US12323238B2

The application relates to an apparatus and method used in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The apparatus includes: a wireless interface; and processor circuitry coupled to the wireless interface and configured to: generate a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) with a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding scheme; and provide the PPDU to the wireless interface for transmitting, wherein the PPDU comprises one special codeword and more than one regular codeword and does not comprise a padding bit before Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes, and the regular codeword has a fixed codeword size, which can be different from a codeword size of the special codeword.
US12323233B2

Coherent optical communications technology for recovery of 1D and 2D formatted optical signals. For example, 1D or 2D formatted signals that travel through fiber optic media may be recovered by separating the light into X- and Y-polarization components, rotating one polarization component (e.g., Y-component) into the polarization space of the other component (e.g., Y-component into the X-polarization space), delaying the rotated component enough to avoid destructive interference and combining the delayed component with the undelayed component to form a folded optical signal, which may then be processed as a X-polarized signal.
US12323229B2

An optical signal adjusting apparatus, device and method, and storage medium. The optical signal adjusting apparatus (1) includes a differential operation circuit (11), a feedforward amplification circuit (12) and a control circuit (13), wherein input ends of control circuit (13) are respectively connected to an output end of the differential operation circuit (11) and an output end of the feedforward amplification circuit (12); the differential operation circuit (11) is configured to perform a differential operation on an input optical signal and an output optical signal, to obtain a differential value; the feedforward amplification circuit (12) is configured to perform feedforward amplification on the input optical signal, to obtain a feedforward value; and the control circuit (13) is configured to receive the differential value and the feedforward value, and adjusts the output optical signal according to the differential value and the feedforward value, to obtain an adjusted output optical signal.
US12323227B2

Various devices and techniques help to reduce the entry of unwanted radio waves into an enclosure and reduce the reflection of radio waves inside the enclosure. Such devices and techniques enable a test environment inside the enclosure that provides high-quality functionality and performance testing.
US12323223B2

The present teachings is generally directed to facilitating satellite and terrestrial internet communications. In some embodiments, configuration information for configuring a communications device may be retrieved. The configuration information may be provided to the communications device, and the communications device may be caused to be configured based on the configuration information. Responsive to receiving a first data signal from a first satellite, the communications device may be configured to generate and output a second data signal based on the first data signal, the first data signal including first data encoded using one or more space-based communication protocols, and the second data including second data encoded using one or more terrestrial-based communication protocols.
US12323221B2

Modular broadband terminals that allow for the connection of a plurality of different modems are provided. The modular broadband terminals include a main connector board having common interfaces. The modems have specific interfaces that may be different from the common interfaces and from others of the modems. Each modem can connect with a converter adapter board that is configured to couple the modem with the common interface.
US12323215B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a beam management configuration that indicates a set of resources to be used by the UE for transmitting a plurality of reference signals, including at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) and at least one demodulation reference signal (DMRS), to be used for beam refinement during an uplink beam management occasion; and transmit, to the base station, the at least one SRS and the at least one DMRS based at least in part on the beam management configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12323212B2

A method of managing wireless communication between electronic devices includes, at a first electronic device, transmitting a first downlink transmission from the first electronic device to a second electronic device and receiving a first response from the second electronic device at the first electronic device, wherein the first response includes a downlink channel quality information (CQI). The method further includes determining a per-subcarrier CQI based at least partially on the downlink CQI and determining an output modulation and coding scheme (MCS) based at least partially on the per-subcarrier CQI. After determining the output MCS, the method includes selecting a selected MCS based at least partially on the output MCS and setting an MCS of the first electronic device to the selected MCS.
US12323206B2

A UE receives a first precoder indication from a base station. The first precoder indication indicates a first precoder for a first antenna panel. The UE receives a second precoder indication from the base station. The second precoder indication indicates a second precoder for a second antenna panel. The UE receives an indication of first time-frequency resources from the base station for communicating via the first antenna panel. The UE receives an indication of second time-frequency resources from the base station for communicating via the second antenna panel. The UE transmits first signals generated according to the first precoder indication through the first antenna panel on the first time-frequency resources. The UE transmits second signals generated according to the second precoder indication through the second antenna panel on the second time-frequency resources.
US12323197B2

Disclosed is an over-the-air (OTA) antenna meter application (“meter app”) that wirelessly connects to an OTA antenna meter (“meter”) installed with an OTA antenna and presents information that facilitates a user in installing the OTA antenna at the premises of a customer. For example, the meter app can help the user in pointing and peaking the OTA antenna for one or more broadcast channels, e.g., those selected by the customer. The meter app can store installation information of the OTA antenna for various installations, which can be used in generating a recommendation of, or predicting, installation information for installing the OTA antenna at a specified address. The predicted installation information can include broadcast channels that would be available for reception at the specified address and their signal strength, a specific location of installation on the premises, or whether a pre-amplifier and/or filter is required.
US12323195B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for waveform parameters adaptation. Aspects provide for adapting waveforms to account for impairments that can occur when communicating in a high frequency band. A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes detecting one or more impairment conditions. The method includes determining a plurality of waveform parameters to adapt in response to the detected one or more impairment conditions. The method includes signaling the plurality of adapted waveform parameters to a user equipment (UE).
US12323190B2

A resource extraction system includes a plurality of access points disposed on a plurality of underwater production assets. The plurality of access points are communicatively coupled via a wired connection to a data processing system located above-sea and configured to wirelessly communicate underwater. The resource extraction system also includes an underwater vehicle that has communication circuitry configured to wirelessly communicatively couple the underwater vehicle to the plurality of access points to establish a connection with the data processing system via at least one of the plurality of access points. The underwater vehicle also includes processing circuitry operatively coupled to the communication circuitry.
US12323188B2

An optical transceiver includes a plurality of light sources having a ring resonator, a reception antenna to receive light, and a wavelength-separating filter to separate, from the light received by the reception antenna, light of a same wavelength as the light output from a part of the plurality of light sources. The wavelength-separating filter is composed of the ring resonator included in the light source.
US12323186B2

An optical fiber connectivity management system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store instructions thereon; and a processor connected to the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor is configured to execute the instructions for receiving optical fiber data related to a plurality of target areas for optical fiber connection. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions for preparing a plurality of optical fiber connection requests corresponding to the plurality of target areas for the optical fiber connection and generating an optical fiber application based on the plurality of optical fiber connection requests. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions for instructing a transmitter to transmit the optical fiber application to an optical fiber provider and receiving a response from the optical fiber provider, the response indicating whether the plurality of optical fiber connection requests is approved for optical fiber connection construction.
US12323183B2

A test instrument provides field technicians with resources to support multiple aspects of network testing. The test instrument includes multiple, integrated and removably connectable modules such as a base module, a battery module and other modules that perform different tests on a network. Threads for a network test application can run on multiple modules of the test instrument. Containers are created on each of the modules to run the threads. An application name discovery and routing service (ANDR) is created in each of the containers. Also, an ANDR database is maintained by the ANDRs and the ANDR database identifies the container running each thread. The ANDRs route command and control messages between each other to utilize threads of the network test application running in other containers based on one or more of the entries in the ANDR database.
US12323171B2

An output matching circuit includes a plurality of inductor parts and is connected to an output pad electrode of a power amplifier. In a radio frequency module, a second principal surface of a first wiring board and a third principal surface of a second wiring board are on opposite sides of the radio frequency module. An external connection terminal is arranged on a fourth principal surface of the second wiring board. The power amplifier is arranged on a first principal surface) of the first wiring board. In the output matching circuit, at least part of a first inductor part, which is the inductor part L1 closest to the output pad electrode of the plurality of inductor parts, is arranged on the first principal surface of the first wiring board.
US12323168B2

Aspects of this disclosure relate to bandpass filters with enhanced out of band rejection. The bandpass filters include a stage that is modified using a network of three inductors two of which are mutually coupled inductors. Related methods, radio frequency systems, radio frequency modules, and wireless communication devices are also disclosed.
US12323154B2

Disclosed is a frequency detector. The frequency detector includes a first flip-flop sampling a clock signal based on a data signal to generate a first signal, a second flip-flop sampling a delayed-phase component of the clock signal based on the data signal or sampling the clock signal based on a delayed-phase component of the data signal to generate a second signal, a third flip-flop generating a third signal representing a polarity of a frequency difference between a data rate of the data signal and a frequency of the clock signal based on the first signal and the second signal, and a delay cell generating the delayed-phase component of the clock signal or the delayed-phase component of the data signal. The delayed-phase component has a delay amount set to a value smaller than about 0.25 UI.
US12323153B2

A wireless device includes a radio having a front end and a first local oscillator (LO) and control logic coupled to the radio. The control logic determines, from a received trigger frame, a carrier frequency offset (CFO) between a first carrier frequency of the first LO and a second carrier frequency of a second LO of an access point operating in a multi-user transmission mode. The control logic triggers, based on the CFO, an LO trim of the first LO to adjust the first carrier frequency to match, within a threshold tolerance, the second carrier frequency. The radio can then transmit, to the access point, a protocol data unit frame using the trimmed first LO, the protocol data unit frame being associated with the multi-user transmission mode.
US12323152B2

A duty cycle calibration circuit and method solves duty cycle calibration without single ended I/O signals. The calibration circuit includes driving circuit and voltage divider units, a low-pass filter, voltage controlled oscillator, digital processing unit, and duty cycle adjustment unit. The driving circuit unit outputs a clock signal for calibration; the voltage dividing unit divides voltage based on target duty cycle obtaining reference voltage; the low-pass filter performs low-pass filtering on the clock signal; the voltage controlled oscillator generates reference frequency corresponding to reference voltage and clock signal frequency corresponding to the clock signal based on reference voltage and filtered clock signal; the digital processing unit compares clock signal frequency with reference voltage frequency and generates a duty cycle adjustment control signal based on comparison result; and the duty cycle adjustment unit calibrates clock signal duty cycle based on the duty cycle adjustment control signal obtaining the target duty cycle.
US12323137B2

A gate drive circuit that drives a switching element including a first drain, a first source, and a first gate includes: a first terminal to which a gate control signal is input; a gate signal line connecting the first terminal and the first gate; a resistance element inserted in the gate signal line; a capacitance element connected in parallel with the resistance element; a clamp circuit that performs a clamp operation of clamping a voltage between the first gate and the first source to a voltage lower than a threshold voltage of the switching element when the gate control signal indicates an off period of the switching element; and a clamp control circuit that controls whether to prohibit the clamp operation of the clamp circuit in the off period.
US12323135B2

A circuit may be used as an intelligent semiconductor switch. The circuit includes a high-side power transistor having a load current path coupled between a supply node and an output node, which is configured to provide, during operation, a load current to a load. The circuit further includes a gate driver circuit coupled to a control electrode of the power transistor, and a first stage of an overcurrent protection circuit coupled to the control electrode of the power transistor and configured to drive the control electrode such that a voltage drop across the load current path of the power transistor increases upon detection that the load current has reached a first threshold value. A second stage of the overcurrent protection circuit is coupled to the control electrode of the power transistor and configured to drive the control electrode.
US12323133B2

Acoustic resonator devices, filters, and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a lithium niobate plate having front and back surfaces, wherein Euler angles of the lithium niobate plate are [0°, β, 0°], where β is greater than or equal to 0° and less than or equal to 60°, and an acoustic Bragg reflector between the surface of the substrate and the back surface of the lithium niobate plate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. At least one finger of the IDT is disposed in a groove in the lithium niobate plate.
US12323130B2

Acoustic resonator devices and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator device includes a piezoelectric plate having opposed front and back surfaces. A first electrode and a second electrode are formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, the first and second electrodes and the piezoelectric plate configured such that a radio frequency signal applied between the first and second electrodes excites a shear primary acoustic mode in the piezoelectric plate. The first electrode and the second electrode have trapezoidal cross-sectional shapes. A sidewall angle of at least one side surface of the first electrode and a sidewall angle of at least one side surface of the second electrode are greater than or equal to 70 degrees and less than or equal to 110 degrees.
US12323127B2

A composite substrate includes a supporting substrate composed of quartz, a piezoelectric material substrate, a first amorphous layer present between the supporting substrate and piezoelectric material substrate, and a second amorphous layer present between the supporting substrate and first amorphous layer. The first amorphous layer contains 10 to 30 atom % of silicon atoms, and the second amorphous layer contains 1 to 10 atom % of fluorine atoms.
US12323124B2

An analog front-end (AFE) device includes a sampler array, differential source follower circuits, and programmable attenuation circuits. The sampler array receives input and clock signals. The sampler array including sampling circuits each sampling and holding the input signal based on one of the clock signals. The differential source follower circuits include respective cross-coupled transistor circuits, which include cross-coupled transistors that adjust gain of the sampling circuits. The programmable attenuation circuits include a voltage-controlled resistor that is connected to a differential output of one of the cross-coupled transistor circuits and adjusts gain of a corresponding one of the sampling circuits. The programmable attenuation circuits further receive outputs of the sampling circuits and control signals, and, based on the control signals, adjust the gain for ones of the sampling circuits independently of other ones of the sampling circuits to compensate for gain mismatch between outputs of the sampling circuits.
US12323123B2

A phase shifter includes: a first all-pass filter; a second all-pass filter; a first switching switch to provide a signal to either one of the first all-pass filter and the second all-pass filter; and a second switching switch to select the signal having passed through the first all-pass filter or the signal having passed through the second all-pass filter, wherein the first all-pass filter includes two inductors and three capacitors, and the second all-pass filter includes two inductors and three capacitors, or the first all-pass filter includes three inductors and two capacitors, and the second all-pass filter includes three inductors and two capacitors, and element values of elements included in the first all-pass filter and element values of elements included in the second all-pass filter are determined by impedance at which impedance matching is achieved, a frequency of the signal, and a variable.
US12323122B2

A filter circuit includes a pair of balanced input ports, a pair of balanced output ports, first and second resonators provided in parallel between the pair of balanced input ports and the pair of balanced output ports in a circuit configuration, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first resonator, and a second capacitor connected in parallel to the second resonator. The first and second resonators are magnetically coupled to each other and electrically connected to each other. The first and second capacitors are not electrically connected to ground.
US12323120B2

Disclosed are a bulk acoustic wave resonator and a fabrication method for the bulk acoustic wave resonator. The fabrication method includes: preparing a cavity with a top opening on a first silicon wafer; preparing an insulating layer on an upper surface of a second silicon wafer, and preparing a resonant piezoelectric stack on an upper surface of the insulating layer; preparing a first silicon dioxide layer on an upper surface of the resonant piezoelectric stack; bonding a surface where the top opening of the cavity is located with an upper surface of the first silicon dioxide layer; and preparing a lead out pad of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12323107B2

Envelope tracking power supply circuitry includes a look up table (LUT) configured to provide a target supply voltage based on a power envelope measurement. The target supply voltage is dynamically adjusted based on a delay between the power envelope of an RF signal and a provided envelope tracking supply voltage. The envelope tracking supply voltage is generated from the adjusted target supply voltage in order to synchronize the envelope tracking supply voltage with the power envelope of the RF signal.
US12323105B2

Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit standby current during operation in the standby mode while allowing a quick recovery to normal operating conditions of the amplifier. Biasing an input transistor of the stacked transistors can be obtained by using a replica stack circuit.
US12323102B2

An apparatus comprising a local oscillator (LO) for driving a mixer, the LO being configured to oscillate at an oscillation frequency, and generate a first set of LO signals, wherein each of the first set of LO signals has a LO signal frequency equal to a first multiplication factor m multiplied by the oscillation frequency, the first multiplication factor m, being an integer greater than or equal to two, and each of the first set of LO signals is separated by adjacent LO signals by a phase difference equal to 360° divided by a first variable n, the first variable n being an integer that is greater than or equal to two.
US12323099B2

The disclosure provides systems and methods to monitor the degradation of polymer layers in polymer based photovoltaic modules using an optical sensor. The optical sensor is embedded in a polymer layer of the polymer based photovoltaic module.
US12323096B2

A microinverter for photovoltaic power generation includes a photovoltaic power generation system using the same, and a solar cell panel array integrated with the microinverter for photovoltaic power generation. The microinverter for photovoltaic power generation may include a case lower plate formed in a plate shape; a case cover configured to cover the case lower plate; and a substrate installed on the case lower plate.
US12323084B2

A power tool includes: an electric motor including a rotor and multi-phase stator windings; multiple power switches arranged between a power supply and the electric motor and including multiple high-side switches and multiple low-side switches; a parameter detection device configured to detect an electrical parameter of the electric motor; and a controller configured to output a control signal to control the multiple power switches and at least configured to control the electric motor to brake. The controller is further configured to: determine, according to the electrical parameter, a brake timing for braking the electric motor and start controlling the electric motor to brake when the brake timing arrives.
US12323080B2

A system comprises an inverter configured to convert DC power from a battery to AC power to drive a motor, wherein the inverter includes: an upper phase controller configured to store upper phase data; a lower phase controller configured to store lower phase data; and a data coherence interface providing a communication interface between the upper phase controller and the lower phase controller for data coherence between the stored upper phase data and the stored lower phase data.
US12323076B2

The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator in which a self-gap is formed using plasma etching. The present invention relates to an ultrasonic wave-driven triboelectric generator having a polymer film as one triboelectric layer having a self-gap defined therein using plasma etching such that a surface area thereof is increased to achieve high power and miniaturization of the generator.
US12323070B2

A power conversion device includes a power converter including a semiconductor module, to convert input power and output the converted power, and a capacitor electrically connected to the semiconductor module. The capacitor includes a capacitor-side terminal surface on which a capacitor-side terminal is arranged, and the capacitor-side terminal surface faces a module-side terminal surface of the semiconductor module.
US12323054B2

A power converter includes multiple arms, a temperature detector, a voltage detector, a current detector, a heat generation controller, and a heat resistance estimator. Each of the multiple arms includes a target element being a semiconductor element. The heat resistance estimator determines a heat resistance of the target element based on a temperature difference between a first temperature of the target element and a second temperature of the target element, a current through the target element detected by the current detector, and a voltage across conduction terminals of the target element detected by the voltage detector. The first temperature is a temperature detected by the temperature detector in a state where the heat generation controller has not caused the target element to generate heat. The second temperature is a temperature detected by the temperature detector in a state where the heat generation controller has caused the target element to generate heat.
US12323040B2

Current sensor compensation is provided. A system can include a charger for an electric vehicle having one or more controllers. A controller can amplify an input signal at a selected frequency to generate a first signal. A controller can amplify a direct current component of the input signal to generate a second signal. A component of the charger can generate a reference signal for input into a current sensor of the charger. The reference signal can be based on a combination of the first signal and the second signal.
US12323039B2

An electrical machine comprises a stator (11) having a plurality of windings (25) and a rotor (19) having a plurality of permanent magnets (26) arranged to rotate around the windings (25), the magnets (25) being mounted to an outer portion (23) of a rotor body (20), the rotor body (20) further having an inner hub portion (21) and a plurality of circumferentially-spaced arms (22) which extend radially from the hub portion (21) to the outer portion (23) of the body (20), at least one of the arms (22) comprising a vane (24) which causes an axial airflow as the rotor rotates. The axial airflow flows over the windings (25) and helps to prevent overheating without the need for any additional cooling. Since the cooling is conveniently provided by part of the rotor, the machine the machine is simple and compact.
US12323038B2

A power tool including a housing, a controller within the housing, and a brushless motor within the housing and controlled by the controller. The brushless motor including a stator assembly including a stator core having stator laminations with an annular portion and inwardly extending stator teeth. The stator assembly defines a stator envelope in an axial direction extending between axial ends of stator end caps of the stator assembly. The brushless motor further includes a rotor assembly including a rotor core having rotor laminations and defining a central aperture that extends in the axial direction and that receives a shaft, and a position sensor board assembly including position sensors and configured to provide position information of the rotor core to the controller. The rotor assembly and the position sensor board assembly are provided at least partially within the stator envelope.
US12323033B2

A motor shaft includes a first shaft portion, a second shaft portion, a hollow intermediate shaft portion, a first connecting portion connecting the first shaft portion to the intermediate shaft portion, and a second connecting portion connecting the second shaft portion to the intermediate shaft portion. The intermediate shaft portion has an outer diameter larger than outer diameters of the first and second shaft portions and supports a rotor core on an outer circumference thereof. The motor shaft is configured to include a first member integrally formed to include the first shaft portion and the first connecting portion and a second member integrally formed to include the second shaft portion and the second connecting portion. At least one of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is provided with an outer flange that protrudes radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate shaft portion.
US12323029B2

An inverter-integrated electric motor includes: a motor housing; an inverter housing, and a metallic terminal. The motor housing and the inverter housing each have a projection having a terminal insertion hole through which the metallic terminal is inserted. The projections project while approaching each other, and each have a seal structure that surrounds the terminal insertion hole. One of the housings has a main projected-guide portion projecting more than the projection of the one of the housings and surrounding a part of the projection of the one of the housings. The other of the housings has an auxiliary projected-guide portion surrounding a part of the main projected-guide portion. The main projected-guide portion and the auxiliary projected-guide portion guide moisture intruded into a gap between the housings to suppress moisture retention around the seal structures.
US12323028B2

The present disclosure relates to the field of new energy, and provides a motor controller with an annular circuit layout, a drive assembly, and a vehicle. The motor controller includes a laminated busbar assembly and multiple power transistors, wherein the laminated busbar assembly a main circuit board, a positive electrode connection plate, a negative electrode connection plate, and a three-phase connection plate assembly. In the present disclosure, the main circuit board is provided with a connection position in a center thereof, and a control circuit position, a first soldering position, and a second soldering position, which are each annular and arranged around the connection position in sequence, so that connection terminals are centrally arranged, and the central control circuit has a relatively large space. The annular circuit layout improves the structural coordination with the drive assembly.
US12323022B2

Systems, devices for a tangentially actuated magnetic momentum transfer generator, and methods of use thereof, are provided. In an aspect, the generator includes a plurality of turns of wire forming a coil, a rotating magnet positioned in the coil, at least one stationary magnet positioned about the coil, and a slider movable relative to the rotating magnet in a direction tangential to an outer surface of the rotating magnet are provided. The slider can be configured to cause rotation of the rotating magnet, and the rotation of the rotating magnet and/or an interaction of the rotating magnet with a magnetic field of one or more of the at least one stationary magnet and the slider magnet can induce a voltage across a first terminal end and a second terminal end.
US12323015B2

An apparatus (10) for the assembly of lamellar packs for electrical use in electric motor machines, generators, transformers, counters, ignition coils and similar electrical equipment by gluing, comprising a die-cutting station (12) for die-cutting a sheet (15) to define strips (15′) to be superimposed one on the other to define a lamellar pack and a station (14) for gluing—by means of glue—said strips (15′) sheared from said sheet (15) and comprising means for the discrete application of an amount of glue on a surface of the sheet (15) and with said means operating synchronously with the advancement of the sheet (15) in the die-cutting station (12).
US12323014B2

An alternating current motor system includes a motor frame, a rotor including a rotor shaft, a stator including multi-phase AC stator windings, a power inverter producing a multi-phase AC voltage coupled to the multi-phase AC stator windings and at least one ohmic connection between the rotor shaft and the motor frame including a conductive fluid.
US12323004B2

An electric motor includes a stator core and a plurality of stator windings disposed on or in the stator core, with the plurality of stator windings including a plurality of winding end-turns that extend out from the stator core. The electric motor also includes an electrically insulating potting material applied over the plurality of winding end-turns. A cooling passage is formed that defines a cooling circuit through which a cooling fluid is circulated to provide cooling to the plurality of winding end-turns, the cooling passage formed upon dissolving of a chemically soluble material embedded within the potting material.
US12322992B2

The disclosure is based on a method for the adaptive rapid charging of a battery pack, in particular of an interchangeable battery pack for electric machine tools, by way of a battery charger, wherein, in at least one method step, at least one charging parameter of the battery charger is adjusted depending on at least one parameter of the battery pack. It is proposed, in at least one method step, for the at least one charging parameter to be adjusted depending on at least one charging characteristic diagram that is typical for the battery, is stored in a storage unit of the battery pack and contains at least predefined values of a voltage, temperature and/or current suitable for a charging procedure for the battery pack.
US12322990B2

A smart ring includes a housing. The smart ring also can include a power source disposed within or at the housing. The power source can be configured to receive energy. The smart ring can further include a controller disposed within or at the housing. The power source also can be configured to power the controller. The controller can be configured to estimate a charging status for the power source. The controller also can be configured to generate information to indicate the charging status. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12322989B2

A battery pack for a direct current (DC) voltage bus includes a battery disconnect unit (BDU) operable for controlling a connection state of the battery pack with respect to the DC voltage bus, first and second battery sections, and six transfer conductors, e.g., busbars or cables/wires. The first battery section has first and second battery modules with corresponding battery cells. The first and second battery modules are connected in series. The first and second battery sections are connected in parallel. The second battery section has third and fourth battery modules each with additional battery cells, with the third and fourth battery modules connected in series. The six transfer conductors collectively interconnect the battery modules, sections, and BDU. A total battery current is divided equally between the battery sections, with the transfer conductors being rated for half of the total battery current.
US12322985B2

A control unit 201 of a power receiving apparatus 200 performs a predetermined communication to a power transmitting apparatus 100 via a first communication unit 204 such that power transfer from the power transmitting apparatus 100 is continued, in a case where a control communication using the first communication unit 204 is switched to a control communication using a second communication unit 202.
US12322984B1

A wireless power transfer (WPT) device includes a polyphase coil network comprising a plurality of phases for transfer of high-frequency AC power, each one of the plurality of phases comprising a phase coil, wherein the polyphase coil network is configured to operate in a polyphase configuration to enable transfer of polyphase high-frequency AC power with a mating WPT device operating in a polyphase mode; and operate in a single phase interoperability configuration to enable transfer of single phase high-frequency AC power with a mating WPT device operating in a single phase mode.
US12322983B2

A power transmission apparatus includes a first power transmission unit configured to perform wireless power transmission to a power receiving apparatus in a first region by using at least one of a plurality of coils, a second power transmission unit configured to perform wireless power transmission to a power receiving apparatus in a second region by using at least one of the plurality of coils. In a case where, while the first power transmission unit performs wireless power transmission to a first power receiving apparatus in a common region where the first region and the second region overlap, a second power receiving apparatus is placed in a region of the first region other than the common region, the first power transmission unit stops the wireless power transmission to the first power receiving apparatus and the second power transmission unit performs wireless power transmission to the first power receiving apparatus.
US12322980B2

A power supply system includes: a power transmission circuit provided on the ground side; a high frequency generation circuit that supplies high-frequency electric power to the power transmission circuit; a measurement unit that measures a physical quantity corresponding to the degree of coupling between the power transmission circuit and a power reception circuit provided in a vehicle; and a control unit. When the degree of coupling is determined, based on the measured physical quantity, to be lower than a predetermined degree, the control unit sets the impedance of the power transmission circuit to a first impedance and thereby sets the power transmission circuit to a non-resonant state. In contrast, when the degree of coupling is determined to be not lower than the predetermined degree, the control unit sets the impedance of the power transmission circuit to a second impedance and thereby sets the power transmission circuit to a resonant state.
US12322974B1

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for detecting arbitrarily located SPOs between a utility power source and a POI of an IBDER and mitigating the effects of such a SPO. Generally, a SPO will cause certain persistent, predictable variations and differences in voltages between phases. The standard deviations of the per-phase voltages can be calculated for each of a series of successive time intervals, and a difference value between the maximum and minimum standard deviation for each interval can be determined. If the difference value exceeds a threshold value for successive intervals covering a predetermined time period, the presence of a SPO is reliably indicated, and the IBDER can be automatically disconnected to prevent damage to connected equipment. The threshold value, number of intervals, and time period can be selected to provide appropriate sensitivity and selectivity.
US12322961B2

A power supply system includes first and second generators that are measured by first and second current sensors. The system also includes a first generator controller configured to: receive a first current signal from the first current sensing device and a second current signal from the second current sensing device; analyze the first current signal and the second current signal to determine a first voltage foldback value based on a first common mode current calculated from the first current signal and the second current signal; and operate the first DC power supply to reduce a first voltage output of the first DC power supply by the first voltage foldback value.
US12322960B2

A system for controlling a direct current bus voltage includes a controller and an inverter. The controller is configured to: obtain a power grid voltage; obtain a maximum sampling value of a direct current bus voltage of the inverter when the power grid voltage jumps, where the maximum sampling value of the direct current bus voltage is a maximum voltage value on the direct current bus in a time period for detecting a power grid voltage jump; obtain a first direct current bus voltage reference value based on the maximum sampling value of the direct current bus voltage; and obtain a second direct current bus voltage reference value based on the first direct current bus voltage reference value and a preset first rising gradient value, to limit a rising rate of the direct current bus voltage.
US12322953B2

An ESD protection circuit includes a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) including a first conduction path between a first node and a second node and a clamp circuit coupled to a control terminal of the SCR. The clamp circuit is part of a second conduction path between the first node and the second node. During an ESD event, the clamp circuit conduct an ESD current until a threshold IV point is reached. The clamp circuit triggers the SCR, which then acts as a snapback device to conduct the ESD current at a lower voltage.
US12322948B2

An over current protection circuit and an over current protection method thereof are provided. The over current protection method includes: generating a reference current curve; detecting an operation current of an electronic device; calculating a first average slope of the reference current curve and a second average slope of a variation curve of the operation current; and determining whether to activate an over current protection mechanism by comparing the first average slope and the second average slope during an over current detection mechanism.
US12322944B2

An armored cable assembly with grounding path component equipped armor and a method of producing the same is provided. The armored cable includes an SZ cabled core having a binder tape wrapped conductor bundle that includes a first ground conductor. A second ground conductor is positioned outside the binder tape such that it is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the SZ cable core and contacts the interlock armor at each helical convolution.
US12322940B2

A tool has a first gripping portion or arm and a second gripping portion or arm hingedly connected to the first gripping portion. The first and second gripping portions define a cable space therebetween sized to receive a cable. A first lever arm and a second lever arm extend from the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion, respectively. A flexure is arranged between the first lever arm and the second lever arm and biases the first and second lever arms into a predetermined position.
US12322937B1

A system, method, and apparatus lubricating a wire or cable during manufacturing, wherein the wire is aligned with an entry to a spraying enclosure and passes through a first seal of the spraying enclosure. Lubricant is sprayed onto the wire inside of the spraying enclosure while the unapplied, but sprayed, lubricant is collected at the bottom of the spraying enclosure. The wire passes through a second seal of the spraying enclosure, is aligned, and exits from the spraying enclosure.
US12322932B2

An interlock system for a low, medium or high voltage switchgear includes: a compartment; a door; a door handle; and a circuit breaker. The door permits access to an inside of the compartment. The door handle opens and closes the door. The circuit breaker is located in the compartment. The door handle is movable from a closed position to an open position. When the door handle is in the closed position, the door does not to open, and when the door handle is in the open position, the door opens. A movement of the door handle from the closed position to the open position places the circuit breaker in a locked configuration. In the locked configuration the circuit breaker is not operable.
US12322922B2

A system has fiber amplifiers that amplify a seed signal into a high power signal. Control circuity drives the fiber amplifiers. An auxiliary broad-linewidth signal can be selectively introduced to mitigate the onset of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) when the primary input seed source does not meet the requirements of power and/or linewidth. To determine whether to mitigate SBS, an input photodiode can detect the seed signal, and the control circuity can detect an operational parameter associated with a detected signal indicative of an onset of SBS on the optical path. In response to the detection, the control circuitry introduces an auxiliary broad-linewidth signal from a broad-linewidth source, which can mitigate the onset of SBS on the optical path.
US12322918B2

A slidable current collector has frame formed as central substrate and sloped shoulders on opposing lateral sides of the central substrate. Electrical terminals pass through orifices arranged in at least two rows within the central substrate. At least one bumper is disposed on an underside of the central substrate between the at least two rows. During sliding on a power rail, the electrical terminals contact a rail surface, and the current collector can shift laterally on the rail surface across a distance between the bumper and one of the sloped shoulders. If disengagement of the electrical terminals from the rail surface occurs, angles on the sloped shoulders and the at least one bumper resist excessive lateral shifting and urge the electrical contacts to reengage with the rail surface.
US12322914B2

A communications connector has a shielded jack body and a wire cap. The shielded jack body has a single pair of plug interface contacts having a first thickness and a single pair of insulation displacement having a second smaller thickness. The plug interface contacts are configured to electrically connect to the insulation displacement contacts. The wire cap is configured to terminate a pair of conductors to the pair of insulation displacement contacts by being secured to the shielded jack body in a direction perpendicular to a direction of an insertion of an associated connector.
US12322909B2

An angled subassembly of an angled connector includes an angled shield having a first shield section and a second shield section extending at a bend angle with respect to the first shield section, a cable disposed in the first shield section and the second shield section of the angled shield, and an inner ferrule disposed around the cable within the angled shield. The cable has a wire and a foil disposed around the wire. The inner ferrule electrically connects the foil to the angled shield.
US12322899B2

The invention relates to a locking system for connectors for connecting and locking a plug to its plug partner, comprising a primary lock formed by at least one bayonet ring with at least one control gate, coupled to a connector plug and designed for functional cooperation with at least one pin associated with the control gate on a connector mating plug, wherein the control gate has a Z-shaped course so that a two-stage movement kinematics of the primary locking is supported. Furthermore, the invention relates to a plug connection for making a detachable electrically conductive connection, comprising a connector plug and a connector mating plug with a locking system.
US12322897B2

A cable sealing plug includes a cable pass through opening extending through the cable sealing plug in an axial direction, a compression seal extending around the cable pass through opening, and a locking part having a locking system. The compression seal is transferable to a compressed state in which an inner diameter of the compression seal is smaller than a predetermined cable diameter of an electric cable extending through the cable pass through opening. The locking part and the compression seal are formed as a unitary component.
US12322890B2

An electrical connector for transmitting electrical power includes at least one power pin with an ablative tip. The power pin has a body oriented in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and the ablative tip is at a terminal end along the longitudinal axis. The ablative tip includes a terminal edge and a support material positioned on a transverse side of the terminal edge that provides structural support to the terminal edge.
US12322888B2

The present disclosure relates to a circuit board that includes a first edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a first connector of a second circuit board. The first edge connector extends from a side of the circuit board a first length. The circuit board also includes a second edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a second connector of the second circuit board. The second edge connector extends from the side of the circuit board a second length that is different than the first length.
US12322876B2

An antenna includes a reflector, a radiating element extending forwardly of the reflector, and a director positioned forwardly of the radiating element. The director includes a plurality of passive impedance elements that provide frequency-dependent reactances to currents induced therein responsive to electromagnetic radiation generated by the radiating element. The plurality of passive impedance elements include: (i) a primary capacitive element, (ii) a first series LC circuit having a first inductor therein electrically connected to a first portion of the primary capacitive element, and (iii) a second series LC circuit having a second inductor therein electrically connected to a second portion of the primary capacitive element.
US12322875B2

An antenna structure includes a first radiator, a first feed unit, and a second feed unit. The first radiator includes a first feed point and a second feed point. The first feed unit feeds the antenna structure at the first feed point, and the second feed unit feeds the antenna structure at the second feed point. The first feed point is disposed in a central region. The second feed point is disposed between the central region and an end of the first radiator.
US12322871B2

Antennas with integrated varactor circuits are described. The antenna may comprise metasurface antennas. In some embodiments, an antenna comprises an array of antenna elements, wherein each antenna element comprises a iris and a varactor diode integrated on an integrated circuit (IC) chip coupled across a portion of the iris. The antenna can also comprise a plurality of transistors, each transistor coupled to a distinct one of the varactor diodes in the array of antenna elements to provide a tuning voltage to the one varactor diode.
US12322870B2

An electronic device having an antenna, according to one embodiment, is provided. The electronic device can include an antenna module which is disposed at the lower portion of a display region and which radiates a vertically polarized signal to the front surface of the electronic device. The antenna module can comprise: a slot array antenna disposed in a first region of a flexible substrate to radiate the vertically polarized signal in a millimeter-wave band; and a feeding portion disposed in a second region bent from the first region and in a third region bent from the second region, so as to apply a signal to each slot radiation element of the slot array antenna.
US12322869B2

An RF lens includes a multitude of radiators adapted to transmit radio frequency electromagnetic EM waves whose phases are modulated so as to concentrate the radiated power in a small volume of space in order to power an electronic device positioned in that space. Accordingly, the waves emitted by the radiators are caused to interfere constructively at that space. The multitude of radiators are optionally formed in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array. The electromagnetic waves radiated by the radiators have the same frequency but variable amplitudes.
US12322865B2

In some embodiments, an antenna module includes an antenna element having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side comprising a radiating side of the antenna element and a support structure disposed at the second side of the antenna element and configured to define a cavity, the support structure including a portion configured to reduce signal leakage between the antenna element and the cavity.
US12322860B2

An antenna device includes a carrier and an antenna array. A first dual-frequency antenna structure of the antenna array includes a first conductive sheet, a first transmitting antenna, and a first receiving antenna. A first extension line passes through both two centers of two regions defined by respectively and orthogonally projecting the first transmitting antenna and the first receiving antenna onto the first conductive sheet. A second dual-frequency antenna structure of the antenna array includes a second conductive sheet, a second transmitting antenna, and a second receiving antenna. A second extension line passes through both two centers of two regions defined by respectively and orthogonally projecting the second transmitting antenna and the second receiving antenna onto the second conductive sheet. The first and second conductive sheets have a four-fold rotational symmetry relative to an intersection point between the first extension line and the second extension line.
US12322859B2

A foldable electronic device includes a first device body, a second device body, an earpiece, an antenna, and a first switch control circuit. The antenna includes a main radiator and a first parasitic radiator. The main radiator is disposed on the first device body, and the first parasitic radiator and the earpiece are disposed on the second device body. When the foldable electronic device is in a folded state, the main radiator is disposed relative to the first parasitic radiator at a first interval and is coupled to the first parasitic radiator through the first interval. The first switch control circuit includes a first switch component and a plurality of different first matching branches disposed in parallel connection. One end of the first switch control circuit is connected to a ground of the second device body, and the other end is connected to the first parasitic radiator.
US12322850B2

A high frequency adapter for connecting a high frequency antenna to an antenna connector. The high frequency adapter comprises a waveguide adapted to transmit high frequency waves to and from the high frequency antenna. Further, it comprises an impedance matching element disposed within the waveguide. Further, the high frequency adapter comprises a conductive inner conductor electrically and mechanically connected to the impedance matching element and a conductive sheath connecting to the waveguide. In addition, the high frequency adapter includes an electrically insulative spacer element disposed between the sheath and the inner conductor, thereby insulating the inner conductor from the sheath and fluidically sealing the waveguide.
US12322848B2

A rectangular waveguide circulator consists of multiple sections that meet at a common junction where a tapered ferrite portion is disposed. A ferrite portion is disposed within a hollow space adjacent the common junction. The ferrite portion has a shape that includes an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion, such that a cross sectional area of the upper portion is greater than a cross-sectional area of the middle portion, and such that a cross sectional area of the lower portion is greater than the cross-sectional area of the middle portion.
US12322836B2

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.
US12322835B2

A terminal arrangement for high-voltage batteries is disclosed. The terminal arrangement includes a substrate having concentric generally tubular inner and outer walls extending from an upper surface of the substrate, with an annular terminal disposed on the upper surface between the inner and outer walls. The inner and outer walls have respective inner and outer heights above a top surface of the annular terminal and the annular terminal has a radial span between the inner and outer walls, wherein the inner and outer heights and the radial span are sized so as to preclude human fingertips above a predetermined size from touching the annular terminal.
US12322829B2

A battery pack includes an elongated exhaust conduit defining a gas flow channel. The exhaust conduit includes a longitudinal center axis and a terminal end having a pack vent. The battery pack also includes fins disposed within the gas flow channel, and a plurality of battery cells arranged adjacent to the exhaust conduit. Each respective battery cell includes an outer casing defining a cell cavity. The casing defines a cell vent opening. An anode and a cathode are disposed within the cell cavity, and a vent cap covers the cell vent opening. The vent cap opens at a predetermined pressure to release hot gasses from the cell cavity into the gas flow channel. The fins direct the hot gasses along the longitudinal center axis and toward the terminal end of the exhaust conduit, and thus to the pack vent for discharge to the surrounding ambient environment.
US12322828B2

Embodiments of the present application provide a valve, a battery, a power consumption device and an apparatus and a method for manufacturing the valve, and belong to the technical field of batteries. The valve includes a valve body and a closing member, the valve body being provided with a medium injection port. The closing member is configured to open the medium injection port when a pressure or a temperature inside the box body reaches a threshold, so as to relieve the pressure inside the box body and allow the fire-fighting device to inject a fire-fighting medium into the box body. The fire-fighting device can be connected to the medium injection port, and the fire-fighting medium can enter the box body, so as to cool the battery cell inside the box body and reduce the risk of large-area thermal diffusion of the battery cell inside the box body.
US12322827B2

A battery enclosure is provided having unswitched positive and negative terminals that are physically separated. The unswitched positive and negative terminals may be connected to circuit protection components, such as contactors and fuses. The contactors are set to an opened or closed state via a contactor control module. The battery enclosure includes external terminals that electrically couple the battery and circuit protection devices to external components, such as charging ports and electrical loads.
US12322825B2

The disclosed technology relates to a battery pack configured to be structurally mounted to a portable electronic device. The battery pack may comprise an enclosure configured to enclose a plurality of layers. One or more primary brackets may be connected to at least one wall of the enclosure. Each of the one or more primary brackets may be configured to be coupled to a device. The battery pack may be configured to provide at least one component of the device with power when the one or more primary brackets are coupled to the device. A protector may be interposed between at least one of the one or more primary brackets and the at least one wall of the enclosure. The protector may be configured to provide a layer of protection between the at least one primary bracket and the plurality of layers.
US12322821B2

An apparatus and method, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery support structure to support a plurality of battery cells, wherein the battery support structure includes opposing longitudinal sides and opposing lateral sides. A first extrusion is positioned to extend along at least one of the opposing longitudinal and lateral sides. A second extrusion is connected to the first extrusion such that the first extrusion is located between the plurality of battery cells and the second extrusion.
US12322817B2

A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells elongated to be oriented in a vertical direction and having a pair of electrode terminals located at an upper portion thereof, the plurality of battery cells being arranged in at least one horizontal direction; and a pack housing having an accommodation space in which the plurality of battery cells are accommodated and configured such that a lower portion of each of the plurality of battery cells is bonded to an inner surface of the pack housing.
US12322815B2

A cell holder made up of a top tray, an intermediate tray and a frame. Cells are placed with minimal force in the frame to stand proud of it. The intermediate tray is placed over the projecting tops of the cells and serves to locate the cells. A busbar in the intermediate tray is connected to one set of terminals. A top tray is placed over the intermediate tray and snap-locked through the intermediate tray to the frame. The snap-lock distance is short. A busbar in the top tray is connected to the other set of terminals. The top tray shields the first busbar. Vents may be included to allow for the escape of hot cell gases in the event of failure.
US12322812B1

A fuel cell electrode includes a metal-containing catalyst and a proton-conducting ionomer, wherein the fuel cell electrode has a halide concentration of 50 to 1000 ppm, based on the total mass of the fuel cell electrode.
US12322808B2

A conductive agent includes a first particle and a second particle, wherein the first particle includes a secondary particle structure in which graphene sheets are connected to each other, the first particle includes a plurality of graphene sheets arranged in different directions, and the second particle is a carbon nanotube. An electrode including the conductive agent, and a secondary battery including the electrode are also provided.
US12322807B2

Disclosed herein are a method of manufacturing dry binders for electrodes usable in a dry electrode method by using a mixture of polymer powder containing a hydroxyl group (—OH) and polytetrafluoroethylene, and a method of manufacturing dry electrodes including dry binders.
US12322806B2

The present disclosure relates to an electrode for a secondary battery with improved rapid charging performance, a method of manufacturing the same, and a secondary battery including the same, and provides an electrode for a secondary battery including a current collector, an electrode active material layer located on at least one surface of the current collector, and a binder layer located on at least one surface of the current collector and protruding from at least one end of the electrode active material layer, in which the binder layer satisfies the following Expression 1. [Expression 1] CA/B≤ 0.6 (In Expression 1, CA is wt % of a conductive material in the binder layer, and B is wt % of a binder in the binder layer, based on a total weight of the binder layer).
US12322789B2

A composite anode for an all-solid-state battery, the composite anode having no active anode material is provided. Specifically, the anode includes: an anode current collector; and a protective layer positioned on the anode current collector, and including a metallic compound and a metal alloyable with lithium, wherein the metallic compound includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide, a metal carbide, and a combination thereof.
US12322788B2

An object is a lithium ion battery having high safety and a high energy density and allows estimation of the remaining capacity of the battery from the discharge voltage, provide a positive electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries that includes a lithium iron phosphate particle, a lithium iron manganese phosphate particle, and a layered oxide-based active material particle at a weight ratio of x:y:z, wherein 0.10≤x≤0.60, 0.10≤y≤0.70, 0.10≤z≤0.40, and x+y+z=1, and provide a lithium ion secondary battery characterized in that a discharge curve indicating a relationship between a discharge voltage and a discharge capacity of the lithium ion secondary battery has one non-plateau region between two plateau regions, and a width of the non-plateau region is 20% or more in terms of a state of charge (SOC).
US12322769B2

Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
US12322759B2

An electrolytic solution, a lithium-sulfur secondary battery including the electrolytic solution and a module. The lithium-sulfur secondary battery has a positive electrode or a negative electrode containing a sulfur-containing electrode active material containing at least one selected from simple sulfur, lithium polysulfides (Li2Sn: 1≤n≤8) and organosulfur compounds. The electrolytic solution contains: a fluorinated ether represented by: Rf—(OR1)n—O—R2; an ether compound represented by: R4—(OCHR3CH2)x—OR5; and an alkali metal salt, wherein Rf, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, n and x are as defined herein.
US12322757B2

An electrochemical device includes a compound that is an isatin derivative. The electrochemical device may be a lithium ion battery, a sodium ion battery, or a redox flow battery, and the isatin derivative may be a bipolar redox active material.
US12322755B2

An electrolyte of a lithium-ion secondary battery and an application thereof. The electrolyte of the lithium-ion secondary battery includes an organic solution, a lithium salt, and an additive, and the additive comprises a borate compound. The electrolyte can be better applied to low-cobalt or cobalt-free positive electrode materials, improve the high-temperature cycle and storage performance of the lithium-ion batteries, and inhibit gas generation during high-temperature storage, thereby improving the comprehensive performance of the battery.
US12322752B2

The present invention is directed to aqueous solid polymer electrolytes that comprise a lithium salt and battery cells comprising the same. The present invention is also directed to methods of making the electrolytes and methods of using the electrolytes in batteries and other electrochemical technologies.
US12322749B1

The embodiments disclose an apparatus including an apparatus for removing and reassembling two-part battery compartments. The apparatus includes a first and second tool, each having a suction cup configured to create a vacuum seal when pressed against a surface suitable for vacuum sealing and an integrated handle for applying torque through opposite rotational movement. The handles allow controlled force to securely separate or reassemble the two components. Each suction cup also includes a vacuum release stem for quick detachment after use. The invention is particularly effective for addressing the common issue of stuck or hard-to-open battery covers, minimizing user effort, slippage, and component damage.
US12322745B2

An integrated circuit device includes a capacitor structure, wherein the capacitor structure includes: a bottom electrode over a substrate; a supporter on a sidewall of the bottom electrode; a dielectric layer on the bottom electrode and the supporter; and a top electrode on the dielectric layer and covering the bottom electrode. The bottom electrode comprises: a base electrode layer over the substrate and extending in a first direction that is perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, and a conductive capping layer including niobium nitride that is between a sidewall of the base electrode layer and the dielectric layer, and also between a top surface of the base electrode layer and the dielectric layer.
US12322741B2

A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device, including the steps of: a) arranging an active photosensitive diode stack on a first substrate; b) transferring the active photosensitive diode stack onto an integrated control circuit previously formed inside and on top of a second semiconductor substrate, and then removing the first substrate; c) arranging an active light-emitting diode stack on a third substrate; and d) after steps b) and c), transferring the active light-emitting diode stack onto the active photosensitive diode stack, and then removing the third substrate.
US12322739B2

A display apparatus includes circuit boards and display units. The display unit includes a circuit substrate, a first light emitting device, and second light emitting devices. The circuit substrate has a first wire bonding pad and second wire bonding pads. A first electrode disposed on one side of a first light emitting structure layer of the first light emitting device is wire-bonded to one second wire bonding pad, and a second electrode disposed on the other side of the first light emitting structure layer is bonded to the first wire bonding pad. Third and fourth electrodes disposed on one side of a second light emitting structure layer of the second light emitting device are respectively wire-bonded to two of the first wire bonding pad and the second wire bonding pads. The first wire bonding pad overlaps the first light emitting device and at least one second light emitting device.
US12322737B2

A light emitting display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display panel including a unit pixel, a first LED disposed in the unit pixel, and a second LED disposed in the unit pixel and emitting light of the same color as the first LED. When the first LED and the second LED are able to emit light normally, the first LED and the second LED alternately emit light.
US12322733B2

A display device according to an example of the present disclosure includes a pair of assembly electrodes spaced apart from each other on a substrate, a semiconductor light emitting device assembled on the pair of assembly electrodes, a photosensitive organic insulator applied to a space between the semiconductor light emitting device and the substrate and between the pair of assembly electrodes to fix the semiconductor light emitting device to the substrate, and an insulating layer disposed between the pair of assembly electrodes and the semiconductor light emitting device.
US12322725B2

A semiconductor device has a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die and a plurality of contact pads formed over a first surface of the semiconductor wafer. A trench is formed partially through the first surface of the semiconductor wafer. An insulating material is disposed over the first surface of the semiconductor wafer and into the trench. A conductive layer is formed over the contact pads. The conductive layer can be printed to extend over the insulating material in the trench between adjacent contact pads. A portion of the semiconductor wafer opposite the first surface of the semiconductor wafer is removed to the insulating material in the trench. An insulating layer is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor wafer and side surfaces of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer is singulated through the insulating material in the first trench to separate the semiconductor die.
US12322721B2

An asymmetric stackup structure for an SoC package substrate is disclosed. The package substrate may include a substrate with one or more insulating material layers. A first recess may be formed in an upper surface of the substrate. The recess may be formed down to a conductive layer in the substrate. An integrated passive device may be positioned in the recess. A plurality of build-up layers may be formed on top of the substrate. At least one via path may be formed through the build-up layers and the substrate to connect contacts on the lower surface of the substrate to contacts on the upper surface of the build-up layers.
US12322720B2

A semiconductor package includes a lower redistribution layer disposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor chip including an insulating layer, a redistribution pattern, a via, an under bump metal (UBM), and a post disposed on the redistribution pattern. The post vertically overlaps with the UBM. A mold layer is on the lower redistribution layer and surrounds the semiconductor chip. A connecting terminal is connected to the UBM. The UBM includes a first section contacting the redistribution pattern, and a second section contacting the insulating layer. The post has a ring shape having an inner surface and an outer surface when viewed in a top view. A maximum width of the inner surface is less than a maximum width of an upper surface of the first section. A maximum width of the outer surface is greater than the maximum width of the upper surface of the first section.
US12322719B2

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor die at least partially encapsulated with an encapsulant. A first non-conductive layer is deposited over an active side of the semiconductor die and a surface of the encapsulant. A first opening is formed in the first non-conductive layer exposing a portion of a bond pad of the semiconductor die. A conductive interconnect trace is formed over a portion of the first non-conductive layer and the exposed portion of the bond pad. A second non-conductive layer is formed over the conductive interconnect trace and exposed portions of first non-conductive layer with a second opening formed in the second non-conductive layer exposing a portion of the conductive interconnect trace. A laser ablated structure is formed at a surface of the second non-conductive layer proximate to a perimeter of the second opening.
US12322718B2

A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include an interconnect structure. The bonded structure can also include a first die directly bonded to the interconnect structure. The bonded structure can also include a second die mounted to the interconnect structure. The second die is spaced apart from the first die laterally along an upper surface of the interconnect structure. The second die is electrically connected with the first die at least partially through the interconnect structure. The bonded structure can further include a dielectric layer that is disposed over the upper surface of the interconnect structure between the first die and the second die.
US12322704B2

A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a substrate having interior sidewalls forming a recess. The interior sidewalls have an upper sidewall, a lower sidewall, and an intermediate sidewall. The intermediate sidewall is between the upper sidewall and the lower sidewall. The upper sidewall, the lower sidewall, and the intermediate sidewall have different slopes. The package structure also includes a chip-containing structure over the substrate. A component of the chip-containing structure is partially or completely surrounded by the interior sidewalls.
US12322702B2

A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate including a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other, an antenna substrate on the first surface and including a first insulating portion and antenna patterns on a top surface of the first insulating portion, and a first semiconductor chip on the second surface. The redistribution substrate includes a second insulating portion, and a redistribution pattern in the second insulating portion. The redistribution pattern includes an interconnection portion extending parallel to a top surface of the second insulating portion, and a via portion protruding from the interconnection portion toward the first surface. A width of the via portion decreases as a height in a direction from the second surface toward the first surface increases. The active surface of the first semiconductor chip is adjacent to the second surface.
US12322701B2

The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a first contact and a second contact disposed over a substrate. A center of a first upper surface of the first contact is laterally separated from a center of a second upper surface of the second contact by a first distance. A first interconnect contacts the first upper surface and a second interconnect contacts the second upper surface. A center of a first lower surface of the first interconnect is laterally separated from a center of a second lower surface of the second interconnect by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.
US12322694B2

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip (IC). The IC includes a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate. A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) device is disposed over the first IMD structure. The MIM device includes at least three metal plates that are spaced from one another. The MIM device further includes a plurality of capacitor insulator structures. Each of the plurality of capacitor insulator structures are disposed between and electrically isolate neighboring metal plates of the at least three metal plates.
US12322689B2

A semiconductor device package includes a substrate having a top and bottom surface and an electrical circuit. There is a semiconductor die electrically connected to the electrical circuit of the substrate. There are N adjacent first electrical contacts and N is an integer greater than 1. The N adjacent first electrical contacts are positioned within a first contact area on the bottom surface of the substrate. There is a second electrical contact that is associated with N independent common signals that are electrically connected at a single second electrical contact. The second electrical contact is positioned within a second contact area on the bottom surface of the substrate that is smaller than the first contact area. The second electrical contact reduces the total area required on the substrate for common signal contacts to allow for additional non-common signal contacts to be included in the semiconductor device package.
US12322678B2

An encapsulation structure of a power module is disclosed in this application, which includes a power module and a liquid cooler. The power module includes a power module body, a metal baseplate, and heat dissipation finned tubes. A front side of the metal baseplate is connected to the power module body, and a back side of the metal baseplate is connected to the heat dissipation finned tubes. The metal baseplate has a protrusion part protruding. There are a plurality of grooves on a fluid pipe of the liquid cooler, a cavity exists between two adjacent grooves of the plurality of grooves, and the cavity is configured to communicate the two adjacent grooves. The power module body is lapped on the groove, a back side of the protrusion part is in contact with an edge surface of the groove, and the heat dissipation finned tubes are placed in the groove.
US12322677B1

Embodiments herein provide for fluidic cooling assemblies embedded within a device package and related manufacturing methods. In one embodiment, the integrated cooling assembly includes a semiconductor device and a cold plate attached to the semiconductor device. The cold plate has a perimeter sidewall, a top portion and pairs of opposing cavity sidewalls. The perimeter sidewall extends downwardly from the top portion to a backside of the semiconductor device to define a perimeter of the cold plate. Each pair of opposing cavity sidewalls extends downwardly from the top portion towards the backside of the semiconductor device to define a coolant chamber volume therebetween. A distance between each pair of opposing cavity sidewalls in a direction parallel with the backside of the semiconductor device defines a width of a corresponding coolant chamber volume and a spacing between adjacent coolant chamber volumes, wherein the ratio of width to spacing is about 1:1.
US12322675B2

An electronic module includes a pulsating heat pipe having a channel structure for arrangement of a heat transport medium. The channel structure is formed of ceramic bodies, a metallic cover element, and a metallic carrier element. An electrical structural element is in contact with the heat transport medium.
US12322672B2

A semiconductor package structure includes a semiconductor die, at least one wiring structure, a metal support, a passive element, a plurality of signal vias, and a plurality of thermal structures. The semiconductor die has an active surface. The at least one wiring structure is electrically connected to the active surface of the semiconductor die. The metal support is used for supporting the semiconductor die. The passive element is electrically connected to the semiconductor die. The signal vias are electrically connecting the passive element and the semiconductor die. The thermal structures are connected to the passive element, and the thermal structures are disposed on a periphery of the at least one wiring structure.
US12322667B2

Representative implementations of techniques and devices provide seals for sealing the joints of bonded microelectronic devices as well as bonded and sealed microelectronic assemblies. Seals are disposed at joined surfaces of stacked dies and wafers to seal the joined surfaces. The seals may be disposed at an exterior periphery of the bonded microelectronic devices or disposed within the periphery using the various techniques.
US12322660B2

A method of determining a parameter of a patterning process, the method including: obtaining a detected representation of radiation redirected by a structure having geometric symmetry at a nominal physical configuration, wherein the detected representation of the radiation was obtained by illuminating a substrate with a radiation beam such that a beam spot on the substrate was filled with the structure; and determining, by a hardware computer system, a value of the patterning process parameter based on optical characteristic values from an asymmetric optical characteristic distribution portion of the detected radiation representation with higher weight than another portion of the detected radiation representation, the asymmetric optical characteristic distribution arising from a different physical configuration of the structure than the nominal physical configuration.
US12322658B2

A method includes forming a first protruding semiconductor fin and a dummy fin protruding higher than top surfaces of isolation regions. The first protruding semiconductor fin is parallel to the dummy fin, forming a gate stack on a first portion of the first protruding semiconductor fin and a second portion of the dummy fin. The method further includes recessing a third portion of the first protruding semiconductor fin to form a recess, recessing an fourth portion of the dummy fin to reduce a height of the fourth portion of the dummy fin, and forming an epitaxy semiconductor region in the recess. The epitaxy semiconductor region is grown toward the dummy fin.
US12322652B2

Embodiments of present invention provide a transistor structure. The transistor structure includes a first and a second transistor in a first transistor layer; a first and a second transistor in a second transistor layer, respectively, above the first and the second transistor in the first transistor layer; a metal routing layer between the first transistor layer and the second transistor layer; a first local interconnect connecting the first transistor of the first transistor layer to the metal routing layer; and a second local interconnect connecting the metal routing layer to the second transistor of the second transistor layer. A method of manufacturing the transistor structure is also provided.
US12322649B2

A method includes forming a first conductive feature in a first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first conductive feature and the first dielectric layer. An opening is formed in the second dielectric layer. The opening exposes a top surface of the first conductive feature. The top surface of the first conductive feature includes a first metallic material and a second metallic material different from the first metallic material. A native oxide layer is removed from the top surface of the first conductive feature. A surfactant soaking process is performed on the top surface of the first conductive feature. The surfactant soaking process forms a surfactant layer over the top surface of the first conductive feature. A first barrier layer is deposited on a sidewall of the opening. The surfactant layer remains exposed at the end of depositing the first barrier layer.
US12322647B2

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are presented herein in which a etch stop layer is selectively deposited over a conductive contact. A dielectric layer is formed over the etch stop layer and an opening is formed through the dielectric layer and the etch stop layer to expose the conductive contact. Conductive material is then deposited to fill the opening.
US12322639B2

A hybrid die bonding method includes the following steps: dicing a wafer into a plurality of dies arranged on a plurality of target blocks of a carrier film, wherein surfaces of each of the dies have no solder and bump; cleaning particulate from first surfaces of the dies; separating side portions and corner portions of second surfaces of the dies from the target blocks; turning the carrier film and transferring the dies to a first carrier, wherein the first surfaces of the dies contact the first carrier; removing the carrier film from the second surfaces of the dies; cleaning particulate from the second surfaces of the dies; and transferring the dies from the first carrier to a substrate, wherein a surface of the substrate has no solder and bump. As such, the method reduces the adhesive force between the dies and the carrier film.
US12322636B2

In an embodiment a method includes providing a donor substrate comprising a sacrificial layer, a connecting layer, and a plurality of semiconductor components arranged on the sacrificial layer, the connecting layer at least locally passing fully through the sacrificial layer so that each semiconductor component is at least locally in direct contact with the connecting layer, performing a selection method for identifying defective semiconductor components, selectively applying a cover layer onto a defective semiconductor component, at least one semiconductor component arranged directly adjacent to the defective semiconductor component and an intermediate region located between these semiconductor components, selectively etching the sacrificial layer, wherein the cover layer reduces or avoids etching the sacrificial layer in the intermediate region and removing the semiconductor components from the donor substrate, the defective semiconductor component remaining on the donor substrate.
US12322633B2

Embodiments of the disclosure provide electrostatic chucks for securing substrates during processing. Some embodiments of this disclosure provide methods and apparatus for increased temperature control across the radial profile of the substrate. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for providing control of hydrogen concentration in processed films during a high-density plasma (HDP) process.
US12322626B2

The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
US12322623B2

An apparatus having a first portion including a first front wall, a first rear wall, and a bottom wall integrally coupled to the first front wall and the first rear wall, and pivotal pin structures integrally coupled to and extending from the first rear wall. The apparatus includes a second portion having a second front wall, a second rear wall, and a top wall integrally coupled to the second front wall and the second rear wall, and pin holders integrally coupled to and extending from the second rear wall and at an offset angle with reference to the top wall. The pivotal pin structure includes a base support connected to the first rear wall and a shaft connected to the base support, and the pin holder defines an opening sized and shaped to accept the shaft. The first and second portions are sized and shaped to be pivotally movable between open and closed configurations.
US12322618B2

Systems and methods for controlling device performance variability during manufacturing of a device on wafers are disclosed. The system includes a process platform, on-board metrology (OBM) tools, and a first server that stores a machine-learning based process control model. The first server combines virtual metrology (VM) data and OBM data to predict a spatial distribution of one or more dimensions of interest on a wafer. The system further comprises an in-line metrology tool, such as SEM, to measure the one or more dimensions of interest on a subset of wafers sampled from each lot. A second server having a machine-learning engine receives from the first server the predicted spatial distribution of the one or more dimensions of interest based on VM and OBM, and also receives SEM metrology data, and updates the process control model periodically (e.g., wafer-to-wafer, lot-to-lot, chamber-to-chamber etc.) using machine learning techniques.
US12322613B2

A pressure heating apparatus that uniformly heats an object in a chamber in a short time includes a stage onto which the object is loaded; a heating light source that faces the stage, where the heating light source heats the object a non-contact manner while irradiating light onto the object; and a lower reflector disposed around the stage and that reflects light emitted from the heating light source toward the object.
US12322612B2

The present disclosure provides a heating device and heating method for a semiconductor thermal process. The heating device includes: a first heating portion, on which a wafer to-be-heated is placed; a second heating portion, where the first heating portion and the second heating portion are arranged in parallel, and the second heating portion is configured to heat the first heating portion; and an adjustment portion, configured to adjust a vertical distance between the first heating portion and the second heating portion.
US12322610B2

Proposed herein are a processing liquid supply apparatus and a method of removing solids from the processing liquid supply apparatus. The proposed processing liquid supply apparatus has a flushing function for removing solids such as silica which are precipitated as a result of supplying a processing liquid from the processing liquid supply apparatus to a substrate processing apparatus. The processing liquid supply apparatus supplies the processing liquid to a substrate processing apparatus and then recovers and regenerates the processing liquid. The proposed method provides a method of removing solids such as solid silica from the processing liquid supply apparatus.
US12322608B2

An apparatus for cleaning a package device is provided. The apparatus includes a package device loader; a package device unloader; a first cleaning area disposed between the package device loader and the package device unloader; and a conveyor. The conveyor includes a frame extending from the package device loader to the package device unloader and through the first cleaning area; and a belt wrapping the frame, wherein the belt includes a movable upper surface between the package device loader and the package device unloader, wherein the movable upper surface is configured to move relative to and over the frame, and a first distance between the movable upper surface and the frame in the first cleaning area increases in a direction from the package device loader to the package device unloader.
US12322604B2

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a power electronic module (1) by additive manufacturing, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: making or fixing preforms (15) of polymer material on at least one face of an insulating substrate (2a) covered with at least one layer of metal (2b, 2c), referred to as a metallized substrate (2), depositing a first metal layer (17) on the preform (15), depositing by electroforming a second metal layer (18) on the first metal layer (17).
US12322603B2

Semiconductor chips are arranged on an elongated substrate and encapsulated by an insulating encapsulation. Electrically conductive formations and electrically conductive plating lines are plated on the insulating encapsulation using, for example, Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) or Direct Copper Interconnect (DCI) material. The electrically conductive plating lines include first transverse plating lines as well as second plating lines branching out from the first plating lines towards the electrically conductive formations. A first partial cutting step is then performed to form grooves which remove the first plating lines. An insulating material is dispensed in the grooves to encapsulate the end portions of the second plating lines. A second cutting step median along the groove and through the elongate substrate is performed to produce singulated semiconductor devices (such as “die pad up” Quad-Flat No-lead (QFN) packages). End portions of the second plating lines are encapsulated by the insulating material.
US12322597B2

A method of processing a substrate that includes: forming a first plurality of lines and a first plurality of recesses, each of the plurality of lines being separated from an adjacent one of the plurality of lines by one of the plurality of recesses, the first plurality of lines including a first material and formed over a to-be-patterned layer; performing a cyclic process including: depositing a mask material over the first plurality of lines and within the first plurality of recesses, the mask material deposited defining a second plurality of lines, each of the second plurality of lines dividing one of the first plurality of recesses to form a second plurality of recesses; and performing a trimming process to increase critical dimensions of the second plurality of recesses; and patterning the to-be-patterned layer using the first plurality of lines and the second plurality of lines as an etch mask.
US12322596B2

Methods for thermal treatment on a semiconductor device is disclosed. One method includes obtaining a pattern of a treatment area having amorphous silicon, aligning a laser beam with the treatment area, the laser beam in a focused laser spot having a spot area equal to or greater than the treatment area, and performing a laser anneal on the treatment area by emitting the laser beam towards the treatment area for a treatment period.
US12322595B2

A method for forming a crystalline high-k dielectric layer and controlling the crystalline phase and orientation of the crystal growth of the high-k dielectric layer during an anneal process. The crystalline phase and orientation of the crystal growth of the dielectric layer may be controlled using seeding sections of the dielectric layer serving as nucleation sites and using a capping layer mask during the anneal process. The location of the nucleation sites and the arrangement of the capping layer allow the orientation and phase of the crystal growth of the dielectric layer to be controlled during the anneal process. Based on the dopants and the process controls used the phase can be modified to increase the permittivity and/or the ferroelectric property of the dielectric layer.
US12322594B2

A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a first single crystal silicon layer having a first percentage of silicon 28, and forming a superlattice above the first single crystal silicon layer. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base silicon monolayers defining a base silicon portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base silicon portions. The method may further include forming a second single crystal silicon layer above the superlattice having a second percentage of silicon 28 higher than the first percentage of silicon 28.
US12322593B2

Methods for selective deposition are provided. Material is selectively deposited on a first surface of a substrate relative to a second surface of a different material composition. An inhibitor, such as a polyimide layer, is selectively formed from vapor phase reactants on the first surface relative to the second surface. A layer of interest is selectively deposited from vapor phase reactants on the second surface relative to the first surface. The first surface can be metallic while the second surface is dielectric. Accordingly, material, such as a dielectric transition metal oxides and nitrides, can be selectively deposited on metallic surfaces relative dielectric surfaces using techniques described herein.
US12322591B2

Provided is a thin film deposition process that allows high-precision control of the in-plane distribution of a thin film being deposited on a substrate. The process is a process of depositing a thin film on a substrate in a chamber by atomic layer deposition (ALD) which includes repeating a deposition cycle to deposit the thin film on the substrate. The deposition cycle includes the steps of: feeding a reactive gas and a carrier gas to the chamber and feeding a source gas at a reduced concentration to the chamber to allow the source gas to adsorb on the substrate; feeding the reactive gas and the source gas to the chamber to allow the source gas to adsorb on the substrate; feeding the reactive gas and the carrier gas to the chamber to purge, from the chamber, the source gas not adsorbing on the substrate; applying RF power to the chamber to turn the reactive gas into a plasma so that the source gas activated by the plasma is allowed to come into contact with a surface of the substrate; and feeding the reactive gas and the carrier gas to the chamber to purge, from the chamber, the source gas remaining unreacted and the reactive gas.
US12322590B2

A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a mask layer over a substrate and forming an opening in the mask layer. A gap-filling material is deposited in the opening. A plasma treatment is performed on the gap-filling material. The height of the gap-filling material is reduced. The mask layer is removed. The substrate is patterned using the gap-filling material as a mask.
US12322589B2

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of active areas and first isolation structures arranged at intervals along a first direction; gate structures located in the active areas and the first isolation structures. Top surfaces of the active areas extend beyond top surfaces of the gate structures; second isolation structures with a preset height located on surfaces of the gate structures, and the top surfaces of the second isolation structures are flush with the top surfaces of the active areas.
US12322585B2

The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to sublimation in forming a semiconductor. In an example, a method may include forming a sacrificial material in an opening of a structure, wherein the sacrificial material displaces a solvent used in a wet clean operation and removing the sacrificial material via sublimation by exposing the sacrificial material to sub-atmospheric pressure.
US12322582B2

In particular embodiments, anomalous plasma events, which may include formation of an electric arc in a semiconductor processing chamber, may be detected and mitigated. In certain embodiments, a method may include detecting an optical signal emitted by a plasma, converting the optical signal to a voltage signal, and forming an adjusted voltage signal. Responsive to determining that the changes associated with the adjusted voltage signal exceed a threshold, an output power of an RF signal coupled to the chamber may be adjusted. Such adjustment may mitigate formation of the anomalous plasma event occurring within the chamber.
US12322573B2

Methods and apparatus for forming a barrier layer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of forming a barrier layer on a substrate includes treating an exposed layer deposited on a substrate and within a feature of the substrate by pulsing a bias power applied to a substrate support supporting the substrate while exposing the layer to a plasma. The exposed layer can be deposited by an atomic layer deposition process, and can be, for example, a tantalum nitride layer. The bias power can be up to 500 watts of RF power at a pulse frequency of about 1 Hz to about 10 kHz. The bias power can be pulsed uniformly or at multiple different levels.
US12322568B2

An array of localized auto-focus sensors provides direct measurement of the working distance between each microscope column in the array and the substrate being imaged below. The auto-focus sensors measure the working distance between each column and the imaging substrate as it passes over a point on the substrate to be imaged. The working distance measurement from the sensors is input into a control system, which in turn outputs the required working distance adjustment to the microscope column. The control system independently adjusts microscope working distance and/or physical distance of an individual microscope column in a multi-column microscope based on auto-focus sensor input. The individual microscope columns in the multi-column microscope can also be used as the auto-focus sensor itself.
US12322557B2

An electronic component is provided, and the electronic component includes: a capacitor array in which a plurality of multilayer capacitors are stacked, the plurality of multilayer capacitors including a body, and first and second external electrodes; first and second metal frames including first and second support portions bonded to the first and second external electrodes of the capacitor array, first and second mounting portions located below the first and second external electrodes and having first and second protrusions protruding downwardly, and first and second connection portions connecting the first and second support portions to the first and second mounting portions, respectively; and a capsule portion encapsulating the capacitor array to expose the first mounting portion of the first metal frame and the second mounting portion of the second metal frame, and having a lower surface provided with a plurality of protruding portions are formed at predetermined intervals.
US12322546B2

An electrode including a substrate, zinc (Zn) doped CrV spinel oxide (ZCVO) nanoparticles, a conductive carbon compound, and a binding compound. A mixture of the ZCVO nanoparticles, the conductive carbon compound, and the binding compound at least partially coats a surface of the substrate. A supercapacitor including the electrode. A method of generating hydrogen with the electrode.
US12322545B2

A process for preparing surface-modified carbon, comprising adding carbon material to a solution of a reaction product of primary aromatic amine and excess molar amount of nitrite source, and recovering surface-modified carbon bearing redox-active sites. Surface-modified carbon material, electrodes and capacitors based thereon are also provided.
US12322541B2

A magnetic and electrical circuit element including magnetic-flux-conducting posts, and a multi-layer structure formed with an electrically-conductive material. The multi-layer structure includes multiple layers forming a stack of layers along a length of the posts, said multi-layer structure configured as primary and secondary windings of a transformer. The primary winding is embedded in the multi-layer structure and wound around the magnetic-flux-conducting posts in such a way that a magnetic field induced in each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts has a magnetic field polarity opposite to a polarity of the respective magnetic field of the magnetic-flux-conducting post adjacent the respective magnetic-flux-conducting post. Around each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts, there is a respective one of the secondary windings connected to a semiconductor device. The magnetic-flux-conducting posts are connected magnetically by continuous magnetic-flux-conducting plates, each of which is shaped to ensure a continuous flow of the magnetic field successively through adjacent magnetic-flux-conducting posts.
US12322539B2

A power coil for a magnetic field difference engine, provided according to the present utility model, comprises a second power shaft (15), a first power shaft (17), and a coil (14), wherein the second power shaft (15) and the first power shaft (17) are horizontally spaced apart from each other to be parallel to each other, and the coil (14) is wound along the longitudinal direction of the second power shaft (15) and the first power shaft (17) and connected at both ends to each other to form a circulating closed circuit. In addition, the magnetic field difference engine provided according to the present utility model comprises: a power coil (100) including the second power shaft (15), the first power shaft (17), and the coil (14); a pair of permanent magnets (11, 12) located above and below the power coil (100) with their N and S poles located to face each other so as to provide a uniform magnetic field to the coil (14); and a current supply unit (18) for supplying current to the coil (14), wherein the power coil (100) includes the second power shaft (15) and the first power shaft (17) that are spaced apart from each other to be parallel to each other, and the coil (14) is wound along the longitudinal direction of the second power shaft (15) and the first power shaft (17) and connected at both ends to each other to form a circulating closed circuit.
US12322524B2

One example includes a superconducting circuit. The circuit includes superconducting circuitry fabricated in a circuit layer. The circuit layer includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The circuit also includes a flux moat comprising a dielectric material formed in the circuit layer. The flux moat can be configured to trap a magnetic flux as the superconducting circuit is cooled to below a superconducting critical temperature. The circuit further includes a magnetic film arranged proximal to the flux moat on at least one of the first and second surfaces of the circuit layer. The magnetic film can be configured to guide the magnetic flux to the flux moat as the superconducting circuit is cooled to below the superconducting critical temperature.
US12322517B2

A medical services system and method supporting private and secure telemedicine sessions between a patient and a remote medical facility are provided including a medical services kiosk comprising a plurality of individual interior chambers, an inventory storage component, and other medical technology. The medical services system is configured to communicatively couple components within both the medical services kiosk and the remote medical facility so that information necessary for examining, treating, and diagnosing the patient is acquired and medical professionals are able to provide offsite instructions, prescriptions, and other medical related services to the patient in a manner that is convenient, timely, and efficient.
US12322512B2

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a diagnosis based on a base skin tone of a patient. In an embodiment, the system receives a base skin tone image of a patient, generates a calibrated base skin tone image by calibrating the base skin tone image using a reference calibration profile, and determines a base skin tone of the patient based on the calibrated base skin tone image. The system receives a concern image of a portion of the patient's skin, and selects a set of machine learning diagnostic models from a plurality of sets of candidate machine learning diagnostic models based on the base skin tone of the patient, each of the sets of candidate machine learning diagnostic models trained to receive the concern image and output a diagnosis of a condition of the patient.
US12322511B2

A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a computing device, a particular textual description of a scene. The method also includes applying a neural network for text-to-image generation to generate an output image rendition of the scene, the neural network having been trained to cause two image renditions associated with a same textual description to attract each other and two image renditions associated with different textual descriptions to repel each other based on mutual information between a plurality of corresponding pairs, wherein the plurality of corresponding pairs comprise an image-to-image pair and a text-to-image pair. The method further includes predicting the output image rendition of the scene.
US12322502B2

A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to determine a stop location for a health checkup vehicle at which travel distances required for patients of health checkups to be performed on the health checkup vehicle to travel to the health checkup vehicle are equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, calculate a parking allowable number at the stop location or a parking allowable number at a parking lot in a vicinity of the stop location, and suggest, in a case in which the patients include more patients who plan to travel using vehicles than the parking allowable number, transportation means other than the vehicles to the patients who plan to travel using the vehicles.
US12322499B2

Computerized systems and methods facilitate inputting orders into an electronic order management system based on diagnoses entered into patient care applications. In accordance with the technology described herein, a diagnosis is received via a user interface provided by a patient care application. A type of order for the diagnosis is determined from a data store mapping each of a number of diagnoses to one or more types of orders available for entry to the electronic order management system. An order entry user interface for submitting orders to the electronic order management system is launched, and an order corresponding to the type of order identified for the diagnosis is input into the order entry user interface. The order can be reviewed by a clinician and submitted via the electronic order management system for processing and fulfillment.
US12322496B2

One or more embodiments described herein relate to predicting, using adaptive artificial intelligence techniques, typical and aberrant physiological reactions of a patient to psychiatric counseling. Treatment plans can be determined and calculated based on previously-gathered demographic and/or biometric data, and/or modifications to treatment plans can be determined and/or implemented based on emergent recognition of reaction types, such as reclassifying reactions that would previously have been deemed typical as aberrant (or vice versa).
US12322491B2

A system for generating a geographically linked nourishment program comprising a computing device configured to obtain a biochemical element, identify a vigor panel as a function of the biochemical element, wherein identifying further comprises receiving a geographical indicator, ascertaining a geographical predictive element as a function of the geographical indicator, and identifying the vigor panel as a function of the geographical predictive element and the biochemical element using a geographical machine-learning model, determine an edible as a function of the vigor panel, and generate a nourishment program as a function of the edible.
US12322488B2

An athletic parameter measurement device associated with a first user may include a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device may detect, using the sensor, athletic activity of the first user. Athletic data of the first user can be associated with activity information of a second user. A representation of a comparison of the first user's activity and the second user's activity information may be displayed.
US12322487B1

The present disclosure provides a biometrically controlled handheld medication dispensing device. The device includes a housing containing a cartridge carrier, designed with a specific connector to align with a medication cartridge. Notably, the device also includes a biometric authentication component that works in conjunction with an activator mechanism. When operated and upon user authentication, the activator mechanism causes the cartridge carrier to move the medication cartridge between a stored position and a dispensing position, where it can be compressed to safely and efficiently dispense medication to a user.
US12322484B2

An information processing apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor. In the memory, a program is stored. The processor is configured to execute the program stored in the memory, and generate prescription data for skincare of a skin based on history data of an index value representing change in blood flow before and after treatment. The index value is calculated based on a first skin image and a second skin image. The first skin image is obtained by imaging the skin before a blood flow enhancement treatment, and the second skin image is obtained by imaging the skin after the blood flow enhancement treatment.
US12322481B2

A computer that analyzes data is described. During operation, the computer may access the data in the memory. Then, the computer may transform the data into a spatial representation. For example, for biological data, the transformation may be based at least in part on a predefined relationship between the biological data and corresponding spatial locations in a genome. Moreover, the computer may selectively normalize the transformed data to obtain normalized transformed data. Notably, the selective normalization may use different normalization ranges based at least in part on expression levels in a type of biological sequencing. Next, the processor may convert the normalized transformed data into an output image. Furthermore, the processor may analyze the image using an image-analysis technique (such as a pretrained neural network) to determine a classification. Additionally, the processor may perform: storing the classification; displaying the classification; and/or providing the classification to an electronic device.
US12322480B2

Techniques are disclosed for digitizing a framework for clinical development. In one example, a computing device comprising a memory configured to store a study and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may receive, from a user, an input specifying a plurality of trial elements for the study, and receive, from the user, an input arranging the plurality of trial elements into a tree data structure. The processor may also determine, based on the tree data structure of the plurality of trial elements, one or more trial arms for the study, each trial arm of the one or more trial arms comprising a single path between at least one trial element of the plurality of trial elements to at least one other trial element of the plurality of trial elements. The processor may further output, for display, the one or more trial arms for the study.
US12322479B2

A method for determining trial designs is provided. The method includes obtaining simulation data for a set of trial designs. The simulation data includes performance parameters and performance parameter values associated with each design in the set of designs for a set of criteria; determining an optimality criteria for evaluating the trial designs; searching, within the set of trial designs, for globally optimum designs based on the optimality criteria; and recommending globally optimum designs.
US12322476B2

Methods for producing a filtered sequencing data set by identifying one or more split sequence reads in a set of test sequence reads obtained from cell-free nucleic acid (cfNA) in a biological sample, wherein each split sequence read comprises at least one breakpoint; and, suppressing, in the set of test sequence reads, (i) at least a portion of one or more of the split sequence reads and/or at least a portion of one or more of the test sequence reads that comprise at least one sequence variant within a selected number of nucleotides from a given breakpoint, (ii) one or more base calls of the split sequence reads and/or one or more base calls of the test sequence reads that comprise at least one sequence variant within a selected number of nucleotides from a given breakpoint, thereby producing the filtered sequence information data set.
US12322473B2

Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations including initializing the memory device; selecting at least one sample management unit on the memory device; performing a calibration operation on the sample management unit to determine a duration value reflecting a duration during which the memory device was powered down; adjusting an accumulator value based on the duration value; determining a read voltage value based on the accumulator value; and performing a read operation using the read voltage value.
US12322471B2

Mechanisms to mitigate signal race conditions in circuits that utilize multiple voltage domains. The mechanisms are applicable in signal fanout scenarios where leakage becomes problematic to signal timing, such machine memory devices, e.g., volatile single port or multi-port memory devices such as SRAMs (volatile static random access memory) or other bit-storing cell arrangements that include memory cells and a hierarchical bitline structure including local bitlines for subsets of the memory banks and a global bitline spanning the subsets.
US12322470B2

A semiconductor system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a controller configured to output a command address, a first chip selection signal, and a second chip selection signal, and a semiconductor device, including a first rank and a second rank, configured to receive the command address, the first chip selection signal, and the second chip selection signal and configured to calibrate each termination resistance value based on the command address, the first chip selection signal, and the second chip selection signal. The first rank calibrates the termination resistance value of the first rank to a target resistance value based on the command address and the first chip selection signal when a write operation on the first rank is performed, and the first rank calibrates the termination resistance value of the first rank to a dynamic resistance value based on the second chip selection signal when a write operation on the second rank is performed.
US12322465B2

A failbit counting method includes sequentially receiving, at an input of a counter, a bit group including one or more verification bits. Each of the one or more verification bits is a fail bit or a pass bit. The counter includes one or more counter stages coupled in series from the input. The method further includes, for one verification bit of the one or more verification bits, performing a determination process according to a position of the one verification bit in the group to select one of the one or more counter stages for writing a fail bit or to decide to discard the one verification bit.
US12322459B2

An anti-fuse circuit includes the following: a first transistor, and at least one parasitic transistor and at least one parasitic triode that are connected to the first transistor. The at least one parasitic transistor and the at least one parasitic triode are connected to a first node.
US12322456B2

A verify failbit count (VFC) circuit includes a counter circuit and a transcoder circuit. The counter circuit includes a counter. The counter is configured to count one or more fail bits based on results of a verification operation of a memory device to obtain a count result in unary format. The transcoder circuit includes a transcoder coupled to the counter. The transcoder is configured to transcode the count result in unary format to a transcoded result in binary format.
US12322448B2

There are provided a memory device and an operating method of the memory device. The memory device includes: a first select transistor, a plurality of memory cells, and a second select transistor, connected between a source line and a bit line; and a peripheral circuit for performing a pre-program operation on the plurality of memory cells and then performing an erase operation on the plurality of memory cells. In the pre-program operation, the peripheral circuit is configured to apply a program voltage to word lines that are connected to the plurality of memory cells corresponding to a channel that has been floated.
US12322447B2

Methods, apparatuses and systems related to reading data from memory cells configured to store more than one bit are described. The apparatus may be configured to determine a polarity data associated with reading data stored at a target location. In reading the data stored at the target location, the apparatus may apply one or more voltage levels across different polarities according to the determined polarity data.
US12322445B2

Semiconductor structure, comprising a memory-array unit comprising: a substrate, a memory array disposed on the substrate, and a first bonding region disposed around the memory array. The memory array comprises multiple word lines, multiple bit lines, and multiple source lines. The first bonding region comprises a first substrate-connecting bonding region, a first bit-line bonding region, a first word-line bonding region, and a first source-line bonding region. The first substrate-connecting bonding region is configured to connect the substrate electrically to a surface of the memory-array unit, the first bit-line bonding region is configured to connect the bit lines electrically to the surface of the memory-array unit, the first word-line bonding region is configured to connect the word lines electrically to the surface of the memory-array unit, and the first source-line bonding region is configured to connect the source lines electrically to the surface of the memory-array unit.
US12322443B2

A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming memory block regions individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Channel-material strings extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The conductive tiers individually comprise a void-space extending laterally-across individual of the memory-block regions. At least one of conductive or semiconductive material is formed in the void-space laterally-outward of individual of the channel-material strings. Conductive molybdenum-containing metal material is formed in the void-space directly against the at least one of the conductive or the semiconductive material and a conductive line comprising the conductive molybdenum-containing metal material is formed therefrom. The at least one of the conductive or the semiconductive material is of different composition from that of the conductive molybdenum-containing metal material. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US12322442B2

A memory device includes RRAM memory cells configured to form a zero-transistor and one-resistor (0T1R) array structure in which access transistors of the RRAM memory cells are bypassed or removed. Alternatively, the access transistors of the RRAM memory cells may be arranged in a parallel structure to reduce associated IR drop and thus enable reduced write voltage operation.
US12322438B2

A latch formed from a memory cell includes a clock input terminal configured to receive a clock signal, complementary first and second data terminals, and a latch circuit. The latch circuit has first and second inverters. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to the first data terminal, and the second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the second data terminal. A first pass gate transistor is coupled between an output terminal of the second inverter and the first data terminal. A second pass gate transistor is coupled between an output terminal of the first inverter and the second data terminal. The first and second pass gate transistors each have a gate terminal coupled to the clock input terminal. The input terminal of the first inverter is not directly connected to the output terminal of the second inverter, and the input terminal of the second inverter is not directly connected to the output terminal of the first inverter.
US12322436B2

A single memory package includes a package substrate; at least one of a memory chip and a buffer chip mounted on the package substrate; M×N number of interface data channel buses between the memory chip and the buffer chip; and (M×N)/2n number of outer data channel buses connected to the buffer chip. The buffer chip receives data from the memory chip through the interface data channel buses, and provides the data through the outer data channel buses. The M, N, and n are natural numbers.
US12322434B2

A memory controller for generating accesses for a memory includes a row hammer logic circuit for providing a sample request. In response to the sample request, the memory controller generates a sample command for dispatch to the memory to cause the memory to capture a current row. In response to a completion of the sample command, the memory controller generates a mitigation command for dispatch to the memory.
US12322432B2

A memory system includes a memory device, a controller and a timer circuit. The controller is configured to refresh the memory device according to a first refresh time. The timer circuit is configured to count a first refresh time period. When a first operation temperature of the memory device changes to a second operation temperature, the controller is further configured to acquire a second refresh time, for refreshing the memory device, corresponding to the second operation temperature, and configured to refresh the memory device according to the second refresh time, and the controller is further configured to reset the timer circuit to count a second refresh time period different from the first refresh time period after the controller acquires the second refresh time.
US12322416B2

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image processing section that generates visual information that is to be superimposed on or around a ball in a play video being a video of table-tennis play and that indicates a characteristic of the ball including at least one of a spin speed or a rotation direction of the ball.
US12322415B2

A tape reel includes: a first flange; a second flange; and a reel hub. The reel hub includes a first end portion formed integrally with the first flange, a second end portion to which the second flange is bonded, and an outer peripheral surface on which a magnetic tape is wound. The outer peripheral surface of the reel hub has a first outer peripheral region and a second outer peripheral region. The first outer peripheral region expands in diameter from the first end portion toward the second end portion. The second outer peripheral region expands in diameter from the first outer peripheral region across the second end portion and forms a ridge line portion having a shape projecting radially outward of the hub portion on a boundary between the second outer peripheral region and the first outer peripheral region.
US12322413B2

A base plate includes a support part, a bottom plate part, and a wall part. The wall part includes a first wall part and a second wall part above the first wall part. The first wall part includes a first wall surface and a support surface spreading from an upper end of the first wall surface to a radially outer side. The second wall part includes a second wall surface and a recess recessed to the radially outer side from the second wall surface. The recess is defined by a space enclosed by a recess wall surface located on the radially outer side of the second wall surface and extending upward from the support surface, a recess top surface connecting from an upper end of the recess wall surface to the second wall surface, and a recess support surface facing the recess top surface in an axial direction.
US12322409B2

A data processing apparatus (1) includes a signal processing unit (31, 32) and an insertion/deletion unit (33). The signal processing unit performs predetermined signal processing on the wirelessly received data for each frame that includes a predetermined number of samples, and stores the data in the buffers (41, 42). In the case where an amount of the data accumulated in the buffer is out of a predetermined range, the insertion/deletion unit (33) performs insertion/deletion processing that inserts or deletes the data in units of samples.
US12322408B2

A call processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller. The controller is configured to (i) perform a removal process of removing driving sounds of a vehicle other than a specific driving sound from sounds collected by a microphone in a cabin of the vehicle while an occupant of the vehicle is talking on a phone, and (ii) transmit an adjusted sound generated by performing the removal process to a call opposite party who is talking with the occupant of the vehicle via the phone.
US12322405B2

A method and device for detecting an attack in a sound signal to be coded wherein the sound signal is processed in successive frames each including a number of sub-frames. The device comprises a first-stage attack detector for detecting the attack in a last sub-frame of a current frame, and a second-stage attack detector for detecting the attack in one of the sub-frames of the current frame, including the sub-frames preceding the last sub-frame. No attack is detected when the current frame is not an active frame previously classified to be coded using a generic coding mode. A method and device for coding an attack in a sound signal are also provided. The coding device comprises the above mentioned attack detecting device and an encoder of the sub-frame comprising the detected attack using a transition coding mode using a glottal-shape codebook populated with glottal impulse shapes.
US12322392B1

A system for processing a radio transmission, having a device having a housing including processor, memory, speaker and one or more communication interfaces, at least one radio monitoring a plurality of wavelengths and having a radio output signal; and a power supply. The system including a signal to noise service module to detect variations in a signal-to-noise ratio for the radio output signal, to identify transmissions received. The system also provides a transcription service module to convert audio into a text string, and natural language processing (NLP) service module to identify an intent classification for the transmission. The system includes a logging service module to direct the radio output signal, text string, and data containing context information, to archive as logged entries in a memory storage database.
US12322388B2

Implementations relate to correcting a speech recognition hypothesis based on prior correction(s) made by a user and/or fulfillment data associated with fulfilling a request embodied in the speech recognition hypothesis. A candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be generated in response to the user providing a spoken utterance to an application, such as an automated assistant. When a confidence metric for the candidate speech recognition hypothesis does not satisfy a threshold, one or more terms of the candidate speech recognition hypothesis can be compared to correcting data. The correcting data can indicate whether the user previously corrected any term(s) present in the candidate speech recognition hypothesis and, if so, correct the term(s) accordingly. Fulfillment data generated for the candidate hypothesis and/or for the corrected hypothesis can also be processed to determine whether to utilize the candidate hypothesis or the corrected hypothesis in responding to the user.
US12322383B2

A method includes receiving a sequence of input audio frames corresponding to an utterance captured by a user device, the utterance including a plurality of words. For each input audio frame, the method includes predicting, using a word boundary detection model configured receive the sequence of input audio frames as input, whether the input audio frame is a word boundary. The method includes batching the input audio frames into a plurality of batches based on the input audio frames predicted as word boundaries, wherein each batch includes a corresponding plurality of batched input audio frames. For each of the plurality of batches, the method includes processing, using a speech recognition model, the corresponding plurality of batched input audio frames in parallel to generate a speech recognition result.
US12322381B2

A method of building a natural language understanding application is provided. The method includes receiving at least one electronic record containing programming code and creating executable code from the programming code. Further, the executable code, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to create a parse and an interpretation of a sequence of input tokens, the programming code includes an interpret-block and the interpret-block includes an interpret-statement. Additionally, the interpret-statement includes a pattern expression and the interpret-statement includes an action statement.
US12322379B2

Contextual language selection for live transcription of collaboration session audio in heterogenous computing platforms. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogeneous computing platform comprising a plurality of devices and a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, where the memory comprises a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, where each set of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and where at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to identify a collaboration persona and change a live transcription setting of a collaboration session based upon the collaboration persona.
US12322378B1

The present invention provides a method and a system utilizing an AI entity for confirming an agreement has been entered between a first entity and a second entity during a verbal communication, capturing the portions of the communication that constitute the elements of an agreement and storing the portions for later verification of the agreement.
US12322375B1

Various embodiments of the present disclosure evaluate transcription accuracy. In some implementations, the system normalizes a first transcription of an audio file and a baseline transcription of the audio file. The baseline transcription can be used as an accurate transcription of the audio file. The system can further determine an error rate of the first transcription by aligning each portion of the first transcription with the portion of the baseline transcription, and assigning a label to each portion based on a comparison of the portion of the first transcription with the portion of the baseline transcription.
US12322368B2

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include applying, via a sound reproduction system, sound cancellation that reduces an amplitude of various sound signals. The method further includes identifying, among the sound signals, an external sound whose amplitude is to be reduced by the sound cancellation. The method then includes analyzing the identified external sound to determine whether the identified external sound is to be made audible to a user and, upon determining that the external sound is to be made audible to the user, the method includes modifying the sound cancellation so that the identified external sound is made audible to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12322361B2

Disclosed herein is a shoulder rest for a violin. The shoulder rest for a violin includes: a chin rest member installed in the form of being placed on the top plate of a violin, and provided with a pair of first coupling screw rods formed on one side thereof; turnbuckles screwed into the first coupling screw rods; an installation rail configured such that a pair of second coupling screw rods are coupled to the remaining sides of the turnbuckles, respectively, and the installation rail is formed to connect the inner ends of the second coupling screw rods while forming a single path; a clamp installed at a position, desired by a player, along the path of the installation rail; and a composite support member coupled to the clamp, and configured to support the shoulder and chest of the player.
US12322355B1

The present application discloses a display panel, a display panel driving method and a display device, where the display panel includes: a driving circuit; the driving circuit includes a plurality of shift register units; the shift register unit includes a driving control module, a stage transmission module and a scanning module; the driving control module includes a starting input end, a scanning control end, a first node and a second node; the stage transmission module includes a first input end, a second input end, a first level end, a stage transmission clock end and a stage transmission output end; the first input end is electrically connected to the first node, and the second input end is electrically connected to the second node.
US12322351B2

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a backlight unit including a plurality of backlights; a driving unit for driving the backlight unit; and a processor for identifying, based on luminance information about each of the plurality of backlights, a number of time intervals in which each of the plurality of backlights is to be turned on from among a plurality of time intervals included in a backlight dimming interval, and controlling the driving unit so that the plurality of backlights are turned on during the identified number of time intervals by variously changing times at which the plurality of backlights are turned on.
US12322349B2

Two or more sensing switches are included in a sensing unit for detecting a characteristic value of a subpixel, and are electrically coupled to a reference voltage line. The two or more sensing switches share a sampling switch with a sensing capacitor included in the sensing unit, which reduces size of the sensing unit. Sensing may include driving simultaneously two or more sensing switches sharing a sensing capacitor, or sensing may be performed through continuous and short driving after simultaneous driving. Overall sensing time can be reduced and sensing accuracy improved.
US12322333B2

A display device includes pixels, and each pixel is connected between a first electrode or a second electrode of a driving transistor and a bias line, includes a bias transistor configured to transfer a bias voltage applied from the bias line to the first electrode or the second electrode of the driving transistor during a bias period. Bias voltages applied to the pixels emitting light of different colors are different from each other.
US12322332B2

A pixel circuit includes a first switching transistor between a gate and a drain of a driving transistor, a second switching transistor, and an auxiliary capacitor connected to the second switching transistor. The second switching transistor transfers a data signal voltage from a data line to a storage capacitor through the driving transistor and the first switching transistor. The auxiliary capacitor retains the auxiliary charges depending on the data signal voltage from the data line during a first period where the second and first switching transistors are ON. The auxiliary charges are transfer from the auxiliary capacitor to the storage capacitor through the first switching transistor and the driving transistor during the second period where the second switching transistor is OFF and the first switching transistor is ON. Capacitance of the auxiliary capacitor is equal to or larger than ½ of capacitance of the storage capacitor.
US12322325B2

A display with multiple light sources sharing a device driver is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention a display includes a first device driver, a first light source, a second light source and a first light-source selection circuit which is coupled to the first device driver, the first light source and the second light source. The first light-source selection circuit is configured to pair the first device driver with the first light source during a first time interval and to pair the first device driver with the second light source in a second time interval.
US12322319B2

The present disclosure provides a display control method and device, an image processing device and display apparatus, and belongs to the technical field of display. The display control method of the present disclosure includes: determining a data stream format according to data streams for the tth frame of image; determining a dynamic region and image data thereof from the data streams for the tth frame of image when the data stream format is a regional transmission format; and transmitting the image data for the dynamic region and/or the image data for the (t−1)th frame of image in the buffer space to the display assembly according to the end-of-transmission identifier in the data streams for the tth frame of image and the configuration command of the tth frame of image, so that the display assembly refreshes the display image.
US12322318B2

The present application provides a display panel and an electronic terminal, including an insulation substrate, and a plurality of data lines disposed on the insulation substrate and electrically connected to a source driving circuit, where the source driving circuit includes a first module, a second module, and a strobe module connected between the first module and the second module, which are all disposed on the insulation substrate, and the strobe module is configured to control output pins of the first module to be electrically connected to different input pins of the second module at different moments.
US12322315B2

A display driving method and a display device are provided. The display driving method includes: scanning a plurality of subpixels arranged in an NΔM array row by row or in multiple rows to turn on each row of scanned subpixels, so that the duration when two adjacent rows of subpixels are simultaneously in a turn-on state is greater than or equal to two times a unit scan time, the unit scan time being the time required for scanning one row of subpixels, and N and M both being integers greater than 1; and applying data signals to at least two rows of subpixels that are simultaneously in the turn-on state, so that the duration when data signals are applied to at least some rows of subpixels is greater than the unit scan time.
US12322307B2

A driver includes a first terminal, a second terminal coupled to the first terminal via a transparent electrode, a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, and a monitor circuit that detects a resistance value of the transparent electrode based on a voltage of the second terminal in a monitoring state. The monitoring state is a state in which the first terminal is coupled to a first high-potential-side power supply voltage via the first drive circuit and the second terminal is coupled to a second high-potential-side power supply voltage different from the first high-potential-side power supply voltage via the second drive circuit, or a state in which the first terminal is coupled to one of a high-potential-side power supply voltage and a low-potential-side power supply voltage via the first drive circuit and the second terminal is coupled to the other of the high-potential-side power supply voltage and the low-potential-side power supply voltage via the second drive circuit.
US12322301B2

Systems, methods and apparatus for multi-realm, computer-generated reality systems are disclosed. A method for managing a multi-realm, computer-generated reality includes determining one or more variances between each activity of a first participant and a corresponding baseline activity for each of a plurality of activities associated with traversal of a managed reality system during a session, and quantifying the one or more variances to obtain a performance metric. The method includes combining at least one performance metric for each activity of the first participant to obtain a session performance measurement for the first participant.
US12322297B2

The present invention is part of the aid devices for blind people and in particular for the dedicated orientation systems. In particular, the present system is suitable both as a domestic aid as well as outdoors, advantageously leaving the user's hands free.
US12322295B2

Systems and techniques are disclosed for aspects of audiovisual content selection based on collecting and processing physiological data. In an example, a system comprises: a sensor device with at one physiological sensor to capture physiological data from a human subject; an output device with a display device to output video and a speaker to output audio to the human subject; and a computing device with at least one processor to control an output of digital audiovisual data to a human subject via the output device, based on data processing operations including a comparison of an observed pattern of autonomic nervous system activity to a target pattern of autonomic nervous system activity.
US12322290B2

A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a parking request for a vehicle to park at a parking facility and may offer a plurality of parking spots of the parking facility for the vehicle, where at least one of the plurality of parking spots that is offered is a parking spot that is predicted to be available, and where the offering includes presenting information regarding predicted adjacent parking spot occupancy of the at least one of the plurality of parking spots for a duration of an intended stay of the vehicle at the parking facility. The processing system may then obtain a selection of a parking spot from among the plurality of parking spots and reserve the parking spot for the vehicle.
US12322288B2

A vehicle control system for providing information to support an overtaking maneuver by a first vehicle, the vehicle control system includes: a processing circuitry adapted to be operatively connected to a traffic view camera and configured to: receive image data of at least one other vehicle in traffic by the traffic view camera; determine, based on the image data of the at least one other vehicle in traffic, overtaking support data indicative of at least one gap in the traffic suitable for an overtaking maneuver; and provide the overtaking support data to the first vehicle for supporting an overtaking maneuver by the first vehicle.
US12322278B2

A method for monitoring devices based at least in part on detected conditions includes accumulating, by one or more sensory nodes, sensed information in an area that includes a controllable device. The method also includes analyzing the sensed information to identify historical information regarding the area that includes the controllable device. The method also includes sensing a condition within the area by the one or more sensory nodes. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the sensed condition and at least in part on the historical information, that the sensed condition relates to the controllable device. The method further includes generating, responsive to said determining, an alert regarding the controllable device.
US12322270B2

A wireless communication tape, dispenser of the same and methods of usage of the wireless tape and the dispenser in asset tracking applications are disclosed. The wireless communication tape can be manufactured in an ultrathin form factor by laminating a stack of layers to impart functionality to the wireless communication tape. Methods of use and operation of the wireless communication tape are disclosed to save battery resources of the communication tape.
US12322246B2

An automated conversational multi-player gaming platform is described. A machine-learning model is trained to use a natural language processor and a speech synthesizer as an automated dealer communicating with players of a game of chance. The trained machine-learning model receives requests from people to become players of a game of chance, outputs private game content associated with the game of chance to the players' private user interfaces, and outputs public game content associated with the game of chance to the players' public user interface. The trained machine-learning model receives selections of game playing options and wager values associated with the game of chance from the players via their private user interfaces, and outputs information identifying one player as a winner of the game of chance and a credit of the winner's wager value to the players' public user interface and/or the winner's private user interface.
US12322245B2

A system and method for assessing personal preferences and interests of end-users by engaging one or more end-users in a game in which the end-user may be given a chance to win a product item from a collection of product items selected by the end-user.
US12322237B2

A method for classifying a banknote has at least one luminescent feature, in which the following steps are carried out: a) exciting the luminescent feature; b) recording at least a first intensity value of the excited luminescent feature at a first time and a second intensity value at a second time that is different from the first time; c) determining a decay time of the luminescent feature by approximate integration over the intensity values between the first time and the second time; d) comparing the determined decay time with a reference decay time of the luminescent feature; and e) classifying the banknote based on the comparison.
US12322231B2

An electronically-controlled manually-actuated deadbolt lock is provided. The electronically-controlled manually-actuated deadbolt lock includes an internal spring-actuated coupling mechanism that, when a user is authenticated, the coupling mechanism is placed in an engaged position that allows a deadbolt latch to be moved into a locked or unlocked position responsive to a manual rotation of an external bezel. Because the deadbolt latch is manually driven, a warped door condition can be overcome. Additionally, because the deadbolt latch is manually actuated, operation of the electronic motor may be decreased, which may increase battery life.
US12322228B2

Disclosed is a system and a method for monitoring pickup and drop-off of items in a storage facility, the system comprising a scanner disposed at an entry to the storage facility, the scanner configured to scan an item pickup code, and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive the scanned item pickup code, determine if there is an item associated with the item pickup code being stored in the storage facility; and, if so, grant entry to the storage facility to an item picker, receive one or more images of inside of the storage facility, determine an item picked by the item picker, determine that the item picked by the item picker corresponds to the item pickup code and, if not, generate a wrong pick-up signal.
US12322222B1

Systems and methods for operating fleet management systems are provided. The systems and methods can involve a plurality of device data importer services, at least one data access service, and a plurality of application programing interface (API) services. The plurality of device data importer services can receive and process first and second telematics data to generate first and second processed telematics data. The at least one data access service can store the first and second processed telematics data in first and second databases. The plurality of API services can receive first and second requests associated with the first and second processed telematics data and transmit first and second responses. The systems and methods can also involve an upgrader application and a plurality of client applications. The upgrader application can determine at least one supported schema change for the database and upgrade the database schema by applying the schema change.
US12322219B2

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media, are disclosed in which a variety of data describing the condition of an object can be obtained and probabilistic likelihoods of causes and/or value of damages to the object can be calculated. In a variety of embodiments, data obtained from third-party systems can be utilized in these calculations. Any of a number of machine classifiers can be utilized to generate the probabilistic likelihoods and confidence metrics in the calculated liabilities. A variety of user interfaces for efficiently obtaining and visualizing the object, the surrounding geographic conditions, and/or the probabilistic likelihoods can further be utilized as appropriate. User interfaces can include a scene sketch tool application program interface and/or a liability tool user interface and various data sources can be used to dynamically generate diagrams of object damage and/or the environment in which the object was damaged.
US12322217B2

The present invention provides an improved system and method for using cryptography to secure computer-implemented choice mechanisms. In several preferred embodiments, a process is provided for securing participants' submissions while simultaneously providing the capability of validating their submissions. This is referred to as a random permutation. In several other preferred embodiments, a process is provided for securing participants' advance instructions while simultaneously providing the capability of validating their advance instructions. This is referred to as a secure advance instruction. Applications include voting mechanisms, school choice mechanisms, and auction mechanisms.
US12322216B2

A system for tracking competitors conducting a race on a track includes multiple object-recognition devices positioned to recognize objects at predetermined locations along the track. The object-recognition devices are configured to recognize at least one physical feature of each of the competitors. A processing device is configured to determine a time at which a competitor reached a selected one of the predetermined locations during the race based on object-recognition data from at least one of the object-recognition devices. A transmitter is configured to transmit to an output device the time at which the competitor reached the selected location during the race.
US12322213B2

A total terminal system includes a front-seat total terminal provided in a front driver compartment of a taxi vehicle and a rear-seat total terminal provided in a rear passenger compartment of the taxi vehicle. The front-seat total terminal includes an application program device configured to execute a plurality of application programs and a data management device including a plurality of service data storage units configured to store data for providing a plurality of services, wherein a first application program among the plurality of application programs is configured to write first information to a corresponding first service data storage unit among the plurality of service data storage units and the first service data storage unit is configured to transmit the first information to a second application program that is connected to the first service data storage unit.
US12322203B2

A capacitive biometric skin contact sensor configured to resolve the contours of skin in contact with the sensor, wherein the sensor comprises: an array of sensor pixels, wherein each sensor pixel comprises a thin film transistor and a capacitive sensing electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a plurality of gate drive channels, wherein each gate drive channel is arranged to provide a gate drive signal to one or more of the sensor pixels; a plurality of read-out channels, wherein each read-out channel is arranged to receive a read-out current from one or more of the sensor pixels, each read-out current being indicative of a proximity to a respective capacitive sensing electrode of a conductive object to be sensed; and an analog to digital converter comprising a dual slope integrator arranged to receive, as its input, either an output current or a reference voltage, wherein said output current is based on one or more read-out currents; wherein the biometric sensor is configured to: apply the output current as the input to the dual slope integrator for a charging time period to charge a capacitor of the dual slope integrator; apply the reference voltage as the input to the dual slope integrator for a discharging time period, wherein the discharging time period comprises the amount of time it takes for the capacitor to discharge; and determine the proximity to the one or more respective capacitive sensing electrodes of the conductive body based on an indication of the discharging time period.
US12322201B2

Digital imaging systems and methods are described for analyzing pixel data of an image of a skin area of a user for determining skin hyperpigmentation. A plurality of training images of a plurality of individuals are aggregated, each of the training images comprising pixel data of a respective skin area of an individual. A skin hyperpigmentation model, trained with the pixel data, is operable to output, across a range of a skin hyperpigmentation scale, skin hyperpigmentation values associated with a degree of skin hyperpigmentation. An image of a user comprising pixel data of at least a portion of a user skin area is received and analyzed, by the skin hyperpigmentation model, to determine a user-specific skin hyperpigmentation value of the user skin area. A user-specific electronic recommendation addressing at least one feature identifiable within the pixel data is generated and rendered, on a display screen of a user computing device.
US12322196B2

A data processing system implements training a first convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify shapes in digital ink inputs, the first CNN being trained to receive ink stroke information as an input and to output an indication whether the ink stroke information represents a hand drawn geometric shape. The data processing system further implements compressing the first CNN to generate a second CNN capable of being operated on a resource-constrained computing device lacking sufficient computing resources to operate an instance of the first CNN and installing the second CNN on the resource-constrained computing device to process ink stroke information captured by a user interface of the computing device.
US12322191B2

The disclosure relates to a lane line determination method and system, a vehicle, and a storage medium, and the lane line determination method includes: capturing a road image for a current location in a vehicle coordinate system; recognizing the road image and generating basic lane lines for the current location; extracting map lane lines for the current location; mapping the map lane lines to the vehicle coordinate system to obtain auxiliary lane lines; registering the basic lane lines with the auxiliary lane lines, the registration being performed based on confidence levels of the basic lane lines; and generating target lane lines based on the registered auxiliary lane lines and the basic lane lines. According to the lane line determination method, an operation such as correction can be performed, according to a condition, on a visually captured lane line by using a map lane line, thereby improving accuracy of the lane line detection.
US12322186B1

A method and system may include a first light source for generating infrared light at a first wavelength. The system and method may include a second light source for generating infrared light at a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength. The system and method may also include a camera module for activating the first infrared light source to capture a first image of an object with the first infrared light source. The camera system may determine if a second image of the object is needed using the second light source. The camera system may then capture a second image of the object with the second infrared light source if the camera system determines that the second image of the object is needed. The system may further include a motion detector for detecting motion of the object. The object may comprise a license plate of a vehicle.
US12322180B2

The present invention provides an image shooting method and an electronic device. The image shooting method includes: receiving a first input; in response to the first input, obtaining a first video stream and a second video stream with a same shot content acquired by a camera module; extracting a target object in the shot content of the first video stream to obtain a first intermediate video stream of the target object; removing the target object in the shot content of the second video stream and performing image registration compensation on areas at which the target object is located, to obtain a second intermediate video stream; and generating, based on the first intermediate video stream and the second intermediate video stream, a target video; where the first intermediate video stream and the second intermediate video stream are different in frame rate.
US12322176B2

A video classification system and method and a neural network training system are provided. The video classification system captures multiple sampled images, encodes first and second images of all sampled images into feature matrices of the sampled images using a convolutional neural network module, and obtains the classification of the videos based on a recurrent neural network module and the feature matrices. The neural network training system captures multiple first sampled images and uses first training samples of all the first sampled images to train the convolutional neural network module and a classification module to obtain multiple parameter values of the convolutional neural network module. The neural network training system trains the recurrent neural network module based on the parameter values and multiple second sampled images.
US12322169B2

Examples described herein provide a method that includes performing a first scan of an object to generate first scan data. The method further includes detecting a defect on a surface of the object by analyzing the first scan data to identify a region of interest containing the defect by comparing the first scan data to reference scan data. The method further includes performing a second scan of the region of interest containing the defect to generate second scan data, the second scan data being higher resolution scan data than the first scan data. The method further includes combining the first scan data and the second scan data to generate a point cloud of the object.
US12322167B2

Disclosed frameworks for generating an image including a salient object and a staged background include extracting a salient object from a source image and applying a generative model to the salient object to generate the image. According to some embodiments, extracting a salient object from a source image involves using salient object detection method to identify the relevant portions of the source image corresponding to the salient object. In some embodiments, the generative model is a generative adversarial network trained using a domain relevant dataset.
US12322166B2

The subject technology receives first image data captured by a camera of an eyewear device. The subject technology detects, using a machine learning model, a representation of a display screen in the first image data. The subject technology selects at least a portion of the representation of the display screen. The subject technology adjusts a visual appearance of the portion of the representation of the display screen. The subject technology causes display of the adjusted visual appearance using a display system of the eyewear device.
US12322157B2

An image classification method includes: performing image segmentation on an unlabeled sample image to obtain image blocks and performing feature extraction on each image block to obtain an initial image feature set including an initial image feature corresponding to each image block, rearranging and combining initial image features in the initial image feature set to obtain a first image feature set and a second image feature set, first image features in the first image feature set and second image features in the second image feature set corresponding to different rearrangement and combination manners, pre-training an image classification model based on the first image feature set and the second image feature set, the image classification model being configured to classify content in an image, and fine-tuning the pre-trained image classification model based on a labeled sample image.
US12322156B2

Techniques related to implementing and training image classification networks are discussed. Such techniques include applying shared convolutional layers to input images regardless of resolution and applying normalization selectively based on the input image resolution. Such techniques further include training using mixed image size parallel training and mixed image size ensemble distillation.
US12322153B2

In some implementations, an image analysis platform may receive image data for analysis. The image analysis platform may generate, using a computer vision model, an analysis of the image data, wherein the analysis comprises a plurality of layers generated from the image data. The image analysis platform may determine attributions of each layer to a prediction based on the analysis of the image data. The image analysis platform may determine structural similarities between image pairs associated with sets of layers of the plurality of layers, wherein the structural similarities are based on the attributions. The image analysis platform may analyze the structural similarities to determine an assessment of the prediction performed using the computer vision model. The image analysis platform may provide an output associated with identifying the assessment of the prediction.
US12322146B2

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing a reduction in coding efficiency. For a point cloud representing a three-dimensional object as a set of points, a coordinate system for geometry data is transformed from a polar coordinate system to a Cartesian coordinate system, a reference relationship indicating a reference destination used to calculate a predictive value of attribute data of a processing target point is set by using the generated geometry data in the Cartesian coordinate system, a prediction residual that is a difference value between the attribute data of the processing target point and the predictive value calculated based on the set reference relationship is calculated, and the calculated prediction residual is encoded. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic device, an information processing method, or a program.
US12322138B2

A corner marking method, a parameter calibration method, and an electronic device are provided. The corner marking method includes: acquiring a target image, the target image including at least a portion of a target chessboard; detecting corners in the target image; performing a chessboard reconstruction based on detected corners to acquire a reconstructed chessboard; if the reconstructed chessboard contains one or more of tagging squares, acquiring one of the tagging squares of the reconstructed chessboard as a reference square; acquiring an identification and orientation of the reference square based on a tag of the reference square; marking corners in the reconstructed chessboard based on the identification and orientation of the reference square. Even if the target image does not contain a complete target chessboard, the corner marking method described in the present disclosure is still capable of marking corners in the target image.
US12322121B2

A system for detecting changes between two temporally different images includes an image divider, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) feature encoder, an image alignment system, a feature comparator, a CNN feature decoder and segmenter, and a block combiner. The image divider divides a first and second image into a plurality of image blocks. CNN feature encoder encodes the image blocks from the first and second image into first and second feature sets respectively. The image alignment system aligns the first and second image by searching for matching anchor vectors in the first and second feature sets using a similarity search. The feature comparator produces change feature sets from the first and second feature sets of the aligned image blocks, and the CNN feature decoder and segmenter creates segmented change image blocks from the change feature sets. The block combiner combines segmented change image blocks into a segmented change image.
US12322116B2

An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect color or luminance change for each of different resolutions among changes in color or luminance in a color or luminance image, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected color or luminance change based on temporal color or luminance change in the color or luminance image. The reliability estimation unit estimates the reliability based on a diffusion result of the temporal color or luminance change in the color or luminance image. The reliability has a greater value when the diffusion result shows anisotropy.
US12322110B2

A method for neural network based image processing, the method may include obtaining multiple two dimensional (2D) segments of a sensed information unit, each 2D segment has a segment location within the sensed information unit; converting each 2D segments to a segment vector; generating multiple segments intermediate results by repeating, for each segment vector: (a) concatenating the segment vector with associated segment location information to provide a first segment concatenated vector; and (b) multiplying the first segment concatenated vector by a learnable embedding matrix to provide a segment intermediate result; concatenating the multiple segments intermediate results with associated segment identifiers to provide a sensed information unit result; and feeding the sensed information unit result to a second layer of a neural network.
US12322108B2

A method of determining volumetric data of a predetermined anatomical feature is described. The method comprising determining volumetric data of one or more anatomical features present in a field of view of a depth sensing camera apparatus, identifying a predetermined anatomical feature as being present in the field of view of the depth sensing camera apparatus, associating the volumetric data of one of the one or more anatomical features with the identified predetermined anatomical feature, and outputting the volumetric data of the predetermined anatomical feature. An apparatus is also described.
US12322106B2

Systems and methods are provided herein for minimizing retinal exposure to flash during image gathering for diagnosis. In an embodiment, a system captures a plurality of retinal images of different retinal regions. The system determines that a first portion of a first image does not meet a criterion while a second portion of the first image does meet the criterion, identifies a portion of the retina depicted in the first portion that does not meet the criterion, and determines whether the portion of the retina is depicted in a third portion of a second image and whether the third portion meets the criterion. Responsive to determining that the third portion meets the criterion, the system performs the diagnosis. Responsive to determining that the portion of the retina is not depicted in the second image, the system captures an additional image of the retinal region.
US12322104B2

An apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of cardiac anatomy via machine-learning, wherein the apparatus includes a process and a memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a set of images of a cardiac anatomy pertaining to a subject, generate an 3D data structure representing the cardiac anatomy as a function of the set of images using a cardiac anatomy modeling model, generate an initial 3D model of the cardiac anatomy, refine the generated initial 3D model of the cardiac anatomy as a function of the 3D data structure representing the cardiac anatomy, and generate a subsequent 3D model of the cardiac anatomy as a function of the refinement.
US12322093B2

A method includes manufacturing an orthodontic aligner and assessing a quality of the orthodontic aligner. Assessing the quality of the orthodontic aligner comprises receiving a digital representation of the orthodontic aligner, and analyzing the digital representation of the orthodontic aligner to identify a quality-related property of the orthodontic aligner. The analyzing comprises comparing the digital representation of the orthodontic aligner with data based on a digital model associated with the orthodontic aligner and calculating one or more difference between a feature determined from the data and a feature of the digital representation of the orthodontic aligner. Assessing the quality of the orthodontic aligner further includes determining, based on the quality-related property, that the orthodontic aligner comprises a possible manufacturing flaw, and classifying the orthodontic aligner as requiring further inspection by a technician based on determining that the orthodontic aligner comprises the possible manufacturing flaw.
US12322089B2

An exemplary system is configured to instruct a display device to render a virtual medical element representative of a physical medical element over a target region within an image of an internal space of a patient, the target region depicting an anatomical surface to be covered by the physical medical element; receive, while the virtual medical element is rendered over the target region, user input that sets at least one of a pose of the virtual medical element within the image or a size of the virtual medical element; and determine, based on the user input and on depth data representative of a depth map for the internal space, physical dimensions for the physical medical element.
US12322084B2

A learning data generation device that can generate learning data suitable for learning of an identification model. The learning data generation device has a function of cutting out part of first image data as second image data, a function of generating a two-dimensional graphic corresponding to the area of the second image data and representing a pseudo defect, a function of generating third image data by combining the second image data and the two-dimensional graphic, and a function of assigning a label corresponding to the two-dimensional graphic to the third image data. By using the third image data for learning of the identification model, a highly accurate identification model can be generated.
US12322078B2

A system and associated method for thermal inspection of structures. The method includes providing an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”), the UAV comprising a thermal camera for capturing thermal image data, a visible light camera for capturing visible light image data, and a positioning system for capturing positioning data, operating the UAV by flying the UAV along a predetermined flight path around an inspection structure, simultaneously capturing thermal image data of the inspection structure, visible light image data of the inspection structure, and positioning data at regular intervals, while the UAV flies along the flight path.
US12322077B2

Systems and methods for container condition determination are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises one or more optical sensors; at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain image data of a container from the one or more optical sensors; determine from the image data, position information of one or more items located inside the container; determine from the image data air delivery information in the container; determine airflow characteristics of the container using the position information of the one or more items and the air delivery information; and determine, using the airflow characteristics and the position information of the one or more items, a probability of an item of the one or more items being damaged.
US12322072B2

This invention is related to a multi-scale image processing algorithm for enhancing contrast to noise ratio in an electronic representation of an image represented by a) decomposing said digital image into a set of detail images at multiple resolution levels and a residual image at a resolution level lower than said multiple resolution levels, b) processing said detail images, c) computing a processed image by applying a reconstruction algorithm to the residual image and the processed detail images, said reconstruction algorithm being such that if it were applied to the residual image and the detail images without processing, then said digital image or a close approximation thereof would be obtained. The processing comprises the steps of: d) calculating a local variance value for at least one detail image pixel within a neighbourhood of said detail image pixel; e) enhancing or suppressing at least one detail image pixel as a function of said local variance value and said detail image pixel value.
US12322070B1

A system and method are disclosed for generating hyperspectral images from RGB (red-green-blue) images. A set of data includes training hyperspectral images and their corresponding RGB images. A spectral band grouping is performed on the training hyperspectral images based on a correlation coefficient of spectral bands. A decomposition network generates a reconstructed hyperspectral image, while a fine-tuning network creates reconstructed RGB images. A quality assurance system analyzes spectral consistency, noise levels, and RGB reconstruction accuracy to generate quality metrics. These metrics guide network weight adjustments to improve reconstruction accuracy.
US12322063B1

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to enhance video are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to create a higher resolution video using upsampled frames from a lower resolution video.
US12322061B2

The technical problem of creating an augmented reality (AR) experience that, on one hand, is accessible from a camera view user interface provided with a messaging client and that, also, can perform a modification based on a previously captured image of a user, is addressed by providing an AR component. When a user, while accessing the messaging client, engages a user selectable element representing the AR component in the camera view user interface, the messaging system loads the AR component in the messaging client. The AR component comprises a target media content object, which can be animation or live action video. The loaded AR component accesses a portrait image associated with a user and modifies the target media content using the portrait image. The resulting target media content object is displayed in the camera view user interface.
US12322057B2

In many applications, the assessment of the internal structures of tubular structures (such as in medical imaging, blood vessels, bronchi, and colon) has become a topic of high interest. Many 3D visualization techniques, such as “fly-through” and curved planar reformation (CPR), have been used for visualization of the lumens for medical applications. However, all the existing visualization techniques generate highly distorted images of real objects. This invention provides direct manipulation based on the centerline of the object and visualization of the 3D internal structures of a tubular object without any noticeable distortion. For the first time ever, the lumens of a human colon is visualized as it is in reality. In many medical applications, this can be used for diagnosis, planning of surgery or stent placements, etc. and consequently improves the quality of healthcare significantly. The same technique can be used in many other applications.
US12322055B2

Systems and methods for generating AR content to virtually alter a real-world item are provided. The real-world item may be a deformable item including one or more flexible surfaces. According to an embodiment, a method includes determining the relative positions of a plurality of points on the real-world item. Based on the relative positions of the plurality of points, a 3D model of a virtual item is distorted to produce a distorted 3D model of the virtual item. The distorted 3D model may have substantially the same shape as the real-world item. AR content is then generated based on the distorted three-dimensional model.
US12322051B2

A list information display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, the method includes: displaying list information in response to an information display operation triggered by a user; obtaining a real scene shooting image; and loading a plurality of types of information related to the list information into the real scene shooting image and display the real scene shooting image. Due to the use of virtual enhanced display technology, while the list information is displayed in the real scene shooting image, the plurality of types of information related to the list information are also displayed. On one hand, the user can obtain more information related to the list information while obtaining the list information, which improves the efficiency of information acquisition; and on the other hand, the user can obtain information in the real scene shooting image, which improves the visual effect and interactive experience.
US12322045B2

The invention provides a method for refining a mapped surface mesh of a cardiac chamber. The method includes obtaining a mapped surface mesh of the cardiac chamber anatomy, wherein the mapped surface mesh comprises a central region representing a cardiac chamber and an outer region representing a peripheral cardiac structure connected to the cardiac chamber, and wherein the mapped surface mesh comprises a first view of an anatomical landmark within the cardiac chamber, and obtaining image data of a cardiac chamber anatomy of a subject. The central region of the mapped surface mesh is deformed based on a first segmentation algorithm configured according to one or more predetermined shape-constraints and the outer region of the mapped surface mesh is deformed based on a second segmentation algorithm configured according to the image data, thereby generating a deformed outer region. The deformed central region and the deformed outer region are then combined, thereby generating a refined mapped surface mesh.
US12322041B2

A portable electronic system receives a set of one or more canonical maps and determines the sparse map based at least in part upon one or more anchors pertaining to the physical environment. The sparse map is localized to at least one canonical map in the set of one or more canonical maps, and a new canonical map is created at least by merging sparse map data of the sparse map into the at least one canonical map. The set of one or more canonical maps may be determined from a universe of canonical maps comprising a plurality of canonical maps by applying a hierarchical filtering scheme to the universe. The sparse map may be localized to the at least one canonical map at least by splitting the sparse map into a plurality of connected components and by one or more merger operations.
US12322039B2

Various embodiments include a system for rendering an object, such as human skin or a human head, from captured appearance data comprising a plurality of texels. The system includes a processor executing a texture space indirect illumination module. The system determines texture coordinates of a vector originating from a first texel where the vector intersects a second texel. The system renders the second texel from the viewpoint of the first texel based on appearance data at the second texel. Based on the rendering of the second texel, the system determines an indirect lighting intensity incident to the first texel from the second texel. The system updates appearance data at the first texel based on a direct lighting intensity and the indirect lighting intensity. The system renders the first texel based on the updated appearance data at the first texel.
US12322030B2

A first texture including first color information, a second texture including second color information, and a third texture including height information are managed. The first color information, of the first texture corresponding to a surface of an object, obtained on the basis of a first correspondence relationship is obtained. A second correspondence relationship which is a relationship between the surface of the object and the second texture is corrected on the basis of a relationship between a line-of-sight direction of a virtual camera and orientation of the surface of the object and the height information specified on the basis of a third correspondence relationship, and the second color information is obtained from the second texture on the basis of the corrected second correspondence relationship. Then, a rendering color is determined using the obtained color information, and the surface of the object is rendered.
US12322028B2

An information processing apparatus includes a shape data acquisition unit configured to acquire shape data indicating a three-dimensional shape of a mold for forming a molded product, a mold release direction acquisition unit configured to acquire a mold release direction in separating the molded product from the mold, a processing parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a processing parameter for processing to be applied to a surface of the mold, a calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the shape data, the mold release direction and the processing parameter, a difference between a plurality of processing parameter maps each indicating a correspondence between a position on the surface of the mold and the processing parameter, and a notification unit configured to notify information about the difference.
US12322021B2

A system to dynamically generate and cause display of composite user identifiers is described. Embodiments of the present disclosure related to systems for: receiving an identification of a user profile from a client device; retrieving user identifiers associated with the user profile and a user profile associated with the client device; selecting an animation script from among a plurality of animation scripts, the animation script including a set of graphical elements; generating a composite user identifier based on the user identifiers associated with the user profile and the user profile associated with the client device; and causing display of a presentation of the composite user identifier at the client device, wherein the presentation is based on the animation script.
US12322014B2

A method for generating a virtual reality (VR) broadcast of a VR performance is provided. The VR broadcast is received by audience devices that receive audience feedback data. A VR system controller synchronizes the audience feedback data with the VR broadcast to generate synchronized audience feedback data in real time and outputs the VR broadcast with the synchronized audience feedback data to the audience devices. The VR system controller receives performer feedback data and transmits performer feedback data to the audience devices.
US12322011B2

Systems and methods for image generation include obtaining an input image and an attribute value representing an attribute of the input image to be modified; computing a modified latent vector for the input image by applying the attribute value to a basis vector corresponding to the attribute in a latent space of an image generation network; and generating a modified image based on the modified latent vector using the image generation network, wherein the modified image includes the attribute based on the attribute value.
US12322010B2

A logo labeling method and device, an update method and system, and a storage medium are provided. The logo labeling method includes: acquiring a standard logo picture including a logo; based on the standard logo picture, determining transparency channel information to obtain a first logo picture; determining a circumscribed rectangle frame of the logo in the first logo picture based on the transparency channel information, and performing cutting processing on the first logo picture according to the circumscribed rectangle frame to obtain a second logo picture; performing data augmentation processing based on the second logo picture to obtain at least one third logo picture; and acquiring a background picture, determining pasting position information of the third logo picture in the background picture, and pasting the third logo picture on the background picture according to the pasting position information to obtain at least one logo labeling picture.
US12322008B2

This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses directed to defining a layout (100) and drawing elements for display by a graphical user interface (810) on a display screen (808) of a computing device (802). The process of laying out a drawing area occurs in floating point, but drawing occurs aligned to pixel boundaries of the display screen. Drawing may also occur relative to pixel offsets with respect to the display screen and the layout. This layout process occurs in floating point to avoid accumulating errors. However, drawing occurs pixel-aligned, optionally relative to pixel offsets, to improve visual results including the centering of nested layouts and sharp element edges.
US12322006B2

A media enhancement system includes an augmented reality (AR) device having a display, processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to monitor media content including a sequence of moving images displayed on a display screen separate from the AR device, receive playhead data indicating a playhead state of a media playout device playing out the media content, and detect, based on monitoring the media content, one or more image(s) in the sequence of moving images as one or more anchor image(s). The software code is further executed to obtain, using the anchor image(s), one or more AR effect(s) associated with the anchor image(s), and render, based on the playhead data, the AR effect(s) on the display of the AR device, wherein the AR effect(s) is/are spatially and temporally aligned with the sequence of moving images being displayed on the display screen.
US12321994B2

The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for generating a prescription plan for a region under cultivation, a system includes a first data acquisition device coupled to a first vehicle, a second data acquisition device coupled to a second vehicle and a controller. The first data acquisition device and the second data acquisition device collect information from a first portion and a second portion of a canopy structure present in the region under cultivation respectively. The collected information may include imagery information, sensory information and geo-positioning information. Based on the collected information, the controller identifies at least one event across at least one of the first portion and the second portion of the canopy structure. The controller further generates an event map and a remedy plan for the identified at least one event. Based on the event map and the remedy plan, the controller generates the prescription plan.
US12321988B2

According to some embodiments, an indication of a trade priced relative to a reference benchmark value (e.g., a trade at index close transaction) associated with an underlying index future may be received when a basis of the trade is agreed to by parties of the trade. Moreover, the indication may be received at least one day prior to a determination of a final price and quantity of the trade. The trade might create, according to some embodiments, any derivative, such as a future, an option, or a combination of put and call options. The trade may be reported and cleared, and it may then be arranged for the trade to physically settle into the underlying index future.
US12321982B2

Augmented reality content item templates may be used to generate augmented reality content items that are executable to display content corresponding to products offered for purchase to users of a client application. The augmented reality content item templates may include regions that may be populated according to information related to individual products. In this way an augmented reality content item template may be used to generate augmented reality content items that are customized based on the information about the individual products. The augmented reality content item templates may be classified according to a classification system such that augmented reality content item templates corresponding to a respective classification may be used to generate augmented reality content items for products that also correspond to the respective classification.
US12321972B2

An online concierge system generates an item graph connecting item nodes with attribute nodes of the items. When the online concierge system receives a search query to identify one or more items from a customer, the online concierge system parses the search query into combinations of terms and identifies item nodes and attribute nodes related to the search query. The online concierge system may determine that no item nodes meet presentation criteria. The online concierge system may determine that a reformulated search query has a higher conversion probability than the search query received from the customer. The online concierge system reformulates the search query. The online concierge system selects item nodes as search results. The online concierge system transmits the search results to the customer.
US12321958B2

This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems generate a knowledge graph to implement, process, and analyze digital surveys and digital survey data cross computer networks. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate and utilize a knowledge graph to determine and coordinate topic ontologies, store and access digital survey data, and generate digital benchmarks. For example, the disclosed systems generate a knowledge graph based on a predefined ontology of topics by connecting topic nodes via a plurality of edges. Additionally, the disclosed systems receive survey data associated with administering an electronic survey to respondent client devices. The disclosed systems extract topics from the survey data and determine connections between the survey data and the topic nodes in the knowledge graph. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate digital benchmarks between sets of data based on the relationships.
US12321948B2

A service provider computing system includes memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain a first set of complaint logs corresponding to one or more user complaints, each complaint log including a resolution comments field providing a textual representation of a resolution for a corresponding complaint log, parse the resolution comments field of each complaint log of the first set of complaint logs to identify one or more key terms, and execute a machine-learning predictive model using the one or more key terms to generate, for each complaint log, a prediction indicating whether a corresponding complaint should have compensation, the machine-learning predictive model being a supervised machine learning model configured to accept the parsed resolution comments field for the first set of complaint logs as inputs and to output the prediction for each complaint log.
US12321947B2

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing support cases of clients. The method may include obtaining a support case associated with a client of the clients; in response to obtaining the support case, obtaining contextual information associated with the support case; obtaining client telemetry data associated with the support case; selecting a portion of training data that is similar to the support case based on the client telemetry data, the contextual information, and the support case; generating a prediction model using the portion of the training data and a classification algorithm; and generating predictions using the prediction model, the client telemetry data, the contextual information, and the support case.
US12321946B2

A refund service providing method comprises: selecting, by a user terminal, at least one product to be refunded from among at least one ordered product; obtaining, from the user terminal, refund request information including image information regarding the product to be refunded, refund degree information, and refund comment information; obtaining, from a terminal in charge of refunds, refund determination information regarding the refund degree information, based on the image information and the comment information, wherein the refund determination information includes information indicating approval or rejection; obtaining, from a terminal in charge of refunds, refund determination information regarding the refund degree information, based on the image information and the comment information, wherein the refund determination information includes information indicating approval or rejection; and when the refund determination information includes the information indicating approval, providing, to the user terminal, the information indicating approval and points according to the refund degree information.
US12321943B2

An approach for locating suspect patterns of transactions in a financial network may be provided. The approach may include generating a transaction graph for a financial network by processing transaction data defining transfers between accounts in that network. The approach may include modifying the transaction graph to include synthetic suspect transaction patterns at multiple locations in the graph and extracting subgraphs from the transaction graph. The approach may include training a graph neural network model to classify subgraphs containing a synthetic suspect transaction pattern as suspect. The approach may also include locating suspect transaction patterns in a new financial network by generating a new transaction graph for that network and classifying a subgraph of the new financial network as suspect.
US12321939B2

Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework for facilitating electronic transactions by dynamically managing and sharing user data with multiple online platforms. As a user accesses one or more online platforms, a connect system that is integrated with the online platforms interacts with the user and obtain, from the user, user data that is usable for completing transactions between the user and the online platforms. The user data is stored in a user profile associated with the user and linked to an identifier of the user. When the user subsequently accesses an online platform, the connect system authenticates the user based on an identifier associated with the user, and share at least a portion of the user data stored in the user profile with the online platform to facilitate a transaction between the user and the online platform.
US12321936B2

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for a decentralized platform application programming interface protocol for secure resource transmissions. The invention provides a decentralized platform application programming interface protocol for secure resource transmission and tracing. The invention provides an authentication feature complied into a data JSON packet and embedded into a code configured non-fungible token (NFT) that is then transmitted to a user with a prompt command to open an encrypted URL associated with the NFT. Upon accessing the encrypted URL, the system triggers the sender to a decentralized platform application programming interface allowing for communication across the decentralized platform application programming interface to validate the data packets between each other for authentication and authorization. The system further stores the NFT generation and deployment on a distributed ledger. In this way, storing and tracking the movement of resources using a distributed ledger.
US12321935B2

A user scans a payment card while setting up an account on a merchant's website, or while completing a check out to purchase an item or service for the first time. The subject system stores signals from the card scan (e.g., device ID, verified card, location, last time scanned and used, etc.). The next time a transaction is requested for the card at another merchant, the subject system can reference the last data it has on the card. If the transaction is being requested from the same device or a reasonably close physical location within a reasonable timeframe, the subject system can be highly confident that this is a legitimate transaction, without requiring the customer to scan their payment card again.
US12321926B2

A system, method, and computer program product for authenticating a user for a transaction; generate an electronic wallet key pair including an electronic wallet public key and a corresponding electronic wallet secret key, the electronic wallet key pair associated with an electronic wallet transaction processing system; receive a payment gateway public key corresponding to a payment gateway secret key, the payment gateway public key and the payment gateway secret key associated with a payment gateway system; generate a public re-encryption key based on the payment gateway public key; communicate, to the payment gateway system, the public re-encryption key; receive or determine encrypted transaction data associated with a transaction, the encrypted transaction data including an account identifier encrypted with the electronic wallet public key; re-encrypt the encrypted transaction data with the public re-encryption key; and communicate, to the payment gateway system, the re-encrypted transaction data.
US12321925B1

A method performed by retailer computing system includes retrieving identification information for a customer and transmitting the identification information to an issuer computing system. The method includes receiving, from the issuer computing system, a pre-approval message indicating that the customer is pre-approved to open a payment account. The method includes receiving account registration information for opening the payment account from the customer and transmitting the account registration information to the issuer computing system. In response to establishing the payment account for the customer, a payment token for the payment account is automatically provisioned to a mobile wallet associated with the customer.
US12321923B2

Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for determining specific terms to activate a contactless card. An application executing on a server may receive a request from a device specifying a uniform resource locator comprising encrypted data, the encrypted data based at least in part on a private key assigned to a contactless card. The application may decrypt the encrypted data and determine a type of the contactless card. The application may determine a plurality of terms associated with the type of the contactless card and transmit the terms to a web browser on the device. The application may receive, from the web browser, an indication specifying acceptance of the plurality of terms. The application may store, based on the decryption of the encrypted data and the received indication specifying acceptance of the terms, an indication in a database specifying the contactless card is activated for use.
US12321901B2

A system for instructing a user on repairing a vehicle configured to (i) receive, from the user, a request to repair a vehicle, including information about the vehicle; (ii) present, to the user via a user computer device, a user interface to allow the user to search for a repair facility to repair the vehicle; (iii) receive, from the user via the user interface, a selection of a repair facility; (iv) determine whether the selected repair facility is a select service location, where a select service location is a pre-authorized repair facility; and (v) if the selected repair facility is a select service location, transfer the information about the vehicle to a computer device associated with the selected repair facility.
US12321897B2

An apparatus and method for generating a skill profile, the apparatus including at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive user data including a plurality of skillsets, receive reception feedback, retrieve network data utilizing a web crawler, generate a plurality of skillset summaries as a function of the user data and reception feedback, generate a skill summary bank including the plurality of skillset summaries, generate a performance score for each skillset summary in the skill summary bank, rank the plurality of skillsets summaries based on the performance score and network data, and generate a skill profile based on the ranked plurality of skillset summaries.
US12321890B2

Systems and techniques are provided for detecting gaze direction of subjects in an area of real space. The system receives a plurality of sequences of frames of corresponding fields of view in the real space. The system uses sequences of frames in a plurality of sequences of frames to identify locations of an identified subject and gaze directions of the subject in the area of real space over time. The system includes logic having access to a database identifying locations of items in the area of real space. The system identifies items in the area of real space matching the identified gaze directions of the identified subject.
US12321882B2

An apparatus for extended horizon scheduling that includes a time-sequence interpretation circuit, a target interpretation circuit, a horizon target analysis circuit, and a promotive action provisioning circuit. The time-sequence interpretation circuit interprets time-sequence data, the target interpretation circuit interprets target data, and the time-sequence trend analysis circuit extracts a trend from the time-sequence data. The horizon target analysis circuit: determines whether the extracted trend furthers or impedes a target defined, in part, by the target data, and responsive to a determination that the extracted trend impedes the target, generates a promotive action command value structured to trigger an adjustment to the time-sequence data. The adjustment is structured to mitigate the extracted trend from impeding the target. The promotive action provisioning circuit transmits the promotive action command value.
US12321869B2

A method for constructing and evaluating a statistical model includes receiving, by a data processing system, telematics data and insurance claims data for a population of drivers. A training dataset is generated based on the telematics data that includes values for a proxy variable derived from the telematics data, and values for one or more features derived from the telematics data. A testing dataset is generate based on the telematics data and the claims data that includes values for a target variable derived from the claims data, and values for the one or more features derived from the telematics data. A statistical model is generated using the training dataset, the statistical model configured to predict values of the proxy variable from values of the one or more features. The statistical model is validated using the testing dataset.
US12321865B2

Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. According to the techniques described herein, a sequential model may be trained using data of different modalities to be used for event recommendation or prediction for an entity or attendee of a future event. Encoders may be used to encode entity data and event data of different data types, and the encoded data may be used to generate vectors for input to a multimodal Transformer. A segment mask may be generated for each of a set of vectors corresponding to the entity and a set of vectors corresponding to an event sequence associated with the entity. The segment masks and sets of vectors may be used to generate embeddings to train the sequential model.
US12321864B2

An unsupervised multi-hop search across a corpus of documents in a database or other data resource permits the identification of relationships between two entities mentioned in the corpus in cases where the two entities are not co-mentioned within any documents in the corpus (or not mentioned within document(s) with sufficient frequency or proximity to infer the relationship). The search can employ a beam search algorithm anchored by word embeddings and an A* graph traversal to calculate semantic distance between the entities as different paths through the corpus for different entity co-mentions are evaluated.
US12321834B2

A central database system trains a machine-learned model based on training data identifying characteristics of account holder entities, characteristics of account provider entities, and relationships between the account holder entities and account provider entities. For a target entity, the central database system then identifies a target set of account provider entities, and applies the trained machine-learned model to identify a subset of the target set of account provider entities. The identified subset of account provider entities are entities that, if recommended to the target entity, are most likely to result in an established relationship with the target entity. A recommendation is then generated for display to the target entity, the recommendation identifying the subset of account provider entities and including interface elements that, if selected by the target entity, cause a notification identifying the target entity to be sent to a corresponding account provider entity.
US12321829B2

A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an interior event based on the interior activity data; sampling a second data stream within a second time window at a second sensor of the onboard vehicle system; extracting exterior activity data from the second image stream; determining an exterior event based on the exterior activity data; correlating the exterior event and the interior event to generate combined event data; automatically classifying the combined event data to generate an event label; and automatically labeling the first time window of the first data stream and the second time window of the second data stream with the combined event label to generate labeled event data.
US12321827B2

A method for the transfer learning of hyperparameters of a machine learning algorithm. The method includes providing a current search space and a previous search space. A reduced search space is then created and candidate configurations are drawn repeatedly at random from the reduced search space and from the current search space, and the machine learning algorithm, parameterized in each case with the candidate configurations, is applied. A Tree Parzen Estimator (TPE) is then created as a function of the candidate solutions and the results of the machine learning algorithm parameterized with the candidate configurations, and the drawing of further candidate configurations from the current search space using the TPE is repeated multiple times, the TPE being updated upon each drawing.
US12321824B1

In general, embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for pipelined machine learning. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform pipelined machine learning using at least one of error correction machine learning models and output augmentation machine learning models, for example using a pipelined implementation of error correction machine learning models followed by output augmentation machine learning models.
US12321820B2

A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message.
US12321812B1

Methods and systems for avoidance of unintended indicia scanning are disclosed herein. An example method may comprise: (1) illuminating, via a first illumination assembly, a predefined region; (2) illuminating, via a second illumination assembly, outside the predefined region, (3) capturing, via an imaging assembly, image data taken over a field of view (FOV), the FOV partially overlapping first illumination light projected from the first illumination assembly and second illumination light from the second illumination assembly; (4) analyzing, via a controller, the image data; (5) causing, when an object is determined to appear within a working range of the at least one FOV and is illuminated with the second illumination light, the indicia reader to operate pursuant to a first set of operating parameters; and (6) causing, when the object is determined to appear within a working range of the at least one FOV and is not illuminated with the second illumination light, the indicia reader to operate pursuant to a second set of operating parameters.
US12321809B2

A communication device includes a central processing unit (CPU); a non-transitory memory; and an RFID application stored on the non-transitory memory and comprising executable instructions that when executed by the CPU, cause the communication device to be configured to provide the communication device in an environment; receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an RFID reader at a plurality of locations in the industrial environment, wherein the RF signal comprises a frequency in the cellular frequency range; determine a receive signal strength (RSS) of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; determine the RSS of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; and generate a map of an RFID read zone in the industrial environment based on the RSS of the RF signal at the plurality of locations.
US12321803B2

A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes an inlay; a magnetic sheet laminated on an attachment object side of the inlay; and a spacer layer disposed between the magnetic sheet and the attachment object. The inlay includes an IC chip configured to store identification information, a loop conductor connected to the IC chip, and an antenna unit connected to the loop conductor.
US12321800B2

A switchable radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag device comprising: a first RFID module positioned on a first plane; at least one un-tuned antenna section positioned on a second plane, wherein the first plane is positioned parallel to the second plane; a second RFID module positioned on the first plane; a third RFID module positioned on the first plane; and a sliding mechanism configured to move between a first position, a second position, and a third position; and wherein, in the first position, the first RFID module is coupled to the at least one un-tuned antenna section to form a tuned RFID tag, and the second and third RFID modules are detuned and/or inoperable; and in the second position, the second RFID module is coupled to the at least one un-tuned antenna section to form a tuned RFID tag, and the first RFID module and third RFID module are detuned and/or inoperable; and in the third position, the third RFID module is coupled to the at least one un-tuned antenna section to form a tuned RFID tag, and the first and second RFID modules are detuned and/or inoperable.
US12321795B1

A computing device configured to manage one or more computing devices of an enterprise is disclosed. The computing device includes a transceiver, a memory, and a processor. The memory may include instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to provide a user interface comprising one or more data objects, receive a command via the user interface, validate the command, prepare a script based on the command, the script comprising computer-readable instructions configured to be executed by one or more remote servers, schedule the script to be executed by the one or more remote servers, and receive a result from the one or more remote servers. The script is configured to implement the command on the one or more remote servers in order to facilitate the management of the processing system of the enterprise.
US12321786B2

A process includes determining a first degree of throttling to apply to a polling of hardware devices by a hardware processor based on a historical total utilization of the hardware processor; and determining a second degree of throttling to apply to the polling of hardware devices by the hardware processor based on a historical polling utilization of the hardware processor. The hardware processor includes, responsive to an upcoming hardware device polling cycle for the hardware processor and based on the first degree of throttling and the second degree of throttling, regulating whether the hardware processor bypasses the hardware device polling cycle or executes the hardware device polling cycle.
US12321773B1

A system for providing a safety critical operating environment container architecture, the system including a computing device having a memory communicatively connected to at least one multi-core processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processer to receive at least a software module to be executed on the at least one multi-core processor, create a separate virtual environment for the at least a software module, wherein creating the virtual environment further includes generating a virtualization layer and allocating a dedicated private static memory space through the virtualization layer, wherein the separate virtual environment includes a dedicated operating system, integrate the at least a software module into the virtual environment by instantiating, the software module into at least one software container, wherein the at least one software container includes a plurality of dedicated software packages and execute the software module on each software container for each virtual environment.
US12321771B2

In a cluster of network devices using a consensus protocol for cluster synchronization, a full software rollback is performed by backing up a cluster state on a primary instance for the cluster, and then restarting all devices at the same time from a prior partition. The primary instance can then start a cluster management service and other devices can join the cluster using the consensus state stored by the primary instance.
US12321770B2

A method, a device, and a computer program product for resource scheduling is disclosed. The method includes determining a job initiated by a virtual machine. The job requests to invoke at least one virtual function in a set of virtual functions associated with the virtual machine and each virtual function in the set of virtual functions is configured to utilize an accelerator resource to provide a single type of acceleration service. The method further includes determining, based on a job type of the job, a first accelerator resource allocated to the at least one virtual function. The accelerator resources required by the virtual functions invoked by the job may then be guaranteed, improving the execution efficiency of the job.
US12321764B1

A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a user indication to start a teaching mode in which the user can teach an instance of a process; configuring the computing device to start the teaching mode in response to receiving the indication; capturing, when in the teaching mode, first information corresponding to a first stream of events captured by the computing device during performance of a first plurality of actions by the user when interacting with the computing device to perform the process; generating, using the first information, a first visualization of at least some of the first plurality of actions; and displaying the first visualization on a graphical user interface of the computing device.
US12321744B1

A computer-implemented method for hardware gather optimization can include identifying, by at least one processor, one or more gather instructions that retrieve data from contiguous memory locations. The method can additionally include converting, by the at least one processor, the one or more gather instructions into one or more strided load instructions in response to the identification. The method can also include loading, by the at least one processor, data retrieved using the one or more strided load instructions into one or more vector registers. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12321742B2

A monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a network device that is a management target of a device management service, wherein software is executed that operates in different operation modes according to a usage format, compares a version of a license agreement related to the update and linked to the current usage format for the monitoring apparatus with the current version of the license agreement in the case in which an update related to the software is necessary, and in the case in which the versions are the same, performs the update related to the software.
US12321738B2

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to importing software container images, where an image importer that may import a very large number of container images into local repositories from one or more upstream repositories to an enterprise container platform. An associated computing cluster executes containers (for example, applications and operators) based on the imported container images. Each release (version) of a product supported by the enterprise container platform may require importing newer image sets with respect to the current version. With one aspect, an image importer maintains an image list for container images of the current version, where only missing newer container images for a newer version are added to the list. Only the missing container images for the new version are imported to the enterprise container platform. This approach circumvents importing previously imported container and/or available newer images, thus reducing the amount of imported data from upstream repositories.
US12321737B1

Methods and apparatuses for automating software application infrastructure deployment in a cloud computing environment include defining hierarchical infrastructure layers for a software application, generating a deployment pipeline for the software application comprising pre-coded resource configuration modules, and triggering execution of the deployment pipeline to deploy the software application in the cloud computing environment.
US12321732B2

In a computer system, an orchestration platform includes extensible components that interact with external systems and technology. The platform extension deploys a surrogate component or probe that acts as a bridge between the core platform and the extension technology.
US12321726B2

A server may receive from a software development kit (SDK) a channel identifier that represents an in-application communication channel of a software application that imports the SDK as part of the software application. In some cases, the software application is developed by a message publisher and the SDK is developed by the message management server. The server receives configuration data describing an in-application user interface (UI) element for display by the software application, the configuration data including a trigger condition for displaying the in-application UI element. The server transmits a message to the SDK via the in-application communication channel. The message includes the trigger condition from the configuration data for the in-application UI element. In response to the SDK determining that the trigger condition is satisfied, the server provides additional configuration data from the configuration data for the in-application UI element to the SDK.
US12321718B2

The present disclosure provides computing apparatuses, methods and software for generating random numbers. Data is received from an instrument characterising macromolecules in a sample, the data including measurement event information relating to measurements of individual macromolecules recorded over time. For each measurement event in a sequence of measurement events in the data, an event timing representative of the duration of event or the time passing between consecutive events is determined. This is compared with a comparator value to generate a binary output, and a bit value is determined based on the binary output. Data representative of a random number is generated by assembling a vector of bit values determined from the event timings in sequence. The determined sequence of event timings for the sequence of measurement events represents a source of entropy extracted by the comparison step to generate the random number.
US12321708B2

An embodiment includes generating an intent representative of a verb identified in application programming interface (API) test data associated with an API test case. The embodiment also generates a first entity representative of a first noun identified in the API test data and a second entity representative of a second noun identified in the API test data. The embodiment identifies the intent as being associated with a relationship between the first and second entities in the API test case. The embodiment generates a relationship model associated with the API test case, where the relationship model includes the intent as the relationship between the first entity and the second entity. The embodiment generates a conversation model of an artificial intelligence (AI) conversation agent by mapping the intent and the first and second entities to dialog nodes of the conversation model.
US12321705B2

A CPU of a training data creation apparatus includes an extraction unit, a derivation unit, and a creation unit. The extraction unit extracts a plurality of unique expressions that are specific term phrases from a medical document. The derivation unit derives a degree of association indicating a degree of association among the plurality of unique expressions. The creation unit selects a target term phrase that is a term phrase as a target to be masked.
US12321682B2

A method includes: identifying a first design rule check (DRC) violation in a cluster box on an integrated circuit layout; locating a first target cell at a first original location in the cluster box, the first target cell being connected to the first DRC violation; detecting a first plurality of candidate locations for the first target cell in the cluster box; calculating resource costs associated with the first plurality of candidate locations; determining a first relocation location, among the first plurality of candidate locations, associated with a minimum resource cost for the first target cell; and relocating the first target cell from the first original location to the first relocation location.
US12321676B2

The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for analyzing integrated circuits. The method includes performing a first resistor capacitor (RC) extraction process on a power-receiving circuit and producing a first RC model. The method also includes scanning a netlist of a power distribution network, the power distribution network electrically connected to the power-receiving circuit. The method further includes determining a selection of circuit elements of the power distribution network based on a predetermined criteria. The method further includes performing a second RC extraction process on the selection of circuit elements and producing a second RC model. The method further includes performing a simulation process on the power-receiving circuit and the power distribution network using the first and second RC models.
US12321662B2

Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a group of playback devices communicating over a first network to play audio content received via second network.
US12321653B2

A control device used for controlling a display of a medical image sequence on a display device may be provided. The control device may include a touch control panel. The touch control panel may include a plurality of predetermined regions corresponding to a plurality of gesture instructions. The control device may be configured to receive a target gesture instruction with respect to a target predetermined region among the plurality of predetermined regions. In response to the target gesture instruction, the control device may be configured to generate a control signal for controlling the display device to perform a target operation on the medical image sequence based on a corresponding relationship between the plurality of gesture instructions and a plurality of operations of the display device.
US12321651B2

An information processing apparatus generates print data for causing a printer that can execute a cloud print service to execute printing. The information processing apparatus obtains cost information for when printing is executed based on the generated print data and obtains limitation information related to cost and held in the cloud print service. The information processing apparatus determines whether to execute printing according to the cloud print service based on the cost information and the limitation information and controls transmission of the generated print data to the cloud print service based on a result of that determining.
US12321639B2

An SSD includes an MRAM, an NAND memory, and an SSD controller. The SSD controller is configured to receive first data from a host machine, save the first data to an SSD data buffer, fetch the first data from the SSD data buffer and write the first data to the MRAM via the MRAM controller, determine, by the data allocation circuit based on a characteristic of the first data, whether to save the first data to the MRAM or the NAND memory, and in response to determining saving the first data to the NAND memory, read the first data from the MRAM, write the first data to the NAND memory, and erase the first data from the MRAM.
US12321635B2

A method for accessing a solid state disk and a storage device are provided. The storage device includes a network interface card, a memory, and a solid state disk, the network interface card receives to-be-written data and a write command, where the write command instructs to write the to-be-written data to the solid state disk; the network interface card writes the to-be-written data to the memory, and writes the write command to a submission queue of the solid state disk. Then, the network interface card notifies the solid state disk that there is a to-be-executed command in the submission queue of the solid state disk, where the to-be-executed command is the write command. The solid state disk obtains the to-be-written data from the memory and writes the to-be-written data to a medium of the solid state disk according to the write command.
US12321630B2

A storage device including: a nonvolatile memory which includes a first memory block configured to store a first user data; and a controller configured to perform a patrol read on the first user data, wherein the controller is configured to increase a reclaim count for the first user data, when the first user data requires a reclaim, the controller is configured to determine that the first user data is a cold data, when the reclaim count for the first user data is greater than a reclaim threshold value, the controller is configured to perform a first reclaim on the first user data when the first user data is determined to be the cold data, and the nonvolatile memory is configured to store the first user data in a second memory block different from the first memory block in response to the first reclaim.
US12321629B2

According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory with a plurality of blocks. The minimum unit of a data erasing operation in the memory system is a block. A controller is electrically connected to the non-volatile memory and configured to execute, in response to a first command from a host requesting a secure erase of secure erase target data stored in a first logical area identified by a first logical area identifier, a copy operation copying valid data other than any secure erase target data from one or more first blocks of the plurality in which the secure erase target data is stored to one or more copy destination blocks of the plurality. The controller executes the data erasing operation on the one or more first blocks after the copy operation.
US12321624B1

A data storage device includes a write abort prediction system that monitors a number of write aborts that occur over a monitoring period. The write abort prediction system uses the monitored number of write aborts to predict or determine a probability regarding whether one or more write aborts will occur over another monitoring period. If the probability is over a write abort threshold, the write abort prediction system determines an operating state of the data storage device. Depending on the operating state of the data storage device and the determined probability, the write abort prediction system determines whether to alter the functionality of the data storage device. Altering the functionality of the data storage device reduces the risk that the data storage device will enter a read-only mode should one or more write aborts occur during execution of various commands.
US12321622B2

Initialization of a memory can have different phases, first initializing a portion of memory for BIOS (basic input/output system) and initializing other portions of memory while the BIOS is operating. The initialization of the memory can be performed by the error scrub engine. In a first mode of operation, the scrub engine can initialize memory locations, then transition to performing scrub operations.
US12321620B2

Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for memory zone size adjustment are described. A memory system may dynamically update the size of a stale zone configured to store data written during a write burst or write booster mode. The stale zone may be part of a first block of memory cells, and may retain data during a transfer operation, such as flush operation. The size of the stale zone may be updated in response to the memory system receiving a command, such as an unmap command. The size of the stale zone may be determined based on an available zone size, an amount of data indicated in the command, an amount of data indicated in the command that has been transferred to a second block of memory cells, or a combination thereof.
US12321614B1

RDF/QAR bandwidth reduction is a GDDR feature that allows for separate synchronous-only RDF groups from sites DC1→DC2 to be included in the QAR consistency group definition without RDF/A protection. The devices in these sync-only RDF groups form perfect quadruplets like regular QAR devices, but the RDF groups from sites DC1→DC3 and DC2→DC4 are not included in QAR-A and QAR-B Multi Session Consistency group definitions. Instead, these sync-only pairing RDF groups are replicated to the secondary region using ADCOPY-DISK mode or not replicating at all (suspended). The sync-only devices have no QAR recovery capability from sites DC3→DC4, but device pairing from DC3→DC4 is present via sync-only RDF groups.
US12321609B2

An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may comprise one or more substrates, and circuitry coupled to the one or more substrates, the circuitry to track transactions that access a first memory level of a multi-level memory, control access to at least the first memory level of the multi-level memory, and control a roll back of at least the first memory level of the multi-level memory based on the tracked transactions. In another embodiment, the circuitry is to control a roll back of a multi-level memory in response to a request to roll back the multi-level memory. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12321607B2

A memory device is provided. The memory device includes channel layers, word lines, memory layers disposed between the channel layers and the word lines, and memory cells defined at cross-points of the channel layers and the word lines. The memory device is configured for performing a first operation for m times and a second operation for n times, and m is equal to or larger than n. In the first operation, a first electric field is produced in a portion of the memory layers. The word lines are configured for producing a second electric field in the second operation in the portion of the memory layers, and a field direction of the second electric field is different from a field direction of the first electric field.
US12321598B2

A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a cell unit including a first and a second selection gate transistor and a memory string provided between the first and second selection gate transistors and composed of a plurality of serially connected electrically erasable programmable memory cells operative to store effective data; and a data write circuit operative to write data into the memory cell, wherein the number of program stages for at least one of memory cells on both ends of the memory string is lower than the number of program stages for other memory cells, and the data write circuit executes the first stage program to the memory cell having the number of program stages lower than the number of program stages for the other memory cells after the first stage program to the other memory cells.
US12321590B2

An electronic device displays a user interface for a first application, including video that is playing in the first application. While displaying the user interface for the first application and while the video continues to play in the first application, the electronic device detects a sture that includes movement, and in response: in accordance with a determination that movement of the gesture meets first criteria, the electronic device displays an application switching user interface, including concurrently displaying a first representation of the first application that includes a first representation of the video, and a representation of a second application, different from the first application; and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the gesture meets second criteria, different from the first criteria, the electronic device concurrently displays a second representation of the video with at least a portion of a home screen of the electronic device.
US12321576B1

An apparatus and method for determining a command queue as a function of sensor data of a transportation device. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive dynamic telemetry data from the at least a sensor of the transportation device, generate a plurality of predefined factors as a function of a user profile, generate an assessment model configured to analyze the dynamic telemetry data, wherein analyzing the dynamic telemetry data comprises comparing the dynamic telemetry data to the plurality of predefined factors and calculating a safety score based on a comparison of the dynamic telemetry data to the plurality of predefined factors, display, using a downstream device, a command queue comprising one or more of the plurality of predefined factors as a function of the safety score.
US12321571B2

A search engine determines a number of pages to present to a user based on one or more of a variety of factors. The search engine may send the search results to a client machine, which may present a subset of the results along with a pagination control in a scrollable interface. The pagination control may present the number of pages determined by the search engine. The search engine may also determine a number of search results to present prior to the presentation of non-scrollable user interface (UI) elements based on the same or different factors. After the amount of scrolling exceeds a threshold, a non-scrollable UI element may be displayed. Additional thresholds may exist, such that additional non-scrollable UI elements are added as the user continues to scroll.
US12321570B2

An electronic device provides, to a display, while in a screensaver mode, data to present a first media, that includes a first visual motion effect. In response to receiving a user input on a remote user input device, a type of the user input on the remote user input device is determined. If the user input is of a first type, the device provides, to the display, data to present the first media, that includes the first visual motion effect, with corresponding descriptive text. If the user input is of a second type, the device exits the screensaver mode.
US12321560B2

A fingerprint imaging device incorporating a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes and drive-sense circuitry. The first plurality of electrodes and the second plurality of electrodes are separated by a dielectric material and arranged in a crossing pattern in a sensing area. In an embodiment, each of the drive-sense circuits is configured to drive a sensor signal on an electrode of the first plurality or second plurality of electrodes, the sensor signal including a drive signal component and a receive signal component. Each of the drive-sense circuits is further configured to generate, based on the receive signal component, a sensed signal representative of at least a first impedance of the electrode. For at least some of the drive-sense circuits, the sensed signal further represents a second impedance of the electrode in accordance with a drive signal component from a differing electrode. A processing module of the device is configured to process the sensed signals to detect a finger touch to the sensing area and generate a digital representation/capacitive image of a fingerprint corresponding to the finger touch.
US12321557B2

An input sensing part includes a first sensing electrode. A second sensing electrode is electrically insulated from the first sensing electrode and crosses the first sensing electrode. A first-1 pen sensing electrode is adjacent to the first sensing electrode, is electrically insulated from the second sensing electrode, and crosses the second sensing electrode. A second-1 pen sensing electrode is adjacent to the second sensing electrode, is electrically insulated from the first sensing electrode and the first-1 pen sensing electrode, and crosses the first sensing electrode and the first-1 pen sensing electrode. A first-2 pen sensing electrode is disposed on a layer that is different from that on which the first sensing electrode and the first-1 pen sensing electrode are disposed, and overlaps a portion of the first sensing electrode, a plan view.
US12321556B1

Disclosed herein is a touch sensor panel that includes a substrate that includes a bending portion, and a plurality of electrodes formed in a first layer on a first surface of the substrate, the plurality of electrodes forming first electrodes and second electrodes and the plurality of electrodes defining an active area for touch sensing. The touch sensor panel further includes a plurality of routing traces formed in the first layer on the first surface of the substrate in a border area outside the active area and formed from the first material (copper), a plurality of bridges formed in a second layer, the plurality of bridges connecting groups of the plurality of electrodes to form the first electrodes and formed from a second material (silver), and sensing circuitry connected to the substrate and to the plurality of routing traces at a location after the bending portion.
US12321553B2

An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode includes a first boundary side extending in a direction. The second electrode includes a second boundary side extending in the direction. The third electrode is disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrode and the second electrode. The third electrode includes a first side facing the first boundary side and a second side facing the second boundary. The first side and the second side have shapes that are asymmetric to each other with respect to a center axis extending in the direction.
US12321541B2

A touch pad device includes a base unit, a touch unit and a resilient unit. The base unit includes a bottom plate and a supporting member disposed on the bottom plate. The touch unit includes a touch pad, a circuit board connected to the touch pad, and a switch button disposed the circuit board. The switch button corresponds in position to the supporting member. The resilient unit is disposed between the bottom plate and the circuit board, and includes a resilient plate connected to the bottom plate, and a reinforcing frame connected between the resilient plate and the circuit board. The resilient plate has two resilient piece portions, and an abutment portion connected to the resilient piece portions and supported by the supporting member. The abutment portion is positioned between the switch button and the supporting member. The reinforcing frame is connected to the resilient piece portions.
US12321537B1

A mouse device includes a casing and a roller module. The roller module is disposed within the casing. The roller module includes a scroll wheel, a supporting seat, a magnetic ratchet and a permanent magnet. The supporting seat includes a first support part and a second support part. The magnetic ratchet is arranged between the scroll wheel and the first support part of the supporting seat. As the scroll wheel is rotated, the magnetic ratchet is correspondingly rotated. The magnetic ratchet includes plural tooth structures. The permanent magnet is installed on the first support part of the supporting seat. The permanent magnet is aligned with one of the plural tooth structures of the magnetic ratchet. While the magnetic ratchet is rotated with the scroll wheel, a magnetic attractive force between the plural tooth structures and the at least one permanent magnet is generated.
US12321535B2

In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a pose of a device held by or attached to a hand of a user based on sensor data captured by the device. The system may determine a pose of a headset worn by the user based on sensor data captured by the headset. The system may determine positions of a first set of keypoints associated with a first portion of a body of the user based on (1) one or more first images captured by one or more cameras of the device, (2) the pose of the device, (3) one or more second images captured by one or more cameras of the headset and (4) the pose of the headset. The system may determine a body pose of the user based at least on the positions of the first set of keypoints.
US12321533B1

A handset device controls a vehicle entertainment system. The handset device includes an interface configured to communicate control signaling to the entertainment system, user selectable interface elements, light devices arranged to form light zones providing backlighting to corresponding groups of one or more of the user selectable interface elements, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to respond to user selections among the user selectable interface elements by triggering corresponding control signaling to be communicated through the interface. The controller circuitry determines a lighting setting to select one of the light zones to activate to backlight the corresponding group of the one or more of the user selectable interface elements, and controls power flow to at least one light device in the selected light zone based on the light setting to backlight the corresponding group of the one or more of the user selectable interface elements.
US12321532B2

A system for end-device modulation by a hybrid trigger comprising at least one end-device (E-D) in communication with at least a first device (D1) outputting audio/video (a/v) programming; a processor; a memory element coupled to the processor; a program executable by the processor to: position a virtual representation of the E-D on a digital canvas displayed on a D1-coupled display representing a user's physical and virtual space; and capture from a corresponding region of the virtual space for modulating an effect on a corresponding portion of the canvas-positioned E-D based on a combination of at least two different triggers recognizing at least one of an a/v element or a/v event from the a/v program.
US12321531B2

A keyboard assembly includes a keyboard body and a drive mechanism. The keyboard body includes a frame assembly and keys. The keys are arranged in a plurality of rows in parallel, each row of keys include a plurality of keys, and the keys are located in key slots on the keyboard body. The frame assembly includes a first frame and a crossbar, and the drive mechanism drives the first frame to move in an arrangement direction of the plurality of rows of keys. One crossbar is correspondingly disposed for each row of keys, the crossbar moves, along with movement of the first frame, in an arrangement direction of each row of keys, and the keys move, along with movement of the crossbar, in a direction toward the key slots or in a direction of exposing the key slots.
US12321529B2

One variation of a system for a haptic actuator includes: a substrate; a baseplate; a magnetic element; and a set of spacer elements. The substrate includes: a first layer including a first spiral trace coiled in a first direction; and a second layer. The second layer is arranged below the first layer and includes a second spiral trace: coiled in a second direction opposite the first direction; and coupled to the first spiral trace to form an inductor. The substrate further includes terminals arranged about a periphery of the substrate and coupled to the inductor. The baseplate is arranged opposite the substrate. The magnetic element is: arranged on the baseplate; and defines a first polarity facing the inductor. The first set of spacer elements are: interposed between the baseplate and the substrate; arranged proximal edges of the baseplate; and defines a nominal gap between the magnetic element and the inductor.
US12321526B2

A wearable electronic device, including a display, a camera, at least one sensor, memory, and at least one processor configured to: based on receiving, through the camera, a first user input for executing the workspace corresponding to a first space, stored in the memory, in a second space different from the first space, obtain spatial information about the second space using the at least one sensor, wherein the workspace includes at least one virtual objects, and display the at least one virtual object on the display, based on the spatial information about the second space.
US12321517B2

The present disclosure relates to a wearable electronic controller for remotely controlling an external electronic device. The controller comprises a body configured to fit on a human finger, and a multi-directional switch. The multi-directional switch comprises: a lever that extends outwardly from an outer surface of the body, and a control unit configured generate input signals in response to manipulation of the lever. The controller further comprises circuitry configured to generate command signals based on the input signals, and to wirelessly transmit the command signals to the external electronic device, wherein the generated command signals are for causing respective actions to be performed at the external electronic device.
US12321515B2

Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for displaying and interacting with a representation of a user interface of an electronic device in a three-dimensional environment. While presenting a first user interface, a first electronic device presents a representation of a second user interface of a second electronic device based on display data representing the second user interface. In response to detecting a respective event corresponding to user input, if a gaze of a user of the first electronic device is directed to the representation of the second user interface, the first electronic device causes the second electronic device to perform a first operation directed to the second user interface based on the respective event. Alternatively, if the gaze is directed to the first user interface, the first electronic device performs a second operation directed to the first user interface based on the respective event.
US12321513B2

The present disclosure provides a body-part tracking device and a body-part tracking method. The body-part tracking device includes a first electronic component and a first antenna element. The first antenna element is electrically connected to the first electronic component and configured to receive a first wave. The first electronic component is configured to, in response to the first wave, transmit a second wave.
US12321502B2

A buffer integrated circuit (IC) chip is disclosed. The buffer IC chip includes host interface circuitry to receive a request from at least one host. The request includes at least one command to access a memory. Memory interface circuitry couples to the memory. Message authentication circuitry performs a verification operation on the received request. Selective containment circuitry, during a containment mode of operation, (1) inhibits changes to the memory in response to the at least one command until completion of the verification operation, and (2) during performance of the verification operation, carries out at least one non-memory modifying sub-operation associated with the at least one command.
US12321500B2

A method that includes providing a database for storing meta-data that describes steps in a workflow and an order of the steps in the workflow. The meta-data includes, for each of the steps: a reference to an input data file for the step; a description of a transaction performed at the step; and a reference to an output data file generated by the step based at least in part on applying the transaction to the input data file. Data that includes meta-data for a step in the workflow is received and the data is stored in the database. A trace of the workflow is generated based at least in part on contents of the database. The generating is based on receiving a request from a requestor for the trace of the workflow. At least a subset of the trace is output to the requestor.
US12321493B2

A computer-implemented method is provided for interactive communication of a user device with a server, the method including: providing, on the user device, a notification to a user of the user device; acquiring reaction data indicative of a reaction of the user to the notification; and determining, based on the acquired reaction data, a sentiment score for transmission to the server, in which the sentiment score is indicative of a sentiment of the user in reaction to the notification. A nontransitory computer-readable storage medium, an a user device for interactive communication with a server, are also provided.
US12321492B2

Mechanisms are provided to minimize personally identifiable information (PII) in an electronic document. An iterative personally identifiable information minimization (IPIIM) engine receives an electronic document comprising natural language content having a mention of a protected entity and obfuscates the mention of the protected entity to thereby generate a minimized natural language content. A question answering system processes the minimized natural language content to generate a listing of candidate answers and corresponding confidence scores and the IPIIM engine determines whether or not the minimized natural language content is sufficiently obfuscated based on the listing of candidate answers and corresponding confidence scores. In response to determining that the minimized natural language content is sufficiently obfuscated, the minimized natural language content is provided for processing by a requestor computing device.
US12321488B2

Methods and systems for managing access to data stored in data storage systems are disclosed. To prevent malicious parties from gaining access to sensitive data stored in a data storage system, an access control system may be implemented. The access control system may include a registration process that assigns cryptographic key pairs to registered combinations of users and devices. The combinations may include an end device, a user of the end device, and an auxiliary device associated with the end device (e.g., a display device). When an end device requests sensitive data, the requesting device (e.g., end device), an associated user, and an associated display device may be authenticated using the key pairs generated during registration. The sensitive data may be encrypted pre-transit using device-specific encryption (e.g., using a public key of the display device) to protect sensitive data from malicious parties that may gain access to the end device.
US12321476B2

A system for validating a response based on context information receives a first message that indicates that a data object is removed from a memory resource via a third party device without authorization by a user. The system communicates a second response that indicates whether a third party confirms the removal of the data object without the authorization by the user to the third party device. The system receives a response from the third party device. The system extracts context information from the response. The system determines whether the response is valid based on the context information. In response to determining that the response is valid, the system recommends one or more actions to be performed with respect to the memory resource.
US12321474B2

A technique for managing data objects in a storage cluster includes splitting a media data object into multiple portions at boundaries within the media data object. The technique further includes transforming the portions of the media data object into segments that provide individually processable units and distributing the segments among multiple computing nodes of the storage cluster for storage therein.
US12321470B2

A first computer, in data registration processing: determines a type of biometric information for encryption with which the data is to be encrypted; acquires the determined type of biometric information for encryption from a user of the first computer; generates, from each piece of the acquired biometric information for encryption, a public key based on a predetermined algorithm; transmits the public key to a second computer; and transmits the data encrypted with the public key to the third computer, the first computer, in data presentation processing: acquires the encrypted data from a third computer; acquires the determined type of biometric information for decryption from the user of the first computer; generates, from each piece of the acquired biometric information for decryption, a private key based on the predetermined algorithm; decrypts the encrypted data with use of the private key; and presents each piece of the decrypted registered data.
US12321459B2

An information handling system includes a memory and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The memory stores a secure boot policy for multiple input/output (I/O) devices in the information handling system. The BMC extracts a new firmware hash value from a firmware update package. The new firmware hash value is associated with a new firmware image of a first I/O device of the I/O devices. The BMC performs a firmware update for the first I/O device. In response to the firmware update being successfully completed, the BMC replaces an old firmware hash value with the new firmware hash value in the secure boot policy.
US12321457B2

A trusted container management system provides process supervision, such as for software or other executable processes. In an embodiment, a particular edge controller can include a Rich Execution Environment (REE) and a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). In an example, an application executes in a container of the REE and generates communication data and a signature identifier. A DeftT publication is generated and includes the communication data. An untrusted validator in the REE evaluates the DeftT publication according to a trust rule associated with the communication data and publishes the DeftT publication. A secure validator executing in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) further evaluates the DeftT publication. The further evaluation can include subscribing to the certificate identified by the signature identifier, determining the public key and the role of the certificate, and validating the DeftT publication based on the public key. The further evaluation can further include subscribing to a particular trust rule.
US12321454B1

A method includes obtaining a command captured at a computing device to start a process on the computing device submitted via a command line interface. The command is of a plurality of commands captured at respective computing devices that triggered respective alerts to review the plurality of commands. The method includes parsing the command to generate a plurality of tokens that represent the command according to dictionary of features of commands submitted via the command line interface, generating a feature vector based, at least in part, on the plurality of tokens, applying a classification model, trained on other commands submitted via the command line interface to predict benign commands, to the feature vector to determine a score indicative of a probability that the command is benign, and, responsive to a determination that the score is above a confidence threshold, removing the command from the plurality of commands to be reviewed.
US12321445B2

A method with biometric information spoof detection includes extracting an embedding vector from an intermediate layer of a neural network configured to detect whether biometric information of a user is spoofed from an image including the biometric information; detecting first information regarding whether the biometric information is spoofed, based on the embedding vector; and detecting second information regarding whether the biometric information is spoofed based on whether the first information is detected, using an output vector output from an output layer of the neural network.
US12321441B2

An authentication apparatus that performs authentication of a client terminal by challenge-response authentication, the authentication apparatus includes one or more computers each including a memory and a processor configured to: receive a challenge request from the client terminal; generate a challenge as to the challenge request; and transmit the challenge to the client terminal. The memory and the processor are configured to generate the challenge by one generating method out of a fixed generating method in which a challenge of a fixed value is generated, and a random generating method in which a challenge of a random value is generated, in accordance with a state of the authentication apparatus.
US12321431B2

Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement face authentication anti-spoofing using ultrasound. In particular, a face-authentication system uses ultrasound to distinguish between a real human face and a presentation attack that uses instruments to present a version of a human face. The face-authentication system includes or communicates with an ultrasonic sensor, which can detect a presentation attack and notify the face-authentication system. In general, the ultrasonic sensor analyzes characteristics of a presented object and determines whether the object represents a human face or a presentation attack instrument. In this way, the ultrasonic sensor can prevent unauthorized actors from using the presentation attack to gain access to a user's account or information.
US12321418B2

Embodiments described herein embodiments described herein provide Contrastive Attention-Supervised Tuning (CAST), a training method to fix the visual grounding ability of contrastive SSL methods based on a data augmentation strategy using unsupervised saliency maps. In addition to the contrastive loss that encourages the model to pick the crop that comes from the corresponding image, CAST provides an explicit grounding supervision through a Grad-CAM based attention loss that enforces models to look at the specified object of interest that is common across different crops when making this decision. A new geometric transform is introduced for randomly cropping different views from an input image based on certain constraints derived from a saliency map.
US12321413B2

Systems and methods for matching media items of a first type to media items of a second type are provided. A data store comprising first media items of a first type is accessed. A first media item of the first media items is associated with a first media item characteristic. A second media item of a second type is identified. The second media item includes a second media item characteristic. A matching first media item of the first media items that matches the second media item is determined based on the first media item characteristic and the second media item characteristic. Ranking of the second media item or the matching first media item is adjusted to reflect the correspondence between the second media item and the matching first media item. Information associated with the matching first media item is provided to a first user device based on the adjusted ranking.
US12321409B2

A URL categorization query is received. The URL categorization query includes at least one URL. The URL is used to determine a set of data distribution keys. A distributed key-value data store is queried using at least one data distribution key included in the determined set of data distribution keys. Categorization information is returned. The returned URL categorization information can be used to enforce policies.
US12321400B2

The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.
US12321384B2

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for video moment retrieval performed by a computing device may include obtaining a pair of video and query to perform the video moment retrieval, determining based on meaning of the query whether a retrieval bias regarding the query has a positive effect on the video moment retrieval, and selectively removing the retrieval bias from a result of the video moment retrieval according to the determination result to generate a final retrieval result.
US12321383B2

Systems and methods for surfacing natural language queries from one or more transcripts. An example method may include converting received audio to text, through automated speech recognition, to form a transcript of the audio, wherein the transcript includes text of the audio and identifications of speakers associated with portions of the text corresponding to utterances from the respective speakers; generating input signals based on at least the transcript; executing at least one of one or more heuristics or a trained machine-learning (ML) model, using the generated input signals as an input, to generate at least one of a suggested natural language query for searching the transcript or a key moment within the received audio; and causing at least one of the suggested natural language query or the key moment to be surfaced on one or more remote devices.
US12321376B2

System and methods for managing a clauses database for use with creating electronic documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for updating a database includes receiving, from a graphical user interface, a clause, the graphical user interface comprising an electronic document panel and a clauses panel, receiving, from the clauses panel, a clause approval assignment that assigns the clause to an approver; receiving, from the approver, an approval or a denial of the clause, and when an approval is received, storing the clause in the database, wherein the clause is marked as approved.
US12321375B2

Disclosed are examples of a system, techniques and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that enable the selection of a response document template for generating an appropriate response to notification document. Respective components may generate an electronic document from the notification document. A common theme between two or more of the electronic documents may be identified. The electronic documents identified as having the common theme may be grouped in a notification document corpus. The notification document corpus may be analyzed with reference to received notification documents stored in a document repository. Based on results of the analysis, a template of a notification response document appropriate for responding to a specific notification document received by the enterprise may be selected. The selected response document template may be forwarded to a client device for further processing.
US12321374B2

One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method of sentiment analysis based on ambiguity analysis, which includes analyzing information with the sentiment analysis models and the ambiguity analysis models. Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method of training the sentiment analysis models and ambiguity analysis models, which includes acquiring information, constructing lexicons, conducting sentiment analysis and ambiguity analysis with said lexicons, acquiring corpus, and training models, etc. Meanwhile, another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a system of sentiment analysis, which includes input, and output modules, acquisition modules, processing modules and database.
US12321369B2

The present invention relates to a management method and a device for hazardous chemicals and a construction method of a management database. The construction method comprises following steps: determining a plurality of entities involved in entire lifecycle of hazardous chemicals; classifying the plurality of entities to define a plurality of entity classes involved in the management database; defining a plurality of relationship classes according to one or more relationships involved between every two of the entity classes; using the relationship from one or more of the relationship classes to constrain the relationships between every two entities, so as to construct an ontology of the database; and importing actual data of the hazardous chemicals throughout their entire lifecycle into the ontology, so as to carry out instantiation of the ontology. By implementing this construction method, a management database for hazardous chemicals can be obtained, which can break the island phenomenon of multi-field data by integrating and fusing the multi-filed data throughout the entire lifecycle of hazardous chemicals, thereby achieving the effects of reasonable resource allocation, dynamic warning and supervision, and emergency linkage.
US12321363B2

Systems and methods for unifying business records data from different database sources into a common format in the same repository are disclosed. In one embodiment, a process includes receiving, by an integration platform system, a first set of business records data from a customer records system, where the business records data includes records in a first format, identifying a first transformation rule corresponding to the first format using the integration platform system, where the first transformation rule includes information for converting data from the first format to a unified format, converting each record in the first set of business records from the first format to the unified format by the integration platform system using the first transformation rule, and storing the first set of converted records in the unified format in a business records database.
US12321347B1

A method for improving a query performance of a query of a database application using rewrite includes introducing a database query into a database application to obtain a query result, analyzing the database query to identify index columns and a predicate column; identifying associated columns by determining if any associations exist between the index columns and the predicate column, calculating a confidence score value for each of the associated columns responsive to the associated columns and the predicate column, generating a list of associated columns with the confidence score values, generating a rewritten query by rewriting the database query based on the list of associated columns and the confidence score values and validating the rewritten query.
US12321344B2

Systems and methods are provided for executing aggregate computing operations for a computing report without modifying records used to generate the computing report in a computing network. An exemplary method includes: receiving a selection of records from one or more available records; receiving a selection of an aggregate computing operation from one or more first computing operations; receiving a request for generating a first computing report based on the records; generating the first computing report comprising one or more first computing operation results; executing the aggregate computing operation on the one or more first computing operation results, thereby resulting in one or more second computing operation results, wherein the executing of the aggregate computing operation on the records does not modify the records; and transmitting the first computing report for display on a second user interface, the first computing report comprising the one or more second computing operation results.
US12321342B1

Compiling optimized database statements including receiving, by a query compiler from a client computing system, a state specification of a graphical user interface in response to a user manipulating the graphical user interface on the client computing system, wherein the state specification is in a standard file format and describes modifications to a plurality of visual elements of the graphical user interface; compiling, by the query compiler, a database statement from the state specification such that a limit clause within the database statement is processed by a database before at least one join clause; and sending, by the query compiler, the optimized database statement to a database on a cloud-based data warehouse.
US12321339B1

Described are methods, systems, and media for regulatory exploration comprising: receiving a regulatory exploration request comprising a scenario comprising a desired outcome and a plurality of partial inputs to describe the scenario and identify fact constraints; receiving an executable regulatory logic flow chart, wherein each element of the flow chart is associated with a regulatory text; applying algorithm to determine all paths in the regulatory logic flow chart; filtering the paths based on the desired outcome; transforming each remaining path into a logical expression comprising attributes; generating a query space comprising conditions on the input facts associated with each attribute; generating a fact space comprising input facts associated with each attribute; generating a possibility space by joining the input facts in the fact space under the conditions in the query space; converting the possibility space to a plurality of database queries; and running the queries to generate an output.
US12321334B2

Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for detecting missing data in a digital data repository according to a set of digital data requirements and extracted data attributes for correcting database operations. The disclosed system utilizes a classifier model to classify digital content items via an integration with the digital data repository. The disclosed system generates mappings indicating that the digital content items correspond to digital data requirements of a data policy based on the classifications. The disclosed system utilizes the mappings to determine that one or more types of data are missing from the digital data repository as indicated by the digital data requirements. The disclosed system generate an indication of the data missing from the digital data repository for use in performing additional operations, such as modifying a database operation having access to the digital content items to prevent further errors.
US12321333B2

According to at least one embodiment, a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for minimizing I/O operations when validating databases are provided. The present invention may include creating a corresponding system-managed chain database for an application database, the chain database comprising a list of one or more dynamically allocated records, if present, for one or more fixed entries in the application database, wherein each of the fixed entries comprises a respective chain database array item in the chain database; scanning, via a validation utility, one or more chain database array items; marking each of the one or more dynamically allocated records listed in the chain database for the fixed entries as found; and checking, via an indicator with various states, if the one or more dynamically allocated records for the one or more fixed entries are listed in the respective chain database array item.
US12321324B2

A system stores instructions including, in response to receiving user input, identifying a first event type and a first security identifier and obtaining a first set of event dates from the event database and, for each event date of the first set of event dates, obtaining a corresponding event value on the corresponding event date of the first security identifier. The instructions include, for a first day related to each event date of the first set of event dates: obtaining a corresponding value on the first day of the first security identifier, determining a corresponding difference value between the corresponding event value and the corresponding value, and storing the corresponding difference value in a set of difference values. The instructions include calculating an average difference on the first day using the set of difference values and displaying the average difference and an event indicator corresponding to the first event type.
US12321323B1

Systems and methods for migrating and integrating data from one or more external locations to an internal location are disclosed. The system comprises multiple temporary locations to sort, transform, or store the data in the migration process. During the process, the data could be assigned various attributes, which are determined based on metadata associated with the original data. The system will track these attributes as the data moves through the various temporary locations.
US12321321B1

Devices, systems, and methods are provided for user profile management across multiple devices. A method may include determining, by a first device, that the first device is signed into a customer account; determining that the customer account includes a first user profile and a second user profile, the first user profile having first identity data, and the second user profile having second identity data; determining that third identity data for the first user profile is available for presentation, the third identity data based on a user interaction with a second device; determining that the first user profile is enrolled on the first device; presenting the first identity data using the first device; receiving a second user request to access the first user profile; and presenting, using the first device, content based on the second user request and a user preference associated with the first user profile.
US12321320B2

The present disclosure relates to Universal File Virtualization (UFV) that functions like a single virtual data hub spanning on-premise storage at various data silos, data centers cloud data resources stored in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, remote office and branch office and hybrid-clouds primarily catering secondary data storage combining cyber resilience technologies, information security, file storage and object storage technologies. Invention is built upon disaggregated control plane, security plane and decentralized data plane architecture. The system controller, security controller and Universal File System modules implement various file virtualization, security or data services algorithms to data that passes through it. All technologies are applied across various on-premise data vaults, cloud providers, storage sites and cloud services. The present disclosure also brings in new concept called UFV, implementing a secure, UFS spanning all disparate data sources of a corporation distributed across geographies and cloud services, with centralized control plane, security plane and a decentralized data plane built out of secure vaults controlled by a data controller.
US12321317B2

During a backup a procedure, a first storage entity may backup a set of database logs from a second storage entity and metadata associated with the set of database logs may be stored in a log deletion table. In accordance with a user configuration of the second storage entity and the backup procedure, a first command to delete one or more database logs of the set from the second storage entity may be transmitted to the second storage entity. The log deletion table may be updated based on a query of second storage entity about whether the one or more database logs were deleted from the second storage entity in response to the first command. Based on the updated log deletion table, a second command may be transmitted to the second storage entity to delete database logs that were not deleted in response to the first command.
US12321316B2

A computing platform is configured to: (i) obtain a plurality of data files; (ii) for each respective data file of the plurality of obtained data files, obtain contents associated with the respective data file and evaluate the contents associated with the respective data file to determine a respective data structure for the respective data file; (iii) compare the determined respective data structures and thereby identify one or more data structure differences among the determined respective data structures for the data files; (iv) based on the identified one or more data structure differences among the determined respective data structures for the data files, determine a revision history for the plurality of data files; and (v) transmit, to a client station, a communication related to the revision history and thereby cause an indication of the revision history to be presented at a user interface of the client station.
US12321313B2

Techniques disclosed herein are well suited to restoring deduplicated backup data from cloud-based storage and from multi-node replicated files systems, and they also improve performance in more traditional data storage technologies. Pre-restore steps include analysis of deduplication indexes to identify data segments that are stored consecutively on storage media. Reading data in aggregate runs of consecutively stored data segments reduces interactions with storage media that hosts the deduplicated data and speeds up retrieval. Parallel reads from multiple storage devices in multi-node replicated file systems also speed up retrieval. An illustrative enhanced media agent pre-fetches data (stored in deduplicated form) in anticipation of read requests that are expected in the restore operation. The pre-fetched data is temporarily stored locally at the media agent, which is responsible for interfacing with storage media and is further responsible for orchestrating the disclosed techniques within an illustrative data storage management system.
US12321305B2

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a die-to-die adapter to communicate with protocol layer circuitry and physical layer circuitry; and the physical layer circuitry coupled to the die-to-die adapter, where the physical layer circuitry is to receive and output first information to a second die via an interconnect. The physical layer circuitry may include: a first sideband data receiver to couple to a first sideband data lane and a first sideband clock receiver to couple to a first sideband clock lane; and a second sideband data receiver to couple to a second sideband data lane and a second sideband clock receiver to couple to a second sideband clock lane. The physical layer circuitry may assign a functional sideband comprising: one of the first or second sideband data lanes; and one of the first or second sideband clock lanes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12321300B2

An apparatus translates transaction requests using a bus protocol translation lookup table (LUT) that comprises bus protocol translation data. A bus protocol translation controller generates the outgoing translated transaction request by translating the incoming transaction request using the bus protocol translation data from the bus protocol translation LUT. The controller translates a received response from the target unit to a response in a first bus protocol for a corresponding requesting unit. Associated methods are also presented. In some examples, the bus protocol translation data corresponds to each of a plurality of requesting units for translating between an incoming transaction request sent via a first bus protocol to an outgoing translated transaction request sent via a second bus protocol for the at least one target unit.
US12321294B1

The disclosed device includes a data path having multiple transmission drivers. The device also includes a controller that is configured to tune each of the transmission drivers to a signal speed of a reference transmission driver. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12321292B2

Enhanced techniques for communicating with an integrated circuit chip card are disclosed. An integrated circuit chip card may include a processor, a memory storing a plurality applications executable by the processor, an input/output (I/O) interface, and a network interface coupled to the (I/O) interface. The network interface may implement a plurality of logical ports, and the network interface can be configurable to select between multiple communication protocols to communicate with an external device in a socket communication mode. The network interface can be configured to establish a plurality of communication channels between the external device the integrated circuit chip card using the plurality of logical ports, and each of the communication channels may support communication with one of the plurality of applications.
US12321287B1

An interconnect for physically unclonable function (PUF), comprised of multiple arranged PUF cells. Each PUF cell includes at least two L-shaped metal line, wherein each L-shaped metal line includes a first part and a second part and is adjacent to a dummy metal line, and the first part of one L-shaped metal line is electrically connected to adjacent second part of another L-shaped metal line through via in vertical direction.
US12321275B2

A system and method for cache pre-warming. The method includes creating a list of files likely to be accessed by a destination filesystem based on at least one access pattern of a source filesystem, the destination filesystem having a cache, wherein the list indicates a first plurality of files; and copying a second plurality of files from the source filesystem to the destination filesystem, wherein the second plurality of files includes the first plurality of files, wherein the destination filesystem is configured to prefetch files indicated in the list and to store the prefetched files in the cache.
US12321268B2

An integrated circuit device includes a first memory to support address translation between local addresses and fabric addresses and a processing circuit, operatively coupled to the first memory. The processing circuit allocates, on a dynamic basis as a donor, a portion of first local memory of a local server as first far memory for access for a first remote server, or as a requester receives allocation of second far memory from the first remote server or a second remote server for access by the local server. The processing circuit bridges the access by the first remote server to the allocated portion of first local memory as the first far memory, through the fabric addresses and the address translation supported by the first memory, or bridge the access by the local server to the second far memory, through the address translation supported by the first memory, and the fabric addresses.
US12321267B2

An apparatus comprises a hardware processor to define a linear address (LA) region outside an established address range for a secure enclave, generate, for the linear address (LA) region, a unique encryption key accessible only to the enclave, assign a key identifier to the unique encryption key, store the linear address (LA) region and the unique encryption key in an enclave control structure, and program the key identifier and the unique encryption key into a memory encryption circuitry.
US12321255B2

Methods for generating test case scenarios in response to natural language requests may be provided. Methods may receive a natural language formatted request for a test case scenario. The natural language formatted request may include a plurality of parameters. The plurality of parameters may define a scope of the test case scenario. Methods may extract, utilizing natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the plurality of parameters from the request. Methods may query logging applications for log entries that are similar to the role of the test case scenario. Methods may construct, using artificial intelligence, operating on the log entries, a test case scenario in computer language. The test case scenario may correspond to the natural language formatted request. Methods may test the scope of the test case scenario by executing the test case scenario.
US12321253B2

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for creating a resource management testing environment. An initial population of databases is established in a database ring, having an in initial count of databases and different types of databases that are determined based on an initial database population model. The initial population model receives ring classification information for the database ring from a ring grouping model. A sequence of database population-change events is generated based on a model, to change the population of the databases over time in the ring. An orchestration framework performs testing of resource manager operations based on the model-defined initial population of databases and the model-defined populations of databases changed over time. Model-defined resource usage metrics for each database are utilized to test the resource manager operations. Resource usage metrics and database add/drop events of a production system are used to train the models.
US12321244B1

A method may include, based on a recovery policy associated with the primary database, creating a first snapshot of the primary database at a primary computing system, replicating the first snapshot of the primary database to a secondary computing system, wherein a backup database of the primary database is hosted on the secondary cluster, in response to the primary database being unavailable, applying the first snapshot of the primary database to the backup database, creating, according to the recovery policy associated with the primary database, a snapshot of the backup database, in response to the primary database having restored availability, creating, according to the recovery policy associated with the primary database, a second snapshot of the primary database.
US12321242B2

In a method for data recovery in a continuous data protection system, delta values representing an exclusive disjunction between successive values of data block contents of a content fragment of a dataset at a time t(n) and a time t(n−1) for n=1 to i, where i is selected according to a predetermined data protection profile, are generated. The delta values can be used to recover a dataset to a value at the selected point in time in association with a snapshot that is selected as a starting point for recovery based on a cost analysis associated with a volume of disk activity to restore.
US12321241B2

A data protection system utilizes certain supervised learning processes to implement a granular level prioritized protection scheme for critical data based on decision tree processing. This process provides intelligent backup protection not only at the asset or sub-asset level, but also at the molecular level to meet the desired level of priority-based operation. Such embodiments overcome disadvantages of current systems that provide this level protection only upon management by an administrator by providing automated intelligence to provide granular protection at any appropriate data object level.
US12321232B2

A requestor of a data processing system provides read access requests, full write access requests with corresponding full write data each having a full-width data size, and partial write access requests with corresponding partial write data each having a partial-width data size onto a system interconnect. A memory array stores write data and corresponding error correction code (ECC) check bits in response to write access requests and provides read data and corresponding ECC check bits for the read data in response to read access requests. A memory controller executes a read-modify-write (RMW) sequence between a store buffer and the memory array to implement a partial write transaction in response to a partial write access request, in which the memory controller stores the partial write data into the store buffer upon receiving the partial write access request and suppresses signaling of ECC errors to the requestor during the RMW sequence.
US12321230B2

Implicit Memory Tagging (IMT) mechanisms utilizing alias-free memory tags that enable hardware-assisted memory tagging without incurring storage overhead above those incurred by conventional tagging mechanisms, while providing enhanced data integrity and memory security. The IMT mechanisms enhance the utility of error correcting codes (ECCs) to test memory tags in addition to the traditional utility of ECCs for detecting and correcting data errors and enable a finer granularity of memory tagging than many conventional approaches.
US12321229B2

Provided is an apparatus comprising a search engine configured to (i) receive parallel input of a set of syndrome polynomial products corresponding to a set of ECC words and (ii) produce corresponding sets of polynomial roots therefrom and a sequence detector configured to identify sequences within each of the polynomial roots within the set of roots. Also provided is sequence check logic for (i) combining the identified sequences within each of the polynomial roots and (ii) performing a sequence check of the combined identified sequences to determine whether only one of the identified sequences if valid; and an error location generator to derive an error location in each of the ECC words within the set responsive to the valid sequence.
US12321222B2

In an example embodiment, a root cause of a CI/CD pipeline is identified automatically from event logs of the CI/CD pipeline. A solution is then suggested automatically using an artificial intelligence analysis. More particularly, the identified root cause (e.g., error) and contextual information about the system and/or application being examined may be passed to an AI engine to predict one or more solutions to the root case.
US12321218B2

Methods and apparatus relating to techniques utilizing fine-grained bitcoin engine deactivation for yield recovery, performance, and/or power management are described. In an embodiment, a configurable compute tile comprising a plurality of cryptocurrency mining engines. Logic circuitry causes deactivation of one or more cryptocurrency mining engines from the plurality of cryptocurrency mining engines based at least in part on a request for deactivation of the one or more cryptocurrency mining engines. The logic circuitry adjusts a nonce search resolution for one or more active cryptocurrency mining engines of the plurality of cryptocurrency mining engines in response to the request for deactivation. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US12321217B2

A pair of compute nodes, each having a separate PCIe root complex, are interconnected by a PCIe Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB). An instance of a NTB monitoring process is started for each root complex, and the CPU affinity of the NTB monitoring processes are set to cause each NTB monitoring process to be executed on CPU resources of each respective CPU root complex. The NTB monitoring process on a given root complex is allowed to sleep until a triggering event occurs that causes the NTB monitoring process to wake and determine the state of the NTB. One such triggering event is a failure of an atomicity algorithm on the compute node to obtain a lock on peer memory in connection with implementing an atomic read operation on the peer memory over the NTB.
US12321215B2

This disclosure discloses a power management method and device, applied to power management of an electronic device. The method includes the following processing: obtaining an IMU PM execution notification before an OS runs, where the IMU PM execution notification is sent by boot firmware after the boot firmware determines, before the OS runs, that power management PM is to be performed by the IMU firmware; after determining, based on the IMU PM execution notification, that PM is to be performed on a CPU obtaining a current performance parameter of the CPU, where the performance parameter includes one or more of power consumption, a temperature, and usage of the CPU (302); and performing power management on the CPU based on the performance parameter (303). Power management is performed so that interaction procedures between the OS and the IMU firmware can be reduced, so that the power management is more efficient.
US12321205B2

An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (V/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).
US12321198B2

A display device includes a plate including a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area and including pattern portions defining an opening pattern and segment portions disposed between the pattern portions, respectively, a display module including a flat portion disposed in the first area on the plate, and a bendable portion extending from the flat portion and disposed in the second area on the plate, segment members disposed in the second area under the plate and respectively overlapping the segment portions in a direction, first filling members disposed under the plate, disposed between the segment members, respectively overlapping the pattern portions in the direction, and having a first elastic modulus and second filling members respectively disposed under the first filling members, respectively overlapping the first filling members in the direction, and having a second elastic modulus different from the first elastic modulus.
US12321196B2

An example a folding device includes a first assembly having an inner and an outer surface; a second assembly having an inner and an outer surface; and a continuous display including: a first rigid segment attached to and coplanar with the inner surface of the first assembly, a second rigid segment attached to and coplanar with the inner surface of the second assembly, a primary flexible segment; and a third rigid segment disposed between the second rigid segment and the primary flexible segment, wherein the third rigid segment is articulable relative to the second rigid segment.
US12321176B2

Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a control command identifying a steering control position may be received by a steering system of the vehicle from an autonomous driving control system. Orientation of one or more wheels of the vehicle may be controlled according to the steering control position. After receiving the control command, that the steering system has not received a valid control command from the control system for a first predetermined duration may be determined. Based on the determination that the steering system has not received a valid control command from the control system for the first predetermined duration, the orientation of the one or more wheels may be continue to be controlled based on the steering control position.
US12321175B2

An example system includes a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device that scans a field-of-view defined by a pointing direction of the LIDAR device. The system also includes an actuator that adjusts the pointing direction of the LIDAR device. The system also includes one or more sensors that indicate measurements related to motion of a vehicle associated with the LIDAR device. The system also includes a controller that causes the actuator to adjust the pointing direction of the LIDAR device based on at least the motion of the vehicle indicated by the one or more sensors.
US12321168B2

A transportation system to optimize an operating parameter of a vehicle based on a physiological state of an occupant of the vehicle. The transportation system includes a sensor to sense a physiological condition of the occupant and to output data based on the sensed physiological condition. The sensor includes a movement sensor to detect physical actions of the vehicle occupant. The transportation system further includes a real-time control system to receive and process the data to determine an emotional state of the occupant based on the detected physical actions and to optimize, for achieving a favorable emotional state of the occupant, at least one operating parameter of the vehicle in response to the detected emotional state of the occupant.
US12321148B2

A movement path drawing device includes an execution time storage unit that stores execution times of respective blocks of control programs, a program analysis unit that creates movement command data by analyzing the control programs, a movement path creation unit that creates the movement paths of the movable parts on the basis of the created movement command data, a drawing execution control unit that performs drawing execution control for drawing movement paths indicating a positional relationship between the movable parts of the plurality of systems of the machine at a predetermined time on the basis of the execution times of the respective blocks and the movement paths of the movable parts, created by the movement path creation unit, and a drawing unit that executes drawing processing for drawing the movable parts of the plurality of systems.
US12321141B2

A method of optimizing a plurality of control signals used in operating a vehicle is described. The operation has a plurality of associated measurable parameters. The method includes: for each control signal, selecting a plurality of potential optimum values from a predetermined set; operating the vehicle in at least a first sequence of operation iterations, where for each pair of sequential first and second operation iterations in the first sequence of operation iterations, the potential optimum value of one control signal in the first operation iteration is replaced in the second operation iteration with a next potential optimum value of the control signal, while the potential optimum values of the remaining control signals are maintained; for each operation iteration, measuring each parameter in the plurality of measurable parameters; and generating confidence intervals for the control signals to determine causal relationships between the control signals and the measurable parameters.
US12321139B2

A waterproof protective case for a smart watch, comprising a main body, a transparent cover, a waterproof ring and a bottom cover. The transparent cover is bonded to an opening on top of the main body by glue. Directly bonding with glue not only has the function of installing the transparent cover, but the cured glue forms an apron and has the function of waterproofing. A waterproof ring is additionally arranged on an inner wall surface of the main body, and is combined with the inner wall surface by means of integral inlay molding, which does not need to be installed separately, does not have the problem of falling off. The function of the waterproof ring is to press the glass surface of the smart watch to prevent water vapor from seeping into the inside of the watch, so that the protective case can achieve a better waterproof effect.
US12321137B2

A time-to-digital converter circuit is disclosed, the time-to-digital converter circuit including a plurality of delay stages connected to form a delay line, a plurality of event counters, an encoder circuit for triggering the delay line, and a binning circuit for associating an event with an event counter from plurality of event counters. The binning circuit selects the event counter based on a signal from the delay line, and wherein the encoder circuit is configured to sequentially trigger a different delay stage of the plurality of delay stages. Also disclosed is a time-of-flight sensor implementing the time-to-digital converter circuit, and an associated apparatus and method.
US12321136B1

A waterproof structure for watch is provided, which includes a watch case, a watch cover, a bottom case, and a circuit module. The watch cover is fixedly provided on one side of the watch case, the bottom case is fixedly provided on the other side of the watch case, and the circuit module is provided within the watch case. A display screen is provided between the watch case and the watch cover, and a first sealing ring is provided between the watch cover and the display screen. The first sealing ring is fixedly provided on the watch cover and abuts against the display screen, rendering it difficult for moisture to enter an interior of the watch and damage the circuit module through a connection position between the watch cover and the display screen, thereby improving a connection sealing between the water cover and the display screen.
US12321132B2

A resin composition includes: a resin having a first group capable of forming at least two hydrogen bonds; and a photoisomerization compound having a second group capable of forming at least two hydrogen bonds complementarily with the first group and having a moiety that is reversibly isomerized by light.
US12321124B2

An MFP 1 includes an image forming unit 4 which forms an image on a sheet S1, a USB interface 12 which is to be connected to a PC 101 via a USB and receives a preceding command described in accordance with a control transfer protocol that is a transfer scheme of USB connection, and a CPU 91 which executes a preparation operation of the image forming unit 4, in response to receiving the preceding command by the USB interface 12. The preceding command is described to instruct the preparation operation of the image forming unit 4.
US12321121B2

An image forming system includes an image forming unit for forming a first toner image and a second toner image on a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium by using toner containing wax; a pressure-bonding unit for pressure-bonding the recording medium folded in two by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium, an inner surface of the recording medium folded in two being pressure-bonded via an adhesive medium, one of the first surface and the second surface being the inner surface of the recording medium folded in two, the pressure-bonding unit pressure-bonding the recording medium folded in two via an adhesive member; and a control unit for determining an image forming order so that an image is formed on an outer surface of the recording medium folded in two, and then on the inner surface of the recording medium folded in two.
US12321118B2

A fixing member includes a conductive layer including a plurality of conductive elements. In a direction of a generatrix of the fixing member, when an area through which a recording material with a maximum width conveyable to the fixing member passes is referred to as a first area, the first area includes a central area and an end portion area. The central area includes a central portion of the first area in the direction of the generatrix. The end portion area includes an end portion of the first area in the direction of the generatrix. A resistance value of each of the plurality of conductive elements disposed in the central area is a first resistance value. A resistance value of each of the plurality of conductive elements disposed in the end portion area is a second resistance value that is lower than the first resistance value.
US12321114B2

A fixing apparatus including: a first rotary member; a second rotary member; a nip forming member; and a heater. The nip forming member includes: a first projection portion inside a nip area; and a second projection portion located outside the nip area. The first and second projection portion abut against the inner circumferential surface of the first rotary member. In a direction orthogonal to a nip tangent, a distance between a tip of the second projection portion and the nip tangent is larger than a distance between a tip of the first projection portion and the nip tangent. The second projection portion extends toward the second rotary member without exceeding the nip tangent. A radius of curvature at a tip portion of the second projection portion is smaller than a radius of an inner circumferential circle of the first rotary member.
US12321107B2

An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus includes a light source part for generating a plasma that emits extreme ultraviolet light with use of excitation of a raw material for emitting extreme ultraviolet light; a storage vessel for storing a melt of a waste material including the raw material and a melt of particles of debris that are emitted from the plasma; a receiving plate member having a receiving surface; and a corrosion-resistant member disposed on the receiving surface of the receiving plate member, the corrosion-resistant member being more corrosion-resistant to the melt of the waste material and the melt of the debris than the receiving plate member, the corrosion-resistant member receiving the melt of the waste material and the melt of the debris and guiding the melt of the waste material and the melt of the debris into the storage vessel.
US12321100B2

A lithography method to pattern a first semiconductor wafer is disclosed. An optical mask is positioned over the first semiconductor wafer. A first region of the first semiconductor wafer is patterned by directing light from a light source through transparent regions of the optical mask. A second region of the first semiconductor wafer is patterned by directing energy from an energy source to the second region, wherein the patterning of the second region comprises direct-beam writing.
US12321099B2

A mirror structure includes an insulator layer and a first conductive layer disposed on the insulator layer. The first conductive layer includes a first non-conductive film disposed on the insulator layer. The first non-conductive film includes one or more first conductive segments. The mirror structure also includes a reflective layer disposed on the first conductive layer and an electro optical layer disposed on the reflective layer. The mirror structure further includes a second conductive layer disposed on the electro optical layer. The second conductive layer includes a second non-conductive film disposed on the electro optical layer. The second non-conductive film includes one or more second conductive segments.
US12321097B2

A method of removing a photoresist, a laminate, a method of forming a metallic pattern, a polyimide resin, and a stripper are provided. The method of removing the photoresist includes forming a release layer on a substrate, the release layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, wherein the first surface of the release layer is in contact with the substrate; forming a photoresist layer on the second surface of the release layer; and removing the release layer and the photoresist layer. The release layer is formed by a polyimide resin. The polyimide resin is obtained by performing a polymerization of tetracarboxylic dianhydrides, diamines, and phenolamines. The diamines include hydroxyfluorinated diamines, benzoic acid diamines, and aminotetramethyldisiloxanes.
US12321092B2

This application relates to a pellicle for extreme ultraviolet lithography containing amorphous carbon and a manufacturing method thereof. In one aspect, the pellicle includes a substrate having an opening formed in a central portion, a support layer formed on the substrate to cover the opening, and a pellicle layer formed on the support layer and containing amorphous carbon. The pellicle layer may include a core layer formed on the support layer, and a capping layer formed on the core layer and may further include a buffer layer. At least one of the core layer, the capping layer, or the buffer layer may be an amorphous carbon layer.
US12321083B2

A computing device may include camera modules and a camera enclosure configured to house the camera modules. The computing device may further include alignment wedges that each define a sloped surface configured to mechanically contact at least one of the camera enclosure or the camera modules. The alignment wedges may be configured to reposition the respective camera module of the plurality of camera modules with respect to the camera enclosure.
US12321081B2

A photonic-crystal resonator (PhCR) and associated methods of design and manufacture. The PhCR includes spontaneous optical-pulse generation and includes a ring whose geometry is correlated to a mode structure or dispersion of the PhCR while also taking into account a desired type of nonlinear optical output from the PhCR, such as an optical frequency comb, or a particular type of pulse. The PhCR includes a periodic nanopatterning on an inner radial wall of its ring and is able to spontaneously generate a nonlinear optical output. The nanopatterning of the inner radial wall is designed to form a desired output, such as one of a classic soliton pulse that has a sech type temporal profile, or a gaussian profile, or a sink pulse profile.
US12321080B2

The present invention discloses a domain wall straightening method of a periodically poled ferroelectric crystal. In the present invention, by testing a piezoelectric coefficient of a poled sample, the poling condition of the sample can be judged nondestructively, and the region of uniform poling can be screened out. At the same time, according to the calculation result of a duty cycle, the continuation or stop of poling, and the re-poling after single domain can be judged. The flatness of the domain wall is judged through the change quantity of the piezoelectric coefficient, and the size and the duration of the poling voltage are adjusted in time, to accurate control the poling process, so as to obtain high-quality periodically poled crystals.
US12321078B2

Disclosed is an array antenna which is capable of shifting a phase of light. According to one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, an optical phase shifting array antenna includes: a receiving unit configured to distribute input light to a plurality of antenna element waveguides; a phase shifting unit configured to shift a phase of light propagated to each antenna element waveguide by applying heat to each antenna element waveguide; an output unit including a plurality of antenna elements, and configured to output the light, which is propagated to each antenna element waveguide after a phase is varied in the phase shifting unit, to each antenna element; and a base part configured to seat the receiving unit, the phase shifting unit, and the output unit.
US12321075B2

Thin-film devices, for example electrochromic devices for windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. Particular focus is given to methods of patterning optical devices. Various edge deletion and isolation scribes are performed, for example, to ensure the optical device has appropriate isolation from any edge defects. Methods described herein apply to any thin-film device having one or more material layers sandwiched between two thin film electrical conductor layers. The described methods create novel optical device configurations.
US12321073B2

A display panel includes a first polarizer, two twisted nematic cells, a second polarizer, and a display. The first twisted nematic cell transfers light in response to a first control signal. In an off state, a polarity of the light is rotated in a first twist. In an on state, the polarity of the light is maintained. The second twisted nematic cell transfers the light in response to a second control signal. In the off state, a polarity of the light is rotated in a second twist. In the on state, the polarity of the light is maintained. The display generates an image in the light in response to a display signal. While the twisted nematic cells are in the off state, the image is viewable in a public viewing angle. While the twisted nematic cells are in the on state, the image is viewable in a private viewing angle.
US12321067B2

A display device according to an embodiment may include a first substrate including an array of pixels, a second substrate coupled to the first substrate, and a sealing member between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate may include a base substrate including a display area overlapping the array of pixels and a peripheral area around the display area; a first compensation structure in the peripheral area, on the base substrate, at least partially overlapping the sealing member, and including an organic material; a second compensation structure in the peripheral area, on the base substrate, spaced apart from the first compensation structure, at least partially overlapping the sealing member, and including the same material as that of the first compensation structure, and a first capping layer covering the first and second compensation structures and including an inorganic material.
US12321056B2

A display unit that includes an image display part and a light-transmitting protective part arranged on the image display part. A cured resin layer is arranged between the display part and the protective part. The cured resin layer can have a transmittance of 90% or higher in the visible range and a storage modulus at 25° C. of 1×107 Pa or less. The cured resin layer can be formed from a resin composition that has a cure shrinkage of 5% or less.
US12321055B2

A display device is provided. The display device includes a display module and a privacy module. The display module includes a light source that emits an input light. The privacy module is disposed on the display module and for receiving the input light. The privacy module includes a first polarizing element for absorbing light in a predetermined direction.
US12321051B1

An electro-optic device is described. The electro-optic device includes a ridge waveguide and a channel waveguide. The ridge waveguide includes a first portion of at least one electro-optic material. The first portion of the electro-optic material(s) includes a slab and a ridge on the slab. The ridge has a ridge height. The slab has a slab height less than the ridge height. The channel waveguide is optically coupled with the ridge waveguide and includes a second portion of the electro-optic material(s). The channel waveguide has a channel height less than the slab height.
US12321049B2

Examples described herein relate to an optical device that entails phase shifting an optical signal. The optical device includes an optical waveguide having a first semiconductor material region and a second semiconductor material region formed adjacent to each other and defining a junction therebetween. Further, the optical device includes an insulating layer formed on top of the optical waveguide. Moreover, the optical device includes a III-V semiconductor layer formed on top of the insulating layer causing an optical mode of an optical signal passing through the optical waveguide to overlap with the first semiconductor material region, the second semiconductor material region, the insulating layer, and the III-V semiconductor layer thereby resulting in a phase shift in the optical signal passing through the optical waveguide.
US12321042B2

The invention relates to a method for determining at least an optical feature of an ophthalmic lens to be placed in a frame for vision correction of a subject, comprising: a) measuring (100) a value of a fitting parameter linked to the subject and/or the frame or a value of a dioptric parameter of the subject, thanks to a measurement process, b) providing (200) a level of uncertainty of said value measured in step a) depending on said measurement process, c) determining (400; 510; 620; 640) said optical feature of said ophthalmic lens by taking into account said value measured in step a) and said level of uncertainty provided in step b).
US12321041B2

An objective lens includes first to ninth lenses arranged in this order from a magnification side and includes no cemented lens. The first lens consists of a meniscus lens having a negative refractive power, the second lens consists of a biconcave lens, the third lens consists of a meniscus lens having a positive refractive power, the fourth lens consists of a biconvex lens, the fifth lens consists of a meniscus lens having a negative refractive power, the sixth lens consists of a biconvex lens, the seventh lens consists of a lens that has an arbitrary shape and has a positive refractive power, the eighth lens consists of a meniscus lens having a positive refractive power; and the ninth lens consists of a meniscus lens having a positive refractive power. The ninth lens has a thickness 1.5 times to 3 times a focal length of the objective lens.
US12321040B2

An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens disposed in order from an object side. The first lens has refractive power having a sign different from a sign of refractive power of the second lens. One of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and an object-side surface of the sixth lens is convex, and the other is concave. One of the fourth to sixth lenses has both surfaces having a freeform surface shape.
US12321037B2

An optical system, sequentially comprising from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a negative refractive power, an object-side surface of the first lens being a convex surface, and an image-side surface thereof being a concave surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power, an image-side surface of the second lens being a concave surface; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a diaphragm; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The optical system satisfies the following relationship: (SD S2)/(RDY S2)<0.93, wherein SD S2 is the Y-direction half aperture of the image-side surface of the first lens, and RDY S2 is the Y radius of the image-side surface of the first lens.
US12321032B2

An optical distribution and splice frame system includes rack(s), enclosure(s), cable management component(s), and/or cassette(s) that have features to allow for different cable management configurations not yet available in the market. A fiber optic cassette and enclosure are designed to enable flexibility in cable management configurations for the overall system.
US12321031B2

A support frame configured to provide adapter-less fiber optic connections for fiber optic cables including a connection block configured to be fixedly coupled with a main body. A front wall of the main body includes a surface configured to abut a surface of the connection block, the connection block includes a connection port configured to receive a first fiber optic connector, and the front wall of the main body includes a connection port configured to receive a second fiber optic connector. The connection port of the connection block is configured to be aligned with the connection port of the main body such that the connection block and the main body are configured to optically couple the first fiber optic connector with the second fiber optic connector, and the connection block and the main body are configured to provide an adapter-less fiber optic connection for the first and second fiber optic connectors. The connection block may be a single piece of unitary construction.
US12321029B2

The present invention relates to an optical fiber cable (400, 500) with flexible wrapping tubes comprising a plurality of unit bundles packed in the optical fiber cable (400, 500), where each unit bundle has a plurality of optical fibers (106) enveloped by a non-extruded film (100), and at least one of the unit bundles takes a non-circular shape in a packed configuration and a sheath (404, 504) enveloping the plurality of unit bundles. Each unit bundle is formed by wrapping the non-extruded film (100) around the optical fibers (106) such that width edges of the non-extruded film (100) overlap along the length of the optical fiber cable (400, 500). Alternatively, the non-extruded film (100) is wrapped around the plurality of optical fibers (106) helically.
US12321028B2

Cables that include a conductor and an optical fiber. In some embodiments, the cable can include an optical fiber loosely disposed within an enclosure. A conductor layer can be disposed about the enclosure. An insulation layer can be disposed about the at least one conductor layer. An inner layer of armor strength members can be helically disposed about the insulation layer. An outer layer of armor strength members can be helically disposed about the inner layer of armor strength members. The armor strength members in the outer layer of armor strength members can be at an opposite helix compared to the armor strength members in the inner layer of armor strength members. An outer jacket can be disposed about the outer layer. In other embodiments, the cable can include an optical fiber in a coupled electro-optical package, where the conductor layer can be disposed about the electro-optical package.
US12321020B2

An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cleaning tool main body, a feed-side bobbin, a cleaning head (cleaning portion), a winding-side bobbin, a moving body that moves at the time of cleaning, a feed mechanism that sends an unused cleaning medium in synchronism with the moving body, and a winding mechanism that drives the winding-side bobbin. The feed mechanism moves a turn-back portion at one point where the cleaning medium is turned back in a direction to separate from the winding-side bobbin. The winding mechanism includes a driving piece that engages with a rotation body of the winding-side bobbin. The driving piece slips with respect to the rotation body when a load to press engaging projections of the rotation body has reached a predetermined load.
US12321017B2

A fiber optic ferrule receiver includes a main body that has an opening extending between the front end and the rear end and being defined at least by a portion of internal surfaces of the four sides. A first side in the opening has first tapered surface and a second tapered surface, the first tapered surface reducing the opening between the rear end and a first position and the second tapered surface increasing the opening between the first position and the front end. There is also a second side in the opening and across the opening from the first side, the second side has a third tapered surface and a fourth tapered surface, the third tapered surface reducing the opening between the rear end and a second position and the second tapered surface increasing the opening between the second position and the front end. There is also a first projection extending into the opening from the first side to engage a first portion of the fiber optic ferrule at the first position, and a second projection extending into the opening from second side to engage a second portion of the fiber optic ferrule at the second position.
US12321011B2

A turning grating coupler device comprises a waveguide core layer including a grating structure and an output slab adjoined with the grating structure. The grating structure comprises an array of sub-waveguides substantially parallel to each other along a first propagation direction. Each of the sub-waveguides has opposing sidewalls, and a width of each sub-waveguide is defined by a distance between the sidewalls. The width of each sub-waveguide is varied such that each of the sidewalls has a periodic structure that produces a sidewall periodic modulation that is out of phase with respective sidewall periodic modulations of adjacent neighboring sub-waveguides. An input edge is configured to receive a light beam from a source and direct the beam into the array of sub-waveguides in the first propagation direction. The sub-waveguides are configured to diffract the beam into the output slab in a second propagation direction substantially perpendicular to the first propagation direction.
US12321004B2

A backlight keyswitch includes a keycap, a support plate, a membrane circuit board and a backlight module. The support plate is disposed under the keycap. The membrane circuit board is disposed in parallel to the keycap and the support plate. The backlight module is disposed under the support plate, which includes a shielding sheet, a light guide panel, a lighting board and a protrusion structure. The shielding sheet includes a light permeable area corresponding to the keycap. The light guide panel is disposed under the shielding sheet. The lighting board is disposed under the light guide panel and includes a light source. The protrusion structure protrudes toward the light source and is formed on one of the support plate, the membrane circuit board and the shielding sheet. The protrusion structure reflects at least partial light of the light source to enter the light guide panel for lateral transmission.
US12320997B2

A device having a transmission response with a maximum at a wavelength λ0, this device including an intermediate layer which extends from a first optical filter to a second optical filter, this intermediate layer having a refractive index n8 at the wavelength λ0 and a thickness h8, the refractive index n8 being less than 3n12/5 and the thickness h8 being between δ and 3δ, where the refractive index n12 is greater than 5n10/3, where n10 is the greatest of the refractive indices chosen from the group consisting of the refractive indices at the wavelength λ0 of the media situated at the interface with the first filter, and the coefficient δ is defined by the following relationship: 1/δ=(2πn8/λ0)((λ0/(n8P))2−1)0.5, where P is the period of a grating of slits of the first filter.
US12320994B2

A surface material for a pen input device includes a base element having a sheet shape, and a coating layer covering one surface of the base element, wherein the coating layer has a concavo-convex surface disposed on a side opposite to the base element side, recesses and protrusions having an absolute height of 1.0 μm or greater as measured with a scanning white-light interference microscope are formed on the concavo-convex surface, and a value of a surface roughness Sa of the surface material in a range where the absolute height of the concavo-convex surface is less than 1.0 μm as measured with the scanning white-light interference microscope is set to a value in a range of 0.10 or greater and 0.16 or less.
US12320984B2

Disclosed is a system for superimposing a virtual image on a real-time image or real object. The system comprises a right collimated light signal generator for generating a right collimated light signal and a left collimated light signal generator for generating a left collimated light signal corresponding to the right collimated light signal which is directed towards the other retina of the viewer; wherein the right collimated light signal and the left collimated light signal form a binocular pixel of a virtual image with a first depth, the first depth which the viewer perceives is modified by changing a convergence angle between light path extensions of the right collimated light signal and the corresponding left collimated light signal projected into the viewer's eyes based on an interpupillary distance, the first depth corresponds to a depth location of a converging point of light path extensions of the right collimated light signal and the corresponding left collimated light signal.
US12320976B2

There is disclosed herein a waveguide including an optical slab and an optical wedge. The optical slab has a first refractive index, n1>1. The optical slab includes: a pair of opposing surfaces and an input port. The pair of opposing surfaces are arranged in a parallel configuration. The input port is arranged to receive light into the optical slab at an angle such that the light is guided between the first and second opposing surfaces. The optical wedge has a second refractive index, n2, wherein 1
US12320971B2

A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency to a first actuator that causes a mirror portion to swing around a first axis, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency to a second actuator that causes the mirror portion to swing around a second axis intersecting with the first axis, and derives a first driving condition of the first actuator under which the first driving frequency is less than a first resonance frequency around the first axis.
US12320969B2

A variable radius mirror includes a mirror element having a deformable face with an outer surface incorporating a reflective element. The deformable face is deformable in response to a pressure applied by a pressure medium acting on an inner surface of the deformable face. A ring extends around a perimeter of the deformable face and protrudes from the inner surface of the deformable face. The mirror element further includes at least one of a plurality of steps recessed at different depths into the inner surface of the deformable face, a cooling cavity having a pair of manifolds between the outer surface and the inner surface of the deformable face, and a sidewall of the ring having a curved inner surface and a curved outer surface.
US12320968B2

Tunable optical device comprising an optical element, an actuator and a transmission unit, wherein the transmission unit comprises a first fiber, the first fiber is arranged to transmit a tensile force from the actuator to the optical element, and the tensile force result in a change of an optical property of the optical element.
US12320960B2

A lens assembly includes a plurality of lens arrays sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side, wherein each lens array includes a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of lenses included in a lens array of the plurality of lens arrays, disposed to be closest to the image side have a length in a first axis direction, perpendicular to an optical axis, longer than a length in a second axis direction, perpendicular to both the optical axis and the first axis direction.
US12320958B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a camera lens group, comprising, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side: a stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. A distance TTL on the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to an image plane of the camera lens group and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on the image plane of the camera lens group satisfy: TTL/ImgH≤1.25. At least one of the surfaces from the object-side surface of the first lens to the image-side surface of the sixth lens is an aspheric surface.
US12320953B2

Provided is an optical film which has high anti-glare properties and high scratch resistance and enables a suppression in reflected scattered light. An optical film having a surface with depressions and projections, wherein the surface with depressions and projections has a developed interfacial area ratio Sdr of 0.010 or more and 0.060 or less specified in ISO 25178-2:2012, and a minimum autocorrelation length Sal of 4.0 μm or more and 12.0 μm or less specified in ISO 25178-2:2012.
US12320949B2

A method for quantifying disorder and extracting a corresponding numerical value of an order parameter from contrast analysis applied to optical images acquired of the solar photosphere. Temporal variation of the order parameter may be utilized to predict events such as solar flares, which have the ability to disrupt both communication systems and satellite orbits. The degree of order of the photosphere may be monitored to predict solar flares and other solar events. The method may utilize a spin-based (Ising/Potts) model of disorder.
US12320946B2

The disclosure presents processes that utilize collected resistivity data, for example, from an ultra-deep resistivity tool located downhole a borehole. In some aspects, each slice of resistivity data can generate multiple distribution curves that can be overlaid offset resistivity logs. In some aspects, an analysis can be performed to identify trends in the distribution curves that can be used to identify approximate locations of subterranean formation surfaces, shoulder beds, obstacles, proximate boreholes, and other borehole and geological characteristics. As the number of distribution curves generated increase, the confidence in the analysis also increases. In some aspects, the number of distribution curves can be twenty, one hundred, one hundred and one, or other counts of distribution curves. In some aspects, the resistivity data can be used to generate two or more synchronized view perspectives of a specific location along the borehole, where each view perspective uses the same focus area.
US12320939B2

Frequency-dependent machine-learning (ML) models can be used to interpret seismic data. A system can apply spectral decomposition to pre-processed training data to generate frequency-dependent training data of two or more frequencies. The system can train two or more ML models using the frequency-dependent training data. Subsequent to training the two or more ML models, the system can apply the two or more ML models to seismic data to generate two or more subterranean feature probability maps. The system can perform an analysis of aleatoric uncertainty on the two or more subterranean feature probability maps to create an uncertainty map for aleatoric uncertainty. Additionally, the system can generate a filtered subterranean feature probability map based on the uncertainty map for aleatoric uncertainty.
US12320924B2

In a measuring device, a position of a laser scanner on a top plate (201) of a housing has been decided by pins (220) and a fixing member (210), and the laser scanner has been attached to the housing, and also the laser scanner that has been in a attached state can be detached, and again the position on the top plate (201) can be decided by the pins (220) and the fixing member (210), and the laser scanner can be attached to the top plate (201).
US12320919B2

A radar device (10) includes a signal generation unit (100) to generate a signal as an original signal, a pseudo-random number generation unit (102) to generate a pseudo-random number sequence formed of a pseudo-random number, a true random number generation unit (101) to generate a true random number sequence formed of a true random number, a modulation code synthesizing unit (103) to generate a modulation code sequence for use in modulating a signal phase by synthesizing the pseudo-random number sequence and the true random number sequence, and a phase modulation unit (104) to generate a transmission signal by modulating a phase of the original signal by using the modulation code sequence.
US12320916B1

Example embodiments described herein involve a static dome assembly for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems. The system may include a base. At least one LiDAR system may be coupled to the base. The at least one LiDAR system may be configured to transmit and receive light having one or more wavelengths. The assembly may further include a housing encompassing the at least one LiDAR system. The housing may be statically coupled to the base. The housing may further include a dome. The dome may include a wall that is transparent to the one or more wavelengths. The wall may also include a high impact polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) material having an index of refraction of less than 1.55.
US12320912B2

A positioning system executes wireless communication with a portable terminal by adopting a radio wave of 1 GHz or higher to determine a position of the portable terminal relative to a vehicle. The positioning system includes a vehicle exterior communication device and a positioning device. The vehicle exterior communication device is disposed at an outer surface portion at least one of a side surface portion or a rear side surface portion of the vehicle, and includes an antenna receiving a wireless signal transmitted from the portable terminal. The positioning device determines whether or not the portable terminal exists at an exterior operating area being a region outside a vehicle compartment within a predetermined operating distance from the vehicle, based on a reception status of the wireless signal received by the vehicle exterior communication device from the portable terminal. The antenna radiates a main polarized wave and a cross-polarized wave.
US12320903B2

A system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method include entering redundant oscillators and a cascaded oscillator of a spoofing resistant system into an initialization state. All but one of the redundant oscillators are disciplined to a time-and-frequency external input into normal disciplining state with the remaining one of the redundant oscillators in a holdover state. When all but one of the redundant oscillators have reached the normal disciplining state, placing all but one of the redundant oscillators into the holdover state, disciplining the remaining one of the redundant oscillators to the time and frequency external input, and disciplining the cascaded oscillator to one of the all but one of the redundant oscillators now in the holdover state. When the remaining one of the redundant oscillators and the cascaded oscillator have reached the normal disciplining state, transitioning from an initialization stage to a steady state management stage.
US12320899B2

The distance measurement system includes an emitter emitting light, a receiver having a pixel array at which are formed a plurality of pixels detecting light reflected from an object, a processor configured to calculate distance data relating to a distance to the object for each of the plurality of pixels based on a result of detection of the reflected light, and use the distance data to generate a distance image, and a vehicle information detector detecting vehicle information relating to behavior of the vehicle. The processor calculates the distance data a plurality of times based on results of detection of light reflected from the object in a plurality of different time periods. The processor converts coordinates of the distance data based on the vehicle information to correct positional deviation between the distance data on the pixel array and generates the distance image for an overlapping range of the distance data.
US12320887B2

A system is provided that learns a radar scene's background and that filters radar tracks determined to be in the radar scene background; The system including processing circuitry configured with executable instructions to accesses radar tracks that include radar measurements; to use the measurements to determine a persistent radar object in a radar scene background; and to subsequently filter accessed radar tracks having locations within the radar scene background.
US12320878B2

Disclosed are deep learning based methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image reconstruction from partial Fourier-space (i.e., k-space) data, involving: obtaining high-quality complex MRI image data or fully-sampled k-space data as training data; training reconstruction models to predict high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from incomplete or partial k-space data; and applying trained models to reconstruct high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from partial k-space data.
US12320872B2

At a reference position within a first plane, a magnetic field to be detected has a first direction that changes within the first plane. A magnetic sensor includes an MR element. The MR element includes a magnetic layer having first magnetization that can change in direction within a second plane. The first plane and the second plane intersect at a dihedral angle α other than 90°. The magnetic field to be detected can be divided into an in-plane component parallel to the second plane and a perpendicular component perpendicular to the second plane. The in-plane component has a second direction that changes with a change in the first direction. The direction of the first magnetization changes with a change in the second direction. A detection value depends on the direction of the first magnetization.
US12320864B2

A monitoring device is disclosed that is configured to monitor conditions within an electrical enclosure containing electrical equipment. The monitoring device comprises a support configured to couple to an interior surface of the electrical enclosure. The support is configured to hold and electrically couple a plurality of sensors, at least two RF antennas, at least one processor in communication with the plurality of sensors and the at least two RF antennas, and a power connection configured to receive electrical and Ethernet input. The at least one processor is configured to receive and analyze data obtained from the plurality of sensors and the at least two RF antennas pertaining to a plurality of conditions inside the electrical enclosure. The at least one processor is configured to detect a potential electrical equipment failure based on the received an analyzed data.
US12320854B2

A method for estimating a battery state of an energy storage system (200) of a vehicle (201) using at least a dual estimator (301), wherein the energy storage system comprises a battery unit (202), and wherein the dual estimator comprises: a first estimator configured to estimate said battery state using a prediction model, the first estimator having first tuning parameters, a second estimator configured to track changes around nominal values of a set of battery parameters, the second estimator having second tuning parameters, a feedback loop being provided between the first and second estimators, the method comprising: obtaining operational data of the energy storage system, determining whether the operational data fulfil a defined sensitivity criterion with respect to a sensitivity to at least one of the battery parameters, feeding the operational data to the estimators, using the first estimator, estimating the battery state, using the second estimator, for each battery parameter for which the sensitivity criterion is fulfilled, estimating changes around the nominal values of the set of battery parameters.
US12320849B2

The present disclosure provides a clock control circuit and method for a circuitry. The circuitry includes a scan flip-flop circuit, an at-speed domain and a timing exception domain. The scan flip-flop circuit is configured to output data to the at-speed domain and the timing exception domain. The clock control circuit includes a first gate control circuit, a first gate circuit, a second gate control circuit and a second gate circuit. The first gate circuit is controlled by a first control signal output by the first gate control circuit, a scan enable signal and a scan mode signal to block or output a clock signal to the scan flip-flop circuit. The second gate circuit is controlled by a second control signal output by the second gate control circuit to block or output an output signal of the scan flip-flop circuit to the timing exception domain.
US12320848B2

On-chip testing of a superconductive integrated circuit device includes receiving a superconductive circuit design having superconductive logic elements. Further, a first testability characteristic for first test circuitry at a first node within the superconductive circuit design is determined. The first testability characteristic corresponds to one or more of a test generation control level and a test observability control level. An updated superconductive circuit design from the superconductive circuit design is generated based on the first testability characteristic for the first test circuitry. The superconductive circuit design includes the first test circuitry at the first node.
US12320847B2

A test device is configured to test an on-chip clock controller having a debug function. The test device includes a scan chain and a test circuit. The scan chain includes N flip-flop circuit(s), each of which stores a first input signal as a storage signal, then stores a second input signal as the storage signal or keeps the current storage signal according to an input clock, and then output the storage signal. Since the first and second input signals are different, the outputted storage signal indicates whether the flip-flop circuit stores the second input signal or keeps the current storage signal according to the input clock under predetermined test setting, and indicates whether circuits under test (CUTs) for transmitting the input clock operate normally. The test circuit outputs an observation clock of the on-chip clock controller or an independent clock as the input clock according to the predetermined test setting.
US12320823B2

A molten-state suspended ellipsoidal droplet image processing algorithm is based on dual-camera vision. The algorithm includes acquiring images of a standard sphere by means of two cameras, and calculating the actual size corresponding to each individual pixel of the two standard sphere images; synchronously acquiring two images of a droplet by using the two cameras at a specified included angle; establishing an ellipsoidal quadric surface equation for the droplet, respectively detecting edge contour lines of the two images, and establishing elliptical contour line equations for the edge contour lines; introducing a specified included angle, and constructing an equation set according to relationships between parameters of the two elliptical contour line equations and the ellipsoidal quadric surface equation; solving the equation set to obtain the length of each semi-axis of the droplet; and calculating the volume of the droplet according to the length of each semi-axis.
US12320821B2

Systems and methods are described for integrated sample container cover removal and sample probe positioning. In an example implementation, an autosampler system includes, but is not limited to, a z-axis support rotatable about a z-axis of an autosampler deck; a sample probe support structure coupled to the z-axis support, the sample probe support structure configured to hold a sample probe to withdraw a fluid-containing sample held within a sample container supported by the autosampler deck; and a sample cap remover coupled to the z-axis support in an orientation that is rotationally offset from the z-axis support with respect to the sample probe support structure, the sample cap remover configured to lift a cap from the sample container to provide access to an interior of the sample container by the sample probe supported by the sample probe support structure.
US12320811B2

Method and kits for detecting cancer, and in particular breast cancer, in a subject by measuring the levels of at least one of a series of biomarkers, as compared to a control sample lacking cancer. The expression of the biomarker either increases or decreases in samples from subjects with cancer, as compared to the expression level in subjects without cancer. The sample is optimally an ocular sample, such as an isolated tear sample or ocular wash, but can also be from saliva, or other bodily fluid. Kits can include a collection tube and protease inhibitors or protein stabilizers.
US12320810B2

A creatine kinase isoenzyme latex-enhanced immunoturbidimetric assay kit, comprising a first reagent and a second reagent. The first reagent comprises a buffer solution, an electrolyte, polyethylene glycol, a surfactant, a preservative, a blocking agent, and a protective agent. The second reagent comprises a buffer solution, polystyrene latex particles coated with a creatine kinase isoenzyme antibody, the creatine kinase isoenzyme antibody on the latex particles, a protective agent, a stabilizer, and a preservative.
US12320809B2

A method for measuring a viral antigen using a capture antibody and a detection antibody. The method includes forming a sandwich immune complex that contains the capture antibody, the viral antigen and the detection antibody. The capture antibody includes specific sequences of CDRs and the detection antibody includes specific sequences of CDRs.
US12320801B2

Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and compositions useful for in vivo and/or in vitro enzyme profiling. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of in vivo enzymatic processing of exogenous molecules followed by detection of signature molecules as representative of the presence of active enzymes associated with diseases or conditions. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides compositions and in vitro methods for localization of enzymatic activity in a tissue sample.
US12320798B2

The present invention provides a method for diagnosing a disease or disorder selected from the group consisting of insulin resistance, a metabolic disorder, diabetes and pre-diabetes in a subject. The method comprises the step of determining the level of a compound represented by structural formula (VI): or a salt thereof. Compositions and method of making thereof are also described.
US12320783B2

The invention relates to a method for preparing a tensile test on an elongate, more particularly fibrous, specimen, for example on a collagen fibril, comprising the steps of:—providing the elongate specimen;—attaching a handling particle to the elongate specimen;—providing a force sensor, on which a retainer for the handling particle on the elongate specimen is disposed;—connecting a handling apparatus to the handling particle on the elongate specimen; and—connecting the handling particle on the elongate specimen to the retainer on the force sensor by means of the handling apparatus. The invention also relates to a method and a device for performing a tensile test on an elongate specimen.
US12320778B2

There is provided a technique that includes abnormality detecting by picking up a sound generated from a transfer configured to operate in a vacuum and transport a substrate in a vacuum transfer chamber and compare the sound information with a preset threshold value to detect an abnormality of the transfer. The transfer includes a gas-filled container arranged in the vacuum transfer chamber and filled with a gas and a microphone installed inside the gas-filled container.
US12320761B2

Methods, system and devices for multiplexed x-ray detection systems are described. The x-ray detection systems are designed using a multiplexed array of x-ray sources that are turned on simultaneously in groups of two or more x-ray sources to form multiple exposures that are detected by a plurality of detectors. The number of exposures, as well as x-ray source characteristics and parameters, such as the number and output energy level associated with each x-ray source are determined to optimize the quality of reconstrued images or maximize the detection/classification accuracy of object(s) and/or material(s) based on a total photon energy budget. The disclosed detection methods and devices improve both the quality and acquisition speed of x-ray images and x-ray measurement data for detection/classification of object(s) and/or material(s).
US12320758B2

A method for inspection of multiple features of patterned objects in the manufacture of electrical circuits, the method including performing defect detection on the patterned object, employing an optical defect detection machine (ODDM) and employing the ODDM to measure at least one of spatial coordinates and physical attributes of at least some of the multiple features.
US12320754B2

Described herein are devices for determining or monitoring the quality of a food product. In one aspect, the devices comprise a pH-sensitive film incorporated within a quick response code, wherein the pH-sensitive film is positioned to be in contact with the food product. The pH-sensitive film produces different colors subject to changes in pH of the food product. The color produced by the pH-sensitive film can then be correlated to the quality of the food product. The quick response code can provide additional information regarding the food product.
US12320749B2

A multi-mode illumination system, including: a first illumination module; a second illumination module; and a third illumination module, as disclosed herein.
US12320743B2

A device may receive a master data set for a first spectroscopic model; receive a target data set for a target population associated with the first spectroscopic model to update the first spectroscopic model; generate a training data set that includes the master data set and first data from the target data set; generate a validation data set that includes second data from the target data set and not the master data set; generate, using cross-validation and using the training data set and the validation data set, a second spectroscopic model that is an update of the first spectroscopic model; and provide the second spectroscopic model.
US12320732B2

An apparatus for imaging examination of cells on a surface of living tissue using moxifloxacin. includes: a light source emitting light towards living tissue stained with moxifloxacin; a photographing unit photographing the living tissue subjected to fluorescence excitation by the light emitted from the light source; a lens unit controlling the light emitted from the light source or a fluorescence path of moxifloxacin excited by the light; an objective lens controlling a focus of the photographing unit; an active lens disposed between the objective lens and the photographing unit and changing a focal position on the living tissue; and an image generator performing image processing of a cell image of the living tissue photographed by the photographing unit to generate an in-focus image, in which the entirety of the cell image is in focus.
US12320718B2

A pressure sensing circuit board includes a dielectric layer, a wiring layer, a strain layer, and a protective layer. The wiring layer is on the dielectric layer. The strain layer is on the dielectric layer having the line layer. The protective layer is on the wiring layer and the strain layer. The pressure sensing circuit board includes a first copper area, a second copper area, and a copper free area. The wiring layer is located in the first copper area and the second copper area. A thickness of the line layer in the first copper area is greater than that in the second copper area, and the wiring layer in the second copper area is mesh-shaped. The strain layer is in the copper free zone and connected to the line layer. The protective layer is on the wiring layer in the second copper area and covers the strain layer.
Patent Agency Ranking