of cranial deformities in a subject is described. The method comprises generating a three-dimensional head data file for the subject and determining contour lines on the head. The method further comprises automatically generating a modified head shape data file and juxtaposing the modified head shape with the head represented by the three-dimensional head data file having the contour lines thereon. Still further the method includes utilizing the modified head shape data file to generate a shape for a desired custom cranial remodeling device, the shape having an interior surface to contact the head and an outer surface. The method also includes projecting lines outward from the contour lines to the outer surface and utilizing the projected lines to establish cranial remodeling device contour lines for the custom cranial remodeling device.
US12277662B2
Techniques for aligning object representations for animation include analyzing a source object representation and a target object representation to identify a category of the source object and a category of the target object. Based on the category or categories of the objects, a feature extraction machine learning models is selected. The source object representation and the target object representation are provided as input to the selected feature extraction machine learning model to generate respective semantic descriptors and shape vectors for the source and target objects. Based on the semantic descriptors and the shape vectors for the source and target objects, an alignment machine learning model generates an aligned target object representation that is aligned with the source object representation and usable for animating the target object.
US12277659B1
Various implementations of the present application set forth a method comprising generating, based on first sensor data captured by a depth sensor on a mobile device, three-dimensional data representing a physical space that includes a real-world asset, generating, based on second sensor data captured by an image sensor on the mobile device, two-dimensional data representing the physical space, combining, based on a correlation the three-dimensional data and the two-dimensional data, the two-dimensional data and the three-dimensional data into an extended reality (XR) stream, where the XR stream includes a digital representation of the real-world asset, and transmitting, to a remote device, the XR stream for rendering at least a portion of the digital representation of the real-world asset in a remote XR environment.
US12277653B2
An augmented reality system generates computer-mediated reality on a client device. The client device has sensors including a camera configured to capture image data of an environment and a location sensor to capture location data describing a geolocation of the client device. The client device creates a three-dimensional (3-D) map with the image data and the location data for use in generating virtual objects to augment reality. The client device transmits the created 3-D map to an external server that may utilize the 3-D map to update a world map stored on the external server. The external server sends a local portion of the world map to the client device. The client device determines a distance between the client device and a mapping point to generate a computer-mediated reality image at the mapping point to be displayed on the client device.
US12277643B2
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes determining a set of keys and a set of values corresponding to dimensions of a bounding box for a scene; sorting the set of keys and the set of values to generate a sorted set of values; and based on the sorted set of values, generating a Morton code for a triangle of the scene.
US12277637B2
Artificial intelligence avatar-based interaction service is performed in a system including an unmanned information terminal and an interaction service device. A sound signal is collected from a microphone array mounted in the unmanned information terminal and an image signal collected from a vision sensor to the interaction service device. A sensing area is set based on the received sound signal and image signal by the interaction service device; recognizing an active speaker based on a voice signal of a user and an image signal of the user collected in the sensing area, by the interaction service device. A response for the recognized active speaker is generated to provide a 3D rendering an artificial intelligence avatar to which the response is reflected. The rendered artificial intelligence avatar is provided to the unmanned information terminal by the interaction service device.
US12277634B2
Systems and methods for managing graphic design using metadata relationships are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may display a visual design including a set of design elements, each of which may be contained within a corresponding container. The electronic device may receive a selection to spatially adjust a design element, and may determine a modification to the design element based an element behavior of the design element and/or a container behavior of the corresponding container. The electronic device may display, in the user interface, the design element reflecting the modification.
US12277611B2
A fishing information management system has a fishing rod to which a fishing reel with a spool capable of winding a fishing line is attached, and is configured to include a fishing line unwinding commencement detector that detects the commencement of the unwinding of the fishing line by the fishing reel, an operation information detector that detects the operation information of at least either of the fishing reel or the fishing rod, an operation information list creation portion that extracts the operation information each time when the unwinding of the fishing line commences and creates an operation information list that aggregates several operation information, a receiver that obtains fishing information from an external device, and a processor that associates the operation information list with the fishing information.
US12277603B2
An example method includes receiving, at a first computing device, market data related to a plurality of tradeable objects. The example method includes displaying, via an interface, the received market data via at the first computing device. The interface is based on an interface object model including a plurality of data components corresponding to the received market data. The example method includes receiving an input selection to share the interface with a second computing device and generating a transfer object model based on the interface object model in response to the receipt of the input selection. The example method includes identifying a first group of the plurality of data components included in the transfer object model and redacting the first group of the plurality of data components corresponding to the received market data components. The example method includes transmitting the redacted transfer object model to the second computing device.
US12277600B2
Automated trading engine embodiments operate on market data and re-engineer trading logic to operate on computational resources that are capable of providing highly parallelized and pipelined processing operations to improve tick to trade latency. As an example, logic resources for the automated trading engine can perform multiple types of trading strategies such as (1) market making strategies that post and cancel quotes on markets, (2) aggressing strategies that place aggressing orders on markets when defined conditions are met, (3) hedging strategies that place hedging orders on markets to hedge against aggressing orders, and/or (4) canceling strategies to cancel quotes and/or orders on markets when defined conditions are met. Further still, one or more of the trading strategies can be driven by low latency derivative pricing.
US12277597B2
A bank account can be authenticated or confirmed by a user providing an account number and a debit card number. The payment provider then obtains user account information from the bank through a debit card network. The payment provider authenticates the account if the account numbers match. In another embodiment, authentication further requires a portion of a current bank balance in the account provided by the user to match the current balance received from the bank.
US12277589B2
A method including determining, in real-time, a diversity preference score for a user based at least in part on an anchor item chosen by the user via a user interface executed on a user device of the user. The method also can include determining, in real-time, a comparison result between the diversity preference score and a diversity preference threshold. The method further can include generating, in real-time, a personalized recommendation pool based on (a) the comparison result, (b) a complementary recommendation pool generated based at least in part on the anchor item, and (c) a diversity objective function. In many embodiments, when the comparison result indicates that the diversity preference score is greater than the diversity preference threshold, the diversity objective function can be associated with cross-domain diversity. In a number of embodiments, when the comparison result indicates that the diversity preference score is not greater than the diversity preference threshold, the diversity objective function can be associated with within-domain diversity. The method additionally can include transmitting, in real-time through the computer network, the personalized recommendation pool to be displayed with the anchor item on the user interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12277584B2
An online concierge system receives orders from users identifying items and a warehouses from which the items are obtained. The online concierge system displays groups of one or more orders to shoppers, allowing a shopper to select a group of orders for fulfillment. When selecting groups of orders to display to shoppers, the online concierge system accounts for costs for fulfilling different groups and displays groups having costs satisfying one or more criteria, while maintaining one or more restrictions on times to fulfill orders. The online concierge system trains a selection prediction model to predict an amount of time for a shopper to select a group of orders and determines an estimated fulfillment time for the group from the predicted amount of time. Accounting for the predicted selection time allows the online concierge system to identify a larger number of groups for which costs of fulfillment are determined.
US12277583B1
A service engine of a processor-based system determines an estimated amount of taxes due in association with a proposed transaction based on a risk tolerance value specified by a party to the transaction, such as a seller. Multiple classification code queries are generated for classifying an item that is the subject of the proposed transaction, from which a plurality of classification code candidates are determined. Each such classification code candidate is considered in determination of multiple corresponding possible tax-due amounts, and the taxes due for the proposed transaction are determined by the service engine based on a statistical calculation corresponding to the specified risk tolerance value. The service engine provides the estimated tax due amount to one or more parties to the proposed transaction.
US12277579B2
A system and method for providing personalized recommendations or promotional information to consumers based upon a recommendation algorithm selected from a number of recommendation algorithms, by matching personal contextual information of each consumer to detailed contexts in which each recommendation algorithm exhibits optimal performance with regard to particular business performance measures.
US12277577B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of providing engagement feedback for an online system while maintaining user privacy. Embodiments determine one or more user groups. A user group includes users, and a size of the user group is selected to protect user privacy. A user action is received from a user in a first group. The user action includes an interaction with a piece of content. A group action count is updated for the first group based on the user action. The group action count indicates a number of interactions with the piece of content by any of the users in the first group. An estimated number of unique engagements is calculated based on the group action count and the size of the first group. The estimated number of unique engagements is provided to the online system as the engagement feedback for the piece of content.
US12277574B1
A shopper identification system may include shopper devices, and a shopper identification server. The shopper identification server may be configured to obtain product purchase history data corresponding to shoppers, obtain shopper identification data corresponding to the plurality of shoppers, and determine shopper demographics associated with purchased products of a brand based upon the product purchase history data and the shopper identification data. The shopper identification server may also be configured to apply a large language model (LLM) to identify prospective shoppers from among the shoppers that are likely to purchase products of the brand based upon the shopper demographics and generate and communicate a digital promotion to corresponding ones of the shopper devices associated with the prospective shoppers.
US12277568B2
A vehicle data system receives a lead submission through a website supported by the vehicle data system and determines, utilizing a machine learning model, a user value for a lead associated with the lead submission. The user value represents a probability of the lead purchasing a vehicle from a dealer through the website. The vehicle data system determines a user lifetime value for the lead based at least on the user value for the lead. Subsequently, the vehicle data system obtains clickstream identifiers from a search engine and assigns a corresponding user lifetime value to each clickstream identifier. The vehicle data system aggregates the clickstream identifiers and corresponding user lifetime values in a single file and communicates the single file to a search server for consumption. The user lifetime values are utilized by the search engine in search engine marketing processes.
US12277561B2
A computer-implemented method of generating a transaction for a blockchain, the transaction being for transferring an amount of a digital asset from a first party to a second party. The method comprises generating a first transaction comprising an output locking the amount of the digital asset, the output comprising an output script comprising a plurality of criterion components each requiring a respective input data item, and a plurality of counter script components. Each criterion component is associated with one of the counter script components. The output script is configured so as to, when executed alongside an input script of a second transaction, i) increment a counter each time a respective criterion component is satisfied by a respective input data item of the input script, and ii) to require the counter to increment to at least a predetermined number in order to be unlocked by the input script.
US12277560B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to speculatively processing transactions. A transaction processing system may receive an indication of a trigger event associated with an electronic transaction not yet initiated by a client computing device. In some embodiments, in response to the indication of the trigger event and prior to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, the computer system begins speculative processing of the electronic transaction. In some embodiments, the speculative processing includes identifying the client computing device based on device authentication information received from the client device, determining a user account based on the identifier client computing device, retrieving account information for the determined account, and storing the retrieved account information. In response to receiving an indication of the electronic transaction being initiated, in some embodiments, the computer system performs one or more operations using the stored account information to complete the transaction.
US12277559B2
A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network core is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. The system also provides for confidence-based consensus and automated fork resolution. The approach enables the blockchain to continue operating in the presence of an underlying network outage, and to enable clients to make decisions about the disposition of transactions during any period of uncertainty before full consensus has been achieved.
US12277557B2
A method and an apparatus for tracing a transaction based on a blockchain are provided. The method may include: invoking a smart contract between an upstream node and an intermediate node; encrypting, by using a private key of the intermediate node, transaction details between the upstream node and the intermediate node to generate and write upstream transaction information into the blockchain; encrypting the private key of the intermediate node by respectively using public keys of the upstream node and an end node, and generating and writing secret-key information of the upstream node and the end node into the blockchain; and decrypting the secret-key information of the upstream node and the end node by using the private keys of the upstream node and the end node, and decrypting the upstream transaction information of the intermediate node by using the private key of the intermediate node to obtain the transaction details.
US12277556B2
In one embodiment, a payment service system-implemented method of assigning payment card numbers for individual user accounts associated with the payment service system includes receiving payment card numbers activated by a third-party server that are unassigned to accounts registered. The method includes receiving a first transaction authorization request for one of the payment card numbers and denying the request, without notifying the third-party server, based on the number being unregistered with the payment service system. The method includes receiving, via an executable application, a request to register a user account for a payment service system user, and in response, generating a record assigning the payment card number to the user account. The method includes receiving a second transaction authorization request for the payment card number, authorizing the request based on the number being assigned to the user account, and notifying the third-party server, causing user account's balance to be modified.
US12277553B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first interaction request to transfer a first interaction amount from a sender to a receiver. The first interaction request comprise a sender identifier, a receiver identifier, the first interaction amount, and a condition. The computer generates a smart contract this information, and then hashes the to form a first hash key. The computer incorporates the information, and the first hash key into a first block in a blockchain. The computer receives a second interaction request from the receiver device to transferring a second amount from the receiver to a third party, the second interaction request comprising the receiver identifier, a second interaction amount, and a third party identifier. The computer hashes this information to form a second hash key. The server computer incorporates this information and the second hash key into a second block in the blockchain.
US12277546B2
In some implementations, a method of providing contactless payments at a point of sale terminal includes: causing a point-of-sale terminal processing a transaction to display a machine-readable code, the machine-readable code encoding a web address; receiving a request from a device that scanned the machine-readable code, the request received at the web address; in response to receiving the request, causing the device that scanned the machine-readable code to output an interface that includes a prompt for input required to complete the transaction; receiving a response to the prompt; and sending an indication of the response to the prompt to the point-of-sale terminal to allow for completion of the transaction based on the response at the point-of-sale terminal through use of a physical token at the point-of-sale terminal.
US12277545B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to perform transaction with transaction cards utilizing characteristics of customer's signature. Techniques may further include determining characteristics of a signature including a reduced set of data points for the signature and storing the characteristics in secure memory of transaction card.
US12277532B2
A system and method for agentless generation of a software bill of materials (SBOM) in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: accessing a plurality of workloads in a cloud computing environment; detecting in each workload of the plurality of workloads a software component; generating for each workload an SBOM based on the detected software component; and storing each SBOM in a database.
US12277522B2
Methods and systems that use a phantom vehicle to help generate a planned path for a real-world vehicle are described. The system will identify a starting point and a destination for a trip of the real-world vehicle. The system will select, from the data store of vehicle profiles, a phantom vehicle having an associated motion planning system that corresponds to a system that is deployed on the real-world vehicle. The system will use a high definition map to generate a planned route for the real-world vehicle from the starting point to the destination in the map. The system will run a simulation in which the phantom vehicle moves along the planned route in the map. The system will then output a record of the simulation to a user of the real world-vehicle or to a system of the real-world vehicle.
US12277521B2
An information processing apparatus manages work performed in a work region. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding a work result of the work region. An evaluation unit evaluates work performed in the work region based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. An identifying unit identifies a work subject that has performed work in a region for which an evaluation is performed by the evaluation unit.
US12277519B2
In some implementations, a device may provide, as input to a model, input data indicating current value(s) corresponding to key performance indicator(s) (KPI) associated with current calls to a contact center, enterprise event(s), and stability event(s) associated with the contact center. The device may receive, as an output from the machine learning model, predicted value(s) corresponding to the KPI(s). The device may determine predicted rate(s) of change of the KPI(s) based on a comparison of the current and predicted value(s). The device may assign severity level(s) corresponding to the KPI(s) based on the predicted rate(s) of change. The device may determine a service level impact based on the predicted value(s). The device may determine a performance degradation score based on the severity level(s) and the service level impact. The device may determine and automatically apply a strategy based on the performance degradation score.
US12277510B2
Quantum Information Processing (QIP) with the availability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) device(s) are available to work on quantum algorithms. Different problems, which are hard to solve by classical computation, but can be sped up (significantly in some cases) are also being populated. However, current approaches solve only two cluster max-cut problems. Mining the two cluster Max-Cut problem within the framework of quantum Ising model, embodiments of the present disclosure solve Quadratic Unconstrained D-ary Optimization (QUDO) problems by quantum computing with the identification of an appropriate Hamiltonian. More specifically, the problem is mapped to an Ising model to obtain a d-ray Quantum Ising Hamiltonian. The d-ray Quantum Ising Hamiltonian is then executed on one or more qudit processors, to obtain one or more resultant quantum states which are measured in a qudit computational basis to obtain at least one solution.
US12277506B2
Various embodiments use a neural network to analyze images for aspects that characterize the images, to present locations of those aspects on the images, and, additionally, to permit a user to interact with those locations on the images. For example, a user may interact with a visual cue over one of those locations to modify, refine, or filter the results of a visual search, performed on a publication corpus, that uses an input image (e.g., one captured using a mobile device) as a search query.
US12277505B2
A method for resolving entities in a knowledge graph including determining node sets in the knowledge graph, determining each of the node sets includes determining a first node, determining a second node in a semantic neighborhood of the first node, and determining a third node in the semantic neighborhood of the first node. For each node set, the second node and the third node are compared, and it is determined that the second node and the third node are a similar node pair. For each similar node pair, the first nodes of the node sets are aggregated, and a quantity of overlapping of a semantic neighborhood of the second node and a semantic neighborhood of the third node is determined, and for each similar node pair, the second and third nodes are resolved as a single entity.
US12277492B2
An electronic device may receive, at a first system routine from a client application, a provisioning request indicating that the application includes code for evaluating a machine learning model, wherein the first system routine executes in user space of memory on the device. The device may provision the code for execution on one or more of the circuit engines. The device may receive, at a second system routine from the application, an inference request for evaluating the machine learning model containing input data, wherein the second system routine executes in kernel space of memory on the device. The device may receive, at the second system routine, information about the circuit engines. The device may assign the inference request to one or more of the circuit engines where the request is evaluated. The device may provide a result of the inference request to the application.
US12277490B2
Persistent storage contains a representation of a neural network including an input layer, and output layer, and a hidden layer, wherein nodes of the hidden layer incorporate serialized activation functions, wherein the serialized activation functions for each of the nodes include a sigmoid function and a Beta function, wherein the sigmoid function is applied to weighted outputs from nodes of a previous layer of the neural network, wherein the Beta function is applied to a conductance hyper-parameter and respective outputs of the sigmoid function, and wherein outputs of the Beta function are provided to a subsequent layer of the neural network. One or more processors are configured to train the neural network until the outputs of the sigmoid function for the nodes of the hidden layer are substantially binary.
US12277484B2
Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements for designing user-specific interfaces using machine learning models. When a request to display certain data by an application is received, an application token and a user token may be retrieved and input into a machine learning model to obtain a prediction of a pre-defined user-application interface configuration. A user interface token for the application may then be generated. The user interface token may indicate user interface settings/configuration desired/preferred by a user. The user interface token may then be sent to the application to cause the application to display the data using user interface configurations within the user interface token.
US12277480B1
Techniques for in-flight scaling of machine learning training jobs are described. A request to execute a machine learning (ML) training job is received within a provider network, and the ML training job is executed using a first one or more compute instances. Upon a determination that a performance characteristic of the ML training job satisfies a scaling condition, a second one or more compute instances are added to the ML training job while the first one or more compute instances continue to execute portions of the ML training job.
US12277479B2
This disclosure relates generally to circuit-model quantum computation, and more particularly, to quantum processing devices that are specialized for efficient loading of classical data into a quantum computer.
US12277466B2
The invention relates to an antenna inlay for a smart card with a contactless communication interface or a dual contact and contactless communication interface. The antenna inlay does not have a layer of plastic material, and is essentially constituted by a metal sheet comprising conductive turns delimited by zones rendered non-conductive by anodization.
US12277462B2
Smartcard (SC) having a metal card body (MCB) which is a coupling frame (CF) with a slit (S), and a coupling loop antenna/structure (CLA, CLS) connected to termination points (TP) on each side of the slit (S) and coupled with the module antenna (MA) of a transponder chip module (TCM). A portion of the card body (CB) may be metal and another, coplanar portion of the card body may be a synthetic material which may be transparent or translucent. Currents may be collected from the interface between the two portions. The card body (CB) may have two metal layers of different materials, adhesively joined to each other using a thermosetting epoxy that converts from B-stage to C-stage during lamination.
US12277460B2
In a printer, a controller builds a glyph index table in which no glyph data is registered. When it is determined that no set of glyph data corresponding to a character code selected in print data is registered in the glyph index table, the controller acquires a target set of glyph data from the font information in a memory. The target set of glyph data corresponds to the character code. The controller registers the target set of glyph data in the glyph index table. When it is determined that the set of glyph data corresponding to the character code is registered in the glyph index table, the controller acquires the target set of glyph data from the glyph index table. The controller generates raster data from the print data using the target set of glyph data, and perform a printing process to print an image based on the raster data.
US12277450B2
A method for processing data using a computing array is provided. In the method, source data is allocated to each of multiple computing nodes in a computing array. The source data includes multiple blocks. At a computing node among the computing nodes, in at least one iteration process, multiple blocks are respectively received from multiple other computing nodes other than the computing node among the computing nodes using multiple first type computing devices among a set of computing devices included in the computing node. A processing operation is executed on the received blocks using the first type computing devices respectively to generate multiple intermediate results. The processing operation is executed on the intermediate results to obtain a first part of a final result of executing the processing operation on the source data. A corresponding computer system is also provided.
US12277444B2
A system contains a network of processors arranged in a plurality of nodes. Each node comprises a respective plurality of processors connected via local links, and different nodes are connected via global links. The processors of the network communicate with each other to establish a global counter for the network, enabling deterministic communication between the processors of the network. A compiler is configured to explicitly schedule communication traffic across the global and local links of the network of processors based upon the deterministic links between the processors, which enable software-scheduled networking with explicit send or receive instructions executed by functional units of the processors at specific times, to establish a specific ordering of operations performed by the network of processors. In some embodiments, the processors of the network of processors are tensor streaming processors (TSPs).
US12277443B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for improving debugging speed by rearranging debugging priority functions. In one embodiment, runtime input may be received about a program to be debugged. Feedback information is obtained about at least one similar program previously debugged. The compiling time information and runtime information are analyzed to determine a status of functions including one or more focused functions that will be used frequently and one or more unreachable functions that may never will be executed. A priority list of debugging functions is generated based on the feedback information, the runtime input and a function status. A plurality of debugging information are rearranged and parsed on the priority list prior to said program being debugged based on said debugging information.
US12277438B2
Methods, non-transitory machine-readable media, and computing devices for transitioning tasks and interrupt service routines are provided. An example method includes processing, by a plurality of processor cores of a storage controller, tasks and interrupt service routines. A performance statistic is determined corresponding to the plurality of processor cores. Based on detecting that the performance statistic passes a threshold, a number of the plurality of processor cores that are assigned to the tasks and the interrupt service routines are reduced.
US12277436B2
The disclosure provides for integrating virtual machine (VM) and host networking, forwarding port data and occupation status to host and VM endpoints. Examples synchronize, by a host agent, port reservations with a guest agent on a first VM on the host; receive an indication that a VM port on the first VM is occupied; based at least on receiving the indication that the VM port is occupied, update the port reservations to include that a host port corresponding to the VM port is occupied; receive incoming external traffic on the host port; and based at least on the port reservations and receiving the incoming external traffic on the host port, route the incoming external traffic to the VM port on the first VM. VM-based application behavior thus appears more similar to that of native applications.
US12277433B2
Systems and methods for setting virtual machines (“VMs”) to desired configurations while the virtual machines are running. In some systems, a user can select a VM and a desired configuration. An agent can then set an attribute of the virtual machine to indicate that on guest operation system (“OS”) reboot of the VM, the VM will enter BIOS mode. The agent can also store the desired configuration in the database based on authenticating the user. When the VM reboots at a future time, the attribute can cause the VM to enter BIOS setup. The agent can be notified and can retrieve the desired configuration from a database using an identifier for the VM. Then the agent can apply the desired configuration to the VM during BIOS setup with a system process that does not require further user authentication.
US12277430B2
Controlling and provisioning a robot of a virtual machine (VM) includes transmitting a connection request between a first service installed in a virtual machine and a second service. The robot is associated with at least one process running on the virtual machine. The virtual machine is authenticated based on a token associated with the second service and the virtual machine. A connection is established between the first service and the second service. A command is transmitted associated with the controlling of the robot from the second service to the first service based on the authentication of the virtual machine. The command is associated with a corresponding command identifier for identifying a type of the command. The command is then executed for controlling the robot.
US12277418B2
A bad change detector for operational features of digital platforms is described. Metric data from a website is acquired by the bad change detector while implementing a first version of an operational feature of the website and while implementing a second version of the operational feature. A bad change to the website is detected by measuring an inequality among values of a frequency distribution defined by a time series of the metric data. The operational feature is reverted to the first version, automatically and without user intervention, in response to detecting the bad change, thereby improving operation of computing devices that implement the website.
US12277414B2
System and methods are described for implementing controlled updates of containers in a distributed application deployment environment. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving a request to update a target container of a plurality of containers within a deployed computing unit; identifying an updated configuration object to be applied to the target container based on the request; receiving or computing a health indicator representative of performance of the deployed computing unit or other containers to which the updated configuration object has been applied; and assigning the updated configuration object to the target container based on the health indicator.
US12277413B2
Center, update control method, non-transitory storage medium, OTA master, and software update system
A center configured to communicate with an OTA master and a malfunction management server includes a processor. The malfunction management server is configured to store malfunction occurrence information. The processor is configured to receive the malfunction occurrence information from the malfunction management server and an inquiry about presence or absence of an update of software of an electronic control device from the OTA master. The processor is configured to determine, when the inquiry is received, whether the vehicle that has transmitted the inquiry malfunctions based on the malfunction occurrence information. The processor is configured to restrict, when it is determined that the vehicle that has transmitted the inquiry malfunctions, execution of an update process for the software on the vehicle that has transmitted the inquiry.
US12277381B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for providing live video feed content within primary content of a slide presentation application. An inset window may provide an indication of size, shape, location, etc. of the live video feed when presented with the primary content. The inset window/live video feed may be applied across all slides of the slide presentation via a request provided via graphical user interface of the slide presentation application.
US12277380B2
Systems and method for the structure, configuration, or arrangement of the input fields in a user interface. For example, a computer-implemented method includes displaying a structured input interface configured with a plurality of input fields. The structured input interface can be configured for rendering in a graphical user interface. A first input field can correspond to an initial notification element in the graphical user interface for rendering in association with the first input field. The method includes receiving user data. The method includes determining, based on the user data, an updated notification element for rendering in association with the first input field. The method includes updating the structured input interface comprising the first input field and the updated notification element.
US12277373B1
A system and method for routing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) includes an input device for acquiring a netlist with defined source, sink, and intermediate nodes, and processing circuitry that features a design router. The router leverages a negotiated-congestion routing component, which promotes the shared use and negotiation for intermediate nodes. The negotiation process employs a congestion cost based on several factors, including base, historical, and present usage costs, alongside node capacity. This system is characterized by a historical cost function focused on the base cost of nodes, favoring the use of those with costs below a specified threshold. A display device incorporated within the system allows for the continuous monitoring of the routing procedure and the efficiency of resource usage. The technology aims to streamline FPGA design by optimizing signal routing for performance and area efficiency.
US12277371B2
Circuit design techniques can use a trained predictor to predict key dynamic current metrics (such as peak current, peak time, pulse width and total charge) for a gate in a circuit library, where the predictor has been trained over different combinations of different input transition slews and different output fanout models. A dynamic current model solver can be used for a gate in the cell library to derive waveforms (of current versus time) for the different combinations, and a predictor, such as a neural network, can be trained with the outputs from the solver for the different combinations. The trained predictor can be used in a runtime simulation to solve for the dynamic current demand model of the various gates in a circuit design (such as all of the gates in an integrated circuit).
US12277369B2
In some examples, a method for determining weldable and unweldable portions of a seam comprises receiving a representation of a part including the seam. The method also includes discretizing a representation of the seam into a plurality of waypoints. The method also includes evaluating each waypoint from the plurality of waypoints for feasibility of welding. The method further includes generating a weld path through at least a subset of the plurality of waypoints in accordance with the feasibility of welding.
US12277365B2
An audio arrangement with a plurality of audio devices and a central device. A unique address is assigned to each audio device of a basic set in a data environment so that the central device can selectively send messages to the audio devices of the basic set. The central device includes a data-technology selection area for a selected set of audio devices from the basic set, and a communication module for activating a notification mode of the audio devices of the selected set. Each of the audio devices includes a human-machine interface and are configured to send a notification message to the central device in the notification mode when the human-machine interface is actuated. The central device lists the audio devices of the selected set in a list area in the order in which the notification message is received at the central device.
US12277361B2
Wearable head-mounted displays, such as virtual reality systems, present immersive experiences and environments to a wearer. However, the head-mounted displays, as well as the immersive environments that they produce, limit the wearer's ability to interact with outside observers. For example, a wearer may not be able to see outside observers, and outside observers may not have any insight to what the wearer is experiencing or where the wearer's attention is directed. Accordingly, a wearable electronic device may include an outward-facing display configured to display information to outside observers, such as images of the wearer's face or images that represent or indicate the state of the wearer and/or the head mounted display.
US12277356B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a registration request that a user uses to request a print service apparatus to register the image processing apparatus and the user; acquire identification information on an administrator having an administrative right to the print service apparatus; in response to the registration request, request the print service apparatus to register the image processing apparatus and the user; and request the administrator identified by the identification information to perform authentication under the administrative right to register the image processing apparatus and the user on the print service apparatus by transmitting, to the administrator, authentication information, used to register the image processing apparatus, and identification information on the user that are acquired from the print service apparatus.
US12277347B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a memory structure including non-volatile memory cells, a first processor and a second processor. The first processor is configured to provide a plurality of sets of commands to a second processor to perform memory operations on the non-volatile memory cells. The second processor is configured to execute the sets of commands and provide a control signal to the first processor. The first processor is further configured to provide the sets of commands to the second processor based on a status of the control signal. The second processor is further configured to control the status of the control signal so that the second processor executes sets of commands with no idle time between consecutive sets of commands.
US12277345B2
The present disclosure generally relates to memory management during SGL fetching. When a data storage device is required to fetch an SGL from a host device, the data storage device cannot determine how much memory will be required to be allocated. The disclosure herein reduces the impact of the problem of under or over allocating memory and over-fetching, thereby reducing performance of the device during transfers. The disclosure provides guidance on how to implement an adaptive learning process based upon statistic collection of SGL fetches. By maintaining a table of statistics, the data storage device controller may learn and more closely predict an amount of memory to allocate for SGL fetching.
US12277342B2
Disclosed are a controller and an operating method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a controller that controls a memory device, comprises: a host interface for determining a remaining resource index and outputting a task scheduling instruction when a data throughput determined based on data inputted/outputted between a host and the controller is lower than a maximum throughput required under a current workload pattern; and a processor for: selecting, in response to the task scheduling instruction, at least one of a plurality of internal tasks based on the remaining resource index and resource consumption indexes of the respective internal tasks, and performing the selected internal task while performing an input/output task.
US12277341B2
This application describes systems and methods for facilitating memory access on flash drives. An example method may start with receiving a read command on a flash memory from a host specifying a logic block address (LBA). The flash memory may include a plurality of blocks grouped into a plurality of super blocks, and each of the plurality of blocks may include a plurality of pages. The method may further include determining a zone identification and an LBA offset based on the LBA; determining a flash physical address (FPA) corresponding to the LBA by accessing a mapping table stored in a random access memory (RAM) according to the zone identification and the LBA offset (e.g., the mapping table includes a plurality of FPAs arranged in a plurality of zones corresponding to the plurality of super blocks); and determining a page number and a block identification corresponding to the FPA.
US12277330B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes multiple memory blocks which include one or more spare memory blocks not written with data and one or more predetermined memory blocks that are configured as a buffer for receiving data from a host device. The memory controller obtains a total number of remaining erasable count of the memory blocks and determines a setting value of a number of said one or more predetermined memory blocks according to a number of currently remaining spare memory block(s), a number of the predetermined memory block(s) that has/have been written with data among said one or more predetermined memory blocks, a predetermined threshold and the total number of remaining erasable count of the memory blocks, and configures the number of the predetermined memory block(s) as the buffer according to the setting value.
US12277327B2
There are provided systems and methods for configurable storage resource usage through a multi-phase data processing pipeline for data storage efficiency. A service provider may provide online digital computing services, such as electronic transaction processing, account, and the like through online platforms and digital content that may be loaded and served on webpages and through applications of the service provider. The service provider may process and serve data, which may be stored in various data storages and databases of the service provider. The service provider may configure and optimize storage resource usage by processing data through a multi-phased processing pipeline that analyzes the data for reductions in data storage size, duplications, and/or storage times to convert data into a more efficient structure. This may include converting the data to smaller data pieces, deduplicating the same or similar data, or limiting storage in resource intensive data stores.
US12277326B2
A method for performing data access management of a memory device in predetermined communications architecture with aid of unbalanced table update size and associated apparatus are provided. The memory device may be arranged to receive a set of first commands, receive a set of first data with a first active block according to the set of first commands, and update a temporary physical-to-logical (P2L) address mapping table corresponding to the first active block, and determine a selected table update size among multiple predetermined table update sizes such as multiple table entry counts and update at least one logical-to-physical address mapping table according to a set of P2L table entries corresponding to the selected table update size in the temporary P2L address mapping table, where the table update size may be dynamically changed for enhancing overall performance.
US12277313B2
This application provides a handwriting drawing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method is applied to the electronic device, the electronic device includes a touch screen, the touch screen includes a touch panel sensor (TP sensor), and the method includes: performing a handwriting drawing operation in response to detecting that a stylus moves close to the touch screen and a capacitance change amount of the TP sensor is greater than or equal to a first threshold; and stopping the handwriting drawing operation in response to detecting that the stylus moves away from the touch screen and that the capacitance change amount of the TP sensor is less than a second threshold, where the first threshold is different from the second threshold.
US12277311B2
A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a geographic map in a first mode of an application, the geographic map including a plurality of landmarks, the geographic map being displayed at a first magnification level; detects a first input, the first input including a first finger contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first landmark on the display; in response to detecting the first input: when the first input does not satisfy one or more predefined mode-change conditions, changes the magnification level in accordance with the first input and remains in the first mode; and when the first input satisfies the mode-change conditions, selects the first landmark and enters a second mode of the application; while in the second mode, detects a second input; and, in response to detecting the second input, displays information about the first landmark.
US12277293B2
Provided is a vehicular display device that suppresses malfunctioning of a vehicle due to malfunctioning of a touch panel module. This vehicular display device comprises a touch panel module and a control unit, wherein the touch panel module comprises a storage unit for storing calibration data, which is an adjustment parameter for touch coordinate detection, and the control unit comprises a ROM for storing correct calibration data, and a failsafe control means for detecting a malfunction of the touch panel module. After startup of the control unit and before an automatic parking layout screen, which includes an automatic parking execution operation button, which is the malfunction detection subject of the failsafe control means, is displayed on the touch panel module, the failsafe control means executes a first confirmation process for confirming that the calibration data stored in the storage unit is correct.
US12277290B2
Methods and computing devices for estimating a force F exerted on a touchpad are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises determining that the touchpad is not being touched. At least on condition of determining that the touchpad is not being touched, a no-touch capacitance value of the PCB is calculated. After calculating the no-touch capacitance value, the method includes determining that the touchpad is being touched. At least on condition that the touchpad is being touched, the no-touch capacitance value and a touch-based capacitance value are used to estimate the force F exerted on the touchpad.
US12277288B2
An interface circuit includes multiple signal processing devices and a monitor and calibration module including multiple monitoring circuits, multiple calibration circuits and a compensation control mechanism operation logic. The monitoring circuits monitor a reception signal, a transmission signal, a power supplying voltage and a ground voltage to correspondingly generate monitored results. The calibration circuits perform a calibration operation on at least one signal processing device to adjust a characteristic value of the signal processing device. The compensation control mechanism operation logic generates a calibration control signal to control the calibration operation of the calibration circuits based on the monitored results and includes a compensation control mechanism selection circuit which selects a corresponding compensation control mechanism according to the monitored results and set it as a currently-operating compensation control mechanism to control the hardware circuits to operate in compliance with the currently-operating compensation control mechanism.
US12277286B2
A sensor device includes a sensor array including a plurality of sensor nodes, signal lines electrically connected to the plurality of sensor nodes, and a sensor driver configured to sense a user's touch of the sensor array by selecting the plurality of sensor nodes through the signal lines, apply a first pulse signal having a same phase as a target pulse signal of a selected sensor node to at least one first sensor node adjacent to the selected sensor node among the plurality of sensor nodes, and apply a second pulse signal having a phase opposite to that of the first pulse signal to at least one second sensor node among the plurality of sensor nodes. The sensor driver sets at least one sensor node adjacent to or spaced apart from the first sensor node as the second sensor node according to a preset mode.
US12277281B2
Disclosed is an input device including a position detection sensor, an operation including a position indicator which, in operation, indicates a position through interaction with the position detection sensor and accepts a predetermined operation, the operation part being disposed on an input surface that serves as a position detection region of the position detection sensor, an operation detection circuit that, in operation, detects the operation accepted by the operation part, based on the interaction between the position indicator of the operation part and the position detection sensor, and a control signal output circuit that, in operation, outputs a control signal corresponding to the operation detected by the operation detection circuit.
US12277271B2
A method and a system for rendering video images in virtual reality (VR) scenes are provided. The method includes providing a video image at a current time point, dividing the video image at the current time point into a plurality of sub-regions, inputting image feature information of the sub-regions and acquired user viewpoint feature information into a trained attention model for processing to obtain attention coefficients of the sub-regions indicating probability values at which user viewpoints at a next time point fall into the sub-regions, rendering the sub-regions based on the attention coefficients of the sub-regions to obtain a rendered video image at the current time point, inputting the attention coefficients of the sub-regions and the image feature information of the sub-regions into a trained user eyes trajectory prediction model for processing, obtaining user eyes trajectory information in a current time period, dividing, for video images at subsequent time points within the current time period, the video images at the subsequent time points into a plurality of sub-regions, calculating attention coefficients of the sub-regions in a video image at each of the subsequent time points within the current time period respectively based on the user eyes trajectory information in the current time period, and rendering the corresponding sub-regions based on the attention coefficients of the sub-regions to obtain a rendered video image at each of the subsequent time points.
US12277260B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes determining a context associated with a current use of a display screen and determining, based on the determined context associated with the current use of the display screen, a subsequent pose of the display screen. The method further includes determining, by one or more actuators configured to control an arm coupled to the display screen, a current pose of the display screen to the determined subsequent pose.
US12277255B2
A secure system includes a data port, a network on chip (NoC) module, a processor communicatively coupled to the NoC module, a communication interface operatively coupled to the processor and to the data port, an electronic field-programmable gate array (eFPGA) configuration module operatively coupled to the NoC module, and a clock operatively coupled to the NoC module. In a first modality, the communication interface is at least partially disabled. In a second modality, the communication interface is at least partially disabled, boundary scan operations are disabled, a RESET signal is held in a constant state, and/or redacted code is rendered inoperable. In a third modality, the communication interface is at least partially enabled to send and receive commands and data via the data port, the boundary scan operations are enabled, the RESET signal is not held in the constant state, and/or the redacted code is operable.
US12277254B2
A hardware trojan detection method is provided including an input and output updating step of updating input and output values of all logic cells by performing computations according to logical expressions of all logic cells included in a netlist to be verified and a detection step of performing hardware trojan detection based on a comparison result of the updated input and output values and a threshold.
US12277251B1
Information characterizing a security event is received from an agent executing on an endpoint computing device. The received information identifies a plurality of files encrypted as part of a ransomware attack and key material used when encrypting each of the files. Based on the received information, a surveyor package is generated which includes decryptor logic to decrypt at least a portion of the files. The surveyor package is deployed to the agent so that it can be unpacked and executed to decrypt at least a portion of the files. Once these files are decrypted, then can be transported to a safe computing environment Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12277249B2
A system protects personally identifiable information (PII) by implementing an unconventional key management scheme. In this scheme, the system uses a set of keys rather than an individual key for encrypting PII. Different portions of the PII are encrypted using different keys from the set of keys. In this manner, even if a malicious user were to access a key, that key would not give the malicious user the ability to decrypt all of the PII. Additionally, the system generates a new set of keys periodically (e.g., once a month). The system also deletes sets of keys that are too old (e.g., six months old). As a result, even if a malicious user were to access a key, the usefulness of that key would be time limited.
US12277247B2
Systems and methods for automated blockchain-based recommendation generation, advertising and promotion in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are described. A user device in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a network interface; memory; and a processor. In addition, the processor is configured to implement an execution environment that enables: initiation of transactions via an immutable ledger; recordation of events; updating a user profile, where the user profile comprises at least one characterization associated with the user profile; encrypting the updated user profile and securely storing the encrypted user profile; receiving a request to access the encrypted user profile from a process; determining access permissions of the process; and when the process has sufficient access permissions, decrypting the user profile and providing user profile data to the process.
US12277232B2
Aspects of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for identifying data processing activities associated with various data assets based on data discovery results. In accordance various aspects, a method is provided comprising: identifying and scanning data assets to detect a subset of the data assets, wherein each asset of the subset is associated with a particular data element used for target data; generating a prediction for each pair of data assets of the subset on the target data flowing between the pair; identifying a data flow for the target data based on the prediction generated for each pair; and identifying a data processing activity associated with handling the target data based on a correlation identified for the particular data element, the subset, and/or the data flow with a known data element, subset, and/or data flow for the data processing activity.
US12277230B2
A method for symbolic analysis of a software program is described. The method comprises constructing a control flow graph (CFG), for a software program procedure, the CFG comprising nodes representing basic blocks reachable within the software program procedure, the basic blocks represented as respective functions from a first machine state on entry to a said basic block to a second machine state on exit from that basic block. The method further describes simplifying the CFG to a single node representing the software program procedure as a function from an input machine state on entry to the software program procedure to an output machine state on exit from the software program procedure, comparing said function to a rule set identifying vulnerabilities based on effects on the machine state; and determining a vulnerability within the software program procedure based on the comparing.
US12277225B2
A method is described that includes receiving source code corresponding to a program to be loaded on a processing device, generating a representation of the source code, generating a first authentication indication that indicates the representation is authentic and is based on the source code, generating a second authentication indication that indicates a build server generating the representation is authentic, the second authentication indication generated using an attestation operation and generating a modified representation including the representation, the first authentication indication, and the second authentication indication.
US12277222B2
A profile of characteristics of a normal snapshot of a storage object is computed from previous snapshots of the storage object. Characteristics of a new snapshot are compared with the characteristics in the profile to identify an anomaly indicative of a malicious attack. The characteristics include percent data changed between consecutive snapshots, write LBA dispersion, write data reducibility, number and size of writes, write workload profile, and write content profile. The new snapshot is only vaulted or air-gapped if all its characteristics are within ranges defined by the profile.
US12277217B2
A method for application security and an electronic device for performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions by accessing the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to, in response to the instructions being executed by the at least one processor, record a source type of an application based on the source type of the application when installing the application on the electronic device, determine whether the application corresponds to an untrusted application based on the source type of the application, and in response to the application corresponding to an untrusted application, perform one or more of security functions set for the untrusted application.
US12277215B2
Embodiments relate to dynamic creating a temporary isolated environment in an interactive communication environment for potential bots. In response to identifying that an avatar accessing the interactive communication environment is being controlled by a non-human entity, the avatar is dynamically placed in an isolated virtual environment. Permission of the avatar are disabled in the isolated virtual environment. An authentication inquiry is presented to the avatar identified as being controlled by the non-human entity. A location is transferred for the avatar identified as being controlled by the non-human entity, based on a user response to the authentication inquiry.
US12277202B2
A method including: capturing or receiving data associated with behavior of a user of a virtual reality device during a session in a virtual environment, wherein the data includes sensory inputs associated with the user from one or more sensors and information associated with user parameters; initiating authentication of the user in the virtual environment; comparing the captured or received data with historic data of the user, wherein the historic data is associated with behavior of the user monitored for a plurality of sessions over a period of time in the virtual environment; determining a score based on the comparison; comparing the score with a predefined threshold score; and in response to determining that the score is above the predefined threshold score, authenticating the user.
US12277189B2
A method for overcoming intermittent, temporary, or other fetching failures by using multiple attempts for retrieving a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed. The URL fetching may use direct or non-direct fetching schemes, or a combination thereof. The non-direct fetching method may use intermediate devices, such as proxy server, Data-Center proxy server, tunnel devices, or any combination thereof. Upon sensing a failure of a fetching action, the action is repeated using the same or different parameters or attributes, such as by using different intermediate devices, selected based on different parameters or attributes, such as different countries. The repetitions are limited to a pre-defined maximum number or attempts. The fetching attempts may be performed by the client device, by an intermediate device in a non-direct fetching scheme, or a combination thereof. Various fetching schemes may be used sequentially until the content is retrieved.
US12277179B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose document sharing processing method, apparatus, device, medium and system. The method includes: displaying, in an email interface, hyperlink information of a sharable document and an authority control entry of the sharable document; and acquiring authority data for the sharable document determined by a first user based on the authority control entry; where the authority data is used to determine a second user's operation authority data for the sharable document. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the hyperlink information of the sharable document and the authority control entry of the sharable document can be displayed in the email interface, and the first user can determine the authority data for the sharable document through the authority control entry, thereby enriching the controllable function for the sharable document in the email, and fulfilling users' document sharing requirements.
US12277173B2
Embodiments provide for predicted data use obligation matching using data differentiators. Example embodiments retrieve a cross-link relationship graph structure from a data repository, where the cross-link relationship graph structure includes a plurality of cross-link relationship graph nodes connected by a plurality of cross-link relationship graph edges. Each cross-link relationship graph node is associated with a unique logical data record set identifier of a plurality of logical data record set identifiers associated with a dataset identifier. For each unique logical data record set identifier, the cross-link relationship graph structure is traversed. Based at least in part on a separation measure associated with each cross-link relationship of one or more cross-link relationships associated with the unique logical data record set identifier, one or more data use obligation scores for the unique logical data record set identifier is generated.
US12277170B2
In an aspect, provided are computer-readable media and apparatuses comprising receiving a query specifying one or more materials of a floor/ceiling assembly and/or a classification or result, determining one or more media files responsive to the query, and providing the one or more media files for playback.
US12277169B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are an image-text mutual retrieval model training method and apparatus, an image-text mutual retrieval method, and a device, applied to the technical field of retrieval. The image-text mutual retrieval model training method includes: acquiring training data pairs; inputting the training data pair in an initial model, and extracting text coding features of text training data and image coding features of image training data by using a text coding module and an image coding module in the initial model, respectively; calculating a training loss based on the text coding features and the image coding features, and performing parameter adjustment on the initial model based on the training loss; and in response to the training loss meeting a convergence condition, determining the initial model after the parameter adjustment as an image-text mutual retrieval model.
US12277167B2
Features described herein generally relate to a graphical user interface that includes an insight hub and an insight carousel. In one example, a system can receive insights associated with transactions, generate an image carousel that includes slides populated with information associated with the insights, and generate another interface page that includes insight listings corresponding to multiple insights.
US12277166B2
A method and system for rapid retrieval of target images based on artificial intelligence, obtaining a template image and a plurality of known labels corresponding to the template image; extracting an image to be detected from a target image database; inputting both the image to be detected and the template image into a trained convolutional neural network, and outputting a hash code of the image to be detected and a hash code of the template image; obtaining a similarity between the images based on a Hamming distance between the hash codes, then selecting one or more images to be detected with the similarity higher than a set threshold as a retrieval result to output. Accordingly, the method and system is able to better cope with the retrieval of items in complex scenarios.
US12277156B2
An information retrieval method includes obtaining Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents based on a retrieval text query and Ki ith-hop candidate documents; obtaining a score of each candidate document in the Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents; obtaining, based on a score of a candidate document Pjy(i+1) and a probability of a path L, a probability of a path corresponding to the candidate document Pjy(i+1); obtaining K(i+1) (i+1)th-hop candidate documents based on probabilities of paths respectively corresponding to the Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents; and obtaining, based on the K(i+1) (i+1)th-hop candidate documents, a retrieval result corresponding to the query.
US12277152B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for detecting a user defined character string in serial data at least one of output from a target device or transmitted to a target device. The system makes use of a serial communications device configured to enable a user to conduct a serial-over-IP active serial session with the target device. The serial communications device has a pattern matching application configured to at least one of receive, or be programmed with, a user defined character string, and to monitor for an occurrence of the user defined character string in serial data at least one of received from the target device or transmitted to the target device. The pattern matching application also is configured to take a predetermined action upon the detection of the user defined character string.
US12277147B1
A system can receive datasets having a plurality of records, at least one dataset including wireless telecommunications network coverage data. A system can transform the records to a standardized format. A system can perform geospatial calculations for each record to determine predefined geographic areas, each having a geographic area type. A system can associate each record with the corresponding predefined geographic areas. A system can generate transformed datasets including transformed records and indications of the associated predefined geographic areas. A system can provide a graphical user interface having a map, an input for selecting a transformed dataset, and an input for selecting a geographic area type. A system can receive a selection of a transformed dataset and a geographic area type. A system can receive a selection of a geographic area via the map. A system can be configured to generate an output dataset based on the selections.
US12277142B2
A system for updating a hypercube includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to update a cell of the hypercube. The processor is configured to determine a primary dimension value associated with the cell; determine a group of dependencies based at least in part on the primary dimension value, wherein a dependency of the group of dependencies comprises one or more primary dimension values and a pattern; for the dependency of the group of dependencies, determine a set of source locations based at least in part on the one or more primary dimension values and the pattern; and mark the set of source locations as invalid.
US12277136B2
Embodiments of articles, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed.
US12277133B2
In the present disclosure, systems and methods are described for allowing a non-code user to create to transform a database in an ETL pipeline. Specifically, as disclosed herein, a user can take a database and receive a ruleset to apply to the database in an ETL pipeline. The data linting system may take the database and extract a schema and a data sample from it. Further, the data linting system may use the schema and data sample to create two rulesets. With these rulesets, the data linting system combines them to create a final ruleset which may be validated using the data sample. The data linting system then sends the final ruleset and the validation report to the user. With this system, the user only needs to give it a database and will receive a ruleset that is able to be immediately used in an ETL pipeline.
US12277132B2
Examples include bypassing a portion of an analytics workflow. In some examples, execution of an analytics workflow may be monitored upon receipt of a raw data and the execution may be interrupted at an optimal bypass stage to obtain insights data from the raw data. A similarity analysis may be performed to compare the insights data to a stored insights data in an insights data repository. Based, at least in part, on a determination of similarity, a bypass operation may be performed to bypass a remainder of the analytics workflow.
US12277128B2
Various embodiments provide a so-called companion experience in which content consumed on a primary screen can serve as a source for an automatic search that returns related content that can be presented on an auxiliary screen. The companion experience can be considered to reside in a layer that can be moved across different screens. The different screens can include different physical screens, such as those associated with different computing devices, or the same physical screen in which the companion experience would be rendered in a frame or sub-window.
US12277127B2
Disclosed herein is a method implemented by a task mining engine. The task mining engine is stored as processor executable code on a memory. The processor executable code is executed by a processor that is communicatively coupled to the memory. The method includes receiving recorded tasks identifying user activity with respect to a computing environment and clustering the recorded user tasks into steps by processing and scoring each recorded user task. The method also includes extracting step sequences that identify similar combinations or repeated combinations of the steps to mimic the user activity.
US12277124B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for query processing with restrictions in a database clean room. In an embodiment, a system receives a query directed to a combination of a first source dataset from a first database account of a distributed database and a second source dataset from a second database account of the distributed database. The system generates an approved statements table that contains database statement language that can be executed against the combination of the first and second source datasets. Based on determining that the approved statements table includes the query, the system executes the query to produce results data, and stores the results data in the first database account.
US12277122B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for optimizing query operations on run length encoding (RLE) data in a parallel processing computing system. Data is received in a plurality of columns of an input table of a parallel processing computing system for query execution; the system determines that at least a portion of the received data in a first number of columns is compressed according to run length encoding (RLE), thereby comprising RLE data columns including RLE data and that the received data in a second number of columns is not compressed according to run length encoding (RLE), thereby comprising non-RLE data columns including non-RLE data. A query operation is executed on the RLE data and the non-RLE data by prioritizing processing of the RLE data columns over processing of the non-RLE data columns.
US12277120B2
A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture.
US12277110B2
Prefetching query results using expanded queries including generating a database query using a state specification of a graphical user interface, wherein the database query is composed to retrieve initial results from a cloud-based data warehouse; determining that the database query is expandable; modifying the database query to retrieve expanded results from the cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the expanded results include the initial results; and fetching, from the cloud-based data warehouse, the expanded results using the modified database query.
US12277103B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that provide users with efficient and effective user experiences when browsing, selecting, or inspecting content items. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively select multiple content items via a single touch gesture (e.g., swipe gesture). Additionally, systems and methods disclosed herein can allow users to select various content items in a selection interface, preview a content item, and return to the selection interface with the previous selections remaining intact. Still further, systems and methods described herein allow users to transition between a content graphical user interface and a selection interface based on touch gestures with content items. Embodiments of the present invention further provide improved navigability by collapsing views of content items.
US12277102B2
A stream of database transactions are received and conflicts between transaction types are determined. When a conflict is determined, job components forming a database architecture are configured to execute a first transaction, and in response to completing the first transaction, job components forming the database architecture are reconfigured to execute a second transaction.
US12277101B2
A method provides deterministic row ordering for query result sets in a database system. A framework receives a query referencing a database table and generating a row index column in response. The framework generates the row index column that involves determining an order associated with source files underlying the referenced table and assigns each table row a unique index value based on the file order and row position within the files. The framework executes the received query to produce a result set ordered by the generated row index column. The framework determines row order based on analyzing underlying data file metadata and facilitates returning the result set with consistent, reliable ordering, enabling stable positional-based access semantics when querying distributed database tables.
US12277097B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: compressing an uncompressed instance of data to create a compressed instance of data. In response to determining that a size of the compressed instance of data is outside a predetermined range, the uncompressed instance of the data is encrypted utilizing wide-block encryption to create a ciphertext string. Moreover, a predetermined subset of the encrypted uncompressed instance of data in the ciphertext string is used to perform deduplication at a data storage server.
US12277094B1
A method for revision control of an electronic file including receiving a request to merge a new section of the electronic file with a current section of the electronic file. The method further includes selecting the electronic file based on the request. The electronic file includes multiple sections; each including a revision log including at least one revision log entry data object. The method further includes generating a versioned section. The method further includes generating a revision log entry data object based on the request and the versioned section of the electronic file. The method further includes adding the revision log entry data object to the revision log of the versioned section. The method includes generating an electronic revision log document by compiling at least a portion of each revision log entry data object by date. The method further includes adding the electronic revision log document to the electronic file.
US12277093B2
A system for cloud-based data-as-a-service setup and configuration across multiple accounts, multiple regions, and multiple cloud providers, wherein the system uses higher level constructs along with simplified integration of the data-as-a-service accounts with other software products and related analytics. Account group or similar grouping constructs allow for configuring multiple data-as-a-service accounts at once with repetitive and duplicate configuration for each account with the ability to allow for overrides to allow for extensibility or for exception purposes. Logical constructs called namespace allow for grouping resources to create logical boundaries within a shared data-as-a-service account. Namespace provides stored procedures as necessary controls to implement policies as code to keep the namespace behavior consistent. A user interface widget enables specification of privileges that users of a shared data-as-a-service account are allowed to grant and revoke.
US12277088B2
A multi-processor system includes first and second central processing units (CPUs) connected by a processor interconnect, a single baseboard management controller for managing operation of the first and second CPUs, wherein the first and second CPUs are operable as a single unified node, and a single keyboard, video and mouse connection, wherein the single keyboard, video and mouse connection includes a video controller and a USB controller. The multi-processor system may further comprise a multiplexer connected to the video controller and the USB controller, wherein the multiplexer has a selectable PCIe connection to either the first central processing unit or the second central processing unit. Program instructions may be executable by the baseboard management controller to send a selection signal to the multiplexer.
US12277085B2
A unique system for the implementation of different instrumentation type functions using a configurable common base module combined with a family of input/output interface modules is described. More specifically, this invention relates to the usage of a configurable common base module to provide timing/control signals for different input/output interface modules each combining to form a unique instrumentation function or feature. Some examples of instrumentation functions which can be implemented with the invention include: Data Acquisition, Digital Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Pattern Generator, and Serial Protocol Analyzer.
US12277079B2
Provided is a direct memory access architecture, including: a direct memory access control component, a read data moving component, a write data moving component and a data storage component; wherein the direct memory access control component includes a control register, a read descriptor storage component, a write descriptor storage component, a read command transfer component and a write command transfer component; the control register is configured to obtain descriptor address information; the read descriptor storage component is configured to store a read descriptor obtained by using the control register; the write descriptor storage component is configured to store a write descriptor obtained by using the control register; the read command transfer component is configured to send, to the read data moving component, a read command; the write command transfer component is configured to send, to the write data moving component, a write command.
US12277067B2
An example memory array page table walk can include using an array of memory cells configured to store a page table. The page table walk can include using sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The page table walk can include using a controller coupled to the array. The controller can be configured to operate the sensing circuitry to determine a physical address of a portion of data by accessing the page table in the array of memory cells. The controller can be configured to operate the sensing circuitry to cause storing of the portion of data in a buffer.
US12277066B2
A method, including: monitoring resource utilization of an operating system (OS) with applications utilizing larger pages; determining the monitored resource utilization is greater than a threshold resource utilization; in response to the determining the monitored resource utilization is greater than a threshold resource utilization, determining a respective larger pages index value for each of the applications utilizing larger pages; and turning off larger pages utilization of a subset of the applications utilizing larger pages, wherein the subset comprises a predefined number of the applications utilizing larger pages that have highest determined larger pages index values.
US12277059B1
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for reducing a mirror data transmission amount by a dual layer cache, and a device and a medium. The method includes: after receiving an input/output (IO) request, writing, by a first node, the IO request into a first upper-layer cache space; writing, by the first node, first cached data corresponding to the IO request into a first lower-layer cache space according to the IO request, and generating, by the first node, first index information for the first cached data; writing mirror data of the IO request into a second upper-layer cache space of a second node; and writing mirror data of the first index information into a second lower-layer cache space of the second node.
US12277055B1
Systems and methods for address mapping for a memory system are described. A system address that includes a first set of bits may be received. The first set of bits may be partitioned into at least a second set of bits and a third set of bits. A fourth set of bits may be determined based on the second set of bits. A memory address may be determined by using the third set of bits and the fourth set of bits.
US12277045B2
Disclosed is a method for timed pattern-based collaboration failure analysis in a platooning system-of-systems (SoS). A method for timed pattern-based collaboration failure analysis in a SoS performed by a computer device may include extracting an interaction collaboration failure pattern through a collaboration failure analysis in an interaction model generated from an interaction log executed in the SoS; and localizing a fault of an interaction bug from the extracted interaction collaboration failure pattern.
US12277040B2
In-place recovery of fatal system errors at virtualization hosts. A device identifies an occurrence of a fatal system error in the first instance of a host operating system (OS) executing in a computer system. The device determines to perform an in-place recovery for the fatal system error. The device performs the in-place recovery, including pausing the execution of a virtual machine (VM) by the first instance of the host OS, preserving a state of the VM within system memory of the computer system, and resuming the execution of the VM by a second instance of the host OS executing in the computer system based on the state of the VM that is preserved within the system memory of the computer system.
US12277036B2
Methods and systems for recovering databases and other applications with reduced downtime using recoverable chains are described. When protecting or backing up a database, an integrated data management and storage system may capture snapshots of the database at a snapshot frequency (e.g., at 15 minute intervals) and acquire database transaction logs that include data changes of the database at a frequency that is greater than the snapshot frequency. The integrated data management and storage system may generate a particular point in time version of the database by identifying a recoverable chain that comprises a combination of one or more database snapshots including the snapshot closest to the recovery point and one or more database transaction logs.
US12277035B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for storage performance expansion. The method includes acquiring, from a client, backup settings of a user for backing up data in a storage system and the user's priority. The method further includes determining, based on the user's priority, an input/output (I/O) specification of the storage system that is able to be allocated to the client. The method further includes determining, based on the backup settings, a time period in which a peak value of an I/O load of the storage system occurs. The method further includes increasing I/O performance of the storage system in response to that the peak value is greater than an upper limit of the I/O specification. The embodiments of the present disclosure can solve the I/O peak problem more effectively without interrupting a data backup or restoration service.
US12277032B2
Disclosed are techniques that provide for deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include retrieving container information for a first one or more containers of a plurality of containers of one or more backup images (where the one or more backup images were produced under an existing backup policy), generating pre-processed container information (where the generating the pre-processed container information comprises performing data pre-processing on the container information), determining a plurality of container ranges for the first one or more containers, generating container range affinity information for the one or more backup images (where the generating the container range affinity information comprises performing a container range operation using the plurality of container ranges, and storing the container range affinity information in a container range data structure.
US12277018B2
Implementations of the present disclosure disclose a memory system and an operation method thereof. The memory system comprises at least one memory device and a memory controller coupled with the at least one memory device. The memory controller is configured to: in respond to an instruction of a host coupled with the memory system, control the memory system to enter a first activation mode and a transition mode sequentially. The transition mode includes an idle mode and a first sleep mode. A power of the memory system in the first sleep mode is less than a power of the memory system in the idle mode. The power of the memory system in the idle mode is less than a power of the memory system in the first activation mode.
US12277009B2
A display device includes a display panel, a support member supporting the display panel and including a perforated portion in which a plurality of openings are formed, and an adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the support member, and at least partially filling the plurality of openings. Because adhesive material of the adhesive layer at least partially fills the plurality of openings, adhesion reliability between the support member and the buffer member is improved. For this reason, the adhesive layer may not peel off from the support member over time, and the reliability of the display device is improved.
US12277007B2
A flexible support layer, a flexible display module and a flexible display device are provided. The flexible support layer includes at least two non-bending regions and at least one bending region connecting two adjacent non-bending regions, a bending region includes a first transition region connected with a non-bending region, the first transition region includes multiple first openings arranged at intervals, a density of the first openings in the first transition region gradually decreases along a direction close to the non-bending region.
US12277001B2
A processing device includes an automated overclocking system and a processor. The automated overclocking system is data-driven and includes an inference engine that executes a machine learning model configured to generate a first output based on a current configuration of the processing device. The first output includes a first set of overclocking parameters. The processor is configured to adjust one or more operating characteristics of at least one component of the processing device based on the first set of overclocking parameters.
US12276992B2
A circuit includes a supply circuit having an input and an output. The supply circuit includes: a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal of the capacitor coupled to the output of the supply circuit; a switch having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first terminal of the switch coupled to the input of the supply circuit, the second terminal of the switch coupled to the output of the supply circuit; and a controller coupled to the control terminal of the switch. The controller is configured to: turn on the switch responsive to a first supply voltage level at the input of the supply circuit; and turn off the switch responsive to a second supply voltage level at the input of the supply circuit.
US12276962B2
A method of machining a feature in a component using a machine having a support rotatable about a rotation axis and having a cutting tool movable relative to the component, the component being mounted on the support for rotation about a central axis of the component, the method includes: determining coordinates of at least three points on a reference surface of the component, the at least three points being circumferentially offset from one another relative to the central axis; determining an angular correction to apply to the cutting tool based on the coordinates of the at least three points; and machining the feature in the component using the cutting tool angled with the angular correction.
US12276955B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling one or more components of a water utility system, the water utility system comprising at least one pump assembly, the method comprising: receiving a user indication indicative of a user-perceived acoustic-noise induced discomfort experienced at least at a first location, measuring at least a first sound signal at said first location, determining, based on the measured first sound signal and based on at least one of a received user indication of a degree of the user-perceived acoustic-noise induced discomfort and a received first operational parameter of the pump assembly, the first operational parameter being representative of an operational condition of the pump assembly at the time of said measuring the first sound signal, one or more adjusted control parameters of the water utility system, and controlling the water utility system based on the determined adjusted control parameters.
US12276954B2
A method of commissioning a plurality of controllers includes identifying a plurality of controllers that are operably coupled to a network in a building management system. Each of the plurality of controllers are configured to control one or more of a plurality of building management system components within a building management system. A first controller is selected as a source controller. Two or more of the remaining controllers are selected as target controllers. A synch operation is initiated that synchs the control logic of the source controller with each of the two or more target controllers over the network, resulting in each of the two or more target controllers having the control logic of the source controller. The source controller and the two or more target controllers are subsequently used to control one or more respective building management system components of the building management system.
US12276952B2
An HVAC renewable energy management system and components to enable the efficient use of locally produced power from an onsite nanogrid and interconnected nanogrids of a cohesive direct current microgrid network. The system comprises a central controller for controlling one or more intermittent distributed energy resource (DER), source converter, distributed storage device, energy storage converter, power bus, internal load, and interface gateway to one or more external grid for bi-directional power control, sharing, and consumption. System hardware and software elements are configured for internetworking communication, management, control, demand side management, and power balance, using maximum power point tracking to shift power consumption, dynamic matching of local DER production, power quality assurance, system protection, power interconnection management, interface management, metering, revenue settlement, system optimization, and security. The system can match local power production with an individual household's power consumption to reduce intermittency and ultimately total microgrid consumption.
US12276947B2
A method for time synchronization in a vehicle may include transmitting, by a satellite navigation device to a controller and at least one LiDAR device, a UTC and a PPS signal. The satellite navigation device may have a first clock. The method may include synchronizing, by the controller, a second clock of the controller with the first clock of the satellite navigation device based on the PPS signal and the UTC. The method may include synchronizing, by the at least one LiDAR device, a third clock of the at least one LiDAR device with the first clock of the satellite navigation device based on the PPS signal and the UTC. The method may include synchronizing, by at least one camera, a fourth clock of the at least one camera with the second clock of the controller.
US12276941B2
An inertial mass (1) intended to be mounted on a regulating organ (10), particularly of a horological movement, the inertial mass being configured to be subjected to a rotary oscillation movement at a predetermined frequency, the inertial mass including a rigid main body (2), characterised in that it comprises a flexible inertial element (3) assembled with the main body (2), the flexible inertial element (3) being configured to modify the geometry of the inertial mass (1) according to the oscillation amplitude. Also, a regulating organ and a horological movement comprising such an inertial mass.
US12276940B2
According to an embodiment, a holographic microscope comprises a light source emitting light to an object, a beam splitter reflecting the light emitted from the light source to the object and transmitting object light reflected from the object, a holographic image sensor sensing information, including a holographic image, by receiving the object light and allowing the object light to coherently interfere with reference light, and an image processor obtaining three-dimensional (3D) information about the object based on the information sensed by the holographic image sensor. The holographic image sensor includes a lens focusing the object light to the holographic image sensor, a filter transmitting a predetermined wavelength band of light of the focused object light, a light receiving unit receiving interference light to sense a holographic image, and a reference light source directly emitting the reference light having the predetermined wavelength band to the light receiving unit.
