US12317742B2
A light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; m light-emitting units stacked between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer; and m−1 charge generation layers respectively between two neighboring light-emitting units among the m light-emitting units, wherein m is an integer of 2 or more, at least one of the m light-emitting units includes an n-doped electron transport layer between the emission layer and the second electrode, a charge generation layer on the n-doped electron transport layer includes a p-type charge generation layer in direct contact with the n-doped electron transport layer, the n-doped electron transport layer includes a first electron transport material, a second electron transport material, and a metal, the first electron transport material and the second electron transport material are different from each other.
US12317741B2
The teachings herein pertain to hole transporting compounds containing a cyclobutyl moiety, which can be made into organic hole conductors and into hole transporting material. Additionally, optoelectronic and photoelectrochemical devices comprising such hole transporting material or hole transporting compound are described, in particular photovoltaic devices, organic-inorganic perovskite films, layered photovoltaic devices, p-n heterojunctions, dye-sensitized solar cells, organic solar cells and solid-state solar cells. Notably, a fabricated perovskite solar cell module using a disclosed HTM compound exhibited a record efficiency over 19.0% with an active area of 30.24 cm2.
US12317737B2
The present specification relates to a polymer including a first unit of Chemical Formula 1; a second unit of Chemical Formula 2; and a third unit of Chemical Formula 3 or 4, and an organic solar cell including the same.
US12317722B2
In a color display, a color filter layer includes a dielectric layer with an array of photonic crystals, an electroluminescent material disposed on the color filter layer, and electrodes arranged to electrically energize the electroluminescent material to output white light. Each photonic crystal includes a two-dimensional (2D) array of features. The 2D array of features includes a central cavity within which the features of the 2D array of features are omitted. Each photonic crystal is tuned to a resonant wavelength by a periodicity of the two-dimensional array of features. The array of photonic crystals may include, for example, red, green, and blue photonic crystals arranged to form an array of pixels spanning a display area of the color display, in which each pixel includes at least one red photonic crystal, at least one green photonic crystal, and at least one blue photonic crystal.
US12317717B2
A display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel comprises: a first display region (R1); a second display region (R2), which is at least located on one side of the first display region (R1); a plurality of sub-pixels, which are located in the first display region (R1) and the second display region (R2); a plurality of pixel groups (P1), which are located in the first display region (R1), at least one of the plurality of pixel groups (P1) comprising at least two sub-pixels; and a first power line (311), which is configured to supply a first voltage signal (ELVDD) to a pixel circuit, the first power line (311) comprising a plurality of first conducting wires (L1) and a plurality of second conducting wires (L2), with at least one of the plurality of first conducting wires (L1) comprising a first sub-wiring (L111) extending in a first direction (D1) and a second sub-wiring (L112) extending in a second direction (D2), and the second sub-wiring (L112) being electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of second conducting wires (L2). By means of the display panel, the mesh structure of a first power line can be more stable, and the voltage drop on the first power line is reduced, such that the brightness uniformity of the display panel is better.
US12317712B2
A display device includes a substrate, a pixel area, and a plurality of data lines. The substrate includes display and non-display areas. The pixel area is in the display area and includes a first pixel column and a second pixel column. The pixels in the first and second columns emit light of different colors. The data lines are respectively coupled to the first pixel column and the second pixel column. In the non-display area, a data line is coupled to one of the first or second pixel columns corresponding to a color on which influence of a resistance is greater than on another color. The data lines has a line or contact structure with a resistance less than a resistance of a line or contact structure of a remaining data line coupled to a remaining pixel column.
US12317698B2
A display panel including a substrate, a metal structure at side of substrate, and first insulating layer, the metal structure and the first insulating layer located on a non-display region, the first insulating layer has hollow region, the hollow region extends through the first insulating layer in direction perpendicular to plane of substrate, where the metal structure includes first portion and second portion that are connected to each other. the first portion overlaps a hollow region and the second portion overlaps first insulating layer. The maximum distance between a part of a surface of a side of first portion away from substrate and substrate is a first distance, the maximum distance between a surface of a side of second portion away from the substrate and the substrate is a second distance, and the first distance is greater than the second distance.
US12317693B2
A display device includes a planarization layer on a substrate, a plurality of inner banks and a plurality of outer banks arranged on the planarization layer and extending in one direction, a first alignment electrode and a second alignment electrode on the plurality of inner banks and spaced from each other, a light emitting element on the first alignment electrode and the second alignment electrode and located between the first alignment electrode and the second alignment electrode, and a first contact electrode on the first alignment electrode and contacting a first end of the light emitting element, and a second contact electrode on the second alignment electrode and contacting a second end of the light emitting element. The plurality of outer banks are in contact with the plurality of inner banks at the same layer, and are spaced from each other with the plurality of inner banks interposed therebetween.
US12317691B2
A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on a display area of the display device and including a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode, a pixel-defining layer defining emission areas of the plurality of sub-pixels, respectively, an organic planarization layer disposed on the pixel-defining layer and comprising one or more valleys overlapping a first area in a plan view and at least one protrusion overlapping a second area in a plan view, and a high-refractive planarization layer disposed on the organic planarization layer. The first area is located at an edge of the display area. A second area is located in a non-display area of the display device.
US12317687B2
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a plurality of display units; the display unit includes a driving structure layer, a light emitting structure layer and a color filter layer which are located in the display area and sequentially arranged on the substrate; the light emitting structure layer comprises a plurality of light emitting structures each including a pixel define layer and an organic light emitting layer; the organic light emitting layer is located in an opening area of the pixel define layer and on the pixel define layer; the color filter layer includes a plurality of light filters; the display substrate includes a spacing area located in the display area, the spacing area being located between opening areas of pixel define layers of adjacent light emitting structures.
US12317670B2
A display device including a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode, a light-emitting layer, a first charge transport layer having a function of transporting first charge, and a second charge transport layer having a function of transporting second charge, in which the display device includes a first inspection element including a fourth electrode and a third electrode. The first inspection element is a single-charge element including the light-emitting layer and the first charge transport layer that are common to the light-emitting element and making mainly the first charge flow, and the light-emitting element is driven in accordance with characteristics of the first inspection element.
US12317661B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting module includes: providing a wiring board having an upper face on which a plurality of light emitting elements are mounted; disposing a first resin in an area of the upper face of the wiring board that is outward of a region in which the light emitting elements are mounted, wherein the first resin contains a light reflecting substance; and covering lateral faces of the light emitting elements with the first resin by spreading the first resin over the region in which the light emitting elements are mounted.
US12317653B2
A method of manufacturing an LED display panel includes holding an LED wafer on a first holding unit, holding a circuit board on a second holding unit, positioning electrodes of the board at positions corresponding to electrode layers of the wafer while a face side of the board and a face side of the wafer are facing each other, joining the electrode layers and the electrodes to each other by applying a laser beam having a wavelength absorbable by a reverse side of one of the board and the wafer, to the reverse side of the one of the board and the wafer, thereby heating at least either the electrode layers or the electrodes, and breaking the buffer layers by applying a pulsed laser beam having a wavelength transmittable through a substrate of the wafer, to the buffer layers through a reverse side of the wafer.
US12317650B2
A light emitting base plate and a fabricating method thereof, and a displaying device. In the present disclosure, a light shielding layer is provided on a substrate, a driving functional layer is provided on the light shielding layer, and a light-emitting-device layer and a light absorbing layer are provided on the driving functional layer; the light-emitting-device layer includes a plurality of light emitting devices, and the light absorbing layer includes light absorbing structures each of which surrounds sides of one of the light emitting devices; and the light absorbing structures are configured for blocking light rays exiting from the sides of the light emitting devices.
US12317649B2
A display device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a first insulating film disposed on the first electrode and having a first opening formed, a second insulating film disposed on the first insulating film and having a second opening, and a contact electrode electrically contacting at least a portion of the first electrode through the first opening and the second opening, wherein a side surface of the first insulating film defines the first opening, and the second insulating film overlaps the side surface of the first insulating film such that the contact electrode and the first insulating film are not in contact with each other.
US12317636B2
A solar cell and a photovoltaic module are disclosed, including: a substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer and a doped conductive layer disposed on the substrate, the tunneling dielectric layer being disposed between the doped conductive layer and a surface of the substrate, the doped conductive layer having a N-type or P-type doping element and having a plurality of first heavily doped regions spaced apart from each other and extending in a first direction, a doping concentration in the first heavily doped regions being greater than that in other regions of the doped conductive layer; a passivation layer disposed on a surface of the doped conductive layer facing away from the substrate; and a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from each other, extending in a second direction and penetrating the passivation layer to contact the doped conductive layer, at least two first heavily doped regions contacting a same electrode.
US12317634B1
A photovoltaic structure includes: a hole-selective contact comprising an anodized aluminum layer overlaying a different electrode metal and a plurality of contact vias that extend through the anodized aluminum layer to the different electrode metal, wherein locations of the plurality of contact vias define an ordered array; an absorber comprising a chalcopyrite (Ag,Cu)(Ga, In)S,Se:Alk, where Alk represents at least one alkali element, the absorber comprising at least a residual of a contiguous nucleation template over the anodized aluminum layer; an electron-selective contact; and a plurality of nanorods located in the plurality of contact vias, the plurality of nanorods providing ohmic contacts between the hole-selective contact and the different electrode metal at their interface at a bottom of each contact via, and comprising at least a residual of at least one surfactant and at least a residual of at least one minority alloy constituent.
US12317629B2
An image pickup unit includes a stacked device in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape including an external electrode, and a three-dimensional wiring board including a bonding electrode and an alignment mark on a bottom surface of a recess on a first principal surface and a projection, on a side surface, projecting in a first direction parallel to a wall surface of the recess, in which the external electrode of the stacked device that is disposed in the recess is bonded to the bonding electrode, and on the bottom surface, an area of a region in which a first region where the bonding electrode is virtually moved in the first direction and the alignment mark are superposed on each other is less than 50% of an area of the alignment mark.
US12317625B2
An image sensor device is disclosed. The image sensor device includes a number of pixels and neighboring pixels are isolated by deep trench isolation structures. In an embodiment, a method of forming a deep trench isolation structure includes performing a first etching process to remove a portion of a substrate, thereby forming a first trench in the substrate, performing a first doping process to form a first sidewall doped region along a sidewall surface of the first trench, after the performing of the first plasma doping process, performing a second etching process to extend the first trench, thereby forming a second trench in the substrate, and, after the performing of the second etching process, performing a second doping process to form a second sidewall doped region along a sidewall surface of the second trench, a portion of the second sidewall doped region overlaps with the first sidewall doped region.
US12317624B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of avalanche diodes and a light shielding portion. The plurality of avalanche diodes is disposed in a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface. The light shielding portion has an opening. The light shielding portion covers at least part of the first surface. Each of the plurality of avalanche diodes includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type disposed at a first depth, and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type disposed at a second depth deeper than the first depth with respect to the second surface. The semiconductor layer includes a plurality of uneven structures provided on the first surface. In a planar view from a direction perpendicular to the first surface, the second semiconductor region overlaps the light shielding portion, and the first semiconductor region is included in the opening.
US12317621B2
An imaging device is provided to inhibit deterioration in imaging performance due to high-angle incident light. The imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The imaging device includes a plurality of color filters on the semiconductor substrate that face each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The imaging device further includes a partition wall on the semiconductor substrate that provides separation between one color filter and another color filter adjacent to each other among the plurality of color filters. The partition wall includes a first metal layer, a translucent first partition wall layer that covers a side surface of the first metal layer, and a translucent second partition wall layer located between the first metal layer and the first partition wall layer. A refractive index of the second partition wall layer is larger than a refractive index of the first partition wall layer.
US12317615B2
Aspects of the technology described herein relate to improved semiconductor-based image sensor designs. In some aspects, an integrated circuit described herein may include a first pixel and a second pixel, wherein the first pixel is proximate the second pixel in a mirrored configuration. In some aspects, an integrated circuit described herein may include a first pixel and a second pixel that is proximate to the first pixel along a row direction, and a conductive line extending along a column direction that intersects with the row direction, wherein the conductive line is in electrical communication with a first component of the first pixel and a second component of the second pixel.
US12317605B2
A photovoltaic cell includes an edge; an interconnection conductive track extending parallel to the edge to within 1.3 mm; and a plurality of electrodes, called “collection fingers”, extending parallel to each other and electrically connected to the interconnection track; the interconnection conductive track including a plurality of spaced-apart closed-contour conductive patterns, each closed-contour conductive pattern including a closed contour surrounding a portion of the first face.
US12317603B2
A process for protecting an upper stage of an electronic components against antenna effects includes providing a first structure having a first substrate with a first surface, a first stage of electronic components formed in a second surface of the first substrate, and a first stack having a last metallization level electrically connected to the second surface; and providing a second structure having a second substrate with a through-substrate via and having a second stage of electronic components having protective components that are arranged to drain electric charges to the second substrate. The process also includes joining the first and second structures so that the through-substrate via is electrically connected to the last metallization level of the first stack and forming a second stack on the second stage having a first metallization level electrically connected to the through-substrate via and to the first surface of the second substrate.
US12317595B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes at least one light emitting chip, and a structure on one side of at least one of the plurality of pixels. A base material of the light emitting chip is the same as a base material of the structure.
US12317593B2
An array substrate of this disclosure includes: a substrate and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer sequentially stacked on the substrate; orthographic projections of the first and second conductive layers on the substrate have an overlapping region; portions of the first and second conductive layers in the overlapping region constitute a first conductive pattern; a portion of the first conductive layer outside the overlapping region includes a second conductive pattern and a third conductive pattern; the second and third conductive patterns have an interval therebetween. A first distance between first regions of the second and third conductive patterns proximal to the first conductive pattern is larger than a second distance between second regions of the second and third conductive patterns distal to the first conductive pattern.
US12317586B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure protruding from a first isolation insulating layer is formed. A second isolation insulating layer made of different material than the first isolation insulating layer is formed so that a first upper portion of the fin structure is exposed. A dummy gate structure is formed over the exposed first upper portion of the first fin structure. The second isolation insulating layer is etched by using the dummy gate structure as an etching mask. The dummy gate structure is removed so that a gate space is formed. The second isolation insulating layer is etched in the gate space so that a second upper portion of the fin structure is exposed from the first isolation insulating layer. A gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer are formed over the exposed second portion of the fin structure.
US12317584B2
A method includes: etching a trench on a surface of a substrate; filling the trench with a dielectric material to form a first isolation region; depositing a patterned mask layer on the substrate, the patterned mask layer comprising an opening exposing the substrate; implanting oxygen into the substrate through the opening to form an implant region; generating a second isolation region from the implant region; and forming a transistor on the substrate. The transistor includes a channel laterally surrounding the second isolation region.
US12317566B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin with a sacrificial layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming isolation regions on the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the fin, forming a superlattice structure with first and second nanostructured layers on the sacrificial layer, forming a sacrificial structure that surrounds the superlattice structure, forming a first spacer on the superlattice structure, forming an air gap between the superlattice structure and the fin, and forming a second spacer on the fin and below the superlattice structure.
US12317565B2
A semiconductor device includes a III-V compound semiconductor layer and a source/drain structure. The source/drain structure is disposed on the III-V compound semiconductor layer. The source/drain structure includes a metal layer and metal silicide patterns. The metal layer is disposed on the metal silicide patterns, and a portion of the metal layer is disposed between the metal silicide patterns adjacent to each other.
US12317558B2
A semiconductor device cell includes a drift region having a first conductivity type, a well region having a second conductivity type disposed adjacent to the drift region, the well region defining a set of well region segments. A source region having the first conductivity type is disposed adjacent to the well region and surrounded by the well region. A channel region having the second conductivity type, and defining a set of channel region segments a periphery of the channel region segment being surrounded by the well region. The well region, source region, and channel region cooperatively define a first axial length extending across the surface.
US12317552B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a base and a fin structure over the base. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure over the base and surrounding a lower portion of the fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack wrapped around an upper portion of the fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a source/drain structure partially embedded in the isolation structure and the lower portion of the fin structure. The source/drain structure has an undoped semiconductor layer and a first doped layer over the undoped semiconductor layer, and the undoped semiconductor layer separates the first doped layer from the isolation structure.
US12317551B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device including performing an ion implantation on a substrate and etching the substrate and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes forming a transistor on a first side of a substrate; performing an ion implantation on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side; after performing the ion implantation, etching the substrate to remove the substrate and form a first recess; and forming a dielectric layer in the first recess.
US12317545B2
A method includes sequentially depositing a floating gate layer, a dielectric structure stack, and a control gate layer over a substrate. A first etching process is performed to pattern the control gate layer, the dielectric structure stack, and a top portion of the floating gate layer to form a control gate, a dielectric structure, and a top portion of a floating gate over a bottom portion of the floating gate layer. A sidewall of the top portion of the floating gate is concave. A first spacer structure is formed on the sidewall of the top portion of the floating gate, a sidewall of the dielectric structure, and a sidewall of the control gate. A second etching process is performed to pattern the bottom portion of the floating gate layer to form a bottom portion of the floating gate after forming the first spacer structure.
US12317539B2
A microelectronic device includes a hybrid component. The microelectronic device has a substrate including silicon semiconductor material. The hybrid component includes a silicon portion in the silicon, and a wide bandgap (WBG) structure in a silicon recess on the silicon portion of the hybrid device. The silicon recess contains a silicon recess nitride sidewall. The WBG structure includes a WBG semiconductor material having a bandgap energy greater than a bandgap energy of the silicon. The hybrid component has a first current terminal on the silicon, and a second current terminal on the WBG structure. The microelectronic device may be formed by forming the silicon portion of the hybrid component in the silicon, and subsequently forming the WBG structure in a silicon recess on the silicon.
US12317536B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing each other and including a first semiconductor material; a plurality of fin structures upwardly extending on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, spaced apart from each other by a plurality of trenches, and including the first semiconductor material as the semiconductor substrate; an insulating layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate filling at least a portion of the plurality of trenches; a gate electrode layer between the plurality of fin structures and surrounded by the insulating layer; a first conductive layer covering the plurality of fin structures; a second conductive layer on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a shield layer between the gate electrode layer and the semiconductor substrate, surrounded by the insulating layer, and electrically connected to the first conductive layer.
US12317529B2
A device includes a plurality of semiconductor fins extending from a substrate. A plurality of first source/drain regions are epitaxially grown from first regions of the semiconductor fins. Adjacent two of the plurality of first source/drain regions grown from adjacent two of the plurality of semiconductor fins are spaced apart by an isolation dielectric. A gate structure laterally surrounds second regions of the plurality of semiconductor fins above the first regions of the plurality of semiconductor fins. A plurality of second source/drain regions are over third regions of the plurality of semiconductor fins above the second regions of the plurality of semiconductor fins.
US12317522B2
The invention discloses a three-dimensional 1S1C memory based on a ring capacitor and a preparation method. The memory includes: a horizontal peripheral electrode layer including a first dielectric layer and a first metal electrode layer alternately stacked and grown on a substrate and provided with trenches penetrating in a vertical direction and holes penetrating in the vertical direction, a vertical functional layer, and a capacitive dielectric layer. An annular groove is disposed outside each hole. The annular groove surrounds the holes and vertically cuts off the peripheral electrode layer. The annular groove is evenly filled with a capacitive dielectric layer. A top of the second metal electrode layer is extended to a surface of a topmost first dielectric layer to form a bit line electrode and is connected to a bit line. A region where the second metal electrode layer faces the first metal electrode layer forms a memory cell.
US12317519B2
An integrated circuit includes an SOI substrate having a semiconductor layer over a buried insulator layer; the semiconductor layer contains white space regions that include a PWELL region. An electronic device includes an NWELL region in the semiconductor layer, a dielectric over the NWELL region, and a polysilicon plate over the dielectric. A sacrificial NWELL ring is adjacent to and separated from the NWELL region by a first gap.
US12317517B2
A semiconductor die included in a semiconductor die package may include a plurality of decoupling trench capacitor regions in a device region of the semiconductor die. At least two or more of the decoupling trench capacitor regions include decoupling trench capacitor structures having different depths. The depths of the decoupling trench capacitor structures in the decoupling trench capacitor regions may be selected to provide sufficient capacitance so as to satisfy circuit decoupling parameters for circuits of the semiconductor die package, while reducing the likelihood of warping, breaking, and/or cracking of the semiconductor die package.
US12317515B2
A memory device and a semiconductor die are provided. The memory device includes single-level-cells (SLCs) and multi-level-cells (MLCs). Each of the SLCs and the MLCs includes: a phase change layer; and a first electrode, in contact with the phase change layer, and configured to provide joule heat to the phase change layer during a programming operation. The first electrode in each of the MLCs is greater in footprint area as compared to the first electrode in each of the SLCs.
US12317513B2
A device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, a first transistor that includes a first gate over a first protrusion and a first source region and a first drain region interposing the first protrusion, a first buried contact disposed adjacent to the first protrusion and having at least a portion extending into the substrate, a first contact plug disposed over the first drain region, first conductive lines disposed over the first contact plug and electrically connecting to the first drain region by the first contact plug, first via penetrating through the substrate and connecting the first buried contact; and second conductive lines disposed over the second side of the substrate and electrically connecting to the first via. The first buried contact is electrically connecting to the first source region or the first gate.
US12317502B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical stack of charge storage elements, a vertical semiconductor channel, a ferroelectric material layer located between the vertical stack of charge storage elements and the vertical semiconductor channel, and a blocking dielectric layer located between the ferroelectric material layer and the vertical semiconductor channel. A tunneling dielectric layer is located between at least one of the electrically conductive layers and the vertical stack of charge storage elements.
US12317498B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, a stadium structure within the stack structure, a source tier underlying the stack structure, and a masking structure. The stack structure has tiers each comprising a conductive structure and an insulating structure. The stadium structure comprises a forward staircase structure, a reverse staircase structure, and a central region horizontally interposed between the forward staircase structure and the reverse staircase structure. The source tier comprises discrete conductive structures within horizontal boundaries of the central region of the stadium structure and horizontally separated from one another by dielectric material. The masking structure is confined within the horizontal boundaries of the central region of the stadium structure and is vertically interposed between the source tier and the stack structure. The masking structure comprises segments horizontally covering portions of the dielectric material horizontally interposed between the discrete conductive structures. Additional devices and electronic systems are also described.
US12317490B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a stacked body having a stacked structure in which a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers are alternately stacked one by one, the stacked body including a memory region and a dummy region arranged in a first direction intersecting a stacking direction of the plurality of conductive layers, the dummy region including a first stepped portion in which at least a part of the plurality of conductive layers on an upper layer side is processed in a stepped shape and terminates at an end portion opposite to the memory region in the first direction; and first and second plate-like portions extending in the stacking direction and the first direction in the stacked body at positions in the memory region away from each other in a second direction intersecting the stacking direction and the first direction, the first and second plate-like portions being directly or indirectly connected to each other and terminating in the dummy region, each of the first and second plate-like portions dividing the stacked body excluding at least a part of the end portion of the dummy region in the second direction.
US12317489B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device structure comprises forming a stack structure over a substrate, the stack structure comprising tiers each independently comprising a sacrificial structure and an insulating structure and longitudinally adjacent the sacrificial structure. A masking structure is formed over a portion of the stack structure. A photoresist is formed over the masking structure and over additional portions of the stack structure not covered by the masking structure. The photoresist and the stack structure are subjected to a series of material removal processes to selectively remove portions of the photoresist and portions of the stack structure not covered by one or more of the masking structure and remaining portions of the photoresist to form a stair step structure. Semiconductor devices and additional methods of forming a semiconductor device structure are also described.
US12317485B2
A semiconductor device including a cell active pattern; a cell gate structure connected to the cell active pattern; a peripheral active pattern; a peripheral gate structure connected to the peripheral active pattern; a conductive pattern connected to the peripheral active pattern, the cell gate structure, or the peripheral gate structure; a capacitor structure electrically connected to the cell active pattern; an interlayer insulating layer surrounding the capacitor structure; and a peripheral contact connected to the conductive pattern while extending through the interlayer insulating layer, wherein the interlayer insulating layer includes a first material layer contacting the capacitor structure, and a second material layer on the first material layer, the peripheral contact includes a first portion contacting the first material layer, and a second portion contacting the second material layer, and a maximum width of the first portion is greater than a minimum width of the second portion.
US12317483B2
Embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate, word lines, bit lines, and word line isolation structures. Active pillars arranged in an array are provided on a surface of the substrate, and the active pillars include channel regions, and a top doped region positioned on an upper side of the channel region and a bottom doped region positioned on a lower side of the channel region. The word lines extend along a first direction and surround the channel regions of a row of the active pillars arranged along the first direction. The bit lines extend along a second direction and are electrically connected to the bottom doped regions of a column of the active pillars arranged along the second direction, and in a direction facing away from the surface of the substrate.
US12317478B2
A p layer is a semiconductor base material. An n+ layer is disposed on one extension side of the layer. An n+ layer is disposed on the opposite side in contact with the layer. A gate insulating layer partially covers the layers. A gate conductor layer is disposed in contact with the layer. A gate insulating layer partially covers the layers. A gate conductor layer is disposed in electrical separation from the layer. Memory operation is performed by applying voltage to each of the layers. In this case, the gate capacitance of a MOS structure constituted by the layers per unit area is smaller than that of a MOS structure constituted by the layers.
US12317477B2
A memory device includes a substrate, an oxide insulating layer, a first metal oxide layer, a first gate dielectric layer, a second metal oxide layer, a second gate dielectric layer, a first gate, a source, and a drain. The oxide insulating layer is located above the substrate. The first metal oxide layer is located above the oxide insulating layer. The first gate dielectric layer is located above the first metal oxide layer. The second metal oxide layer is located above the first gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer is located above the second metal oxide layer. The first gate is located above the second gate dielectric layer. The second metal oxide layer is located between the first gate and the first metal oxide layer. The source and the drain are electrically connected to the first metal oxide layer.
US12317473B2
A semiconductor device and a formation method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate, where a plurality of columnar active areas are formed on the semiconductor substrate, the plurality of columnar active areas are spaced apart by a plurality of first trenches extending along a first direction and a plurality of second trenches extending along a second direction; a plurality of third trenches positioned in the semiconductor substrate at bottoms of the second trenches, where the third trenches are recessed to bottoms of the columnar active areas, and a bottom surface of a given one of the third trenches is higher than a bottom surface of the given first trench; and a plurality of metal silicide bit lines extending along the first direction in the semiconductor substrate positioned at the bottoms of the plurality of third trenches and the bottoms of the plurality of columnar active areas.
US12317469B2
To provide a semiconductor device with less variations in characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit region and a second circuit region over a substrate, where the first circuit region includes a plurality of first transistors and a first insulator over the plurality of first transistors; the second circuit region includes a plurality of second transistors and a second insulator over the plurality of second transistors; the second insulator includes an opening portion; the first transistors and the second transistors each include an oxide semiconductor; a third insulator is positioned over and in contact with the first insulator and the second insulator; the first insulator, the second insulator, and the third insulator inhibit oxygen diffusion; and the density of the plurality of first transistors arranged in the first circuit region is higher than the density of the plurality of second transistors arranged in the second circuit region.
US12317468B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit including an array of memory cells connected to word lines and bit lines located on opposite sides of the memory cells. The memory cell may include gate all around transistors. A memory circuit according to the present disclosure also includes edge cells having word line tap structures configured to connect front side word lines with back side word lines. Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an IC chip having memory cells with power rail on the front side and logic cells with power rail on the back side.
US12317451B2
A boiler plate is provided. The boiler plate includes a heat spreader layer operable to transfer heat from a computing component across the heat spreader layer. The heat spreader layer extends along a plane. At least one heat pipe extends from the heat spreader layer in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane away from the computing component. The at least one heat pipe is operable to transfer the heat away from the heat spreader layer to reduce a temperature of the computing component.
US12317446B2
Methods, systems, and devices for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer-implemented services. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate within certain thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components, a fan may circulate air through the data processing system when the temperatures fall outside the thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components more efficiently, higher air flow rates may be desired. To increase air flow rates, a three-dimensional ventilation port may be implemented to de-constrict air flow when air enters or exits the data processing system.
US12317443B2
A self-standing data center infrastructure system includes a bottom frame and a collapsible top frame that are configured to be inserted into a standard shipping container for transport to a data center location. At the data center location, the bottom frame is secured to a floor of the data center and the top frame is mounted as a pre-assembled unit on the bottom frame. The top frame is then expanded to provide infrastructure support to one or more rows of racks. Also, the racks may be secured to the bottom frame without the need for additional anchoring of the racks.
US12317436B2
A display device includes: a display module slid in a first direction; and a panel storage container including a guide rail guiding a sliding operation of the display module in the first direction. The display module is engaged with the guide rail in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the guide rail includes: a first flat portion adjacent to an upper surface of the panel storage container; a second flat portion adjacent to a lower surface of the panel storage container; and a bent portion adjacent to a side surface of the panel storage container and connecting the first flat portion and the second flat portion to each other. The bent portion includes: a first bent portion bent at a first radius of curvature; and a second bent portion bent at a second radius of curvature greater than the first radius of curvature.
US12317429B2
A display module and a display device which can improve a heat-dissipation performance and a shock absorption function while reducing a bezel area, and in particular, reduce an impact applied to an edge of a cushion plate, and reduce deterioration in the shock absorption function due to moisture. A chamfer is formed along an edge of a metal foam included in the cushion plate to implement the improvement. Thus, a spacing between the edge of the cushion plate and a frame is maximized such that the impact applied to the edge of the cushion plate can be reduced as much as possible. Further, a rear face of a body and a chamfer of the metal foam can be covered with a water-proof layer, such that moisture invasion into the cushion plate can be reduced as much as possible.
US12317426B2
A laminated wiring board includes a plurality of first wiring boards laminated on one another, a first insulating resin layer disposed between two adjacent first wiring boards among the plurality of first wiring boards, and a second insulating resin layer configured to cover side surfaces of the plurality of first wiring boards.
US12317422B2
A component mounting system includes a plurality of component mounters, a characteristic inspection device, and a management device. Each of the component mounters transmits inspection area component information including identification information of the corresponding component mounter, information of a conveyed-in board, and identification information of an inspection-required component installed in an inspection area, to the management device. The characteristic inspection device determines whether or not the inspection-required component installed in the inspection area is an error component, and transmits the information on the determined inspection-required component to the management device as error information. The management device specifies the component mounter in which the inspection-required component determined to be an error component is installed in the inspection area as an error component mounter, based on the transmitted error information, and stops an operation of the identified component mounter.
US12317419B2
A temperature measuring apparatus with improved accuracy is provided. The temperature measuring apparatus comprises a test substrate having a thermal conductivity, a circuit board layer laminated on the test substrate and including a plurality of through holes exposing a top surface of the test substrate, bonding agent disposed in the plurality of through holes and having a thermal conductivity, and a plurality of sensors disposed on the bonding agent and for measuring a temperature.
US12317418B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes: a flexible printed circuit board configured to connect a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board and including a rigid area and a flexible area, and a guide at least partially coupled to the rigid area, and located inside the flexible printed circuit board.
US12317415B2
A stretchable substrate includes a cell and an electrode wiring. The cell is divided by cutting lines to form a plurality of cells. The electrode wiring is continuously provided on the plurality of cells not to cross the cutting line. A cell is connected to a neighboring cell by a connection portion in which a cutting line is not formed, and when a tensile force is applied, the cell is hinge-rotated around the connection portion, and the electrode wiring maintains a continuous state even when the cell is hinged.
US12317409B2
A circuit board includes a ground layer, a core layer positioned on the ground layer, an insulating layer positioned on the core layer, and a trace positioned between the core layer and the insulating layer. The circuit board also includes another ground layer positioned on the insulating layer, and an electromagnetic shield (EMS) extending between and electrically connected to the ground layers alongside the trace to shield the trace from electromagnetic radiation. The EMS extends along at least 90% of a length of the trace.
US12317408B2
An interposer equipped with a heat spreader and a multi-board system for an electronic device that includes an interposer equipped with a heat spreader between at least two boards. In examples, the interposer may include a heat spreader having an active portion and, optionally, a passive portion. In examples, the active portion may include a vapor chamber, heat pipe, or isothermal plate. In examples, the passive portion may thermally couple the active portion to a heat dissipation device such as a heat sink and/or an outer frame of the electronic device.
US12317403B2
An atomic object confined in a particular region of an atomic object confinement apparatus is cooled using an S-to-P-to-D EIT cooling operation. A controller associated with the atomic object confinement apparatus controls first and second manipulation sources to respectively provide first and second manipulation signals to the particular region. The first manipulation signal is characterized by a first wavelength corresponding to a transition between an S manifold and a P manifold of a first component of the atomic object and detuned from the S-to-P transition by a first detuning. The second manipulation signal is characterized by a second wavelength corresponding to a transition between the P manifold and a D manifold of the first component and detuned from the P-to-D transition by a second detuning. The first and second detunings selected to establish a dark state associated with a two-photon transition between the S manifold and the D manifold.
US12317399B2
A voltage generator includes: a sealed case having a ground potential; a high-voltage transformer that is housed in the sealed case and boosts a voltage; a booster circuitry that is housed in the sealed case and boosts a voltage outputted from the high-voltage transformer; and a voltage detector that is housed in the sealed case and detects a voltage boosted by the booster circuitry. A first creepage path ranging from a high-voltage portion, which is a portion to which a highest voltage is applied in the voltage detector, to a ground point having an equal potential to the sealed case includes a first bent path, which is a bent path.
US12317385B2
The present disclosure discloses a multifunctional dimmable driving power supply, including an alternating current (AC) input, a high-power factor correction circuit, an AC/direct current (DC) conversion circuit, a load, a phase-cut input signal, an analog input signal, a micro control unit (MCU) control module, a multishift switching device, a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) driving circuit, a rotational potentiometer, and a temperature sensor module. The multishift switching device on the power supply is used to select different frequency outputs, switch different color temperature values, and select different curve outputs, so that the multifunctional dimmable driving power supply has high universality.
US12317384B2
A lighting device may include a light source, a plurality of drive circuits, and a control circuit. The light source may include a plurality of emitter circuits that are configured to emit light. The light source may include a first emitter circuit that is configured to emit light at a first color (e.g., color temperature), a second emitter circuit is configured to emit light at a second color (e.g., color temperature), and a third emitter circuit is configured to emit light at a third color (e.g., color temperature). The first, second, and third colors (e.g., color temperatures) may be on a color curve, such as a color temperature curve like the black body locus. The control circuit may be configured to control the amount of power delivered to no more than two emitter circuits to emit light when controlling the light emitted by the light source to the target intensity.
US12317371B2
A profile download method includes a primary device obtaining an embedded integrated circuit card identifier (EID) of a secondary device, where the EID is used by the primary device to obtain, from a mobile operator server, profile download information that matches the EID. The primary device receives the profile download information from the mobile operator server and sends the profile download information to the secondary device, where the profile download information is used by the secondary device to download a profile from a profile management server, and where the profile is installed in an embedded UICC (eUICC) of the secondary device after the download is complete.
US12317367B2
Embodiments of this application provide a session processing method and apparatus. When a quantity of sessions of a terminal device that each have an activated user plane connection is not less than a quantity threshold, the terminal device determines to deactivate a user plane connection of at least one first session, where the sessions that each have the activated user plane connection include the at least one first session. The terminal device sends a first request message to a first network element, where the first request message includes indication information, and the indication information indicates to deactivate the user plane connection of the at least one first session.
US12317347B2
In one example, a first connectivity request for a first network connection between a user equipment and a first network is obtained. A control plane serving gateway node for the first network connection is selected. The control plane serving gateway node is co-located with a control plane packet data network gateway node configured to support a second network connection between the user equipment and a second network that is different from the first network. A second connectivity request for the second network connection is obtained. The second network connection is established with the control plane serving gateway node and the control plane packet data network gateway node.
US12317344B2
A process for right-sizing a software stack includes: identifying a first wireless communications node (1WCN) for a wireless communications system (WCS) that includes a second wireless communications node (2WCN), obtaining a first adaptive software stack (1ASS) which configures the Device to communicate data to a Destination using the 1WCN, and determining if the 1ASS optimizes the Device for the communicating of the data with the Destination via the 1WCN. If not optimized, a second adaptive software stack (2ASS) may be obtained and a determination made as to whether the 2ASS second optimizes the Device. At least one of the 1ASS and the 2ASS may be implemented and the Device is coupled with the 1WCN by a communications links. A first application may be selected and executed. During software execution application data may be communicated with the Destination using the 1WCN and the as implemented 1ASS or 2ASS.
US12317338B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information related to a dedicated preconfigured uplink resource (DPUR) in a message releasing the UE to an idle mode or an inactive mode. For example, in some aspects, the information related to the DPUR may identify one or more uplink resources that are allocated to the UE to enable the UE to initiate an uplink data transmission in the idle mode or the inactive mode. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the information related to the DPUR, uplink data while in the idle mode or the inactive mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12317331B2
A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a base station, configuration information of SSB resources; receiving, from the base station, configuration information of PRACH resources; receiving, from the base station, an SSB in a first SSB resource among the SSB resources; configuring a PRACH resource set associated with the first SSB resource based on the configuration information of the PRACH resources; and transmitting a first PRACH in a first PRACH resource belonging to the PRACH resource set and transmitting a second PRACH in a second PRACH resource belonging to the PRACH resource set, wherein the first PRACH and the second PRACH include a same preamble sequence and are transmitted using different beams.
US12317323B2
A physical channel monitoring method, a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes configuring the terminal device with at least one serving cell group; wherein a first serving cell group of the at least one serving cell group corresponds to first information; configuring the terminal device with a periodic channel occupying length on a first serving cell, wherein the periodic channel occupying length comprises a maximum channel occupying length, and the maximum channel occupying length is less than the periodic channel occupying length; and performing, by the terminal device, a PDCCH monitoring process for the first serving cell based on second information, wherein the first serving cell is a serving cell in the first serving cell group, and the second information comprises at least one of the periodic channel occupying length, the maximum channel occupying length, and the first information.
US12317320B2
When a channel is not occupied within a first COT, a network device sends indication information to a terminal device within the first COT, where the indication information is used to indicate that the channel is not occupied within the first COT. When the channel is occupied within the first COT, the network device obtains a second COT within the first COT, and sends start information of the second COT to the terminal device. Correspondingly, when receiving the indication information, the terminal device may perform blind PDCCH detection in a first manner. If the terminal device does not receive the indication information, it indicates that the channel is occupied within the first COT, and the terminal device performs blind detection on the start information of the second COT.
US12317318B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining channel statistics for clear channel assessments. One method includes determining, by an apparatus, channel statistics corresponding to a plurality of listen-before-talk channel access types, a plurality of channel access priorities, a plurality of frequency ranges, or some combination thereof. The channel statistics indicate whether clear channel assessments for transmission on a shared resource are successful. The method includes transmitting information corresponding to the channel statistics to a network device.
US12317314B2
Methods and apparatuses for downlink control information. A method at a network device comprises determining a format of downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling of downlink shared channel in a 2-step random access procedure. The method further comprises determining an identifier used for scrambling cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the format of DCI. The identifier comprises at least one of a common identifier or a specific identifier. The method further comprises transmitting information regarding a scheduled downlink shared channel with the format of DCI with the CRC scrambled by the identifier on a downlink control channel to at least one terminal device.
US12317313B2
A method for configuring a search space includes: generating, by an access network equipment, search space configuration information, the search space configuration information including a configuration of a first search space and a configuration of a second search space, the configuration of the first search space being configured to indicate the first search space for carrying a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first PDCCH being a PDCCH corresponding to message B in a 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedure, the configuration of the second search space being configured to indicate the second search space for carrying a second PDCCH, the second PDCCH being a PDCCH corresponding to message 2 in a 4-step RACH procedure, the first search space and the second search space are different search spaces; and transmitting, by the access network equipment, the search space configuration information.
US12317310B2
Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for SL SR and SL BSR transmission. In an embodiment of the present application, the method includes triggering a sidelink (SL) buffer status report (BSR) for an SL logical channel; triggering an SL scheduling request (SR) transmission triggered by the SL BSR for the SL logical channel; determining whether to cancel the triggered SL SR transmission; and canceling the triggered SL SR transmission in response to the triggered SL SR transmission being determined to be cancelled.
US12317300B2
To appropriately perform communication that uses a precoding group in a future radio communication system, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink shared channel precoded per Precoding Resource Group (PRG) configured to include a given number of frequency resources; and a control section that controls the reception of the downlink shared channel that is scheduled by a downlink control channel of a control resource set configured by common information of a downlink control channel configuration, and includes the PRG partitioned from a given resource number included in the control resource set or an initial downlink BWP.
US12317290B2
A method and a device for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, transmit ACK/NACK information pooled by a UL grant DCI via a PUSCH without a UL-SCH.
US12317289B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Next generation of wireless cellular operation is expected to be deployed in higher frequency above 6 GHz (e.g., 10 GHz˜100 GHz, also called mmWave and/or cmWave) due to availability of large amount of spectrum bandwidths. The physical layer of wireless cellular system in both DL and UL operating in mmWave/cmWave would be based on new air-interface different from that of LTE-A air-interface because the radio characteristics is different for mmWave/cmWave bands. The wireless system deployed in mmWave/cmWave system is expected to employ DL beam sweeping on broadcast control information to provide cell coverage to the UE which would result in excessive signaling overhead.
US12317287B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives a CORESET configuration specifying one or more properties of a first CORESET. The UE also determines time and frequency resource elements of the first CORESET based on the one or more properties. The UE performs blind decoding on down-link control channel candidates in a search space carried by the first CORESET to obtain a down-link control channel.
US12317283B2
A base station of a network configures a first search space having a first search space identification (SearchSpaceId) in a special cell (SpCell) and a second search space having a second search space identification (SearchSpaceId) in a secondary cell (SCell) for monitoring control signaling that schedules operations on the SpCell. The base station transmits a radio resource control (RRC) configuration to a user equipment (UE) including the first SSID and the second SSID, wherein the RRC configuration configures the UE to monitor the first search space having the first SSID for scheduling of a first type of control signaling and the second search space having the second SSID for scheduling of a second type of control signaling.
US12317279B2
A method for communication processing performed by a network device may include: configuring at least one of at least two time domain parameters or at least two received beams for a user equipment (UE) to receive the same downlink control information (DCI), where each of the at least two time domain parameters includes a time domain position; and sending the DCI to the UE via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on the basis of the at least two time domain parameters.
US12317271B2
A first communication device generates a first physical layer (PHY) data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use a channel bandwidth greater than a maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the first PHY data unit to a second communication device during an association process with the second communication device. The first communication device generates a second PHY data unit that includes information indicating a capability to use at most the maximum channel bandwidth of the first communication device, and transmits the second PHY data unit to the second communication device when the first communication device is associated with the second communication device.
US12317270B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining resources to use for deferred transmission of acknowledgment feedback. An example method generally includes monitoring for a semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); determining that a first resource, identified by a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource identifier (PRI), for transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with acknowledgment feedback for the SPS PDSCH collides with a downlink resource; identifying a second resource for transmitting the PUCCH based on parameters associated with the first PRI or a second PRI; and transmitting the PUCCH on the second resource.
US12317266B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for user equipment (UE) indication of uplink scheduling information to a base station. The uplink scheduling information may provide information on a periodic traffic pattern, such as for periodic extended reality (XR) data flows. The uplink scheduling information may provide uplink assistance information (UAI) to a base station to assist the base station with providing uplink resources that efficiently serve an XR session. The UAI may indicate one or more of a periodicity of uplink traffic, an offset between uplink traffic and a packet arrival, a data size for uplink traffic for each time period associated with the XR session, a request to enable uplink transmission skipping, or any combinations thereof. A base station may provide one or more dynamic grants, configured grants, or proactive grants to a UE based on the uplink scheduling information.
US12317262B2
The present application relates to a user equipment, a base station and method for transmitting uplink control information to multiple transmission reception points. The base station transmits a configuration to the user equipment. The user equipment is indicated by the configuration that a plurality of uplink control information are associated with a designated index. When the plurality of uplink control information associated with the designated index are ready to be transmitted, the user equipment transmits the plurality of uplink control information to the base station. The base station receives the plurality of uplink control information associated with the designated index.
US12317257B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform multiple TTI PUSCH transmissions in a wireless communication system as well as code block groups (CBGs) based retransmissions operations. A UE may perform radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a network entity to configure a data structure that may include one or more sets of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission configurations, where each set of PUSCH transmission configurations span multiple TTIs. The wireless device may be configured to receive, from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message that may include a time domain resource assignment field (TDRA) that may indicate a set of PUSCH transmission configurations included in the data structure. The wireless device may perform PUSCH transmissions spanning multiple TTIs according to the indicated set of PUSCH transmission configurations over an unlicensed band.
US12317250B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device, which may implement combining and/or discarding of a divided channel resource, mapping of a reference signal and mapping of a data transport block may be performed according to different channel resource assumptions, which can not only improve system efficiency, avoid resource waste, but also avoid collisions between a DMRS and data which affects demodulation of normal data. The method includes that: a terminal device determines a first channel to which at least one data transport block TB is mapped, where the first channel is obtained by combining at least two second channels; and the terminal device transmits the at least one data TB on the first channel.
US12317247B2
A communication system includes multiple nodes of a time-sensitive network and a scheduler device. At least one of the nodes is configured to obtain a first signal that is represented in a frequency domain by multiple frequency components. The scheduler device generates a schedule for transmission of signals including the first signal within the time-sensitive network. The schedule defines multiple slots assigned to different discrete frequency sub-bands within a frequency band. The slots have designated transmission intervals. The nodes are configured to transmit the first signal through the time-sensitive network to a listening device such that the first signal is received at the listening device within a designated time window according to the schedule. At least some of the frequency components of the first signal are transmitted through the time-sensitive network within different slots of the schedule based on the frequency sub-bands assigned to the slots.
US12317245B2
Devices, systems and methods for implementing beam failure management techniques at a user equipment (UE). The UE receives a timing advance command (TAC) from a currently camped cell and initiates a time advance timer (TAT). When the TAT is running the UE is in a first operating state. The first operating state indicates that the UE is in time alignment with the cell. The UE identifies that the TAT has expired. When the TAT is not running the UE is in a second operating state. The second operating state indicates that the UE is not in time alignment with the cell. The UE implements one or more beam failure management techniques based on the UE operating in the second operating state.
US12317243B2
A system for monitoring cellular communications including a passive sensor device, processors, and memory devices. The memory devices having instructions that cause the processors to identify active downlink channels using a first radio to monitor each channel in a cellular spectrum and store downlink channel information, including configuration data, for each of the identified active downlink channels. The processors identify active uplink channels using a second radio to monitor each channel in the cellular spectrum and store uplink channel information for each of the identified active uplink channels. The processors correlate one of the active uplink channels with a corresponding active downlink channel and tune a third radio to the active uplink channel using the configuration data for the corresponding active downlink channel. The processors also tune a fourth radio to the active downlink channel corresponding to the at least one active uplink channel using the corresponding configuration data.
US12317241B2
A UE apparatus is provided for NR V2X Mode 2 resource selection. The UE apparatus includes a transceiver; and a processor configured to identify a sensing window and a resource selection window, monitor for sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by neighbor UEs in the sensing window, determine a resource for transmitting data in the resource selection window, and transmit, via the transceiver, data using the determined resource. The sensing window includes a mandated sensing duration for detection of aperiodic traffic prior to transmission by the transceiver.
US12317232B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining when to apply downlink control information (DCI)-based updates. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a downlink control information (DCI) indicating an update to be applied to at least one of an uplink (UL) transmission or a downlink (DL) transmission, determining an application time for applying the update based, at least in part, on a slot where an acknowledgement (ACK) was transmitted, and applying the update in accordance with the determined application time.
US12317227B2
A method and apparatus performing operations for paging monitoring control in a wireless device is provided. The operations include monitoring at least one paging identifier in a first radio resource control state a radio resource configuration is maintained for a user equipment. The operations further include transitioning from the first radio resource control state to a second radio resource control state, and monitoring at least two different paging identifiers in the second radio resource control state.
US12317220B2
Systems and methods for determining a physical location of access points in a wireless network that include a plurality of access points, the plurality of access points in the wireless network including anchor access points with respective known locations and unanchored access points without respective known locations, may include: a first plurality of unanchored access points neighboring the anchor access points receiving known-location information from the anchor access points, performing range measurements to the anchor access points to determine their respective locations in the wireless network, thereby becoming pseudo-anchor access points; a second plurality of unanchored access points in communicative contact with a plurality of the pseudo-anchor points receiving the determined-location information from the pseudo-anchor access points, performing range measurements to the pseudo-anchor access points to determine their respective locations in the wireless network, thereby becoming pseudo-anchor access points.
US12317209B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method of an electronic shelf label system, a system, a computer device and a storage medium. The method includes: configuring, by a server, an offset of each of base stations in a corresponding synchronization sub-network based on neighboring relationships between all the base stations in each of the synchronization sub-networks, so that each of the base stations calculates synchronization frame transmission time in a predetermined signal transmission cycle based on the offset; calculating, by each of the base stations, idle time in a synchronization channel based on the synchronization frame transmission time, so that each of the base stations receives a target synchronization frame sent by a superior base station in the idle time of the synchronization channel. According to the present disclosure, the synchronization frames sent by all the base stations has central and adjacent feature in time.
US12317203B2
Method and apparatus for maintaining C-V2X timing (e.g., in platoon scenarios). The apparatus of a slave UE determines a thermal condition of the respective slave UE within a platoon of UEs. The apparatus performs synchronization with a first synchronization source, directly or indirectly, based on the thermal condition of the slave UE. Synchronization is performed directly with the first synchronization source in response to a determination that the thermal condition of the slave UE is below a threshold. Synchronization is performed indirectly with the first synchronization source through a master UE within the platoon of UEs in response to a determination that the thermal condition exceeds a threshold. The apparatus may receive, from a master UE within the platoon of UEs, SLSS to synchronize indirectly to the first synchronization source through the master UE.
US12317200B2
A power adjustment method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: detecting whether first information meets a first preset condition, where the first information includes at least one of the following: a first retransmission rate for uplink data, an actual transmission power for uplink data, or a first maximum transmission rate for uplink data, where the first maximum transmission power is a power threshold for transmitting the uplink data configured by a network device for the electronic device; and in a case that the first information meets the first preset condition, using a preset power control algorithm to adjust the first maximum transmission power to a target transmission power, where the target transmission power is greater than the first maximum transmission power and less than or equal to an inherent maximum transmission power of a radio frequency device of the electronic device.
US12317196B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters comprising pathloss reference linking indicators for SRS resource sets of a first cell associated with one or more TRPs, wherein each SRS resource set of the SRS resource sets comprises SRS resources, and each SRS resource set is associated with a respective pathloss reference linking indicator of the pathloss reference linking indicators, indicating a cell index identifying a pathloss reference cell. The wireless device transmits, via SRS resources of a first SRS resource set of the SRS resource sets in the first cell, SRSs with a transmission power determined based on a first pathloss RS of a first pathloss reference cell, wherein the first pathloss reference cell is indicated by a first pathloss reference linking indicator, of the pathloss reference linking indicators, associated with the first SRS resource set.
US12317194B2
There is provided a power headroom report method, a configuring method, a power control method, a data transmission method, a terminal, a base station and an apparatus of the same. The data transmission method may include: acquiring configuration information for uplink or downlink data transmission; determining whether a front loaded reference signal is transmitted according to the acquired configuration information; in response to determining that the reference signal is transmitted, transmitting the reference signal before the data transmission or at the same time when the data transmission starts and performing uplink data transmission or downlink data reception; and in response to determining that the reference signal is not transmitted, directly performing the uplink data transmission or the downlink data reception.
US12317188B2
Examples of a system and wireless RF device having an extended operational life are provided. The wireless RF device includes a substrate, at least one sensor configured to detect an occurrence of an event, a RF transceiver arranged on the substrate and configured to transmit and receive RF signals in an area, and a power supply coupled with the substrate. A processing device is coupled to the at least one sensor and the RF transceiver, and configured to: in response to expiration of a time period or the detection of the occurrence of an event, transition the RF device from a sleep or standby mode to an active mode; configure the RF transceiver to receive or transmit a data packet; obtain a status of an occurrence of another event from the at least one sensor; and transition the RF device from the active mode to the sleep or standby mode.
US12317185B2
A system comprising an interface to access a network slice power consumption parameter for a network slice comprising a logical network between two endpoints through a plurality of physical computing platforms; and a controller comprising circuitry, the controller to specify operating parameters for a plurality of hardware resources of a first physical computing platform in accordance with the network slice power consumption parameter.
US12317183B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for NSSAI configuration. One method includes determining a configured network slice selection assistance information for a public land mobile network for a remote unit in response to a trigger from an access and mobility management function. The access and mobility management function, a network slice selection function, or a combination thereof determines the configured network slice selection assistance information. The method includes providing the configured network slice selection assistance information to the remote unit via the access and mobility management function.
US12317175B2
The systems, devices, and methods provide agents that implement self-organized partitioning with the connectivity recovery through self-healing using local information. A method may include determining, by a wireless device, one or more metrics for each agent and/or for each partition of the one or more other agents using internal and neighboring state information from information with respect to validity and/or a quality of a connection by an evaluating agent of the wireless device to each partition based on an agent type of the evaluating agent. The agent type may include a first agent and a second agent. The method may further include determining, by the first wireless device, one or more agent operations to be deployed by a wireless interface of the first wireless device with respect to the first agent or the second agent, based on the one or more metrics and the agent type.
US12317172B2
Examples described herein relate to a method for reconfiguring a beacon by an access point (AP) to minimize or avoid network outages experienced by client devices connected to the AP. The AP transmits a beacon comprising a basic service set identifier (BSSID) field and a Multiple BSSID (MBSSID) element. The MBSSID element corresponds to an MBSSID set comprising a transmitted BSSID associated with a transmitted virtual access point (VAP) and a non-transmitted BSSID associated with a non-transmitted VAP, where the BSSID field in the beacon is set to the transmitted BSSID. Further, the AP reconfigures the beacon to generate a reconfigured beacon upon determining that the transmitted VAP is non-functional. In particular, the BSSID field in the reconfigured beacon is set to the non-transmitted BSSID of the MBSSID set. Moreover, the AP transmits the reconfigured beacon to the client device.
US12317163B2
A method for providing targeted alerts by a telecommunications system includes receiving, by a server subsystem, an alert message from an alert originator system. The alert message indicates an emergency associated with an area. The method includes passing the alert message to multiple mobile devices. The method also includes receiving a request message at a lookup subsystem of the telecommunications system generated by an instance of a mobile application on a mobile device based on the alert message. The method includes performing a lookup at a database for additional information associated with the alert message. The additional information identifies the geographic area associated with the emergency. The method further includes communicating the additional information to the particular mobile device thereby enabling the instance of the mobile application to perform an action related to the alert message to a user of the particular mobile device.
US12317157B2
An electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry that receives location information from tags that are coupled to different items. The electronic device may keep track of the different items using the tags. The electronic device may include control circuitry that analyzes historical tracking data from the tags to identify patterns and relationships between the tags. Based on the historical tracking data, the control circuitry may classify some tagged items as bags for other tagged items and may automatically alert the user when a tagged item is missing from its bag. The control circuitry may generate rules based on the historical tracking data, such as rules regarding acceptable ranges between tagged items and acceptable ranges between tagged items and the electronic device. The control circuitry may determine when to provide real-time location information and other notifications for a tagged item based on the historical tracking data.
US12317149B2
A wireless device communicates, with a first base station, based on a first next hop chaining count (NCC) value. The wireless device receives, from the first base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a second NCC value. The wireless device determines a failure of the communicating with the first base station based on the first NCC value. The wireless device selects, based on the failure, a cell of a second base station. The wireless device transmits, to the second base station, based on the second NCC value received from the first base station, a second RRC message requesting to establish an RRC connection with the second base station.
US12317147B2
Embodiments include methods for an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless network to migrate from a first centralized unit (CU) to a second CU. Such methods include receiving a handover command from the first CU via a source parent IAB node. The handover command includes an identifier of a target cell for the handover. Such methods include determining that the handover command is for an inter-CU migration of the IAB node to the second CU and, based on determining that the handover command is for an inter-CU migration, performing modified handling of uplink and/or downlink data buffered at the IAB node until execution of the handover command. Embodiments also include complementary methods for handling migration of a child IAB node from a first CU to a second CU, as well as IAB nodes configured to perform such methods.
US12317146B2
A method of configuring a set of active cells among neighboring cells to reduce latency and interruption for inter-cell mobility is proposed. The set of active cells is an active set of cells among which UE can do fast cell switching. The set of active cells is configured by the network based on UE measurement report or network deployment information. UE maintains the configuration and can perform pre-synchronization to the configured active cells in downlink (DL) only or in both DL and uplink (UL). UE maintains the DL/UL synchronization with the active cells, and applies configuration once UE is indicated to switch to an active cell as the target cell. Because UE maintains the configuration and DL/UL timing of the target cell before receiving the cell-switch command, the mobility latency and interruption time for inter-cell mobility is reduced.
US12317140B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that enable predictive device mobility session management in a wireless network. A wireless communications network is able to maintain IP session continuity as a wireless device roams among wireless access points of the communications network by ensuring that the wireless device maintains communications with its home wireless access gateway.
US12317138B2
A method for implementing multicast broadcast service handover includes: acquiring a protocol data unit (PDU) session associated with a multicast broadcast service (MBS) session, single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) of the PDU session being the same as S-NSSAI of the MBS session, a data network name (DNN) of the PDU session being the same as a DNN of the MBS session; acquiring an MBS session identity of the MBS session; acquiring policy rule information corresponding to the activated MBS session from a policy control function (PCF) according to the MBS session identity, one or more pieces of policy rule information being provided; and establishing a quality of service flow corresponding to the activated MBS session on the PDU session according to the policy rule information corresponding to the activated MBS session, one or more quality of service flows being provided.
US12317133B2
A communication control method according to an embodiment is a method in a mobile communication system in which a data transfer path via at least one of relay apparatuses is configured between a donor base station and a user equipment. In the communication method, a relay apparatus is configured to activate a timer when establishment of a radio connection with an upper apparatus or activation of a relay function of the relay apparatus is rejected by the upper apparatus, or when the radio connection is released by the upper apparatus. The upper apparatus is another relay apparatus under the donor base station or the donor base station. The timer is configured to define time during which establishment of a radio connection with the upper apparatus or notification indicating an intention of activating the relay function to the upper apparatus needs to be avoided.
US12317130B2
In accordance an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method may comprise: identifying an inter-system change from a first mode to a second mode, transferring a data session established in the first mode to the second mode from the first mode, determining whether the UE and a network entity in the second mode support a header compression, and initiating, based on a result of the identifying, a procedure for negotiating a header compression configuration in the transferred data session, wherein the first mode is one of N1 an mode or an S1 mode, and the second mode is the other of the N1 mode or the S1 mode.
US12317129B2
A Bluetooth communication method, a Bluetooth communication device, and a Bluetooth communication system are provided. The Bluetooth communication method comprises: segmenting a first signal data based on a length of a first time slice, performing a compression-encoding to construct a plurality of first private-chain packets; constructing and transmitting a plurality of first-standard Bluetooth packets, and transmitting one of the plurality of first private-chain packets to a second terminal of a device of the link in an idle time of a transmission slot in which one corresponding first-standard Bluetooth packet is transmitted, so that the second terminal of the device obtains the first signal data by decoding the corresponding first private-chain packet. The above method transmits the signal data in the idle time, thereby improving the efficiency of signal transmission and reducing communication latency.
US12317124B2
The disclosure relates to a 5th Generation (5G) or 6th Generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a session management function (SMF) entity in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a user plane function (UPF) entity, information indicating a list of quality of service (QoS) flows over which access performance measurements are to be performed, receiving, from the UPF entity, information indicating user datagram protocol (UDP) ports allocated for the QoS flows, and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), information including the list of QoS flows and the UDP ports.
US12317123B2
A method for determining a radio resource includes: a first target network is determined from a plurality of networks when a terminal simultaneously accesses the plurality of networks through a plurality of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards; and data scheduling is performed on a radio resource of the first target network if the plurality of networks have a data scheduling conflict on a same radio resource.
US12317120B1
A method and system to control transport block size (TBS) that a user equipment device (UE) served by an access node will use for uplink air-interface transmission from the UE to the access node, the TBS defining a quantity of data that the UE will provide in the uplink air-interface transmission. An example method includes (i) determining a rate of uplink backhaul packet loss of the backhaul interface and (ii) using the determined rate of uplink backhaul packet loss as a basis to control what TBS the UE will use for the uplink air-interface transmission.
US12317116B2
Provided are a measurement indication method, an apparatus, and a system. The specific solution is as follows: UE receives first information sent by a network-side device, where the first information is measurement configuration information or system information; and the UE determines second information based on the first information, where the second information includes a first target radio access technology RAT type. The first information is the measurement configuration information, and the second information is used to indicate a region measured by the UE and corresponding to the first target RAT type; or the first information is the system information, and the second information is used to indicate that a measurement result obtained through measurement by the UE and corresponding to the first target RAT type is valid.
US12317115B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technology, and provides a measurement gap configuration method, a node and a UE. The measurement gap configuration method for a first node includes configuring a measurement gap for a UE. The measurement gap includes at least one of a per-UE measurement gap for the UE, a per-CG measurement gap for each cell group corresponding to the UE, or a per-CC measurement gap for a component carrier corresponding to the UE.
US12317110B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a channel measurement method and apparatus, and a communication device. Inter-frequency signal measurement can be performed during a temporary measurement gap, where the temporary measurement gap is different from a periodic measurement gap used for inter-frequency signal measurement.
US12317108B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a single rank reference signal. The UE may obtain, for multiple candidate beams, one or more single rank measurements from the single rank reference signal. The UE may identify, for each respective candidate beam included among the multiple candidate beams and based at least in part on the one or more single rank measurements obtained from the single rank reference signal for the respective candidate beam, a multiple rank spectral efficiency metric. The UE may identify, from among the multiple candidate beams and based at least in part on the multiple rank spectral efficiency metric associated with each respective candidate beam, a beam to use to communicate with the network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12317106B2
The present disclosure provides a processing method for terminal measurement and a terminal. The processing method includes: receiving a first indication; performing a first operation based on the first indication, where the first operation includes one of the following: if it is determined, based on the first indication, that measurement needs to be performed, performing measurement on a measurement object to obtain a measurement result; if it is determined, based on the first indication, that no measurement needs to be performed, skipping performing measurement is performed; determining a measurement object based on the first indication, and performing measurement on the measurement object to obtain a measurement result; or if it is determined, based on the first indication, that measurement needs to be performed, determining a measurement object based on the first indication, and performing measurement on the measurement object to obtain a measurement result.
US12317104B2
A method and device for allocating beam failure request resources. The method is performed by a terminal configured with multiple beam failure request resources. The multiple beam failure request resources consist of physical uplink control channel beam failure request resources configured for service cells in multiple service cell groups configured for the terminal. The method includes: detecting whether there is a first secondary cell in which a beam failure has occurred; and if so, selecting from the multiple beam failure request resources, according to whether the first secondary cell is configured with a beam failure request resource, one beam failure request resource as a resource for sending a beam failure request.
US12317102B2
A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having radio means for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network, wherein the radio access network includes control means 700 operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The control means processes control plane signalling.
US12317100B2
A first access network device allocates, to a second access network device based on an obtained quantity, supported by a terminal, of data radio bearers (DRBs) to which a data frame compression function is applied, a quantity of DRBs the second access network device can configure for the terminal and to which the function is applied can configure, and notifies the second access network device of an allocation result.
US12317097B2
An information handling system executing an intelligent throughput performance analysis and issue detection system may comprise a network interface device to establish a wireless link with a wireless network and a processor to execute a neural network trained to predict wireless link throughput values based on controlled connectivity testing metrics gathered in a controlled laboratory from tested information handling systems. The processor may gather measured throughput of the wireless link and operational connectivity metrics for the information handling system that describe antenna positional information, antenna adaptation controller parameters, signal strength measurements, and wireless link performance metrics. The neural network may output, based on the gathered operational connectivity metrics a predicted throughput value that differs from the measured throughput by a maximum tolerance. The network interface device may transmit a notification of erroneously predicted throughput, the neural network output, and the operational connectivity metrics to a remote neural network training platform for retraining.
US12317096B2
Systems and methods for relocating network nodes are provided herein. A network node can determine that relocation of at least one access node in the access network is required. An access node, such an IAB node with mobile capabilities, can be selected to be relocated from a first position to a second position. Relocation messages and parameters can be signaled between the network and the access node.
US12317094B2
A communication method and an apparatus providing a PCI allocation and optimization solution are provided. The method includes that a distributed unit receives first information sent by a central unit, where the first information includes at least one of the following: allowed PCI information, unallowed PCI information, or PCI conflict information; and the distributed unit determines a PCI of a serving cell of the distributed unit based on the first information.
US12317092B2
A user equipment of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The user equipment includes a communication module, and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a radio frame divided into a plurality of subframes through the communication module, and perform a UL transmission in a partial subframe having a duration shorter than one subframe duration to the base station based on at least one of an indication of a base station and a result of a channel access of the wireless communication system.
US12317088B2
A method for selecting a radio resource management scheme is disclosed. A distance between two wireless access points of two wireless local area networks is received. A calculated signal strength corresponding to the distance is determined. One or more signal strengths associated with communication between the two wireless access points are received. A difference between a first value associated with the received one or more signal strengths and a second value associated with the calculated signal strength is determined. The difference is compared to a threshold difference value to determine an environment assessment result. Based on the environment assessment result, an option among a plurality of radio resource management scheme options is selected for at least the two wireless access points.
US12317084B2
Various embodiments include systems and methods of implementing radio frequency (RF) capture analysis reporting. The implementing may include receiving RF data captured by RF capture component(s) positioned at location(s) within a physical environment. The captured RF data includes RF device metrics associated with RF device(s) identified by the RF capture component(s) as being located within the physical environment. One or more analysis operations may be performed with respect to the RF device(s) based at least in part on the RF device metrics. Based at least in part on a result of the analysis operation(s), a potential security vulnerability associated with a particular RF device may be identified. A report may be generated that identifies at least the potential security vulnerability associated with the particular RF device.
US12317083B2
A method of operating an access point in a wireless network is provided. The method can include detecting that a client in the wireless network is connecting to, connected to, or communicating with an unauthorized access point. The method can further include using the access point to send a spoofed management frame impersonating the unauthorized access point to the client in response to detecting that the client is connected to or communicating with the unauthorized access point. The spoofed management frame can include a channel switch announcement information element and/or an extended channel switch announcement information element directing the client to switch to a new channel so that the client disconnects from the unauthorized access point.
US12317081B2
Disclosed are techniques for detecting a potential false base station (FBS). In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) or a location server obtains a first location estimate of the UE based on a cellular network-based positioning procedure involving one or more cells, obtains a second location estimate of the UE based on a non-cellular network-based positioning procedure, determines whether or not a difference between the first location estimate and the second location estimate is greater than a distance threshold, and performs a mitigation operation based on the difference being greater than the distance threshold.
US12317079B2
An apparatus for verifying an integrity of a device connected to a telecommunication network. The apparatus comprises at least one transceiver configured to broadcast a signal to the device via a non-network channel outside the telecommunication network for causing the device to provide a response to the signal depending on the integrity of the device. Further, the apparatus comprises an attestation server configured to receive the device's response and verify the integrity of the device depending on the device's response.
US12317078B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to an exemplary system, including: an access controlling platform, executing software instructions that instruct to generate an expectation data record as an access control mechanism to access an access-restricted digital resource, the expectation data record including: access code and identity linked to a computing device; where the access code is associated with the access-restricted digital resource; receive a mobile originating communication having data that includes a particular access code and a particular identity; perform a confirmation of the expectation data record with the mobile originating communication; instruct a cellular communications network to perform, based on at least one part of the data, at least one action with the cellular network hosted access controlling schema to generate a session record associated with the particular identity; and instruct to unlock the access-restricted digital resource for the accessing via the computing device.
US12317075B2
A network may include an International Serials Data System (ISDS) that is configured to register and determine an identity of a receiving or originating user equipment (UE) that has a home network that operates using a different format or standard than the current network. The ISDS may be configured to generate transmissions on behalf of the UE for registration and identification for outgoing and incoming voice or text messages using the format of both networks.
US12317074B2
Examples described herein relate to techniques for routing application data through a selected network slice based on validation of an application entitlement request. In some examples, an entitlement system may receive an application entitlement request corresponding to an application that is on a user equipment. The entitlement system may validate the authenticity of the application based on the application authenticity information from the entitlement request. The entitlement device may in response to validation of the application entitlement request, send an application entitlement response to the user equipment such that the user equipment selects a network slice to route application data corresponding to the application.
US12317071B2
A communication apparatus for performing communication in a first mode of wirelessly communicating with a terminal apparatus via an external wireless base station or in a second mode without intervention of the external wireless base station, comprising communication means for executing a first authentication method used in communication in the first mode, and a second authentication method used in communication in the first mode and using an authentication server, and control means, wherein, in the first mode, if an authentication method in the first mode is the second authentication method, the control means controls the communication means to be able to use the first mode, and if an authentication method in the first mode is the first authentication method, the control means controls the communication means to be able to use both the first and the second modes.
US12317066B2
Provided herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an interactive visual representation of loudspeaker sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment enables temporal, spectral, and spatial audio metering from digital audio to venue acoustics. This technology can visualize audio capabilities of one or more loudspeaker arrays using light to provide visualization grouping of large audio channel outputs. This can allow spatial information to be visually represented by mapping directional sound to light beams.
US12317064B2
A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed. According to examples of the method, an audio event associated with the mixed reality environment is detected. The audio event is associated with a first audio signal. A location of the user with respect to the mixed reality environment is determined. An acoustic region associated with the location of the user is identified. A first acoustic parameter associated with the first acoustic region is determined. A transfer function is determined using the first acoustic parameter. The transfer function is applied to the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal, which is then presented to the user.
US12317063B2
The present disclosure relates to a hearing device comprising a first radar sensor configured for obtaining first radar data indicative of a shape of a first pinna of the first ear of a user. A processing unit of the hearing device is configured to receive the first radar data from the first radar sensor, and determine, based on the first radar data, a shape of the first pinna.
US12317058B2
Systems and methods for modifying spatial audio are described. One of the methods includes obtaining a first set of metadata for a first set of audio data and a second set of metadata for a second set of audio data. The first and second sets of metadata and the first and second sets of audio data are associated with a display of a virtual scene. The method further includes encoding the first set of audio data to output a first soundfield and the second set of audio data to output a second soundfield. The method also includes mixing the first and second soundfields to output a mixed soundfield, decoding the mixed soundfield based on at least one of the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata to provide mixed audio data, and outputting the mixed audio data as an audio output.
US12317056B2
An apparatus for rendering communication audio signal within an immersive audio scene, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal for rendering within the immersive audio scene; obtain the communication audio signal and positional information associated with the communication audio signal; obtain a rendering processing parameter associated with the communication audio signal; determine a rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter; determine an insertion point in a rendering processing for the determined rendering method and/or a selection of rendering elements for the determined rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter.
US12317050B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker module. The speaker module includes a housing body, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The housing body includes a support frame having a through cavity, a front cover mounted on the through cavity opening side of the support frame, and a back cover mounted on the side of the support frame away from the front cover. The vibration system, the support frame and the back cover are enclosed to form a back cavity. The support frame includes an integrally injection-molded conductive element. This configuration of the present disclosure can simplify the manufacturing process of the speaker module, and reduce the application cost.
US12317042B2
A sub cone for use in a loudspeaker includes a slanted portion that has an aperture area that increases toward an emission direction in which sound is emitted from the loudspeaker and a rim portion that is annular in shape and extends linearly outward from an edge of a distal end of the slanted portion in a direction orthogonal to the emission direction.
US12317036B2
A hearing device includes: a pinna restorer for provision of a pinna output based on a first pinna input and a second pinna input, wherein the first pinna input is based on a primary first microphone input signal, and wherein the second pinna input is based on a primary second microphone input signal, the pinna restorer comprising: a first filter for provision of a first mixer input based on the first pinna input, a second filter for provision of a second mixer input based on the second pinna input, a first mixer for provision of a first mixer output based on the first mixer input and the second mixer input, and a pinna controller; and an input mixer for provision of an input mixer output based on the pinna output and a secondary mixer input, wherein the secondary mixer input is based on a secondary microphone input signal.
US12317023B2
Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.
US12317018B2
A cover plate includes a substrate provided and a bridge structure. The bridge structure includes first and second ribs, and a bridge body. The first rib has first forming fillet formed at junction between the first rib and the substrate, and second forming fillet formed at junction between the first rib and the bridge body. The first and second forming fillets each have a radius greater than 0.6 mm. An included angle formed between a length extending direction of first rib and a plane of bridge body is greater than 120°. The first rib has a width smaller than a width of the second rib. With comprehensive consideration of a bridge angle, a bridge forming angle and a bridge width in design of the bridge structure, the first rib and the second rib are force-balanced, reduces a fracture risk of the rib, and improves a yield of the cover plate.
US12317017B2
A speaker assembly includes: a housing, a support mounted to the housing, and a speaker mounted to the support. The housing has a first sound outlet and a first accommodating groove in communication with the first sound outlet through a sound output channel. At least a portion of the support is disposed in the first accommodating groove, a second accommodating groove is disposed at a side of the support away from the first sound outlet, a first opening is disposed at a side of the support close to the first sound outlet, and the second accommodating groove is in communication with the sound output channel through the first opening. At least a portion of the speaker is disposed in the second accommodating groove, the speaker has a second sound outlet, and the second sound outlet is in communication with the first opening.
US12317014B2
This application provides a training sequence determining method and a related device. The method in embodiments of this application includes: An ONU receives a first message sent by an OLT. Then, the ONU determines a target training sequence based on the first message, where the target training sequence is used to determine a working parameter of an equalizer in the OLT. Further, the ONU generates a first data frame including the target training sequence. In this application, the OLT may perform training based on the received target training sequence to determine the working parameter of the equalizer in the OLT.
US12317011B2
A solid-state imaging element synthesizes luminance signals and chrominance signals to obtain an image. The solid-state imaging element includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels. Each of the plurality of second pixels has a spectral response characteristic in white. The solid-state imaging element generates the chrominance signals, using output signals from the plurality of first pixels. The solid-state imaging element generates the luminance signals, using output signals from the plurality of second pixels, without using the output signals from the plurality of first pixels.
US12317003B2
There is provided with an imaging control apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains capturing information that defines a target position of a subject, that is an imaging target, in an image to be captured by an imaging unit. A detecting unit detects the subject that is the imaging target from an image captured by the imaging unit. An evaluating unit derives an evaluation pertaining to the imaging of the imaging target for the image, based on a position of the subject that is the imaging target detected by the detecting unit and the target position. A transmitting unit transmits data including the image and a result of the evaluation derived by the evaluating unit for the image.
US12317002B2
A method can include selecting, from at least a first avatar and a second avatar based on at least one attribute of a calendar event associated with a user, a session avatar, the first avatar being based on a first set of images of a user wearing a first outfit and the second avatar being based on a second set of images of the user wearing a second outfit, and presenting the session avatar during a videoconference, the presentation of the session avatar changing based on audio input received from the user during the videoconference.
US12317001B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium may storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to set a communication session for a conference in which a plurality of users participates through a server, transmit, to the server, an identifier of an avatar to be represented on a virtual space for the conference and coordinate information of the avatar in the virtual space, receive, from the server, resources of neighboring avatars selected based on the coordinate information, transmit, to the server, motion data of the avatar through the communication session, receive, from the server, motion data of the neighboring avatars through the communication session, and represent the neighboring avatars on the virtual space based on the resources of the neighboring avatars and the motion data of the neighboring avatars.
US12316999B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and displaying whiteboard text and/or an active speaker in a video-based presentation, e.g., a video conference. Video images of an environment including a whiteboard may be captured by a video camera system. The video images may be analyzed to detect at least one text-containing area in the environment. Each text-containing area may be analyzed to determine whether it is an area of a whiteboard. When a text-containing area is identified as a whiteboard area, an area of view including the text-containing whiteboard area may be selected for display, e.g., a subset of the full frame captured by the video system. A video feed from the video camera system may be controlled to display the selected area of view at a client device, to provide a useful view of the whiteboard text and/or a speaking person located near the whiteboard text.
US12316996B1
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object.
US12316995B2
In one embodiment, an infrared (IR) imaging system for determining a concentration of a target species in an object is disclosed. The imaging system can include an optical system including an optical focal plane array (FPA) unit. The optical system can have components defining at least two optical channels thereof, said at least two optical channels being spatially and spectrally different from one another. Each of the at least two optical channels can be positioned to transfer IR radiation incident on the optical system towards the optical FPA. The system can include a processing unit containing a processor that can be configured to acquire multispectral optical data representing said target species from the IR radiation received at the optical FPA. Said optical system and said processing unit can be contained together in a data acquisition and processing module configured to be worn or carried by a person.
US12316990B2
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensing system may include an illumination module and a sensor module. The sensor module may include an array of sensor pixels, pixel-level readout circuitry, and column-level readout circuitry coupled to the pixel-level readout circuitry via corresponding column lines. Pixel-level readout circuitry may be provided on a per-pixel basis (e.g., dedicated or unshared per-pixel readout circuitry may be provided for each pixel). Pixel-level readout circuitry may include one or more correlated double sampling stages and a storage stage. The storage stage may include a set of capacitors each configured to store different phase data generated by a corresponding pixel for a TOF sensing operation.
US12316979B2
An image sensor comprises a plurality of high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, and a processor for processing signals read out from the plurality of low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and the plurality of high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, where the processor is configured to read out signals from the plurality of low-sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements multiple times in a single frame after multiple exposures and obtain a plurality of images of low-sensitivity in the single frame at different times.
US12316977B2
An example electronic device may include a memory, an image sensor, and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory and the image sensor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to acquire, through the image sensor, a plurality of images including first images having a first size and at least one second image having a second size larger than the first size, acquire a first synthesis image based on the first images, acquire a first moving object portion from the first synthesis image, based on synthesis area information including at least one of moving object location information or background location information, identify a second moving object portion in the at least one second image, based on the synthesis area information, and acquire a second synthesis image by replacing the second moving object portion by the first moving object portion, and other embodiments are possible.
US12316974B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate detection of feature points by appropriately controlling exposure in a case of detecting feature points from a captured image and estimating a position and a posture of the self or the like. A position and a posture of an imaging unit or a mobile body that moves integrally with the imaging unit are estimated on the basis of feature points of a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and brightness of the captured image is controlled so that a ground image region included in the captured image has appropriate exposure.
US12316965B2
Systems for endoscopic visualization with advanced overlay image frames including color image data and multispectral or fluorescence image data. A system includes an image sensor comprising a pixel array that detects electromagnetic radiation and reads out a plurality of data frames. The system includes an image sensor processor that receives the plurality of data frames read out by the image sensor, wherein the plurality of data frames comprises a plurality of color data frames and a plurality of advanced data frames. The image signal processor renders a video stream comprising a plurality of advanced overlay data frames, wherein each of the plurality of advanced overlay data frames comprises a color data frame and a false color overlay generated based on an advanced data frame. The image signal processor executes an adaptive persistence algorithm to stabilize movement of the false color overlay across the plurality of advanced overlay data frames.
US12316960B2
A camera module includes a controller executing an anti-shock mode including a low power mode and a wakeup mode to alternately perform the low power mode and the wakeup mode when the anti-shock mode is enabled, and controlling a position of a lens based on a lens position detected during performing of the wakeup mode, a timer for generating an interrupt signal at predetermined wakeup time intervals and outputting the interrupt signal to the controller, while the anti-shock mode is executed, a lens position obtaining unit detecting the lens position and providing the detected lens position to the controller during the wakeup mode, and a lens driving unit adjusting the position of the lens to an anti-shock position according to position control of the controller during the wakeup mode.
US12316942B2
The present discloses a lens module, a camera and a portable electronic device. The lens module comprises a fixed component, a moving part and a dust absorption gel. The moving part comprises a lens holder for fixing a lens and driving the lens to move in the direction of an optical axis to realize focusing, and/or a movable frame for fixing an image sensing unit and driving the image sensing unit to move to realize image stabilization. One of the fixed component and the moving part is provided with an accommodating cavity with an opening, and the other is provided with a protrusion, which is inserted into the accommodating cavity from the opening in a first direction and is able to move in the accommodating cavity. The impact of foreign matter on the imaging quality caused by collision and friction between components of the lens module can be effectively avoided.
US12316941B2
A periscopic camera module, including: a first reflective element including a first reflective surface and used to reflect incident light and make the incident light longitudinally turn; an optical lens used to receive the light reflected by the first reflective element and output an imageable light beam to an image space; a second reflective element including at least one second reflective surface and adapted to make the imageable light beam transversely turn at least once; and a photosensitive chip adapted to receive the transversely turned imageable light beam, wherein at least one of all optical surfaces of the first reflective element and the second reflective element is provided with a light blocking structure, and the light blocking structure is arranged at an edge region of the at least one optical surface; and the optical surface includes a reflective surface, an incident surface, or an exit surface. The volume of the periscopic camera module can be reduced such that the structure of the periscopic camera module is more compact, and it can be better adapted to an optical lens with a large focal length, and can reduce or avoid the risk of introduction of stray light.
US12316939B2
Electronic camera filters comprise an electronic display configured for use with a camera system to provide different levels of image filtering, as a neutral density filter, for passage to a camera. The electronic display is programmable so that it may be calibrated to provide different desired filter levels associated with different settings of a camera lens iris, focus, zoom, or light meter measurement. The electronic display may be calibrated manually or by calibration information stored or otherwise downloaded into electronic display memory. The ability to program and calibrate the filter level setting enables the electronic display to be operated in synchrony with the camera lens iris, focus, zoom, or light meter it is calibrated with to provide a desired combined or synergistic optical characteristic. The electronic display may be controlled to provide synchronized operation by the same controller used to control the camera lens iris, focus, and/or or zoom.
US12316935B2
An electronic component assembly having thermal pads with thermal vias coupling an image sensor and a camera board fab is provided for heat dissipation. The electronic component assembly can include: a circuit board having at least one thermal pad disposed on a top surface of the circuit board; and an image sensor disposed on the top surface of the circuit board, having at least one conductive pad disposed at at least one corner of the image sensor. The at least one thermal pad is coupled to the at least one conductive pad of the image sensor and the at least one thermal pad is formed with a plurality of first thermal vias penetrating the thermal pad and the circuit board for transfer of heat of the image sensor.
US12316932B2
An image capture apparatus includes a heat sensitive assembly configured to support a battery. The image capture apparatus includes a heatsink spaced a distance from the heat sensitive assembly and a heat generating component that is spaced a distance from the heat sensitive assembly and the heatsink. The image capture apparatus includes a heat conductor that extends from the heat generating component to the heat sensitive assembly or the heatsink, and the heat conductor moves heat from the heat generating component to the heat sensitive assembly or the heatsink. The image capture apparatus includes an actuation mechanism that moves the heat conductor between the heat sensitive assembly and the heatsink.
US12316930B2
The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising a front body, a lens, a rear body, a first substrate, an image sensor, a second substrate, a connector and a cover, wherein the cover includes a bottom plate having a hole in which the connector is to be disposed, side plates extending from the bottom plate, and pressing unit disposed at the bottom plate and elastically supporting the connector, the connector includes a first surface facing the inner surface of the bottom plate of the cover, and a second surface extending from the first surface and disposed in the hole, and the pressing unit includes a first pressing part for pressing the first surface of the connector, and a second pressing part for pressing the second surface of the connector.
US12316926B2
A customized video stream is provided. A second content is searched for that includes the plurality of entities, and a plurality of user data associated with the social media account. A hierarchy of additional content is generated based, at least in part, on the second content that is associated with the plurality of entities, and the user data associated with the social media account, wherein the hierarchy of additional content contains a plurality of second content. A customized video stream is generated based, at least in part, on the video stream and the hierarchy of additional content. The customized video stream is populated on a display screen of the user device, wherein the video stream is displayed on the display screen of the user device, and the hierarchy of additional content is displayed in a portion of the display screen and displayed concurrently with the video stream.
US12316925B2
A data transmission method is applied to a decoding end of a network audio and video matrix system, and the decoding end is in communication connection with an encoding end and several secondary decoding ends. The data transmission method comprises: acquiring request data signaling from a secondary decoding end, wherein the request data signaling comprises a distribution data signaling receiving address of the secondary decoding end; determining whether a currently occupied distribution capability value reaches a maximum distribution capability value; and if yes, sending a secondary distribution device table to the secondary decoding end, such that the secondary decoding end sends the request data signaling to other secondary decoding ends in the secondary distribution device table, and after the sending of the secondary distribution device table is completed, disconnecting a network connection with the secondary decoding end.
US12316917B2
A mobile content viewing device plays and displays content on a display, stores a scene and a time in which the content is played and displayed, acquires a measured value of a light quantity sensor, compares the measured value with a predetermined natural light threshold value if determined the measured value is equal to or greater than the natural light threshold value, suggests re-viewing in which the content is returned to and played from a scene of the content displayed on the display at that time, and plays and displays the content again from the scene of the content displayed on the display at that if an input of an instruction for the re-viewing received.
US12316914B2
A system and method for updating a settop box (STB) architecture that can be used to immediately update a device without requiring the device to be reset/restarted. The device may be any type of device that simultaneously supports multiple applications. The architecture may be used to update one of the applications with new functionality in a seamless manner that allows the applications including the one application to continue to operate without interruption.
US12316908B2
An image processing system (100) and method therein for processing streaming media content to reduce disturbing spatial and/or temporal phenomena before being displayed on a device display. The image processing system (100) receives media stream comprising sequences of video frames into a buffer (110) and analyzes the video frames during streaming. The analyzing (130) is performed either on completely decoded or partially decoded video frames within a Group of Picture (GOP) to detect disturbing spatial and/or temporal phenomena. If a disturbing spatial and/or temporal phenomenon is detected, the image processing system (100) processes (140) the decoded video frames to reduce the disturbing spatial and/or temporal phenomenon based on user settings of the device and displays the processed video frames on the display (150).
US12316903B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video playback control method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first video playback instruction, where the first video playback instruction is triggered to be generated when a user clicks a video playback control within a first target display area in a music list display interface; and playing a first target video in the first target display area and expanding a height of the first target display area to a set height value, where the first target video takes a first target music, corresponding to the first target music item displayed in the first target display area, as background music. By adopting the above technical solution, the embodiment of the present disclosure may realize a function of playing, through the music list, a video whose background music is the music in the music list.
US12316897B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for real-time delivery of a target content in a streaming content. The method comprising receiving a request for streaming content from at least one user device [102]. The request comprises user segment information associated with the at least one user device. Next, the method comprises dynamically fetching at least one target content for the at least one user device [102] based on the user segment information. Next, the method comprises creating a customized virtual manifest by inserting the at least one target content in the requested streaming content in real-time. Next, the method comprises sending the customized virtual manifest to the at least one user device [102] based on the user segment information. Thereafter, the method comprises delivering the at least one target content in the requested streaming content to the at least one user device [102] based on the customized virtual manifest.
US12316887B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for replacing at least a part of a local time shift buffer of a user device with a remote time shift buffer.
US12316882B2
A video transcoding method includes: decoding a source video stream to obtain a first video frame and decoding information, and inserting watermark information into the first video frame to generate a second video frame; determining types of macroblocks in the second video frame based on the watermark information and the decoding information; for each macroblock, determining target encoding parameters required for encoding the macroblock based on the type of the macroblock and a rate distortion optimization (RDO) algorithm; and performing macroblock coding according to the target coding parameters of each macroblock, so as to generate a transcoded target video stream.
US12316874B2
A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a picture use a secondary transform for video encoding and decoding in INTRA mode and more particularly use a secondary transform for the transform units of a coding unit in intra sub partition mode. Different signaling and selection variants are proposed according to various parameters of the coding unit and transform unit.
US12316869B2
An encoder that; obtains two prediction images by performing motion compensation using two motion vectors; obtains a gradient value of each of pixels included in the two prediction images; derives a local motion estimation value for each of sub-blocks based on the pixel value and the gradient value of each of the pixels, the sub-blocks being obtained by partitioning the current block; and generates a final prediction image for the current block using the pixel value and the gradient value of each of the pixels, and the local motion estimation value derived for each of the sub-blocks. Each of the pixels in the two prediction images is interpolated with sub-pixel accuracy, and a reference range for the interpolation is included in a normal reference range that is referred to for motion compensation for the current block in normal inter prediction performed without using the local motion estimation value.
US12316863B2
Disclosed are systems and techniques for efficient real-time codec encoding of video files. In one embodiments, the techniques include receiving one or more intra-prediction modes, each having a corresponding cost; calculating a first cost of a chroma-from-luma intra-prediction mode; calculating a second cost of the chroma-from-luma intra-prediction mode; and calculating a final cost based on the first cost and the second cost. The techniques also include selecting a final intra-prediction mode; generating, based on the selected final intra-prediction mode, a block of predicted pixels that approximates a block of source pixels of an image frame; and encoding a first alpha value in a bitstream.
US12316861B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may be characterized by including a step for deriving residual samples by applying at least one of an LFNST or MTS to a transform coefficient, wherein whether to parse an LFNST index indicating an LFNST kernel is determined on the basis of whether zeroing-out has been performed on the LFNST, whether to parse an MTS index indicating an MTS kernel is determined on the basis of whether zeroing-out has been performed on the MTS, the MTS index is parsed on the basis of a color index of the current block being a luma component, and the LFNST index is parsed regardless of the color index of the current block.
US12316860B2
Innovations in unified intra block copy (“BC”) and inter prediction modes are presented. In some example implementations, bitstream syntax, semantics of syntax elements and many coding/decoding processes for inter prediction mode are reused or slightly modified to enable intra BC prediction for blocks of a frame. For example, to provide intra BC prediction for a current block of a current picture, a motion compensation process applies a motion vector that indicates a displacement within the current picture, with the current picture being used as a reference picture for the motion compensation process. With this unification of syntax, semantics and coding/decoding processes, various coding/decoding tools designed for inter prediction mode, such as advanced motion vector prediction, merge mode and skip mode, can also be applied when intra BC prediction is used, which simplifies implementation of intra BC prediction.
US12316859B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve video encoding. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to generate a pool of clipping index set candidates by executing a machine learning model, select a clipping index set from the pool of the clipping index set candidates based on a rate distortion cost associated with the clipping index set, the clipping index set including clipping coefficients, and filter a video frame based on the clipping coefficients.
US12316851B2
A method and for reconstructing chroma blocks and a video decoding apparatus are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, provided is a method for reconstructing a chroma block of a target block to be reconstructed. The method includes decoding correlation information between first residual samples and second residual samples, the first residual sample, and prediction information of the chroma block from a bitstream, wherein the first residual samples are residual samples of a first chroma component and the second residual samples are residual samples of a second chroma component. The method further includes generating predicted samples of the first chroma component and predicted samples of the second chroma information on the basis of the prediction information, and deriving the second residual samples by applying the correlation information to the first residual samples. The method further includes reconstructing a chroma block of the first chroma component by adding the first residual samples and the predicted samples of the first chroma component and reconstructing a chroma block of the second chroma component by adding the second residual samples and predicted samples of the second chroma component.
US12316848B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: applying an LFNST to transform coefficients so as to derive modified transform coefficients; and deriving residual samples for a target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises: determining whether a scaling list is applied to a current block on the basis of a tree type of the current block and whether the LFNST is applied; and deriving transform coefficients for the current block from residual information on the basis of the determination result, and when the tree type of the current block is a single tree and a chroma component, the scaling list can be applied.
US12316837B2
A method of filtering reconstructed video data is provided. The method receives an array of reconstructed luma samples including a P-block and a Q-block that are both adjacent to an intra sub-partitions (ISP) edge, and determines a first maximum filter length based on whether a first size of an edge of one of the P-block and the Q-block is less than 32. The edge of the one of the P-block and the Q-block is perpendicular to the ISP edge. The method further deblocks the array of the reconstructed luma samples based on the determined first maximum filter length.
US12316835B2
Disclosed are an inter-prediction method and an image decoding apparatus using the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an inter-prediction method including extracting a merge candidate flag and offset information from a bitstream, selecting a merge candidate corresponding to the extracted merge candidate flag from a merge candidate list including neighboring blocks of a current block as merge candidates, deciding a motion vector of the current block by applying the offset information to a motion vector of the selected merge candidate, and generating, as a prediction block of the current block, a block indicated by the motion vector of the current block in a reference picture referenced by the selected merge candidate.
US12316830B2
Object Known derivation, on a per intra prediction modes basis, of a template-based intra mode derivation based on a difference between a template prediction image and a template image has a problem that derivation of the template image and cost calculation require great computational resources. Solution Included are an intra prediction image generation unit configured to generate a template prediction image for an intra prediction mode candidate predetermined, a template cost derivation unit configured to derive a cost from the template prediction image and a template image corresponding to an image near a target block, and an intra prediction image generation unit configured to generate an intra prediction image by using a selected intra prediction mode, wherein the number of taps of an interpolation filter for the template prediction image is less than the number of taps of an interpolation filter for intra prediction.
US12316826B2
An optimal viewing angle adjustment method for a multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen, including steps of setting optimal angle parameter data between the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen and a viewer at a front end of the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen, disposing a detection device on the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen for viewer identification and distance identification, identifying a distance between the viewer and the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen by the detection device in real time, and transmitting a position and a direction of the viewer to the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen, and controlling the multi-dimensional spatial three-dimensional display screen to zoom in or out according to the position and the direction of the viewer.
US12316821B2
An adaptive background multiview image display system and method provides improved multiview image quality. Systems and methods may involve generating crosstalk data that reduces crosstalk between a first view of subject image and a second view of the subject image. The subject image may be a multiview image to be overlaid on a background image. A crosstalk violation may be detected in the subject image based on the crosstalk data. At least one of a color value or a brightness value of the background image is determined according to a degree of the crosstalk violation to generate the background image. The subject image may then be overlaid on the generated background image.
US12316818B2
An information processing apparatus includes a request reception unit configured to receive a request for executing an execution module, a first alteration detection unit configured to detect an alteration of a white list upon reception of the execution request, a second alteration detection unit configured to detect an alteration of an execution module which has issued the execution request, by using a white list determined to have no alteration by the first alteration detection unit, and an error control unit configured to, upon detection of an alteration by the second alteration detection unit, select and control whether to deactivate a system of the information processing apparatus or to inhibit only execution of the execution module which has issued the execution request, depending on a current activation mode of the information processing apparatus and an activation mode using the execution module which has issued the execution request.
US12316809B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to some embodiments, an assistant network node configured to communicate with a proxy network node is provided. The assistant network node includes processing circuitry configured to receive, over an internet, a request message associated with a digital assistant device where the request message inquires about a voicemail function of a voicemail system related to a user of a fixed or cellular network, access the voicemail system based at least in part on the request message where the accessing of the voicemail system is performed without establishing a voice channel in the fixed or cellular network, and return a response message to the digital assistant device over the internet based at least in part on the access of the voicemail system in the fixed or cellular network.
US12316808B1
Contact center requests are received at respective customer datacenters. The contact center requests are routed to respective agent datacenters resulting in respective engagements. Each engagement uses a respective customer datacenter and a respective agent datacenter. Respective scores are associated with the respective engagements based on the respective customer datacenters and the respective agent datacenters used by the respective engagements. An aggregation of the respective scores is output.
US12316800B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for inspecting mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising executing a de-trash operation on a mobile device, the de-trash operation resulting in the removal of extraneous material attached to the mobile device; categorizing an operating system of the mobile device; connecting the mobile device to a reading device and installing one or more software applications on the mobile device, the one or more software application operable to read one or more identifiers from the mobile device; visually inspecting the mobile device and classifying the physical condition of the mobile device; performing a functional test on the mobile device upon determining that the physical condition of the mobile device is free of defects; and removing all test data from the mobile device after performing the functional test and flashing the mobile device with a new operating system image.
US12316798B2
A smart dialing recommendation method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a mobile device are disclosed. The smart dialing recommendation method includes: establishing a database according to a correspondence between a plurality of different time intervals in a past time range and a plurality of communication numbers by using a machine learning algorithm; obtaining a time stamp; and determining whether the time stamp has expired. When it is determined that the time stamp has not expired, according to the correspondence in the database and a current time point, a recommended number corresponding to the current time point is retrieved from the plurality of communication numbers. When it is determined that the time stamp has expired, the machine learning algorithm is performed again to update the plurality of communication numbers.
US12316795B2
The disclosure provides a mobile terminal. A device housing of the mobile terminal includes a light-permeable portion and an external connection portion whereby an external lens assembly is able to positioned and mounted on an external connection region of the mobile terminal, and can cooperate with an image sensor assembly arranged inside a first assembly space in the device housing to achieve a shooting function.
US12316789B2
When a second operation to simultaneously update component data D12 to component data D13 and update component data D21 to component data D22 is performed, a controller of a client server creates a record RA3 including a hash value of the component data D13 in a distributed ledger which is a first proof chain and creates a record RB2 including a hash value of the component data D22 in a distributed ledger which is a second proof chain. The controller generates a terminal hash value including a record hash value of the record RA3 and a record hash value of the record RB2 and obtains a time stamp token for the terminal hash value.
US12316784B2
An issuing authority (IA) may validate the identity of a user and issue a digital license to the user. IA may generate IA public-private key pair, and provide IA public key to the certification authority (CA). IA may sign the digital license with IA private key, and provision the signed digital license on the user device. IA may request CA to certify the digital license. CA may use IA public key to validate the digital license, and sign IA public key with CA private key, thereby generating a digital certificate associated with the issuing authority that is linked to the digital license. A relying party may use CA public key to validate the digital license. The relying party can retrieve the information from the digital license and trust that the retrieved information is legitimate.
US12316777B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for issuing a cryptographically protected certificate of authenticity for a user comprising: providing a public user key; providing a public client key for a client, the public client key assigned to the user; forming a request including the public user key, wherein the public user key is protected with the aid of a private client key assigned to the provided public client key; and issuing a cryptographically protected certificate of authenticity containing the public user key and identifying the client. The cryptographically protected certificate of authenticity contains or references a cryptographic client identifier formed depending at least in part on the public client key.
US12316775B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a distributed network. The distributed network comprises a replicated system computing cluster comprising system computational units. The system computational units comprise deterministic subunits configured to perform a deterministic and replicated computation across the replicated system computing cluster and non-deterministic subunits for performing non-deterministic computations. The replicated system computing cluster is configured to perform a secure multi-party computation, in particular a computation of a threshold-signature.
US12316769B2
Disclosed herein is a method for storing blockchain transaction data. The method includes selecting at least one block file storing blockchain transactions as an encoding block file target, generating encoded chunks including parity chunks using the encoding block file target, and making at least one of the encoded chunks correspond to at least one of blockchain nodes to store at least one of the encoded chunks.
US12316766B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for authorizing transactions received from client applications. The transaction request can include a first access token. After validating the first access token, the system can determine whether additional authentication is needed to authorize the transaction. If additional authentication is needed, the system can determine the authentication requirements. Once the additional authentication is received and verified, the system can generate a second access token and authorize the transaction by releasing the first access token.
US12316765B2
A method includes obtaining a container associated with a first entity, the container executing a workload, the workload requiring access to private resources associated with a second entity. The method also includes obtaining encrypted resources including the private resources associated with the second entity. The method further includes generating a verifiable attestation. The method includes transmitting the verifiable attestation to an attestation service and, after transmitting the verifiable attestation, receiving, from an access policy verifier, a federated identity token. The method further includes generating a decrypt request including the federated identity token. The method includes transmitting, to a key management service, the decrypt request, and, after transmitting the decrypt request, receiving, from the key management service, a data encryption key. The method includes decrypting, using the data encryption key, the encrypted resources to access the private resources and providing the workload access to the private resources.
US12316759B2
The invention relates to systems, methods, network devices, and machine-readable media for improved constructions of public-key functional encryption schemes for quadratic functions. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a new functional encryption scheme to compute quadratic functions so that the data owner controls what can be computed but is not involved in the calculation, and generates a decryption key which allows one to learn a quadratic function evaluation of some encrypted data.
US12316758B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a blockchain peer of a blockchain network, a request to execute chaincode of a blockchain of the blockchain network from a client application, offloading one or more of chaincode operations of the request to hardware on a network switch via a network path between the blockchain peer and the network switch, receiving execution results of the offloaded one or more chaincode operations from the network switch via the network path, and forwarding the execution results received from the network switch to the client application.
US12316755B2
This disclosure relates to, among other things, key generation systems and methods. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide for generation of cryptographic keys based on one or more defined key generation rules. Key generation consistent with various aspects of the disclosed embodiments may increase the difficultly and/or cost of producing public keys and, by extension, discourage the generation of fake keys used in connection with a key flooding attack. In certain embodiments, generated keys and/or associated key generation rules may depend, at least in part, on associated binding data.
US12316753B1
The present disclosure provides a system for secure compute using artificial intelligence agents. The system includes a hardware execution environment with one or more computerized processors and electronic storage media. The processors are configured to establish a secure agent comprising a secure state management module, an encrypted state transition management module, a threshold cryptography implementation, and a digital signature verification module. The system also includes a plurality of atomic agents, each configured to perform a composite task and comprising a task-specific execution module, a state management interface, and a communication module. An orchestrator agent coordinates secure execution of the atomic agents and includes a task distribution module, a result aggregation module, a workflow management module, and a security policy enforcement module. The orchestrator agent integrates encrypted outputs from the atomic agents to perform composite tasks while maintaining data integrity and security through the secure state management module.
US12316752B2
Polynomial function secret sharing provides for computation of reconstruction share results for a polynomial function on an input. An allocatable share of the polynomial function is received at a computing system of the share result computation systems. The allocatable share is generated from the polynomial function. Each of the allocatable shares is distributed to a unique share result computation system of the share result computation systems. Each allocatable share includes a share element for each coefficient in the polynomial function, wherein the share elements for a coefficient across the share result computation systems summing to the coefficient. A reconstruction share result is generated at the computing system by computing a dot product of the input and the allocatable share received by the computing system. A combination of the reconstruction share results generated by the share result computation systems yields a reconstructed result of the polynomial function on the input.
US12316747B2
A key management device according to an embodiment is for managing an application key used for encrypting communication of a user network including cryptographic applications. The key management device includes a plan acquisition unit, a plan execution unit, a communication unit, and a provision unit. The plan acquisition unit acquires a key distribution plan formulated based on state information indicating a state of the user network. The plan execution unit determines a distribution amount of the application key for each key sharing destination corresponding to a destination cryptographic application based on the key distribution plan. The communication unit encrypts the application key using a link key generated by QKD, and transmits the encrypted application key to the key sharing destination. The provision unit provides the application key in response to a request from the cryptographic application.
US12316734B2
A method for key generation is arranged in a client processor device, by means of which a second public client key Pc′ of the client is generated. The public key Pc′ is formed by a calculation, or sequence of calculations, which does not contain any operation whose result depends exclusively on the nonce s and at least one public value, or the public key Pc′ being formed by a calculation, or sequence of calculations, where into each operation in which the nonce s enters, at least one non-public value enters the first private client key kc or the second private client key kc′, for example as a result of the calculation Pc′=(kc′·s)•G+(kc′·kc)•Pt.
US12316733B2
The disclosure relates to a coding module for an Ethernet transceiver. The coding module may include circuitry configured to: receive data-signaling representative of one or more data words; encode the data-signaling into one or more DC-balanced words each having a DC-balanced-word-length; provide a prepended-word for a first transmission, where a length of the prepended-word is at least as long as the DC-balanced-word-length; and provide the one or more DC-balanced words for a second transmission, where the second transmission is subsequent to the first transmission. The coding module may include circuitry configured to: receive a prepended-word and provide a logic-high signal to an Energy Detect terminal; receive one or more DC-balanced words each having a DC-balanced-word-length; remove a DC-balanced coding from the one or more DC-balanced words to generate data signaling representative of one or more data words; and provide the data signaling to an output terminal.
US12316728B2
One or more examples relate, generally to phase and frequency error processing. An apparatus includes a phase path and a frequency path. The phase path processes phase error of communications between network nodes. The phase path includes a closed-loop feedback loop controller. The frequency path processes frequency error of the communications between the network nodes. The frequency path is separate from the phase path. A method of processing phase error and frequency error includes selecting first packets for phase processing, processing the first packets for phase error, selecting second packets for frequency processing, and processing the second packets for frequency error independently of the processing of the first packets.
US12316704B2
Systems and methods for multiplexing of a dedicated communication channel for multiple entities, including initiating, at a first entity, a request to share data with a second entity; sharing a portion of an aggregate record for the with the second entity including creating an entity-specific copy; initiating, at the first entity, a request to share data with a third entity; and sharing a portion of the aggregate record with the third entity including creating an entity-specific copy. The portions shared with the second and third entities are dependent on data sharing rules defining shared data, linked data, and entity-specific data that is i) nonsynchronous and ii) provided for display only at the entity associated with the data.
US12316701B2
Server selection for improving latency with an instance of a service is disclosed. Generally, lower core latency is preferable. Core latencies can be related to a physical distance between endpoints connected via a communication pathway, such as a first server and second server connected via network equipment. A geographic distance between endpoints can be different from a topological distance of a communication pathway between endpoints. Endpoints, e.g., servers, can be ranked based on topological distance. The ranking can be communicated to service provider equipment to enable selection of a server based on a corresponding ranking of the server. Selection of an endpoint based on topological distance can enable improved latency in comparison to selecting an endpoint based on geographical distance. Improved latency can result in an improved quality of experience for a user of a service supported by an endpoint selected based on topological distance.
US12316699B2
The invention provides, in one aspect, an improved system for data access comprising a file server that is coupled to a client device or application executing thereon via one or more networks. The server comprises static storage that is organized in one or more directories, each containing, zero, one or more files. The server also comprises a file system operable, in cooperation with a file system on the client device, to provide authorized applications executing on the client device access to those directories and/or files. Fast file server (FFS) software or other functionality executing on or in connection with the server responds to requests received from the client by transferring requested data to the client device over multiple network pathways. That data can comprise, for example, directory trees, files (or portions thereof), and so forth.
US12316695B2
A method of processing a new visitor session to a web-based system, the method including: for each of a plurality of web requests made to the web-based system in the new visitor session, determining a request vector corresponding to the web request, wherein each request vector is derived from the learned parameters of a trained artificial neural network configured to determine a plurality of probabilities from an input web request or an input sequence of web requests, wherein each of the plurality of probabilities represents a likelihood that, within a session containing the input web request of sequence of web requests, a respective one of a plurality of possible web requests will be requested at one or more predetermined locations before or after the input web request or sequence of web requests; and combining the request vectors to obtain a session vector which characterizes the new visitor session.
US12316689B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual space for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms included within the virtual space; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a user-selectable button for requesting that the participant follow another participant with respect to navigating between the plural rooms; receive a first indication of a user selection, by a first participant, of the user-selectable button corresponding to a second participant; receive a second indication that the second participant authorizes following the first participant when navigating between the plural rooms; and provide for the second participant to follow the first participant.
US12316686B1
A system and method for generating multi-source cybersecurity policies is presented. The method includes receiving a plurality of cybersecurity policies, wherein a first cybersecurity policy is stored in a first data format, and a second cybersecurity policy is stored in a second data format; generating a normalized cybersecurity policy based on each received cybersecurity policy, including a normalized first cybersecurity policy and a normalized second cybersecurity policy; generating a first generated cybersecurity policy based on the normalized first cybersecurity policy, utilizing the second data format; generating a second generated cybersecurity policy based on the normalized second cybersecurity policy, utilizing the first data format; and applying each of the generated cybersecurity policies on a respective cybersecurity platform.
US12316684B2
Methods and systems for securing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include data processing systems subject to compromise by malicious entities. If compromised, the data processing systems may impair the services provided by the distributed system. To secure the distributed systems, the data processing systems may implement a security framework. The security framework may utilize a hierarchy that defines authority for validating trusted entities. The hierarchy may vest authority across the distributed system, and may be based on a reputation (e.g., weighted reputation) of each of the data processing systems within the distributed system. If the reputation indicates that a data processing system is compromised, the data processing system may be ejected and a communication topology of the distributed system may be remodeled.
US12316683B2
An architecture for monitoring, analyzing, and reacting to safety and cybersecurity events has been disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a method for processing safety and security events of a system includes requesting a reaction or escalating an effect from a first controller of the system to a second controller of the system based on a subset of available reactions for a current context of the system, constraint information, a predetermined effect-reaction policy, and the effect.
US12316681B2
A data platform for developing and deploying a user application within a unified security context. The data platform authorizes a first user to use an editor to access source code of a user application based on security policies of a security context and authorizes the first user to use an application and data manager to set usage privileges for a second user to use the user application based on the security policies of the security context. To provide the user application to the second user, the data platform deploys the user application by instantiating a User Defined Function (UDF) server and an application engine of the UDF server within the security context, instantiating the user application as an application of the application engine within the security context, and authorizing access by the user application to databased on the security policies of the security context.
US12316670B2
Malware detection logic executed by a secured device residing in a home network may receive a message from an unsecured device of a first unsecured network and intended for a destination device of the home network, the destination device comprising a security client. The malware detection logic may establish a secure communication channel between the malware detection logic of the secured device and the security client of the destination device. The malware detection logic may execute a validation test on the message to determine that the message includes malware. The malware detection logic may report an alarm to the security client of the destination device. The malware detection logic may transmit information related to the malware to a cloud computing server. The malware detection logic may prevent an application associated with the destination device from processing the message.
US12316669B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for establishing connectivity with a plurality of security-relevant subsystems within a computing platform; receiving an initial notification of a security event from one of the security-relevant subsystems, wherein the initial notification includes a computer-readable language portion that defines one or more specifics of the security event; processing the initial notification using a generative AI model and a formatting script to define one or more recommended actions; automatically generating a playbook to effectuate at least one of the recommended actions; and processing the playbook to address at least a portion of the security event.
US12316661B2
A technique for threat response associated with an endpoint detection and response (EDR) system. The system uses a combination of automated observable detection, threat intelligence enrichment, graph analysis, and supervised machine learning to machine-predict analyst behavior in classifying (as ‘true’ or ‘false’ positives) the EDR alerts, and to support either (i) automated suppression of those alerts that the system classifies with sufficient confidence as either true or false, or (ii) for those alerts than cannot be so classified, the providing of recommendations to analysts to facilitate their activities. Auto-detection of observables for graph-based feature detection, together with the automated disposition of alerts where possible greatly reduces overall analyst workload for the EDR system. Further, and even where a machine-based prediction does not have sufficient confidence to enable bypassing the analyst, the system provides the analyst with additional context and enrichment to facilitate expedited (or at least more efficient) alert handling.
US12316654B2
A method for training a machine learning model using information pertaining to characteristics of upload activity performed at one or more client devices includes generating first training input including (i) information identifying, for each of the application categories, a frequency of upload activity that corresponds to uploading first amounts of data during a specified time interval. The method includes generating a first target output that indicates whether the frequency of upload activity that corresponds to uploading the first amounts of data corresponds to malicious or non-malicious upload activity. The method includes providing the training data to train the machine learning model on (i) a set of training inputs including the first training input, and (ii) a set of target outputs including the first target output.
US12316646B2
A system and method of authenticating a development environment include receiving, by one or more processors associated with a source code repository, a development profile from a development environment. Sending the development profile to a trusted profile verifier to be registered as a trusted development profile. Receiving a pending source file commit request, where the pending source file commit request includes source code files and a current development profile. Facilitating verification of whether the current development profile matches the trusted development profile. When it is verified that the current development profile matches the trusted development profile, accepting the source code files.
US12316644B2
Provided is a communication apparatus communicating with an external apparatus connected via a network, and the communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to: calculate a communication interval of data communicated within the communication apparatus; determine whether to perform communication with the external apparatus based on whether the communication interval is within a range set in advance; and transmit, to the external apparatus, communication data including the communication interval determined to perform communication with the external apparatus, latter data in the communication interval, and a transition between former data and the latter data in the communication interval, so that traffic from an apparatus to outside is reduced while suppressing deterioration in detection accuracy of unauthorized communication.
US12316637B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise transmitting a first identifier associated with a first service. Access to the first service can be provided to a user device using the first identifier. A filter element associated with the user device can be received. Transmission of a second identifier associated with a second service can be filtered based on the filter element, wherein filtering transmission inhibits access of the user device to the second service.
US12316629B2
A login system allows users to access computer systems without using a password. The passwordless system and method can use other information to securely and reliably identify true authorized system users. The identity of a user can be associated with their mobile device. The login can be based upon a minimal amount of information such as a name and a phone number which can be stored as an identification record for each of the users in a database.
US12316624B2
Systems and methods are provided for a content-based security for computing devices. An example method includes identifying content rendered by a mobile application, the content being rendered during a session, generating feature vectors from the content and determining that the feature vectors do not match a classification model. The method also includes providing, in response to the determination that the feature vectors do not match the classification model, a challenge configured to authenticate a user of the mobile device. Another example method includes determining a computing device is located at a trusted location, capturing information from a session, the information coming from content rendered by a mobile application during the session, generating feature vectors for the session, and repeating this until a training criteria is met. The method also includes training a classification model using the feature vectors and authenticating a user of the device using the trained classification model.
US12316613B2
Methods and systems are provided for use in selectable data transmission. In a portable mobile computing device, a request to initiate an instant video communication with a remote portable multi-function computing device may be received, and in response to receiving the request to initiate the instant video communication, it may be determined, based on a stored authorization list, that the instant video communication connection to the remote portable multi-function computing device is authorized, and In response to such determining, stored connection information for the remote portable multi-function computing device may be accessed, and captured video communication data for the requested instant video communication may be transmitted according to the stored instant connection information such that the captured video communication data may be displayed at the remote portable multi-function computing device as it is received.
US12316610B1
A privacy network and unified trust model runs privacy algorithms that can completely obfuscate any data or rendering the data opaque and meaningless so they can be freely aggregated and shared without risk of security or privacy breach. The obfuscated algorithms can be applied to obfuscated data to produce obfuscated output. The obfuscated output is identical to what would have been produced had the algorithms been applied to data and then obfuscated with the same privacy algorithm. Information from disparate sources is virtually aggregated, linked, analyzed, transformed and used without revealing any meaningful information to any person or any system—even to the processors performing the computation.
US12316600B1
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of receiving a request for a plurality of data items from a computing device; determining at least one pattern for at least one metric associated with the computing device; generating at least one digital code based on the at least one pattern meeting a predetermined metric threshold, the at least one digital code comprising access to a plurality of resources; assigning the at least one digital code to the computing device to form at least one assigned digital code; and allowing access to the plurality of resources to facilitate performing a domain name availability determination for the plurality of data items.
US12316599B2
Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns a virtual IP (VIP) address that is mapped to the client device and the endpoint device. In this way, IP addresses of servers are obfuscated by a virtual network of VIP addresses. The client device may then communicate data packets to the server using the VIP address as the destination address, and a virtual network service that works in conjunction with DNS can convert the VIP address to the actual IP address of the server using NAT and forward the data packet onto the server.
US12316597B2
Method of generating private notifications between users in a communication session starts with an application server causing a communication interface to be displayed at a first client device and at a second client device, respectively. Application server receives from the first client device a request to send a private notification to the second client device and causes a private notification sending interface to be displayed in the communication interface of the first client device. Application server receives from the first client device a confirmation to send the private notification to the second client device and generating the private notification at the second client device that includes causing a first avatar that is associated with a user of the first client device to be included in the communication interface displayed at the second client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12316595B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display a notification to a plurality of users at a position within a display screen to which each user of the plurality of users is paying attention. Specifically, the media guidance application captures lines of sight of users who are paying attention to a display screen, based on which the media guidance application determines line-of-sight regions on the display screen that the users are paying attention to. The media guidance application then determines a display area that is noticeable to the users based on the respective line-of-sight regions on the display screen to display an electronic message.
US12316584B1
An apparatus for the generation and improvement of confidence factor is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a user profile from a user, wherein the user profile comprises physiological data. The memory instructs the processor to generate an industrial prompt as a function of the user profile. The memory instructs the processor to identify physiological response data as a function of the industrial prompt and the plurality of physiological data. The memory instructs the processor to determine a confidence factor as a function of the biometric response data. The memory instructs the processor to generate confidence improvement data as a function of the confidence factor. The memory instructs the processor to display the confidence improvement data using a display device.
US12316580B2
A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a guard band configured within a carrier bandwidth; determining a first transmission direction of a first subband configured in a higher frequency region from the guard band within the carrier bandwidth; determining a second transmission direction of a second subband configured in a lower frequency region from the guard band within the carrier bandwidth; determining a third transmission direction of the guard band based on the first transmission direction and the second transmission direction; and performing communication with the base station according to the third transmission direction in the guard band.
US12316579B2
Disclosed is a method performed a network entity in a wireless communication system using an open-radio access network (O-RAN), the network entity including at least one of a non-real-time RAN intelligent controller (non-RT RIC) and near-RT RIC, the method comprises configuring at least one node with a list of cell IDs representing cells to be activated or deactivated based on a condition in a network, and transmitting, to the at least one node, information including the list of cell IDs.
US12316578B2
This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first control information, where the first control information is used to trigger a channel state information (CSI) operation corresponding to a first secondary component carrier, the first secondary component carrier is in a deactivated state, and the CSI operation includes one or more of the following: aperiodic CSI reporting, aperiodic CSI measurement, semi-persistent CSI reporting, or semi-persistent CSI measurement. The terminal performs, based on the first control information, the CSI operation corresponding to the first secondary component carrier.
US12316577B2
Example methods and apparatus for configuring a transmit port of a downlink reference signal are described. One example method includes indicating configurations corresponding to a plurality of transmit ports to a terminal device by a network device by using first indication information. Each transmit port may be associated with one piece of delay information, transmit ports associated with same delay information correspond to a same configuration, and at least two transmit ports associated with different delay information correspond to different configurations. The terminal device may receive, based on a configuration corresponding to each transmit port, downlink reference signals sent by the plurality of transmit ports.
US12316575B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) processing occupation determination that can be used even in multiple transmission reception point (mTRP) scenarios. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration configuring the UE with a plurality of CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for channel measurement (CMRs). The method includes determining a number of occupied CSI processing units, a number of occupied active CSI resources, and/or a number of occupied active CSI-RS ports based on an actual number of CSI measurements. The method includes performing CSI measurement based on the determination.
US12316573B2
A base station may identify an association between a set of physical cell identifiers (PCIs) identifying different transmission reception points (TRPs) and a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit a TCI state and PCI association indication to the UE. The UE may receive a downlink transmission using a receive beam associated with a TCI state, and may identify a PCI of the set of PCIs to use to decode the received downlink transmission. In cases where the TCI state used to receive the downlink transmission is associated with multiple PCIs, the UE may select a default PCI from the multiple PCIs, and may decode the received transmission accordingly. In some examples, the UE may receive reference signals from one or more of the serving TRPs and may identify a PCI to use to decode the received reference signals.
US12316569B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining synchronization signal block(s) that have been transmitted in a serving cell; receiving group information of tracking reference signals, the group information comprising an indication on the synchronization signal block(s) for which a tracking reference signal has been configured in the serving cell; receiving mapping information comprising an indication on how individual tracking reference signal is mapped to a slot structure; and determining time domain position(s) of tracking reference signal(s) of the apparatus based on the group information and the mapping information.
US12316556B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for physical (PHY) layer multiplexing of different types of traffic in 5G systems. A device may receive a communication. The communication may include a first traffic type. The device may monitor the communication for an indication that the communication includes a second traffic type that is multiplexed with and/or punctures the first traffic type. An indicator received in the communication and detected by the monitoring may indicate where the second traffic type is located in the communication. The first traffic type and the second traffic type may be multiplexed at a resource element (RE) level. For example, a first traffic type may be punctured by a second traffic type at the RE level. The device may decode one or more of the first or second traffic types in the communication based on the indication.
US12316554B2
Systems and methods for providing multi-perimeter firewalls via a virtual global network are disclosed. In one embodiment the network system may comprise an egress ingress point in communication with a first access point server, a second access point server in communication with the first access point server, an endpoint device in communication with the second access point server, a first firewall in communication with the first access point server, and a second firewall in communication with the second access point server. The first and second firewalls may prevent traffic from passing through their respective access point servers. The first and second may be in communication with each other and exchange threat information.
US12316552B2
A data bandwidth management method is provided. The data bandwidth management method is applied to a data bandwidth management device. The bandwidth management method includes the steps of obtaining one or more data bandwidth sharing configurations corresponding to one or more sharing devices; receiving a service request of a client device connected to the data bandwidth management device; and allocating data bandwidth of the one or more sharing devices to the client device based on the one or more data bandwidth sharing configurations in response to the service request of the client device.
US12316549B2
A controller is configured to: obtain a state of each of a plurality of queues of a network node; determine, based on the states of the queues, whether the utilization of one or more queues exceeds one or more thresholds; generate one or more new entries for a gate control list of the network node that controls the plurality of queues, if one or more thresholds are exceeded; and provide the one or more new entries to the network node. Further, a network node is configured to provide a state of each of a plurality of queues to a controller, and obtain one or more new entries for a gate control list of the network node that controls the plurality of queues, from the controller.
US12316539B2
Methods and devices configure edge nodes of a virtual network overlay to continuously forward data plane traffic flows between client devices of a common subnet over the course of at least some of the edge nodes being EF-configured. TF-configured edge nodes and EF-configured edge nodes both play roles in unilaterally inducing address discovery by sending to client devices address discovery responses that were not prompted by address discovery requests. TF-configured edge nodes then handle ensuing address discovery requests by proxy, and subsequently handle certain traffic flows according to an EF-compatible forwarding mode, while EF-configured edge nodes continue to forward traffic flows by IP routing normally. This averts throughput of data plane traffic over the network overlay being reduced as a side effect of the heterogeneously configured edge nodes, and averts the possibility of client devices broadcasting address discovery protocol requests as a result of remote client devices being unreachable.
US12316529B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a problematic event between a first interest point and a second interest point of a network and activating, in response to identifying the problematic event between the first interest point and the second interest point, a first endpoint associated with the first interest point and a second endpoint associated with the second interest point. The method also includes receiving, from the first endpoint and the second endpoint, telemetry data associated with a problematic path between the first interest point and the second interest point. The method further includes determining the problematic path between the first interest point and the second interest point using the telemetry data received from the first endpoint and the second endpoint.
US12316517B2
Implementations relate to generating standardized metrics from device specific metrics that are generated during an interaction between a user and an automated assistant. The metrics indicate events that occurred while processing an interaction of a user with the automated assistant and are specific to the particular configuration of the device with which the user is interacting. Conversion mappings are determined based on device characteristics that can be utilized to convert the device metrics into standardized metrics. Analysis metrics are generated based on the standardized metrics that are incapable of being generated from the device metrics. Some implementations include visually rendering the analysis metrics such that one or more of the analysis metrics are rendered more prominently than other metrics.
US12316510B2
A computing system includes a processor; an electronic network; and a memory having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computing system to receive hyperscaler cloud computing data; process the cloud computing data to determine status information; compare the status information rules; and generate cloud maturity scores. A method includes receiving hyperscaler cloud computing data; processing the cloud computing data to determine status information; comparing the status information rules; and generating cloud maturity scores. A computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to: receive hyperscaler cloud computing data; process the cloud computing data to determine status information; compare the status information rules; and generate cloud maturity scores.
US12316507B2
A site network service (SNS) design is deployed in a computing system. A network function (NF) design is received and transferred to a data store. A network service (NS) design is generated that includes a reference to a NF design from the data store and a NS configuration including information for partially configuring the referenced NF design. The NS design is transferred to the data store. A SNS design is deployed that includes a reference to the NS design from the data store and a SNS configuration.
US12316506B2
A method, system, and computer program product to manage a network comprising a plurality of interconnected components are described. The method includes obtaining a set of all the components that are part of the network over time, and identifying one or more repeating patterns of components among the set of all the components as corresponding lower-level definitions to generate a hierarchical set of all the components. The method also includes obtaining time-varying information regarding topology and operational values within the network, and creating a representation of the network at a set of times based on the hierarchical set of all the components and the time-varying information.
US12316498B2
A communication apparatus receives instruction information from an information processing apparatus. In a case where the instruction information is received, the communication apparatus establishes without an external access point a connection for direct communication to another communication apparatus different from the communication apparatus, and uses the direct communication to send, to the another communication apparatus, the setting information relating to communication with the information processing apparatus. The setting information includes an SSID (Service Set Identifier) that is used for connecting to an external access point.
US12316490B2
A method and system for communicating with IoT devices to gather information related to device operation or performance is disclosed. The system makes a copy of at least a portion of the device's non-volatile memory and/or receives IoT device data (e.g., sensor data and/or log files etc.) from an IoT device. The system determines which log files and/or sensor data, for example, the IoT device created. After gathering this information, the system stores the information, or may send it to a storage destination for further analysis. The information may also be placed into secondary storage to comply with regulatory, insurance, or legal purposes.
US12316484B2
Mechanisms may be used for aggregating acknowledgement (ACK), block ACK (BA) and/or short packets transmissions for multi-user (MU) wireless communication systems. Aggregation mechanisms may be used for uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and/or UL/DL multiple-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions, for example. Multi-user short packets may be aggregated and/or simultaneously transmitted for DL, UL, or peer-to-peer (P2P) transmissions.
US12316475B2
An apparatus for providing a redundant communication within a vehicle architecture is disclosed. The vehicle architecture includes a plurality of commanded units, each being configured to be controlled by redundant communication lines. The apparatus includes at least a first control unit and a second control unit, which are connected by an interlink communication line and which are each configured to: communicate with the commanded units through one of the redundant communications lines; and communicate with each other through the communication lines by controlling at least one of the plurality of commanded units to act as a gateway unit and to forward information between the redundant communication lines.
US12316470B2
Systems and methods to link meetings with units of work of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain input information conveying user input into work unit pages of units of work; in response to requests to generate meetings regarding individual units of work, generate and store resource information in individual work unit records of the individual units of work; obtain meeting information conveying content of the meetings; effectuate one or more actions within the collaboration environment based on the content of the meetings; and/or perform other operations.
US12316468B2
A plurality of intermediary devices may be interposed in a hybrid data/power connection between a power source and a powered device. In one aspect, the intermediary devices may be connected in series. Such connecting may be referred to as “daisy chaining.” In other aspects, the intermediary devices may be connected in a tree or a mesh. Each intermediary device may be configured to consume, for its own use, power that is supplied over the hybrid data/power connection and to deliver remaining power over the hybrid data/power connection to at least one other device. Furthermore, each intermediary device may be configured to independently route data and power to downstream devices.
US12316466B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a base station) may transmit a set of data messages to a set of UEs, the set of data messages including one or more data messages for each UE of the set of UEs. Each UE may select a respective sequence representing feedback associated with the one or more data messages, the sequence being selected from a sequence pool that includes a first plurality of sequences representing acknowledgement feedback and a second plurality of sequences representing negative acknowledgement feedback, individual sequences of at least the second set of sequences being non-orthogonal to each other. Each UE may transmit the respective selected sequence to the wireless device via a shared set of time and frequency resources that are shared for feedback messages from the set of UEs.
US12316464B2
An operating method of a first terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include: obtaining capability information of a second terminal; transmitting, to the second terminal, duplication transmission information for performing duplication transmission of a sidelink, based on the capability information; and performing duplication transmission of the sidelink based on the duplication transmission information, wherein the duplication transmission information includes sidelink radio bearer information, sidelink destination identifier information, and sidelink carrier information.
US12316463B2
This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies. One example data transmission method includes: receiving scheduling information from a first communication apparatus; determining transmission indication information based on the scheduling information; receiving, based on the scheduling information, a first transport block from the first communication apparatus, and determining first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information of the first transport block; and determining a first HARQ process based on the first HARQ information and the transmission indication information, and allocating the first transport block to the first HARQ process.
US12316454B2
A retransmission method in a communication system, wherein the communication system comprises at least one transmitter and at least one receiver with a communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver, the method comprising: utilising in the transmitter a transmitter algorithm with trainable weights and in the receiver a receiver algorithm with trainable weights; generating (302) by the transmitter symbols to be transmitted based on a message to be sent and feedback received from the receiver and transmitting the symbols; generating (304) by the receiver a predicted message based on the received symbols, evaluating (306) the predicted message based on a criterion and providing (312), utilising an algorithm with trainable weights, feedback symbols as a response to the transmitter if the evaluation indicates the predicted message is not acceptable.
US12316453B2
Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for controlling uplink (UL) duplication. An assisting radio access network (RAN) node may receive, from a host RAN node hosting a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity, radio link control (RLC) activation information associated with a dedicated radio bearer (DRB) for uplink duplication. The assisting RAN node may establish a medium control element (MAC) control element (CE) frame, according to the RLC activation information.
US12316449B2
A first device performs wireless communication by performing operations that include: attaching cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to first bits related to second sidelink control information (SCI), thereby acquiring second bits; acquiring third bits based on channel coding regarding the second bits; acquiring the number of first modulation symbols related to the second SCI acquiring the number of second modulation symbols related to the second SCI by adding a gamma value to the number of the first modulation symbols based on the number of at least one resource element (RE), to which the first modulation symbols are not mapped, among multiple REs on a symbol, to which the last modulation symbol among the first modulation symbols is mapped, within a resource block (RB) to which the last modulation symbol belongs; and performing rate matching regarding the third bits based on the second modulation symbols.
US12316448B2
Techniques are disclosed for reducing overhead during hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operations performed by a user equipment (UE) during wireless communication. The UE receives a message over the wireless network and obtains a parity check matrix (PCM) associated with a received message. Rows of the PCM are assigned to respective groups of a plurality of groups, where the respective groups have corresponding one or more parity checks as determined by the PCM. The UE generates a feedback message including a plurality of bits, wherein an individual bit of the plurality of bits indicates whether a corresponding respective group of the plurality of groups include one or more unsatisfied parity checks. The UE then transmits the feedback message to a base station of the wireless network.
US12316431B2
This disclosure provides a satellite beam offset processing method, a device and a medium. The method includes: a network side device indicating a satellite beam offset parameter to a terminal via a broadcast message and/or a dedicated signalling; the terminal receiving the satellite beam offset parameter indicated by the network side device via the broadcast message and/or the dedicated signalling; and the terminal adjusting a communication process of the terminal according to the satellite beam offset parameter.
US12316421B2
The present disclosure provides a method performed by a network node for beam control signalling. The network node is configured to communicate with a wireless device. The method comprises obtaining a first set of candidate beams from the wireless device for communication with the network node based on beam quality indicators. The method comprises determining a second set of candidate beams based on the first set and a number of beams to be used in the communication with the wireless device. The number of candidate beams of the second set is larger than the number of beams to be used for communication with the wireless device. The method comprises transmitting, to the wireless device, control signalling indicative of the second set of candidate beams.
US12316415B2
A wireless communication method and device and a communication system. The method includes: a terminal equipment receives a downlink data signal at a time unit n, the downlink data signal including activation/deactivation command acting on a secondary cell; and the terminal equipment performs at least one of the following processing: applying corresponding actions not earlier than a time unit n+k+1; applying actions related to a deactivation timer of the secondary cell at the time unit n+k+1; and applying actions related to CSI report after a time unit n+k, the CSI report being related to or corresponding to the activation/deactivation command, and the time unit referring to a time unit corresponding to transmission of an uplink control signal, the uplink control signal carrying HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the downlink data signal.
US12316410B2
A method and network node for timing error estimation and compensation for Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) downlink (DL) systems with uncalibrated antennas are provided. According to one aspect, a method in a network node includes transmitting a first Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) having a first timing compensation and transmitting a second CSI-RS having a second timing compensation, receiving a CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI) in a CSI report from a wireless device (WD), and determining from the CRI which of the first and second timing compensation results in a greater spectrum efficiency.
US12316405B2
A communication device, method, and computer program product provide power efficient transmit diversity using two transmit chains to meet a transmit power level for an uplink signal when one transmit chain is insufficient. In response to determining that the first transmit power level is equal to or less than the transmit power capability of at least one of a first transmit chain and a second transmit chain, the communication device configures a corresponding one of the first transmit chain and the second transmit chain to transmit the uplink channel with at least the first transmit power level.
US12316396B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatuses for training and using machine learning models to estimate a representation of a channel between a transmitter and a receiver in a spatial environment. An example method generally includes estimating a representation of a channel using a machine learning model trained to generate the estimated representation of the channel based on a location of a transmitter in a spatial environment, a location of a receiver in the spatial environment, and information about the spatial environment. One or more actions are taken based on the estimated representation of the channel.
US12316393B2
A device and method for estimating the frequency difference between antennas having asynchronized local oscillator references includes a frequency meter configured for connection with radio frequency signals from two antennas and configured to output a measured frequency difference between baseband filtered signals of two antennas. The frequency meter includes a phase meter, a quadrant transition, and a frequency meter counter. The phase meter receives in-phase and quadrature pairs of filtered signals and output a phase difference between the pairs. The quadrant transition state machine receives the phase difference, detects a quadrant associated with the phase difference, and detects a change between the detected quadrant and a previously detected quadrant. The frequency meter counter then accumulates the quadrant transitions and direction over a desired interval to establish a measure of the frequency difference between the two radio frequency signals input into phase meter.
US12316392B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned communication. One of the methods includes: receiving an RF signal at a signal processing system for training a machine-learning network; providing the RF signal through the machine-learning network; producing an output from the machine-learning network; measuring a distance metric between the signal processing model output and a reference model output; determining modifications to the machine-learning network to reduce the distance metric between the output and the reference model output; and in response to reducing the distance metric to a value that is less than or equal to a threshold value, determining a score of the trained machine-learning network using one or more other RF signals and one or more other corresponding reference model outputs, the score indicating an a performance metric of the trained machine-learning network to perform the desired RF function.
US12316390B2
System and methods are provided for selecting reference units for calibration of OTA testing stations. Various embodiments include selecting a reference unit for over-the-air (OTA) testing, the selecting including responsive to conducting one or more tests for a plurality of test items on a plurality of units via an OTA testing station, collecting test result values for each of the plurality of test items; calculating a sum of all errors for each of the units, wherein the errors represent a deviation from an average result for each of the test items; determining a unit which exhibits a lowest sum value of all of the errors, wherein the unit is determined as a reference unit for calibrating the OTA testing station; and testing a wireless device with the reference unit.
US12316389B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for mitigating microwave interference in electronic devices. Example devices may include memory and at least one processor configured to access the memory and execute computer-executable instructions to determine that a microwave source is inactive, transmit a second message to the access point requesting the access point to send the data, receive, from the access point, the data buffered during the first duration, and transmit a third message to the access point, the third message cancelling the buffer request of the first message.
US12316388B2
A power receiver (301a, 301b, 301c, 301d, 301e, 301f) is disclosed herein. In a specific embodiment the power receiver has a first electrode (300) arranged to be electrically coupled to a body (105) of a living being, the first electrode (300) operable to receive an electrical signal via the body; and a rectifier (307) for rectifying the electrical signal into a rectified electrical signal. The rectifier (307) includes a plurality of rectifier switches and operable in a bulk biasing mode in which first selected rectifier switches of the plurality of rectifier switches are forward bulk biased. A power transmitter (201), an energy transfer apparatus (100) and a method of transmitting electrical power are also disclosed.
US12316385B2
An optical power supply system including a power supply side optical communication device that supplies power using an optical signal for power supply, and a power receiving side optical communication device that is driven by power obtained from the optical signal for power supply transmitted from the power supply side optical communication device, in which: the power supply side optical communication device includes a sleep control unit that generates a sleep cancellation signal for canceling sleep states of some functional units included in the power receiving side optical communication device, and a power supply control unit that superimposes the sleep cancellation signal on the optical signal for power supply and transmits the superimposed signal to the power receiving side optical communication device; and the power receiving side optical communication device includes a detection unit that detects the sleep cancellation signal superimposed on the optical signal for power supply, and a control unit that performs control to switch a functional unit from a sleep state to an activated state in response to the sleep cancellation signal detected by the detection unit.
US12316380B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for high-throughput, low-power signaling.
US12316378B2
An optical high-power amplifier (“OPHA”) circuit, e.g., for a spaceborne satellite-based communication network, includes fiberoptic gain and polarization maintenance (“PM”) stages, a polarization splitter, first and second photodetectors, and an electronic control unit (“ECU”). The gain stage outputs an amplified optical signal in response to a low-power (“LP”) optical input signal. The PM stage outputs separate high and low power output signals in response to the amplified signal. A majority of power of the input signal is allocated to the HP output signal. The polarization splitter transmits the LP output signal along the slow and/or fast polarization axis. The photodetectors are arranged on the slow and fast axes. The ECU outputs a polarizer control signal to a polarization rotator device in response to electrical signals from one or both photodetectors to command the rotator device to output the LP optical input signal with a targeted polarized output state.
US12316377B2
A method for encoding data in a datacenter is provided that includes obtaining data to be encoded, encoding the data to a set of encoded spatiotemporal patterns, and outputting the set of encoded spatiotemporal patterns.
US12316373B2
Since safe utilization of an optical transmission system is impaired if a system is adopted in which a wavelength band is divided into sub-bands and a different user is allocated to each sub-band, the optical signal monitoring device of the present invention includes: an optical signal information generating means for monitoring wavelength multiplexed signal light comprising sub-band optical signals belonging to each of a plurality of sub-bands classified by means of identification information, and generating wavelength multiplexed signal information including optical power information of each wavelength in the wavelength multiplexed signal light; a sub-band signal information generating means for generating sub-band signal information associated with the identification information, for each of the plurality of sub-bands, on the basis of the wavelength multiplexed signal information; and a sub-band signal information control means for controlling the utilization of the sub-band signal information, on the basis of the identification information.
US12316361B2
The present invention discloses a signal receiving apparatus having phase compensation mechanism. A first and a second receiving path of a receiving circuit perform frequency down-conversion and analog-to-digital conversion on an input signal to generate a first and a second receiving signals. The first and the second receiving paths uses a RF training signal generated by a RF training signal generation circuit as the input signal when a phase compensation is performed, and use a data signal from an antenna circuit as the input signal when a beamforming signal receiving is performed. A phase difference calculation circuit of the receiving circuit performs cross-correlation operation on the first and the second receiving signals to generate a compensation signal according to a phase difference between the first and the second receiving paths. A phase compensation circuit of the receiving circuit performs compensation on the first receiving signal or the second receiving signal such that the first receiving signal and the second receiving signal have substantially identical phases after compensation.
US12316359B2
A communication system includes a transmission unit configured to output a signal, an attenuation unit configured to attenuate the signal output from the transmission unit, a first coupler having one end portion being connected to the transmission unit via the attenuation unit, a termination unit that is connected to the other end portion of the first coupler, and a second coupler configured to input a signal to the first coupler using at least one of electric field coupling and magnetic field coupling, wherein the first coupler or the second coupler is configured to be movable so that a relative position between the first coupler and the second coupler changes.
US12316357B2
Techniques for power amplifier trimming based on coefficients for digital pre-distortion (DPD) are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a transceiver including a first DPD circuit that digitally pre-distorts a first digital transmit signal, a second DPD circuit that digitally pre-distorts a second digital transmit signal, and a coefficient comparator circuit that generates a trimming control signal based on comparing a first plurality of coefficients of the first DPD circuit to a second plurality of coefficients of the second DPD circuit. The mobile device further includes a front end system including a first power amplifier that amplifies a first radio frequency (RF) signal from the transceiver, a second power amplifier that amplifies a second RF signal from the transceiver, and a power amplifier trimming circuit that controls trimming of at least one of the first power amplifier or the second power amplifier based on the trimming control signal.
US12316356B2
A signal processing device, used to suppress cross-talk nonlinear distortion of a RF front end circuit. The first circuit generates a first PD signal and a second PD signal according to a first input signal and a second input signal. The first PD signal and the second PD signal are provided to a first PA and a second PA of the RF front end circuit. The second circuit generates a first control signal and a second control signal according to a first output signal, a second output signal, a first DPD signal and a second DPD signal, so as to control the first circuit to generate the first PD signal and the second PD signal. The first PA generates the first output signal through a first filter having a first operating BW. The second PA generates the second output signal through a second filter having a second operating BW.
US12316346B2
What is proposed is a solution for processing errors in a sequence of bits, wherein the sequence of bits, in the error-free case, forms a codeword of an error code, wherein the error code is based on an H-matrix or is able to be determined thereby, wherein an error syndrome is determined for the sequence of bits, wherein a link is determined between components of the error syndrome and parts of the H-matrix, and wherein two adjacent bits in the sequence of bits are corrected if the link adopts a predefined value.
US12316345B2
Systems and methods for operating a low-density parity-check (LDPC) bit-flipping decoder are disclosed herein. An LDPC codeword is received, and each bit in the LDPC codeword is classified as either a high-confidence bit or a low-confidence bit based on at least one criterion. The LDPC codeword is iteratively processed over a plurality of iterations based on parity check equations associated with each bit of the LDPC codeword to generate a processed LDPC codeword. For each iteration of the plurality of iterations, the iterative processing includes flipping at least one bit of the LDPC codeword, while preventing, for a first n number of the plurality of iterations, bits classified as high-confidence bits from comprising more than 33% of the total number of flipped bits. The processed LDPC codeword is decoded.
US12316340B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes an ADC with a continuous time integrator. The continuous time integrator includes an amplifier having an amplifier input and an amplifier output, a capacitor coupled between the amplifier input and the amplifier output, and a resistor. The resistor provides a first current for an integration in response to an analog input. The ADC also includes a DAC configured to generate a second current at an DAC output based on a digital output of the ADC and includes a switch circuit with a first switch circuit terminal coupled with the DAC output and a second switch circuit terminal coupled with the amplifier input. The switch circuit is configured to couple the DAC output with the amplifier input for a summation of the second current with the first current for the integration based on an integration control signal.
US12316336B2
A system includes a first phase interpolator, a second phase interpolator, and a circuit. The circuit is configured to receive a first signal and a second signal provided by the first phase interpolator and a third signal and a fourth signal provided by the second phase interpolator. The first circuit is configured to provide at least eight phase signals, each of the eight phase signals being at a respective phase angle in response to the first signal, the second signal, the third signal and the fourth signal.
US12316333B2
Apparatus and method for optimum loop gain calibration for clock data recovery and phase locked loop
The techniques described herein relate to systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for optimum loop gain calibration for clock data recovery and phase locked loop. An example apparatus includes a phase detector with a phase detector output and configured to generate an error signal representative of a difference between an input signal and a feedback signal. The apparatus further includes a calibrator circuit with a calibrator input coupled to the phase detector output and configured to determine correlation value associated with the error signal, and determine a gain value based on an adjustment of an absolute value of the correlation value by a pseudorandom binary sequence signal.
US12316332B2
A digital clean-up oscillator and associated method are provided for cleaning jitter from a noisy clock signal, comprising receiving a reference clock oscillator signal and the noisy clock signal to be cleaned: measuring the frequency of the reference clock signal in the time domain of the noisy clock signal: filtering any frequency variations from the measured frequency of the reference clock signal on timescales shorter than a phase change interval Tau_clean over which jitter in the noisy clock signal is to be cleaned; generating a phase increment signal DDS_pinc based on the measured and filtered frequency of the reference clock signal: clocking the phase increment signal DDS_pinc with the reference clock signal for generating an output digital phase ramp signal φ_DDS(t) that tracks the frequency of the noisy clock signal with phase wander removed on timescales less than the phase change interval Tau_clean; and converting the output digital phase ramp signal φ_DDS(t) to an output jitter-cleaned time domain clock signal frequency locked to the noisy clock signal.
US12316330B2
A comparator circuit with dynamic hysteresis. A common source branch is configured to conduct a differential current at first and second intermediate outputs responsive to a differential input at first and second inputs, and a common gate branch is configured to generate a voltage at a third intermediate output responsive to the differential current at the first and second intermediate outputs. A hysteresis branch includes a hysteresis current generator including first and second replica transistors having source/drain paths coupled in parallel, and gates coupled to the first and second inputs, respectively. A hysteresis capacitor is coupled between the sources of the first and second replica transistors and the common terminal. Current mirror circuitry is coupled to the source/drain paths of the first and second replica transistors, to supply a hysteresis current responsive to the absence of current conducted by the parallel first and second replica transistors.
US12316327B2
A phase interpolator circuit has a first stage that selects a pair of phase vectors from among M available sets of pairs and a second stage that interpolates between the selected pair to phase align a sample clock. The interpolation functions applied to selected pairs of phase vectors can differ to account for integral non-linearity, duty-cycle distortion, phase errors, and crosstalk that vary between phase vectors.
US12316323B2
The present invention describes a high voltage pulse generator unit comprising a primary side, a transformer and a secondary side, wherein the primary side comprises a winding and wherein the secondary side comprises multiple windings and multiple pulse module units (PMUs), and wherein each PMU comprises the winding and a switching element.
US12316315B2
A noise tolerant buffer circuit, configured to interface a controller to a switching device, that includes an input, a first buffer, a second buffer, an output, and a switching device. The input provides a control signal to the first buffer cell input. The first buffer cell processes the control signal to generate a second buffer output. The second buffer cell processes the output of the first buffer to generate a second buffer output. The switching device is configured to receive an output of the second buffer and perform a switching operation based on the output of the second buffer. The switching operation generates noise that couples back to the first buffer cell and the second buffer cell, and the noise is divided between the first buffer cell and a second buffer to thereby reduce the noise to a value that does not trigger the first buffer or the second buffer.
US12316312B2
Power gating for multiple backside voltage planes is described. For example, an integrated circuit (IC) may include a power gate that includes a first transistor having a first source diffusion that includes a first input terminal and a first drain diffusion that includes a first output terminal; a second transistor having a second source diffusion that includes a second input terminal and a second drain diffusion that includes a second output terminal; a gate between the first source and drain diffusions, and between the second source and drain diffusions; a source wire to couple the first and second input terminals; and a drain wire to couple the first and second output terminals. The IC may include an input power wire, an output power wire, and first and second vias to couple, respectively, the input power wire with the first input terminal and the second output terminal with the output power wire.
US12316310B2
A multi-channel switch device is provided. The multi-channel switch device includes a first-stage switch circuit, at least one second-stage switch circuit, and multiple third-stage switch circuits. The first-stage switch circuit includes a first common-mode node, a first input/output terminal, and at least one first-stage connection terminal. The second-stage switch circuit includes a second common-mode node, a second-stage transmission terminal, and multiple second-stage connection terminals. Each of the third-stage switch circuits includes a third common-mode node, a third-stage transmission terminal, a reference terminal, and a second input/output terminal. Two of the first input/output terminal and the at least one first-stage connection terminal are connected through the first common-mode node. Two of the second-stage transmission terminal and the second-stage connection terminals are connected through the second common-mode node. Two of the third-stage transmission terminal, the reference terminal, and the second input/output terminal are connected through the third common-mode node.
US12316306B2
According to one embodiment, a high frequency semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, first to fourth switch circuits. In a case where a coupling destination of the first input terminal is switched from the first output terminal to the second output terminal, a third switching operation changing the third switch circuit from an ON state to an OFF state and a fourth switching operation changing the fourth switch circuit from the OFF state to the ON state are finished, after a first switching operation changing the first switch circuit from the ON state to the OFF state and a second switching operation changing the second switch circuit from the OFF state to the ON state are finished.
US12316302B2
A novel hybrid band-pass filter is realized using semiconductor integrated hybrid technology, and includes two acoustic resonance units, and one IPD filter unit. The filter unit may be implemented as a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter, or a band-pass filter. The two acoustic resonance units and the IPD filter unit are arranged on a matching substrate, for example, by way of flip-chip technology and welding of electrodes, and a polymer filled shell is formed external to and surrounding the acoustic resonance units and the IPD filter unit to prevent oxidation and to maintain integrity of the weld points. The first acoustic resonance unit is connected with an input terminal of the IPD filter through a matching inductor, an output terminal of the IPD filter is connected with the second acoustic resonance unit through a matching inductor, and finally, the two acoustic resonance units and the IPD filter unit are integrated on the matching substrate. The band-pass filter is characterized by low loss, high suppression, wide passband and high rectangular coefficient, and also has the advantages of small size, high yield, good batch consistency and suitability for batch production.
US12316299B2
An AT-cut crystal vibration plate has, at its both ends, first and second castellations that interconnect first mounting terminals and also interconnect second mounting terminals formed on main surfaces on both sides of this plate. The first and second castellations respectively have first and second cutouts, and these cutouts each have an end surface extending along Z′ axis of crystal and located on a −X-axis side. The end surfaces each include a first inclined face inclined in a manner that protrudes from one of the main surfaces toward the −X-axis side, and a second inclined face inclined in a manner that protrudes from the other main surface toward the −X-axis side. The angle made by the first inclined face and the second inclined face is an obtuse angle.
US12316298B2
A production method for a surface acoustic wave device comprises the following steps: a step of providing a piezoelectric substrate comprising a transducer arranged on the main front face; a step of depositing a dielectric encapsulation layer on the main front face of the piezoelectric substrate and on the transducer; and a step of assembling the dielectric encapsulation layer with the main front face of a support substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion less than that of the piezoelectric substrate. In additional embodiments, a surface acoustic wave device comprises a layer of piezoelectric material equipped with a transducer on a main front face, arranged on a substrate support of which the coefficient of thermal expansion is less than that of the piezoelectric material. The transducer is arranged in a dielectric encapsulation layer, between the layer of piezoelectric material and the support substrate.
US12316293B2
An example method of operation may include initiating an automated tuning procedure, detecting via one or more microphones a sound measurement associated with an output of one or more speakers at two or more locations, determining a number of speech transmission index (STI) values equal to a number of microphones, and averaging the speech transmission index values to identify a single speech transmission index value.
US12316291B2
An attenuator arrangement comprising at least a first attenuation path configured to couple between a signal processing chain, SPC, and a measurement apparatus; said SPC comprising a first and second SPC terminal, said SPC configured to apply one or both of a gain and phase change on a signal passed between the SPC terminals; said measurement apparatus configured to measure one or both of the gain and the phase change applied by SPC by coupling to and receiving signals from said SPC terminals; wherein one of said first SPC terminal and said second SPC terminal is coupled to the measurement apparatus through said first attenuation path; and wherein the at least first attenuation path of the attenuator arrangement is configured to provide, selectively, for attenuation of the signal to the measurement apparatus to make the signal power of the signals from said SPC terminals more equal.
US12316289B2
A power amplifying circuit includes multi-stage power amplifiers, bias circuits, and a control circuit. The bias circuits output corresponding bias currents based on corresponding control currents. The control circuit outputs the control currents to the bias circuits based on a control voltage. The power amplifiers include a first stage of first and second power amplifiers connected in parallel electrically. The bias circuits include first and second bias circuits. The control circuit includes first and second current output units. The first current output unit outputs, to the first bias circuit, a first control current which has a first current value when the control voltage is a first threshold voltage, and which increases linearly with the control voltage, and the second current output unit outputs, to the second bias circuit, a second control current, having a second constant current value, when the control voltage is the first threshold voltage or greater.
US12316281B2
A reception circuit includes an input terminal configured to receive an input current; a voltage signal circuit being configured to convert a current signal into a voltage signal; a reference voltage circuit configured to generate a reference voltage in accordance with a first feedback current; a differential amplifier circuit configured to generate a differential signal in accordance with a voltage difference between the voltage signal and the reference voltage; and an offset control circuit configured to generate the first feedback current and a second feedback current, adjust the first feedback current when the voltage signal has an average voltage value greater than the reference voltage, and subtract the second feedback current from the input current such that the offset of the differential signal falls within the tolerance when the voltage signal has an average voltage value smaller than the reference voltage.
US12316280B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier transistor, a first nonlinear element, and a current control circuit. The first amplifier transistor has a base or a gate into which a first signal is input, a collector or a drain from which a signal resulting from amplification of the first signal is output, and an emitter or a source that is grounded. The first nonlinear element is connected between the collector or the drain of the first amplifier transistor and the base or the gate of the first amplifier transistor. The current control circuit is connected between the ground and the base or the gate of the first amplifier transistor and controls current flowing through the first nonlinear element.
US12316277B2
A low power mode control module for a crystal oscillator which performs the following steps: detecting whether an oscillation output signal of the crystal oscillator is output stably; when the oscillation output signal of the crystal oscillator is output stably, comparing at least one of an oscillation input signal and the oscillation output signal with an amplitude control signal to determine whether to adjust the amplitude control signal; when the amplitude control signal does not need to be adjusted, generating an upper bound reference voltage and a lower bound reference voltage associated with the amplitude control signal; and according to whether the oscillation output signal exceeds a reference voltage range of the upper reference voltage and the lower reference voltage, generating a low power mode control output signal associated with a crystal oscillator enable signal for enabling the crystal oscillator.
US12316272B2
Pillars and towers with solar panels mounted thereto allow for more solar panels to be located within a 2 dimensional footprint by using the vertical three dimensional space above the 2 dimensional footprint. The pillars and towers may be secured to the ground. Solar panels may attached to the pillars and towards vertically on top of each other and extend out horizontally. The solar panels may be arranged in to different configurations (e.g., zig-zag) to further increase solar harvesting within the two dimensional footprint and three dimensional space. The solar panel pillars may also have a plurality of solar panel columns that surround the pole that they are mounted thereto to increase solar energy harvesting potential.
US12316268B2
A roofing system includes a roof deck and at least one photovoltaic module installed on the roof deck. The first photovoltaic module includes at least one solar cell and a sealant. At least one fastener penetrates the sealant and the roof deck.
US12316266B2
An example apparatus includes: memory including machine-readable instructions; programmable circuitry configured to execute the machine-readable instructions of the memory configured to: determine a first value of power transferred to a stepper motor during a first operation of the stepper motor; determine a second value of power transferred to the stepper motor during a second operation of the stepper motor; determine a load angle of power delivered by the stepper motor during the first operation and second operation of the stepper motor based on the first value, the second value, and a stall power; and compare the load angle to a stall threshold to detect a stall of the stepper motor.
US12316264B2
Techniques are provided for torque ripple mitigation. In one embodiment, the techniques involve determining a first torque ripple at a torque output of a target electrical machine, upon determining that the first torque ripple exceeds a threshold, reproducing the torque output based on a pair of gamma control sets, determining a second torque ripple at the reproduced torque output, upon determining that the second torque ripple falls below the threshold, generating qualified gamma controls based on the gamma control sets, and supplying the qualified gamma controls to the target electrical machine.
US12316263B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an electric machine. A harmonic manipulated variable with respect to a harmonic of a predetermined frequency occurring during the energization of the electric machine is determined. The electric machine is energized using the determined harmonic manipulated variable by means of a pulse width modulation method. For each period of the pulse width modulation method, the harmonic manipulated variable is determined for both a switch-on operation and a switch-off operation.
US12316255B1
A conveyance system includes: a plurality of conveyance path units constituting a conveyance path on which a conveyance body moves, each of the conveyance path units including a plurality of drive units that each generate a thrust for moving the conveyance body by a current flowing therethrough; and a controller including a current command generator that generates a current command for controlling a current flowing through the plurality of drive units. Each of the plurality of conveyance path units controls the current flowing through each of the plurality of drive units in accordance with the current command. The current command generator generates a current command for performing current control of all of the plurality of drive units of each of the conveyance path units at each control cycle when the current command is generated.
US12316254B2
A stator module of a linear transport system includes a plurality of drive coils, which are energizable and form part of a stator of a linear motor. The stator module also includes actuation electronics, where the drive coils are actuatable by the actuation electronics. The actuation electronics includes at least an actuation element, which is arranged to energize a number of drive coils. The actuation element has a number of half bridges, each comprising a first half-bridge connection, a second half-bridge connection, and a half-bridge center. The first half-bridge connections of the half bridges are connected to one another, and the second half-bridge connections of the half bridges are connected to one another. The half bridges and the drive coils form a chain, with the half-bridge centers and drive coils arranged alternately within the chain, at least one half-bridge center being connected to two drive coils.
US12316253B2
The present invention provides a linear motor driving voltage generation method and related devices. The object is to use the driving voltage generated by the driving voltage generation method to effectively control the linear motor to express the vibration effect in a specific direction. The method of an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining the system gain and current phase of the linear motor system, obtaining the target acceleration and amplitude of initial value of the linear motor, calculating the driving based on the target acceleration and the initial value amplitude, the system gain, and the current phase.
US12316251B2
A frequency converter circuit is disclosed for controlling the speed of a single-phase asynchronous motor wherein the controlled speed keeps the slip between the speed of a driving magnetic field and a speed of a motor rotor as small as possible. Voltage and frequency are provided by the frequency converter circuit wherein a current is provided using the characteristics of the motor and its load mechanically connected to the shaft. By utilizing this current the lowest possible slip results in the maximum possible efficiency at the required operating point of the motor.
US12316250B2
A power tool includes a motor, a power supply device, a driver circuit, a parameter acquisition module, and a controller. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The motor is configured to generate a reluctance torque. The driver circuit is electrically connected to the motor to drive the motor. The parameter acquisition module is configured to acquire a current of the motor, a rotational speed of the motor, and a position of the rotor. The controller is configured to: according to at least one of the current of the motor, the rotational speed of the motor, or the position of the rotor, dynamically adjust a current applied to the stator so that an included angle between a stator flux linkage of the motor and a rotor flux linkage of the motor ranges from 90° to 135°.
US12316248B2
The present disclosure relates to a wind power generator using a piezoelectric element. A wind power generator using a piezoelectric element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, includes: a plurality of panels which are sequentially stacked, a wing-shaped piezoelectric member disposed between the plurality of panels for generating electrical energy by external force and a vibrating ball container disposed on one surface of the wing-shaped piezoelectric member and including a plurality of vibrating balls, wherein a hole through which wind can pass is formed in at least one surface of the vibrating ball container.
US12316246B2
Disclosed embodiments include an electroadhesion device holder for securing devices to foreign objects and other target surfaces. In various embodiments, the electroadhesion device holder may be incorporated into a device case that removably attaches to a device. The device case may include an integrated power supply for providing power to an electroadhesion device. In various embodiments electroadhesion device holder may be attached directly to a device such as a smartphone or camera. By providing a powered, portable mechanism for securing devices to foreign objects, the electroadhesion device holder may provide a better perspective for viewing a device screen and increase the field of view of a camera.
US12316241B2
Described embodiments include a rectifier circuit comprising a first resistor with first and second resistor terminals, and a second resistor with third and fourth resistor terminals. The first and third resistor terminals are coupled to an auxiliary power terminal. A current source is coupled between the second resistor terminal and a ground terminal. An amplifier has a first amplifier input coupled to the second resistor terminal, and a second amplifier input coupled to the fourth resistor terminal. A first transistor is coupled between the fourth resistor terminal and a damping terminal, and has a first control terminal coupled to the first amplifier output. A gate drive circuit has an input coupled to the damping terminal. A second transistor is coupled between the damping terminal and a bootstrap supply terminal, and has a second control terminal coupled to an output of the gate drive circuit.
US12316230B2
A control method of a two-transistor flyback converter including an auxiliary circuit, where before charging of a primary-side winding starts, the control method may include the auxiliary circuit may increasing a potential at a first end of the primary-side winding, and decreasing a potential at a second end of the primary-side winding. By adding the auxiliary circuit, soft switching can be implemented for switching transistors at both ends of the primary-side winding.
US12316229B2
A voltage conversion circuit includes an N-level conversion unit and N−1 DC-DC conversion units. The N-level conversion unit includes N output terminals at different levels. A first input terminal of an Mth DC-DC conversion unit is connected to an Mth output terminal of the N-level conversion unit, and a second input terminal of the Mth DC-DC conversion unit is connected to an (M+1)th output terminal of the N-level conversion unit. An output level of the Mth output terminal and an output level of the (M+1)th output terminal are adjacent levels. N and M are positive integers and satisfy N≥3 and 1≤M
US12316225B2
In a voltage converter, a blocking transistor has a conduction path between a power terminal and a converter terminal. A body diode of the blocking transistor: conducts current from the power terminal to the converter terminal; and blocks current from the converter terminal to the power terminal. A first switching transistor has a conduction path between the converter terminal and a switching terminal. A second switching transistor has a conduction path between the switching terminal and a ground terminal. A first gate driver has an output coupled to a control terminal of the first switching transistor. A second gate driver has an output coupled to a control terminal of the second switching transistor. A driver circuit has an output coupled to a control terminal of the blocking transistor. A bootstrap terminal of the driver circuit is coupled to a bias input of the first gate driver.
US12316224B2
A boost converter with the fast discharge function includes a bridge rectifier, a boost inductor, a power switch element, an output stage circuit, a detection and control circuit, a discharge circuit, and an MCU (Microcontroller Unit). The bridge rectifier generates a rectified voltage according to a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The boost inductor receives the rectified voltage. The power switch element selectively couples the boost inductor to a ground voltage according to a clock voltage. The output stage circuit is coupled to the boost inductor, and is configured to generate an output voltage. The detection and control circuit generates a control voltage according to the rectified voltage and the output voltage. The discharge circuit is coupled to the output stage circuit. The MCU generates the clock voltage. The MCU selectively enables or disables the discharge circuit according to the control voltage.
US12316219B1
A converter circuit. In one aspect, the converter circuit includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, and first, second, third and fourth capacitors coupled to a plurality of switches, where the plurality of switches are arranged to repetitively cycle the first, second, third and fourth capacitors between a first state and a second state to generate first and a second output voltages, where in the first state, the first and second capacitors are connected in parallel with each other and in series with a third capacitor to apply a first fraction of an input voltage at the first output terminal, and in the second state, the first and second capacitors are connected in series with each other and in parallel with the fourth capacitor to apply a second fraction of the input voltage at the second output terminal.
US12316213B2
A snubber circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is connected to a secondary side switch of a transformer, comprises: a diode connected to an input terminal of the secondary side switch; a capacitor connected to an output terminal of the diode; a resistor connected in parallel with the capacitor; and a snubber switch for connecting the resistor and ground.
US12316202B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooling system, an electric motor and a wind-power electric generator set. The cooling system is applied to an electric motor; the electric motor includes a stator support and a rotor support, the stator support is dynamically sealingly connected to the rotor support to form ventilation chambers respectively arranged at two ends of the electric motor in an axial direction, first ventilation holes are formed at two ends of the stator support in the axial direction respectively, and the cooling system includes: a flow-confluence chamber, arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator support; an accommodating chamber, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support; a heat exchanger, arranged in the accommodating chamber or in the flow-confluence chamber; a circulating fan, arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator support and located at a side of the stator support in the axial direction.
US12316201B2
In the disclosure herein, an electric generator system is shown and comprises a housing assembly, an electric generator positioned within the housing assembly, an engine positioned within the housing assembly and operatively coupled to the electric generator, a muffler assembly positioned within the housing assembly, and a dividing plate positioned between the engine and the muffler assembly. Exemplary embodiments include an engine fan positioned within the housing and driven by the engine with an engine fane inlet opening formed radially around the engine fan.
US12316199B1
A system for the reclamation of energy generated from computing devices disposed within a data center may include at least one rack, an exhaust duct, and a damper. The at least one rack may include a plurality of computing devices. The exhaust duct may be disposed adjacent to the at least one rack and may be configured to receive exhaust air from the computing devices. The damper may be disposed within the exhaust duct and may be configured to release at least some of the exhaust air into the data center when an ambient temperature of the data center reaches a predetermined threshold.
US12316193B2
To provide a rotary apparatus able to facilitate assembly of the rotary apparatus, and an attaching structure of the rotary apparatus. A rotary apparatus (1) includes a motor (10) having motor terminals (13), terminal members (21) and (22), a first housing (60), the terminal members (21) and (22) being attached to the first housing (60), and a second housing (40) having an accommodating part configured to accommodate the motor (10), the first housing (60) being attached to the second housing (40). The first housing (60) is attachable to or separable from the second housing (40) in a predetermined direction. The terminal members (21) and (22) are electrically connected to the motor terminals (13). The terminal members (21) and (22) have externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34) to be connected to an external unit. The predetermined direction is a longitudinal direction of the externally-connected terminal portions (33) and (34).
US12316190B2
A case structure of an in-wheel includes a case of the in-wheel motor, a ventilation hole that allows air to flow between an inner side and an outer side of the case, and a cover that covers the ventilation hole from the outer side of the case. The cover includes an air hole that is located below the opening portion of the ventilation hole and that opens to the outer side of the cover, and an air chamber that holds air above the air hole. The air chamber is divided into a first region located above the opening portion, and a second region located below the opening portion. The second region has a volume that holds air that suppresses a water level of water in the cover to be below the opening portion when water enters inside the cover from the air hole.
US12316182B2
The present disclosure relates to tooth assemblies (100) comprising a tooth body (110), a winding (120) arranged around the tooth body (110) and a winding stopper (130). The winding stopper (130) comprises a first portion (131) shaped and dimensioned to be received in a groove (114) of the tooth body (110). Further, the winding stopper (130) comprises a second portion (132) extending from the first portion (131) and protruding from a first lateral wall (113) of the tooth body (110). Winding stoppers (130) and methods (800) for assembling a tooth assembly (100) are also provided.
US12316179B2
An axial flux electrical machine has a permanent magnet rotor fixedly mounted on a rotating shaft and at least one stator having a plurality of polyphase windings disposed along a common axis with the shaft. An insulation layer is fixed between the polyphase windings. In a first example, the mechanical angle and electrical angle of each of the two polyphase windings is aligned. In a second example, the mechanical and electrical angle of each of the two polyphase windings is offset. A controller and at least one sensor are incorporated with the axial flux electrical machine for fault detection in each of the polyphase windings. Upon detection of a fault in one of the polyphase windings, the controller is configured to disable that polyphase winding allowing the electrical machine to operate with the remaining polyphase winding.
US12316178B2
Aspects of a synchronous electric motor, including a synchronous interior permanent magnet or a synchronous reluctance motor, are disclosed. The outer edges of pockets and magnet pockets, including flux barriers, selectively include one or more notches at the front of the pockets. The use of these notches may redirect flow of the magnetic flux such that overall torque ripple may be reduced without significantly adversely affecting the average torque output of the motor. In some embodiments, various characteristics of the notches may be changed to achieve optimal performance including number, geometry, and location of the notches on select outer edges of the pockets. Another characteristic includes symmetry of the notches or asymmetry, whether in the radial and longitudinal directions of the rotor.
US12316177B2
A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the spider arms. The method for repair includes supporting the rim from the top of the spider and thereby relieving some or all of the weight of the rim being supported by the rim support ledges.
US12316175B2
Disclosed is a method for pulling a stator winding system of an electric machine into a stator lamination stack of the electric machine and to a winding tool, with the stator lamination stack having stator grooves which run parallel to a rotation axis of the electric machine and are distributed in a circle around the rotation axis and open thereto and which have on an end facing the rotation axis a gap region which is narrowed relative to the rest of the stator groove. Windings are arranged in the stator grooves, and winding overhangs, as seen in the direction of the rotation axis, protrude from the stator lamination stack at the two axial ends thereof, with the windings formed in the stator grooves as laid windings. The stator lamination stack has no guide structures on the two axial ends for guiding the individual turns of the windings.
US12316169B2
The present disclosure provides a linear driving apparatus. The linear driving apparatus includes: stators; rotors slidably arranged on the stators; a driving component configured to drive the rotors to slide along an extension direction of the stators; first position feedback units provided with one first position feedback unit provided with a marking signal; and second position feedback units arranged on the stators and spaced apart. The second position feedback units is configured to read position information of the first position feedback units and read the marking signal. The linear driving apparatus in the present disclosure can simplify a manner of identifying the rotor without additional sensors, thereby reducing costs.
US12316159B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a power supply system. In one example, a method and system includes a power distribution unit (PDU) configured to receive power from a main power source and an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The UPS includes a timer and the UPS is configured to directly power an output alternating current (AC) load after the main power source in unavailable. The UPS is also configured to power an output high voltage direct current (HVDC) load after the main power source is unavailable for a time delay measured by the timer.
US12316155B2
A system for a direct current (DC) to DC converter, the system comprising one or more transformers, a bridge driver connected to a primary side of the one or more transformers, a first bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, a second bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, and one or more secondary configuration switches operable to configure the first bridge rectifier and the second bridge rectifier into each of a single rectifier configuration, a parallel rectifier configuration, and a series rectifier configuration.
US12316151B2
An electronic device package and a method for manufacturing the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a charging element, a housing covering the charging element and a sensing element electrically connected to the housing. The sensing element is configured to detect an external device and to drive the charging element.
US12316142B2
A power transmitter (101) comprises a driver (201) generating a drive signal for a transmitter coil to generate a power transfer signal during a power transfer time interval and an electromagnetic test signal during a measurement time interval. A set of balanced detection coils (207, 209) comprise two detection coils arranged such that signals induced in the two detection coils by an electromagnetic field generated by the transmitter coil compensate each other. An estimation circuit (205) determines a position/coupling factor estimate for the power receiver (105) in response to signals from the plurality of sets of balanced detection coils (207, 209) during the at least one measurement time interval.
US12316134B2
A first device wirelessly receives power from a second device including a second resonance circuit having a resonance frequency. The first device includes: a first resonance circuit having the resonance frequency, a first capacitor connected to the first resonance circuit at a first node, a rectifier configured to rectify an alternating current (AC) voltage apparent at a first node and oscillating at the resonance frequency, and a control circuit connected to the first capacitor, and configured to determine a first period based on feedback information to be provided to the second device, and alternately apply a first voltage and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to the first capacitor for the first period during a normal output mode.
US12316130B2
A wireless charging apparatus is disclosed. The wireless charging apparatus comprises a transmitting coil assembly, a heat conduction stand, and a heat conduction housing; wherein the transmitting coil assembly comprises a magnetic sheet and a transmitting coil, wherein the transmitting coil is put on the magnetic sheet. The heat generated by the transmitting coil assembly during charging can be transferred to the heat conduction stand and then further to the heat conduction housing to dissipate heat, so as to reduce the temperature of the wireless charging apparatus.
US12316126B2
An energy storage and modulating system for renewable energy off-grid power generation, and a method for modulating the same. The excess electricity from a renewable energy power generation device after the electricity consumption on a demand-side is met is output to a short-term energy storage device and/or an electric energy conversion device to be converted into a combustion medium corresponding to a mid/long term energy storage device. When the renewable energy power generation devices cannot meet the demand-side electricity consumption, the electricity can be generated by modulating the electric energy stored in the short-term energy storage device and/or burning the combustion medium corresponding to the energy storage through a gas turbine power generation system, supplementing the electric energy output from the renewable energy power generation device, thereby enabling the entire off-grid power generation system supply stable energy.
US12316124B2
A method determines the topology of a DERs system having a plurality of assets, where at least one of the assets is a controllable asset. The method injects a power signal at a given frequency from a controllable asset into the DERs system. The voltage at each of the plurality of assets is measured, and the magnitude of perturbation of the voltage at the given frequency is determined for each of the plurality of assets. The method then constructs the topology of the DERs system as a function of the differences of the magnitude of perturbations of each of the plurality of assets.
US12316116B2
A method of predicting power generation using meta-learning includes: (a) receiving, by a main server, power generation data and weather data of one or more power plants; (b) scaling, by the main server, the power generation data using respective capacities of the one or more power plants; (c) scaling, by the main server, the weather data using maximum and minimum weather values during a predetermined period; (d) generating, by the main server, a weather-power generation input sequence using weather scaling data corresponding to a first past period and a prediction period that are continuous to each other, and power generation scaling data corresponding to a second past period that is longer than the first past period; and (e) inputting, by the main server, the weather-power generation input sequence into a power generation prediction model to acquire a power generation output sequence corresponding to the prediction period.
US12316114B2
Systems, methods, and processor-readable storage media for AI continued learning in electrical power grid fault analysis use historical fault record data to generate a fault cause prediction model for predicting the cause of a fault, and modify the fault cause prediction model based on additional technician data received from power grid technicians. The systems disclosed herein additionally receive an indication of a fault which has occurred in a power grid, obtain a prediction of the cause of the fault by applying the indication of the fault to the fault cause prediction model, and cause the predicted cause of the fault to be remedied.
US12316108B2
A hybrid power supply system and a method for extending a power supply time of a secondary battery thereof are provided. The method comprises: a detection unit detecting the magnitude of a load and outputting it to a control unit; wherein when a mains electricity is normal during peak hours, an initial alternating current from the mains electricity is input to a silicon-controlled rectifier, the silicon-controlled rectifier outputs a rectified alternating current, the rectified alternating current is converted into a first direct current to be output an inverter; a control unit controlling a secondary battery to output a second direct current to the inverter during a power supply time according to the magnitude of the load; the first direct current and the second direct current being respectively converted by the inverter and supplied to the load, thereby extending the power supply time of the second battery.
US12316107B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided. The ESD circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) circuit. The first transistor includes a first current electrode coupled at a first node, and a second current electrode and a control electrode coupled at a first voltage supply node. The second transistor includes a first current electrode, a second current electrode, and a control electrode. The control electrode of the second transistor is coupled at a body electrode of the first transistor. The SCR circuit includes an anode electrode coupled at the first node, a cathode electrode coupled at the first voltage supply node, and a trigger input coupled at the first current electrode of the second transistor.
US12316102B2
A method for detecting abnormal direct current voltage measurement in a modular multilevel converter high voltage direct current transmission system is provided. In the method, a valve group voltage at a detection pole is obtained, voltages at voltage measurement points at the detection pole are collected, and comparison and determination are performed based on the actual arrangement of the voltage measurement points, and then whether an abnormal measurement occurs at each of the voltage measurement points is determined.
US12316094B2
The disclosure relates to a protective device for an electronic component connected to an electrical interface, comprising: a detection device for detecting electrical voltage and/or electrical current at the electronic component; a monitoring device; an electronic switch connected in series with the electronic component for disconnecting the electronic component from the electrical interface in the event that an impermissibly high electrical voltage is applied at the electronic component, wherein at least double the nominal voltage is identified as an impermissibly high electrical voltage, wherein in the event that an impermissibly high electrical voltage is no longer detected at the electronic component, the electronic component can be connected to the interface by means of the electronic switch.
US12316087B2
A sheath-bonding link box is provided, the sheath-bonding link box including a housing defining a sealed interior space, and a set of electrically conductive connectors extending through the housing between an exterior of the enclosure and the interior space. The set of connectors each has an internal portion positioned inside of the interior space and an external portion positioned outside of the housing. The internal portion of the connectors is electrically connectable to a functional link in the interior space, and the external portion of the connectors is dimensioned to be electrically connectable to a sheath-bonding lead.
US12316085B2
A wire harness including: a wire; a positioning member that is made of a synthetic resin and is provided on an outer circumference of the wire; a ring-shaped electromagnetic wave absorber that has a through hole through which the wire passes and is fixed to the positioning member; and a fixing member for fixing the positioning member to the wire, wherein: the positioning member includes a main body including an insertion portion inserted in the through hole, and a fixing portion protruding from the main body to an outside of the through hole, and the fixing member is formed so as to fasten the wire and the fixing portion to each other.
US12316083B2
A cable protection device, including: a first sleeve provided with a first accommodating cavity and configured to allow the cable to pass through the first accommodating cavity; and a second sleeve provided with a second accommodating cavity and configured to allow the cable to pass through the second accommodating cavity. The second sleeve is capable of being moved in a butting direction to butt with the first sleeve. A side wall of the first sleeve is provided with a protruding portion. A side wall of the second sleeve is provided with a clamping groove and a clamping portion which are sequentially distributed along the butting direction. In the case of the second sleeve being butted with the first sleeve, the first accommodating cavity is in communication with the second accommodating cavity, and the protruding portion is clamped with the clamping groove.
US12316069B2
A base includes: a mount surface; a lateral wall located around the mount surface, the lateral wall including: a pair of first protrusions having first upper surfaces and located opposite to each other in a first direction that is parallel to a side of the mount surface, wherein each first protrusion has a same height from the mount surface, a pair of second protrusions having second upper surfaces and located opposite to each other in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, wherein each second protrusion has a height from the mount surface less than the height of the first protrusion; and at least one conduction region disposed on at least one of the first upper surfaces and/or at least one of the second upper surfaces.
US12316052B2
A connector assembly of a cartridge of an electronic vaping device may be formed by metal in-molding. The connector assembly may include a connector body that is integrally formed. The connector body may include a base portion that is generally cylindrical, a nose portion extending from a first end of the base portion, and at least two slots extending longitudinally through the base portion and on opposing sides of the nose portion. An electrical lead extends through each of the at least two slots.
US12316051B2
A cable connector includes a slide coupled to a spring to bias the slide from a retracted position to an extended position and at least one latch coupled to the slide. The slide, when in the extended position, is configured to rotate the at least one latch to secure the at least one latch, and when in the retracted position, is configured to rotate the at least one latch in an opposite direction to release the at least one latch. The slide is configured to engage a contact switch when securing the at least one latch.
US12316044B2
A connector includes an outer housing, a wire cover assembled to the outer housing, a first press-fit engaging portion that engages the outer housing and the wire cover with each other by clamping in a first clamping direction, and a second press-fit engaging portion that engages the outer housing and the wire cover with each other by clamping in a second clamping direction. The second clamping direction intersects the first clamping direction.
US12316035B2
An antenna module comprises: stacked printed circuit boards (PCBs) (stacked PCBs) centered on an axis and including: a first PCB having a ground plane; a second PCB, spaced above the first PCB, having a first radiator pair and a second radiator pair that face the ground plane and orthogonally crisscross each other at the axis, each radiator pair having respective signal and ground connection pads adjacent to the axis to form a coincident phase center at the axis for each radiator pair; a third PCB, spaced above the second PCB, for impedance matching; and signal connectors extending through the first PCB; and support PCBs extending from the ground plane to the second PCB, the support PCBs having microstrip feeds to connect the respective signal and ground connection pads of the first radiator pair and the second radiator pair to the signal connectors and to the ground plane.
US12316027B2
Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US12316020B2
The disclosure relates to an active phased array antenna capable of realizing dual-band and dual polarization. The active phased array antenna is divided into a transmission and reception domain, which has a rectangular shape and in which transmission antenna elements and reception antenna elements are enabled, and a reception domain, which has a rectangular shape and is disposed outside the transmission and reception domain and in which the transmission antenna elements are disabled and the transmission antenna elements are enabled so that one substrate is allowed to simultaneously perform transmission and reception functions, thereby reducing the size of the antenna, and furthermore, improving polarization characteristics and tilt characteristics in a broad band.
US12316019B2
A communication apparatus includes a phase shifter, an input port, and an output port. The phase shifter includes a first structure that includes a first phase difference coupler, a second phase difference coupler, a first, second, third, fourth, a fifth and a sixth phase shifter, a cross coupler, a first combiner, and a second combiner. The first phase difference coupler is coupled to the third and fourth phase shifter, and is further coupled to the cross coupler and the first combiner. The second phase difference coupler is coupled to the fifth and sixth phase shifter, and is further coupled to the second phase shifter and the second combiner. A second output port of the first phase difference coupler is coupled to a first input port of the cross coupler. A first output port of the second phase difference coupler is coupled to an input port of the second phase shifter.
US12316014B2
Multi-band antenna arrays and methods of use are provided herein. An example device includes vertical surfaces arranged into a tubular configuration, where each of the vertical surfaces comprising antenna arrays is aligned along the vertical surfaces. The antenna elements are arrayed through a feed network in such a way that antenna gain is increased while elevation beam-width is reduced. The device also includes two or more radios connected to the antenna arrays on the vertical surfaces via the feed network.
US12316010B2
An antenna array system and a method for making the antenna system. The system includes at least two antenna elements serving as transmitter elements, and at least two antenna elements serving as receiver elements. Each of the transmitter antenna and receiver antenna elements include a pair of curved arms, wherein a first arm in the pair of curved arms is configured to be connected from a signal trace of the antenna system. The second arm in the pair of curved arms is configured to be connected to a ground plane.
US12316006B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a housing, an antenna structure disposed in the inner space of the housing, wherein the antenna structure includes: a substrate including a first substrate and a second substrate surface oriented in a direction opposite to the first substrate surface, and a first array antenna including a plurality of first chip antennas disposed at a specified interval in a first region of the first substrate surface, and a first wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to transmit and/or receive a wireless signal of a first frequency band via the first array antenna.
US12316003B2
The invention includes various embodiments of integrated dual-band printed antenna feeds having various combinations of electrical and structural components for use with a prime focus, ring focus, or Cassegrain dish antennas. All of the embodiments of dual-band antenna feeds disclosed herein are configured to be fabricated as a single structure using metal additive manufacturing techniques.
US12316001B2
An antenna and method for using the same having a hybrid feed approach. In some embodiments, the metasurface antenna with dual beam capabilities is feed with feed waves from a center-fed waveguide structure and an edge-fed waveguide structure. In some embodiments, the antenna comprises an array of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements and operable to generate two beams simultaneously in response to interacting with two propagating waves at a same time; and a feed structure coupled to feed the two waves to the array of RF radiating antenna elements, the feed structure having a first waveguide beneath the RF radiating antenna elements in which the two waves propagate in opposite directions.
US12315996B2
Disclosed are an antenna connection apparatus, an antenna assembly, and an electronic device. The electronic device may be a mobile or fixed terminal with an antenna. A non-contact coupling connection between an antenna and a feed point or a ground point is implemented by using the antenna connection apparatus, to avoid arranging an elastic bonding pad or a flexible metal buffer material on the antenna and arranging an elastic pin and the flexible metal buffer material on the feed point or the ground point, thereby reducing connection cost of the antenna and a space occupied by the antenna connection apparatus in a mobile phone.
US12315976B2
A fuel cell system in which a controller unit is prevented from being disassembled in an unconventional manner. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack configured to generate electricity; a cable; a controller unit connected to the full cell stack through the cable to control the fuel cell system; a connector configured to connect the controller unit to the cable, where the connector has an insertion portion, and the insertion portion is inserted into the controller unit; a protector fixed onto the controller unit to protect the controller unit; and a bracket supporting the protector. The bracket has a cable support portion, and the cable support portion is configured to support the cable. A displaceable distance of the cable between the connector and the cable support portion is less than a length of the insertion portion.
US12315975B2
Various embodiments of fuel cells and cell assemblies and methods of using the same are provided. Each fuel cell or cell assembly can simultaneously perform a charging function and a discharging function, the former by receiving electric currents from external charging devices, the latter by outputting an electric current to an electrical load. The fuel cell includes a metal layer serving as a positive electrode for the charging function, at least one air electrode layer serving as a positive electrode for the discharging function, as well as a zinc material serving as a negative electrode for both the charging and discharging functions. The fuel cell also includes a plurality of gas chambers via which an electrolyte is disposed into the fuel cell. The electrolyte is disposed up to a level located lower than the gas chambers.
US12315969B2
The invention provides a laminated body for fuel cell having an outer peripheral shape corresponding to an outer peripheral shape of a fuel battery cell and including a resin substrate film and a heat seal layer disposed on each of both surfaces of the resin substrate film, wherein the resin substrate film has a storage elastic modulus of 2,000-8000 MPa, an average thickness of 30-300 μm, a maximum value T1max and a minimum value T1min of a thickness of the resin substrate film that satisfies the relationship of T1max−T1min≤12 μm, and a maximum value T2max and a minimum value T2max of an average value of thicknesses of the resin substrate film that satisfies the relationship of T2max−T2min≤6 μm, and wherein the heat seal layer has an average thickness of 25-100 μm.
US12315964B2
The battery module includes: a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells including electrode leads are stacked; a plurality of bus bars including a first bus bar and a second bus bar that are respectively connected to at least one of the electrode leads; and a safety member that comes into contact with each of the first bus bar and the second bus bar, wherein the safety member includes a first insulating layer located on the first bus bar, a second insulating layer located on the second bus bar, and a conductive layer located on the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer include a material that is electrically insulating and is removed in accordance with the rise of temperature.
US12315962B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell, an input/output terminal to/from which a charging/discharging current of the battery cell is to be inputted/outputted, and a connector detachably connected to the input/output terminal, and the input/output terminal includes a first hollow conductive member protruding in a first direction and a second hollow conductive member protruding to surround an outer periphery of the first hollow conductive member, the connector includes a central guide protruding in a second direction opposite to the first direction and a third hollow conductive member protruding to surround the outer periphery of the central guide, the central guide is fitted into a hollow portion of the first hollow conductive member, and the third hollow conductive member is fitted into a space between the first and second hollow conductive members and is electrically connected to the first and second hollow conductive members by an elastic connection member.
US12315957B2
In a general aspect, an electrical device assembly (e.g., a battery module) can include a first electrical contact surface, a second electrical contact surface, and a ribbon wire extending along a longitudinal axis. The ribbon wire can include a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion of the ribbon wire can be coupled with the first electrical contact surface via a first wedge bond. The second portion of the ribbon wire can be coupled with the second electrical contact surface via a second wedge bond. The third portion of the ribbon wire can extend between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion can have a first width transverse to the longitudinal axis of the ribbon wire, and the third portion can have a second width transverse to the longitudinal axis, the first width being greater than the second width.
US12315956B2
A battery module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of battery cells and a bus bar assembly configured to electrically connect the electrode leads of the battery cells, and the bus bar assembly includes a bus bar frame configured to cover one side of the battery cells, a plurality of lead slots through which the electrode leads pass, a sensing bus bar connected to the electrode leads, and an elastic guider disposed at both left and right sides of the sensing bus bar in a left and right direction of the bus bar frame.
US12315954B2
A secondary battery module includes a plurality of battery blocks each obtained by stacking a plurality of battery cells. The secondary battery module includes a holding member adapted to hold the plurality of battery blocks and including a pair of opposed end plates, a pair of opposed side plates, and a section plate arranged between the adjacent battery blocks to partition the battery blocks; and an inter-block bus bar provided across the section plate and adapted to electrically connect the adjacent battery blocks. The inter-block bus bar has a fuse portion.
US12315953B2
A battery pack is configured to discharge a high-temperature gas to the outside of the battery pack without affecting other adjacent battery modules when the gas is generated inside the battery module. The battery pack includes a pack housing; battery modules; and a first side venting channel and a second side venting channel configured to guide a venting gas generated from the battery modules to a collection space at a position corresponding to the battery module, and the pack cover includes a protrusion on a surface of a region corresponding to the collection space.
US12315951B2
A power storage module includes at least one cylindrical power storage device, and a lower holder that holds a lower end part of the power storage device, wherein at least one concave part is formed on one of a surface of the power storage device facing a holding part and a surface of the holding part facing the power storage device, and at least one convex part fitted in the concave part is formed on the other.
US12315950B2
A battery arrangement for an electric vehicle including a battery housing and a plurality of battery cells. The battery cells are arranged in the battery housing. A protective plate is arranged on a side of the battery and faces toward a roadway. A deformation detection device includes at least one deformation sensor arranged at the protective plate. The protective plate is constructed of multiple layers and includes at least one first layer and one second layer separate from the first layer. The deformation detection device includes a first deformation sensor and a second deformation sensor. The first deformation sensor is arranged at the first layer of the multi-layer protective plate and the second deformation sensor is arranged at the second layer of the multi-layer protective plate.
US12315946B2
An energy storage/battery system is disclosed. The system can include a multi-voltage configurable module (MVCM) and a multi-voltage configurable backplane (MVCB) that form the system. A method of manufacture of an MVCM can include placing a plurality of battery cell isolation sleeves within a body of a main housing, placing a plurality of battery cells within a cavity of the plurality of battery cell isolation sleeves, attaching a printed circuit board to a bottom portion of the main housing, the printed circuit board being coupled to a plurality of output terminals, coupling a plurality of conducting nails to the plurality of battery cells and the printed circuit board, wherein the plurality of conducting nails extend from a cathode side of the plurality of battery cells to the printed circuit board when so coupled, and attaching a top cover to a top portion of the main housing.
US12315943B2
A battery enclosure and method for manufacturing the same from organosheet materials. The battery enclosure includes a top cover with crossbeams integrated therein by overmolding that secures to a bottom panel to enclose a space for containing components of a battery. The bottom panel includes overmolded structural ribs to provide strength and rigidity to the bottom panel. An outer cover removably secure the top cover to the bottom panel and includes a honeycomb structure to crush upon impact and protect the battery components. The method comprises forming each of the components of the battery enclosure from a mixture of organosheets, reinforcing members, and overmolded elements to reduce the weight and complexity of manufacturing for the battery enclosure.
US12315938B2
A method for producing a catalyst-coated polymer membrane for an electrolyser and/or a fuel cell includes steps including providing a glass-ceramic substrate and synthesizing a mesoporous catalyst layer on the glass-ceramic substrate. The steps include pressing a polymer membrane onto the glass-ceramic substrate coated with the catalyst layer at a first temperature T1, thereby producing a sandwich structure. The steps further include separating the sandwich structure. The catalyst layer is separated from the glass-ceramic substrate and adheres to the polymer membrane.
US12315935B2
Improvements in the structural components and physical characteristics of lithium battery articles are provided. Standard lithium ion batteries, for example, are prone to certain phenomena related to short circuiting and have experienced high temperature occurrences and ultimate firing as a result. Structural concerns with battery components have been found to contribute to such problems. Improvements provided herein include the utilization of thin metallized current collectors (aluminum and/or copper, as examples), high shrinkage rate materials, materials that become nonconductive upon exposure to high temperatures, and combinations thereof. Such improvements accord the ability to withstand certain imperfections (dendrites, unexpected electrical surges, etc.) within the target lithium battery through provision of ostensibly an internal fuse within the subject lithium batteries themselves that prevents undesirable high temperature results from short circuits. Battery articles and methods of use thereof including such improvements are also encompassed within this disclosure.
US12315933B2
A negative electrode for a lithium metal battery includes a metal current collector substrate, a lithium metal layer formed on at least one surface of the metal current collector substrate, and a protective layer formed on the lithium metal layer. The protective layer includes a material capable of occluding and releasing lithium in an amount of 70% by weight or more based on a total weight of the protective layer.
US12315928B2
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of the formula NaxM12−(y+z)M2yM3z(AO4)3 wherein M1, M2, and M3 are each independently Hf, Mg, Sc, In, Y, Ca, or Zr; A is P, Si, S, or a combination thereof; 3≤x≤3.5; 0.5≤y≤1; and 0≤z≤0.5. The solid-state ion conductor can be useful in various components of an electrochemical cell.
US12315902B2
A battery heating control method includes collecting a battery parameter of a battery module, in response to the battery parameter of the battery module meeting a preset heating condition, controlling a traction battery and a feed battery of the battery module to charge and discharge each other so that the battery module is heated through mutual charge and discharge of the traction battery and the feed battery, and controlling the traction battery of the battery module to power a motor of a vehicle.
US12315900B1
The present application provides a waste lithium ion battery electrolyte solution recycling method including the steps of: crushing a waste lithium ion battery; cleaning with an organic solvent; performing first filtering; performing vacuum distillation; performing first thermal decomposition; dissolving by adding an acid solution; adding soluble carbonate and/or carbon dioxide for reaction; and performing second filtering. Thus, the solvent in the electrolyte solution can be obtained from the waste lithium ion battery, and the electrolyte is recycled in the form of phosphorus pentafluoride and lithium carbonate. The present application further provides a waste lithium ion battery electrolyte solution recycling apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium.
US12315899B2
A method for regeneration of spent cathode material of lithium-ion batteries involves lithiating the cathode material in a relithiation solution including a reducing agent at a temperature in the range of 60° C. to 180° C. for a sufficient time to heal composition defects in the cathode material. The lithiated material is then sintered to completely recover the properties. The relithiation solution may be a Li-ion source combined with nature-based organic reducing agent such as citric acid, ascorbic acid, tartaric acid, or similar.
US12315894B2
In a stack, a plurality of power storage cells are stacked. A resin plate is placed on the stack. A flexible printed circuit board is placed on the resin plate and has an electric circuit electrically connected to the plurality of power storage cells. A thermistor element is provided on the electric circuit and is in contact with one power storage cell of the plurality of power storage cells to detect a temperature of the power storage cell. A cover member is provided on the resin plate to cover the flexible printed circuit board. An elastic body is located between the cover member and the thermistor element to press the thermistor element toward the power storage cell. The cover member includes a protuberance that protrudes toward the resin plate side. The elastic body is disposed on the protuberance.
US12315890B2
According to the present invention, an electrolyte is composed of one or more lithium salts of asymmetric imides each having a perfluoroalkyl group, or a mixed salt of a lithium salt of an asymmetric imide having a perfluoroalkyl group and a lithium salt of a symmetric imide having a perfluoroalkyl group. The composition ratio of the one or more lithium salts and the mixed salt is expressed by (lithium salt of asymmetric imide)x(lithium salt of symmetric imide)1-x (wherein x is from 0.1 to 1.0) in terms of the molar ratio; the asymmetric imide lithium salt is (C2F5SO2)(CF3SO2)NLi or (C3F7SO2)(CF3SO2)NLi; the symmetric imide lithium salt is (CF3SO2)2NLi; and the composition of an electrolyte solution according to the present invention contains 1.0 mole or more but less than 2 moles of a solvent per 1 mole of the one or more lithium salts or the lithium salts of the mixed salt.
US12315888B2
A battery including: a first electrode layer; a solid electrolyte layer disposed above the first electrode layer; a second electrode layer disposed above the solid electrolyte layer; and an electrode. The first electrode layer includes: a first current collector; and a first mixture layer disposed between the first current collector and the solid electrolyte layer. The first current collector includes a terminal portion protruding from the second electrode layer in top view, the solid electrolyte layer is exposed in at least a region of the terminal portion in the top view, the solid electrolyte layer covers part of a side surface of the first mixture layer in cross-sectional view and is in contact with the terminal portion of the first current collector, and the electrode is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer in an inside of at least a region of the terminal portion in top view.
US12315884B2
The present invention relates to: a non-aqueous electrolyte composition for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an anhydrosugar alcohol derivative; and a lithium secondary battery including same and, more specifically, to: a non-aqueous electrolyte composition comprising a specific amount of an anhydrosugar alcohol derivative as an additive and being capable of providing a lithium secondary battery having an improved battery lifespan property and storage stability; and a lithium secondary battery including same.
US12315876B2
A sulfide-based solid electrolyte particle having a crystal phase of a cubic argyrodite-type crystal structure composed of Li, P, S and a halogen (Ha), wherein good contact between the sulfide-based solid electrolyte particles and positive or negative electrode active material particles is secured and improvements in the rate characteristic and the cycle characteristic are attained. The ratio (ZHa2/ZHa1) of an element ratio ZHa2 of the halogen (Ha) at the position of 5 nm in depth from the particle surface to an element ratio ZHa1 of the halogen (Ha) at the position of 100 nm in depth from the particle surface is 0.5 or lower and the ratio (ZO2/ZA2) of an element ratio ZO2 of oxygen to the total ZA2 of element ratios of P, S, O, and the halogen (Ha) at the position of 5 nm in depth from the particle surface is 0.5 or higher, as measured by XPS.
US12315875B2
Disclosed is an all-solid-state battery comprising an electrode assembly and a solid electrolyte, wherein the electrode assembly comprises a structure in which plate-shaped electrodes are stacked; and the electrodes include a relatively high heat-generating first electrode and a relatively low heat-generating second electrode, wherein the first electrode is disposed in a center of the electrode assembly, the all-solid-state battery with improved performance by increasing the temperature of the battery without adding additional members.
US12315869B2
A battery module includes: a positive electrode member having a positive electrode current collector, a first positive electrode active material layer, and a second positive electrode active material layer; a negative electrode member having a negative electrode current collector, a first negative electrode active material layer, and a second negative electrode active material layer; and a separator. The positive electrode current collector has a positive electrode folded-back portion. The negative electrode current collector has a negative electrode folded-back portion. The first negative electrode active material layer constitutes a first electrode together with the first positive electrode active material layer. The second negative electrode active material layer constitutes a second electrode connected in parallel with the first electrode together with the second positive electrode active material layer.
US12315864B2
In a method, a first dielectric layer is formed over semiconductor fins, a second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer is recessed below a top of each of the semiconductor fins, a third dielectric layer is formed over the recessed second dielectric layer, and the third dielectric layer is recessed below the top of the semiconductor fin, thereby forming a wall fin. The wall fin includes the recessed third dielectric layer and the recessed second dielectric layer disposed over the recessed third dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is recessed below a top of the wall fin, a fin liner layer is formed, the fin liner layer is recessed and the semiconductor fins are recessed, and source/drain epitaxial layers are formed over the recessed semiconductor fins, respectively. The source/drain epitaxial layers are separated by the wall fin from each other.
US12315853B2
A radio frequency package includes a baseband processor, a transceiver, and a memory. The baseband processor performs processing for wireless communication functions. Moreover, the transceiver transmits and receives wireless signals based on the processing of the wireless communication functions. Additionally, the memory is associated with the baseband processor and stores instructions for performing the processing. The memory and the baseband processor are disposed on top of the transceiver.
US12315834B2
A cryogenic under bump metallization (UBM) stack includes an adhesion and barrier layer and a conductive pillar on the adhesion and barrier layer. The conductive pillar functions as a solder wetting layer of the UBM stack and has a thickness. An indium superconducting solder bump is on the conductive pillar. The thickness of the conductive pillar is sufficient to prevent intermetallic regions, which form in the conductive pillar at room temperature due to interdiffusion, from extending through the entire thickness of the conductive pillar to maintain the structural integrity of the UBM stack. The indium (In) solder bump may be formed through electroplating, with the conductive pillar being copper (Cu) and the adhesion and barrier layer being titanium tungsten (TiW) and a thin seed layer of copper (Cu), or a layer of titanium (Ti).
US12315833B2
Conductive buffer layers for semiconductor die assemblies, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes first and second semiconductor dies directly bonded to each other. The first semiconductor die includes a first copper pad and the second semiconductor die includes a second copper pad. The first and second copper pads form an interconnect between the first and second semiconductor dies, and the interconnect includes a conductive buffer material between the first and second copper pads, where the conductive buffer material includes aggregates of conductive particles. In some embodiments, the first and second copper pads are not conjoined but electrically connected to each other through the conductive buffer material. In some embodiments, the conductive buffer material is porous such that the aggregates of conductive particles can be compressed together in response to the pressure applied to the conductive buffer layer.
US12315823B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a metal plate. The semiconductor chip has first and second surfaces, four side surface, four corners, four sides. The four side surfaces connect the first surface and the second surface. Two of the four side surfaces contact each other at one of the four corners. The four side surfaces contact the second surface at the four sides. The first and second electrodes are provided at the first front side. The metal plate is connected to the second surface side of the semiconductor chip. The metal plate includes third and fourth surfaces, and a through-hole or a notch. The third surface is connected to the second surface of the semiconductor chip. The fourth surface is provided at a side opposite to the third surface. The through-hole or the notch extends through the metal plate from the fourth surface to the third surface.
US12315817B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a first interconnect dielectric layer over a substrate. An interconnect wire extends through the first interconnect dielectric layer, and a dielectric on wire structure is arranged directly over the interconnect wire. Outer sidewalls of the dielectric on wire structure are surrounded by the first interconnect dielectric layer. The integrated chip further includes a second interconnect dielectric layer arranged over the first interconnect dielectric layer, and an interconnect via that extends through the second interconnect dielectric layer and the dielectric on wire structure to contact the interconnect wire.
US12315815B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern are formed over the first conductive pattern, in a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed over a substrate. The second conductive pattern contacts the first conductive pattern. A space is formed in the first ILD layer by removing a part of the second conductive pattern to expose a part of the first conductive pattern. The space is filled with a dielectric material. A third conductive pattern is formed over a remaining portion of the second conductive pattern. A via contact connecting the first conductive pattern and the third conductive pattern is formed by patterning the remaining portion of the second conductive pattern as an etching mask.
US12315809B2
A structure includes a first conductive feature in a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; and a second conductive feature extending through the second dielectric layer to physically contact the first conductive feature, wherein the second conductive feature includes a metal adhesion layer over and physically contacting the first conductive feature; a barrier layer extending along sidewalls of the second dielectric layer; and a conductive filling material extending over the metal adhesion layer and the barrier layer, wherein a portion of the conductive filling material extends between the barrier layer and the metal adhesion layer.
US12315803B2
A microelectronic device comprises pillar structures comprising semiconductive material, contact structures in physical contact with upper portions of the pillar structures, and conductive structures over and in physical contact with the contact structures. Each of the conductive structures comprises an upper portion having a first width, and a lower portion vertically interposed between the upper portion and the contact structures. The lower portion has a tapered profile defining additional widths varying from a second width less than the first width at an uppermost boundary of the lower portion to a third width less than the second width at a lowermost boundary of the lower portion. Memory devices, electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices are also described.
US12315802B2
A memory device includes a stack structure and a first beam structure. The memory device includes array regions and an intermediate region arranged between the array regions in a first lateral direction. The stack structure includes a first block and a second block arranged in a second lateral direction. Each of the first block and the second block includes a wall-structure region. In the intermediate region, the wall-structure regions of the first block and the second block are separated by a staircase structure. The first beam structure is located in the intermediate region and extends along the second lateral direction. The first beam structure is connected to the wall-structure regions of the first block and the second block. The first beam structure includes first dielectric layers and electrode layers that are alternately stacked.
US12315798B2
An integrated circuit includes an inductor that includes a first set of conductors in at least a first metal layer, and a guard ring enclosing the inductor. The guard ring includes a first conductor extending in a first direction, a second conductor extending in a second direction, and a first set of staggered conductors coupled to a first end of the first conductor and a first end of the second conductor. The first set of staggered conductors includes a second set of conductors in a second metal layer, a third set of conductors in a third metal layer and a first set of vias coupling the second set of conductors with the third set of conductors. The third metal layer is above the second metal layer. All metal lines in the second metal layer that are part of the guard ring extend in the first direction.
US12315784B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof is provided. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor die, including a substrate and transistors formed at a front side of the substrate; a power distribution network, spreading at a back side of the substrate and penetrating through the substrate, to provide power and ground signals to the transistors; a dielectric material, laterally surrounding the first semiconductor die; and a second semiconductor die, having a central portion bonded with the first semiconductor die and a peripheral portion in contact with the dielectric material.
US12315772B2
A package includes a die, an encapsulant, and a redistribution structure. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the die. The redistribution structure is over the die and the encapsulant. The redistribution structure partially exposes the die. A top surface of the redistribution structure is slanted downward continuously from an edge of the package toward an interior of the package.
US12315769B2
A device is disclosed which includes, in one illustrative example, an integrated circuit die having an active surface and a molded body extending around a perimeter of the die, the molded body having lips that are positioned above a portion of the active surface of the die. Another illustrative example includes an integrated circuit die having an active surface, a molded body extending around a perimeter of the die and a CTE buffer material formed around at least a portion of the perimeter of the die adjacent the active surface of the die, wherein the CTE buffer material is positioned between a portion of the die and a portion of the molded body and wherein the CTE buffer material has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is intermediate a coefficient of thermal expansion for the die and a coefficient of thermal expansion for the molded body.
US12315763B2
To manufacture a semiconductor device, a structure is formed by alternately stacking a plurality of first films and a plurality of second films one-by-one on a substrate. A vertical hole is formed to vertically pass through the structure. A carbon-containing barrier film is formed to conformally cover an inner sidewall of the vertical hole. The carbon-containing barrier film is in contact with portions of the plurality of first films and the plurality of second films. A sacrificial metal film is formed on the carbon-containing barrier film in the vertical hole. The sacrificial metal film is removed to expose the carbon-containing barrier film. The carbon-containing barrier film is removed using an ashing process.
US12315760B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electronic component including: forming a via hole extending in a thickness direction of a curable sealing resin layer provided on a base material by an imprint method of pressing a mold into the sealing resin layer from a side opposite to the base material; curing the sealing resin layer; filling the via hole with a conductor precursor; and forming a conductive via by heating the conductor precursor filled in the via hole.
US12315756B2
Substrate tables and methods of manufacturing substrate supports for substrate tables. In one arrangement, a plurality of holes are formed through a base member. A burl formation member is joined to the base member. A plurality of burl structures are formed in the burl formation member. Each burl structure includes a distal surface that contacts, in use, a substrate being supported. Each burl structure has an opening to at least one of the holes formed through the base member.
US12315752B2
A substrate treatment apparatus includes: treatment parts each of which performs a predetermined treatment; and a transfer mechanism which transfers a transfer object. Transfer objects are transferred in a predetermined transfer-in order into the substrate treatment apparatus. The substrate treatment apparatus includes a controller which acquires a process job. The controller determines before starting transfer of one transfer object to the treatment part, when the process job is different between the one transfer object and a preceding transfer object transferred into the substrate treatment apparatus prior to the one transfer object and a same kind of treatment is included in the respective process jobs thereof, a possibility of performing preceding execution of executing the same kind of treatment on the one transfer object previous to completion of the same kind of treatment on the preceding transfer object.
US12315741B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes providing a substrate, providing an intermediate layer on the substrate, and providing an isolation layer on the intermediate layer. The substrate includes an active region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region is adjacent to the active region, and the ratio of the area of the active region to the area of the substrate surface is between 75% and 92%. The isolation layer includes a first surface and at least one slope. The first surface of the isolation layer is correspondingly disposed in the active region. The at least one slope of the isolation layer is correspondingly disposed in the peripheral region and at a first angle with respect to the substrate surface.
US12315738B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes forming, over a workpiece, a dummy gate stack comprising a first semiconductor material, depositing a first dielectric layer over the dummy gate stack using a first process, implanting the workpiece with a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, annealing the dummy gate stack after the implanting, and replacing the dummy gate stack with a metal gate stack.
US12315730B2
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate, a semiconductor channel layer over the substrate, an interfacial oxide layer over the semiconductor channel layer, and a high-k gate dielectric layer over the interfacial oxide layer, wherein the semiconductor channel layer includes germanium. The method further includes forming a metal nitride layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer and performing a first treatment to the structure using a metal-containing gas. After the performing of the first treatment, the method further includes depositing a silicon layer over the metal nitride layer; and then annealing the structure such that a metal intermixing layer is formed over the high-k gate dielectric layer. The metal intermixing layer includes a metal oxide having metal species from the high-k gate dielectric layer and additional metal species from the metal-containing gas.
US12315729B1
An example method includes providing a first semiconductor workpiece including a first portion and a second portion. The example method includes providing emission of one or more lasers through a thickness of the first semiconductor workpiece to remove the first portion of the first semiconductor workpiece from the second portion. In some implementations, the second portion has a shape corresponding to a second semiconductor workpiece of a different diameter relative to the first semiconductor workpiece.
US12315726B2
A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit includes patterning a plurality of photomask layers over a substrate, partially backfilling the patterned plurality of photomask layers with a first material using atomic layer deposition, completely backfilling the patterned plurality of photomask layers with a second material using atomic layer deposition, removing the plurality of photomask layers to form a masking structure comprising at least one of the first and second materials, and transferring a pattern formed by the masking structure to the substrate and removing the masking structure. The first material includes a silicon dioxide, silicon carbide, or carbon material, and the second material includes a metal oxide or metal nitride material.
US12315718B2
A method includes depositing a flowable film on a substrate by providing a first input flow, the first input flow including plasma effluents of a first precursor, removing a portion of the flowable film from a sidewall of a feature defined within the substrate to obtain a remaining portion of the flowable film by providing a second input flow, the second input flow including plasma effluents of a second precursor, reducing hydrogen content of the remaining portion of the flowable film to obtain a densified film by providing a third input flow, the third input flow including plasma effluents of a third precursor, and treating the densified film in accordance with a film treatment process.
US12315717B2
A method for depositing a metal oxynitride film by epitaxial growth at a low temperature is provided. It is a method for manufacturing a metal oxynitride film, in which the metal oxynitride film is epitaxially grown on a single crystal substrate by a sputtering method using an oxide target with a gas containing a nitrogen gas introduced. The oxide target contains zinc, the substrate during the deposition of the metal oxynitride film is higher than or equal to 80° C. and lower than or equal to 400° C., and the flow rate of the nitrogen gas is greater than or equal to 50% and lower than or equal to 100% of the total flow rate of the gas.
US12315712B2
A mass spectrometer support apparatus includes a peak shape logic to determine one or more peak shapes using a calibration mass spectrum and known peak locations; and a tuning logic to adjust instrument parameters to achieve a selected peak width. A method for tuning a quadrupole-based mass spectrometer includes determining one or more peak shapes using a calibration mass spectrum and known peak locations; and adjusting instrument parameters to achieve a selected peak width.
US12315703B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a substrate chuck having a first region configured to support a substrate and a second region located at a lower level, a focus ring disposed on the second region and surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the first region, a driving unit disposed below the focus ring, the driving unit including a driving source and a driving shaft in contact with a lower surface of the focus ring and configured to adjust a position of an upper surface of the focus ring by a first distance value, a chromatic confocal sensor disposed below the focus ring and configured to measure a second distance value in which the lower surface of the focus ring is moved by irradiating measurement light to the lower surface of the focus ring, and a control unit calculating an error value between the first distance value and the second distance value.
US12315701B2
A film forming apparatus comprises a processing chamber connected to a ground potential, a holder configured to hold a target, a DC power supply configured to apply a DC voltage to the holder and an anti-adhesion shield disposed to surround the target and supported by the processing chamber through an insulating member. An impedance matcher is connected to the anti-adhesion shield and an RF power supply is connected to the impedance matcher.
US12315700B2
There is provided a plasma processing apparatus that converts a gas supplied into a processing container into a plasma to process a substrate, the plasma processing apparatus including: a microwave introduction window disposed in each of a plurality of openings formed in a ceiling wall of the processing container, the microwave introduction window being configured to supply power of microwaves into the processing container; and a plurality of grooves formed on the ceiling wall to surround the openings respectively, wherein widths between the grooves and the openings are not uniform with respect to circumferential directions of the openings.
US12315693B2
One or more example embodiments relates to an extra-focal beam aperture device for an X-ray emitter and to the X-ray emitter. The extra-focal beam aperture device according to one or more example embodiments for an X-ray emitter has a planar beam-shaping element including an X-ray opaque material, the planar beam-shaping element being configured to form a useful X-ray beam and an X-ray measuring beam separate from the useful X-ray beam, from an X-ray beam bundle incident upon the extra-focal beam aperture device, the planar beam-shaping element including two side faces opposite each other, a radial lateral surface between the two side faces, a cross-section through the radial lateral surface having an approximately trapezoid shape, and at least one cut-out for shaping the X-ray measuring beam, the at least one cut-out having a tapering cross-section.
US12315692B2
An arc path forming unit and a direct current relay are disclosed. An arc path forming unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a magnet frame extending in a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of main magnet units disposed in the width direction of the magnet frame. The surfaces, which face each other, of the main magnet units have the same polarity. Therefore, magnetic fields that repel each other are generated in a space between the respective main magnet units. An electromagnetic force in the direction oriented toward the outside of the arc path forming unit is formed by means of the magnetic fields. Thus, a generated arc can move in the direction of the electromagnetic force so as to be stably extinguished. As a result, various members positioned in the center of the direct current relay are prevented from being damaged by the arc.
US12315691B2
A contactor apparatus and method for operating the contactor apparatus can include a contactor assembly with a contactor coil operably coupled to a contactor switch. One or more sensors can be provided in the contactor assembly adapted to measure one or more aspects of the contactor assembly. Based upon the measured aspects, a controller can initiate operation of the contactor switch to effectively toggle the contactor switch at a zero-crossing point along an alternating current waveform.
US12315687B2
A rotary switch includes an operating mechanism, an on-off apparatus, and a tripping component. The operating mechanism includes an energy storage component and a drive component. The drive component is in driving connection with the energy storage component and the on-off apparatus. The energy storage component includes a latch and an energy storage spring that cooperates with the latch. The energy storage spring can be connected to the latch and the drive component in a snap-fit manner, such that rotation of the drive component stores energy in the energy storage component. Rotation of the drive component also drives the on-off apparatus to an on position. The latch the tripping component interact such that the latch locks or unlocks the energy storage spring.
US12315685B2
Keycaps for use in association with key switches that facilitate the creation of custom keyboards. Mechanical keyboards feature key switches having standardized top portions that make it possible to fit a wide variety of different keycaps thereon. Specialized, electronic keycaps can introduce different functionalities to improve keyboard customizability. Keycaps can include haptic feedback mechanisms. Keycaps can include a display screen.
US12315676B2
A capacitor is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrically conductive capacitor layers wound around a winding center and a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel is disposed between the capacitor layers, and wherein the cooling channel is electrically conductive. A system and a motor vehicle that includes the capacitors is also disclosed.
US12315663B2
An inductor includes a body containing soft magnetic powder and resin, a coil embedded in the body, outer electrodes on the body, and a protective film on the surface of the body. The protective film has a thickness of 10 μm or more and contains silica particles and resin. In the protective film, the silica particles have an average diameter of 15 nm to 75 nm, and the percentage by weight of the silica particles to the resin is between 150% and 250%.
US12315661B2
A magnetic compact includes first magnetic particles, second magnetic particles with larger particle sizes than the first magnetic particles, and a resin. The area ratios calculated for multiple regions of the magnetic compact have a standard deviation of 0.40 or less, where area ratio=(total area of first magnetic particles)/(total area of second magnetic particles).
US12315660B2
One object is to provide a magnetic body having a high mechanical strength. A magnetic body according to one embodiments of the present invention includes: first particles of a first alloy containing Fe and Cr; second particles of a second alloy containing at least one of Al or Mn; and bonding portions containing at least one of Al oxide or Mn oxide, the bonding portions bonding the first particles to each other. The bonding portions containing at least one of Al oxide or Mn oxide increase the mechanical strength of the magnetic body.
US12315656B1
A floating photovoltaic cable manufacturing device for offshore photovoltaic systems and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The device includes a cable body that passes through a rack at a constant speed, a winding frame is provided on one side of the rack, the winding frame is connected to a driving motor through a transmission mechanism, a rotation of the winding frame drives armored steel sheets to be wound on a surface of the cable body; a spot-welding gun provided in the rack through a regulation mechanism, a bottom of the spot-welding gun is aligned with the armored steel sheets; and a resistance band sleeved on surfaces of two sets of driving shafts, the resistance band is attached to the armored steel sheets, and a movement of the cable body enables the driving shafts to rotate on two sides of a connection rack.
US12315653B2
An atom chip for an ultracold-atom sensor, the chip includes an XY-plane normal to a Z-axis, the atom chip comprising: first and second coplanar waveguides suitable for propagating microwaves at respective angular frequencies ωa and ωb, the waveguides being placed symmetrically on either side of the X-axis and being referred to as X-wise guides, first and second coplanar waveguides suitable for propagating microwaves at respective angular frequencies ω′a and ω′b, the waveguides being placed symmetrically on either side of an axis the projection of which in the XY-plane is along an axis Y′ that is different from the X-axis and that is contained in the XY-plane, and being referred to as Y′-wise guides, the X-wise guides being electrically insulated from the Y′-wise guides, an intersection of the guides forming a parallelogram of center O defining an origin of the reference frame XYZ, at least a first conductive wire and a second conductive wire the respective projections of which in the XY-plane are secant at O and make between them an angle larger than or equal to 20°, the conductive wires being suitable for being passed through by DC currents.
US12315649B2
Compositions comprising high levels of high specific activity copper-64, and process for preparing said compositions. The compositions comprise from about 2 Ci to about 15 Ci of copper-64 and have specific activities up to about 3800 mCi copper-64 per microgram of copper. The processes for preparing said compositions comprise bombarding a nickel-64 target with a low energy, high current proton beam, and purifying the copper-64 from other metals by a process comprising ion exchange chromatography or a process comprising a combination of extraction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography.
US12315644B2
A controlled fusion process is provided that can produce a sustained series of fusion reactions: a process that (i) uses a substantially higher reactant density of the deuterium and tritium gases by converging cationic reactants into the higher reaction density at a target cathode rather than relying on random collisions, the converging producing a substantially higher rate of fusion and energy production; (ii) uses a substantially lower input of energy to initiate the fusion; (iii) can be cycled at a substantially higher cycle frequency; (iv) has a practical heat exchange method; (v) is substantially less costly to manufacture, operate, and maintain; and, (vi) has a substantially improved reaction efficiency as a result of not mixing reactants with products.
US12315641B2
The method of operating an image device comprises receiving an input of virtual tissues modeled with an arbitrary shape and a quantitative feature, simulating a TOF change or a signal strength change of ultrasound data having penetrated the virtual tissues modeled with a speed-of-sound distribution or an attenuation coefficient distribution in a first and in a second direction, and creating an image pair representing the TOF change or the signal strength change, creating a speed-of-sound distribution image or an attenuation coefficient distribution image of each of the virtual tissues as a ground truth of an image pair created in the corresponding virtual tissue, and training a first neural network that reconstruct the speed-of-sound distribution image from an input image pair or training a second neural network that reconstructs the attenuation coefficient distribution image from the input image pair.
US12315639B2
Methods and apparatus for reducing the risk of neurological injury to a human fetus during labor and before are disclosed, which include the steps of: (1) identifying during labor the risk of neurological injury to a fetus by, conducting an analysis of fetal blood to determine at least a first base excess (BE) value for the fetus; (2) determining a multiple of the median for the BE value at the first period in time, wherein a risk of neurological injury to the fetus is indicated when the BE value is a predefined multiple of a median BE value; and (3) treating the fetus for which the risk of neurological injury is, by intervening in labor to reduce or eliminate the risk of neurological injury to the fetus through any conventional therapeutic measures.
US12315629B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for patient device management. In one implementation, interrogation data is received from a cardiac implantable electronic device corresponding to an interrogation for a patient. The interrogation data includes device data for the cardiac implantable electronic device and patient specific data for the patient. The interrogation data is normalized into manufacturer independent interrogation data. The manufacturer independent interrogation data is associated with a permitted user. A processing status is assigned to the interrogation using the manufacturer independent interrogation data. The interrogation is aggregated into a category based on the processing status, and the category is associated with an action by the permitted user.
US12315621B2
Disclosed are systems and methods associated with myocardial ultrasonic fingerprinting using a radiomics-based approach and high-throughput computing on static cardiac ultrasound images. Radiomic features can be extracted from an ultrasound image associated with a patient. Myocardial characteristics are then determined by using the extracted features as inputs into trained phenotyping models. A clinical significance associated with the patient can then be interpreted based at least in part on the myocardial characteristics and the extracted radiomic features.
US12315620B2
Systems, apparatus, instructions, and methods for enterprise reading with search and streaming of information from local and remote sources are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a viewer to generate a request for patient content and to display at least a subset of the patient content according to a hanging protocol. The example apparatus includes a search service to query a plurality of sources for the patient content based on a patient identifier. The example query is to return meta data to generate at least one token encapsulating a location of identified patient content and an indication of access to the identified patient content. The example apparatus includes a streaming service to obtain the identified patient content using the at least one token and to provide the identified patient content to the viewer for display.
US12315617B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be described herein associated with data processing associated with multiple system hierarchical levels and compartmentalizing a machine learning algorithm into a plurality of parts. A surgical hub/edge device may obtain surgical data associated with a surgical task and determine sets of parameters associated with various surgical data subblocks. The surgical hub/edge device may determine processing levels to be used for processing each of the surgical data subblocks based on a capability associated with a processing device that is located in a computational hierarchy of the healthcare provider's network. The surgical hub/edge device may send the surgical data subblocks to the respective processing devices based on the parameters associated with the surgical data subblocks and the processing levels. Scaling of a surgical data attribute to be analyzed by a machine learning algorithm may be adjusted based on a resource-time relationship of a surgical hub/edge device.
US12315613B2
A method of transporting equipment modules to an incident scene with an comprises: determining an initial location of the incident scene; dispatching an ambulance loaded with the autonomous mobile response unit and a plurality of equipment modules to the initial location; determining a refined location of the incident scene; selecting a first equipment module; dispensing the first equipment module from the ambulance onto the autonomous mobile response unit; deploying the autonomous mobile response unit from the ambulance at the initial location; communicating the refined location of the incident scene to the autonomous mobile response unit; generating, with the navigation system, a drive path from the initial location to the refined location; and driving, with the drive system, the autonomous mobile response unit loaded with the first equipment module based on the drive path such that the autonomous mobile response unit travels from the initial location to the refined location.
US12315606B2
A digital vaccine system, method and device that maintains a health knowledge base, inputs user characteristics, generates health scores based on the user characteristics and provides pathogen risk recommendations based on the user characteristics, health scores and knowledge base, wherein the recommendations are indicated by the knowledge base to be likely to improve the user's health.
US12315602B1
The disclosure relates to the technical field of experimental detection. A portable experimental device for hazardous chemical and an experimental method thereof are provided. The technical scheme of the disclosure integrates hazardous chemicals information and data of a portable meeting-water air release test device data to construct a perfect hazardous chemicals database, and realizes rapid prediction and response to a fire scene through scene data collection, preprocessing and matching. The scene data of the portable device is received and processed, and is compared with the database information, the random forest model is used to train the chemical reaction prediction model, and the real-time detection data is predicted to obtain the second prediction result. and the test experimental results are shared to each mobile terminal in time to realize the rapid transmission and sharing of information.
US12315601B2
Embodiments provide a method for sequencing and assembling long DNA genomes comprising generating a 3D contact map of chromatin loop structures in a target genome, the 3D contact map of chromatin loop structures defining spatial proximity relationships between genomic loci in the genome, and deriving a linear genomic nucleic acid sequence from the 3D map of chromatin loop structures.
US12315590B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array having memory cells therein that are programed to a plurality of program states, and a page buffer circuit having a plurality of page buffers therein that are connected to a plurality of bit lines associated with the memory cell array. Each of the page buffers includes a sensing latch that is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of bit lines, and is configured to control a precharge operation performed on a corresponding bit line. Control logic is provided to control a verification operation performed on the plurality of program states within the memory cells by controlling the page buffer circuit, a plurality of dump operations on the sensing latch, which are based on values of at least two bits stored in each of the page buffers, and a selective precharge of bit lines that are connected to memory cells to be programmed to a first program state to be verified, from among the plurality of program states.
US12315589B2
The disclosure provides improvements for transmitting data between different voltage domains of an IC, such as a chip. The disclosure introduces a data transfer circuit that uses a multi-voltage RAM, referred to herein as MVRAM, for transmitting data across the different voltage domains. The MVRAM has multiple memory cells with write ports and read ports on different clock and voltage domains. Accordingly, a write operation can occur completely on the write domain voltage and the read operation can occur completely on the read domain voltage. In one example, the data transfer circuit includes: (1) write logic operating at a first operating voltage, (2) read logic operating at second operating voltage, and (3) a MVRAM with write ports that operate under the first operating voltage and read ports that operate under the second operating voltage.
US12315584B2
This application relates to the technical field of data storage, and discloses a method for finding a common optimal reference voltage and a memory storage-system. The method includes: providing a lookup table for optimal reference voltage offset of each programmed state of target memory and a 1-bit count difference voltage offset corresponding to predetermined 1-bit count index at different time intervals; when there is a NAND device of a memory storage system with UECC or bit error rate exceeding criteria, detecting current 1-bit count difference voltage offset corresponding to the predetermined 1-bit count index, and obtaining optimal reference voltage offset in the lookup table with the current 1-bit count difference voltage offset as index; and applying the corresponding reference voltage offset to initial common reference voltage of all NAND devices of the memory storage system. This application can accurately adjust the reference voltage.
US12315578B2
The present application provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first insulative film, a second insulative film, a first electrode, a second electrode, a capping layer, a plurality of first impurity regions and a plurality of second impurity regions. The first insulative film is disposed on the substrate. The second insulative film at least partially surrounds the first insulative film. The first electrode and the capping layer, covering the first electrode, are disposed on the first insulative film. The second electrode is disposed over the second insulative film and covers the capping layer. The first and second impurity regions are disposed in the substrate. Each of the first impurity regions extends under and across the second electrode and the first electrode. The second impurity regions are exposed through the second insulative film and the second electrode.
US12315577B2
Disclosed is a memory device comprising: a memory cell array having a plurality of rows of memory cells; a plurality of word lines coupled to the plurality of rows of memory cells respectively; wherein the memory device is configured to perform programming operations on a target memory cell in the plurality of rows of memory cells, wherein during the programming operations: applying a programming voltage to a selected word line corresponding to a row where the target memory cell locates to program the target memory cell to a target programming state; applying a predetermined voltage to the selected word line to reduce voltage changes caused by capacitive coupling between an unselected word line adjacent to the selected word line and the selected word line; and applying a verification voltage to the selected word line to perform verification operations to verify whether a threshold voltage of the target memory cell is larger than a target threshold voltage corresponding to the target programming state based on the predetermined voltage.
US12315574B2
A memory device includes a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled to the memory array, to perform operations including causing a read operation to be initiated with respect to a set of target cells, determining whether the read operation has failed, in response to determining that the read operation has failed, obtaining, for each group of adjacent cells, respective cell state information, assigning, based on the cell state information, each target cell of the set of target cells to a respective state information bin of a set of state information bins, determining whether to initiate auto-calibrated corrective read, in response to determining to initiate auto-calibrated corrective read, performing read level offset calibration to determine a set of calibrated read level offsets, and causing the set of target cells to be read using the set of calibrated read level offsets.
US12315572B2
Systems, methods, circuits, and apparatus for managing multi-block operations in memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a memory device includes a memory cell array including at least two blocks, a bit line coupled to a string of memory cells in each of the at least two blocks respectively, a common source line (CSL) coupled to strings coupled to the bit line in the at least two blocks, and a circuitry configured to perform a multi-block operation in the memory cell array by at least one of: forming a first current path from the bit line through the strings to the CSL coupled to a ground to discharge a capacitor associated with the bit line that is pre-charged, or forming a second current path from the CSL coupled to a supply voltage through the strings to the bit line to charge the capacitor that is pre-discharged.
US12315570B2
A semiconductor-element-including semiconductor memory device includes a block in which a plurality of memory cells CL00 to CL13 are arranged in a matrix, in which a data retention operation is performed in which voltages applied to plate lines PL0 and PL1, word lines WL0 and WL1, a source line SL, and bit lines BL0 to BL3 are controlled to retain a group of positive holes, generated by an impact ionization phenomenon or a gate-induced drain leakage current, inside a semiconductor body, and a data erase operation is performed in which the voltages applied to the plate lines PL0 and PL1, the word lines WL0 and WL1, the source line SL, and the bit lines BL0 to BL3 are controlled to discharge the group of positive holes from inside the semiconductor body and the voltage of the semiconductor body is lowered with capacitive coupling with the plate lines PL0 and PL1 and capacitive coupling with the word lines WL0 and WL1. For the memory cells in the block, one or both of a memory re-write operation for the memory cells CL00, CL02, CL03, CL11, and CL13 that are in a state of the data retention operation and a memory re-erase operation for the memory cells CL01, CL10, and CL12 in a state of the data erase operation are performed for all of the memory cells in the block simultaneously.
US12315565B2
A method for forming a three-dimensional memory structure above a semiconductor substrate includes forming two or more active stack sections, each formed on top of each other and separated by a dielectric buffer layer, where each active stack section includes multilayers separated by isolation dielectric layers and trenches with shafts filled with a sacrificial material. After the multiple active stack sections are formed, the method removes the sacrificial material in the shafts and removes portions of the dielectric buffer layer between shafts of adjacent active stack sections. The method fills the openings with a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor. In some embodiments, the gate dielectric layer is discontinuous in the shaft over the depth of the multiple active stack sections.
US12315562B2
A memory circuit includes a bias voltage generator including a first node, a current source coupled between a first power supply node and the first node, and a first transistor and a first resistive device coupled in series between the first node and a power reference node. A drive circuit includes a second node, an amplifier including a first input terminal coupled to the first node and a second input terminal coupled to the second node, and a second transistor coupled between a second power supply node and the second node and including a gate coupled to an output terminal of the amplifier, and a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device is coupled between the second node and the power reference node.
US12315548B2
In various examples, refreshing a bank can include receiving a refresh command, wherein the refresh command comprises selector bits and receiving mode register bits from the mode registers. Refreshing a bank can also include refreshing a number of banks from the plurality of banks utilizing the mode register bits and the selector bits.
US12315542B2
Disclosed are a memristor element, a synapse element and a neuromorphic processor including the same. The memristor element includes a free layer including a domain wall; and a fixed layer including a material of which a magnetization direction is fixed, wherein a position of the domain wall in the free layer is changeable based on a spin orbit torque (SOT) generated by a current introduced from an outside, and wherein a resistance value, measured through both ends of the fixed layer, is based on the position of the domain wall and on a Hall voltage.
US12315534B2
Example systems, data storage devices, testers, and methods for storage device configuration using symbol context mutual information are described. A data storage device may include channel circuit configuration settings for the encoding and decoding of data written to a non-volatile storage medium. The configuration settings may be determined by determining a known pattern for a sector, determining a series of symbol contexts, determining mutual information for each symbol context, and using the symbol context mutual information to determine relationships among configuration settings, such as bit size, error correction code rate, and modulation code. Once determined, the configuration settings may be used to configure the modulation code and ECC rate for the channel circuit of the data storage device.
US12315529B2
The present disclosure provides an audio adjusting method, device and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-adjusted audio signal; acquiring an actual sound effect characteristic curve of the to-be-adjusted audio signal, which is a relation curve of actual values between sound effect parameters including level values characterizing frequency response characteristics of the audio signal, and frequency points, of the to-be-adjusted audio signal; determining, according to at least the actual sound effect characteristic curve, an abnormal frequency point set in the actual sound effect characteristic curve; acquiring an audio compensation value corresponding to each abnormal frequency point in the abnormal frequency point set, and adjusting the actual sound effect characteristic curve based on at least one audio compensation value to obtain an adjusted sound effect characteristic curve; and outputting an adjusted audio signal based on the adjusted sound effect characteristic curve.
US12315502B1
Systems and methods for caching on-device commands utilizing utterance patterns are disclosed. For example, user utterances and resulting selected commands are analyzed to determine which utterances result in consistently-selected commands. Pattern data is generated indicating an association between these utterances and commands. The pattern data is stored in an on-device storage and utilized to select a command to be performed when the associated utterances are identified from audio data. When new features are developed for cloud-side services, a determination is made as to whether commands and utterances associated with the new features are candidates for utterance-to-command patterns, and corresponding pattern data may be sent to the on-device storages.
US12315500B2
In a method for quantitatively evaluating a pronunciation of a speaker, an acoustic signal is received from the speaker, which represents an utterance spoken in a language by the speaker. The acoustic signal is segmented into segments at the phone, word or phrase level. The acoustic signal segments are each transcribed by a high fidelity transcriber into high fidelity transcription segments that each comprises a sequence of phones that represents how the native or normative speakers of the language would likely perceive a playback of the acoustic signal segment. Each of the high fidelity transcription segments are compared to a baseline to generate one or more pronunciation scores that evaluate the pronunciation of the speaker. The baseline may be generated by transcribing the acoustic signal into an adapted transcription that comprises a sequence of phones that represents how native or normative speakers of the language would likely speak the utterance.
US12315497B2
A method includes receiving, as input to a speech recognition model, audio data corresponding to a spoken utterance. The method also includes performing, using the speech recognition model, speech recognition on the audio data by, at each of a plurality of time steps, encoding, using an audio encoder, the audio data corresponding to the spoken utterance into a corresponding audio encoding, and decoding, using a speech recognition joint network, the corresponding audio encoding into a probability distribution over possible output labels. At each of the plurality of time steps, the method also includes determining, using an intended query (IQ) joint network configured to receive a label history representation associated with a sequence of non-blank symbols output by a final softmax layer, an intended query decision indicating whether or not the spoken utterance includes a query intended for a digital assistant.
US12315495B2
Systems and methods are provided for extracting entities from received speech. The systems and methods perform operations comprising receiving an audio file comprising speech input and processing, by a speech recognition engine, the audio file comprising the speech input to generate an initial character-based representation of the speech input. The operations further comprise processing, by an entity extractor, the initial character-based representation of the speech input to generate an estimated set of entities of the speech input. The operations further comprise generating, by the speech recognition engine, a textual representation of the speech input based on the estimated set of entities of the speech input.
US12315486B2
A method for manufacturing a sound attenuating panel uses an alveolar-core structure including a first edge and a second edge separated by alveolar cells, the alveolar cells including walls extending from the first and second edges and defining a primary conduit for the circulation of a sound wave that is to be attenuated. The method includes covering the first edge or the second edge of the alveolar-core structure with a compartmentation wall; deforming the compartmentation wall to define at least one secondary conduit for the circulation of a sound wave that is to be attenuated, the secondary conduit extending at least partially within said primary conduit; and creating an opening in the compartmentation wall to permit communication between the primary and secondary conduits.
US12315485B2
An acoustic-metamaterial acts as a sound reducing filter in that the level of sound that exits the structure is much less than the magnitude of sound that enters the structure. In forming the structure, modular stages of a given geometry are stacked upon one another to create a cell. Each stage of the cell is provided with a nozzle that is acoustically connected to the nozzles of other stages of the cell. The stages have chambers that are positioned radially or laterally outside of the respective nozzles, with the chambers of the cell being acoustically connected to one another. An amalgamation of cells are arranged in an adjacent formation, with chambers of the cells being acoustically connected to one another for purposes of protecting items, components and people from destructive levels of sound.
US12315484B2
Described herein are active noise reduction (ANR) techniques for reducing noise produced by a fan(s) of a head-mounted display (HMD). An example process may include receiving data indicative of a noise that is being produced by the fan(s), determining, based at least in part on the data and using a model(s), one or more audio parameter values, and outputting, via one or more off-ear speakers of the HMD, a sound(s) having one or more audio characteristics based at least in part on the one or more audio parameter values to reduce the noise produced by the fan(s) at a location(s) of an ear(s) of the user of the HMD.
US12315481B2
A keyboard instrument includes: a case (upper case) including a back surface member having an insertion port into which a music stand is inserted, and an upper surface member having a recessed portion provided corresponding to the insertion port; and an exterior member that is disposed on an upper side of the upper surface member and covers the recessed portion.
US12315471B2
A colour processor for mapping an image from source to destination colour gamuts has an input for receiving a source image including a plurality of source colour points expressed according to the source gamut; a colour characterizer configured to, for each source colour point in the source image, determine a position of intersection of a curve with the boundary of the destination gamut; and a gamut mapper configured to, for each source colour point in the source image: if the source colour point lies inside the destination gamut, apply a first translation factor to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a first range of values; or if the source colour point lies outside the destination gamut, apply a second translation factor, different to the first translation factor, to translate the source colour point to a destination colour point within a second range of values.
US12315465B2
An electro-optical device including at least one of an optical sensor and a temperature sensor, a pixel circuit and a control circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes an OLED that emits light at brightness corresponding to a current flowing from an anode to a cathode, and a transistor that causes a current corresponding to a voltage between a gate node and a source node to flow through the OLED. The control circuit executes a reset operation or a non-reset operation in accordance with information that is a detection result of an optical sensor and information that is a detection result of a temperature sensor. The reset operation is an operation of supplying a predetermined potential to the anode via a data line. The non-reset operation is an operation of distributing an electric charge accumulated in the data line to the anode.
US12315455B2
A display apparatus and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes: a first storage sub-circuit, connected between a first node and a second node; a data writing sub-circuit, configured to charge the second node; a driving sub-circuit, configured to control connection or disconnection between a third node and a fourth node under control of the first node; a compensation sub-circuit, configured to control connection or disconnection between the first node and the fourth node under control of a first scan signal end; a luminous control sub-circuit, configured to control connection or disconnection between a first power end and the third node under control of a first luminous control signal end, and further configured to control connection or disconnection between the fourth node and a first electrode of a sub-pixel under control of a second luminous control signal. The present disclosure can improve display effect.
US12315448B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, a reset circuit, a light-emitting control circuit and a light-emitting element. The driving circuit includes a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal; the data writing circuit is connected to a first node to apply a data voltage; the reset circuit is connected to the first node to apply a reference voltage. The pixel circuit further includes a partition control circuit, which is connected to the first node and the control terminal, and is configured to apply the data voltage and the reference voltage to the control terminal; the reset circuit is connected to one of the first terminal and the second terminal of the driving circuit, and the reset circuit is further configured to apply an initialization voltage to the driving circuit.
US12315443B2
The present disclosure discloses a display panel, a driving circuit and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. A data writing cycle of the pixel circuit includes a data writing phase and m holding phases. In the data writing phase, the first scan signal includes at least one first valid pulse. A light emission control signal includes one second valid pulse in the data writing phase and in each holding phase. The working modes of the display panel includes a first mode. In the first mode, the interval between the start time of the first valid pulse in the (i+1)-th data writing cycle and the end time of the last second valid pulse in the i-th data writing cycle is t1, and in the data writing phase, the duration of the light emission control signal being an invalid pulse is t2, t 1 t 2 ≥ 1 % , m ≥ 1 , i ≥ 1 , and m and i are integers.
US12315442B2
A display device includes light emitting elements arranged in a matrix and pixel circuits arranged in a matrix. A pixel circuit includes a first reset sub-circuit, a node control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a second reset sub-circuit. The first reset sub-circuit is configured to provide a signal of an initial signal line to a first node. The node control sub-circuit is configured to provide a signal of a data signal line to a second node, and compensate the first node until a voltage of the first node meets a threshold condition. The light emitting control sub-circuit is configured to provide a signal of a first power supply line to the second node and provide a signal of a third node to a light emitting element. The second reset sub-circuit is configured to provide a signal of the initial signal line to the light emitting element.
US12315440B2
A display device includes a display panel including a group of pixels; a control unit configured to execute deterioration monitoring for detecting a decrease in luminous efficiency of the group of pixels and first high-speed monitoring for determining whether to execute the deterioration monitoring, the first high-speed monitoring being executed at a faster speed than the deterioration monitoring; and a storage unit configured to store reference data specifying an acceptable range for executing the deterioration monitoring. The control unit executes the deterioration monitoring in a case where a first high-speed monitoring measurement value obtained by the first high-speed monitoring is within the acceptable range.
US12315426B2
A display driver includes a timing controller and a drive circuit. The timing controller receives an external horizontal sync signal and generates an internal horizontal sync signal based on the external horizontal sync signal. The drive circuit drives a display panel in synchronization with the internal horizontal sync signal. Generating the internal horizontal sync signal includes: generating a first pulse of the internal horizontal sync signal in response to detection of a first pulse of the external horizontal sync signal after a masking period has expired, wherein the masking period starts when a first previous pulse is detected in the external horizontal sync signal; and generating a second pulse of the internal horizontal sync signal in response to detection of a second pulse of the external horizontal sync signal in a non-masking period which starts when a second previous pulse is detected in the external horizontal sync signal.
US12315423B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving controller and a data driver. The driving controller divides input image data into a plurality of partial image data corresponding to a plurality of display areas of the display panel, calculates local loads corresponding to the plurality of partial image data, determines a scale factor based on the local loads, and applies the scale factor to the input image data to generate a data signal. The data driver converts the data signal to a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to the display panel. The scale factor for a center display area corresponding to a center of the display panel among the plurality of display areas is determined differently from the scale factor for an edge display area corresponding to an edge of the display panel among the plurality of display areas.
US12315421B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a display device, relating to the field of display technologies. The array substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area located at a side of the display area; the peripheral area includes a plurality of first signal line groups, and each of the first signal line groups includes two clock signal lines extending in a same direction; signals transmitted in the clock signal lines are square wave signals, a phase of a clock signal transmitted by one of the clock signal lines in each of the first signal line groups is opposite to a phase of a clock signal transmitted by the other clock signal line in the same first signal line group, and the two clock signal lines in the same first signal line group are arranged to be adjacent to each other.
US12315420B2
A gate driver according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes a pull-up-pull-down circuit configured to pull up a gate signal to a high level of a first clock signal in a first duration and configured to pull down the gate signal to a low level of the first clock signal in a second duration, and a pull-down boosting circuit configured to output a first off voltage to the pull-up-pull-down part in the second duration in response to a second clock signal.
US12315409B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display panel and a display device, and more particularly, a display panel and a display device capable of reducing a bezel area by reducing the number of subpixels per unit area of a second display area adjacent to a first display area in which the light-receiving device is located.
US12315407B2
A method of inspecting a display apparatus includes providing a display substrate including a substrate including a display area and a current inspection area, a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed in the current inspection area and are apart from each other in a lengthwise direction of the substrate, and a first layer disposed in the current inspection area and electrically connecting the first electrode to the second electrode, and applying a first voltage and a second voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, and measuring a current value flowing through the first layer.
US12315402B2
A method of using a system for generating a centrally located floating image display includes displaying a first image with a first display, receiving and reflecting the first image with a first reflector, displaying, a second image with a second display, receiving and reflecting the second image with a second reflector, displaying first private information to the first passenger and second private information to the second passenger with a transparent display positioned between the first passenger and the first reflector and between the second passenger and the second reflector, receiving input from the first and second passengers with the system controller, collecting images with an external scene camera, collecting data related to a driving environment of the vehicle, and incorporating the data within at least one of the first image, the second image, and first and second private information displayed on the transparent display.
US12315399B2
A system and method for controlling presentation on a foldable display of an electronic device is provided. A foldable electronic device comprises a foldable housing including a hinge structure, a first housing structure and a second housing structure foldable and unfoldable with respect to the first housing structure about the hinge structure. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory to store instructions that cause the processor to receive a first user input to select an application program; detect a change from a folded state to an unfolded state; determine whether the selected application program has user interface size restrictions; and in the unfolded state, display a user interface of the selected application on at least a portion of the foldable display, based in part on the screen size restriction.
US12315395B2
An embodiment of a vehicle simulator includes a base support, a movable integral support, and a plurality of actuators. Each actuator is disposed between the base support and the movable integral support and is arranged to cause movement of the movable integral support relative to the base support. The vehicle simulator further includes a seat device rigidly connected to the movable integral support. The vehicle simulator further includes a first actuator arranged to cause a first force on the movable integral support in a transverse direction at a first position. The vehicle simulator further includes a second actuator arranged to apply a second force to the movable integral support in the transverse direction at a second position, the first position and the second position being spaced apart along a longitudinal direction.
US12315393B2
Systems and methods described herein provide for administering and proctoring of a secure online examination utilizing a ‘cloud’ computing environment. The cloud computing environment provides scalable, shared computing resources such as processing, memory, communications, storage and other hardware and software resources associated with the online examination. The computing resources provided by the cloud computing environment can be provisioned dynamically to match the requirements of the particular computing tasks carried out at the client and/or server level during the administration of the examination.
US12315379B2
In the field of air navigation, a computer-implemented method includes loading an initial active flight plan for an aircraft comprising a first approach procedure to a runway up to a missed approach point ending between the missed approach point and a final point; loading a secondary flight plan comprising an approach procedure to the runway between the missed approach point and the runway, and a second missed approach procedure at the end of the approach, and ending at a second final point; receiving an instruction from an operator of the aircraft to link the initial active flight plan and the secondary flight plan; in the event of a go-around by the operator at the latest at the missed approach point, activating the missed approach procedure; otherwise, automatically selecting the secondary flight plan as active flight plan and activating the second approach.
US12315372B2
A control unit of a server is a device that adjusts a parking position of a vehicle in a parking lot, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive a package in the parking lot, and an adjustment information generation unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting parking of another vehicle in a parking slot adjacent to the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive the package in the parking lot such that a space is secured around the vehicle scheduled to receive the package.
US12315369B2
A vehicle notification device acquires a congestion situation of rest facilities existing on a guidance route on an expressway, acquires position information of a first rest facility that is the closest rest facility to a current location of an own vehicle and position information of a second rest facility that is the next closest rest facility to the current location following the first rest facility, among rest facilities for which determination is made that a rest is possible from the congestion situation, predicts time required to move from the first rest facility to the second rest facility, and when the time is more than a preset threshold value, performs notification prompting a rest at the first rest facility.
US12315357B2
A system for detecting water damage to a structure may include a plurality of energy-harvesting sensors on or within the structure, each sensor being configured to (i) generate sensor data indicative of one or more characteristics of air, construction materials, and/or water within the structure and (ii) generate power for operating the sensor responsively to an external stimulus other than an electrical power source. One or more processors of the system receive sensor data generated by the energy-harvesting sensors, detecting water damage to the structure by analyzing at least the sensor data, and cause an indication of the detected water damage to be presented to a user.
US12315356B2
A battery overheat warning method, a battery overheat warning system, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The battery overheat warning method comprises: obtaining working condition parameters and geometric parameters of a battery; obtaining a theoretical temperature of a target position in the battery based on the working condition parameters and the geometric parameters of the battery; obtaining an actual temperature of the target position in the battery by using a temperature transducer; and sending an overheat warning signal based on the theoretical temperature and the actual temperature of the target position in the battery. The battery overheat warning method has relatively high timeliness and accuracy.
