US12341478B2
An impedance matching circuit includes a radiofrequency terminal and a series circuit connected to the radiofrequency terminal, wherein the series circuit comprises at least one reactance and at least one switching element having a drive input. A drive circuit is connected to the drive input and a coupler is connected to the drive circuit so as to an enable signal input. The impedance matching circuit enables short switching times and low losses in the at least one switching element.
US12341475B2
A semiconductor device includes input and output terminals, first and second power supply terminals, first and second transistors, and a first resistance element. In the first transistor, gate and source terminals are respectively connected to the input terminal and the first power supply terminal, a drain terminal is connected to the second power supply terminal in direct current and to the output terminal, and the gate and drain terminals are connected via the first resistance element. In the second transistor, a source terminal is connected to the first power supply terminal, and gate and drain terminals are short-circuited at a node connected to the gate terminal of the first transistor in direct current. In a lower frequency region, an impedance of the first resistance element is lower than impedances of parasitic capacitances in the first transistor between the gate and drain terminals and between the gate and source terminals.
US12341474B2
Methods and devices for amplifying an input RF signal according to at least two gain-states is described. According to one aspect, a multi gain amplifier circuit including a low noise amplifier having a stack of transistors is used for amplification of the input RF signal. When switching from a low gain-state to a high gain-state, the drain-to-source voltage of the output transistor of the stack is increased to affect region of operation of the output transistor, and thereby reduce non-linearity at the output of the amplifier. When switching from the high gain-state to the low gain-state, the drain-to-source voltage of the input transistor of the stack is increased to affect region of operation of the input transistor, and thereby reduce non-linearity at the output of the amplifier.
US12341463B2
A blood pump system includes a blood pump and a corresponding controller. The blood pump includes an impeller that is sealed within the pump housing and hydrodynamically suspended within the pump housing. The pump impeller includes magnets, and is the rotor of a brushless direct current (DC) motor that is driven by electrical signals through stator wire coils in the pump housing, which creates a rotating magnetic field. The rotating magnetic field attracts the magnetized impeller and spins it with the rotating field. The controller provides field-oriented control for the brushless DC motor in the blood pump. The field-oriented control in the controller is provided in a programmable logic device separate from a control processor so that a software or hardware failure related to the control processor does not stop the blood pump. The field-oriented control allows sensing blood flow through the pump without having sensors in the blood stream.
US12341462B2
A method for aligning a motor to a goal alignment position, comprising beginning an alignment sequence, receiving a phase current of the motor, sampling the received phase current, and comparing a sample of the received phase current to a previous sample of the received phase current. The method further comprises tracking a maximum value of the phase current in response to comparing the sample of the received phase current to the previous sample of the received phase current, comparing the maximum value of the received phase current to the sample of the received phase current, detecting a decrease in the received phase current in response to comparing the maximum value to the sample; and ending the alignment sequence in response to detecting the decrease.
US12341458B2
A motor-driving apparatus for driving a motor having a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is provided. The motor-driving apparatus includes a first inverter having a plurality of first switching devices and connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter having a plurality of second switching devices and connected to second ends of the plurality of windings. A third switching device is configured to selectively connect and disconnect points at which a number of turns of each of the windings is divided in a preset ratio. A controller is configured to adjust an on/off state of the first to third switching devices based on required output of the motor.
US12341441B2
Load bridges (2) of an inverter unit (1) include load branches having semiconductor switches (4, 5, 15, 16), that have a node point (6) which is connected to a load (7) and to two different potentials (P1, P2). Node points (6) are connected via a first resistance circuit (8) to potential (P1). Node points (6) are further connected via second resistance circuits (9) to tap-off points (11). The tap-off points (11) are connected via third resistance circuits (10) to the other potential (P2). At each of the tap-off points (11), a potential (U1, U2, U3) is tapped-off and is fed to a monitoring device (12). The monitoring device (12) determines the difference (U1′) between the tapped-off potentials and the second potential (P2). The control device (3) considers the signals (M1, M2, M3) for the actuation of the load bridges (2).
US12341440B2
A system includes: an alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter (AC-DC converter) including a bulk capacitor, the AC-DC converter connectable to a line voltage; a DC to DC converter (DC-DC converter) connected to the AC-DC converter, the DC-DC converter including: one or more transformers having a secondary side connectable to a battery, and a bridge rectifier connected to the secondary side of the one or more transformers, the bridge rectifier including a bridge rectifier switch; and one or more controllers configured to control an operation of the bridge rectifier switch to control a voltage of the bulk capacitor.
US12341434B2
A power converter can include a rectifier that receives an AC input voltage and produces a rectified output voltage, a power factor correction (PFC) converter having an input coupled that receives the rectified output voltage of the rectifier and an output that provides an intermediate DC bus voltage, a DC-DC converter having an input that receives the intermediate DC bus voltage and produces a regulated DC output voltage, and control circuitry for the PFC converter stage that includes a relatively slower control loop that controls the PFC converter during steady state load conditions and at least one relatively faster control loop that controls the PFC converter during transient load conditions.
US12341428B2
A method and apparatus for generating electrical power, including providing a generator configured to generate a first voltage, providing a voltage converter configured to operably down-convert the first voltage output to a second voltage output to provide a first amount of power to a set of electrical loads, and changing a power demand for at least a subset of the set of electrical loads, wherein the changed power demand increases the power demanded. To meet the increased power demand, the voltage converter is controlled to operably down-convert the first voltage output to the second voltage output to provide a second amount of power to the set of electrical loads. The second amount of power is greater than the first amount of power. The power-generating capabilities of the generator are not modified between providing the first amount of power and providing the second amount of power.
US12341426B2
A semiconductor device includes: a storage circuit configured to be connected to a regulator circuit having characteristics to be identified using one or more values and store values identifying characteristics of the regulator circuit; and an electronic fuse controller including an input configured to be connected to an electronic fuse circuit including one or more electronic fuses, an output configured to be connected to the storage circuit, a reading control circuit, and a characteristic control circuit, in which the reading control circuit includes a reading circuit configured to read values from at least part of the electronic fuses through the input in a reading period, and the characteristic control circuit is configured to generate identification data configured to identify the characteristics based on a signal from the reading circuit and supply the identification data to the storage circuit through the output in an identifying period different from the reading period.
US12341411B2
A system comprising a current sensor for sensing an average output current and/or an average input current of a circuit is presented. There is a first switch, the first switch being arranged to selectively couple a sensing node of the circuit to a first voltage, wherein the current sensor comprises a pulse density modulator configured to generate a pulse density modulated signal. The pulse density modulated signal is dependent on an average current flowing through the first switch. The current sensor is configured to sense the average output current and/or the average input current of the circuit using the pulse density modulated signal.
US12341400B2
A concentric manifold ring assembly comprises an internal distribution manifold for a generator. The manifold is for use in a direct-liquid-cooled alternator together with a mating housing to form a concentric fluid distribution channel that enables the transport and distribution of chilled coolant from a heat exchanger to select locations in the alternator via channels, ducts, and jets. The external heat exchanger feeds chilled coolant through a feed port where the incoming fluid is directed circumferentially via a channel formed by the manifold body and housing. From the circumferential flow, streams of coolant flow from drilled jet ports, while the circumferential flow back-cools rectifier mounting surfaces. Fluid flows flowing axially out of ducts to create an active end-to-end circulation of chilled fluid within the alternator to absorb thermal energy from alternator components before being drawn out of a return flow channel via a return flow port.
US12341396B2
Linear motor comprising a stator, and a mobile motor part comprising at least one motor element separated from the stator by an airgap (G) configured to be electromagnetically coupled thereto to generate thrust on the mobile element in a track direction (A). At least one of the stator and the mobile motor part comprises an electromagnet and at least the other of the stator and mobile motor part comprises one or more of a permanent magnet, an electromagnet, an induction plate. The linear motor further comprises at least one control system, airgap sensors connected to the control system configured to measure a length of the airgap between the mobile motor part and the stator, and actuators connected to the control system coupled to a support of the mobile motor part and to the motor element, the actuators receiving control signals from the control system to adjust said length of the airgap.
US12341389B2
An electric machine includes a stator core and hairpin windings. The stator core defines slots that are circumferentially arranged between an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the stator core. Each slot has a plurality of pin positions that is arranged in a direction that extends from the inner diameter of the stator core toward the outer diameter of the stator core. The hairpin windings have a plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins disposed within the slots. Each of the plurality of electrical paths of interconnected hairpins have a plurality of typical hairpins and a plurality of atypical hairpins. Each typical hairpin has first and second opposing inwardly extending twist portions. Each atypical hairpin has a third inwardly extending twist portion and an outwardly extending twist portion disposed on an opposing end of the atypical hairpin relative to the third inwardly extending twist portion.
US12341385B2
A rotating electric machine includes a shaft angle sensor communicating with an external controller via differential signaling. This construction permits the controller to be located away from the axial end of the motor while reliably transmitting rotor angle or speed information to the controller over a relatively long electrical harness. The shaft angle sensor is mounted on a sensor board carried by the machine casing at the non-drive end of the rotor shaft. The sensor board can optionally act as a hub at which signals from multiple machine sensors are gathered to be placed in communication with the controller via the same electrical harness used to transmit the sensor information.
US12341369B2
A microgrid power system includes a power module configured to generate direct current (DC) power, an inverter module having a DC side and an AC side, and configured to invert DC power received from the power module on the DC side and output alternating current (AC) power on the AC side, a DC bus electrically connecting an output of the power module to an input on the DC side of the inverter module, an AC load bus configured to electrically connect an output on the AC of the inverter module to an AC load, an energy storage device electrically connected to the DC bus, and a kinetic storage device (KSD) device electrically connected to the AC load bus on the AC side of the inverter module.
US12341360B1
A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.
US12341356B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for controlling wireless charging in the electronic device. An electronic device includes: a sensor, a battery, a resonance circuit configured to wirelessly receive power, a rectification circuit configured to rectify an alternating current (AC) power provided from the resonance circuit into a direct current (DC) power, a DC/DC converter configured to convert the DC power provided from the rectification circuit to output a converted power, a charging control circuit configured to charge the battery using the converted power provided from the DC/DC converter, and a controller, and the controller may be configured to: identify movement information of the electronic device corresponding to a value sensed via the sensor, identify a voltage value of the DC power rectified via the rectification circuit, and control an output of the DC/DC converter based on the movement information and the voltage value.
US12341352B2
A foreign object detection apparatus and method, and a wireless charger. In the foreign object detection apparatus, a signal generation module generates a first calibration excitation signal based on first indication information received from a processing module and generates at least two first calibration carrier signals based on the first indication information. A phase difference detection module determines, based on each first calibration carrier signal and a first current signal obtained by a foreign object detection module under an action of the first calibration excitation signal, a first phase difference between each first calibration carrier signal and the first current signal. The processing module determines a target initial phase based on the first phase difference, and then generates second indication information. The second indication information indicates the signal generation module to generate a detection carrier signal whose initial phase is the target initial phase.
US12341350B2
The present disclosure relates to a device and method for controlling transmission of power in a wireless power transmitting system. The present specification discloses a wireless power transmitting method comprising the steps of: performing a digital ping on each of a plurality of coil combinations formed from a plurality of primary coils; receiving a signal intensity packet of each of the coil combinations from the wireless power receiving device; and forming the magnetic coupling by operating a coil combination selected on the basis of the signal intensity packet, and transmitting wireless power to the wireless power receiving device on the basis of the magnetic coupling. Therefore, an optimal multi-coil can be rapidly selected according to the location of the wireless power receiving device.
US12341349B2
A charging apparatus for vending-related devices is provided, comprising a charging compartment, which is adapted to house a plurality of vending-related devices in an unsorted manner; an inlet opening for inserting vending-related devices into the charging apparatus; and a wireless charging unit which is adapted to wirelessly transmit power to vending-related devices currently housed in the at least one charging compartment during charging operation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a system for charging vending-related devices, comprising such a charging apparatus and a vending-related device. Also, a method for charging the vending-related device of such a system is provided.
US12341344B2
An electronics circuit, comprising: a master controller; and a plurality of modules; wherein the master controller comprises: a timing signal generator arranged to generate a timing signal; and a data signal generator arranged to generate a data signal; wherein the master controller is arranged to generate a combined signal based on both the timing signal and the data signal; and wherein the master controller is arranged to broadcast the combined signal to the plurality of modules. By broadcasting the timing signal to the modules along with the data signal, the available bandwidth is effectively utilised without requiring a large number of separate signal paths to each module and without time multiplexing the signals. Thus accurate time synchronisation can be achieved such that the system can operate effectively at a high switching frequency. As the switches on the modules are not directly controlled by the master controller, the system provides a decentralised architecture in which processing of the received signals can be done locally on each module.
US12341343B2
The present disclosure discloses a control method for an energy storage system and apparatus, an energy storage system, and an energy storage device. The control method includes obtaining an operation parameter of a power grid and an electric quantity state of an energy storage battery in an energy storage system; and controlling working states of the power grid, the energy storage battery, a first auxiliary power supply, and a second auxiliary power supply according to the operation parameter of the power grid and the electric quantity state of the energy storage battery.
US12341337B2
For example, a multi voltage-domain Electro Static Discharge (ESD) power clamp may include a plurality of pins; and an ESD array including a cascaded plurality of ESD power clamps. For example, the ESD array may include a plurality of ESD array portions configured to protect a respective plurality of voltage domains from ESD. For example, the ESD array may be configured to connect the plurality of ESD array portions between a respective plurality of pin pairs from the plurality of pins. For example, an ESD array portion corresponding to a voltage domain may include one or more ESD power clamps of the cascaded plurality of ESD power clamps. For example, the ESD array portion may be configured to protect a voltage range of the voltage domain.
US12341327B2
A modular electrical conduit split assembly for efficient installation of electrical wiring. The modular electrical conduit split assembly includes an elongated, tubular conduit having at least one dividing wall running through the interior channel therein, defining separate chambers wherein each chamber includes an indicium disposed along an external surface of the conduit. A connection mechanism such as a coupling sleeve is disposed on an end of the conduit and configured to receive the end of a separate piece of conduit therein. Each chamber within the conduit is configured to receive electrical wiring therethrough which can be coordinated using color coded indicia appearing along the external surface.
US12341322B2
A functional module (200) comprises one or more monitoring-and-control units (138) configured to be connected to a communication module, and a segment of computer bus (204) connecting all of the monitoring-and-control units to the communication module. Each unit allow the connection to an electrical load and is controlled by the communication module. The functional module further comprises one or more input-output modules (206) each associated with a monitoring-and-control unit, to connect the segment of computer bus to a unit and to the electrical load connected to this unit, and to allow the exchange of data between this unit and the electrical load. The segment of computer bus comprises memory blocks, each memory block being configured to be associated with a unit and to store information relating to the type of the unit associated with the memory block and/or operating parameters of the unit associated with the memory block and/or information on the electrical load connected to said unit, as well as information regarding an input-output module.
US12341317B2
The present application provides a wave shaping circuit of a laser driving circuit, a laser driving circuit and a laser device, by attenuating the wave at the start of the pulse to a lower power, and then outputting the original pulse power after a delay, the laser relaxation oscillations disappears or occurs at a lower power of the light emission, with which the amplitude and probability of generation of the relaxation oscillations are reduced, thereby reducing the abnormal power at the moment of pulse operation and preventing the optical fiber from being overheated and damaged.
US12341316B2
A plurality of laser diode bars and a plurality of dummy bars are alternately arranged on projections provided on an upper surface of a plate so that an opening of the plate is sandwiched between the projections. The plurality of laser diode bars and the plurality of dummy bars are arranged with the projections as reference positions. End surfaces of the plurality of laser diode bars are protruded upward relative to the plurality of dummy bars. Next, an insulation film is formed on protruding portions of the plurality of laser diode bars relative to the plurality of dummy bars.
US12341308B2
A connection terminal and a connector are disclosed. The connection terminal has a terminal body, at least part of which is installed in a housing of a connector; and a first connection part arranged at one end of the terminal body and extending outside the housing to electrically connect with a bus bar. The first connection part has a plurality of side surfaces, and any one of the adjacent two side surfaces is selectively formed to match and connect with a surface of a connection end of the bus bar. In the present invention, the installation orientation of the connector can be any one of four or more different directions, which expands the application range of the connector.
US12341302B2
Electrical connectors for very high speed signals, including signals at or above 112 Gbps. Effectiveness of shielding along the signal paths through the mating electrical connectors may be enhanced through the use of one or more techniques, including enabling two-sided shielding, connections between shield members and between shield members and grounded structures of printed circuit boards to which the connectors are mounted, and selective positioning of lossy material. Such techniques may be simply and reliably implemented in high density connector using one or more techniques. An electrical connector may include core members held by a housing together with leadframe assemblies attached to the core members. The core members may include features that would be difficult to mold in a housing and may include both shields and lossy materials in locations that would be difficult to incorporate in a leadframe assembly.
US12341296B2
An electrical connector includes: a contact unit including plural pairs of signal contacts and plural ground contacts between adjacent pairs of signal contacts; a cable including plural wires terminated to the contact unit; a ground bar retaining the cable to the contact unit; and a ground bridge connected at a rear thereof to the ground bar and connected at a front thereof to at least one of the plural ground contacts.
US12341292B2
A plug connector includes a housing, a built-in circuit board, a cable, two locking arms, a driving member, and a pull strap connected to the driving member. Each locking arm includes a locking protrusion, an abutting portion and a pivot portion. The driving member includes two driving arms. Each driving arm includes a protruding portion to pull the abutting portion. The locking arm is rotatable around the pivot part when the pull strap is pulled by an external force. At the same time, the locking protrusions can move along a thickness direction from a locked position to an unlocked position. The plug connector also includes two return springs for returning the locking arms after the external force is removed. As a result, the reliability of the plug connector of the present disclosure is improved.
US12341289B1
The present application relates to an electric blanket plug connector, including: an end cover component, a box body component, a circuit board component, and an external assembly plate; both the end cover component and the box body component are of an integrally injection molded structure, and the end cover component is mounted on the box body component in a clamping manner to form a connecting box body with an opening at one side in a buckling manner; the circuit board component is mounted in the connecting box body, the circuit board component is provided with a connecting socket, and the connecting socket is mounted at an opening of the connecting box body; the external assembly plate is integrally injection molded, the fixed columns penetrate through a blanket body of an electric blanket and then penetrate into the bottom of the box body component.
US12341288B2
The present application relates to an electrical assembly. An assembly includes a housing, a tray, a flat cable, and a terminal subassembly. The tray may be partially disposed within the housing and may include a slot and a cavity. The tray may be formed separately from the housing. The flat cable may include an electrical conductor with an exposed portion. The terminal subassembly may include a first terminal connected to a first end of a subassembly conductor and a second terminal connected to a second end of the subassembly conductor. A portion of the flat cable may be disposed in the cavity. A first portion of the terminal subassembly may be disposed in the slot and a second portion of the terminal subassembly may be disposed in the cavity. The second terminal may be electrically connected to the exposed electrical conductor.
US12341272B2
A compact mobile high-frequency Antenna that quickly and quietly self-adjusts to minimize Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR). Includes a compact tuning coil and a rolling contact. A Reentrant cap serves as a capacitive top hat. A spiral cut enhances the efficiency is this very short antenna. A tough insulating tube covers the antenna to serve as a radome protect the user from RF burns. The use of rolling contacts on a smooth inside diameter of the tuning coil greatly reduces the force to move the contactor as well as the acoustical noise generated when tuning. A controller drives a servo motor to position the contactor to the optimal position within the tuning coil and selects the impedance to connect between the unused end of the tuning coil and the feed point of the antenna to optimize VSWR.
US12341270B2
An aperture-sharing method for a dual-band aperture-shared antenna. By means of the method, a first dielectric substrate is arranged directly above a floor, a second dielectric substrate is arranged between the floor and the first dielectric substrate; a first meta surface, a first radiation ring, a second radiation ring and a second meta surface are arranged in a first quadrant to a fourth quadrant of the top surface of the first dielectric substrate; a fourth radiation ring, a fourth meta surface, a third meta surface and a third radiation ring are arranged in a first quadrant to a fourth quadrant of the bottom surface of the first dielectric substrate; first high-frequency antenna elements are symmetrically arranged on the top surface of the second dielectric substrate; and second high-frequency antenna elements are symmetrically arranged on the bottom surface of the second dielectric substrate. Further disclosed is a dual-band aperture-shared antenna structure.
US12341266B2
An antenna includes a first radiation structure having a first radiator, and a second radiation structure having a second radiator. A first end of the first radiator and a first end of the second radiator form a first gap. A second end of the first radiator is free, and a second end of the second radiator is grounded. A feed point of the antenna is coupled to the first radiator, and the first radiator is divided into a first portion and a second portion that are delimited by the feed point. In a case that the antenna is in operation, the first portion of the first radiator and the second radiator work together in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, and a frequency of the first frequency band is less than a frequency of the second frequency band.
US12341263B2
Disclosed is a dual-frequency antenna including a dielectric carrier plate, a first radiator, a second radiator, a coupling radiator and a coaxial cable. The first radiator, the second radiator and the coupling radiator are disposed on a first surface of the dielectric carrier plate, and the coupling radiator is located between the first radiator and the second radiator and is spaced apart from the first radiator and the second radiator respectively. The coaxial cable includes an inner conductor, a first insulating layer covering part of the inner conductor, an outer conductor covering part of the first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer covering part of the outer conductor. The exposed inner conductor is electrically connected to the first radiator. The exposed outer conductor is electrically connected to the second radiator. Therefore, the dual-frequency antenna generates a first resonance mode and a second resonance mode with different center frequencies.
US12341259B2
The disclosed system may include an antenna and an antenna matching network. The antenna matching network may include an aperture tuner configured to shift a frequency response of the antenna and an impedance tuner configured to dynamically change an amount of radiated power for the antenna. The antenna matching network may be positioned at least a specified minimum distance from the antenna according to various operating characteristics of the antenna. Various other apparatuses, wearable electronic devices, and methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US12341257B2
Provided is a two-dimensional phased array antenna having a simple configuration capable of reducing the number of control systems and the number of control input ports for phase control of antenna elements. The phased array antenna comprises a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of frequency mixers for respectively supplying transmission signals with a predetermined transmission frequency (f) to the plurality of antenna elements, and means for generating a plurality of first mixing signals having a predetermined first phase difference (Δφ1) between the antenna elements adjacent to each other in the first direction and a plurality of second mixing signals having a predetermined second phase difference (Δφ2) between the antenna elements adjacent to each other in the second direction, based on three frequency-controllable input signals with respective frequencies different from each other, and supplying the plurality of first mixing signals and the plurality of second mixing signals to the plurality of frequency mixers.
US12341252B2
An antenna substrate includes: a first insulating layer surrounding a cavity; a second insulating layer of which at least a portion is disposed in the cavity and containing an insulating material different from an insulating material of the first insulating layer; a first patch antenna having one surface facing the first insulating layer by an amount greater than half of an area of the first patch antenna; and a second patch antenna having one surface facing the cavity by an amount greater than half of an area of the second patch antenna.
US12341246B2
Provided is a waveguide-stripline feed transition element having a radiation function. The waveguide-stripline feed transition element includes a lower element in which a waveguide feed port is arranged, an upper element including a slot opening configured to radiate a portion of input power transmitted through the waveguide feed port to a free space, and a circuit board including a strip feed port configured to transmit remaining input power except for the portion of the input power radiated through the slot opening, the circuit board being arranged between the upper element and the lower element.
US12341245B2
A microstrip antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a ground electrode provided on a first surface of the substrate, an antenna element including a plurality of radiating elements on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface so as to extend parallel to one another and a connecting element provided on the second surface to extend in a direction intersecting with the radiating elements and connect the radiating elements, a feed line including a first end portion connected to a portion of the endmost radiating element in plan view, where the portion is located on an extension of the connecting element, and a second end portion provided on a side surface of the substrate between the first and second surfaces to receive power, and a connection line including a section located on the side surface along the feed line and connecting the endmost radiating element to the ground electrode.
US12341244B2
The present invention discloses an structure for uniformly distributing radiation energy of a millimeter wave antenna, comprising an emitting array antenna and/or receiving array antenna including at least one comb-shaped antenna assembly, wherein the comb-shaped antenna assembly comprises a long-strip-shaped antenna body and a micro-strip antenna radiation assembly; one end of the antenna body can be connected with a millimeter wave circuit capable of generating millimeter waves; the micro-strip antenna radiation assembly includes a plurality of middle micro-strip antenna radiation units which are arranged on the middle section of the antenna body at intervals, and a tail-end micro-strip antenna radiation unit which is arranged at the tail end of the antenna body; and the area of the middle micro-strip antenna radiation units is gradually increased from one end close to the millimeter wave circuit to the other end, such that distribution of energy outwards radiated by each middle micro-strip antenna radiation unit trends to be average.
US12341239B2
An antenna system for a wearable device comprises an antenna that includes a plurality of elements. The elements include an antenna element that comprises an electrically conductive material. The antenna also includes one or more feed points configured for operable coupling to a wireless transceiver. Additionally, the antenna includes a set of one or more switch units. For each respective switch unit of the set of switch units: the respective switch unit is connected to one or more elements of the respective switch unit in the plurality of elements, a flow of electrical current to the one or more elements connected to the respective switch unit is dependent on a switch state of the respective switch unit. A radiation characteristic of the antenna is dependent on the switch states of the switch units.
US12341234B1
An apparatus for mounting an antenna. The apparatus includes a body centrally located configured to coordinate a movement and positioning of the antenna, an attachment interface coupled to the body, at least a quick release feature, wherein the at least a quick release feature is configured to detach the antenna from the attachment interface, at least a member coupled to the body, wherein the at least a member extends away from the body, and at least a mounting point coupled to a distal end of the at least a member, the mounting points configured to secure the apparatus to a surface.
US12341233B2
A signal transmission line includes first and second base materials, and conductive bonding materials. The first base material includes a signal conductor. The second base material includes a ground conductor. The conductive bonding materials bond the first base and second base material to provide a gap. The first base material includes a mounting conductor to which the conductive bonding materials are respectively bonded. The mounting conductor includes a portion extending in parallel or substantially in parallel with the signal conductor on a side of a first side surface, and a portion extending in parallel or substantially in parallel with the signal conductor on a side of a second side surface. A position of a portion of the mounting conductor on the side of the first side surface and a position of a portion of the mounting conductor on the side of the second side surface are different from each other in a signal transmission direction.
US12341223B2
An electrode assembly and related battery, device, manufacturing method, and manufacturing device are provided. In some embodiments, the electrode assembly includes: a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate that are of opposite polarities, where an active material region of the first electrode plate and an active material region of the second electrode plate are wound to form a body portion, a non-active material region of the first electrode plate or a non-active material region of the second electrode plate is wound to form a tab, and the tab includes a bend portion bent against the body portion; and a guide piece. At least a part of the guide piece is located in the bend portion, and the guide piece is configured to guide an electrolytic solution into an interior of the body portion.
US12341222B2
In this secondary battery in which an electrode body having a positive electrode tab group at one end thereof is accommodated in a battery case, a positive electrode terminal and the positive electrode tab group are electrically connected via a second positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode tab group is connected to a tab connection part of the second positive electrode current collector in a bent state, and a tape as a fixing means is attached across a first main surface of the electrode body-the tab connection part of the second positive electrode current collector-a second main surface of the electrode body.
US12341212B2
Devices and mechanisms are disclosed for a simple ejection of the battery-pack from a power-tool with one hand only. The disclosed lock and release mechanisms primarily use one finger while the same hand of the user holds the power-tool. The claimed devices and mechanisms accept and eject two categories of batteries that either slideably attach to the bottom of the power-tool or are inserted into the handle of the power-tool.
US12341211B2
A battery bracket for mounting a battery pack case to a vehicle is provided. The battery bracket includes: an outer structure having a lower part and an upper part forming a cavity therebetween; and an inner structure in the cavity. The outer structure is configured to be fixed to an outer side face of the battery pack case. The inner structure meanders between the lower part and the upper part of the outer structure such that a lower contact area and an upper contact area are formed at where the inner structure contacts the lower part of the outer structure and the upper part of the outer structure, respectively.
US12341186B2
An alkaline electrochemical cell includes a cathode, an anode which includes an anode active material, and a non-conductive separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein from about 20% to about 50% by weight of the anode active material relative to a total amount of anode active material has a particle size of less than about 75 μm, and wherein the separator includes a unitary, cylindrical configuration having an open end, a side wall, and integrally formed closed end disposed distally to the open end.
US12341181B2
Lithium metal electrodes, modular lithium deposition systems, and associated articles and methods are generally described.
US12341174B2
An electric battery may include a battery housing, a plurality of battery cell modules, an electrical current conduction, and a cover. The battery housing may include a plurality of housing cut-outs that are sealed via a cooling plate. The battery cell modules may be configured to store electric energy and may be thermally connected to the cooling plate. Each of the battery cell modules may include an electrical positive connection and an electrical negative connection. The electrical current conduction may be configured to supply the battery cell modules electric energy. The electrical current conduction may include a first electrical conductor rail and a second electrical conductor rail. The cover may be detachably coupled to the battery housing. The first conductor rail may include a plurality of rail elements. One of the rail elements may be configured to electrically connect adjacent battery cell modules.
US12341173B2
A method produces a battery arrangement which has a battery tray having a tray bottom and a battery received in the battery tray, wherein the battery lies on the battery tray at support points spanning a support plane and wherein, before the battery is inserted into the battery tray, a thermal compound is applied to the tray bottom and/or to the battery bottom in order to fill, at least in part, a gap between a battery bottom facing the tray bottom and the tray bottom. Before the thermal compound is applied, a distance between the tray bottom and the support plane is determined at least at first measurement points and the thermal compound is applied to the tray bottom and/or the battery bottom in a quantity which is dependent on the determined distances between the tray bottom and the support plane.
US12341172B2
An energy storage system includes a controller and a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel. The battery pack includes a cell pack, a temperature sensing module, a temperature control module, and a battery management system (BMS). The temperature sensing module is configured to detect a temperature of the battery pack, the temperature control module is configured to heat the battery pack, and the BMS is configured to send heating requests and states of charge (SOCs) of corresponding battery packs to the controller. The controller determines, based on a difference between a voltage of a direct-current bus and a charging voltage reference value of the energy storage system, a quantity of battery packs whose temperature control modules can be enabled, and determines, based on the SOCs of the battery packs, priorities for enabling the temperature control modules of the battery packs, enhancing utilization of power generation power.
US12341170B2
An energy storage system includes a cabinet, an air conditioner, a battery energy storage unit, and an air duct. The air conditioner is fastened to the cabinet. The air conditioner includes an air supply vent and an air return vent. The battery energy storage unit is accommodated in the cabinet. A first channel and a second channel that are separated are formed between the battery energy storage unit and an inner wall of the cabinet. The second channel is connected to the air return vent. The battery energy storage unit includes an air intake vent and an air exhaust vent. The air intake vent is connected to the first channel. The air exhaust vent is connected to the second channel. The air duct is accommodated in the second passage.
US12341166B2
A separation and extraction method includes immersing a battery in water comprising sodium chloride and a polypeptide. The sodium chloride can facilitate discharge of the battery and the polypeptide can collect substances from the battery. After the battery is taken out of the water, the method may further include pulverizing the battery, sorting metal materials from the pulverized battery; and re-immersing the sorted metal material in the water.
US12341159B2
A rechargeable battery, an electrode assembly, and an electrode assembly manufacturing method are disclosed. The electrode assembly includes: a separator configured to include a first insertion portion formed in a first direction and a second insertion portion formed in a second direction, which are alternatively stacked; a first electrode inserted into the first insertion portion; a second electrode inserted into the second insertion portion while the separator is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a sealing portion configured to bond opposite surfaces of the separator into which the first electrode and the second electrode are inserted with the separator interposed therebetween; and a lead tab configured to include a first current collecting tab connected to the first electrode and a second current collecting tab connected to the second electrode.
US12341158B2
An electrolyte, a preparation method thereof and a lithium ion battery, where the electrolyte comprises a solvent, a lithium salt, and a first additive shown in Formula 1; in Formula 1, R1 and R3 are each independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl group, (—C2H4—O—C2H4—)n or is a direct bond, and 1≤n≤5; R2 is selected from one of —NH—, —CH2—, —SiH2—, —BH— and —PH—. The electrolyte has simple composition, and can not only enable the lithium ion battery to maintain excellent cycle performance at high voltages, but also effectively inhibit the lithium ion battery from overproducing gas so as to optimize storage performance.
US12341151B2
A planar solid electrolyte oxygen separator includes a first end plate formed with an oxygen outlet, a second end plate, two solid electrolyte cells disposed between the first and second end plates, and a planar interconnector disposed between the solid electrolyte cells. Each of the solid electrolyte cells includes two electrode layers, a metal-oxide-based electrolyte layer, and a through hole that is aligned with the oxygen outlet. The planar interconnector includes an upper portion having upper main channels and an upper passage, a lower portion having lower channels, and a connecting passage fluidly connected to the upper passage and the lower channels.
US12341149B2
Powderized solid-state electrolytes and electroactive materials as well as related methods of manufacturing and use are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ionically conductive powder comprises a plurality of ionically conductive particles. The ionically conductive particles may comprise an ionically conductive salt dissolved in a thermoplastic polymer, with optional components (e.g., electroactive and/or inorganic solid particles) dispersed within. Related methods of producing these ionically conductive powders are also disclosed including, but are not limited to, low-temperature milling, spray drying, and aerosol polymerization. Embodiments related to using the resultant ionically conductive powders in a spray deposition process are also described.
US12341146B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a rechargeable battery case, the apparatus comprising: a punch which presses an object; a die which comprises an extrusion part for extruding the pressed object, wherein, when the punch presses the object such that the object enters the extrusion part, the die is elastically deformed so that the width of the extrusion part is increased, and when the punch continues to press the object such that the object is separated from the extrusion part, the die is elastically deformed so that the width of the extrusion part is restored to an initial value; and a knockout unit which is raised through the extrusion part of the die, has the object seated thereon, raises or lowers the object, and raises the object when the object interferes with the die such that the punch and the object are separated from each other.
US12341144B2
Embodiments of the instant disclosure are directed to a touch light-emitting decoration nameplate and a fabrication method thereof. The touch light-emitting decoration nameplate comprises a transparent substrate, a first decoration ink layer, a circuit layer, a light-emitting element and an electronic element. The transparent substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, and the second surface is disposed opposite to the first surface. The first decoration ink layer is disposed on either the first surface or the second surface of the transparent substrate. The circuit layer is disposed on either the first decoration ink layer or the first surface of the transparent substrate. The circuit layer includes at least a light-emitting line and a touch-sensing line. The light-emitting element is disposed on the light-emitting line of the circuit layer, and is electrically connected to the light-emitting line. The electronic element is disposed on the circuit layer, and is electrically connected to the light-emitting line and the touch-sensing line.
US12341143B2
A device substrate, including a circuit substrate, a first side wiring, a sealant structure, and a second side wiring, is provided. The first side wiring extends from a first surface of the circuit substrate to a second surface of the circuit substrate along a side surface of the circuit substrate. The sealant structure is located above the first surface and covers the first side wiring on the first surface. The second side wiring extends from the sealant structure to the first side wiring located on the side surface and the second surface of the circuit substrate.
US12341140B2
Provided are display panel and display device. Display panel includes base substrate; light-emitting element located on base substrate; first electrode and second electrode both electrically connected to light-emitting element, both located on side of light-emitting element facing base substrate or on side of light-emitting element facing away from base substrate and both providing voltage signals for light-emitting element; first reflective layer located on side of light-emitting element facing base substrate, and with direction perpendicular to base substrate as projection direction, first reflective layer covering light-emitting element; and voltage signal line located on side of light-emitting element facing base substrate. First electrode and second electrode respectively include first extension part and second extension part, at least one of which is connected to voltage signal line and does not overlap first reflective layer. First electrode and second electrode normally receive voltage signals, and light-emitting efficiency of display panel is improved.
US12341137B2
A light emitter, comprising light emitting devices mechanically interconnected by a common substrate and an interconnection submount. The light emitting devices are electrically interconnected by the submount to provide an array of serially connected subsets of light emitting devices, each subset comprising at least three light emitting devices electrically connected in parallel. Also, a light emitter comprising first light emitting devices mechanically interconnected by a first common substrate, and second light emitting devices mechanically interconnected by a second common substrate, the first light emitting devices being mechanically and electrically connected to the second light emitting devices. Also, a light emitter comprising mechanically interconnected light emitting devices and means for mechanically and electrically interconnecting the plurality of light emitting devices to provide an array of serially connected subsets of light emitting devices, each subset comprising at least three light emitting devices electrically connected in parallel. Also, methods of fabricating light emitters.
US12341135B2
A semiconductor device includes a MOSFET including a PN junction diode. A unipolar device is connected in parallel to the MOSFET and has two terminals. A first wire connects the PN junction diode to one of the two terminals of the unipolar device. A second wire connects the one of the two terminals of the unipolar device to an output line, so that the output line is connected to the MOSFET and the unipolar device via the first wire and the second wire. In one embodiment the connection of the first wire to the diode is with its anode, and in another the connection is with the cathode.
US12341134B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first control logic region comprising first control logic devices and a memory array region vertically overlying the first control logic region. The memory array region comprises capacitors, access devices laterally neighboring and in electrical communication with the capacitors, conductive lines operatively associated with the access devices and extending in a lateral direction, and first conductive pillars operatively associated with the access devices and vertically extending through the memory array region. The microelectronic device further comprises a second control logic region comprising second control logic devices vertically overlying the memory array region. Related microelectronic devices, memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US12341132B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a stacked structure, wherein the stacked structure includes a plurality of stacked semiconductor dies, and each of the semiconductor dies includes: a first base; a channel provided on the first base; and at least one first auxiliary through electrode and a plurality of connection through electrodes running through the first base, wherein the at least one first auxiliary through electrode is surrounded by the plurality of connection through electrodes, wherein connection through electrodes of adjacent ones of the semiconductor dies are connected through a first electrical connection structure to form a plurality of mutually isolated transmission paths, and each of the transmission paths is connected to at least one channel through at least one connection through electrode thereon.
US12341126B2
A method of assembling a flipchip semiconductor package, includes placing a semiconductor die having circuitry electrically coupled to bond pads with bumps having solder paste thereon onto bonding features of a package substrate. Arc welding is used using an arc welding apparatus including a biased electrode having a tip spaced apart from the solder paste, wherein electrical current generated by the arc welding melts the solder paste to provide a solder connection.
US12341121B2
An integrated circuit package may be fabricated by disposing an underfill material between an electronic substrate and an integrated circuit device through an opening in the electronic substrate. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit assembly may include an electronic substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the electronic substrate includes at least one opening extending from the first surface to the second surface. The integrated circuit assembly may further include an integrated circuit device, wherein the integrated circuit device is electrically attached to the electronic substrate with at least one interconnect, and an underfill material may be disposed between the first surface of the electronic substrate and the integrated circuit device, wherein a portion of the underfill material extends into the opening in the electronic substrate.
US12341119B2
A die attachment material may include an ultra-violet (UV) curable resin and silver particles to attach a chip to a submount, where the silver particles are positioned within the UV curable resin. A method may include heating the die attachment material to obtain the UV curable resin on sintered silver particles, where at least a portion of the die attachment material is position between a chip and a submount. The method may further include irradiating, with UV light, the UV curable resin to obtain a polymer on the sintered silver particles. The polymer may form a layer on the sintered silver particles.
US12341115B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a first bond pad isolation structure within a substrate. A second bond pad isolation structure is formed with the substrate. The second bond pad isolation structure is disposed laterally between inner sidewalls of the first bond pad isolation structure. The first bond pad isolation structure and the second bond pad isolation structure are formed concurrently with one another. A bond pad is formed extending through the substrate. The bond pad comprises a conductive body overlying the second bond pad isolation structure and a conductive protrusion extending from the conductive body to below the substrate. The second bond pad isolation structure laterally wraps around the conductive protrusion.
US12341103B2
An integrated circuit includes a first and second active region, a first conductive structure, an insulating region, a set of gates and a set of contacts. The first and second active region are in a substrate, extend in a first direction, are located on a first level, and being separated from one another in a second direction. The first conductive structure extends in the first direction, is located on the first level, and is between the first and second active region. The insulating region is located on at least the first level, and is between the first and second active region and the first conductive structure. The set of gates extend in the second direction, overlap the first conductive structure, and is located on a second level. The set of contacts extend in the second direction, overlap the first conductive structure, and is located on the second level.
US12341102B2
A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment includes: a first stacked body including a plurality of first electrode layers and a plurality of first insulating layers that are alternately stacked on a substrate in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate; a plurality of semiconductor films penetrating the first stacked body in the first direction; a second stacked body including a plurality of second electrode layers and a plurality of second insulating layers that are alternately stacked on the first stacked body in the first direction; and a plurality of contact plugs penetrating the second stacked body in the first direction and separately connected to the respective plurality of semiconductor films and the respective plurality of second electrode layers.
US12341092B2
Integrated circuitry comprising devices electrically coupled through a plurality of interconnect levels in which lines of a first and second interconnect level are coupled through a planar slab via. An interconnect line may include a horizontal line segment within one of the first or second interconnect levels, and the slab via may be a vertical line segment between the first and second interconnect levels. A planar slab via may comprise one or more layers of conductive material, which have been deposited upon a planarized substrate material that lacks any features that the conductive material must fill. A planar slab via may be subtractively defined concurrently with a horizontal line of one or both of the first or second interconnect levels.
US12341086B2
A lead frame includes: leads; and a dambar arranged between the leads and connecting the leads to each other, wherein each of the leads includes: a lower lead groove formed in a first surface for a wettable flank structure; and an upper lead groove formed in a second surface opposite the first surface and aligned with the lower lead groove in a thickness direction, wherein in a sawing process, a portion of the lead between the lower lead groove and the upper lead groove is at least partially removed.
US12341080B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor dies and methods of forming such dies. In an embodiment, the semiconductor die comprises a semiconductor substrate, an active device layer in the semiconductor substrate, where the active device layer comprises one or more transistors, an interconnect layer over a first surface of the active device layer, a first bonding layer over a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second bonding layer secured to the first bonding layer, and a heat spreader attached to the second bonding layer.
US12341079B2
A package structure includes a wafer-form semiconductor package and a thermal dissipating system. The wafer-form semiconductor package includes semiconductor dies electrically connected with each other. The thermal dissipating system is located on and thermally coupled to the wafer-form semiconductor package, where the thermal dissipating system has a hollow structure with a fluidic space, and the fluidic space includes a ceiling and a floor. The thermal dissipating system includes at least one inlet opening, at least one outlet opening and a plurality of first microstructures. The at least one inlet opening and the at least one outlet opening are spatially communicated with the fluidic space. The first microstructures are located on the floor, and at least one of the first microstructures is corresponding to the at least one outlet opening.
US12341078B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a cooler, a semiconductor package provided on an upper surface of the cooler, a metal plate having a main section provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor package, a spring that is provided above the main section and presses the main section toward the upper surface of the semiconductor package with an elastic force and a fixture that fixes the spring to an upper surface of the main section with the spring exerting the elastic force, wherein a surface, which faces the upper surface of the semiconductor package, of the main section is flat.
US12341077B2
Semiconductor circuit structures with direct die heat removal structure are provided. The semiconductor circuit structure comprises a semiconductor substrate with an original semiconductor surface; a set of active regions within the semiconductor substrate; and a first shallow trench isolation (STI) region neighboring to the set of active regions and extending along a first direction. Wherein the first STI region includes a heat removing layer, and the material of the heat removing layer is different from SiO2.
US12341073B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and provides a forming method of a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure. The forming method of a semiconductor structure includes: placing a target structure in a reaction chamber; forming a first oxide layer on the target structure, where the first oxide layer has a first thickness; and forming a second oxide layer under the first oxide layer, where the second oxide layer has a second thickness, and the first thickness is less than the second thickness.
US12341072B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor package includes the following steps. An integrated circuit structure is provided, wherein the integrated circuit structure includes an integrated circuit and a metallization layer covering a back surface of the integrated circuit. An encapsulation material is provided to laterally encapsulate the integrated circuit structure. A redistribution structure is provided over the integrated circuit structure and the encapsulation material, wherein the redistribution structure includes a thermal metal layer furthermost from the integrated circuit structure, wherein the thermal metal layer is thermally coupled to the metallization layer. A solder layer is provided over the thermal metal layer, wherein the solder layer is thermally coupled to the thermal metal layer.
US12341069B2
Implementations of methods of singulating a plurality of die included in a substrate may include forming a plurality of die on a first side of a substrate, forming a backside metal layer on a second side of a substrate, applying a photoresist layer over the backside metal layer, patterning the photoresist layer along a die street of the substrate, and etching through the backside metal layer located in the die street of the substrate. The substrate may be exposed through the etch. The method may also include singulating the plurality of die included in the substrate through removing a substrate material in the die street.
US12341049B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a heater unit. The heater unit includes first and second heater elements. The first heater element includes a first zone. The first heater element includes first and second protruding portions. The first zone includes a first facing region in which the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion are disposed so as to face and be adjacent to each other. The second heater element includes a second zone. The second zone includes a central region and an outer peripheral region. The central region is positioned at a center of the second zone. The outer peripheral region is positioned outside the central region. The first facing region is located at a position where the first facing region overlaps the central region.
US12341045B2
A transfer apparatus according to the disclosure includes a mast portion including a base portion, and a protrusion portion protruding from the base portion, and a plurality of shuttles configured to move along the mast portion, thereby transferring a carrier. The mast portion includes a first magnet track fixed to a first sidewall of the protrusion portion, and a second magnet track fixed to a second sidewall of the protrusion portion. Each of the plurality of shuttles includes a first coil portion adjacent to the first magnet track in a horizontal direction, and a second coil portion adjacent to the second magnet track in the horizontal direction. The protrusion portion, the first magnet track, and the second magnet track are disposed between the first and second coil portions.
US12341036B2
A resin shaping device configured to cure a resin placed in a mold in a state in which the mold is pressed against a substrate, the resin shaping device comprising: a substrate holding unit configured to hold the substrate in an orientation such that a forming face for forming a resin part on the substrate faces vertically downward; a head configured to hold the mold from vertically below; a head drive unit configured to cause the head to face a position for formation of a resin part on the substrate, and then cause vertically upward movement of the head so that the head approaches the substrate holding unit and presses the mold from vertically below the substrate; and a resin curing unit configured to cure the resin placed in the mold in a state in which the mold is pressed against the substrate.
US12341033B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for separating a semiconductor chip disposed on a base member via an adhesive member from the base member. The method includes: a step of providing a push member on a side of the base member opposite to a side on which the semiconductor chip is disposed and moving the push member in a direction towards the semiconductor chip; and a step of separating the semiconductor chip, moved together with the push member, from the base member through a pick-up unit. The adhesive member and the push member are each magnetized such that repulsive forces act on each other.
US12341019B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method that includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate and patterning the dielectric to form an opening in the dielectric layer. Further, a conductive material is formed within the opening of the dielectric layer. A planarization process is performed to remove portions of the conductive material arranged over the dielectric layer thereby forming a conductive feature within the opening of the dielectric layer. An anti-oxidation layer is formed on upper surfaces of the conductive feature, and then, the anti-oxidation layer is removed.
US12341011B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist layer over a mask layer, patterning the photoresist layer, and forming an oxide layer on exposed surfaces of the patterned photoresist layer. The mask layer is patterned using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask. A target layer is patterned using the patterned mask layer as a mask.
US12341008B2
A heat treatment device includes: a heating plate configured to support and heat a substrate on which a metal containing resist film is formed; a chamber configured to cover a processing space above the heating plate; a gas supply configured to supply a gas into the chamber along a gas flow path connected to an inside of the chamber, the gas flow path being directed toward the substrate; and an exhaust port configured to evacuate inside of the chamber.
US12341005B2
Methods for depositing silicon-containing thin films, such as SiCN films, on a substrate in a reaction space are provided. The methods can include a vapor deposition process utilizing a vapor-phase silicon precursor comprising a halogen and a second vapor-phase reactant comprising an amine reactant. In some embodiments an atomic layer deposition (ALD) cycle comprises alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a silicon precursor comprising a halogen and a second reactant comprising an amine reactant. In some embodiments a SiCN thin film is deposited by alternately contacting the substrate with a halosilane such as octachlorotrisilane and an amine reactant comprising a diamine or triamine.
US12340992B2
An apparatus to determine occurrence of an anomalous plasma event occurring at or near a process station of a multi-station integrated circuit fabrication chamber is disclosed. In particular embodiments, optical emissions generated responsive to the anomalous plasma event may be detected by at least one photosensor of a plurality of photosensors. A processor may cooperate with the plurality of photosensors to determine that the anomalous plasma event has occurred at or near by a particular process station of the multi-station integrated circuit fabrication chamber.
US12340990B2
A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, includes: a base substrate that has a wafer-placement-table support and a focus-ring-placement-table support; a focus-ring placement table that is joined to the focus-ring-placement-table support; a wafer placement table that is separate from the focus-ring placement table, that overlaps an inner peripheral portion of the focus-ring placement table in plan view, and that is joined to the inner peripheral portion of the focus-ring placement table and to the wafer-placement-table support; an internal space that is surrounded by a lower surface of the wafer placement table, an outer peripheral surface of the wafer-placement-table support, an inner peripheral surface of the focus-ring placement table, and an upper surface of the focus-ring-placement-table support; and a communication path that is provided at the base substrate and that causes the internal space and an outside of the base substrate to communicate with each other.
US12340982B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of composite coating preparation, in particular to a method for plasma-assisted and multi-step continuous preparation of a diffusion layer/amorphous carbon film composite coating and use thereof. In the present disclosure, a high-temperature plasma carburizing/nitriding technology and a low-temperature plasma carbon coating technology are combined by a plasma activation technology with argon ion under gradient cooling, and the surface of a material is activated by multiple bombardment on the surface of the material with high-energy argon ions. In this way, a cluster-like porous and loose structure on a surface of the diffusion layer is removed. In summary, the multi-step continuous preparation of the diffusion layer/amorphous carbon film composite coating is formed based on an integrated technology of the high-temperature plasma diffusion with nitrogen/carbon ion and plasma activation with argon ion under gradient cooling and plasma coating with low-temperature carbon ion.
US12340978B2
Embodiments include a plasma processing tool that includes a processing chamber, and a plurality of modular microwave sources coupled to the processing chamber. In an embodiment, the plurality of modular microwave sources include an array of applicators that are positioned over a dielectric body that forms a portion of an outer wall of the processing chamber. The array of applicators may be coupled to the dielectric body. Additionally, the plurality of modular microwave sources may include an array of microwave amplification modules. In an embodiment, each microwave amplification module may be coupled to at least one of the applicators in the array of applicators. According to an embodiment, the dielectric body be planar, non-planar, symmetric, or non-symmetric. In yet another embodiment, the dielectric body may include a plurality of recesses. In such an embodiment, at least one applicator may be positioned in at least one of the recesses.
US12340962B2
The present disclosure refers to a switch for interrupting of a circuit in which two voltage sources and at least one load are connected, wherein the switch actuate quickly in an emergency. The switch includes a main conductor connecting both electric voltage sources and said load, bridged by a supplemental conductor which is in parallel with the two voltage sources and the load, and prior to activation of the switch, interrupted and electrically open. A branch with an integrated fuse is in parallel with the main conductor and linked at two connecting points between the two electric voltage sources while the connecting points includes a movable section which under pre-determined conditions moves from contact with the main conductor into an alternate position in contact with the supplemental conductor, resulting in an open circuit across the main conductor and a closed circuit across the supplemental conductor.
US12340961B2
A temperature-dependent switching mechanism for a temperature-dependent switch, having: a temperature-dependent bimetal snap-action disc having a first through hole; a temperature independent snap-action spring disc having a second through hole; and an electrically conductive contact member including a main body that passes through the first through hole and the second through hole. The contact member includes a support shoulder projecting radially from the main body, a first locking element projecting radially from the main body and arranged on a first side of the support shoulder, and a second locking element projecting radially from the main body and arranged on a second side of the support shoulder opposite the first side. The temperature-dependent bimetal snap-action disc and the snap-action spring disc are arranged between the locking elements and the support shoulder and are each held captive, but with clearance, by these on the main body of the contact member.
US12340959B2
A switch, a power conversion apparatus, and a power supply system. The power supply system includes a control unit, a switch, a direct current source, and a power conversion unit. The switch is electrically connected between the direct current source and the power conversion unit, and the control unit is configured to send a switch-off signal to the switch when a fault occurs on the direct current source or the power conversion unit. The switch includes a contact component, a trip-free structure, and a knob that are sequentially disposed in a stacked manner in a first direction. A trip unit of the trip-free structure is configured to receive the switch-off signal, to unlock the trip unit from the cradle. The cradle drives the connecting rod structure to move, to separate the moving contact from the fixed contact.
US12340953B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. A solid electrolytic capacitor according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an anode lead-out wire and a capacitor element in which the anode lead-out wire is embedded. The cross section of at least a part of the anode lead-out wire in a direction in which the anode lead-out wire is extended has a flat shape, and a recess provided in a central part, a first linear part that is extended outward from one side of the recess, and a second linear part that is extended outward from another side of the recess are formed in at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the anode lead-out wire having the flat shape.
US12340936B2
A coil component includes an exterior body, a coil, and a pair of terminal electrodes. The coil is disposed inside the exterior body. The pair of terminal electrodes are electrically connected to the coil and are disposed on the exterior body. The exterior body includes a first portion that covers the coil and is made of a resin, and a second portion including a side surface on which the pair of terminal electrodes are disposed. The second portion includes a material having a relative permittivity lower than a relative permittivity of the resin and is disposed between the coil and the pair of terminal electrodes.
US12340918B2
A composite wire material may include a core wire including copper (Cu). The core wire material may include a first layer on a circumferential surface of the core wire, where the first layer includes graphene. The composite wire material may include a second layer on a circumferential surface of the first layer, where the second layer includes nickel (Ni).
US12340905B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for providing patient predictions are provided in various embodiments. Responsive to receiving an indication of initiation of a patient interaction, a model for the patient is initiated by an assessment computing entity. The model has been trained using machine learning and the model is configured to generate a prediction for the patient. The prediction comprises at least one of an acuity score or a mortality prediction. Responsive to identifying a prediction trigger, the assessment computing entity updates the model for the patient based at least in part on medical data corresponding to the patient. The assessment computing entity generates the prediction using the updated deep learning model. The assessment computing entity provides at least a portion of the prediction such that the at least a portion of the prediction may be used to update an electronic health record corresponding to the patient and/or provided to a clinician for review.
US12340898B2
The present invention is directed to the field of Bluetooth Low Energy (“BLE”) enabled mobile device applications and, specifically, to a mobile device application that allows a customer or patient to view their actual wait time to see a doctor or other service provider. The present invention determines actual wait times based on the patients and providers within range of BLE beacons that are located in every room of an office space or other indoor area. An algorithm analyzes the real-time location data of in-office staff and patients to notify incoming patients of actual wait times.
US12340893B2
A system for generating a gestational disorder nourishment program comprising a computing device, the computing device configured to obtain a maternal marker, calculate a gestational phase as a function of the maternal marker, wherein calculating the gestational phase further comprises, identifying a gestational goal, and calculating the gestational phase as a function of the maternal marker and the gestational goal as a function of a gestational machine-learning model, determine an edible as a function of the gestational phase, and generate a nourishment program as a function of the edible.
US12340887B2
A visual indicator of a smart device and a visual indicator of a medication source device may be controlled to produce a same type of visual output based on a communication established between the medication source device and the smart device, The medication source device may be connected to a lumen, the smart device may be configured to be connected to the lumen, and the same type of visual output may be associated with the lumen. A compatibility of a first type of medication delivered or scheduled to be delivered via the lumen to a patient and a second type of medication delivered or scheduled to be delivered via the lumen to the patient may be determined to an indication of whether the second type of medication is compatible for delivery via the same lumen associated with the same type of visual output.
US12340884B2
A computer-implemented system includes a treatment apparatus configured to be manipulated by a patient while performing a treatment plan and a server computing device configured to execute an artificial intelligence engine to generate the treatment plan and a billing sequence associated with the treatment plan. The server computing device receives information pertaining to the patient, generates, based on the information, the treatment plan including instructions for the patient to follow, and receives a set of billing procedures associated with the instructions. The set of billing procedures includes rules pertaining to billing codes, timing, constraints, or some combination thereof. The server computing device generates, based on the set of billing procedures, the billing sequence for at least a portion of the instructions. The billing sequence is tailored according to a certain parameter. The server computing device transmits the treatment plan and the billing sequence to a computing device.
US12340878B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for computationally converting unstructured data into an encoded, structured representation. Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for patient recruitment for clinical trials.
US12340876B2
Computer-implemented methods predict the temporal profile of at least one composition comprising a plurality of fragrance ingredients which are able to provide, fragrance, odor, or smell. The methods comprise using a processor to: retrieve a diffusion measure of how fast each fragrance ingredient diffuses into a headspace; form groups of fragrance ingredients having the same or a similar diffusion measure; determine the olfactive contribution of each fragrance ingredient; calculate the total olfactive contribution of a group of fragrance ingredients as the sum of the olfactive contributions of all fragrance ingredients forming said group; and provide a virtual olfactive fingerprint of the at least one composition based on the total olfactive contributions of the groups of fragrance ingredients and the diffusion measures of the groups of fragrance ingredients.
US12340875B2
A meter value that reflects the amount of genetic material stored in a reserve is stored in a database for each reserve in a bank. Meter values allow a user to track the amount of genetic material in the reserves of a bank without needing to physically measure or disturb the reserves unnecessarily. As users withdraw and deposit genetic material from and into a reserve, the meter value is changed to reflect the change in the amount of genetic material in the reserve. In certain embodiments, the use of meter values enables accurate and instant accounting of a large number of reserves of genetic material for a large number of individuals. Users and/or individuals may be notified when a meter value falls below a threshold. Notifications may prompt a user to generate additional genetic material from biological sample or an individual to provide additional biological sample.
US12340874B1
The present invention relates to proteomics, and techniques for predicting de novo sequencing of chains of amino acids, such as peptides, proteins, or combinations thereof. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a computer implemented method that includes obtaining a digital representation of a mass spectrum, the digital representation including a plurality of container elements, encoding, using an encoder portion of a bidirectional recurrent neural network of long short term memory cells and gated recurrent unit cells, each container element as an encoded vector, decoding, using a decoder portion of the bidirectional recurrent neural network, each of the encoded vectors into a sequence of amino acids; and recording the sequence of amino acids as a multi-dimensional data set of amino acids types and a probability of each of the amino acid types in each position of the complete amino acid sequence.
US12340868B2
There is provided a semiconductor device, which includes a calibration code generator circuit configured to generate a calibration code according to changes in external conditions, a first driver circuit configured to output a data signal with an impedance value controlled by the calibration code, an emphasis control circuit configured to generate an emphasis data signal using the data signal, and to change the calibration code according to an operating frequency to generate an emphasis code; and a second driver circuit configured to output the emphasis data signal with an impedance value controlled by the emphasis code.
US12340867B2
A memory device includes; a first memory chip including a first on-die Termination (ODT) circuit comprising a first ODT resistor, a second memory chip including a second ODT circuit comprising a second ODT resistor, at least one chip enable signal pin that receives at least one chip enable signal, wherein the at least one chip enable signal selectively enables at least one of the first memory chip and the second memory chip, and an ODT pin commonly connected to the first memory chip and the second memory chip that receives an ODT signal, wherein the ODT signal defines an enable period for at least one of the first ODT circuit and the second ODT circuit, and in response to the ODT signal and the at least one chip enable signal, one of the first ODT resistor and the second ODT resistor is enabled to terminate a signal received by at least one of the first memory chip and the second memory chip.
US12340866B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, and a device. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a node control circuit, a first control output circuit, a second control output circuit and an output circuit. By providing the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit, the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit may operate alternately, so that the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit may have time for characteristics recovery respectively, thus improving the service life and output stability of the shift register unit.
US12340865B2
A memory device includes a memory device and control circuitry. The memory array includes bitcells and bitlines connected to the bitcells. The bitcells are grouped into bitcell groups. The control circuitry is connected to the bitcell groups via the bitlines. The control circuitry adjusts connections with the bitcell groups to include a first bitcell group of the bitcell groups in memory operations and exclude a second bitcell group of the bitcell groups from the memory operations based on a half-word control signal being enabled.
US12340863B2
A stack of memory chips and a logic chip is placed within a same package. Multiple memory chips of the stack of memory chips are divided into fractions, and multiple internal channels within the package that emanate from the logic chip are coupled to respective ones of the fractions. The logic chip has a multiplexer, including a multiplexer to multiplex a single input/output (I/O) channel of the package to the multiple internal channels.
US12340862B2
The present disclosure relates to a memory component for a System-on-Chip (SoC) structure including at least a memory array and at least a logic portion for interacting with the memory array and with the SoC structure wherein the memory component is a structurally independent semiconductor device coupled to and partially overlapping the SoC structure.
US12340859B2
A hybrid memory system with improved bandwidth is disclosed. In one aspect, a memory system is provided that increases bandwidth relative to the JEDEC low-power double data rate version 5 (LPDDR5) standard. This improvement is made possible by increasing a data conductor count from sixteen to twenty-four. Optionally, the bandwidth may be further improved by increasing a clock frequency from a first value to a second value. This allows the hybrid memory system to provide improved bandwidth without the complications of merely doubling pin counts or doubling clock speed. Further, coding techniques tailored to the pin count and pin layout are provided.
US12340844B2
A phase-change memory (PCM) cell is provided to include a first electrode, a second electrode, and a phase-change feature disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The phase-change feature is configured to change its data state based on a write operation performed on the PCM cell. The write operation includes a reset stage and a set stage. In the reset stage, a plurality of reset current pulses are applied to the PCM cell, and the reset current pulses have increasing current amplitudes. In the set stage, a plurality of set current pulses are applied to the PCM cell, and the set current pulses exhibit an increasing trend in current amplitude. The current amplitudes of the set current pulses are smaller than those of the reset current pulses.
US12340839B2
A memory device includes a first active area, a first doped structure of a first doping type, a second active area, a first gate structure and a second doped structure of a second doping type different from the first doping type. The second active area is disposed between the first active area and the first doped structure. The first gate structure is disposed between the first active area and the second active area in a layout view, and configured to store a first bit with the first active area and the second active area. The second doped structure is coupled to the first gate structure and disposed between the first doped structure and the second active area. The second doped structure and the first doped structure are configured to receive a first signal corresponding to the first bit from the first gate structure.
US12340838B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory device. In one aspect, the memory device includes a drive circuit coupled to a first line and a second line. In one aspect, the drive circuit is configured to apply, according to a first control signal having a first state, a data signal to either one of the first line or the second line to write data at a memory cell. In one aspect, the memory device includes a pre-charge circuit configured to set, according to a second control signal having a second state, voltages at the first line and the second line to a predetermined voltage level. In one aspect, the memory device includes an equalizer configured to electrically decouple the first line from the second line, according to the first control signal having the first state and the second control signal having the second state.
US12340831B2
A memory device including a three-dimensional racetrack and an operating method of the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a first racetrack, a first transistor, a first domain index controller, a bit line driver, a plurality of first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements, a plurality of first cell transistors, and a source line driver.
US12340826B2
An assembly configured for a hard disk drive includes a head slider having a suspension face and a recording medium face opposing the suspension face, where the slider houses a read-write transducer at or near a trailing edge (TE) face opposing a LE face, and a suspension assembly comprising a flexure having a standoff structure extending from a main planar body of the flexure, to which the suspension face of the slider is adhered. A first portion of the suspension face of the slider is coated with an anti-reflective coating (ARC) extending at least to a farthest portion, in a direction of the LE face, of the standoff structure of the flexure. An adhesive attaches the head slider to the flexure and is positioned to interface in its entirety with at least a portion of the ARC.
US12340823B2
A method for accelerated video editing that includes providing a video, segmenting, using a segmentation module, the video into a number of clips, and automatically computing, for each clip of the number of clips, corresponding metadata representing at least one attribute of the clip based on an analysis of contents of each clip of the plurality of clips. A profile script is generated based on the corresponding metadata, the profile script is generated to include one or more editing actions to be performed on a section of the video that corresponds to at least one identified clip from the number of clips. An editing tool is used to automatically edit the video based on the profile script to generate an edited video.
US12340818B2
A method for adjusting the clarity of an audio output in a changing environment, including: receiving a content signal; applying a customized gain to the content signal; and outputting the content signal with the customized gain to at least one speaker for transduction to an acoustic signal, wherein the customized gain is applied on a per frequency bin basis such that frequencies of a lesser magnitude are enhanced with respect to frequencies of a greater magnitude and an intelligibility of the acoustic signal is set approximately at a desired level, wherein the customized gain is determined according to at least one of a gain applied to the content signal, a bandwidth of the content signal, and a content type encoded by the content signal.
US12340806B2
A method of transcript presentation may include generating, by a device, audio data by capturing via a microphone of the device an audible audio signal that is broadcast by the device. The audible audio signal may include words. The method may also include obtaining, at the device, transcript data. The transcript data may be generated using the audio data and may include a transcription of the words of the audible audio data. The method may also include presenting, by the device, the transcription.
US12340802B2
Example techniques involve suppressing a wake word response to a local wake word. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving audio content for playback by the playback device and providing a sound data stream representing the received audio content to a voice assistant service (VAS) wake-word engine and a local keyword engine. The playback device plays back a first portion of the audio content and detects, via the local keyword engine, that a second portion of the received audio content includes sound data matching one or more particular local keywords. Before the second portion of the received audio content is played back, the playback device disables a local keyword response of the local keyword engine to the one or more particular local keywords and then plays back the second portion of the audio content via one or more speakers.
US12340800B2
A method and a voice assistant device for managing private data are provided. The voice assistant device includes a processor configured to detect a privacy triggering event while obtaining at least one voice input from a first user in a voice input mode, switch from the voice input mode to a non-voice input mode in response to the privacy triggering event, obtain a non-voice input from the first user in the non-voice input mode, and execute an operation of the voice assistant device corresponding to the non-voice input.
US12340794B2
An example system includes a processor to receive encoded audio from an encoder of a pre-trained speech-to-text (STT) model. The processor is to further train a language identification (LID) classifier to detect a language of the encoded audio using training samples labeled by language.
US12340793B1
A method of augmenting a training dataset of voice samples is provided. An audio processing system obtains voice samples and groups the voice samples into classes of spectral representations. The system obtains warp distributions associated with the classes of spectral representations and determines spectral change ratios based on a comparison of the warp distributions. The system determines transformations based at least in part on the spectral change ratios and applies the transformations to the voice samples grouped into the classes of spectral representations to generate a set of augmented voice samples. The system compiles the training dataset using at least the set of augmented voice samples. A recognition model is trained using the training dataset.
US12340790B2
A method of sampling output audio samples includes, during a packet loss concealment event, obtaining a sequence of previous output audio samples. At each time step during the event, the method includes generating a probability distribution over possible output audio samples for the time step. Each sample includes a respective probability indicating a likelihood that the corresponding sample represents a portion of an utterance at the time step. The method also includes determining a temperature sampling value based on a function of a number of time steps that precedes the time step, and an initial, a minimum, and a maximum temperature sampling value. The method also includes applying the temperature sampling value to the probability distribution to adjust a probability of selecting possible samples and randomly selecting one of the possible samples based on the adjusted probability. The method also includes generating synthesized speech using the randomly selected sample.
US12340786B2
An adaptive noise-canceling system generates an anti-noise signal with a filter that has a response controlled by a set of coefficients selected from a collection of coefficient sets. The adaptive noise-canceling system includes an acoustic output transducer for reproducing a signal containing the anti-noise signal, a first microphone for measuring ambient noise at a first location to produce a first noise measurement signal, a second microphone for measuring the ambient noise at a second location to generate a second noise measurement signal, and an analysis subsystem for analyzing the first noise measurement signal and the second noise measurement signal. The adaptive noise-canceling system also includes a controller that selects the set of coefficients from the collection of coefficient sets according to a phase difference between the first noise measurement signal and the second noise measurement signal as determined by the analysis subsystem.
US12340784B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an audio processing method, an audio processing apparatus and a device, the method includes: obtaining a first drive electrical signal of an active heat dissipation apparatus; determining a target noise audio signal based on the first driving electrical signal and a first transfer function; determining a denoised audio signal based on the target noise audio signal, where the denoised audio signal is used for denoising a to-be-played audio signal. In this way, a noise signal in the to-be-played audio signal can be offset by the target noise audio signal, resulting in fewer noise signals in the played target audio signal, thereby enhancing an audio playback effect of a virtual reality device.
US12340783B1
The mobile recording studio comprises a booth, recording equipment, one or more microphones, one or more pairs of headphones, a plurality of speakers, a payment terminal, and a display. The booth may be a soundproof portable recording studio. The mobile recording studio may be adapted to accept a fee from an individual recording artist for a predetermined amount of recording time during which time the recording equipment may convert audio of one or more recording artists performing in front of the one or more microphones into a digital audio file. The mobile recording studio may be adapted to email the digital audio file to the individual recording artist at the end of the predetermined amount of recording time. The display may be adapted for the one or more recording artists to control a recording session.
US12340779B2
Drum pedal apparatus which, in addition to the essential or typical mechanical structure, has a footboard structure having a main-portion upper surface and a plurality of roller balls rotatably mounted within the thickness of the main portion and each presenting a spherical cap, thereby providing a pedal-pushing surface including the roller-ball spherical caps. The invention is also a drum-pedal module for affixing onto the footboard of standard drum pedal apparatus, the module having a module main portion, the plurality of roller balls as described above, and pedal-affixation structure on or along the module main portion.
US12340767B1
A method includes processing input image data to produce resulting image data corresponding to a resulting image such that a first region of the resulting image is filled with black pixels. The method further includes driving a display panel based on the resulting image data. The method further includes producing black pixel pattern data indicative of an arrangement of the black pixels in the resulting image. The method further includes controlling, based on the resulting image data and the black pixel pattern data, luminance levels of one or more of a plurality of light sources of a backlight device configured to illuminate the display panel.
US12340766B2
An electronic device is provided and includes a display panel, a light source, and a timing controller. The light source is disposed corresponding to the display panel. The timing controller is electrically connected to the display panel and the light source. The display panel refreshes a displayed content according to a first signal generated by the timing controller. The light source refreshes a brightness according to a second signal generated by the timing controller. The light source begins refreshing the brightness at a first time point. The display panel begins refreshing the displayed content at a second time point. The first time point is different from the second time point.
US12340761B2
A display panel, a driving method for a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a display region, a non-display region, multiple sub-pixels, and at least one reused signal line; each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting device; in the pixel circuit, the initialization module is configured to write the initialization voltage to at least one of a control terminal of the drive module and an anode of the light-emitting device; in each sub-pixel, an input terminal of the initialization module in the pixel circuit and a cathode of the light-emitting device are connected to one reused signal line; and each reused signal line is configured to, in an initialization stage, provide the initialization voltage for the initialization module and in a light emission stage, provide the cathode voltage for the cathode of the light-emitting device.
US12340755B2
A scan circuit is provided. The scan circuit includes a plurality of scan units in a plurality of stages, respectively. A respective scan unit of the plurality of scan units includes an output subcircuit. The output subcircuit includes a first switch transistor and a second switch transistor. A source electrode of the first switch transistor is coupled to a third terminal configured to receive a first clock signal. A drain electrode of the first switch transistor is coupled to a first output terminal configured to output a first control signal. A source electrode of the second switch transistor is coupled to a fourth terminal configured to receive the third clock signal. A drain electrode of the second switch transistor is coupled to a second output terminal configured to output a second control signal. Gate electrodes of the first switch transistor and the second switch transistor are coupled to a first node.
US12340751B2
A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving circuit, connecting a first node, a second node, and a third node, and configured to provide a driving current to the third node by using the second node; a compensation circuit, connecting the third node, a fourth node, and a first gate driving signal end, and configured to conduct the third node and the fourth node; a first reset circuit, connecting a first initial signal end, a fifth node, and a first reset signal end, and configured to transmit a signal of the first initial signal end to the fifth node; a first isolation circuit, connecting the first node and the fourth node, and configured to conduct the first node and the fourth node; and a second isolation circuit, connecting the first node and the fifth node, and configured to conduct the first node and the fifth node.
US12340744B2
A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are discussed. The pixel circuit can include a first pixel circuit arranged in a first area of a screen at a first resolution and including a first driving element to supply a current to a first light-emitting element and a first storage capacitor disposed between a gate electrode of the first driving element and a power line to which a high-potential supply voltage is applied, and a second pixel circuit arranged in a second area of the screen at a second resolution and including a second driving element to supply a current to a second light-emitting element and a second storage capacitor disposed between a gate electrode of the second driving element and the power line to which the high-potential supply voltage is applied.
US12340741B2
A rated voltage transfer line includes: a rated voltage application part to which a first rated voltage is applied, at least one capacitor including a first terminal connected to the rated voltage application part and a second terminal that is grounded, a branch line part including a branch part electrically connected to the rated voltage application part and first and second branch lines branching and extending from the branch part, a first contact part electrically connected to a first end of the first branch line spaced apart from the branch part, and a second contact part electrically connected to a first end of the second branch line spaced apart from the branch part.
US12340739B2
A display panel includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit electrically connected to each other. In an embodiment, at least one light-emitting phase of the pixel circuit each includes n light-emitting sub-phases, and the pixel circuit is configured to transmit a light-emitting signal to the light-emitting element in at least one of the n light-emitting sub-phases. In an embodiment, a duration ti of transmitting the light-emitting signal to the light-emitting element by the pixel circuit in the ith light-emitting sub-phase of the n light-emitting sub-phases is smaller than a duration tj of transmitting the light-emitting signal to the light-emitting element by the pixel circuit in the jth light-emitting sub-phase of the n light-emitting sub-phases, where 0
US12340729B2
A switch device includes: a switch circuit; a control signal input terminal configured to input a control signal to the switch circuit; a voltage input terminal configured to input an initial voltage to the switch circuit; and a voltage output terminal configured to output an output voltage to a light-emitting device. The switch circuit includes: a first input terminal and a second input terminal electrically connected to the control signal input terminal and the voltage input terminal, respectively; and a first output terminal electrically connected to the voltage output terminal.
US12340727B1
A display driving device includes a timing controller and a charge pump configured to output a pump voltage for driving a source driver. The charge pump includes a flying capacitor; a first switch disposed between one end of the flying capacitor and a first terminal; a second switch disposed between the one end of the flying capacitor and a second terminal; a third switch disposed between another end of the flying capacitor and a third terminal; a fourth switch disposed between the another end of the flying capacitor and a fourth terminal; and a charge pump control unit configured to control turning on or off of the first to the fourth switches based on the anti-tearing signal, and control the first to the fourth switches based on the anti-tearing signal to operate in a first mode or a second mode configured to reduce power consumption than in the first mode.
US12340721B2
A display apparatus including: a first display; a second display disposed adjacent to the first display; a hinge rotatably coupling the first display and the second display, the hinge including a first hinge portion at a side of the first display and a second hinge portion rotatably coupled to the first hinge portion and at a side of the second display; a light emitter on the first hinge portion; a light receiver on the second hinge portion; and a controller configured to control the first display and the second display based on an intensity of light received by the light receiver while the light emitter outputs the light.
US12340719B2
A chip-on-film package includes a base substrate on which a first pad region, a second pad region, and a third region located between the first pad region and the second pad region are defined, a dummy pad disposed on the first pad region, input pads disposed on the first pad region, output pads disposed on the second region, a first detection line disposed on the base substrate, and a second detection line disposed on the base substrate. The first detection line is connected to a first input pad and a second input pad via the second pad region to form a first loop between the first input pad and the second input pad, and the second detection line is connected to the dummy pad and the first detection line via the third region to form a second loop between the dummy pad and the first input pad.
US12340718B2
An electronic device testing method includes providing an electronic device including a display layer including a common electrode and a sensor layer that is disposed on the display layer and that includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that insulatively intersect the plurality of first electrodes, measuring a plurality of jitter values of a plurality of channels formed by the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes, calculating a first value being an average of the plurality of jitter values, calculating a second value by summing jitter values, among the plurality of jitter values, of channels formed by one of the plurality of second electrodes among the plurality of channels, and testing the common electrode based on a third value obtained by dividing the second value by the first value.
US12340717B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel that can be rotated and displayed around a rotation axis. The display panel comprises a plurality of first light-emitting element groups disposed in a first direction. The first direction is from the rotation axis to the edge of the display panel away from the rotation axis. A distribution density of the first light-emitting element in the first light-emitting element group close to the rotation axis is less than a distribution density of the first light-emitting element in the first light-emitting element group far from the rotation axis.
US12340712B1
Systems and methods for management of user interactions in a physical facility utilizing a studio controller and user interaction configuration are provided. A physical facility can include or define a physical space in which one or more users interact with devices, objects, or services within the physical space. Various devices can capture interaction data. The facility, via the studio controller or other process, can then process the received interaction data according to a configuration or other processing instructions. The facility, through the studio controller or other process, can generate, or cause to be generated, various outputs based on the processed interaction data.
US12340708B2
Techniques are provided that employ haptic feedback to influence an engagement level of a remote user. One method comprises obtaining sensor data associated with a remote user interacting with educational content items; applying the sensor data to an analytics engine to obtain an engagement status indicating an engagement level of the remote user with the educational content items; and automatically initiating a provision of a haptic feedback signal to the remote user based on the engagement status. The engagement status may comprise an engagement score, and the haptic feedback signal may be sent to the remote user based on an evaluation of the engagement score relative to one or more threshold-based criteria. A type and/or an intensity of the haptic feedback signal can be based on one or more user preferences of the remote user.
US12340707B2
A method for validating a terrain database includes a step of simulating flights based on trajectory data for an aircraft, the flight simulations being speeded up, a step of determining terrain collision risks by means of a system for signalling terrain collision risks based on the speeded-up flight simulations, a step of determining the origins of terrain collision risks with a view to validating or not validating the terrain database.
US12340694B2
A method for managing a traffic situation associated with a road user and a turning combination vehicle. The combination vehicle comprises a first vehicle unit and a second vehicle unit. The method comprises obtaining sensor data indicative of traffic information from respective sides of the vehicle units from a set of sensors. The traffic information is indicative of respective turning motions of the vehicle units, and a position of the road user. The method further comprises determining respective trajectories of the vehicle units based on the respective turning motions of the vehicle units. The method further comprises establishing a region of interest extending along the determined trajectories. The method further comprises determining whether the position of the road user is within the established region of interest. The method further comprises, when the position of the road user is determined to be within the established region of interest, triggering preventive action.
US12340693B2
Described is an area reservation system. The system includes a server having a memory storing area information and a user computing device coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive and process a signal that the user computing device has accessed the system and is searching for an area to reserve at a user selected location and time; send for display, on the user computing device, area information including available areas to reserve; automatically reserve an area in response to receiving user input requesting reservation of the area; establish a geofence around the reserved area; and send a notification to the user computing device in response to the user computing device entering the geofence of the reserved area.
US12340692B2
A vehicle control system for energy efficient driving includes a processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle control system to: determine that the vehicle is approaching a stop point; determine if the vehicle needs to stop at the stop point; determine the presence of at least a first other vehicle within a predefined distance behind the vehicle; and determine the intended route of the at least first other vehicle for determining if the vehicle is going to prepare at least a first energy saving action or not.
US12340687B2
Implementations described and claimed herein address the foregoing by providing systems and methods for driving notification. In one implementation, a method may include the operations of receiving an indication of a speed of a trailer, determining whether a parameter associated with the speed of the trailer meets a threshold, and activating a notification device based on the determination.
US12340684B2
Flight attendant calling device, system and method for configuring a flight attendant calling device
A flight attendant calling device of a passenger aircraft includes at least one calling device control element assigned to a seat of the passenger aircraft for calling flight attendant staff on board the passenger aircraft by a passenger assigned to the seat, a calling device processor configured to create a configuration profile of the at least one calling device control element based on passenger preferences of the passenger of the passenger aircraft assigned to the seat, and a control element configurator, which is coupled to the calling device processor, and which is configured to set up a visual and/or haptic appearance as well as a flight attendant calling functionality of the at least one calling device control element based on the configuration profile received from the calling device processor.
US12340679B2
The present disclosure relates to embodiments of alarm management methods and systems, which allow mapping the actual process of responding to alarms in a specific technical area. The mapping contributes to better effectiveness of alarm systems, thereby avoiding stops or even process accidents. An embodiment of a method includes obtaining an original record, performing a pre-processing application on the original record, grouping of cases, performing application of descriptive statistics, performing application of present percentage and expansion of occurrences, constructing an activity table with mining application, and providing technical data.
US12340676B2
Disclosed herein is an AI based system and method for generating warning alerts for a location to be excavated. The method comprises obtaining, from at least one external source, at least one underground asset map of the location to be excavated. For each of the at least one underground asset map, the method comprises locating a region of interest within the underground asset map corresponding to an identified underground utility service provider and extracting at least one feature within the region of interest. The at least one extracted feature is then compared with a plurality of features stored in a repository corresponding to the identified underground utility service provider, to determine a match. In response to the determination, the extracted feature is identified as a risk feature corresponding to the identified underground utility service provider and one or more warning alerts indicative of risk assets are generated.
US12340674B2
An example of a posture monitoring and correction system monitors user's posture and induces corrective action. The system includes a wearable monitoring group that acquires posture data with a group of sensors. A processing module is in signal communication with the wearable monitoring group to receive the posture data and compute a risk of injury parameter. Correction elements induce a corrective action in the user's body upon the risk of injury indicator parameter exceeding a threshold level.
US12340672B2
A management device includes a calculation part that calculates, on the basis of first data, second data, and third data acquired by an acquisition part, a period of time consumed by a subject to walk from an uppermost step to a lowermost step of a stair for the first time after the waking, and outputs time data indicative of the period of time, a storage part that stores a plurality of pieces of time data of the past, a determination part that determines a health condition of the subject on a current day on the basis of the time data of the current day and the pieces of time data of the past, and an output part that outputs a determination result of the determination part.
US12340670B2
A computer-implemented method includes: connecting an infrastructure construction digital integrated twin ICDIT to an interface management system through one or more application program interfaces (APIs) of one or more databases storing information showing real-time activities of two or more execution agencies operating concurrently for an industrial plant facility, wherein the interface management system comprises rules governing interface points between the two or more execution agencies; scanning, using the APIs and according to the rules, the interface points of the two or more execution agencies, wherein the interface points are accessible through the interface management system; and migrating the interface points from the interface management system to a class library of the ICDIT such that when the ICDIT creates a rendering of the industrial plant facility, the interface points are mapped on the rendering according to up-to-date information based on the real-time activities of the two or more execution agencies.
US12340659B2
A system that utilizes a mobile device and a funding instrument associated with an external funding source to first transfer funds from the external funding source to a gaming establishment account and then, responsive to a completion of the first transfer, automatically transfer funds from the gaming establishment account to an electronic gaming machine and/or a gaming table.
US12340633B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and reporting the status of paper ballots for mail-in voting are provided. The paper ballots are monitored during their transit to and/or from the voters. Reports regarding the status of such paper ballots may be provided to the voters and/or the elections division. Such reports may facilitate increased transparency into the mail-in voting process.
US12340624B2
A method for predicting the pose of an articulated object includes receiving spatial information for n joints of the articulated object. The spatial information for the n joints is passed to a machine learning model previously trained to receive spatial information for n+m joints as input, wherein m>=1. From the machine learning model, a pose prediction for the articulated object is received as output based at least on the spatial information for the n joints, and without spatial information for the m joints.
US12340611B2
A method for intelligently sharing a content by an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, a context of sharing the content. The method includes analyzing, by the electronic device, the content with reference to the context. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, portions of the content as non-shareable based on the analysis. The method includes providing, by the electronic device, a modification action suggestion on the portions identified as non-shareable.
US12340603B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for labeling an object contour in a target image, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and an electronic device. The method for labeling an object contour in a target image includes acquiring a target image feature of a target image, inputting the target image feature into a target generator, and acquiring a target mask of the target image generated by the target generator, wherein the target mask is used for labeling a contour of the target object.
US12340596B2
A method for lane boundary detection, the method may include obtaining an image of an environment of a vehicle, the environment comprises at least one lane boundary portions; wherein the image comprises a first plurality of two dimensional (2D) image segments; converting, by a first machine learning process, each of the 2D segments to a segment vector to provide a first plurality of segment vectors; wherein each segment vector represents a 2D segment; finding an associated cluster for each segment vector to provide a second plurality of associated clusters; searching for at least one LBR cluster of the second plurality of associated clusters; and determining, for each LBR segment vector and by a second machine learning process, a location of a lane boundary portion within a 2D image segment that is represented by the LBR segment vector; wherein a LBR segment vector has an associated cluster that is a LBR cluster.
US12340595B2
A lane detection system or a vehicle is provided for determining a current lane of a multi-lane road, which the vehicle is driving on. The lane detection system comprises a processing circuitry configured to: obtain a current image of the multi-lane road, i.e. the driving scene; determine a first candidate current lane, i.e. a first estimate of the current lane, by using the leftmost lane in the current image as a first reference lane; determine a second candidate current lane, i.e. a second estimate of the current lane, by using the rightmost lane in the current image of the multi-lane road as a second reference lane; and determine the current lane of the vehicle in the current image of the multi-lane road on the basis of the first candidate current lane and the second candidate current lane.
US12340589B2
A computer-implemented method of video surveillance comprising the steps of: querying a knowledge graph representing a plurality of video cameras as ontology entities connected by edges, in order to identify, based on a first video camera providing a first video stream that can be fed to at least one first application program to obtain first analytics data, one or more second video cameras which can each provide a respective second video stream; and identifying, based on the first application program and/or based on the first analytics data, at least one second application program that can be fed with at least one second video stream to obtain second analytics data.
US12340587B2
Methods and systems for automated video segmentation are disclosed. A sequence of video frames having video segments of contextually-related sub-sequences may be received. Each frame may be labeled according to segment and segment class. A video graph may be constructed in which each node corresponds to a different frame, and each edge connects a different pair of nodes, and is associated with a time between video frames and a similarity metric of the connected frames. An artificial neural network (ANN) may be trained to predict both labels for the nodes and clusters of the nodes corresponding to predicted membership among the segments, using the video graph as input to the ANN, and ground-truth clusters of ground-truth labeled nodes. The ANN may be further trained to predict segment classes of the predicted clusters, using the segment classes as ground truths. The trained ANN may be configured for application runtime video sequences.
US12340585B2
A non-immersive virtual reality (NIVR) method includes receiving sets of images of a first user and a second user, each image from the sets of images being an image of the associated user taken at a different angle from a set of angles. Video of the first user and the second user is received and processed. A first location and a first field of view are determined for a first virtual representation of the first user, and a second location and a second field of view are determined for a second virtual representation of the second user. Frames are generated for video planes of each of the first virtual representation of the first user and the second virtual representation of the second user based on the processed video, the sets of images, the first and second locations, and the first and second fields of view.
US12340579B2
An image content determination device includes at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to execute first recognition processing of recognizing a character and a face of a first person from a first image including the character and the face of the first person, execute first acquisition processing of acquiring first person-related information related to the first person included in the first image based on the recognized character and face of the first person, execute second recognition processing of recognizing a face of a second person from a second image including the face of the second person, and execute second acquisition processing of acquiring second person-related information related to the second person included in the second image, in which the second person-related information is acquired using the first person-related information corresponding to the first image including the face of the first person similar to the face of the second person.
US12340575B2
Provided is an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program for preferably detecting a mobile object. The image processing system includes: an image input unit for receiving an input for some image frames having different times in a plurality of image frames constituting a picture, which is of a pixel on which the mobile object appears or a pixel on which the mobile object does not appear, for selected arbitrary one or more pixels in an image frame at the time of processing; and a mobile object detection model constructing unit for learning a parameter for detecting the mobile object based on the input.
US12340573B2
The present invention relates to landmark and/or temporal event detection. It is proposed to utilize previously learned spatial statistical correlations between multiple landmarks in order to regularize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) either as a post-processing step or during training in order to utilize anatomical prior knowledge, reduce the false-positive prediction rate, and/or increase the accuracy and stability of the algorithm. The proposed apparatus and method may also be applied to improve the detection of correlated events in e.g., time-series by leveraging prior knowledge.
US12340572B2
A computer-implemented method for adapting a pretrained machine learning system, which has been trained on a first training data set, to a second dataset, wherein the second dataset has different characteristics than the first data set. An input transformation module for partly undoing the distribution shift between the first and second training data set is provided.
US12340566B2
A multi-view fine-grained identification method, apparatus, electronic device and medium. By applying the technical scheme of the application, an initial classification model can be trained by using a sample data set consisting of multi-view images of a plurality of multi-view samples. Thus, an efficient fine-grained identification model can be obtained, and this model can actively select the next view image of the same sample for image identification. On the one hand, by aggregating information of multi-view images of the same sample, the limitation of traditional fine-grained image identification methods that only rely on a single picture to provide clues for discrimination is solved. On the other hand, by predicting view images for discrimination, identification efficiency based on multi-view fine-grained identification is improved.
US12340563B2
Embodiments are disclosed for correlating video sequences and audio sequences by a media recommendation system using a trained encoder network. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a training input including a media sequence, including a video sequence paired with an audio sequence, segmenting the media sequence into a set of video sequence segments and a set of audio sequence segments, extracting visual features for each video sequence segment and audio features for each audio sequence segment, generating, by transformer networks, contextualized visual features from the extracted visual features and contextualized audio features from the extracted audio features, the transformer networks including a visual transformer and an audio transformer, generating predicted video and audio sequence segment pairings based on the contextualized visual and audio features, and training the visual transformer and the audio transformer to generate the contextualized visual and audio features.
US12340557B1
A method for training a text generation machine learning model for prompt generation includes receiving a plurality of training text strings; executing a text generation machine learning model using each of the plurality of training text strings to generate a plurality of training generated text strings, each of the plurality of generated text strings corresponding to generating a content item; executing a content scoring machine learning model using each of the plurality of generated text strings to generate a text performance score for each of the plurality of training generated text strings; for each of the plurality of generated text strings, adjusting one or more weights or parameters of the text generation machine learning model proportional to the text performance score for the generated text string.
US12340541B1
A system and method for producing color calibrated videos using a calibration slate are provided. A video of a subject is recorded with a calibration slate appearing in at least one frame of the video. The calibration slate includes printed colors that can be compared against standard colors associated with the slate to color calibrate the video. Once at least one frame of the video has been color calibrated, calibrated colors of the calibrated frame may then be utilized for color calibration of additional frames of the video.
US12340538B2
A system for collecting data for training a computer vision model for shape estimation includes: an imaging system configured to capture one or more images; and a processing system including a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive one or more input images from the imaging system; estimate a pose of an object depicted in the one or more images; render a shape estimate from a 3-D model of the object posed in accordance with the pose of the object; and generate a data point of a training dataset, the data point including one or more images based on the one or more input images and a label corresponding to the one or more images, the label including the shape estimate.
US12340532B2
A system includes a controller with at least one processor and at least one non-transitory, tangible memory on which instructions are recorded for executing a method for obtaining a profile of a lens capsule of an eye. The profile is represented by respective central surfaces and respective equatorial surfaces separated at respective transition points. The controller is configured to obtain imaging data for a portion of the lens capsule visible through a pupil of the eye. The imaging data is transformed to an adjusted frame of reference and fitted to the respective central surfaces in a predefined central region of the lens capsule. The profile is obtained based on a set of fitting parameters for the respective central and equatorial surfaces. The respective central surfaces and respective equatorial surfaces may be represented as elliptical cones and skewed parabolas, respectively.
US12340531B2
A method for the extraction of information about a staircase includes scanning the staircase with a 3D scanning device to obtain a point cloud of the surface of the staircase; calculating the estimated normal vector of at least a part of the points of the point cloud; filtering the at least part of the points based on their normal vectors by ignoring points which do not have a normal vector with a substantially vertically upward direction; ordering the remaining points into sets of points based on their vertical elevation so that each set of points represents a step; determining a straight edge line of each set, which edge line represents the respective step; and storing a numerical representation of each determined edge line in the digital memory.
US12340522B1
A training data generation unit 111 generates a plurality of sets of trajectory information each indicating position change with respect to time change during flight of a learning ball, respectively based on a plurality of different flight states which are states of the learning ball that is flying, and further generates a plurality of training data each including the flight state and the trajectory information associated with each other, and a model generation unit 112 generates an estimation model for estimating the flight state from the trajectory information, through learning using the plurality of training data.
US12340510B2
Oral care based imaging computer-implemented systems and methods for analyzing attributes of a facial image portion of at least one person depicted in a digital image. An oral care digital imaging computer-implemented method for analyzing a facial image portion of a person depicted in a digital image may include analyzing the facial image portion for positive and negative attributes as defined by pixel data of the digital image and generating a probability value based on the positive and negative attributes in the facial image portion in the digital image.
US12340509B2
Systems and methods are configured to extract images from provided source data files and to preprocess such images for content-based image analysis. An image analysis system applies one or more machine-learning based models for identifying specific features within analyzed images, and for determining one or more measurements based at least in part on the identified features. Such measurements may be embodied as absolute measurements for determining an absolute distance between features, or relative measurements for determining a relative relationship between features. The determined measurements are input into one or more machine-learning based models for determining a classification for the image.
US12340496B2
According to one embodiment, an inspection system for a secondary battery includes an image sensor, a detector, and an inspection processor. The image sensor captures an image of a fiber layer of an electrode structure of a secondary battery. The electrode structure includes an electrode and the fiber layer formed on a surface of the electrode. The electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer. The detector detects a color in data of the image captured with the image sensor. The inspection processor inspects a pinhole defect in the fiber layer based on the color detected with the detector.
US12340457B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to radiance field gradient scaling for unbiased near-camera training. In a method, a processing device accesses an input image of a three-dimensional environment comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pixel color. The processing device determines a camera location based on the input image and a ray from the camera location in a direction of a pixel. The processing device integrates sampled information from a volumetric representation along the ray from the camera location to obtain an integrated color. The processing device trains a machine learning model configured to predict a density and a color, comprising minimizing a loss function using a scaling factor that is determined based on a distance between the camera location and a point along the ray. The processing device outputs the trained ML model for use in rendering an output image.
US12340455B2
A display control method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a foreground application in response to detecting that the electronic device starts to execute a screen adjustment operation, wherein the screen adjustment operation is configured to adjust the screen size of the flexible display screen; controlling the foreground application to play transition animation in an execution process of the screen adjustment operation, wherein the size of display content of the transition animation is dynamically adjusted with the change of the screen size to adapt the display content to the screen size; and redrawing and displaying the window of the foreground application according to the screen size which has been adjusted by the screen adjustment operation in response to the screen adjustment operation being ended.
US12340451B2
Systems and methods are described to detect a location to place an advertisement in a media asset, the method comprising, identifying a plurality of points in a video frame of a media asset, detecting a color associated with each point of the plurality of points, calculating a change in color between each point of the plurality of points, comparing the change in color between each point of the plurality of points with a threshold, identifying, based on the comparing, an area within the frame that constitutes a surface; and selecting an advertisement to be placed on the surface.
US12340447B2
An encryption and decryption system is provided, which includes a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device is configured to store original images and a correspondence table. The receiving device is connected to the transmitting device for storing the correspondence table, wherein the transmitting device generates an encrypted string. The transmitting device selects a representative morphed image from multiple morphed images according to the encrypted string. The transmitting device transmits the representative morphed image to the receiving device and does not transmit the encrypted string to the receiving device. The receiving device recognizes the first original image serial number and the second original image serial number from the representative morphed image. The receiving device looks up the correspondence table according to the first original image serial number and the second original image serial number to generate the encrypted string.
US12340445B1
A system described herein can generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for a piece of forecasting software. The GUI can include graphical nodes arranged on a drag-and-drop canvas to define an overall forecasting pipeline. The graphical nodes can include a hierarchical modeling node that enables a user to define a time series hierarchy. The hierarchical modeling node can also enable separate level pipelines to be customized for each level of the time series hierarchy. The level pipelines can form subparts of the overall forecasting pipeline. The system can then execute the level pipelines to generate multiple forecasts, where each forecast corresponds to a respective level of the time series hierarchy. In some examples, the system can execute a reconciliation process on the forecasts to generate reconciled forecasts. Each reconciled forecast can correspond to one of the forecasts. The system may then generate one or more visualizations of the reconciled forecasts.
US12340443B2
A system and methods for recreating images from undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image data to remove artifacts from the undersampling. Using trained transformer networks, undersampled k-space data can be acquired and the networks can predict additional projected radial MRI k-space data from the undersampled radial MRI k-space data. Images with fewer artifacts can then be generated.
US12340439B1
A method for adaptively extrapolating an image extrapolates an image adaptively so that the image estimated by the extrapolation technique can express realistic content and maintain structural similarity with the given image. The method can ensure that the region between the extrapolated region and the original region maintains the same resolution, and it can ensure contextual consistency by preserving the features of the adjacent region and the distant region.
US12340435B2
This invention provides a system and method for using an area scan sensor of a vision system, in conjunction with an encoder or other knowledge of motion, to capture an accurate measurement of an object larger than a single field of view (FOV) of the sensor. It identifies features/edges of the object, which are tracked from image to image, thereby providing a lightweight way to process the overall extents of the object for dimensioning purposes. Logic automatically determines if the object is longer than the FOV, and thereby causes a sequence of image acquisition snapshots to occur while the moving/conveyed object remains within the FOV until the object is no longer present in the FOV. At that point, acquisition ceases and the individual images are combined as segments in an overall image. These images can be processed to derive overall dimensions of the object based on input application details.
US12340422B1
A method and system for improving and automating the identification of homes located in an imminent or current disaster zone and causing an immediate release of funds to residents without requiring the insured member to first submit a claim are disclosed. The system and method are configured to determine whether there is a high likelihood of a disaster event occurring in a region, based on external sources or local device sensors. In response to the disaster event, a smart contract is executed such that funds are expeditiously released via a distributed ledger system to insured members in the first region.
US12340419B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining valuation and risk analysis of municipal debt instruments on an after-tax basis. In one embodiment, bond terms, yield curve and interest rate volatility data are received for a set of bonds. Additionally, IRS treatment data and applicable tax rates for the set of bonds and a purchaser of the bonds are also received. Theoretical tax-neutral values of the bonds are calculated using a buy-and-hold methodology, wherein the tax-neutral value comprises the price of the at least one municipal debt offering such that its discounted after-tax value equals the price. A theoretical maximum after-tax values of the bonds are also calculated using a recursive valuation path-dependent methodology. Optimal bond management is determined using the calculated theoretical tax-neutral values and maximum after-tax values of the bonds.
US12340417B2
The disclosed systems and methods make derivatives contracts based on an underlying virtual currency available for trading. Certain derivatives contracts have a settlement value based on the transaction fees associated with recording and/or performing transactions for the selected virtual currency. The contracts can be used, for example, by virtual currency miners against certain risks associated with mining virtual currency.
US12340410B1
A recommendation system identifies resale goods corresponding to retail goods being viewed by a user on a retail goods website. Retail goods metadata and images are extracted from the retail goods website using heuristics and LLM-based methods. The extracted retail goods data undergoes ML model-based product category classification, intelligent image cropping, and color detection. Vector embeddings are generated for images and text using ML models and compared to resale goods vector embeddings stored in a vector database. Multiple result sets are retrieved, fused, and re-ranked using LLM-based and preference-aware re-ranking. A data pipeline continuously loads, cleans, and processes resale goods inventory from resale goods websites.
US12340408B2
E-commerce industry is currently expanding rapidly, worldwide. A process of generating product copy for grocery items, which is very challenging as food items, do not have features in common, unlike fashion products. A data associated with one or more grocery products is received as an input. The data is processed to obtain one or more sorted similar grocery products. One or more relevant attributes and allergen information associated with the one or more sorted similar grocery products are extracted. A vocabulary model is created based the one or more relevant attributes and the allergen information associated with the one or more sorted similar grocery products. The vocabulary model is validated based on one or more assigned weights on training data. The one or more descriptive copies associated with grocery products are generated by mapping the validated vocabulary model with the training data.
US12340400B2
According to an example, a model is selected from models including an augmented buyer model based on probabilities of conceivable transitions, and each conceivable transition includes a multi-step transition between a first URL and a second URL via at least one intermediate URL of the website. A user is determined to likely be a buyer or a non-buyer based on interaction data and the selected model. The user is presented with an offer that encourages the user to buy from the website upon the determination that the user is a buyer.
US12340397B2
Contextual data may be generated from assets in asset portfolios using metadata enrichment services. A recommendation engine may generate a set of recommended assets for presentation in a content stream based on the contextual data. Brand safety may be implemented using a brand safety policy that uses the contextual data as indicators of potentially offensive content. Advertisements included in the content stream may also be targeted based on the contextual data.
US12340395B2
A system for generating improved notifications relating to events is disclosed. The system includes a sensing network including an event sensor configured to sense events. The system further includes a sensed-event processing system configured to append meta data to information associated with a sensed event. The system further includes a human-machine interface and at least one communication unit configured to communicate amongst the human-machine interface, the sensing network, and the sensed event processing system, the information communicated from the sensing device via the at least one communication unit. The system further includes a notification generation system configured to generate a notification to a user of the human-machine interface, the notification content including at least one user-selectable action option. The communication unit configured to communicate the notification via the human-machine interface and select the notification content, the notification type, or the means of notification based on the meta data.
US12340390B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for generating tokens for user devices to request content items from one or more content delivery networks via networks provided by a network service provider. The tokens may be generated based on rules provided by the network service provider and may indicate whether the content delivery networks have permission to send targeted content items to the user device. Tokens provided to a user device may prevent repeated delivery of the same content item to the user device.
US12340381B2
In some implementations, a device may receive, from one or more data sources, information indicating a plurality of data sets, where the plurality of data sets indicate information associated with respective physical locations or online locations. The device may identify a data set, from the plurality of data sets, that indicates information associated with an online location, where the information includes at least one of an entity name, an address, a phone number, a uniform resource locator, an entity identifier, or metadata. The device may parse the data set to identify information for a set of features. The device may analyze the information for the set of features to determine a brand associated with the online location. The device may pair the online location with the brand in the database such that the online location is linked with a first physical location of the brand in the database.
US12340380B2
A method includes receiving ticket and invoice data. The method further includes comparing the ticket and invoice data to rules to identify anomalies. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface displaying information related to the anomalies and selectable options to assign the anomalies to user accounts. The method further includes, in response to receiving a selection of an option to assign a particular anomaly to a user account, storing data assigning the particular anomaly to the user account. The method further includes, in response to receiving a request to access the user account, generating a graphical user interface displaying information related to the particular anomaly.
US12340377B2
A payment processing system can detect an attempted re-initiation of a payment transaction for the same purchase of an item or service. In some examples, the system compares initial transaction data against re-initiated transaction data to identify the attempted duplicated payment. Based on the identified attempted duplicated payment, initiating a payment deduplication phase by generating a potential payment duplication alert for presentation at the POS terminal device and/or in the user interface of a mobile device.
US12340371B2
System and method to adjust in-vehicle content based on digital assets are described herein. Exemplary implementations include: receive authentication information for a user; determine whether the authentication information is valid; determine, responsive to determination that the authentication information is valid, a set of one or more digital assets that are associated with an address included in a digital wallet of the user based on transactions recorded on a decentralized ledger such that the user owns the set of the one or more digital assets, wherein the transactions includes the address and the set of the one or more digital assets, wherein the digital wallet includes a private key that provides the user with access to consideration sent to the address; determine a set of one or more content correlated to the set of the one or more digital assets, wherein the content is stored in electronic storage; and adjust in-vehicle content based on the one or more digital assets and the correlated set of one or more content.
US12340366B2
Techniques for authenticating a digital asset represented by an NFT that is stored in a blockchain are disclosed. An NFT that has been minted for an asset is identified. The NFT was minted by generating metadata for the asset and by generating an original hash of the asset. The NFT is stored in a blockchain, and the metadata is stored in a centralized repository. The original hash is stored in either the repository or the blockchain. A potential transfer of the NFT is triggered. Triggering the potential transfer includes downloading, from the centralized repository, a local version of the asset. A local hash of the local version of the asset is generated. The local hash is compared against the original hash. If the two hashes are the same, then the transfer is permitted; otherwise, the transfer is not permitted.
US12340362B2
The method includes receiving, in an interaction by a switch computer from a second device, data associated with a machine readable code generated by a first application on a first device and provided by a first device to a second application on the second device. The method also includes determining, by the switch computer, a first server computer associated with a first application, transmitting the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data to the first server computer, which processes the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data, determining, by the switch computer, a second server computer associated with the second application, and transmitting, by the switch computer, a communication to the second server computer. The communication informs the second server computer that the first server computer processed the data associated with the machine readable code and the interaction data.
US12340361B2
In certain embodiments, a personal network of devices including one or more wearable devices and one or more other devices may facilitate secure payment. In some embodiments, a first device of the personal network may be configured to store a plurality of virtual slots, where each of the plurality of virtual slots stores a virtual token associated with a financial account. A second device of the personal network may be configured to transmit, to a merchant device, user authentication data and a first virtual token stored in a first virtual slot to cause the merchant device to obtain information related to a financial account associated with the first virtual token to facilitate a payment transaction. Each of the first, the second device, and at least one other device of the personal network may include a short-range transceiver configured to relay information to one another as part of the personal network.
US12340359B2
In an example, the present invention provides a local area network system for a micro-market application. The system has a world wide network of computers, which comprising the Internet. In an example, the system has a micro market server device coupled to the world wide network of computers. In an example, the micro market server device has a library comprising a listing of a plurality of products, a field configured with the association information, e.g., an identifier for the server device. In an example, the product information is associated with the plurality of products is provided in a product catalog file. The device has a plurality of fields associated with a plurality of micromarket identification information. The micromarket identification information is a unique identifier for the particular micromarket.
US12340356B2
A computer-implemented method including, submitting a payment transaction through a network to a merchant website; receiving the payment transaction by a widget program on the merchant website; submitting, a payment transaction request through the network to a backend application; receiving, the payment transaction request; issuing and submitting a transaction identification number through the network to the widget program; creating a matrix barcode from the transaction identification number; scanning the matrix barcode using a mobile computing device; activating a mobile application to receive payment and receiving payment data from a payment card having a card microchip communicating with an EMV library non-embedded in the mobile application; encrypting the payment data and sending the payment data to the backend application; the backend application submitting the payment data to a payment service provider; receiving the payment transaction results; and notifying the widget program and the mobile application of the payment transaction results.
US12340353B2
In one embodiment, an intended recipient of money transmits a payment link created by the recipient to an intended sender of money, where the link contains a locator to a site of a payment provider, information about the recipient (e.g., phone number), and the amount of money to be sent. The link can be sent via email, text, IM, or other means. The sender then accesses the link, such as by clicking or tapping on the link, which launches a checkout or payment page for the sender on the payment provider site. The sender completes the payment page, and the payment is sent to the recipient by the payment provider.
US12340347B2
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods pertaining to a group of vehicles that cooperatively provide information about a traffic event. In an example embodiment, a method executed by a first processor in a first vehicle may involve detecting a trigger condition that portends a traffic event. The first vehicle may form a video sharing group with one or more other vehicles. At least one vehicle of the video sharing group may capture a video recording of the traffic event and share the video recording with members of the video sharing group. The video recording may contain information that is useable for various purposes. In an example scenario, a reporting vehicle of the video sharing group may transmit the video recording to a server computer that is configured to allow for further operations such as, for example, initiating an insurance procedure and/or filing a police report.
US12340343B2
A system for managing storage-state data of by-the-barrel liquor includes barrels to be filled with an unblended liquor, GPS sensors and IoT sensors installed on the barrels, and a server along with a processing program thereof, wherein the processing program: issues a unique barrel number for each individual barrel while recording on the server its basic data including the distillery name, brand, and unblended liquor fill date; obtains and records on the server the location information transmitted by the GPS sensor linked to the barrel number, and the storage-state data of the individual barrel transmitted by the IoT sensor linked to the barrel number, including the time elapsed from the unblended liquor fill date, and temperature and humidity taken at each specified time interval; hashes the basic data, location information, and storage-state data by linking the barrel number thereto, and records the result on a public blockchain.
US12340333B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for management, assessment, navigation, and/or discovery of data based on data quality, consumption, and/or utility metrics. Data may be assessed using attribute-level and/or record-level metrics that quantify data: “quality”—the condition of data (e.g., presence of incorrect or incomplete values), its “consumption”—the tracked usage of data in downstream applications (e.g., utilization of attributes in dashboard widgets or customer segmentation rules), and/or its “utility”—a quantifiable impact resulting from the consumption of data (e.g., revenue or number of visits resulting from marketing campaigns that use particular datasets, storage costs of data). This data assessment may be performed at different stages of a data intake, preparation, and/or modeling lifecycle. For example, an interactive tree view may visually represent a nested attribute schema and attribute quality or consumption metrics to facilitate discovery of bad data before ingesting into a data lake.
US12340329B2
Systems and methods for a multi-platform prescription routing system in a network are provided. The system includes a network interface communicatively coupled to a computer network, the network interface including a receiver and a transmitter. The system includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to the network interface. The processor is configured to transmit the first prescription to the first supplier, and the second prescription to the second supplier for fulfillment. The processor is further configured to receive, via the network interface, status updates from the one or more suppliers. The processor is further configured to transmit, via the network interface, the status updates to the at least one user device in a format through which the status updates from the first supplier and the second supplier are together viewable by the patient within a single user interface at the user device.
US12340326B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating an assortment plan by an assortment planner. The assortment planner stores value metrics for two or more products, each of the products including two or more of attributes. The assortment planner also analyzes the two or more attributes, by generating attribute values for each of the two or more attributes and communicates the attribute values for each of the two or more attributes to a planning engine. The assortment planner also further constructs a product attributes table and a value metrics table, duplicates the attribute values to generate a merged product attributes table including a number of duplicates of the attribute values and generates a binary value table for each of the attribute values, one or more itemsets, and an assortment of products based, at least in part, on the one or more itemsets. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US12340325B2
A method for management of a production pipeline is disclosed. The method may comprise accessing a data model which comprises a plurality of data objects, including one or more assembly objects, each assembly object representing a part to undergo one or more production events to be performed on a part at a first party facility for providing to a second party facility and one or more production event objects, each production event object representing a particular production event and having a plurality of properties, including an associated start time property and an end time property. The method may also comprise receiving selection of one or more production event objects to be linked to a first assembly object and an indication of values for at least the start time property and end time property of the one or more production event objects and receiving input of one or more alert conditions to be linked to the first assembly object. The method may also comprise receiving first input data in relation to one or more of the production event objects that modifies one or both of the start and end time values and determining that the modification meets an alert condition linked to the assembly object. The method may also comprise issuing an alert to a user interface responsive to the determination.
US12340324B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for determining a smart gas work order set allocation plan. The method includes: obtaining relevant data of the gas device, and uploading the relevant data to a smart gas management platform; extracting work order features of a work order to be assigned based on the relevant data of the gas device; determining a plurality of cluster sets based on a cluster distance between the work order features; determining at least one linked work order set based on the plurality of cluster sets; extracting set features of the linked work order set; determining an assignment scheme of the linked work order set based on the set features; determining an optimal scheme, determining a linkage processing scheme based on the optimal scheme; sending the assignment scheme and the linkage processing scheme to a smart gas service platform.
US12340323B2
Disclosed embodiments may include a system for curating online vehicle reservations. The system may determine, from received vehicle data including first timing data and indicating a selected vehicle, that the selected vehicle is electric. The system may receive accommodation data including second timing data and indicating a selected accommodation. The system may determine, from comparing the first timing data to the second timing data, that the selected vehicle will likely require charging at the selected accommodation. The system may determine whether the accommodation data includes an indication of electric vehicle charging facilities. Responsive to determining that the selected accommodation does not provide the indication of electric vehicle charging facilities, the system may generate a first graphical user interface warning that no charging station is available for the selected vehicle at the selected accommodation and transmit the first graphical user interface to a user device for display.
US12340316B2
Techniques disclosed herein relate generally to constructing a customized knowledge graph. In one embodiment, entities and relations among entities are extracted from a user dataset based on certain rules to generate a seed graph. Large-scale knowledge graphs are then traversed using a finite state machine to identify candidate entities and/or relations to add to the seed graph. A priority function is used to select entities and/or relations from the candidate entities and/or relations. The selected entities and/or relations are then added to the seed graph to generate the customized knowledge graph.
US12340311B2
A method is provided, including: storing comments generated in response to a content item served over a network; analyzing the comments to determine features associated with each of the comments; using a scoring model to score each comment based on the comment's corresponding features; receiving a request to serve a subset of the comments; responsive to the request, selecting a ranking of the comments that is one permutation from possible rankings of the comments, wherein selecting the ranking is in accordance with a probability distribution of the possible rankings that is based on the scores of the comments; serving comments identified by the selected ranking over the network to a client device; determining a dwell time on the served comments; applying the dwell time to update the scoring model.
US12340309B2
Disclosed are a system, method and apparatus to generate service codes based, at least in part, on electronic documents.
US12340307B2
Techniques are disclosed that enable the generation of predicted sequences of terminals using a generator model portion of a prediction model. Various implementations include controlling actuators of a robot based on the predicted sequences of terminals. Additional or alternative implementations include jointly training the generator model portion of the prediction model using a discriminator model portion of the prediction model using, for example, stochastic adversarial based sampling.
US12340302B2
This application describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for microarchitecture-aware program sampling. An exemplary method includes receiving one or more traces collected from one or more microarchitectures executing a computer program for evaluating hardware configurations; training a machine learning (ML) model with multi-task learning based on the one or more traces as one or more training tasks; generating a plurality of embedded vectors representing the computer program; and updating, based on the trained ML model, the plurality of embedded vectors.
US12340299B2
A method for an artificial neural network includes receiving a set of input values to be convolved with multiple kernels via multiple computing units. One or more thermally-stressed computing units of the multiple computing units are determined. The multiple kernels are mapped to the multiple computing units of a system-on-chip (SOC) based on the one or more thermally-stressed computing units. A convolution is performed on the set of input values and a most sparse kernel of the multiple kernels on the most thermally-stressed computing unit.
US12340298B2
A multi-injection phase-summing circuit includes an oscillator having a natural frequency of oscillation F0, a reference injection interface circuit controlled by a reference synchronization signal at a reference frequency and at least one additional injection interface circuit controlled by a secondary synchronization signal at the reference frequency, each injection interface circuit having a variable injection parameter, the secondary synchronization signals each being phase shifted with respect to the reference synchronization signal, the oscillator being configured to generate an output signal at the reference frequency and phase shifted with respect to the reference synchronization signal by a phase shift dependent on a sum of the respective phase shifts of each secondary synchronization signal with respect to the reference synchronization signal, said sum being weighted by the injection parameters.
US12340291B2
Embodiments are directed to immutable watermarking for authenticating and verifying artificial intelligence (AI)-generated output. An embodiment of a system includes a processor of a monitoring system, wherein the processor is to: receive first content from a first device and second content from a second device, wherein the first content comprises output of inferences of a machine learning (ML) model as applied to captured content at the first device; extracting, from a digital signature corresponding to the first content, a global unique identifier (GUID) of the ML model that generated the first content; verify the extracted GUID against data obtained from a shared registry, the data comprising identifying information of the ML model including the GUID; in response to successfully verifying the extracted GUID, provide the first content for consumption at an application and indicate that the content is generated by the ML model having verified authenticity.
US12340283B2
A computer-implemented method for exploring, by a table-based parallel reinforcement learning, PRL, algorithm, an unexplored domain comprising a plurality of agents and states, the unexplored domain represented by a state-action space. The method includes the steps performed by one or more of the plurality of agents receiving an assigned partition of the state-action space represented by a table; and executing during a plurality of episodes actions for states within the partition. An action transits a state; and granting to a transited state a reward; and exchanging state-action values with other agents of the plurality of agents in the domain; and updating the table.
US12340280B1
As described herein, a base model based on imbalanced data may be selected for a machine learning process associated with a specific application. A first false positive error rate may be generated based on the selected base model. A plurality of imbalanced data sets may be generated based on the imbalanced data associated with the base model. A plurality of models may be generated based on the generated plurality of imbalanced data sets. A subset of the outputs of the plurality of models may be ensembled and a second false positive error rate may be generated based on the ensembled output of the subset of the plurality of models. The second false positive error rate may be determined to be less than the first false positive error rate.
US12340277B2
A hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) computer system, which includes a classical computer and a quantum computer, solves linear systems. The HQC computer system splits the linear system to be solved into subsystems that are small enough to be solved by the quantum computer, under control of the classical computer. The classical computer synthesizes the outputs of the quantum computer to generate the complete solution to the linear system.
US12340272B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets.
US12340268B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed in the disclosure may include an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication module, a communication module, and a processor operatively connected with the UWB communication module and the communication module. The processor may determine a position of the electronic device based on a UWB, may determine an area where the electronic device is positioned, may play a multimedia content corresponding to the area, may acquire interest information regarding a plurality of multimedia contents including the multimedia content, may select at least one multimedia content from the plurality of multimedia contents based on the interest information, may generate a user multimedia content by using the at least one selected multimedia content, and may transmit the user multimedia content to a server through the communication module.
US12340259B2
Various embodiments include a parallel processing computer system that provides multiple memory synchronization domains in a single parallel processor to reduce unneeded synchronization operations. During execution, one execution kernel may synchronize with one or more other execution kernels by processing outstanding memory references. The parallel processor tracks memory references for each domain to each portion of local and remote memory. During synchronization, the processor synchronizes the memory references for a specific domain while refraining from synchronizing memory references for other domains. As a result, synchronization operations between kernels complete in a reduced amount of time relative to prior approaches.
US12340258B2
In some aspects, techniques may include monitoring a primary load of a datacenter and a reserve load of the datacenter. The primary load and reserve load can be monitored by a computing device. The primary load of the datacenter can be configured to be powered by one or more primary generator blocks having a primary capacity, and the reserve load of the datacenter can be configured to be powered by one or more reserve generator blocks having a reserve capacity. Also, the techniques may include detecting that the primary load of the datacenter exceeds the primary capacity. In addition, the techniques may include connecting the reserve generator blocks to at least one of the primary generator blocks and the primary load using a computing device switch.
US12340257B1
Technologies are provided for a multi-cloud bursting service. The service generates a template for provisioning a compute environment in a selected cloud service provider. The template defines a software application to be used for a job to be processed by the compute environment and a hardware setting identifying hardware to be used in the compute environment. The service receives, from a local compute environment, a request to provision the compute environment and transmits the job and the template to the selected cloud service provider such that the selected cloud service provider, based on the cloud agnostic burst template: provisions the compute environment; and deploys the job on the compute environment in the selected cloud service provider.
US12340249B2
A method comprising: receiving an analytic task which includes a priority indicator associated with the analytic task, determining a position of the analytic task in a task queue, the task queue arranged in an order according to their priority indicators, selecting the analytic task based on the order of the task queue, sending the analytic task to an analytics service to determine if the analytics service has sufficient available resources to perform the analytic task, receiving an indication that the analytics service does not have sufficient available resources to perform the analytic task, repositioning the analytic task within the task queue, selecting the analytic task from the task queue based on the order of the task queue and a new position of the analytic task, sending the analytic task to the analytics service, and retrieving another analytic task to send to the analytics service.
US12340248B2
Techniques are disclosed for allocating computing resources in a computing network of a cloud computing system, the computing resources comprising a plurality of computing devices hosting virtual machines. An expected usage profile is determined based on first data indicative of a current demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, second data indicative of an adjacent demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, third data indicative of a historical demand for computing resource usage in the computing network, and fourth data indicative of events that are external to the computing network.
US12340247B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, and a processor including a resource management unit and a neural processing unit. The processor may be configured to obtain an execution request for a specific function operating based on a specific neural network model, identify an available bandwidth of the memory through the resource management unit, and quantize the specific neural network model based on the available bandwidth of the memory through the neural processing unit.
US12340227B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a cross-lane processing unit (XPU) for performing data-dependent operations across multiple data processing lanes of a processor. Rather than implementing operation-specific circuits for each data-dependent operation, the XPU can be configured to perform different operations in response to input signals configuring individual operations performed by processing cells and crossbars arranged as a stacked network in the XPU. Each processing cell can receive and process data across multiple data processing lanes. Aspects of the disclosure include configuring the XPU to use a vector sort network to perform a duplicate count eliminating the need to configure the XPU separately for sorting and duplicate counting.
US12340212B2
The present disclosure discloses a hotpatch method for vulnerabilities in embedded Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The method includes acquiring vulnerability information of the embedded IoT devices to be patched; selecting a corresponding vulnerability patching mode based on different vulnerability types of the vulnerability information, and acquiring an eBPF patch bytecode file (first patch) and an eBPF patch code configuration file from a server according to the vulnerability patching mode; compiling the eBPF patch bytecode based on the eBPF patch bytecode and the eBPF patch code configuration file to generate a patch binary code file (second patch) and configuration information of the patch binary code; and adopting three approaches to trigger the patch binary code to patch the vulnerability information based on the configuration information and the vulnerability patching mode.
US12340211B2
Described herein are systems and methods for performing real-time binary analysis of code running in programmable logic controllers, and specifically to systems and methods for generating patches, testing patches, and implementing patches on programmable logic controllers while the controller is operating is provided. In one or more examples, a profile of the physical operation controlled by the PLC and the broader system can be generated. In one or more examples, once a profile has been generated, the system and methods described herein can capture data images that provide information regarding the operation of the system as well as the PLC. Based on the received data images, and the generated profile, the system can detect anomalies and/or safety constraint violations in the operation of the system that can be rectified or mitigated through patching (i.e., modification of the datasets or binary code used by the PLC).
US12340208B2
A method for updating software stored in a memory. The memory is divided into sectors. The software is updated by the writing of data into the memory. The data for updating the software are written from an arrangement into a further memory, in which further memory the data are temporarily stored, until the amount of data written into the further memory reaches a specific value. After the value has been reached, the data written into the further memory are transferred into the memory which is divided into sectors.
US12340204B2
System enables selection of application hosts which meet update requirements, then downloads update for instances of application agent corresponding to selected application hosts. System puts selected application hosts in maintenance mode, which prevents selected application hosts from beginning execution of any operations, until updating selected application hosts is completed. System creates copy of instructions, which when executed, installs update in instance of application agent in one of application hosts, and reports on update process to server which communicates with application hosts. System launches worker process from copy of instructions. System initiates update sessions which install update in instances of application agent corresponding to selected application hosts. If update sessions failed to install update in any of instances of application agent in cluster of application hosts, system rolls back update for updated instances of application agents in cluster of application hosts to previous conditions of instances of application agents.
US12340202B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first storage unit configured to store a boot program, and a backup of the boot program, and a second storage unit configured to store an updating program that is activated by the boot program and used for updating a program. A control unit executes a first updating process that updates at least the boot program by executing the updating program after executing the boot program, and executes, in accordance with completion of the first updating process, a second updating process that updates at least the backup of the boot program and the updating program after executing the updated boot program.
US12340196B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for deploying and configuring telecommunication middleware using a no-code integration and automation platform that implements middleware patterns as a set of event-driven Functions-as-a-Service. The platform offers low-latency, high-performance middleware capabilities co-located with applications, provides for a consistent developer experience, facilitates interoperability across nodes, and enables centralized and automated lifecycle management. Additional technical benefits over legacy systems in this resource-efficient, edge-optimized, green-tech platform include: improved performance, composable building blocks, reduced costs, cloud-native deployment, cloud network functions virtualization, rationalized tooling, and unified management. The breadth, depth, and inherent complexity of various use cases showcases the richness of the disclosed abstraction and automation.
US12340194B1
Systems and methods for streamlining risk modeling in software development using natively sourced kernels are described. The system may receive a native kernel for the first model, wherein the native kernel comprises a native code sample and a native description of the native code sample. The system may input the native code sample into an artificial intelligence model to generate a first output. The system may filter the first output based on the native description to generate a first validation assessment for the first model. The system may generate for display, in the user interface, the first validation assessment.
US12340185B2
Processing cores with data associative adaptive rounding and associated methods are disclosed herein. One disclosed processing core comprises an arithmetic logic unit cluster configured to generate a value for a unit of directed graph data using input directed graph data, a comparator coupled to a threshold register and a data register, a core controller configured to load a threshold value into the threshold register when the value for the unit of directed graph data is loaded into the data register, and a rounding circuit. The rounding circuit is configured to receive the value for the unit of directed graph data from the arithmetic logic unit cluster and conditionally round the value for the unit of directed graph data based on a comparator output from the comparator.
US12340182B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for categorizing sequences of text extracted from documents using natural language processing. In some embodiments, a categorization system may receive a first document file in a machine readable format. The categorization system may analyze a sequence of text from the first document file and identify a numeric text string in the sequence. The categorization system may also identify text data in the sequence matching text data from a second document file. The categorization system may remove the numeric text string and the matching data from the sequence to generate a trimmed version of the sequence. The categorization system may then apply a vectorization model to the trimmed version of the sequence as well as a trained deep learning model to the vector version to identify a corresponding category for the sequence of text.
US12340175B2
A system and method for detecting a psychological affect in a natural language content with a rule-based engine includes receiving the natural language content as a textual input; searching for matches between linguistic rules for a given emotio-cognition and components of the natural language content, wherein instances of the linguistic rules have human dimensions; activating the matched linguistic rules, and evaluating the human dimensions of the matched rules; scoring each human dimension to obtain a profile of dimension scores for the given emotio-cognition; aggregating the dimensions in the obtained profile of dimension scores to obtain an intensity indication for the given emotio-cognition; and displaying the natural language content in a manner that relates the matched linguistic rules in conjunction with the given emotio-cognition and respective intensity indication of the given emotio-cognition.
US12340171B2
A method of training, by a terminal, a mathematics-related artificial intelligence (AI) model, includes collecting mathematical words for training the mathematics-related AI model, converting the mathematical words into a reading sentence by using a mathematical reading technology, generating learning data for training the mathematics-related AI model based on the reading sentence, and training the mathematics-related AI model by using the learning data. The mathematical words may include a natural language part and a mathematical part.
US12340170B1
Disclosed in the present application is a method for processing complex data, which relates to the technical field of data processing. The method includes: generating a query instruction set by execution parameters of a target screening template through a data processing model; transmitting the query instruction set to a data processing engine for the data processing engine to obtain data from each connected target data source based on the query instruction set; and after the data is standardized through the data processing model, importing the data into a target collection template for analysis. A worker only needs to set the corresponding collection template and screening template according to a research scenario, and there is no need to develop a software according to the research scenario, which reduces preliminary preparation time and improves efficiency of data processing.
US12340159B2
A method for checking electrical rules in a design of a circuit including transistors connected by nodes, includes defining a hierarchical database including (i) a root representing the circuit, and (ii) instances of context-cells representing design entities and including node-ports that connect the design entities. Electrical properties of the node-ports are propagated from the root through the node-ports to at least a portion of the context-cells. The electrical properties, which were propagated from the root, are propagated from one or more of the context-cells to one or more peer context-cells. An electrical rule violation in at least one of the context-cells is identified based on the propagated electrical properties.
US12340157B2
Described is a configuration to remove false paths from an emulation netlist in a chip design under test (DUT). The configuration identifies, in an original netlist, an original subgraph of original logic gates, a subset of inputs (TI), and a subset of outputs (TO). The configuration generates a replicated subgraph of the original subgraph, the replicated subgraph having replicated logic gates corresponding to the original logic gates. The configuration connects the TI with a first replicated logic gate to a constant propagation source and remaining inputs of the replicated logic gates with corresponding original logic gates in the original netlist. The configuration disconnects, in the original netlist, output loads of TO, and connects the output loads of TO with a corresponding equivalent TO in the replicated subgraph. The configuration deletes, in the original netlist, original logic gates unconnected with an output load for TO in the original netlist.
US12340154B2
Providing first-in-first-out (FIFO) memory guidance for a multi-processor computing architecture includes compiling a design for a data processing array to generate a compiled design. The compiled design is mapped and routed to the data processing array. The compiled design is simulated using a modified device model of the data processing array. The modified device model uses infinite FIFO models. FIFO memory usage data is generated by tracking amounts of data stored in the infinite FIFO memory models during runtime of the simulation of the compiled design. FIFO memory requirements for one or more nets of the design are determined from the FIFO memory usage data and the compiled design.
US12340140B2
A sharing method includes: receiving screen projection content transmitted by a second electronic device in a case that a first electronic device and the second electronic device are in a screen projection connection and the second electronic device is in a call with a third electronic device; displaying the screen projection content; receiving a first input from a user with regard to a target identifier and a display area of the screen projection content, where the target identifier is used for indicating a target object; and controlling, in response to the first input, the second electronic device to transmit the target object to the third electronic device.
US12340139B2
An electronic device including a housing, a display panel with a flexible substrate, and a flexible printed circuit, in which the housing comprises a flat surface and a side surface comprising a curved region, the display panel comprises a first region that overlaps with the flat surface and a second region that overlaps with the side surface, the display panel comprises a convex portion that comprises a region overlapping with a flexible printed circuit, and the display panel comprises a display portion in the first region and the second region.
US12340123B2
A memory module with multiple memory devices includes a buffer system that manages communication between a memory controller and the memory devices. The memory module additionally includes a command input port to receive command and address signals from a controller and, also in support of capacity extensions, a command relay circuit coupled to the command port to convey the commands and addresses from the memory module to another module or modules. Relaying commands and addresses introduces a delay, and the buffer system that manages communication between the memory controller and the memory devices can be configured to time data communication to account for that delay.
US12340122B2
In a method of operating a storage device, first information associated with operation of the storage device is received from a host device. Second information internally generated based on write requests, read requests, and operation of the storage device is received. Program commands and read commands are transmitted to nonvolatile memories. Suspension commands are transmitted to at least one of nonvolatile memories. The suspension commands are generated based on the first and second information and are used to temporarily stop program operations performed based on the program commands. The number and timing of transmitting the suspension commands are controlled based on the first and second information. In response to changing at least one of the write requests and the read requests, the number and timing of transmitting the suspension commands are adaptively changed.
US12340113B2
Read Quality of Service in a solid state drive is improved by allowing a host system communicatively coupled to the solid state drive to control garbage collection in the solid state drive. Through the use of controlled garbage collection, the host system can control when to start and stop garbage collection in the solid state drive and the number of NAND dies engaged in garbage-collection operations.
US12340112B2
Computer-implemented methods for storing data with replicated metadata in a scale-out data storage system are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a first data storage node of the scale-out data storage system, a data item to be stored and storing, by the first data storage node, the data item on a storage area network in communication with the scale-out data storage system. Aspects also include generating, by the first data storage node, a metadata item corresponding to the data item and replicating the metadata item on a second data storage node of the scale-out data storage system.
US12340102B2
An information processing apparatus that communicates with a device includes a control unit that performs control to store, in a first operation mode, predetermined communication information that is information used for communication with the device in a first memory, and store, in a second operation mode different from the first operation mode, the predetermined communication information in a second memory whose capacity is smaller than a capacity of the first memory. When shifting from the first operation mode to the second operation mode, the control unit performs control of changing a setting of the predetermined communication information such that a size of a saving destination of packet data transferred to the second memory is a predetermined size.
US12340100B2
A system includes memory, a controller and a processor. The controller receives program instructions to program the controller to perform function, and handle data as a result of performing the function. The processor: performs an initial configuration of a map to proportion the memory including allocating first and second portions of the memory for the program instructions and the data, the map being indicative of addresses of the first and second portions; subsequent to performing the initial configuration, reconfigures the map to change amounts of the memory allocated for the program instructions and the data, and prior to and subsequent to reconfiguring the map and based on the map, routes the program instructions and data between the controller and the memory, stores the program instructions at the addresses of the memory allocated for the program instructions, and stores the data at the addresses of the memory allocated for the data.
US12340097B2
The application relates to a computing device comprising one or more processors and one or more memory devices having stored thereon computer readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to establish a storage module for storing a data file. The storage module is configured to: load a data file from a data source into the storage module; compute a hash value of the data file loaded into the storage module and make said hash value available to a hash value consumer; grant read-only access to data consumer(s) for accessing said data file loaded into the storage module. The storage module is further configured to detect any change and/or attempted change of the data file and terminate all data consumers which have been granted access to the data file.
US12340094B2
Provided are a storage device and an operating method of a memory controller. The storage device includes a non-volatile memory that outputs data from selected memory cells based on read voltage information, the read voltage information including a start read voltage, an end read voltage, and a read command. Moreover, the storage device includes a memory controller that determines whether a search region defined by the start read voltage and the end read voltage is within a multi-peak region of a threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a first state of the selected memory cells, based on the search region being within the multi-peak region, change the search region, and based on the search region not being within to the multi-peak region, determine a new read voltage using the search region.
US12340085B2
A serial data buffer integrated circuit comprises unidirectional host-side input and output ports, and unidirectional memory-side input and output ports. Scheduling logic generates memory device commands for writing to and reading from a memory device based on a set of host-side input packets received from a memory controller. A unidirectional serial host side input port receives host-side input packets from the memory controller. A unidirectional serial memory side output port transmits the memory device commands and the write data to the memory device based on the scheduled timing. A unidirectional serial memory side input port receives read data from the memory device in response to a read command, and a unidirectional serial host side output port transmits the read data to the memory controller within the timing constraints of the memory device.
US12340081B2
A lighting device for a vehicle includes a light device disposed in an interior of an automobile, and a touch panel for controlling the light device. The light device is configured such that a light intensity and a chromaticity of the light device is changed according to contact of a detection object with the touch panel or according to action of a detection object on the touch panel.
US12340079B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides an interpretation support server, an interpretation support system, an interpretation support method, an interpretation support program, and an interpretation terminal that enable a plurality of users to efficiently perform interpretation. The interpretation support server according to one aspect of the present invention classifies an operation received from a first terminal into a display operation that permits display of an operation result on a second terminal and a hide operation that prohibits display of the operation result on the second terminal, causes the second terminal to display a result of performed display operation in real time in a case where the display operation is performed at the first terminal, and prohibits the second terminal from displaying a result of performed hide operation in a case where the hide operation is performed at the first terminal.
US12340071B2
A user interface method is provided on a portable device including a camera and a display. The method includes receiving a program call to display an image processing user interface and in response, displaying a first user interface comprising a list of selectable graphical items corresponding to a group of available image modification features. If user selection of a desired graphical item from the list of selectable graphical items is received, image modification features corresponding to the desired graphical item are applied to an image received from the camera, generating a modified image. A second user interface including the modified image and various further options is then displayed on the display.
US12340069B2
Techniques for screenshot capture based on content type are described and are implementable to enable a screenshot of content displayed on a device to be captured based on a content type for the content. The described implementations, for instance, automatically determine a content type for content displayed on a device and capture a screenshot based on the content type, such as whether the content represents static content or dynamic content. Further, implementations enable a query to be utilized to determine whether to generate one or more of a static screenshot of visual content or a dynamic screenshot of visual content.
US12340067B1
A method, comprising: at a computing device with a touch-sensitive display: displaying a control icon; displaying an item preselection mark at a position of an item in a list of items; detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display; and—in response to detecting a change in a position of the contact beginning anywhere on the control icon, changing in a number of discrete steps the position of the item preselection mark in the list of items; detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and in response to detecting a selection gesture on the control icon, selecting an item at a position of the item preselection mark in the list of items.
US12340059B2
The touch sensor includes a touch detection area with at least a part of a curved area having a curved edge. In the touch detection area, a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes disposed side by side in a first direction and in a second direction are disposed. A plurality of first electrodes disposed side by side in the first direction are connected to each other. A plurality of second electrodes disposed side by side in the second direction are connected to each other. In the curved area, distances between the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrodes in the first direction gradually change in the second direction.
US12340057B2
There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another.
US12340056B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a plurality of touch signal lines; a plurality of touch electrodes; a plurality of pixel electrodes; and an insulation layer. The touch signal line and a transparent conductive layer where the pixel electrode is located are arranged at a side of the insulation layer away from a transparent conductive layer where the touch electrode is located, an orthogonal projection of the pixel electrode onto the base substrate is separated from an orthogonal projection of the touch signal line onto the base substrate to be insulated from each other, and each touch electrode is coupled to at least one touch signal line through a via hole in the insulation layer.
US12340054B2
A touch panel includes a first substrate, a cover that is formed from glass and that is overlaid on the first substrate, and a first adhesive layer that adheres the first substrate to the cover. The first substrate includes a base that is formed from glass and that includes a detection region and a surrounding region surrounding the detection region, a plurality of first electrodes that is disposed in the detection region of a first main surface of the base, and that extends in a first direction, and an organic thin film that is formed on the first main surface of the base, and that covers the plurality of first electrodes. The first adhesive layer directly adheres the organic thin film to the cover, and the surrounding region of the first main surface of the base to the cover.
US12340050B2
A sensor system according to an embodiment includes: a noncontact sensor module arranged on a display module; and a processor configured to drive the sensor module, wherein the sensor module is configured to detect a first coordinate and a second coordinate of a detection target, the second coordinate is detected before the first coordinate is detected, the processor is configured to calculate move information indicating a moving direction of the detection target in the first coordinate based on the first coordinate and the second coordinate detected by the sensor module, and calculate a correction amount in the first coordinate based on the move information when the detection target approaches the sensor module and a distance between the sensor module and the detection target reaches a correction start distance.
US12340031B2
Techniques for displaying a virtual object in an enhanced reality setting in accordance with a physical muting mode being active are described. In some examples, while the physical muting mode is active, a system obtains a first set of context data for one or more physical elements in a physical setting and causes display of a virtual object representing the one or more physical elements in a first position using at least a portion of the first set of context data. After the virtual object representing the one or more physical elements is displayed in the first position, the physical muting mode is deactivated. In response to detecting the deactivation of the physical muting mode, the system causes display of a transitional motion of the virtual object representing the one or more physical elements from the first position to a second position.
US12340026B2
Methods, systems, and devices for gesture recognition are described. A system may identify geographical location data associated with a user throughout a time interval and may identify a set of gesture profiles corresponding to a set of gestures associated with the geographical location data of the user. The system may additionally acquire physiological data, including motion data, associated with the user from a wearable device worn by the user and may identify a set of motion segments within the time interval based on the motion data. Additionally, the system may identify a gesture the user engaged in based on matching a motion segment of the set of motion segments to a gesture profile of the set of gesture profiles and may cause a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device running the application to display an indication of the gesture.
US12340024B2
A method, including receiving, by a computer, a two-dimensional image (2D) containing at least a physical surface and segmenting the physical surface into one or more physical regions. A functionality is assigned to each of the one or more physical regions, each of the functionalities corresponding to a tactile input device, and a sequence of three-dimensional (3D) maps is received, the sequence of 3D maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer, the hand positioned on one of the physical regions. The 3D maps are analyzed to detect a gesture performed by the user, and based on the gesture, an input is simulated for the tactile input device corresponding to the one of the physical regions.
US12340023B2
Haptic actuators may include a first active material coupled to a first side of an inactive substrate and a second active material coupled to a second side of the inactive substrate. The inactive substrate may be formed to initially exhibit a nonplanar shape when the first active material and the second active material are not actuated. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
US12340017B2
A hand-mounted position-tracking device includes a plurality of position-tracking subsystems. Each position-tracking subsystem is associated with a different digit of a hand and includes a magnet and a sensor that generates a signal based on a distance between the magnet and the sensor. Each position-tracking subsystem further includes a rotatable coupling that rotationally couples the magnet to the sensor.
US12340011B2
An information processing method includes acquiring a first model that moves in conjunction with an action of a first user, acquiring a second model that moves in conjunction with an action of a second user, and displaying the first model and the second model on different reference positions from each other while the first user or the second user is continuing a predetermined action.
US12340001B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems are defined for the efficient identification and location of changes in an electronic file by defining and applying a set of overlapping unique areas within the file. A signature for each unique area or bubble is determined and compared to the signature of the same set of unique areas applied to a target file.
US12340000B2
A method includes receiving, at a server from a user device, a user query to a large language model (LLM), creating an LLM query from the user query, inserting a system prohibited request into the LLM query to generate a revised LLM query, and sending the revised LLM query to the LLM. The method further includes receiving, from the LLM, a first LLM response to the LLM query, testing the first LLM response to detect whether a prohibited response to the system prohibited request is included in the first LLM response, and setting a prompt injection signal based on whether the prohibited response to the system prohibited request is included in the first LLM response.
US12339996B2
A method of providing access to securely held data is provided. A user interacts with the service provider to obtain access to a service by using a device to provide a digital identifier to the service provider, without the digital identifier being made known to the user. At a later date the user wishes to retrieve securely stored data relating to their use of the service. However, because the user does not know the digital identifier, they are unable to identify themselves to the service provider using the digital identifier. The present disclosure provides a secure method for exchanging private identifiers, which allows the user to identify themselves to the service provider in order to gain access to securely stored data relating to the user's previous use of the service. The user can do this using the device on which the digital identifier is stored, or another device.
US12339994B2
Methods and systems for managing access and control of data are disclosed. To manage access and control, data management system may require registration and verification of devices associated with an individual or other individuals to which control over access may be granted. Data management system may vest control over access to data to the device associated with the individual for which data is stored and progressively vest control over access to data to other devices associated with other individuals as an increasing amount of information indicating the lack of capacity of the individual to authorize access to data.
US12339989B2
The invention relates to a system and method that relates to creation of a digital fingerprint library for storing information of a document containing protected information. The system mainly includes a fragment generator, a fingerprint value generator, and the digital fingerprint library. The fragment generator generates fragments of the document using a sliding window method. Fragment length is determined heuristically, can be hardcoded in the program or be a parameter in GUI. The fingerprint value generator generates a fingerprint value, e.g., its hash, for each fragment. The fingerprint value represents the information related to respective fragments. The digital fingerprint library then stores the fingerprint value. Fingerprint values of individual fragments serve as key values to provide a mechanism for comparing fragments of unknown files to the digital fingerprint library.
US12339984B2
Access right information (20) indicating an access right of a user for a target file (10) is stored in a storage device (3100) accessible from a server apparatus (3000). A management apparatus (4000) acquires the access right information (20) from the server apparatus (3000) and puts it in a storage device (4100). The management apparatus (4000) acquires a request for key information that is used to decrypt a target file (10) from a user apparatus (2000) operated by a target user (40). The management apparatus (4000) determines, upon the acquisition of the request, whether or not the target user (10) has an access right for the target file (40) by using the access right information (20) stored in the storage device (4100). The management apparatus (4000) outputs the key information to the user apparatus (2000) when it is determined that the target user (40) has the access right for the target file (10).
US12339972B2
A method (300) for linking a common vulnerability and exposure, CVE, (106) with at least one synthetic common platform enumeration, CPE, (112) wherein the CVE (106) comprises a summary of a vulnerability, is disclosed. The method (300) comprising: receiving (S302) the summary of the CVE (106) from a vulnerability database, VD, (104); extracting (S304) information from the summary of the CVE (106) using a Natural Language Processing, NLP, model; building (S306) at least one synthetic CPE (112) based on the extracted information; and linking (S308) the CVE (106) with the at least one synthetic CPE (112).
US12339967B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and devices for authenticating a firmware object on a device and in some examples to safeguard the attestation process from the execution of malicious firmware. In some examples, a firmware update process may, in addition to updating the firmware on the device, write a hash of the authentic firmware code in a secure storage device (e.g., a register). This may be done in some examples in a protected environment (e.g., a trusted execution environment or a protected firmware update process). Upon first boot after the update, a firmware update checker compares the firmware object that is booted with the value of the secure storage device. If the values match, the alias certificate may be regenerated, and the boot continues. If the values do not match, then the alias certificate may not be regenerated, and the system may have an authenticity failure because the key and the certificate do not match.
US12339963B2
In some examples, a storage system intercepts a write request communicated over a network from a requester in a host system, the write request to write data of a data volume. The storage system determines whether the data of the write request matches a specified pattern. In response to determining that the data of the write request does not match the specified pattern, the storage system indicates that the write request from the requester in the host system has been corrupted by malware that has performed an unauthorized encryption on the data.
US12339951B2
Disclosed are various approaches for enforcing policies for unmanaged applications. A user supplied script can be evaluated to determine whether an application is installed on a computing device. In response to a determination that the application is installed on the computing device, a request can be sent to a management service for at least one policy applicable to the application. The policy can be evaluated to determine whether the application complies with the policy.
US12339950B2
A weak password detection method and device based on deep learning, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a password character string to be detected; processing, by applying a fully trained weak password detection model, the password character string to be detected to obtain a strong/weak password classification label of the password character string to be detected, the fully trained weak password detection model being obtained by training a deep learning model with a password character string as an input and a strong/weak password classification label corresponding to the password character string as a supervision; and marking the password character string to be detected as a weak password under the condition that the strong/weak password classification label is a weak password label.
US12339948B2
A method includes a computer receiving a request to conduct an interaction from a mobile device. The computer obtains a computer address and provides the computer address to the mobile device. The mobile device provides an access request to the computer address, and the access request is thereafter routed to an identity provider computer. The identity provider computer identifies identity data associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device. The computer obtains the identity data or a derivative of the identity data from the identity provider computer. The computer determines if the identity data or the derivative of the identity data matches previously stored identity data or a previously stored derivative of identity data. If a match is determined, the computer provides a list of user device identifiers to the mobile device.
US12339947B2
Resource enablers of a secure workspace can be selectively validated and enabled. Resource enablers can be configured to selectively allow an application hosted in a secure workspace to access an external resource based on a trust of the application and/or of the external resource. As a result, the security of the secure workspace can be maintained without having to restrict all access to external resources.
US12339943B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to verifiability for execution in a trusted execution environment (TEE). According to a method, a request for execution of a task is transmitted by a first apparatus and to a second apparatus, the task comprising a plurality of functions to be executed. A first validation key is generated from identification information of the plurality of functions based on an expected execution plan in at least one trusted execution environment of the second apparatus. An execution result for the task and a second validation key are received from the second apparatus. Correctness of the execution result is determined by comparing the first validation key with the second validation key. Through the solution, it is possible to provide the verifiability of the correctness of the execution result returned by the remote apparatus and achieves high performance on security, trust, and privacy.
US12339942B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for encryption and decryption of data. In some implementations, an encryption and decryption system can protect private information of a user in documents with an artificial reality device. The encryption and decryption system can determine the portion of a document containing private information and encrypt that portion of the document. In some implementations, the encryption and decryption system can receive a document and identify the protected (e.g., encrypted) portion of the document. In some cases, the protected portion of the document can contain a security token that the encryption and decryption system can extract. The system can compare the security token to an authentication token associated with the user and determine whether the security and authentication token match. If the tokens match, the system can decrypt the protected portion of the document and display the decrypted data as a virtual object.
US12339934B1
Systems and methods of sensor data fusion including sensor data capture, curation, linking, fusion, inference, and validation. The systems and methods described herein reduce computational demand and processing time by curating data and calculating conditional entropy. The system is operable to fuse data from a plurality of sensor types. A computer processor optionally stores fused sensor data that the system validates above a mathematical threshold.
US12339929B2
An online document system provides a recommendation for one or more features within the online document system to an entity. The online document system accesses a set of feature training data to train a machine learning model. The set of feature training data may describe characteristics of entities associated with the online document system and historical activity associated with the entities' usage of the online document system's features. The machine learning model may be configured to identify a feature to recommend to an entity based on the entity's characteristics and history of using other features within the online document system. For example, data representing the entity's user accounts and use of an electronic signature feature is used by the machine learning model to identify a document authentication feature to recommend to the entity. The online document system may then provide the identified feature in a recommendation to the entity.
US12339927B2
Disclosed are a system, apparatus and techniques for evaluating a dataset to confirm that the data in the dataset satisfies a data quality metric. A machine learning engine or the like may evaluate text strings within the dataset may be of arbitrary length and encoded according to an encoding standard. Data vectors of a preset length may be generated from the evaluated text strings using various techniques. Each data vector may be representative of the content of the text string and a category may be assigned to the respective data vector. The category assigned to each data vectors may be evaluated with respect to other data vectors in the dataset to determine compliance with a quality metric. In the case that a number of data vectors fail to meet a predetermined quality metric, an alert may be generated to mitigate any system errors that may result from unsatisfactory data quality.
US12339923B2
A circuit comprises an input register configured to receive an input vector of elements, a control register configured to receive a control vector of elements, wherein each element of the control vector corresponds to a respective element of the input vector, and wherein each element specifies a permutation of a corresponding element of the input vector, and a permute execution circuit configured to generate an output vector of elements corresponding to a permutation of the input vector. Generating each element of the output vector comprises accessing, at the input register, a particular element of the input vector, accessing, at the control register, a particular element of the control vector corresponding to the particular element of the input vector, and outputting the particular element of the input vector as an element at a particular position of the output vector that is selected based on the particular element of the control vector.
US12339919B2
The present disclosure provides a method of processing triple data, a method of training a triple data processing model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. A specific implementation solution includes: performing a triple data extraction on text data to obtain a plurality of field data; normalizing the plurality of field data to determine target triple data, wherein the target triple data contains entity data, entity relationship data, and association entity data; and verifying a confidence level of the target triple data to obtain a verification result.
US12339915B2
A system uses a contextual bandit model for query processing. The system receives, from a client device, a user query for identifying one or more items by the system. The user query is described by one or more query features. The system obtains one or more contextual features describing a context of the user query. The system applies a contextual bandit model to the query features and the contextual features to select a query processing model from a plurality of query processing models. The system applies the selected query processing model to the user query to obtain query results. The system transmits the query results for display on the client device.
US12339914B2
ADVANCED RESPONSE PROCESSING IN WEB DATA COLLECTION discloses processor-implemented apparatuses, methods, and systems of processing unstructured raw HTML responses collected in the context of a data collection service, the method comprising, in one embodiment, receiving raw unstructured HTML documents and extracting text data with associated meta information that may comprise style and formatting information. In some embodiments data field tags and values may be assigned to the text blocks extracted, classifying the data based on the processing of Machine Learning algorithms. Additionally, blocks of extracted data may be grouped and re-grouped together and presented as a single data point. In another embodiment the system may aggregate and present the text data with the associated meta information in a structured format. In certain embodiments the Machine Learning model may be a model trained on a pre-created training data set labeled manually or in an automatic fashion.
US12339913B2
A facility for distributing a search index for a corpus of documents is described. The facility accesses multiple search index segments collectively making up the search index. Each of the segments is executable to traverse an index subtree embedded in the segment to find in the index subtree a node representing a query term specified in an argument. Each of the segments corresponds to a particular indexed document field that is indexed by the search index. For each of the segments, the index subtree embedded the segment has nodes representing query terms that all produce a particular hash result. The facility calls a programmatic publication interface for a content delivery network to publish the plurality of search index segments on the content delivery network.
US12339909B2
As an example, a system includes a hierarchical tag database that includes a plurality of tags arranged according to a hierarchical data schema for a number of tag hierarchies, and tags within each level of a respective tag hierarchy have a different specificity relative to each other level of the respective tag hierarchy. The data can also include profile tag data for a given user. The system can also include a processor configured to access the media and execute the instructions to expand each of the stored profile tags for the given user to provide an expanded profile tag data set for the given user, in which the expanded profile tag data set includes each of the assigned profile tags and each one or more higher-level tag in each associated tag hierarchy to which each of the assigned profile tags belongs. The instructions can also be programmed to determine which tags in the expanded profile tag data set match corresponding item tags representative of available actions, services, products and/or activities. The instructions can also be programmed to generate a results list representative of a matching set of the actions, services, products and/or activities based on the determination. At least a portion of the results list can be presented in a user-perceptible format.
US12339907B2
Automatically completing a query statement for a graph database, includes a current input character in a process where a user inputs a graph database query statement based on a target query language. Multiple syntax keywords for matching target keywords are queried based on at least the current input character when the current input character is not a predetermined character, where the predetermined character is a reserved character of the target query language. The matched target keywords are determined as auto-complete content corresponding to the current input character.
US12339896B2
A user can submit a visual query that includes one or more images. Various processing techniques such as optical character recognition (OCR) techniques can be used to recognize text (e.g. in the image, surrounding image(s), etc.) and/or various object detection techniques (e.g., machine-learned object detection models, etc.) may be used to detect objects (e.g., products, landmarks, animals, humans, etc.) within or related to the visual query. Content related to the detected text or object(s) can be identified and potentially provided to a user as search results or a proactive content feed. As such, aspects of the present disclosure enable the visual search system to more intelligently process a visual query to provide improved search results and content feeds, including those search results which are more personalized and/or consider contextual signals to account for implicit characteristics of the visual query and/or user's search intent.
US12339891B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing metadata for unstructured data. The method includes identifying a first storage event associated with a first unstructured data object; streaming, from a storage resource, first system metadata associated with the first unstructured data object; identifying, using a first system metadata processor, a first object type associated with the first unstructured data object based on the first system metadata; storing the first system metadata in a first entry of a first metadata table; streaming second system metadata associated with a second unstructured data object; identifying, using the first system metadata processor, a second object type associated with the second unstructured data object based on the second system metadata; and storing the second system metadata in a second entry of a second metadata table, wherein the second metadata is queried to obtain the first unstructured data object.
US12339890B2
Systems and methods for describing a composition of an article of manufacture are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving article composition data for an article of manufacture that identifies a set of parts of the article, a stated composition for each part of the set of parts, and a physical quantity of the stated composition. The method further includes classifying the stated composition of each part of the set of parts into a normalized composition that includes a set of normalized chemicals. The method further includes outputting an aggregated physical quantity of each normalized chemical for the set of parts of the article. The method can include classifying a normalized composition of each part into a material category within a hierarchical taxonomy based on the set of normalized chemicals of that normalized composition and outputting an aggregated physical quantity of each material category for the parts.
US12339888B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein relate generally to providing a media abstract for a selected topic. The media abstract may include information obtained from a plurality of media sources. Providing the media abstract may include periodically retrieving data from a plurality of media sources, saving the data in a data store, retrieving the data from the data store, generating for each topic of a plurality of topics, a media abstract that includes a plurality of text segments transforming the data, receiving a selected topic from a client device, and transmitting the media abstract corresponding to the selected topic to the client device.
US12339887B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) and pipeline for processing text documents is provided herein. In one example, a system can receive unstructured text documents. The system can determine entity-issue descriptions corresponding to the unstructured text documents. The system can then generate a GUI indicating the entity-issue descriptions. The GUI can also indicate assignments of the unstructured text documents to categories of a predefined schema. The GUI can allow the user to adjust the assignments of the unstructured text documents to the categories. The GUI can also include a table of rows, where each row corresponds to one of the unstructured text documents. Each row can indicate an entity-issue description in the corresponding unstructured text document and the categories assigned to the unstructured text document. Each row can also include a graphical button that is selectable to allow the user to view the unstructured text document corresponding to the row.
US12339883B2
An information processing device, method and program enabling a user to easily arrive at a desired goal sentence or similar is described. An FAQ answer or product explanation page is treated as a goal sentence, said goal sentence being presented to a user to achieve a user goal with regard to an FAQ answer or a product explanation, and keywords, guidance sentence candidates, and goal sentences are associated and stored in a guidance sentence dictionary, such that when a keyword that, more than being related to a goal sentence or similar, is common and easy to think of has been input, a guidance sentence candidate intended to have the user arrive at the goal sentence is extracted, said guidance sentence candidate including said keyword or a similar keyword.
US12339874B2
A density-based data clustering apparatus includes a memory storing a data clustering program, and a processor configured to execute the data clustering program, wherein the data clustering program stores input data, which is added to a sliding window for processing streaming data, together with spatial information and temporal information, removes deviation data deviating from the sliding window, classifies the input data into a core, a border, or noise according to density based on the spatial information and the temporal information, updates a cluster based on a result of classification of the input data and a result of removal of the deviation data, forms the cluster including one or more cores and borders, and updates the cluster through a spanning tree connecting cores within a critical distance by an edge.
US12339871B2
A robotic system is provided. The robotic system includes a publishing node including at least one first synchronization database that includes a plurality of attributes, each of the attributes including a tag identifying the attribute and data, a flag associated with each of the attributes, and a subscriber list. The system also includes a subscriber node including at least one second synchronization database. The publishing node is configured to set the flag associated with the attributes when the attributes are written in the at least one first synchronization database or when the data included in the attributes are modified and publish the flagged attributes to the subscriber node.
US12339861B2
A method may include presenting a user interface on a computing device, the user interface including: an input element configured to receive an input of a search concept; a similar concept selection element; and a concept comparison portion; executing a similarity search in a vector-space representation of a knowledge graph using the input; populating the similar concept selection element with a set of a similar concepts based on a result of the executed similarity search; receiving a selection of a comparison concept of the set of similar concepts from the similar concept selection element; generating a predicate comparison visualization in the concept comparison portion based on predicates in the knowledge graph of the comparison concept and the search concept; and presenting the predicate comparison visualization in the concept comparison portion.
US12339857B2
Methods for a metadata driven application programming interface (API) creation service are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method may include: (1) generating, by an API service application program, a query including request data received in an API request, (2) determining, by the API service application program and based on the request data, a target database associated with the API request, (3) executing, by the API service application, the query on the target database to retrieve a result including a target dataset, the target dataset including target metadata, (4) mapping, by the API service application program, the target metadata to format data compatible with program code for building an API responsive to the API request, and (5) creating, by the API service application program and utilizing the program code, the API based on the formatted target metadata.
US12339856B2
An electronic device generates training data to train a classifier to classify a respective search query as complete or incomplete, including: obtaining a first search query input by a first user; determining a media content item selected by the first user from the first search query; comparing metadata associated with the media content item with the first search query input by the first user; and labeling the first search query as complete or incomplete based on the comparison. The electronic device trains the classifier, using the generated training data, to classify a respective search query as complete or incomplete and uses the trained classifier to determine whether a second search query is complete or incomplete. The electronic device provides, for display, for a second user, one or more complete search queries as recommendations for a received search query, including the second search query if second search query is complete.
US12339855B2
Provided is a data stream processor comprising a streamed data transceiver interface, a structure of processing units configurable to transform data received from a data source over the streamed data transceiver interface according to a specified output requirement, and a configuration unit operable in electronic communication with a data consumer to receive an output requirement and to configure the operation and linkage of a processing unit in the structure of processing units to transform input data to output data according to the specified output requirement; wherein the structure of processing units is further operable to provide the output data for output over the streamed data transceiver interface.
US12339853B2
A database system that, after receiving the query request, adopts a pre-trained deep learning model to predict probing cardinality corresponding to the query request based on the query vector in the query request, the number of vectors of the query result, and the vector corresponding to the distances between the query vector and the center vector of a plurality of data partitions stored in the storage device. The system then determines the target data partitions according to the probing cardinality, and obtains the query result from the target data partitions. Since the probing cardinality is dynamically determined based on the query request, decreases to both the query efficiency due to a larger setting of the probing cardinality, and the query recall due to a smaller setting of the probing cardinality are avoided, which is beneficial in reducing the average number of target data partitions and improving query efficiency.
US12339850B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a metadata cache for extending data warehouse features to data lakes. The metadata cache can accelerate query execution by directly accessing unmanaged data from the data lake rather than accessing the data through the data warehouse. The metadata cache can allow for filtering the unmanaged data to improve the speed of retrieving data for executing a query.
US12339844B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method performed by server computer(s). The method includes receiving a query and defining a query plan based on the received query. The query plan refers to datasets contained in data sources. The method further includes determining that the received query can be accelerated based on an optimized data structure contained in a memory, where the optimized data structure is derived from a dataset referred to in the query plan. The method further includes modifying the query plan to include the optimized data structure, and executing the modified query plan to obtain query results that satisfy the received query by reading the optimized data structure in lieu of reading at least some data from the data sources.
US12339843B2
An apparatus, a method, and a storage medium for database pagination. The apparatus, method, and storage medium are configured to perform following processes, including: acquiring a pagination request from a user; determining a query parameter based on the pagination request; determining a corresponding pagination pattern and a request data amount based on the query parameter; determining a target query mode based on the request data amount; generating a query task based on the pagination pattern and the target query mode; obtaining at least one first query result based on the query task; determining a target result set based on the at least one first query result; and paging the target result set based on the pagination pattern and the target query mode to obtain multiple pages of pagination data.
US12339841B2
A database management system for performing a graph query based on one or more graph views of a relational-graph database is disclosed. The database management system is configured to determine a plurality of graph views from the relational-graph database based on one or more previous graph queries of the relational-graph database to obtain a plurality of candidate graph views of the relational-graph database. Moreover, the database management system is configured to store a subset of the plurality of candidate graph views of the relational-graph database and perform a graph query of the relational-graph database based on the subset of the plurality of candidate graph views of the relational-graph database. By virtue of the selected subset of the plurality of candidate graph views from the relational-graph database, the database management system can increase the processing speed of graph queries.
US12339839B2
The implementations herein disclose advanced systems and methods for integrating, analyzing, and reasoning over heterogeneous data at scale. In some implementations, the system comprises a synergistic data processing infrastructure featuring: a graph database core for unified data representation; specialized loaders for concurrent ingestion and processing of structured, unstructured, and time series data; a natural language reasoning engine leveraging large language models; and a multi-modal user interface.
US12339837B2
Methods for autocomplete-enabled complaint processing are provided. Methods may receive documents and extract terms from the documents. The documents may relate to previously stored complaints. Methods may map the terms to concepts. Methods may index the documents and mapped concepts within a search platform. Methods may receive and verify a request. Upon verification, methods may extract concepts from the request. Upon concept extraction, methods may generate a query. The query may include the one or more extracted concepts and/or any other suitable data from the request. The query may be transmitted to the search platform. The search platform may identify documents that match the request. The matched documents may be transmitted to a response generator. The response generator may utilize the extracted concepts and the identified documents to generate a response to the query. The response may be transmitted to the requestor.
US12339830B2
A system and method for managing sensor data associated with an Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving, by a processing unit, sensor data from at least one sensing unit in the IoT environment. The sensor data includes at least one sensor reading and a reading timestamp associated with the sensor reading. The method further includes determining whether a conflict exists based on the reading timestamp, wherein the conflict is associated with the sensor data overwriting an existing record in a database. The database is configured for storing the sensor data associated with the at least one sensing unit in time-series format. If the conflict exists, the method further includes merging the sensor data to the record based on an ingestion timestamp associated with the sensor data. Otherwise, a new record is created.
US12339807B2
A method and system for automating analysis of log data files is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes pre-processing a log data file to generate a transformed log data file. The method further includes analyzing the transformed log data file to detect one or more of a plurality of anomalies in the transformed log data file; performing a predictive analysis for the one or more of the plurality of anomalies detected in the transformed log data file. The method further includes generating a report based on the predictive analysis performed for each of the one or more of the plurality of anomalies; receiving a feedback from an end-user based on the report generated for each of the one or more of the plurality of anomalies; and updating a database based on the feedback from the end-user for each of the one or more of the plurality of anomalies.
US12339806B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for distributed file collection and processing. According to certain embodiments, a producer system may detect a producer configuration file that specifies a file type, identify at least one file of the specified file type, and send the at least one identified file to a collector system. A conductor system may receive a request from a consumer system and allocate the at least one identified file to the consumer system based on the request. The collector system may receive the at least one identified file from the producer system. The consumer system may send the request to the conductor system and pull the at least one identified file from the collector system.
US12339804B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a processor configured to search a datastore to find records including a given field with a given value, the found records defining a dataset for consideration for archive having an aggregate data size, render to a display an indication of the aggregate data size of the dataset for consideration for archive, receive a user selection to archive at least part of the dataset, and purge the at least part of the dataset from the datastore and archive the at least part of the dataset into archive storage responsively to receiving the user selection, and a memory configured to store data used by the processor.
US12339799B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes interconnect circuitry to implement one or more layers of a Universal Serial Bus (USB)-based protocol. The interconnect circuitry can implement a first USB-based interface and a second USB-based interface. The apparatus further includes telemetry circuitry to generate telemetry data, cause the telemetry data to be transmitted via the first USB-based interface, detect a power state transition in the apparatus, cause the telemetry data to be buffered based on detecting the power state transition, and cause the buffered telemetry data to be transmitted via the second USB-interface based on a set interface request indicating the second USB-interface.
US12339798B2
An interception module used in a tokenization system is provided. The tokenization system comprises a source and a target, a common bus architecture, and a tokenizer. The source and the target, the interception module and the tokenizer are communicatively coupled via the common bus architecture. The interception module is configured to intercept a message transmitted from the source directed to the target via the common bus architecture, and in response to determining that the message comprises sensitive data, forward the intercepted message to the tokenizer for tokenization or detokenization.
US12339795B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes first and second memory devices and a bridge. The IC also includes a first interconnect segment coupled between the first memory device and the bridge. The IC further includes a second interconnect segment coupled between the first and second memory devices, and a third interconnect segment coupled between the bridge and the second memory device. The IC includes a first DMA circuit coupled to the first interconnect segment, and a second DMA circuit coupled to the second interconnect segment. A fourth interconnect segment is coupled between the first and second DMA circuits.
US12339783B2
A memory request issue counter (MRIC) is maintained that is incremented for every memory access a central processing unit core makes. A region reuse distance table is also maintained that includes multiple entries each of which stores the region reuse distance for a corresponding region. When a memory access request for a physical address is received, a reuse distance for the physical address is calculated. This reuse distance is the difference between the current MRIC value and a previous MRIC value for the physical address. The previous MRIC value for the physical address is the MRIC value the MRIC had when a memory access request for the physical address was last received. A region reuse distance for a region that includes the physical address is generated based on the reuse distance for the physical address and used to manage the cache.
US12339775B2
The present invention relates to a hardware accelerator for hypergraph processing and its operating method, the hardware accelerator comprising: a data loader: for, in the presence of a data-centric load-trigger-reduce execution model, reading hypergraph partition data from an off-chip memory successively according to hypergraph data structure and an order of hypergraph partitions; an address translator, for deploying the hypergraph data into a private register of a processor and/or into a buffer memory according to a priority level of loaded data, and recording corresponding offset information; a task trigger, for generating computing tasks according to the loaded data, and scheduling the computing tasks into the processor; the processor, for receiving and executing the computing tasks; a reducer, for scheduling intermediate results into a first-priority-data reducer unit or a second-priority-data reducer unit depending on the priority level of the data so as to execute a reducing operation for the intermediate results. In view of the shortcomings of task-centric hardware accelerators, the present invention can prevent any possible data conflict during parallel execution of multiple processing units.
US12339759B2
Sensor characteristic profiles for different sensor types for sensors of an operational system are generated based at least in part on aggregated time series sensor data from the sensors and context data for the sensors. The sensor characteristic profiles for each sensor type are stored in a sensor type profile database. Sensor information is generated based at least in part on the stored sensor characteristic profiles. Each of the sensor characteristic profiles comprises sensor type information identifying the sensor type and a sensor data signature for the sensor type. Sample sensor data from a particular sensor is used to determine information about the particular sensor based on the stored sensor characteristic profiles. Device characteristic profiles for different device types and/or virtual sensor characteristic profiles for different virtual sensors defined with respect to particular combinations of the sensors can be generated based on the stored sensor characteristic profiles.
US12339758B2
A system on chip (SoC) for testing a component in a system during runtime includes a plurality of functional components; a system bus for allowing the plurality of functional components to communicate with each other; one or more wrappers, each connected to one of the plurality of functional components; and an in-system component tester (ICT). The ICT monitors, via the wrappers, states of the functional components; selects, as a component under test (CUT), at least one functional component in an idle state; tests, via the wrappers, the selected at least one functional component; interrupts the testing step with respect to the selected at least one functional component, based on a detection of a collision with an access from the system bus to the selected at least one functional component; and allows a connection of the at least one functional component to the system bus, based on the interrupting step.
US12339747B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for backing up and restoring related backup data stored in different cloud storage tiers in a cloud storage environment. Backup data generated during a backup job is stored to different cloud storage tiers based on the type of data and a storage policy comprising designations of a first cloud storage tier and a second cloud storage tier. Backup metadata and index data is stored in the designated first cloud storage tier and backup payload data is stored in the designated second cloud storage tier. Designations of the storage tiers are based on the attributes associated with each tier of cloud storage. During restore, the backup payload data is recalled from the second storage tier into the first storage tier where it is used to restore to the destination client or customer.
US12339720B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for techniques for supporting multiple PSUs. An apparatus includes a motherboard and a switch coupled to the motherboard for controlling power supply to the motherboard from a PSU. In response to detecting a single-rail PSU connected to the motherboard, the switch is closed in response to a power-on signal to provide main power from the PSU to the motherboard and the switch is opened in response to a standby signal to cut main power from the PSU to the motherboard. In response to detecting a dual-rail PSU connected to the motherboard, the switch is opened and bypassed such that main power to the motherboard is controlled by the PSU via transmission of the power-on signal and the standby signal.
US12339717B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes: an error amplifier; a temperature sensor, wherein the temperature sensor is coupled to the error amplifier; a discrete time controller coupled to the error amplifier, wherein the discrete time controller comprises digital circuitry; a multiple bits quantizer coupled to the discrete time controller, wherein the multiple bits quantizer produces a digital code output; and a heating array coupled to the multiple bits quantizer, wherein the heating array is configured to generate heat based on the digital code output.
US12339710B2
An electronic device includes: a display screen including an array substrate, the array substrate including a substrate body and a bent part connected with a first side surface of the substrate body, and the bent part being bent towards a non-display side of the display screen; a first support plate connected with the substrate body and cooperating with a part of the substrate body to define a first accommodating cavity, and the bent part being partially located in the first accommodating cavity; and a flexible circuit board arranged in the first accommodating cavity, and connected with and in conduction with the bent part, and the flexible circuit board being at least partially arranged between the substrate body and the bent part.
US12339696B2
A fluctuating oscillator includes: a processor including a digital circuit, and the processor includes a random variable generation unit that generates a random variable, a lookup table that stores a waveform signal in advance, a computation unit that imparts fluctuation to the waveform signal based on the waveform signal read from the lookup table, the random variable generated by the random variable generation unit, and a pulse signal to be fed back, a threshold discrimination unit that generates a pulse signal by comparing a fluctuating signal output from the computation unit with a predetermined threshold, and a feedback loop that causes the pulse signal to be fed back to the computation unit.
US12339688B2
The device with built-in regenerative circuit of the present disclosure includes a regenerative circuit, and the regenerative circuit determines a plurality of types of power sources having different input voltages, and sets a regeneration start voltage corresponding to the determined voltage of the power source. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a regenerative circuit built-in device capable of performing circuit protection suitable for the type of power supply without separately preparing a transformer.
US12339677B2
A media playback system comprising a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of a media item; a plurality of drones; a controller configured to control the spatial configuration of the drones and, in response to receiving the indication of a media item, control the drones to adopt a predefined 3D spatial configuration; a mobile device comprising a camera and a media playback unit, wherein the camera is capable of capturing an image of the plurality of drones; a processor configured to analyse the captured image to determine the media item that corresponds to the predefined 3D spatial configuration; and wherein the media playback unit is configured to play the determined media item.
US12339676B2
A method for controlling a robot is provided. The method includes acquiring information on status of communication connections between a plurality of robots located in a serving place, wherein the status of communication connections between the plurality of robots is specified with respect to at least one relay robot among the plurality of robots, and determining a communication scheme to be used between the plurality of robots, with reference to the information on the status of communication connections between the plurality of robots. In the acquiring step, the at least one relay robot is determined with reference to first assessment information on status of communication connections specified with respect to a first robot among the plurality of robots, and second assessment information on status of communication connections specified with respect to a second robot among the plurality of robots.
US12339673B2
Methods and associated systems for autonomous package delivery utilize a UAS/UAV, an infrared positioning senor, and a docking station integrated with a package delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV accepts a package for delivery from the docking station on the delivery vehicle and uploads the delivery destination. The UAS/UAV autonomously launches from its docked position on the delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV autonomously flies to the delivery destination by means of GPS navigation. The UAS/UAV is guided in final delivery by means of a human supervised live video feed from the UAS/UAV. The UAS/UAV is assisted in the descent and delivery of the parcel by precision sensors and if necessary by means of remote human control. The UAS/UAV autonomously returns to the delivery vehicle by means of GPS navigation and precision sensors. The UAS/UAV autonomously docks with the delivery vehicle for recharging and preparation for the next delivery sequence.
US12339666B2
The present disclosure discloses an electric mobile apparatus, a charging station and a method for controlling an electric mobile apparatus. The An electric mobile apparatus includes an apparatus body; a first sensing module arranged on the apparatus body for sensing an electromagnetic signal transmitted from a positioning coil and outputting a first electromagnetic sensing signal; a second sensing module arranged on the apparatus body for sensing the electromagnetic signal transmitted from the positioning coil and outputting a second electromagnetic sensing signal; and a control module connected to the first sensing module and the second sensing module respectively for determining a relative position between the apparatus body and the positioning coil based on the first electromagnetic sensing signal and the second electromagnetic sensing signal, and controlling the apparatus body to move based on the relative position until the apparatus body moves to a target position.
US12339662B2
To improve prediction accuracy in model predictive control. The ship control device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry estimates an initial search value of a throttle opening by an estimation method based on uncertainty with a distance between a position of the ship and a target position of dynamic positioning, and a true wind velocity as preconditions. The processing circuitry searches an action for moving the ship to the target position by a model predictive control in a search range having the initial search value as an origin, and determines a command throttle opening based on the search result.
US12339654B2
The present invention provides an unsupervised fault diagnosis method for mechanical equipment based on an adversarial flow model, main steps including: data preprocessing, converting a mechanical vibration signal into a frequency domain signal, and normalizing the amplitude value of the signal into a range of [0, 1]; prior distribution designing: designing a mixture of Gaussian distribution with K subdistributions, wherein K is determined by the number of mechanical equipment status; model construction: constructing an unsupervised fault diagnosis model by combining an autoencoder, a flow model, and a classifier; model training: training the unsupervised fault diagnosis model by using various classes of status data, along with the designed prior distribution, preset training steps, loss functions, and an optimization algorithm; and fault diagnosis: inputting status data of mechanical equipment into the trained unsupervised fault diagnosis model to obtain a data clustering result and a fault diagnosis result.
US12339649B2
An industrial mission critical networking communication device is adapted from a wired industrial networking communication device to provide wireless capabilities. Accordingly, the PHY of the wired device, that is communicatively connected to a first microcontrollers, is replaced by a second microcontroller. The second microcontroller is adapted to communicate with the first microcontroller using a serial adaptation layer to ensure that the original communication interface between the PHY and the first microcontroller is maintained. The second microcontroller is further adapted with at least capabilities of wireless communication to allow for wireless communication based on a predetermined protocol, for example, the wireless IO-Link® protocol.
US12339647B2
The production line design apparatus includes a memory unit configured to store resource configuration information defining production resources constituting a production line to be designed, resource arrangement constraint information defining an arrangement constraint on the production resources, a production condition to be satisfied by the production line, work allocation information including a workpiece allocated to the production resources and a number of the workpiece, work order information including the production resources used in setup works of the production line and an order of the setup works, and resource candidate information defining a specification of the production resources; a layout generation unit configured to generate a plurality of layout candidates for each of the resource configuration information, where the layout candidate satisfies the arrangement constraint and the production condition; and a setup time calculation unit configured to calculate a setup time for each layout candidate.
US12339641B2
The subject is to provide a technique of dealing with an internal state of a controller in an edge device by cooperation between an edge device and a computer such as a cloud server, and to generalize data communication for the cooperation and reduce an amount of data communication. Provided is a distributed system including an edge device and a diagnostic data computer. The edge device includes an in-edge controller including at least a processing unit, and a system element to be monitored by the in-edge controller. The processing unit diagnoses presence or absence of an abnormality in the processing unit due to an abnormality occurring in the system element, generates first diagnostic data indicating presence or absence of the abnormality of the processing unit, converts the first diagnostic data into second diagnostic data indicating a type of the abnormality of the processing unit, and transmits the second diagnostic data to the diagnostic data computer.
US12339638B2
A method includes disposing an intervention service tool within a tubular. The intervention service tool includes an anchoring system, a shifting system, and a linear actuator system. The tubular includes a shifting profile geometry disposed within the tubular at a first location. The anchoring system, the shifting system, and/or the linear actuator system is actuated. Shifter system pressure, linear actuator system force/pressure, and displacement of the shifting system is measured. A known graph of the shifting profile geometry is compared to one or more of a measured pressure, a measured force, or a measured displacement. A position of a key disposed on the shifting system is determined relative to the shifting profile. The shifting profile geometry is engaged with the key based on the position of the key. The shifting profile geometry is positioned at a second location that is different from the first location.
US12339636B2
A method may include generating visualizations each representative of operational parameters associated with industrial devices in an industrial system via a control system that controls operations of the industrial devices. The control system is communicatively connected to a first computing system and a second computing system. The method may also include receiving a request including credentials associated with a requester from the second computing system and determining rights to each of the visualizations. Additionally, the method may include identifying one or more of the visualizations based on the access rights and receiving a selection of the one or more of the visualizations from the second computing system. Moreover, the method may include transmitting the one or more of the visualizations to the first computing system that live streams the one or more of the visualizations to the second computing system.
US12339632B2
A training method of a semiconductor process prediction model, a semiconductor process prediction device, and a semiconductor process prediction method are provided. The training method of the semiconductor process prediction model includes the following steps. The semiconductor process was performed on several samples. A plurality of process data of the samples are obtained. A plurality of electrical measurement data of the samples are obtained. Some of the samples having physical defects are filtered out according to the process data. The semiconductor process prediction model is trained according to the process data and the electrical measurement data of the filtered samples.
US12339613B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that is mountable and dismountable and has a sealing member for sealing to be removed at a time of start using the developing device. The image forming apparatus further includes a winding shaft, a drive source, a detector, and a controller. The winding shaft rotates for removal processing for removing the sealing member. The drive source drives the winding shaft. The detector detects a value corresponding to a load torque applied to the drive source. The controller notifies of an error in a case where the value detected by the detector has become smaller than a predetermined value before a predetermined period of time elapses from start of the drive by the drive source.
US12339607B2
An image forming apparatus includes a stack portion having recording materials, an image forming unit, a basis weight detection unit, an operating sound detection unit, and a mode selection unit. The basis weight detection unit detects a recording material basis weight based on an ultrasonic wave. The operating sound detection unit detect an abnormality of a generated operating sound. The mode selection unit selects, for each recording material fed to the image forming unit, between transmitting to the basis weight detection unit a first instruction for detecting the recording material basis weight and transmitting to the operating sound detection unit a second instruction for detecting the operating sound abnormality. In determining an interval at which each second instruction is transmitted, the mode selection unit determines the interval so that the interval and a cycle, in which properties of recording materials on the stack portion are repeated, do not continuously coincide.
US12339605B2
A fixing apparatus includes a belt, a steering roller, a slide member, and a pressing rotation member that forms a nip portion by pressing the belt and is disposed to face the slide member. The belt applies heat to a recording material and has an inner circumferential surface that receives a lubricant applied onto the inner circumferential surface. The pressing rotation member fixes a toner image onto the recording material by applying heat and pressure to an unfixed toner image in the nip portion, in cooperation with the belt. An end portion of the belt on one end side in a belt width direction takes a position outside an end portion of the slide member on the one end side and a position inside the end portion of the slide member on the one end side while the steering roller is in operation.
US12339599B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller to i) notify first notification on an exchange of a developer supply container in a case the developer in the supply container is decreased in amount by being supplied from the supply container to a developer accommodating portion and then the developer amount of the developer in the supply container indicated by the first developer amount information reaches a predetermined developer amount, ii) to execute an operation until the supply container connected to a developing unit is exchanged after the first notification, and iii) to notify second notification notifying an end of the operation in a case that after the operation is started, a use amount of the developer from the developing unit indicated by the second developer amount information reaches the usable amount. In addition, a developing setting portion sets the usable amount depending on exchange number information and print ratio information.
US12339598B2
A developing device includes a first rotatable member to feed developer for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member, a second rotatable member opposed to the first rotatable member to carry and feed the developer for developing the electrostatic latent image, and a third rotatable member opposed to the second rotatable member to carry and feed the developer for collecting into a second chamber. A guiding portion is opposed to each of the second and third rotatable members to guide the developer, to a second feeding screw, peeled off from the third rotatable member by a repelling magnetic field. In a case that a shortest distance between the second rotatable member and the guiding portion is B [μm], and a shortest distance between the third rotatable member and the guiding portion is C [μm], the following relationship is satisfied: B+100 μm≤C.
US12339593B2
A developing method of performing a developing treatment on a substrate includes supplying a developing solution containing an organic solvent to the substrate having a metal-containing coating film exposed into a predetermined pattern; and supplying a cleaning solution containing an organic solvent to the substrate supplied with the developing solution. The cleaning solution is lower in solubility of the metal-containing coating film than the developing solution.
US12339581B2
Methods and systems of photolithographic mask optimization without border defects are provided. Two sets of meshes of odd splitting and even splitting performed in a staggered manner are used to obtain slices, and the mask patterns of the slices obtained by the odd splitting and even splitting are corrected once in sequence in a single iteration process. The iteration process is executed circularly until all slices meet the requirements on error, so as to eliminate the impact of a boundary effect. The two sets of splitting meshes consist of different partitions, thereby avoiding the problem of border defects caused by single splitting of a mask layout of a traditional mask optimization method.
US12339580B2
A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, includes: a substrate; a conductive film disposed on or above a back surface of the substrate; a reflective layer disposed on or above a front surface of the substrate, the reflective layer reflecting EUV light; and an absorption layer disposed on or above the reflective layer, the absorption layer absorbing the EUV light.
US12339573B2
A light source device includes a first light source configured to emit first light having a first wavelength, a second light source configured to emit second light, a wavelength conversion element having a first surface which the second light emitted from the second light source enters and a second surface located at an opposite side to the first surface, and configured to convert the second light into third light having a second wavelength, an optical member configured to combine the first light and the third light to emit combined light, and a reflecting member configured to reflect, toward the optical member, the first light which is a part of the first light emitted from the first light source and which is emitted from the optical member. The first light reflected by the reflecting member enters the second surface via the optical member, and is converted into the third light.
US12339569B2
A drive device includes a magnetic circuit unit including a first magnet, a second magnet, a first yoke that holds the first magnet and the second magnet, and a second yoke disposed between the first magnet and the second magnet, a first coil that is bonded to a first zoom lens and corresponds to the first magnet, and a second coil that is bonded to a second zoom lens and corresponds to the second magnet, in which the magnetic circuit unit drives the first coil and the second coil, and a thickness of the second yoke is larger than a thickness of the first yoke.
US12339566B2
An accessory for use with a body-worn camera makes use of a releasable light assembly to replace the need for a wearer of the body-worn camera to use a separately held flashlight. The light assembly may likewise include at least one, white light, as well as additional lights to enable illumination of the field being photographed or videoed by the body-worn camera, such as a red, infrared, or other low light frequencies. A blue light may be combined with the red and white lights to serve as a marker for the police or other emergency response presence, a beacon, or other similar responder functions.
US12339563B1
An electro-optic device including a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and electrodes is described. The first waveguide includes a first thin film lithium-containing (TFLC) electro-optic material and carries a first optical signal. The second waveguide includes a second TFLC electro-optic material and carries a second optical signal. The electrodes include a differential electrode pair proximate to a portion of the first waveguide and to a portion of the second waveguide. The differential electrode pair is configured to provide a first modulation to the first optical signal and a second modulation to the second optical signal. A first magnitude of the first modulation is different from a second magnitude of the second modulation such that the electro-optic device has an engineered chirp.
US12339553B2
A switchable optical assembly comprises a switchable waveplate configured to be electrically activated and deactivated to selectively alter the polarization state of light incident on the switchable waveplate. The switchable waveplate comprises first and second surfaces and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second surfaces. The liquid crystal layer comprises a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first surface and/or the second surface may be planar. The first surface and/or the second surface may be curved. The plurality of liquid crystal molecules may vary in tilt with respect to the first and second surfaces with outward radial distance from an axis through the first and second surfaces and the liquid crystal layer in a plurality of radial directions. The switchable waveplate can include a plurality of electrodes to apply an electrical signal across the liquid crystal layer.
US12339541B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a spacer. The first substrate includes a substrate, a signal line, a planarization layer, and an electrode layer. The electrode layer is arranged on the planarization layer and is located in the pixel regions. The electrode layer includes at least a trunk and a plurality of branches. The plurality of branches are disposed at intervals and connected to the trunk. A groove is defined in the planarization layer in a region adjacent to the spacer. The groove corresponds to the electrode layer, so that the portion of the electrode layer in the region adjacent to the spacer is embedded in the groove.
US12339537B2
Provided are a liquid crystal grating and a stereoscopic display device. The liquid crystal grating includes at least one liquid crystal cell. A liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate, first electrodes, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer and a second substrate which are disposed sequentially. In a first state, the liquid crystal cell includes multiple first grating units which are arranged along a first direction, and a first grating unit includes multiple first electrodes which are disposed at intervals from each other along the first direction. Along the first direction, a first electric field is formed between two closest first electrodes which are located in two adjacent first grating units, respectively, and in the liquid crystal cell, an alignment direction of the first alignment layer is the same as an electric field direction of the first electric field.
US12339534B2
Provided is a display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the same. The display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a support panel including a first panel, a second panel spaced apart from the first panel, and a connection panel arranged between the first panel and the second panel; a display module arranged to face the front surface of the support panel; a rear cover arranged to face the rear surface of the support panel; a first fixing member provided between the support panel and the display module and configured to fix the display module to the support panel; and a second fixing member provided between the support panel and the rear cover and configured to fix the rear cover to the support panel.
US12339531B2
A liquid crystal display panel is provided, including: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a heating electrode layer on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate. The heating electrode layer includes a plurality of heating electrodes respectively used to heat liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first region and a second region, the first region is closer to a side edge of the first substrate than the second region. The plurality of heating electrodes include a first heating electrode in the first region and at least one second heating electrode in the second region, and a heating power of the first heating electrode is greater than a heating power of each of the at least one second heating electrode.
US12339530B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of a system with scalable and programmable coherent waveform generators. A network and digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) cards used by the network are described where each DAC card has a clock divider/replicator device with an input SYNC pin, a digital logic component, and one or more DAC components, and each output of the DAC components is used to control optical beams for a separate qubit of a quantum information processing (QIP) system. The network also includes a first distribution network to provide a clock signal to the clock divider/replicator device in the DAC cards, and a second distribution network to provide a start signal to the DAC cards, where the start signal is used by the digital logic component in the DAC card to assert the input SYNC pin when the start signal is asserted unless it is masked by the digital logic component.
US12339528B2
The invention is directed to a colored cosmetic photochromic contact lens, comprising: a pupil section, a generally annular iris section surrounding the pupil section, wherein at least the pupil section is photochromic, wherein the iris section having a colored, printed, opaque, intermittent pattern, wherein the said pattern is covered by a clear ink layer, wherein the clear ink layer is on outer surface of lens to the observer.
US12339519B2
An optical unit includes: a reflective portion that reflects, on a reflective surface, an incident light flux incident from the outside in a reflection direction toward an imaging element from an incident direction; a movable body to which the reflective portion is fixed; and a fixed body. In the movable body, emboss processing is applied to at least one of a reflective surface contact surface in contact with the reflective surface, and a side surface contact surface in contact with a side surface of the reflective portion on a side of an intersecting direction intersecting with the incident direction and the reflection direction.
US12339516B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for replaceable outer lenses. For example, an image capture device may include a lens barrel in a body of the image capture device, the lens barrel including multiple inner lenses; a replaceable lens structure that is mountable on the body of the image capture device, the replaceable lens structure including an outer lens and a retaining ring configured to fasten the outer lens in a position covering a first end the lens barrel in a first arrangement and configured to disconnect the outer lens from the body of the image capture device in a second arrangement; and an image sensor mounted within the body at a second end of the lens barrel, the image sensor configured to capture images based on light incident on the image sensor through the outer lens and the multiple inner lenses when the retaining ring is in the first arrangement.
US12339515B2
A camera driving module includes: a base including a central opening; a casing disposed on the base and including an opening hole corresponding to the central opening; a lens unit movably disposed on the casing; and a focus driving part. The focus driving part includes a carrier, an AF coil element, at least two permanent magnets and a Hall element. The carrier is disposed on the lens unit and movable in a direction parallel to an optical axis. The AF coil element is fixed to the base and faces toward the carrier. The permanent magnets are fixed on one side of the carrier facing toward the base and disposed opposite to each other about the optical axis. The Hall element faces toward a corresponding surface of one of the permanent magnets. The AF coil element and the corresponding surfaces are arranged in the direction parallel to the optical axis.
US12339514B2
A system for aligning components of an imaging device includes an imaging device, and a test camera. The imaging device includes a lens and a focal plane array (FPA). The FPA defines an optical axis and includes at least two test elements configured and adapted to emit a light through the lens. The test camera is configured and adapted to be mounted to and pre-aligned with the lens of the imaging device to receive a light from the at least two test elements.
US12339503B2
Light source module, matching socket for light source module, and optical signal transmission method
A light source module, including: a housing, with an accommodating cavity disposed in the housing; a light source, located in the accommodating cavity, and configured to emit light; a light source connector, located at a first side of the accommodating cavity, protruding from the housing, and configured to receive the light emitted by the light source and output the light; an optical signal transceiver connector, located at the first side of the accommodating cavity, protruding from the housing, and configured to perform optical signal transmission; and an optical connector adapter, located at a second side of the accommodating cavity, and configured to perform optical signal transmission with the optical signal transceiver connector, where the second side is one side opposite to the first side of the accommodating cavity. Further, provided are a matching socket and an optical signal transmission method.
US12339502B2
Adaptable lens assemblies, optoelectronic components, and associated methods of manufacturing are provided. An example optoelectronic component includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and an adaptable lens assembly. The adaptable lens assembly includes a lens packaging structure supporting an optical lens at a focal distance and a lens support structure. The lens support structure defines a first side configured to support the lens packaging structure and maintain the focal distance and a second side removably attached to the PCB. The attachment between the second side of the lens support structure and the PCB is configured to enable selective attachment and detachment of the lens support structure and lens packaging structure supported thereon without causing damage to the PCB.
US12339501B2
An optical connection component includes: an input end that separates each of light beams output from an output end surface of a multi-core fiber toward single-core fibers, and enlarges each beam diameter of the light beams; and an output end that allows the light beams from the input end to be parallel to an axial direction of the multi-core fiber. The optical connection component guides the light beams output from the output end surface, inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axial direction, to the single-core fibers, wherein the light beams output from the output end surface propagate in a direction inclined with respect to the axial direction.
US12339492B2
Electro-photonic networks, including a plurality of processing elements connected by bidirectional photonic channels, suited for implementing neural-network models. Weights of the model may be preloaded into memory of the processing elements based on assignments of neural nodes to processing elements implementing them, and routers of the processing elements can be configured to stream activations between the processing elements based on a predetermined flow of activations in the model.
US12339488B2
A multilayered optical prism assembly with a sub-array of micro-mirror strips between each layer such that light passing through the assembly has an increased path length to facilitate focusing and a curved reflector increases the field of view with the light being presented through an array of pinhole micro-mirrors consisting of a combination of the sub-arrays.
US12339475B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, wherein each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter. One photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.
US12339469B2
There is provided a technique that can suppress generation of flare and/or ghost by incident light reflecting off an inner wall of the spacer in a lens unit including a wafer-level lens and a spacer. A lens unit is formed by joining a lens portion including a lens and a spacer portion including a through hole through which light emitted from the lens passes, in which the spacer portion includes, in an end surface in which the lens portion is joined, an opening portion of the through hole and an inner wall portion, which is a wall surface of an outer edge of the opening portion, and the inner wall portion has a surface roughness greater than a surface roughness of an end surface of the spacer portion opposite to the end surface in which the lens portion is joined.
US12339464B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for forming a line beam. The apparatus includes a laser source, a telescope unit, a beam-transforming unit, a Fourier unit, a long-axis optical unit, and a short-axis optical unit. The laser source is configured to generate input light. The telescope unit is configured to magnify the input light in an X-axis direction perpendicular to an optical axis, which is a progression direction of the input light. The beam-transforming unit is configured to divide light incident from the telescope unit into a plurality of sub-columns. The Fourier unit is configured to uniformly mix the plurality of sub-columns. The long-axis optical unit is configured to uniformly disperse light mixed by the Fourier unit in the X-axis direction. The short-axis optical unit is configured to focus light passing through the long-axis optical unit onto a reference plane, wherein the short-axis optical unit includes a concave reflective surface, and a curvature of the reflective surface is maintained constant in the X-axis direction.
US12339447B2
A heads up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a rotatable mirror positioned to reflect a light field produced by a picture generation unit such that the light field is again reflected by a windshield of the motor vehicle and is then visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image. A stepper motor is coupled to the rotatable mirror and rotates the mirror. A stepper motor driver is coupled to the stepper motor and sets a torque of the stepper motor. A temperature sensor detects a temperature associated with the stepper motor. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the temperature sensor and to the stepper motor driver. The electronic processor transmits a signal to the stepper motor driver to set a target torque for the stepper motor. The target torque is dependent upon the detected temperature.
US12339435B2
A microscopy system comprises a microscope for analyzing a sample, a computing device for processing measurement signals and at least one microphone for capturing sounds. The computing device is configured to evaluate captured sounds in order to identify a microscope activity in progress or command an intervention in the microscope activity in progress or identify ambient sounds based on microscope sounds.
US12339434B2
A microscope stage comprising a planar base (1) with two or more parallel grooves (2) formed extending in a first direction (5). A carriage (3) is mounted on the base with at least two projections (4) that slide in the grooves. The carriage receives a microscope slide or other sample holder (6). The carriage includes at least one guide and a biasing means (7) to urge the sample holder against the guide while permitting it to move relative to the guide in a second direction (8) orthogonal to the first direction.
US12339423B2
A small lens system for developing a close tolerance is proposed. The small lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens that are arranged in order along an optical axis from an object. Refractive power P1 of the first lens satisfies −0.01 mm−1
US12339420B2
Provided is an eyeglass lens 1 configured to cause rays that have entered from an object-side surface 3 to be emitted from an eyeball-side surface 4, and cause the emitted rays to converge at a predetermined position A. The eyeglass lens 1 includes a lens substrate 2 having a plurality of substrate convex portions 6 on at least one of the object-side surface 3 and the eyeball-side surface 4, and a coating film covering the surface provided with the substrate convex portions 6. The shape of convex portions present on the outermost surface of the eyeglass lens located on a side on which the substrate convex portions 6 are provided is an approximate shape of the substrate convex portions configured to cause rays that have entered the eyeglass lens 1 to converge at a position B that is closer to the object than the predetermined position A is.
US12339413B2
Depth of a top (24) and bottom (28) of an under water mud layer (26) are measured as a function of position from acoustical scattering measurement. The measurement involves transmitting sound from a transmitter (12) in a body of water (22) above the mud layer (26), using a higher and lower frequency range, above 100 kHz and below 20 kHz respectively. A higher frequency signal due to scattering of the sound in the higher frequency range from scatter positions along a selected horizontal direction is detected as a function of time from said transmitting, and a first depth, of a top surface (24) of the under water mud layer (26), is computed using this signal. A plurality of received lower frequency signals due to scattering of the sound in the lower frequency range is detected at different height in the body of water (22). A time shift as a function of time between temporal parts of the plurality of received lower frequency signals is determined in the plurality of received lower frequency signals, and a second depth of a bottom surface (28) of the under water mud layer is computed based on the time shifts.
US12339410B2
A method for determining a shear slowness of a subterranean formation includes receiving waveforms data acquired by receivers in an acoustic measurement tool in response to energy emitted by at least one dipole source. The waveforms are processed to extract a formation flexural acoustic mode and a tool flexural acoustic mode. The processing includes transforming the time domain waveforms to frequency domain waveforms, processing the frequency domain waveforms with a Capon algorithm to compute a two-dimensional spectrum over a chosen range of group slowness and phase slowness values; and processing the two-dimensional spectrum to extract the multi-mode slowness dispersion. The method further includes selecting a plurality of slowness-frequency pairs from the formation flexural mode of the extracted multi-mode dispersion wherein each slowness-frequency pair comprises a slowness value at a corresponding frequency and processing the selected slowness frequency pairs to compute the shear slowness of the subterranean formation.
US12339409B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a first pixel set and a second pixel set that are adjacently arranged in a predetermined direction, and each of the first pixel set and the second pixel set includes two or more of pixels which are adjacently arranged in the predetermined direction and in which photoelectric conversion elements have aperture portions having different shapes. In the pixels included in the first pixel set and the second pixel set, distances between gravity centers or centers of the aperture portions of the adjacent pixels are substantially the same.
US12339408B2
A radiation imaging apparatus comprising pixels, a driver controlling the pixels via driving lines, a readout circuit reading out, via column signal lines, signals from the pixels and a detector detecting irradiation information of radiation separately from a radiation image, is provided. Each of the column signal lines is connected to pixels arranged on two pixel columns. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, whose sensitivities are different from each other. The first and second pixels are connected to a common column signal line and are connected to driving lines different from each other. When detecting the irradiation information, the driver drives the first and second pixels at timings different from each other, and the detection circuit detects the irradiation information based on signals output from the first and second pixels.
US12339407B2
A charged-particle detecting device 108, 108a, 108b, 108c, 108d, 108e, 108f, 108g or a radiation detecting device 203 detects charged particles or radiation as a detection target. These detection devices are each provided with: a scintillator 109 provided with a fluorescent layer 109a that converts the detection target into light 112; a light detector 111, 111b that detects the light 112 emitted from the scintillator 109; a light guide 110, 117 provided between the scintillator 109 and the light detector 111, 111b; and a blocking part 113, 114 that blocks a portion of the detection target incident on the scintillator 109 or the light emitted from the scintillator 109.
US12339399B2
An optical system has a LIDAR chip that includes a switch configured to direct an outgoing LIDAR signal to one of multiple different alternate waveguides. The system also includes a redirection component configured to receive the outgoing LIDAR signal from any one of the alternate waveguides. The redirection component is also configured to redirect the received outgoing LIDAR signal such that a direction that the outgoing LIDAR signal travels away from the redirection component changes in response to changes in the alternate waveguide to which the optical switch directs the outgoing LIDAR signal.
US12339395B2
For increasing measurement precision while suppressing cost increase when measuring a permittivity of an object using a radio wave, an object detection apparatus includes a transmission unit projecting a radio wave toward a target object by using a transmission antenna, a reception unit receiving the radio wave reflected by the target object by a reception antenna and generating an intermediate frequency signal, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus computes a reflection amplitude of the target object from the intermediate frequency signal, computes a reflectance from the reflection amplitude, computes a complex permittivity absolute value of the target object from the computed reflectance, computes a depth position of the target object from the reflection amplitude, computes a thickness of the target object from the depth and the reflection amplitude, and computes a permittivity of the target object from the reflection amplitude, the complex permittivity absolute value, and the thickness.
US12339389B2
According to one embodiment, a radar device includes a transmission module including a transmission antenna and first integrated circuits, a reception module including a reception antenna and second integrated circuits, and a third integrated circuit. Each of the first integrated circuits includes first transmission circuits, first reception circuits, and a first signal generation circuit. Each of the second integrated circuits includes second transmission circuits, second reception circuits, and a second signal generation circuit. The third integrated circuit includes third transmission circuits, third reception circuits, and a third signal generation circuit.
US12339385B2
An apparatus, computer program and method is described comprising: obtaining, at a receiver, during a first phase of operation, one or more first downlink positioning reference samples from each of a plurality of communication nodes of a mobile communication system, wherein the receiver operates in a wide-beam or omnidirectional mode during the first phase of operation; determining first response estimates of channels between the receiver and each of said each communication nodes, based on the positioning reference samples obtained for the respective communication node; selecting, for each communication node, a receiver beam for receiving positioning signals from the respective communication node, based, at least in part, on the respective first channel response estimate; and receiving, at the receiver, in a second phase of operation, one or more second downlink positioning reference samples from each of the plurality of communication nodes using the selected receiver beams.
US12339384B2
UE positioning is added by use of a reconfigurable reflecting surface (e.g., IRS). The IRS is configured to adjust elements of the surface. The configuration may include signal switching on or off, signal phase, group delay, or signal amplitude. Positioning reference signal transmissions are performed that have line of sight to the UE and that reflect off the IRS. The UE takes measurements for the transmissions and can determine measurement(s) of angle of arrival or time of arrival or reference signal received power, and/or determine a channel estimation. Multiple methods are proposed to provide UE positioning.
US12339372B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a transmitter, a first receiver, a second receiver, and one or more processors. The transmitter is configured to output a transmit beam. The first receiver is positioned on a first side of the transmitter and is configured to receive a first component of a return beam from reflection of the transmit beam by an object. The second receiver is positioned on a second side of the transmitter and is configured to receive a second component of the return beam. The one or more processors are configured to determine at least one of a range to the object or a velocity of the object and control operation of the autonomous vehicle based on the at least one of the range or the velocity.
US12339371B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, systems and methods that enable lidar devices capable of detecting and processing multiple optical modes present in a beam reflected from a target object. Different received optical modes can be spatially separated and electronic signals can be generated that are representative of a coherence information contained in various optical modes. Multiple generated electronic signals can be amplified, phase-shifted, mixed, etc., to identify signals, individually or in a combination, that can be used for identification of a range and velocity of the target object with the highest accuracy.
US12339370B2
This disclosure relates to method and system for detecting obstacles in an environment of a user in real-time. The method includes generating a LASER beam towards each of a plurality of regions in the environment of the user; receiving a feedback signal based on reflection of the LASER beam from an obstacle located in at least one of the plurality of regions; transforming the feedback signal from the at least one of the plurality of regions into obstacle information through a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm; activating one or more of a plurality of pressure elements of an obstacle matrix based on the obstacle information of the at least one of the plurality of regions; and generating a predefined pressure through each of the one or more of the plurality of pressure elements of the obstacle matrix based on obstacle information of the at least one of the plurality of regions.
US12339368B2
A laser scanner and a system with a laser scanner for measuring an environment. The laser scanner includes an optical distance measuring device, a support, a beam steering unit rotatably fixed to the support which rotates around a beam axis of rotation. The beam steering unit includes a mirrored surface which deflects radiation used in the optical distance measurement and an angle encoder for recording angle data. The optical distance measurement is performed by a progressive rotation of the beam steering unit about the beam axis of rotation and the continuous emission of a distance measurement radiation, the emission being made through an outlet area arranged in the direction of the mirrored surface on the support, the receiving optics for receiving radiation are arranged on the support, and wherein the outlet area has a lateral offset with respect to the optical axis of the receiving optics.
US12339343B2
A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is provided. The method may include obtaining scan data of a subject. The scan data may be acquired by an MR scanner at a time according to a pulse sequence. The method may include obtaining motion data of the subject. The motion data of the subject may be acquired by one or more sensors at the time. The motion data may reflect a motion state of the subject at the time. The method may also include determining, based on the motion data of the subject, a processing strategy indicating whether using the scan data to fill one or more k-space lines corresponding to the pulse sequence in a k-space. The method may further include obtaining k-space data based on the processing strategy.
US12339336B2
A method for imaging a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes determining a tailored radio frequency (RF) pulse sequence having a plurality of refocusing pulses. In the method, a target peak RF pulse value is determined and a transfer function to convert a first refocusing pulse of the plurality of refocusing pulses to a modified refocusing pulse with the target peak RF pulse value is also determined. A modified RF pulse sequence is generated based on the transfer function and the plurality of refocusing pulses. Finally, magnetic resonance (MR) signals from the subject are acquired based on the modified RF pulse sequence and the medical image of the subject is generated based on the acquired MR signals.
US12339334B2
A magnetoresistive element of the present disclosure includes a multilayer structure made up of at least a fixed magnetization layer, an intermediate layer and a storage layer. A first side wall is formed on a side wall of the multilayer structure. A second side wall is formed on the first side wall. The first side wall is made of an insulating material, for instance SiN or AlOx, that prevents intrusion of hydrogen. The second side wall is made of a hydrogen storage material, for instance titanium.
US12339332B2
A method for determining an external magnetic field with an NV magnetometer includes recording single resonance signals for determining resonance frequencies by using frequency-modulated microwave radiation emitted onto a sensor material in frequency bands based on a microwave frequency and a carrier frequency, recording a double resonance signal with a dispersive form and a linear range around the resonance frequencies, determining a slope of the linear range as a scalar factor from the double resonance signal, observing a detuning of the resonance frequencies via the double resonance signal with resonant emission of the microwave radiation due to external magnetic field changes, controlling the frequency bands based on the observed detuning so that the frequency bands remain in the range of the resonance frequencies present at the detuning even after the detuning has occurred, and determining the external magnetic field from a distance of the frequency bands and the detuning ΔB.
US12339325B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the remaining useful life of a battery cell that includes the battery cell's internal resistance and/or shock loading. In one example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein monitor acceleration information over time based on information received from an accelerometer integrated in a battery cell and electrical information for at least one electrical parameter of the battery cell over time. The information is stored for determining remaining useful life. In another example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein determine a voltage drop across the battery cell and a current output of the battery cell. The systems and methods determine an internal cell resistance of the battery cell based on charge or discharge voltage and current information.
US12339303B2
In an example, a circuit includes an emulated current generator configured to provide an emulated current signal responsive to a charge current and a discharge current. The emulated current signal can be representative of an emulated current through an output inductor. A comparator is configured to provide a comparator signal responsive to the emulated current signal and sensed current signal representative of a measure of current through the output inductor. An inductor code counter is configured to adjust an inductor code count value responsive to the comparator signal. A slope of the emulated current signal can be adjusted responsive to the inductor code count value.
US12339290B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods relating to improved assays for establishing Alzheimer's disease. Further provided herein are compositions and methods comprising improved antibodies for assays including immunoassays.
US12339286B2
Enzymes that reduce specific metal or metalloid ions to insoluble form are important to science. Peptides isolated from yeast- and phage-display libraries can affect the size and morphology of inorganic materials during their synthesis. Herein, an Se binding peptide was fused to an enzyme capable of reducing selenite (SeO32−) to a Se0 nanoparticle (SeNP). The fusion of the Se binding peptide to the metalloid reductase provided size control of the resulting SeNP. The SeNP product also remains associated to the enzyme fusion. The Se binding peptide fusion to the enzyme increases the enzyme's SeO32− reductase activity. Modification of enzyme activity was absent, and the size control of particles was diminished when the Se binding peptide was added exogenously to the reaction mixture. Binding of the peptide is attributed to His based ligation that results in a conformational change to the peptide.
US12339283B2
A method for evaluating a biological material for unassociated virus-size particles having a particular epitope uses a fluorescent antibody stain specific for binding with the epitope and a fluid sample with the virus-size particles and fluorescent antibody stain is subjected to flow cytometry with identification of fluorescent emission detection events indicative of passage through a flow cell of a flow cytometer of unassociated labeled particles of virus size including such a virus-size particle and fluorescent antibody stain.
US12339273B2
The present invention relates to a blood analysis device including: a membrane configured to separate plasma from blood, a channel into which the plasma separated by the membrane is introduced, an electrode part including electrodes configured to adjoin one surface of the channel and come into contact with the plasma flowing in the channel, and a channel cover configured to adjoin a surface opposite to one surface of the channel which is adjoined by the electrode part, in which when any one of the electrode part and the channel cover adjoins the membrane, a part of the membrane covers an upper portion of the electrode part or the channel cover.
US12339265B2
Apparatus and methods for detecting and reporting pollution at an oil facility are disclosed. The technology utilizes a logic control system to read from a pollution sensor and present the sensed data as a pollutant from a leak. The pollution leakage can be further managed and reduced.
US12339264B1
Calibration methods for lidar equipment are disclosed. In some embodiments, the lidar equipment is provided with an internal gas reference cell with a known concentration of the gas of interest, such as methane (CH4), which provides known absorptions at wavelengths particular to the gas. The lidar system laser beam passes through the gas reference cell before scanning a scene, and provides a known level of gas absorption at those known absorption wavelengths. This guarantees there is a minimum signal to be detected by the lidar system. In some embodiments, the lidar equipment is provided with an external calibration unit having one or more gas sample cells with predetermined lengths and known concentrations of the gas of interest. By making lidar measurements using an arrangement of these calibrated cells, adjustments to the parameters used in the algorithms relating detected photon counts with gas concentration may be made.
US12339254B2
The present invention relates to an ultrasonic testing apparatus with a variable frequency, which can automatically change the frequency according to thickness and thereby detect internal defects in objects having various thicknesses. The ultrasonic testing apparatus may comprise: a nozzle jetting a medium toward an object so as to form a medium column; and a plurality of probes disposed in the nozzle so as to generate ultrasonic waves.
US12339250B2
A magnetic flux leakage and electromagnetic acoustic transducer joint testing device for a drill pipe at wellhead, including a mounting table, a limiting frame, a detection mechanism, and a signal processing mechanism. The limiting frame is mounted on the mounting table, and provided with the detection mechanism. A middle of the detection mechanism is provided with the drill pipe. The detection mechanism is connected to the signal processing mechanism. When the drill pipe passes through the detection mechanism when being lifted or lowered within the wellhead, the detection mechanism, integrating a magnetic flux leakage detection probe and an electromagnetic ultrasonic detection probe, will perform overall detection of the drill pipe. A magnetic flux leakage and electromagnetic acoustic transducer joint testing method is further provided.
US12339244B2
A wetness sensor, and a method and system using such a sensor, for detecting amounts of a wetting agent in a wetting agent absorbing material, including a sensor device located in contact with the wetting agent absorbing material and configured to monitor a parameter of the wetting agent absorbing material which varies in dependence on an amount of the wetting agent in the wetting agent absorbing material.
US12339235B2
An inspection system for inspecting multiple surfaces of a substrate includes at least one illuminator that produces light at a first wavelength that is incident on the substrate at a first angle (e.g., normal) and light at a second wavelength directed that is obliquely incident on the substrate. An adjustment system adjusts the oblique angle. The substrate may be opaque to one of the wavelengths and at least partially transparent to the other wavelength. Detection optics collect backscattered light from the substrate and at least one detector generates a first image representative of the first surface of the substrate and a second image representative of a second surface or near the second surface of the substrate. The images may be compared to generate a third image representative of defects on or near the second surface of the substrate corrected for residual signals of defects on the first surface.
US12339234B2
A laser analysis device includes a laser analysis unit that a sample is irradiated with laser light, a cover that covers a periphery of the laser analysis unit, so as to prevent the laser light from being emitted to outside, and has a slit in at least a part of the cover, a fastener configured to open and close the slit, and an interlock mechanism including a key provided on the fastener and a detector that detects a state in which the fastener is fully closed, in which in a state where the detector has detected that the fastener is fully closed, laser light having a predetermined intensity or more is introduced into the laser analysis unit.
US12339222B1
A method for evaluating a formation fluid includes flowing formation fluid through a flowline in a downhole fluid sampling and evaluation measurement tool deployed in a wellbore and making optical absorption measurements on the flowing formation fluid to generate a plurality of optical density spectra. A spectrum from the plurality of generated spectra is selected using predetermined selection criteria that are based on optical density values at one or more selected wavelengths in the generated spectra. At least one fluid property is estimated from the selected spectrum.
US12339217B2
This flow cytometer includes a flow path through which an observation object flows with a fluid; an optical illumination system including a spatial optical modulation device, and a first optical element; and an optical detection system including a first light detector, wherein the optical illumination system further includes a first spatial filter disposed in a first optical path between a light source and an image position of light imaged in the flow path by the first optical element and having a first region which hinders traveling of light emitted from the light source towards the observation object, the optical detection system further includes a second light detector disposed in a second optical path between the first light detector and the image position and having a second region which directs the light modulated by the observation object towards the first light detector, and the position of the first region and the position of the second region are in a substantially optically conjugate relationship.
US12339213B2
The disclosure provides white blood cell classifying and counting method, blood analyzer, and computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first histogram of white blood cells in a blood sample treated by a first hemolytic agent and a second histogram of white blood cells in the blood sample treated by a second hemolytic agent, wherein a ghost value in the second histogram is smaller than a ghost value in the first histogram, and the ghost value in the second histogram is smaller than a threshold value; determining peak type of the second histogram; when the peak type is double-peak, performing classification and counting of white blood cells using the second histogram; and when the peak type is single-peak, performing classification and counting of white blood cells by combining a classification result and a counting result of the second histogram and a classification result of the first histogram.
US12339210B2
To provide a particle measuring device capable of removing particles adhering to an observation window for capturing an image of the particles and measuring an accurate particle size distribution. A particle measuring device that image-recognizes particles contained in a fluid to be measured and measures a physical quantity of the particles includes: a sample holding region that holds a sample containing the particles; an observation window disposed on a wall surface of the sample holding region; and a cleaning nozzle configured to discharge a cleaning liquid toward the observation window, in which the cleaning liquid is different from the fluid to be measured.
US12339206B2
A testing device for a characteristic of resistance between fresh concrete and a boundary, and a testing method includes a counter-force frame, a driving mechanism, an outer cylinder, a rotor, and pressurization mechanisms, where a bottom of an inner side of the counter-force frame is provided with the driving mechanism, an output shaft of the driving mechanism is connected to the rotor, the rotor is placed in the outer cylinder, space between the rotor and the outer cylinder is filled with a concrete specimen, a plurality of pressurization mechanisms are symmetrically arranged at a top of the concrete specimen, tail ends of the pressurization mechanisms are mounted on the counter-force frame, and the pressurization mechanisms, the rotor and the driving mechanism are connected to a data receiver.
US12339200B2
An excreta sample capture device includes a primary influent pipe that receives influent from a toilet(s) and includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The excreta sample capture device also includes a first valve positioned at the downstream end of the primary influent pipe, and a second valve positioned between the upstream end and the downstream end of the primary influent pipe. In some cases, an excreta sample capture device further includes spray jet positioned above the second valve and a sample extraction vessel located downstream from the second valve. A method of using an excreta sample capture device includes receiving influent in the primary influent pipe, initiating a closing of the first valve, opening the second valve, and capturing a sample of the excreta.
US12339198B2
A braking device system for a test pendulum arrangement to perform crash test dummy certifications, the braking device system including a braking device configured to brake a moving pendulum, on which a head and neck assembly of a crash test dummy is capable of being arranged, in a lower braking region, wherein the braking device includes a plunger configured to be actuated axially by a motor arrangement which is designed to come into contact with the pendulum in a defined braking region and to brake the pendulum by a braking force exerted by the plunger.
US12339195B2
A method and system for detecting forces and moments acting on a vehicle wheel, wherein an outer ring of a wheel hub unit has a plurality of strain sensors configured to generate first signals (Ds1) proportional to mechanical stresses on the outer ring and a temperature sensor generating a second signal (Ds2). Further, the detection system comprises a second processing unit configured to process third signals (Dv1,n) corresponding to selected vehicle state parameters; and a third processing unit that receives the third signals and the pseudo-sinusoidal signal and calculates said forces and moments on the vehicle wheel.
US12339192B2
A pressure sensor ceramic material and a preparation method thereof, comprising: nano ceramic particles with a molecular formula CaCu3-xMxTi4-yScyO12, wherein: 0
US12339182B2
A monitoring apparatus for mechanical joints of railway rails is provided. The monitoring apparatus has a tubular shaped body, two terminations disposed at ends of the tubular shaped body, and a strain gauge placed inside the tubular shaped body between the two terminations, stabilized to and integral with an end of a railway rail. The strain gauge is configured to be blocked and tensioned so that a variation of length and mechanical tension of the strain gauge, caused by a relative movement of the two terminations, is matched by a variation of a wavelength of an optical signal passing through the strain gauge. A railway track and a kit for a railway mechanical joint including the monitoring apparatus are also provided.
US12339173B2
An abnormal temperature detection device includes a temperature acquirer configured to acquire temperature data; a preprocessor configured to perform preprocessing of calculating a feature amount of the temperature data; a synthesizer configured to perform synthesis processing of synthesizing the feature amount and past determination information indicating whether the temperature data acquired in the past is normal or abnormal; a learner configured to generate an identification model by performing machine learning on a result of synthesis by the synthesizer; and a determiner configured to determine whether temperature data for detection which is acquired by the temperature acquirer, and on which the preprocessing is performed by the preprocessor and the synthesis processing is performed by the synthesizer, is normal or abnormal by using the identification model.
US12339172B2
The invention relates to a device (1) at least for an acoustic temperature measurement in a gaseous medium (M) passing a medium channel (110) by means of runtime measurement of an acoustic pulse (AP) running through the gaseous medium (M) from at least a first transmitter arrangement (TA1) to at least a first receiver arrangement (RA1), the first transmitter arrangement (TA1) comprising a sound pulse generator (2) for the generating the acoustic pulse (AP), which is connected by a first acoustic channel (3) to a transmitter (4) which transmits the acoustic pulse (AP) into the medium (M), the first acoustic channel (3) being of acoustically dispersive design, and, the first receiver arrangement (RA1) comprising a receiver (5) for receiving the acoustic pulse (AP) after it has passed through the medium (M) and for transmitting it via a second acoustic channel (6) to a first microphone (7), preferably a piezoelectric microphone (7), for detecting the acoustic pulse (AP), the first acoustic channel (3) being curved towards the sound pulse generator (2) in such a way that the radiant heat of the medium (M) on the sound pulse generator (2) is at least greatly reduced, wherein at least the transmitter (4) comprises in the first acoustic channel (3) on its side (41) facing the medium (M) to be measured interfering element (42) which reflects a part (RI) of the acoustic pulse (AP) back into the first acoustic channel (3) of the first transmitter arrangement (TA1), in which a second microphone (8), preferably arranged on the side (43) of the transmitter (4) feeing the sound pulse generator (2), is arranged for detecting the back-reflected part (RI) of the acoustic pulse (AP), the device (1) further comprising a pulse discriminator (9) designed to determine the arrival times (AT) of the recorded acoustic pulses (AP) in a suitable way and to transmit them to an evaluation unit (10) designed to determine the temperature of the medium (M) from the runtime of the acoustic pulse (AP) from the transmitter (4) to the receiver (5), taking into account the arrival times (AT) determined by the pulse discriminator and the acoustic pulses (RI, AI) detected by first and second microphones (7,8).
US12339171B1
The present disclosure provides a temperature measurement device, comprising: a hollow cylinder comprising a low-temperature section inserted into food, a high-temperature section exposed to air, and a transition section separating the low-temperature section and the high-temperature section; and a posture detection system for detecting whether the low-temperature section and the transition section are completely inserted into the food, wherein, the posture detection system comprises a first temperature sensing unit arranged in the low-temperature section and used to measure the temperature of a tip of the temperature measurement device, and a second temperature sensing unit arranged in the transition section and used to measure the temperature of the transition section of the temperature measurement device.
US12339169B2
Methods and assemblies for aligning an optical device with a surface configured to receive a liquid coating and for measuring a parameter of a liquid coating are provided. An exemplary method for measuring a parameter of a liquid coating includes providing a mechanical carriage connected to a surface configured to receive a layer of the liquid coating. An exemplary mechanical carriage is configured to move to and from an operative configuration located at a set distance and orientation with respect to the surface. The method further includes locating an optical device in the mechanical carriage. Also, the method includes adjusting an orientation of the optical device within the mechanical carriage to an aligned orientation based on a relationship between the surface and a mechanical alignment feature on the optical device. The method further includes performing a parameter measurement operation with the optical device in the aligned orientation.
US12339167B2
A dispersion measurement apparatus includes a pulse forming unit, a correlation optical system, a photodetection unit, and an operation unit. The pulse forming unit forms a light pulse train including a plurality of light pulses having time differences and center wavelengths different from each other from a measurement target light pulse output from a pulsed laser light source. The correlation optical system receives the light pulse train output from the pulse forming unit and outputs correlation light including a cross-correlation or an autocorrelation of the light pulse train. The photodetection unit detects a temporal waveform of the correlation light output from the correlation optical system. The operation unit estimates a wavelength dispersion amount of the pulsed laser light source based on a feature value of the temporal waveform of the correlation light.
US12339165B2
A compact, portable Raman spectrometer makes fast, sensitive standoff measurements at little to no risk of eye injury or igniting the materials being probed. This spectrometer uses differential Raman spectroscopy and ambient light measurements to measure point-and-shoot Raman signatures of dark or highly fluorescent materials at distances of 1 cm to 10 m or more. It scans the Raman pump beam(s) across the sample to reduce the risk of unduly heating or igniting the sample. Beam scanning also transforms the spectrometer into an instrument with a lower effective safety classification, reducing the risk of eye injury. The spectrometer's long standoff range automatic focusing make it easier to identify chemicals through clear and translucent obstacles, such as flow tubes, windows, and containers. And the spectrometer's components are light and small enough to be packaged in a handheld housing or housing suitable for a small robot to carry.
US12339164B2
Described herein is a communication system including a cloud server, a first server, and at least one second server. The first server includes a first communication interface configured to provide reference spectral information referring to at least one reference sample and reference analytical data to the cloud server. Each second server includes a second communication interface configured to provide spectral information related to at least one substance to the cloud server. The cloud server is configured to: generate a calibration model, where the calibration model comprises at least one parameter; apply the calibration model to the spectral information, whereby at least one value for the at least one parameter is extracted; and provide the at least one value for the at least one parameter to the first server. The first server is further configured to determine treatment data using the at least one value for the at least one parameter.
US12339162B2
Methods and devices for the sequential measurement of a plurality of semiconductor-based light sources that operate faster, more accurately and more sensitively than known methods and devices. In accordance with one implementation, a current pulse is applied by a pulsed current source to the low-luminosity light sources consecutively or simultaneously. The emitted light pulse of LED is converted into electric charge carriers by a photodiode, the electric charge carries are added up by means an integrator circuit, the added-together charge carriers are converted by an A/D converter into a digital signal and the digital signal is forwarded to a measurement and control unit.
US12339156B2
A truck scale management system comprising a server including a processor and a memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to connect to a truck scale system through a communication interface via a virtual scale, the virtual scale comprising a data connection to a physical truck scale in the truck scale system and including attributes of the physical truck scale, retrieve a given virtual kiosk associated with the virtual scale from a database, the given virtual kiosk communicatively accessible from a client device and including one or more customizable functionalities and workflows that interact with the truck scale system, and facilitate communication between the client device and the truck scale system via the given virtual kiosk.
US12339153B2
An optical sensor includes an optic fiber optically coupled to a cavity. An optical path is defined from the fiber, across the cavity, and reflected back across the cavity back into the fiber. The cavity is an open cavity that is in fluid communication with an environment ambient to the cavity for detection of changes in index of refraction inside the cavity due to whether the environment ambient to the cavity is gaseous or liquid.
US12339152B2
A system monitors gas flow and pressure to a gas appliance in a fluid network comprising an analyzer. The analyzer has a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and an interior in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. At least one sensor is coupled to the analyzer and configured to generate at least one signal related to gas being supplied to the gas appliance. A smart device communicates with the analyzer, wherein the smart device has a user interface and is configured to monitor, store and display data. The smart device can present any or all of a plurality of parameters such as the flow of gas, a capacity of the flow of gas, a temperature, a pressure of the gas and the like to a user based on signals from sensors.
US12339147B2
The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring the flow of a flowing, conductive medium. The flowmeter has a measuring tube, a magnetic field generating device, two pin shaped measuring electrodes, insertion parts each having a through-hole through which the two measuring electrodes respectively extend, the measuring electrodes have at least in sections a non-circular cross section and the through-holes of the two insertion parts have a contour complementary thereto. The pin shaped measuring electrodes are at least partially provided with an external thread and a nut is respectively screwed thereon, by means of which the measuring electrodes and the associated insertion parts are respectively firmly connected to the measuring tube.
US12339137B2
A housing for a measuring instrument comprising a housing part, a cover connectable to the housing part in a detachable manner and by means of which a housing opening of the housing part is closable, and a sealing element. The housing part has a central axis, which coincides congruently with a central axis of the cover when closed. The cover has at least one sealing surface on which the sealing element comes to rest at least when the housing part is completely closed. The housing part has at least one sealing surface on which the sealing element rests when the housing part is closed with the cover. A surface line of the sealing surface of the housing part and/or a surface line of the sealing surface of the cover are/is rotated with respect to the central axis, at least when the housing part is completely closed.
US12339127B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for generating improved autonomous vehicle (AV) navigation route data and estimated time of arrival (ETA) data. A system may receive delivery data from an AV delivering a passenger or product, where the delivery data includes a delivery origin, a delivery destination, and an ETA and navigation route generated by the AV. The AV may have accurate short-term information, such as the next few navigation maneuvers planned by the AV. The system may be able to provide more accurate longer-term information, such as generating an overall calculated route and calculated completion time based a current location and the delivery destination. The system may receive updated short-term information and combine this information with the calculated route and calculated completion to generate a more accurate set of route data and ETA data.
US12339124B2
The present invention provides a method for imparting unique identifiers that do not overlap each other to individual position spaces in the case of latitude and longitude information or even in the case of height information also included in addition thereto. A longitude line passing through the coordinate origin is divided by the length of one side of a unit grid, and a latitude value inside unit grids is calculated. An accumulated error is calculated in a case where latitude values inside the unit grids are accumulated for one round in a longitude line direction of a celestial body, and an error per unit grid is calculated based on the calculated accumulated error. The number of unit grids included in one block in the longitude line direction is specified so that a reference error per block is equal to or smaller than one thousandth of the accumulated error, and thus a reference latitude is set. A reference longitude is set by the same calculation process for each latitude line that is determined based on the set reference latitude, reference points are specified sequentially from the coordinate origin based on the set reference latitude and reference longitude, and a unique identifier is imparted to each unit grid located in a block with the reference points set as its vertices.
US12339123B2
A computing device equipped with a camera may be used to assist a person in planning and traversing exit routes for a premises. For example, a user may be able to interact with one or more user interfaces generated by the computing device to determine an exit route for the premises. The user may be able to identify various objects, such as stairs or doors, along the exit route. The user may be able to identify graphical or textual information that can be displayed at certain points along the exit route. After determining the exit route, a data structure for the exit route may be shared with other users and/or be used to assist a user in traversing the exit route. For example, the data structure may be used as a basis for overlaying graphics and/or text on a real-time video display as the user traverses the exit route.
US12339122B2
A passive combined indoor positioning system and method based on an intelligent terminal sensor, and is applied to the technical field of real-time positioning, can include a data collection module, a dead reckoning module, a geomagnetic matching determining module, a single-point matching module, a sequence matching module, a single-point positioning module, a sequence positioning module, and an error correction module. The system collects sensor data of a current location by using an intelligent terminal, and performs dead reckoning and geomagnetic matching based on the sensor data of the current location, so as to obtain a fusion positioning result of the current location through particle filter.
US12339121B2
A heavy goods vehicle includes a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement by multiplying an arc length per unit rotation angle of the outer circumference of a specified tire by the first physical quantity, a vehicle position estimator that estimates a vehicle position using the displacement, and a memory that stores a correlation between a second physical quantity corresponding to a loading weight and an arc length per predetermined rotation angle at the outer circumference of the specified tire. The displacement calculator refers to the correlation to calculate a current arc length per unit rotation angle at the outer circumference of the specified tire from the second physical quantity corresponding to the loading weight, and calculates the displacement by multiplying the first physical quantity detected by the rotation amount detector by the current arc length per unit rotation angle.
US12339120B2
A corner bracket comprising a volume of matter having n pairs of parallel faces, where n is an integer larger than 2; each face of each pair of parallel faces comprising an opening; the openings in the faces of each pair of parallel faces being joined by a cylindrical recess having a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the faces joined by the cylindrical recess; the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical recesses being arranged such that the cylindrical recesses do not intersect each other. The number n can be 3 and the volume of matter can be a cube.
US12339111B2
Disclosed is an ignition arrangement for multiple pyrotechnic articles, which includes a moulded body including a housing for an igniter cord, and also including sides and partitions. The housing is formed by pairs of parallel ribs separated from one another, the ribs of each pair being joined under the igniter cord, thus forming the bottom of the moulded body. Aligned openings are provided in the igniter cord, having inclined opposing surfaces that converge transversely towards the inside of the igniter cord, such as to channel the ignition sparks scattered in the arrangement towards an area of an ignition fuse held against a corresponding opening, such that the fuse is ignited from the igniter cord and ignition spreads to a pyrotechnic element located outside the moulded body.
US12339106B2
Bullet constructed from FRP, preferably basalt. The method includes the step of forming pultruded basalt strands positioned co-axially before milling to form a conventional bullet shape. The process uses a 10 mm FRP rod held by a revolving collet that is interfaced with an upper diamond OD grinder and a lower diamond profile wheel. Gravity allows the rod to rest on a Teflon coated cut off wheel. The upper grinder draws the rod to an exact outer dimension and the lower grinder cuts the bullet to a perfect dimension. Linear slides move the cut off wheel and grinders in for the cutting process and out to allow the finished bullet to pass.
US12339087B2
A gas block for a firearm may include a body, a barrel bore extending from a first end to a second end of the body and configured to receive a portion of a barrel therein, a gas tube bore extending from the first end toward the second end and configured to receive a portion of a gas tube therein, a gas port extending from the barrel bore to the gas tube bore, and an alignment aperture extending from the gas tube bore to a top side of the body and coaxial with the gas port, with the alignment aperture being configured to allow visualization of alignment of the gas port with a barrel gas port of the barrel.
US12339071B2
A plate heat exchanger comprising a top head, a bottom head, four side panels and four corner girders. The side panels and the corner girders extend along a longitudinal direction from the bottom head to the top head, and each side panel is associated with two corner girders. The top head, the bottom head, the four side panels and the four corner girders are joined together to form a sealed enclosure for housing a plate pack of stacked heat-exchanging plates. A continuous gasket assembly is arranged in a contact region between at least one side panel and two corner girders, the top head and the bottom head. The gasket assembly is located in a groove. Moreover, the gasket assembly is a segmented gasket assembly composed of plural gasket segments, and each gasket segment is made of graphite material. Also disclosed is a method for assembling such a plate heat exchanger.
US12339065B2
A pump system for transferring molten metal includes a pump for pumping molten metal. The pump includes a motor. The pump also includes a base adapted to be submerged in molten metal contained in a vessel including at least one inlet opening, an outlet opening and an impeller chamber fluidly communicating with the at least one inlet opening and the outlet opening. A shaft sleeve is part of the pump and is adapted to fasten to the base and extends outside the molten metal. An impeller is part of the pump and is adapted for rotation inside the impeller chamber. The pump includes a shaft driven by the motor and extends in the shaft sleeve. The impeller is fastened to the shaft. The pump system also includes a transfer block that is adapted to be submerged in the molten metal and to extend outside the molten metal. The transfer block includes an interior wall extending along its height, an inlet opening that receives molten metal from the base, and an outlet. The transfer block includes an obstruction member disposed in an interior thereof that disrupts an initial flow path of molten metal inlet into the transfer block from the base. The transfer block includes a diffuser plate inside the interior thereof. The diffuser plate includes through holes formed therein. Another aspect is a refractory transfer block with an obstruction member and a diffuser plate, which, for example, can be used with a pump for pumping molten metal.
US12339063B2
A method for drying bulk material, in particular solids, preferably for plastics-processing machines, in drying devices and containers, interconnected to form an assembly. Depending on the material used, the drying time specified, is transmitted or set by the operator or present in the controller. A consumer transmits the material consumption or the shot weight per production cycle, respectively, or the individual or cumulated shot weights for several production cycles or other values indicative of the material consumption to the drying device(s) and/or material container(s). Each material container consists, on the control side, of several loading batches, preferably with time stamps, and the drying or residence time, respectively, for the respectively lowest loading batch in the material container results from the difference between the current time of the respective material removal by the consumer and the time stamp associated with the oldest loading batch.
US12339047B2
A compressor includes a diffuser passage configured to receive refrigerant flow from an impeller of the compressor, where the diffuser passage is at least partially defined by a compressor discharge plate of the compressor. The compressor also includes a variable geometry diffuser positioned within the diffuser passage and configured to adjust a dimension of a refrigerant flow path through the diffuser passage, an actuator coupled to the variable geometry diffuser and configured to adjust a position of the variable geometry diffuser within the diffuser passage, and a controller configured to regulate operation of the actuator. The controller is configured to instruct the actuator to adjust the position of the variable geometry diffuser from a first position to a second position using a first force and to adjust the position of the variable geometry diffuser from the second position to a third position using a second force less than the first force, where the variable geometry diffuser abuts the compressor discharge plate in the third position.
US12339043B2
A compressor includes: a cylinder in which a piston is accommodated, the cylinder defining a compression space that is configured, based on the piston reciprocating in an axial direction, to compress a refrigerant gas therein, and a frame configured to accommodate the cylinder therein and defining a gas hole configured to pass the refrigerant gas therethrough. The gas hole is configured to communicate with an outside of the frame to receive the refrigerant gas and communicate with a gas pocket that is defined between an inner circumferential surface of the frame and an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder. The outer circumferential surface of the cylinder or the inner circumferential surface of the frame provides a plurality of restrictor regions partitioned by a gas supply passage, the gas supply passage defined to be recessed at the cylinder and configured to communicate with the gas hole.
US12339042B2
Closed loop wellbore configurations with unrestricted geometry for accommodating irregular or challenging thermal gradients within a thermally productive formation are disclosed. A working fluid is utilized in the loop for extraction of thermal energy there from. The loop and the unrestricted geometry are achieved using magnetic ranging of independent drilling operations which intersect from an inlet well and outlet well to form an interconnecting segment. In conjunction with the directional drilling, conditioning operations are incorporated to condition the rock face, cool the entire system, activate the wellbore for treatment to optimize thermal transfer inter alia. The significant degree of freedom in wellbore configuration is further optimized by the absence of mechanical impediments such as casing or liners in the heat transfer areas.
US12339036B2
A floor-standing air-conditioning indoor unit and an air conditioner are provided. The indoor unit has a housing, a top air outlet frame, a fan assembly and a driving device. The housing has an air inlet and a mounting port with an upward opening. An air duct is formed between the air inlet and the mounting port. The top air outlet frame is installed at the mounting port and movable up and down. The fan assembly is installed in the air duct and blows airflow to a lower port of the top air outlet frame and out from a front port of the top air outlet frame. The driving device has a driving member and a motion conversion member connected with the top air outlet frame. The driving member drives the motion conversion member to move along the first direction to move the top air outlet frame up and down.
US12339030B2
An air outlet device includes an air duct case, a driver, and air guide assemblies. The air duct case includes an air outlet member including an air cavity, an air inlet at one side of the air outlet member and communicating with the air cavity, and air outlets at another side of the air outlet member and communicating with the air cavity. Each of the air guide assemblies includes an air outlet hole, and is movably mounted at the air outlet member and located at a corresponding one of the air outlets. The air guide assemblies are provided close to a surface of the air outlet member and are movable along the surface of the air outlet member to change an angle of an airflow from the corresponding one of the air outlets. The air guide assemblies are driven and controlled separately by the driver.
US12339018B2
A spraying device, for spraying water onto an outdoor device of an air conditioner, including a water tank to store water, a first water level sensor to detect the water at a first water level, a second water level sensor to detect the water at a second water level, a nozzle to spray the water onto the outdoor device, and at least one processor configured to perform control to: with the stored water not being sprayed: start spraying the water onto the outdoor device, based on the water being detected at the first water level by the first water level sensor and the water being detected at the second water level by the second water level sensor, and with the stored water being sprayed: stop spraying the water onto the outdoor device, based on the water not being detected at the second water level by the second water level sensor.
US12339014B2
Embodiments are disclosed of a radiator temperature control apparatus for controlling the heat output of a radiator. The radiator temperature control apparatus may include an airtight enclosure around the air outlet of the radiator air vent, an adjustable opening in the airtight enclosure controlled by an actuator, and a controller connected to the actuator. In operation, the controller can be configured to open the adjustable opening in the airtight enclosure allowing air in the radiator to be expelled through the adjustable opening, thereby allowing steam to enter the radiator, and heat the room. The controller can be configured to close the adjustable opening, stopping air from being expelled from the radiator, thereby stopping additional steam from entering the radiator.
US12339012B2
A portable-device support apparatus includes a surface element. First support elements are coupled to the surface element. Each first support element has an end proximal to the surface element and an end distal from the surface element. Second support elements are coupled to a respective first support element by a respective fastening device. Each fastening device can translate back and forth along a respective one of the first support elements between the proximal and distal ends. The apparatus has a deployed position in which each second support element extends at an angle from a first support element. The apparatus has a storage position.
US12339005B2
A fuel mixture distribution system for a turbine engine assembly includes a combustor that includes a wall that defines a combustion chamber, a fuel mixture distributor that includes an air conduit that defines a mixing chamber that extends through the wall along between an inlet to an exit opening to the combustion chamber, the air conduit shape is defined to achieve the desired mixing and prevent flashback at all operating conditions, and a fuel distributor extends into the mixing chamber at a location upstream of the exit opening. The fuel distributor includes a plurality of fuel openings where a fuel flow is communicated and mixed with an airflow passing through the mixing chamber.
US12338997B2
An apparatus capable of monitoring and adjusting an in-furnace combustion condition in real time, having: a furnace having a heating chamber, a combustor, a charging door, an exhaust gas flow port, and an exhaust gas flow pipe, wherein the combustor is used for introducing fuel and/or an oxygen-containing gas into the heating chamber to form a flame, the charging door is used for adding a raw material, and the gas generated by combustion in the heating chamber enters the exhaust gas flow pipe through the exhaust gas flow port; two sensors of the same type arranged at different positions in the exhaust gas flow pipe; and a control device receiving signals of the two sensors and adjusting, according to a difference between the signals, the amount of the fuel and/or the oxygen-containing gas entering the combustor.
US12338989B2
A power tool includes a housing containing a motor, an output member configured to be driven by the motor to perform an operation on a workpiece, and a handle having a first end portion coupled to the housing and a second end portion. A base is coupled to the second end portion of the handle. A light emitting assembly is pivotably coupled to the base. The light emitting assembly is configured to be operable in a first mode to illuminate a workpiece and a second mode to indicate a condition of the power tool responsive to the power tool signaling the condition to the light emitting assembly.
US12338981B2
A lamp controller, comprising a circuit board, a main housing, a plug-in socket and an output plug-in component, wherein the main housing consists of an upper housing and a lower housing, the upper housing and/or the lower housing are provided with cavities, after the upper housing and the lower housing are combined, an accommodating cavity for assembling the circuit board is formed between the upper housing and the lower housing, the axial direction of the plug-in socket is not parallel to the longitudinal direction of the main housing, and the output plug-in component is fixed with the plug-in socket, wherein the controller further comprises an output connecting terminal, the output connecting terminal is fixed on the circuit board, the circuit board is provided with a yielding opening, a part of the output plug-in component is located in the cavity of the upper housing or the lower housing.
US12338971B1
An assembly includes a lamp housing defining an interior cavity and at least one light component positioned within the interior cavity. At least one first turbulation feature is associated with the lamp housing and at least one second turbulation feature is associated with the at least one light component. The at least one first turbulation feature and the at least one second turbulation feature cooperate with each other to increase turbulent air flow within the interior cavity.
US12338966B2
A motor-vehicle light-emitting module includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light rays, and a plurality of cavities each having a first aperture and a second aperture opposite the first aperture. Each light source is associated with one cavity, so that at least part of the light rays emitted by each light source enters via the first aperture of the associated cavity and exits said associated cavity via the second aperture. The light sources emit radially.
US12338961B2
A light source unit for plant cultivation includes: a first light emitter emitting a primary light and a converter disposed on a path of the primary light to produce a first light, and a second light emitter emitting a second light, wherein combined light emitted from the first light emitter and the second light emitter produces a basic spectrum including at least three peak wavelengths, with a difference between relative intensities of at least two of the peak wavelengths being less than 20%.
US12338958B2
A gas filling device is provided with a first gas supply pipeline, a second gas supply pipeline, and an integrated control panel. The first gas supply pipeline supplies hydrogen gas from a multistage accumulator to a first filled tank mounted on a first vehicle. The second gas supply pipeline supplies hydrogen gas from the multistage accumulator to a second filled tank mounted on a second vehicle different from the first vehicle. At the time of filling the hydrogen gas into both of the first filled tank and the second filled tank from the multistage accumulator, the integrated control panel sets a pressure rise rate of the first filled tank or a pressure rise rate of the second filled tank to be lower than a reference pressure rise rate in accordance with a difference in pressure between the first filled tank and the second filled tank.
US12338953B2
A vessel includes a body having an interior surface that defines an interior space. The vessel further includes a flexible membrane located within the interior space of the vessel. The flexible membrane divides the interior space of the vessel into a first chamber and a second chamber. A valve configured to provide selective fluid communication between the first chamber and an exterior of the vessel. The vessel further includes one or more ribs protruding from at least a portion of the interior surface within the first chamber. The one or more ribs create one or more flowpaths configured to allow flow of a contents of the vessel from the first chamber towards an opening of the valve when the flexible membrane is in contact with the one or more ribs. The flexible membrane can include a ribbed structure extending from a surface of the flexible membrane.
US12338952B2
The invention relates to a pressure vessel (1), comprising a vessel body (3), wherein at an upper end of the vessel body (3) an end region (2) is formed in one piece with the vessel body (3), which has an opening (O), and a fastening structure (9) for a valve (6) formed on the inside of a wall (2.1) surrounding the opening (O) of the end region (2). According to the invention, two outflow openings (SO) are formed opposite each other in the wall (2.1) surrounding the opening (O) of the end region (2).
US12338949B2
A hydrogen storage device includes a storage container having an accommodation space in an interior thereof, a first metal hydride material provided in the interior of the storage container and that stores hydrogen, and a second metal hydride material provided in the interior of the storage container and that stores the hydrogen at a pressure that is different from that of the first metal hydride material. An advantageous effect of restraining an excessive rise of a pressure of the storage container and enhancing safety and reliability may be obtained.
US12338939B2
The invention relates to a pipe or duct probe (10) for insertion into a pipe (90) or into a duct. The pipe or duct probe (10) comprises: at least one motor (15), at least one motor shaft (18), at least one working means (30, 30′, 30″) connected to the motor shaft (18), a connection device (40) for connecting the motor (15) to a cable (75), and at least one centering device (50) connected to a housing (20).
US12338923B2
Presented is a data cable retaining post for retaining data cable laid along a ladder rack having a pair of longitudinal main supports, a first of the longitudinal main supports having an upper surface and a lower surface. The data cable retaining post includes a front plate and a connection member, the connection member having a lower portion forming a hook, a mid-portion forming a locking member, and an upper portion. When installed on the first of the longitudinal main supports of ladder rack, the lower portion of the connection member is adapted to be positioned with the hook surrounding the lower surface of the longitudinal main support and the mid-portion is adapted to be positioned adjacent the upper surface of the longitudinal main support such that the locking member locks the data cable retaining post to the longitudinal main support.
US12338914B2
A method for producing a rotary slide valve for regulating a flow of fluid, including a rotary slide (02) which is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis (R) in a valve housing, includes producing the rotary slide (02) by injection molding, producing at least one circumferential or casing section (04) of the valve housing (03) by injection molding, and installing the rotary slide (02) within the valve housing (03). A gap between the rotary slide (02) and the directly adjacent valve housing circumferential or casing section (04) of the valve housing (03) in the radial direction, allows the rotary slide (02) to rotate about the rotational axis (R) and facilitates a seal which does not exceed a tolerable leak between the rotary slide (02) and the circumferential or casing section (04) of the valve housing (03).
US12338913B2
An electromagnetic valve, including a valve body, a valve sleeve, a valve element, a static iron core, a movable iron core and a first valve port portion, and further including a limiting member, a first spring and a second spring. One end of the first spring abuts against the limiting member, and the other end of the first spring abuts against the static iron core. One end of the second spring abuts against the movable iron core, and the other end of the second spring abuts against the valve element. The limiting member includes a first limiting portion, and the movable iron core includes a second limiting portion. The valve element includes a third limiting portion, and the movable iron core includes a fourth limiting portion.
US12338910B2
An electromagnetic valve and an electromagnetic valve assembly are provided. The electromagnetic valve includes: a valve body, which at least includes a valve seat, the valve seat being mounted on a mounting base; a magnetic conductive frame, which is fixed to the valve seat; and an electromagnetic driving assembly, which is mounted in the magnetic conductive frame. The magnetic conductive frame is provided with a positioning member, and the positioning member cooperates with the mounting base so as to restrict the electromagnetic driving assembly from rotating relative to the mounting base.
US12338907B2
A valve cartridge includes a top part that is penetrated in the center by a spindle which is rotatably and axially slidably mounted in the top part and which includes an axial through-hole to allow water to flow therethrough; the spindle actuates a valve, by which the flow rate of the water through the through-hole can be controlled.
US12338906B2
A valve device includes: a housing; a passage forming portion that has at least one passage hole configured to conduct a fluid; a drive device that is configured to output a rotational force; and a shaft that is configured to be rotated about a central axis. The valve device includes: a rotor that is configured to increase or decrease an opening degree of the at least one passage hole in response to rotation of the shaft; and a torsion spring that surrounds the central axis and is configured to urge the shaft relative to the housing in a circumferential direction of the central axis of the shaft. The housing has a stopper that is configured to contact the shaft and thereby limit a rotational drive range of the shaft when the shaft is rotated to a predetermined position. The stopper is placed at an inside of the torsion spring.
US12338904B2
A safety valve (100) for a pneumatic conduit (798) includes a valve body (120) having a pressure port (122) pneumatically connected to a pressure side (840) of the pneumatic conduit (798) and a release port (124) pneumatically connected to a release side (860) of the pneumatic conduit (798), a valve piston (140) axially movable along a valve axis (AV) relative to the valve body (120) between a release-side end position (SP1) and a pressure-side end position (SP2), and a valve piston spring (160) that pushes the valve piston (140) into the pressure-side end position (SP2). The safety valve (100) includes a pressure-side gasket (130), which is adapted to inhibit the air flow (AF) between the pressure port (122) and the release port (124) when the valve piston (140) is in the pressure-side end position (SP2).
US12338888B2
A transmission cooling device includes a transmission housing part for housing rotating transmission elements and a fan, which is connected to the transmission housing part, for providing a cooling air flow against an outer side of the transmission housing part. The fan has a conveying element, which communicates with a hollow fan ring, for generating an operating flow within the fan ring. The fan ring communicates via at least one discharge opening with a volume provided radially within the fan ring in such a way that the operating flow generates the cooling air flow by a suction jet effect. Indirectly generating the cooling air flow with the aid of the operating flow generated by the conveying element in the hollow fan ring results in good cooling with a large flow cross section of the cooling air flow with small installation space requirement, thereby enabling space-saving cooling of a transmission.
US12338887B2
A transmission housing includes a profile body configured to enclose transmission components, two side walls configured to enclose the transmission components in the profile body, and a hub rail inserted into a recess of one of the two side walls and fastened to the one of the two side walls. The hub rail includes at least two hubs and is defined by a hub width which is higher than a wall thickness of each of the two side walls. The profile body, the two side walls and the hub rail are each configured without joints in a radial direction of the at least two hubs in order to prevent radial insertion of a one of the transmission components into the hubs.
US12338881B2
A power tool is advantageously configured to provide a rotating motion, an oscillating motion, and a reciprocating motion. The power tool includes at least one motor, which is operable to drive these three different motions at the same time. The power tool includes a rotating member, which is configured to output a rotating motion. The rotating member is configured to attach to and detach from a rotating accessory. The power tool includes an oscillating member, which is configured to output an oscillating motion. The oscillating member is configured to attach to and detach from an oscillating accessory. The power tool includes a pin, which is configured to output a reciprocating motion. The pin is configured to provide the reciprocating motion to a reciprocating accessory. The power tool is configured to provide a connected accessory with the corresponding motion during operation.
US12338864B1
A automotive brake system may include a caliper body and first and second spring pins. The caliper body may fit directly within a stock wheel of a vehicle and onto a stock knuckle of the vehicle. The caliper body may include a first section including a first socket, a second section including a second socket and connected to the first section, and an internal crossover passage. The internal crossover passage may be disposed partially within the first section and partially within the second section, may substantially contain a fluid between the sections, and may vent overpressure. The first spring pin may have a first end insertably disposed within the first socket. The second spring pin may have a second end insertably disposed within the second socket. The first spring pin and the second spring pin may be longitudinally collinear and receive a slide groove of a brake pad.
US12338863B2
A linear bearing clutch includes a first surface, a second surface, one or more contact elements, and a holding device. The first surface includes a tapered surface. The second surface includes a flat or curved surface. The holding device is configured to hold the one or more contact elements. The first surface is configured to permit motion of the one or more contact elements along a first direction of the second surface and restrict motion of the one or more contact elements in a second direction of the second surface, the second direction being opposite the first direction.
US12338861B2
A bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring and a sealing device. The sealing device includes at least an outer structure secured to the outer ring, and an inner structure secured to the inner ring. The inner structure includes a shrink-fitting portion shrink-fitted onto a shrink-fitting bearing surface of the inner ring and at least one seal seat. The outer structure includes at least one seal lip in sliding contact against the seal seat. The seal seat is located axially at a distance from an end wall of the inner ring, and is closer to the axis of revolution than the shrink-fitting portion.
US12338858B2
A brake assembly comprises: a rotatable part configured to be rotatable by an actuator; a translatable part operably coupled with the rotatable part, and configured to be axially translatable relative to the rotatable part to move a brake pad according to rotation of the rotatable part; and a bearing assembly comprising: an inner race provided on an outside of the rotatable part, the inner race having first and second inner shoulders and an inner curved surface; an outer race having first and second outer shoulders and an outer curved surface; and rollable bodies movably disposed between the inner race and the outer race. The first inner shoulder of the inner race and/or the first outer shoulder of the outer race are asymmetric to the second inner shoulder of the inner race and/or the second outer shoulder of the outer race, respectively.
US12338856B2
A method for producing a component of a sliding bearing includes a) providing a metal bolt with a cylindrical lateral surface and two end faces; b) coating the lateral surface of the bolt with a soldering flux or material; c) providing a metal sheet made of bronze and forming it into a cylindrical sleeve having a longitudinal slot, a first side of the metal sheet forming an inside is coated with a solder material or flux before or after the forming process, the lateral surface of the bolt or the inside of the sleeve having soldering flux; d) sliding the sleeve onto the lateral surface of the bolt; and e) bonding the lateral surface and sleeve soldering. A sliding bearing produced by the method includes the component in a bore of a planetary wheel, and a second side of the metal sheet and planetary wheel are in direct sliding contact.
US12338854B2
An apparatus including a first body; an intake cover; a first hinge coupling the intake cover to the first body such that the intake cover is rotatable with respect to the first body about the first hinge; a second body; a second hinge coupling the second body to the first body; a lever coupled to the second hinge, the lever including a shaft; and a lift bar coupled to the first body and rotatable about a first end of the lift bar, wherein the lever is configured to rotate about the second hinge in response to rotation of the second body about the second hinge with respect to the first body such that the shaft of the lever contacts the lift bar to rotate the lift bar to contact the intake cover and rotate the intake cover about the first hinge.
US12338848B2
This document describes anti-wobble fir tree mounts for attaching a component to a supporting structure. In aspects, an anti-wobble fir tree mount is configured for reducing the lateral movement of the anti-wobble fir tree mount during use. In some implementations, the device may include a body section having a bottom portion with a mounting section extending therefrom. The mounting section is configured for insertion into a mounting aperture defined in a supporting structure first side. The mounting section having: a mounting stud; first and second branches extending from the mounting stud; the second branch spaced apart from the first branch, the first branch positioned between the body section and the second branch, the second branch may include an upper side facing the body section, the first branch may include: a lower side, the lower side facing the upper side of the second branch; and a flange member extending from the lower side, the flange member configured for contacting the upper side during insertion of the mounting section into the mounting aperture to limit a deflection of the second branch in the direction of the body section.
US12338847B2
A buckle and a band for installation onto a workpiece are provided. The buckle includes a tension indicator for indicating when a desired tension on the band has been reached during installation. The tension indicator may be a visual indicator and may include two collapsible wings that are in a first position when untensioned and move to a second position when tensioned.
