US12048246B2
A compound of Formula I: wherein ring A is a 5-membered or 6-membered aromatic ring; wherein RA, RB, and RC each independently represent mono to the maximum allowable substitution, or no substitution; wherein Y1 is absent or present, and when present is selected from the group consisting of a direct bond, O, S, Se, CRR′, NR, SiRR′, and BR; wherein each X1-X3 is N or CR; wherein at least one of X1-X3 is N; wherein each A1-A5 is independently C or N; wherein the maximum number of N atoms that can connect to each other within each ring is two; wherein each R1, R2, R3, and R4 is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, and combinations thereof; wherein each R, R′, RA, RB, and RC is independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of deuterium, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carboxylic acid, ether, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof; and wherein any two substituents may be joined or fused together to form a ring.
US12048245B2
Provided are a compound, an organic light-emitting element including the same, a display panel and a display device. The compound has a structure represented by Formula I. The organic light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode and an organic thin film layer disposed between the anode and the cathode; where the organic thin film layer includes a light-emitting layer, and further includes any one or a combination of at least two of a hole transport layer, an electron blocking layer and an auxiliary light-emitting layer, and at least one of the hole transport layer, the electron blocking layer and the auxiliary light-emitting layer contains at least one of the compounds. The compound has a relatively shallow HOMO energy level, a relatively shallow LUMO energy level, a relatively high triplet energy level, an appropriate hole mobility, a relatively high Tg, a large molecular torque and good thermal stability.
US12048241B2
An organic light-emitting device including: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a carbazole-based compound represented by Formula 1A or 1B: When the carbazole-based compound represented by Formula 1A or 1B is included in the hole transport layer, an organic light-emitting device may have improved driving voltage, efficiency, luminance, and lifespan characteristics.
US12048239B2
A composition for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device, the composition including a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 2 and Chemical Formula 3:
US12048236B2
A polymer blend includes an organic semiconductor polymer blended with an isolating polymer; at least one photoinitiator for generating active radicals; and at least one crosslinker comprising C═C bonds, thiols, or combinations thereof, such that the organic semiconductor polymer is a diketopyrrolopyrrole-fused thiophene polymeric material, the fused thiophene is beta-substituted, and the isolating polymer has a non-conjugated backbone. A method of forming an organic semiconductor device having the polymer blend is also presented.
US12048226B2
Disclosed herein are a display device and a mobile terminal device including the same, which include a display panel including a screen in which a plurality of display pixels which are sequentially scanned, and a plurality of sensor pixels which are exposed to a light during an exposure time to convert the light into an electric current are disposed. While the display pixels disposed in the first area of the screen are scanned, the sensor pixels are exposed. While the display pixels in the second area of the screen are scanned, sensor data is output from the sensor pixels and then the sensor pixels are initialized.
US12048221B2
A display device may include a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; and a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area, the plurality of pixels each including an emission area and a non-emission area. Each of the plurality of pixels may include at least one light emitting element in the emission area; a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode electrically connected to the at least one light emitting element; a bank including a first opening corresponding to the emission area; a color conversion layer disposed in the emission area to correspond to the at least one light emitting element; a barrier layer disposed on the bank and the color conversion layer; and a low refractive layer disposed on the barrier layer. The barrier layer may include silicon oxide (SiOx) having cured polysilazane.
US12048219B2
A color filter substrate and an organic light-emitting display panel are disclosed. The color filter substrate is rectangular and has an upper side, a lower side, a left side, and a right side, wherein, the lower side corresponds to a driving chip of the organic light-emitting display panel. The color filter substrate includes a light-shielding layer defined with a plurality of light-transmitting holes arranged in an array, and from the upper side to the lower side, openings of the light-transmitting holes are gradually smaller. The present disclosure allows an aperture ratio of the light-shielding layer to be gradually reduced from the upper side that is away from the driving chip to the lower side that corresponds to the driving chip. Therefore, an area of the organic light-emitting display panel having uneven chroma and brightness can be compensated, thereby improving uniformity of the chroma and brightness.
US12048184B2
A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a display element disposed on the first substrate in the display area, a first sealing portion disposed on the first substrate in the non-display area, a second substrate facing the first substrate in a thickness direction, a hole defined through the first substrate and the second substrate along the thickness direction in the display area, and a second sealing portion disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and enclosing the hole.
US12048173B2
A light emitting device and a displaying device. The light emitting device includes a luminescent layer, wherein the luminescent layer includes a thermally activated delayed-fluorescence material; the thermally activated delayed-fluorescence material includes a donor group, a receptor group and a linking group; the donor group and the receptor group bond to the linking group; and a torsion angle between a plane where the donor group is located and a plane where the linking group is located is θ1, and a torsion angle between a plane where the receptor group is located and the plane where the linking group is located is θ2; wherein θ1 and θ2 enable an energy-level difference between a singlet-state energy level of the thermally activated delayed-fluorescence material and a triplet-state energy level of the thermally activated delayed-fluorescence material to be less than a constant quantity T, wherein 0 eV
US12048168B2
A semiconductor device may include a source layer, a stack structure, a channel layer, a slit, and a source pick-up line. The source layer may include at least one groove in an upper surface thereof. The stack structure may be formed over the source layer. The channel layer may pass through the stack structure. The channel layer may be in contact with the source layer. The slit may pass through the stack structure. The slit may expose the groove of the source layer therethrough. The source pick-up line may be formed in the slit and the groove. The source pick-up line may be contacted with the source layer.
US12048163B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an IC, and associated forming methods. In some embodiments, the IC has a plurality of logic devices disposed on a logic region of a substrate, including a first logic device configured to operate at a first voltage and comprising a first logic gate electrode separated from the substrate by a first logic gate dielectric. The first logic gate dielectric is disposed along sidewall and bottom surfaces of a logic device trench of the substrate, and the first logic gate electrode is disposed conformally along the first logic gate dielectric within the logic device trench. A hard mask layer is disposed on the first logic gate electrode within the logic device trench.
US12048143B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including a device isolation pattern defining an active pattern extending in a first direction and including first and second source/drain regions, a word line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a bit line that is on the word line and electrically connected to the first source/drain region and that extends in a third direction that intersects the first and second directions, a bit-line spacer on a sidewall of the bit line, a storage node contact electrically connected to the second source/drain region and spaced apart from the bit line across the bit-line spacer, and a dielectric pattern between the bit-line spacer and the storage node contact. The bit-line spacer includes a first spacer covering the sidewall of the bit line and a second spacer between the dielectric pattern and the first spacer.
US12048139B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate, where the substrate includes a complete die region and an incomplete die region; forming a stack on the substrate; forming a first mask layer with a first pattern on the stack; forming a first photoresist layer on the first mask layer; exposing the first photoresist layer, and developing to remove the first photoresist layer on the complete die region; and etching the stack by using the first mask layer on the complete die region and the first photoresist layer on the incomplete die region as masks.
US12048134B2
Nanosheets 21 to 23 are formed in line in this order in the X direction, and nanosheets 24 to 26 are formed in line in this order in the X direction. In a buried interconnect layer, a power line 11 is formed between the nanosheets 22 and 25 as viewed in plan. A face of the nanosheet 22 on a first side as one of the sides in the X direction is exposed from a gate interconnect 32. A face of the nanosheet 25 on a second side as the other side in the X direction is exposed from a gate interconnect 35.
US12048133B2
Semiconductor structures is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having at least one first region, a plurality of second regions and a plurality of third regions; at least one second fin formed on one second region of the plurality of second region; at least one third fin formed on one third region of the plurality of third regions; a first epitaxial layer formed in the at least one first fin; and a second epitaxial layer formed in the at least one second fin and the at least one third fin.
US12048130B2
A cooling device for dissipating heat from articles to be cooled, such as power electronic modules, having at least one preferably rigid heat sink which consists in particular of solid material, preferably composed of metal, for example composed of aluminium, and which is intended to absorb heat from one or more articles to be cooled, and having a cooling fluid chamber for accommodating cooling fluid, in particular cooling liquid, to which the heat absorbed by the heat sink can be transferred. The cooling device has at least two preferably rigid heat sinks which consist in particular of solid material and which are connected to one another in an articulated manner, in particular by way of a heat sink joint, in such a way that the two heat sinks are movable relative to one another in different, in particular parallel planes.
US12048128B2
A space-saving, high-density modular data pod system and an energy-efficient cooling system are disclosed. The modular data pod system includes a central free-cooling system and a plurality of modular data pods, each of which includes a heat exchange assembly coupled to the central free-cooling system, and a distributed mechanical cooling system coupled to the heat exchange assembly. The modular data pods include a data enclosure having at least five walls arranged in the shape of a polygon, a plurality of computer racks arranged in a circular or U-shaped pattern, and a cover to create hot and cold aisles, and an air circulator configured to continuously circulate air between the hot and cold aisles. Each modular data pod also includes an auxiliary enclosure containing a common fluid and electrical circuit section that is configured to connect to adjacent common fluid and electrical circuit sections to form a common fluid and electrical circuit that connects to the central free-cooling system. The auxiliary enclosure contains at least a portion of the distributed mechanical cooling system, which is configured to trim the cooling performed by the central free-cooling system.
US12048123B2
An integrated circuit assembly may be formed comprising an electronic substrate, at least one integrated circuit device electrically attached to the electronic substrate, a heat dissipation device comprising a main body portion and a resilient portion extending from the main body portion, wherein the resilient portion has a plurality of extensions, a thermal interface material between the at least one integrated circuit device and the heat dissipation device, and a stiffener attached to the electronic substrate, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of extensions of the resilient portion of the heat dissipation device are biased against the stiffener.
US12048120B2
A heat dissipation tooth piece and a preparation method therefor, a heat dissipation apparatus and an electronic device are disclosed. The heat dissipation tooth piece including a first heat dissipation assembly and a second heat dissipation assembly which are oppositely arranged, the first heat dissipation assembly includes a first heat dissipation part, and the second heat dissipation assembly includes a second heat dissipation part; the first heat dissipation part and the second heat dissipation part are oppositely arranged and define a first pipeline, the first heat dissipation assembly further includes a first connection part, the second heat dissipation assembly further includes a second connection part, the first connection part and the second connection part are connected and define a second pipeline, and the second pipeline is communicated with the first pipeline.
US12048099B2
A base substrate has a thickness between two faces. The base substrate includes at least one hole extending in a thickness of the base substrate perpendicular to one of the two face. At least one dipole of a surface-mount device type is housed in the at least one hole of the base substrate.
US12048096B2
Embodiments of the application provide a printed circuit board, a display module, a display device and a method of bonding the printed circuit board to a display screen. The printed circuit board includes a plurality of sub-circuit boards and a flexible connector between adjacent sub-circuit boards of the plurality of sub-circuit boards. The flexible connector is configured to connect the adjacent sub-circuit boards of the plurality of sub-circuit boards with each other. For the printed circuit board provided in the embodiments of the application, each sub-circuit board of the printed circuit board can be bonded independently, thereby avoiding pitch accumulation in the bonding region and thus controlling the total pitch within a satisfactory range.
US12048093B2
A flexible wiring board includes a signal line and a conductive portion that overlaps the signal line in plan view. The conductive portion includes a first line portion extending in a first direction and having a first part and a second part, a second line portion extending in a second direction and having a third part and a fourth part, and a third line portion. The third line portion has a line width smaller than a line width of the first part and a line width of the second part, is connected to the first and second parts, and is provided between the first part and the second part. The conductive portion includes a fourth line portion that is connected to the third part and the fourth part and that is provided between the third part and the fourth part. The third line portion and the fourth line portion intersect.
US12048081B2
The invention relates to an EIGA coil (10) for partial melting an electrode (40). The EIGA coil (10) comprises a plurality of windings (12A, 12B, 12C) which are coaxially arranged with respect to a center axis (M) and axially spaced from each other, wherein each of the plurality of windings (12A, 12B, 12C) is formed in the shape of a ring interrupted by a gap (14A, 14B, 14C) and equidistant with respect to the center axis (M) and extending in a plane perpendicular to the center axis (M). Adjacent windings (12A, 12B; 12B, 12C) of the plurality of windings (12A, 12B, 12C) are respectively connected to each other via a connecting portion (20AB, 20BC; 120AB, 120BC).
US12048072B1
The present disclosure relates to a simple assembled hand warmer, which includes two body parts that can be spliced and separated, i.e., a first hand warmer body and a second hand warmer body; the first hand warmer body is provided with a first splicing surface, the second hand warmer body is provided with a second splicing surface; a splicing mechanism is provided between the first splicing surface and the second splicing surface, the splicing mechanism includes at least one splicing convex block provided on the first splicing surface and at least one splicing groove provided on the second splicing surface. The splicing convex block is interference-fit with the splicing groove; and during splicing, the splicing convex block of the first hand warmer body is embedded into the splicing groove of the second hand warmer body.
US12048069B2
A temperature limiting device for a thermal system includes a modular unit that is configured to connect to a two-wire heater of the thermal system. More particularly, the modular unit includes a heater interface configured to connect to a two-wire heater of the thermal system, a power interface configured to connect to a power source to receive power; and a controller including a sensor circuit. The sensor circuit is configured to measure an electrical characteristic of the two-wire heater, which includes voltage, current, or a combination thereof. The controller is configured to calculate a temperature of the thermal system based on the measured electrical characteristic and determine whether the temperature is greater than a temperature setpoint.
US12048067B2
A user equipment and a method for controlling transmission of same in a wireless communication system are provided. The user equipment is configured to implement an access stratum (AS) layer. The method includes receiving, from an upper layer to the AS layer, a first indication and a second indication for a packet, wherein the first indication is configured to indicate whether to perform a packet data control protocol (PDCP) duplication, and the second indication is configured to indicate whether to use a release 15 feature and controlling the AS layer not to perform the PDCP duplication and controlling the AS layer not to use the release 15 feature when the first indication indicates to perform the PDCP duplication and the second indication indicates not to use the release 15 feature.
US12048063B2
A method comprises detecting, by a subscription management application of the coordinator device, a trigger event that triggers wireless devices in a cluster to activate a subscription profile, determining, by the subscription management application, at least one of coordinator location data describing a location of the coordinator device or coordinator network data describing a network characteristic of a network accessed by the coordinator device, receiving, by the subscription management application, at least one of companion location data describing a location of the companion device or companion network data describing a network characteristic of a network accessed by the companion device, and determining, by the subscription management application, the subscription profile based on at least one of the coordinator location data, the coordinator network data, the companion location data, or the companion network data.
US12048061B2
A memory device includes at least one memory cell array block and a control logic. The memory cell array block includes multiple layers of memory cells and word line layers provided corresponding to individual layers of memory cells. The memory cell array block is divided into at least two memory cell array subblocks, each subblock comprising a number of layers of memory cells and word line layers provided corresponding to individual layers of memory cells. The control logic is coupled to the memory cell array block, and configured to: erase, read or program the memory cell array block using a block mode or a subblock mode, and when the memory cell array block is erased, read, or programmed under the subblock mode, determine, at least based on a state of one of the two memory cell array subblocks, an operation strategy of the other memory cell array subblock.
US12048059B2
The methods, devices, and systems discussed herein describe a wireless communication device transmitting a discovery channel message, at least a portion of which, is embedded in the control channel of a groupcast transmission. In some examples, the discovery channel message is transmitted using a pre-defined, fixed transmit power and modulation and coding scheme (MCS), which facilitates the receiving wireless communication devices' ability to decode the control channel, including the embedded discovery channel message. If a receiving wireless communication device can decode the discovery channel message above a configured threshold (e.g., a received power threshold and/or a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)) but is unable to decode the data portion of the groupcast transmission, which was intended for the receiving wireless communication device, then the receiving wireless communication device will transmit a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) to the wireless communication device that transmitted the groupcast transmission.
US12048050B2
A network access node including a transceiver coupled to a sidelink receiver user equipment (UE) (or to a sidelink transmitter UE) is disclosed. The network access node may obtain a network access interface discontinuous reception (DRX) slot offset value (or a sidelink interface DRX slot offset value) corresponding to a shift in a network access interface DRX Active state start time (or a sidelink interface DRX Active state start time) of the receiver UE. The shift may configure an alignment of a sidelink interface DRX Active state start time (or the network access interface DRX Active state start time) with the network access interface DRX Active state start time (or the sidelink interface DRX Active state start time). The network access interface DRX (or sidelink interface DRX) slot offset value may be transmitted to the receiver UE.
US12048045B2
A method, apparatus, and non-transitory program storage device for handling of a resumption in connection is described. The method includes determining whether a periodic radio access network based notification area update timer has expired; when the periodic radio access network based notification area update timer has been determined to have expired: setting a variable to a first setting; the variable comprising a pendingPeriodicRNAUpdate variable; and determining whether an upper layer has requested resumption of a radio resource control connection, and either: initiating a radio resource control connection resume procedure with a cause value set based on information received from the upper layers, or initiating a radio resource control connection resume procedure with a cause value set to rna-Update.
US12048012B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to address spatial collisions between physical downlink control channel and default physical downlink shared channel beams in wireless communication systems.
US12048010B2
This document discloses a solution for detecting a transmission opportunity. According to an aspect, a method comprises as performed by an apparatus of a first wireless network: detecting a first transmission from a first apparatus of a second wireless network different from the first wireless network; transmitting, to a second apparatus of the first wireless network, a transmission mode request, wherein the transmission mode request indicates a request to transmit from the apparatus to the second apparatus at least during an interframe space of a transmission opportunity between the first apparatus and another apparatus of the second wireless network, receiving a transmission mode response from the second apparatus, wherein the transmission mode response indicates acceptance of the request; in response to detecting a second transmission from the first apparatus, transmitting a data frame during an interframe space following the second transmission.
US12048007B2
To provide a communication apparatus that achieves a high efficiency in carrier aggregation. A communication apparatus includes a communication section that transmits and receives a radio signal using a first communication band and a second communication band, and a controller that controls an operation of communication performed by the communication section, and the controller performs control such that a signal that includes information regarding a clear channel of the second communication band is transmitted using a channel of the first communication band. Further, the controller performs control such that data is transmitted to a transmission destination of the signal using one of a plurality of the clear channels of the second communication band, the plurality of the clear channels of the second communication band being included in the signal.
US12048006B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and radar detection. In some aspects, a radar device may perform, at an initial listen before talk (LBT) frame boundary associated with an initial LBT frame of a plurality of LBT frames, an initial LBT procedure, wherein the initial LBT frame has a frame length that is larger than a propagation delay associated with a maximum detectable range associated with the radar device; and transmit a radar signal based at least in part on a successful result of the initial LBT procedure or an additional LBT procedure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12048002B2
A method by a wireless device includes receiving a message from a radio access network, RAN, node serving the wireless device including an indication of failure of a clear channel assessment, CCA, procedure by the RAN node on a wireless channel, and adapting a serving cell procedure in response to the message. A method by a RAN node, includes performing a CCA on a downlink channel, determining based on the CCA whether or not the downlink channel is occupied, and transmitting a message to a wireless device including an indication of a CCA failure based on a determination that the downlink channel was occupied. Related wireless devices and network nodes are disclosed.
US12047997B2
A transmission device includes a communication circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with a reception device, by using a plurality of wireless services including a first wireless service having a first priority and a second wireless service having a second priority that is a priority lower than the first priority, and a processing circuit configured to perform, in accordance with a first information element, allocating of an uplink radio resource to transmission data of the first wireless service, the allocating of the uplink radio resource being performed in a situation, the situation being a situation that a medium access control-protocol data unit (MAC-PDU) has been generated or can be generated in response to allocating the uplink radio resource to a transmission data of the second wireless service, the first information element indicating a value configured to control logical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure.
US12047988B2
A method for transmitting response information includes: a location of a time frequency resource for the transmission of the response information by a data receiver of user data during response information transmission is determined; the location of the time frequency resource for the transmission of the response information is indicated to the data receiver; and response information transmitted by the data receiver is received at the location of the time frequency resource.
US12047983B2
Disclosed are a resource configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. In the method, the network device sends resource configuration information to a terminal device. The resource configuration information is used to configure a resource for a first type of service transmission for the terminal device. The resource configuration information includes: resource duration and/or service duration.
US12047982B2
This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus, to provide a solution for processing a conflict between uplink resources. The method includes: a terminal device obtains a first uplink resource, where the first uplink resource is used to send a first service. The terminal device obtains a second uplink resource, where the second uplink resource is used to send a second service, and the first uplink resource and the second uplink resource completely or partially overlap in a time domain. The terminal device determines a target uplink resource to be used in the time domain, where the target uplink resource is the first uplink resource or the second uplink resource. The terminal device sends data on the target uplink resource in the time domain.
US12047974B2
Aspects described herein relate to indicating downlink control information (DCI) for multicast and/or broadcast (MB) communications using DCI formats that may be based on existing DCI formats and/or size for unicast communications, paging signals, system information signals, etc., or may include shortened formats without fields for information that may not be used in MB communications.
US12047969B2
A terminal apparatus receives a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and transmits HARQ-ACK information in a slot n. In a case that a higher layer parameter is given, for a PDSCH group g, a monitoring occasion for PDCCH corresponding to a DCI format satisfying a condition is included in a set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n. Based at least on the set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n, the HARQ-ACK information is generated. The condition includes the following: condition 1 is that the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format is triggered to be transmitted in the lot n, and condition 2 is that the PDSCH group g is indicated by a PGI field included in the DCI format.
US12047968B2
This disclosure provides a configuration activation/deactivation method, a network device, and a terminal. The method includes: transmitting, to a terminal, activation/deactivation information for indicating activation/deactivation of multiple transmission configurations; wherein, the multiple transmission configurations are associated with configuration information of the activation/deactivation information, or a first field of the activation/deactivation information is used for indicating activation/deactivation of first configuration information that is same among the multiple transmission configurations.
US12047961B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and configuring sidelink data. The method includes: receiving by a terminal equipment control information including a sidelink grant and transmitted by a network device, the control information further indicating at least one piece of destination information to which the sidelink grant is directed; determining at least one destination and/or logical channel according to the destination information; and transmitting sidelink data of the at least one destination and/or logical channel according to the sidelink grant. Thus, the network device is enabled to schedule different resources for different destination terminal equipments.
US12047959B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a user equipment (UE) for performing a random access (RA) procedure is provided. The method includes transmitting a first message including a RA preamble and a UE identifier (ID) to a base station (BS), and receiving a second message including a sequence index of the RA preamble from the BS.
US12047951B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network. In one embodiment, the method includes the network transmitting a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) configuration to a User Equipment (UE) for configuring a second Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). The method also includes the network transmitting a configuration to the UE for configuring a first monitoring occasion for a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a second monitoring occasion for a second PDCCH, wherein the second PDCCH is associated with the first PDCCH. The method further includes the network not allowing the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH to schedule the UE with a first PDSCH partially or fully overlapping with the second PDSCH in time domain, wherein a last symbol of a later monitoring occasion among the first and the second monitoring occasion ends less than a processing threshold before a starting symbol of the second PDSCH.
US12047948B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than 4G systems; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The method for a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); identifying, basis on downlink control information (DCI) decoded as result of the monitoring, whether to determine for a scheduling restriction condition; identifying whether a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the DCI satisfies the scheduling restriction condition, in case that determining for the scheduling restriction condition is necessary; and receiving, from a base station, data via the PDSCH, in case that the scheduling restriction condition is satisfied. The present disclosure relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system. The method, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, may determine a peak data rate supportable by a terminal, compare the peak data rate and an actual data rate determined from scheduling information, and transmit a signal according to the scheduling information on the basis of the result of the comparison.
US12047941B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for downlink relaying for passive internet of things (PIoT) communication. An example method includes receiving, from a network entity in a wireless network, configuration information for communicating with at least one passive internet of things (PIoT) device and receiving, from the network entity, a PIoT message, the PIoT message including at least a PIoT relay command instructing the UE to communicate with the at least one PIoT device. The method also includes transmitting, based on the PIoT message, one or more signals to the at least one PIoT device in accordance with the configuration information.
US12047934B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms and algorithms for a vehicle to join a vehicle group. The vehicle may transmit a query message that includes an identifier, and includes vehicle course information. In response, the vehicle may receive an invitation message that includes a group identifier, group course information, and wireless resource information for joining a vehicle group. The vehicle may then transmit a joining request message, including the first group identifier.
US12047931B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing method, an information processing device, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving first indication information sent by a second terminal, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate that the second terminal is able to schedule a sidelink resource; a number of the second terminal is greater than or equal to 1.
US12047930B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a base station and user equipment (UE) to be in agreement on spatial quasi co-location (QCL) assumptions for transmission in certain scenarios. The techniques may be used, for example, to determine QCL assumptions for downlink transmissions sent in an initial control resource set (CORESET) on an initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) where dedicated signaling of such assumptions may be lacking. In some cases, the techniques may involve a UE determining a beam to use for monitoring for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission on the initial CORESET in the initial downlink BWP that lacks dedicated signaling of QCL information and monitoring for the PDCCH on the initial CORESET in the initial BWP using the determined beam. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12047928B2
To enable multiplexing configurations of a plurality of uplink control channels in a preferred mode in a communication system in which a base station device and a terminal device communicate with each other. A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to selectively switch between a first physical channel and a second physical channel in which both conditions of the number of symbols and the number of resource blocks are different from each other and which are allocated during a predetermined period in a time direction to transmit control information to a base station.
US12047921B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE receives first information and second information, and receives a first radio signal in a first time interval. The first information and the second information are used for determining a first parameter and a second parameter respectively, the first parameter and the second parameter are used for multi-antenna related receptions respectively; the second parameter is used for a reception of a second radio signal; if a time-domain resource occupied by the second radio signal comprises the first time interval, the second parameter is used for a reception of the first radio signal, otherwise, the first parameter is used for a reception of the first radio signal. The disclosure can solve the conflict of beam scheduling and increase the flexibility of beam scheduling.
US12047914B2
Disclosed are embodiments for a request and response signaling between first and second user equipment (UE) via a PC5 link for configuring inter-UE coordination. In some embodiments, request signaling entails a first UE identifying a transmit resource pool of the first UE to be sensed or evaluated by the second UE; instructing the second UE to report information indicating a quantity of resources; and instructing the second UE to evaluate the resources to be reported. In other embodiments, response signaling entails a first UE receiving from the second UE a request signal for inter-UE coordination; indicating a set of one or more resources, in which the set is indicated as corresponding to whitelist, blacklist, or collision list; and providing a validity time for resources indicated.
US12047909B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for controlling a mode of operation of a wireless device. A method in a base station comprises receiving, from a core network node, a first indication of a level of pending signalling or user plane data to be transmitted to the wireless device; and based on the first indication, controlling the mode of operation of the wireless device.
US12047904B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for resolving aliasing ambiguities produced when using channel state information reference signal, a sounding reference signal (SRS) or other transmission as a positioning reference signal (PRS) occupying a subset of tones of a PRS bandwidth. The aliasing ambiguity results in a plurality of different possible positioning measurements, such as time of arrival (TOA), reference signal timing difference (RSTD), or reception to transmission difference (Rx−Tx). The aliasing ambiguity may be resolved using a previous position estimate that may be used to produce an approximation of the expected positioning measurement. A position estimate may be generated using a multiple stage PRS configuration, in which one or more stages provide a coarse position estimate that has no ambiguity, which can be used to resolve the ambiguity of a more accurate position estimate resulting from the PRS signal.
US12047900B2
A wireless terminal station device, a plurality of wireless base station devices, and a positioning request device are included, the wireless terminal station device makes a positioning request including identification information of its own device to the positioning request device via the wireless base station device to which the wireless terminal station device belongs among the plurality of wireless base station devices, the positioning request device receives the positioning request from the wireless terminal station device, specifies the wireless base station device to which the wireless terminal station device belongs on the basis of the identification information of the wireless terminal station device, transmits a positioning instruction and the identification information of the wireless terminal station device to the specified wireless base station device, and receives a result of positioning of the wireless terminal station device from the wireless base station device, and the wireless base station device performs positioning of the wireless terminal station device corresponding to the received identification information and transmits the result of the positioning to the positioning request device. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain agreement of an owner and perform positioning of a terminal device without installing hardware or an application for measuring a geographical position in the terminal device.
US12047879B2
An application processor and a system on chip (SoC) that incorporates the application processor are provided. The application processor includes a first core configured to process first data per unit time, a second core configured to process second data larger than the first data per unit time, and a lookup table configured to determine whether to activate the first core or the second core based on at least one of an analysis result of a message signal received by a communications processor, a sensing signal supplied to the application processor and a power level supplied to the communications processor.
US12047876B2
A wireless transceiver having radios which radios that support wireless communications with associated stations on a corresponding wireless local area network (WLAN). The wireless transceiver also includes: a utilization monitoring circuit, an association targeting circuit, and a power backoff circuit. The utilization monitoring circuit monitors communications between each of the radios and its associated stations. The association targeting circuit identifies, from the monitored communications of the utilization monitoring circuit, an underutilized one of the radios as a target radio for re-associating stations currently associated with at least one other radio and initiates the re-association with the target radio of the stations currently associated with the at least one other radio. The power backoff circuit reduces power to the at least one other radio.
US12047874B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes reporting, to a base station, a requested downlink code block mapping, which has a defined duration. The method also includes receiving a first code block from the base station during the defined period of time. The method further includes receiving a second code block from the base station during the period of time. The method further includes decoding the first code block with a first demodulator according to the code block mapping. The method still further includes decoding the second code block with a second demodulator, which is different from the first demodulator, according to the code block mapping.
US12047871B2
Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. In other words, ANQP allows a network terminal to request additional network information prior to establishing network capability. The additional network information that may be discoverable includes network latency, cellular capabilities, hotspot capabilities, mobility capabilities, neighbor reports, station identification, and multiple hotspot session identification.
US12047867B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point an unsolicited unique identifier response that comprises a unique identifier from the station. The station provides the unsolicited unique identifier response to the access point after a secure connection is established between the access point and the station such that the unsolicited unique identifier response is sent via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may provide different features a station or allow or disallow access to a service or a feature depending upon the unsolicited unique identifier response received from the station.
US12047866B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request.
US12047862B2
A server determines, for each of a plurality of repeaters, a terminal apparatus to be connected, and a connection order in which a plurality of repeaters connect to the terminal apparatuses to be connected, based on a latest upload time of each detection data generated by the plurality of terminal apparatuses, and identification information of a plurality of terminal apparatuses, so that detection data is preferentially acquired from a terminal apparatus that generated detection data of which the upload time is early in the information processing system. When each of the plurality of repeaters receives, from the server, the identification information of the terminal apparatus to be connected and the connection order information thereof, the plurality of repeaters connects to the terminal apparatuses to be connected according to the order indicated by the connection order information, and acquire detection data therefrom.
US12047861B2
A communication system includes gateways and a network server. Each gateway includes a data transmission/reception unit that transmits data to a base station, a connectivity confirmation unit that transmits a result of confirming connectivity with another gateway to the network server, a data transfer unit that transfers data to an unspecified gateway when a communication failure occurs, and a hopping communication unit that processes transfer data based on a hopping rule. The network server includes a data reception unit, a connectivity confirmation result reception unit, and a hopping rule distribution unit that generates and distributes the hopping rule based on a criterion for giving a priority to a transfer from the gateway camping on a different base station.
US12047855B2
A method for an aerosol delivery device, may include storing, during use of the aerosol delivery device and in a memory of the aerosol delivery device, information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device. The method may further comprise creating, using a wireless communication interface of the aerosol delivery device, a connectionless-state advertising packet that includes information relating to an identity and advertising state of the aerosol delivery device and a first set of information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device from the memory; and transmitting the advertising packet via the wireless communication interface. The method may further comprise receiving a connectionless-state request packet from a remote wireless device, via the wireless communication interface; and responsive to receiving the request packet, creating, using the wireless communication interface, a connectionless state response packet that that includes a second set of information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device from the memory.
US12047854B2
A bluetooth communication method includes: a first communication device establishing bluetooth connection with a second communication device, wherein the first communication device is configured to execute multiple tasks; the first communication device communicating with the second communication device through the bluetooth connection, to allocate at least one task of the multiple tasks to the second communication device for execution; and the first communication device receiving an execution result of the at least one task from the second communication device through the bluetooth connection.
US12047852B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed that identify a motor vehicle operation and whether a driver is operating a mobile device. One example of operation may include a method that includes receiving vehicle data based on active operation of a vehicle and compiling a candidate driver identification profile (DIP) based on the received vehicle data. The method may also include comparing the candidate DIP to a pre-stored DIP and determining a match between the candidate DIP and the pre-stored DIP. The method may also include applying a restriction to a mobile station operated by a driver of the vehicle responsive to the match determination.
US12047850B2
A method of determining a relative elevation of a work machine. The method includes receiving a first pressure reading from a first pressure sensor coupled to a chassis of a work machine and receiving a second pressure reading from a second pressure sensor. The method also includes calculating a first relative elevation of the chassis of the work machine relative to the second pressure sensor by comparing the first pressure reading to the second pressure reading.
US12047846B2
Disclosed are techniques for using ranging signals to determine a position of a pedestrian user equipment (P-UE). In an aspect, a UE receives a plurality of ranging signals transmitted by one or more UEs, measures one or more properties of each of the plurality of ranging signals, and calculates an estimate of the position of the P-UE based on the one or more properties of each of the plurality of ranging signals. In an aspect, the P-UE transmits a plurality of ranging signals, receives a first message and a second message from first and second vehicle UEs (V-UEs), the first and second messages including first and second estimated positions of the P-UE and associated first and second confidences, and calculates an estimate of the position of the P-UE based on the first estimated position, the first confidence, the second estimated position, the second confidence, or a combination thereof.
US12047844B2
An entity in a wireless network is configured to increase transmission of a positioning reference signal (PRS) at each of a plurality of transmitters, where the increase in transmission of PRS at each of the plurality of transmitters is coordinated to avoid interference to or from non-PRS transmission in the wireless network. The increase in the transmission of PRS may be performed by a server, such as a location management function (LMF) or location management component (LMC), a base station, such as a gNB, ng-eNB, or eNB, or by a combination of the server and base station. The entity may determine the increase in transmission of the PRS in response to location requests for a plurality of user equipments (UEs), notification reports from a plurality of base stations, or requests for increased PRS from a plurality of UEs.
US12047841B2
A wireless sensing system uses heartbeat signals to monitor locations and usage information for assets. Heartbeat signals are signals transmitted periodically. However, in fast-paced environments, assets may move too quickly for heartbeat signals to provide useful information. In these and other scenarios, the wireless sensing system receives a first set of data describing signal strength between a tape node associated with an asset and a first node associated with a first portion of an area and a second set of data describing signal strength between the tape node associated with the asset and a second node associated with a second portion of the area. Based on relative signal strengths described by the received data, the wireless sensing system determines a path of the tape node associated with the asset.
US12047826B2
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The eNB may receive, from a mobility management entity (MME), a path switch trigger message that indicates an identifier of an eRelay UE for a relay arrangement for an eRemote UE. The eNB may determine whether the eRelay UE is served by the eNB. The eNB may, if it is determined that the eRelay UE is served by the eNB, transmit a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message to the eRemote UE. The RRC connection reconfiguration message may indicate a switch from a direct communication to an indirect communication between the eRemote UE and the eNB. The indirect communication may be through the eRelay UE in accordance with the relay arrangement.
US12047825B2
A handover control method according to a first aspect is a method for performing conditional handover of user equipment from a source cell to which the user equipment is connected to a target cell. The handover control method includes receiving, by the user equipment, from the source cell, a handover command for the conditional handover, detecting, by the user equipment, connection failure after receiving the handover command, and transmitting, by the user equipment, to a cell to which the user equipment is connected, a report message including information regarding the connection failure in the conditional handover.
US12047821B2
Systems and methods for ultra reliable reporting of secondary cell group (SCG) measurements to a secondary node (SN) used in multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) operation that specifically account for the possibility of SCG special cell (SpCell) degradation are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may establish a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 3 with the SN. The UE may then identify that a handover condition (which may be associated with SCG SpCell degradation) for the SCG SpCell is met, and accordingly send an SCG measurement report over each of the SRB3 and an SRB1 between the UE and a master node (MN) used in the MR-DC operation. Such information received at the MN is forwarded to the SN. Accordingly, the reception of SCG measurement reports (to enable handover to a new SpCell by the SN) is not solely dependent messages on the SpCell of the SCG alone (using SRB3), improving reliability.
US12047809B2
A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a protocol data unit (PDU) for fast and reliable retransmission of a service data unit (SDU) after maximum retransmission is provided. Upon determining that a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission of a first PDU including a specific SDU is unsuccessful, a wireless device constructs a second PDU including the first SDU which is prioritized to be included in the second PDU.
US12047804B2
A method of controlling a data transmission and a device thereof are provided. According to the method, a data sender acquires QoS control information, and controls a data transmission according to QoS control information. In the case that the data sender is a UE, the network side device sends the QoS control information to the UE, so that the UE may control the data transmission according to the QoS control information and may perform the corresponding control onto the data transmission.
US12047794B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, the described techniques provide for configuring sidelink beam failure detection reference signals for determining beam failures on a sidelink between a first sidelink user equipment (UE) and a second sidelink UE. The first UE may determine a first set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals to transmit to the second UE and a second set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals to receive from the second UE. The first UE may transmit the first set to the second UE using a set of sidelink transmit beams. The first UE may further monitor for the determined second set using a set of sidelink receive beams. Based on the first and second set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals, the first and second UE may communicate over the sidelink.
US12047791B2
A method of determining a monitoring result and a terminal are provided. The method of determining the monitoring result, performed by a terminal, includes: determining, in a case that processes of one or more reference states are running, whether a process of a target reference state satisfies a preset condition according to a monitoring configuration parameter of a reference state; determining a monitoring result corresponding to the target reference state in a case that a process of the target reference state satisfies the preset condition; wherein the reference state includes: Radio Link Monitor RLM and/or Beam Failure Detection BFD.
US12047789B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A relay node may determine a channel status for each of a plurality of downlink beamforming directions between a parent node and the relay node based at least in part on a downlink beamforming direction between the relay node and a child node. The relay node may transmit a report to the parent node indicating at least a subset of the channel statuses and an indication that a respective downlink beamforming direction of the plurality of downlink beamforming directions corresponds to a respective channel status in the subset of the channel statuses. The relay node may receive a grant from the parent node indicating a first downlink beamforming direction. The relay node may monitor for a downlink transmission from the parent node based at least in part on the grant and the first downlink beamforming direction.
US12047774B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless wide area (WWA) access network and an enterprise private WWA access network. In one example, a method is provided that may include generating, by an authentication node, authentication material for a user equipment (UE) based on the UE being connected to a public WWA access network, wherein the public WWA access network is associated with a mobile network operator, and the authentication node and the UE are associated with an enterprise entity; obtaining, by the authentication node, an indication that the UE is attempting to access a private WWA access network associated with the enterprise entity; and providing, by the authentication node, the authentication material for the UE, wherein the authentication material facilitates connection establishment between the UE and the private WWA access network.
US12047773B2
A system for implicit authentication for a mobile device associated with a user, wherein the implicit authentication is behavioral, biometric and task-based and includes at least one authentication task selected so as to leverage the user's muscle memory. The mobile device comprises a touchscreen; a transaction authentication information unit; one or more sensors coupled to the transaction authentication information unit; and an anomaly detector coupled to the transaction authentication information unit. The sensors comprise one or more touchscreen sensors coupled to the touchscreen, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope, and are used to obtain and transmit one or more sets of data to the transaction authentication information unit. The sets of data are associated with one or more performances of the authentication task by the user. The anomaly detector generates an authentication model using the one or more data sets transmitted to the transaction authentication information unit.
US12047771B2
The present disclosure proposes method and systems for establishing secure communication session (s) between a first device and a second device, where the first device operates in a user network and implements a first key exchange protocol for secure communication. The second device is capable of communicating with the first device over a wireless communication network. The second device implements a second key exchange protocol that is different to the first key exchange protocol for secure communication. A proxy entity configured for implementing the first and the second key exchange protocols for secure communication is provided. The proxy entity is configured for generating and/or provisioning one or more session keys for the first and the second devices using the key exchange protocols specific to each device for establishing secure communication between the first and second device based on the generated session key(s).
US12047769B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a wireless device may modify a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) generation and attachment operation based on a secret key to support enhanced security. In some examples, a first device may identify a set of data to transmit to a second device and prior to transmitting the set of data, the first device and the second device may obtain a set of key bits for data protection. The first device may generate a bit vector based on a subset of the set of key bits and a cyclic redundancy check polynomial. The transmitting device may then generate an encoded codeword based on the bit vector and transmit the encoded codeword to the second wireless device. The second device may decode the encoded codeword and obtain the set of data based on the set of key bits.
US12047767B2
An apparatus may be configured to: obtain media content, wherein the media content comprises at least one audio content; obtain priority content information, the priority content information comprising a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one audio content; determine to at least partially reduce rendering of the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on a quota associated with the priority identification of the at least one audio content; and render the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on the priority content information and the determining.
US12047764B2
An example device includes a memory configured to store a plurality of representations of a soundfield, each representation of the soundfield comprising a different set of ambisonic coefficients representative of the same soundfield at concurrent periods of time. The device also includes a processor, coupled to the memory, and the processor is configured to perform audio playback based on a field of view and on a particular representation of the soundfield from the plurality of representations.
US12047757B2
A method may include measuring a physical quantity associated with a load driven by an amplifier, generating a windowing function having a variable length and based on a number of samples of the physical quantity to be processed, applying the windowing function to the physical quantity, performing a transform on the physical quantity as filtered by the windowing function, and determining a characteristic of the load based on the transform.
US12047756B1
A system efficiently selects at least one device from multiple devices based on received audio signals. In some instances, the system receives audio signals from devices that each comprise at least one microphone. A respective audio signal of the audio signals includes a representation of a sound originating from a location. The system then determines a device to be used to respond to the sound. In some instances, the system analyzes times in which the received audio signals that represent the sound are generated and/or volumes of the sound as represented by the received audio signals. The system can then select the device based on the analysis.
US12047751B2
A method for determining microphone position is a method for determining positions of a plurality of microphones in a microphone array having the plurality of microphones arranged in a plurality of concentric circles. The method for determining microphone position includes a constraint condition acquiring step of acquiring constraint conditions including the maximum number of the plurality of microphones; and a selecting step of selecting, from among a plurality of combinations of (i) the number of microphones included in each of the plurality of concentric circles and (ii) the radius of each of the plurality of concentric circles, a combination indicating directional characteristics with the smallest difference from a target value of the directional characteristics of the microphone array, where the plurality of combinations satisfy the constraint conditions.
US12047743B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, and at least one vibration module on a rear surface of the display panel, the at least one vibration module including a piezoelectric composite layer including a plurality of sub-modules configured to vibrate the display panel, each of the plurality of sub-modules including: a plurality of first portions including a piezoelectric characteristic, and a plurality of second portions having flexibility, each of the plurality of second portions being between a respective pair of the plurality first portions, wherein the plurality of first portions in the respective sub-modules are arranged in a same direction or are partially arranged in different directions.
US12047739B2
Presented herein are techniques to generate a stereo sound signal based on direction of arrival of sound signals. A method includes receiving sound signals at a microphone, outputting a mono sound signal from the microphone, determining a direction of arrival of the sound signals with respect to the microphone, generating, from the mono audio signal, a stereo sound signal having a first channel and a second channel, wherein an amplitude of the first channel and an amplitude of the second channel are weighted, respectively, based on the direction of arrival of the sound signals at the microphone.
US12047738B1
A directivity pattern control (DPC) waveguide for a speaker is disclosed. The DPC waveguide comprises a body and first, second, and third drivers secured to the body. The body comprises a substantially planar portion having a planar surface, a waveguide portion having a waveguide surface contiguous with the flat surface, a first driver aperture at least substantially formed by the planar portion, a second driver aperture at least substantially formed by the planar portion, and a third driver aperture formed by the waveguide portion. The first driver propagates sound toward the first driver aperture, the second driver propagates sound toward the second driver aperture, and the third driver propagates sound toward the third driver aperture. The third driver is in a plane along an axis different than a plane for the first driver and the second driver. Also disclosed is a speaker including the DPC waveguide.
US12047737B2
The present disclosure discloses an acoustic output apparatus. The acoustic output apparatus may include an acoustic driver. The acoustic driver may include a diaphragm and a magnetic circuit structure. A front side of the acoustic driver may be formed at a side of the diaphragm away from the magnetic circuit structure. A rear side of the acoustic driver may be formed at a side of the magnetic circuit structure away from the diaphragm. The diaphragm may vibrate to cause the acoustic driver to radiate sound outward from the front side and the rear side of the acoustic driver. The acoustic output apparatus may further include a housing structure configured to carry the acoustic driver. One side of the front side and the rear side of the acoustic driver may form a cavity with the housing structure. The side of the acoustic driver forming the cavity may radiate the sound towards the cavity, and the other side of the acoustic driver may radiate the sound towards outside of the acoustic output apparatus.
US12047733B1
A coaxial speaker includes a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system includes a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil. The magnetic circuit system includes a transmission cavity, an inner magnetic gap, and an outer magnetic gap. The inner magnetic gap includes a first magnetic gap and a second magnetic gap. The transmission cavity penetrates through the magnetic circuit system. The vibrating diaphragm includes a first vibrating diaphragm, a second vibrating diaphragm, and a third vibrating diaphragm. The third vibrating diaphragm and the first vibrating diaphragm reversely vibrate. The first vibrating diaphragm and the third vibrating diaphragm seal the transmission cavity. The voice coil includes a first voice coil, a second voice coil, and a third voice coil. The coaxial speaker effectively reduces sound leakage of a front receiver during working, and realizes a private call function.
US12047731B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a communication device that includes a microphone configured to detect an acoustic signal from an acoustic environment, and a processor, configured to detect an acoustical dampening between the acoustic environment and the microphone, based on a change in a characteristic of the acoustic signal and, responsive to the acoustical dampening, apply a compensation filter to the acoustic signal to form a compensated acoustic signal that is reproduced. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12047730B2
The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker may include: a support connector configured to contact a head of a human; at least one loudspeaker component including an earphone core and a housing for accommodating the earphone core, wherein the housing is fixedly connected to the support connector and has at least one key module; a control circuit or a battery that is contained in the support connection, wherein the earphones core is driven by the control circuit or the battery to vibrate to generate sound. The sound includes at least two resonance peaks. The loudspeaker apparatus may optimize the transmission efficiency of the sound, increase sound volume, and improve user experience.
US12047727B2
An electrostatic transducer including a membrane, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed parallel to the membrane. The membrane is configured to respond mechanically to a varying first electric field in accordance with respective electric potentials applied between the first electrode and the membrane. The second electrode is disposed parallel to the membrane opposite from the first electrode. The membrane is configured to respond mechanically to a varying second electric field in accordance with respective electric potentials between the second electrode and the membrane. The first and second electrodes have through holes configured for acoustic transmission to and from the membrane. The housing includes: (i) a nozzle configured for acoustic transmission from the membrane through the holes of the first electrode to an ear canal and (ii) an aperture configured to provide acoustic transmission through the holes of the second electrode between the membrane and air external to the housing.
US12047723B2
Aspects describe a raised feature to help a user remove an in-ear audio output device from a case. Aspects describe a device comprising an earbud housing shaped to fit in a concha of an ear of a wearer of the device, and a body coupled to the earbud housing, the body extending away from an ear canal of the wearer and oriented outside of the ear when the device is worn, the body comprising a top cap comprising a flat external portion and a raised feature proximate to a concha cymba of the wearer and external to the ear when the device is worn.
US12047720B2
A cradle includes a main body having a seating portion in which an earbud is seated, a folder body capable of being converted between a closed state and an opened state of the seating portion, and a hinge portion configured to couple the folder body to the main body, wherein the hinge portion includes a first hinge coupled to the main body, a second hinge coupled to the folder body, a shaft extending through the first hinge and the second hinge, a first magnet coupled to the first hinge, and a second magnet coupled to the second hinge or to the folder body, and wherein the first magnet and the second magnet maintain a repulsive force therebetween while the folder body is converted into the opened state from the closed state. The semi-automatic opening structure of the cradle is simplified so as to simplify the manufacturing process and reduce manufacturing costs.
US12047713B2
Various embodiments concern video patient monitoring with detection zones. Various embodiments can comprise a camera, a user interface, and a computing system. The computing system can be configured to perform various steps based on reception of a frame from the camera, including: calculate a background luminance of the frame; monitor for a luminance change of a zone as compared to one or more previous frames, the luminance change indicative of patient motion in the zone; and compare the background luminance to an aggregate background luminance, the aggregate background luminance based on the plurality of frames. If the background luminance changed by more than a predetermined amount, then the aggregate background luminance can be set to the background luminance, luminance information of the previous frames can be disregarded, and motion detection can be disregarded.
US12047702B2
A delta image sensor comprising an arrangement of pixels and acquisition circuits corresponding to at least one pixel. Each acquisition circuit includes a sensor circuit comprising a photosensor to generate a sensor signal, VSIG, depending on a light signal illuminating the photosensor; at least one analogue to digital conversion, A/D, circuit configured to convert a current VSIG to a digital signal; at least one digital storage circuit configured to store a representation of at least one digital signal corresponding to a previous VSIG; a digital comparison circuit configured to compare the level of the stored representation with the current VSIG to detect whether a changed level is present; and a digital output circuit configured to generate an event output when the level has changed. The repeat rate of the analogue to digital conversion is chosen from one or more repeat rates corresponding to modulation of the light signal.
US12047701B2
Solid-state imaging elements are disclosed. In one example, an upstream circuit sequentially generates a predetermined reset level and a signal level corresponding to an exposure amount, and causes first and second capacitive elements to hold the reset level and the signal level. A selection circuit sequentially connects one of the capacitive elements to a predetermined downstream node, disconnects both capacitive elements from the downstream node, and connects the other capacitive element to the downstream node. A downstream reset transistor initializes a level of the downstream node when both capacitive elements are disconnected from the downstream node. A downstream circuit sequentially reads the reset level and the signal level from the first and second capacitive elements via the downstream node and outputs the reset level and the signal level.
US12047699B2
Light detecting device and electronic apparatus including shared reset and amplification transistors
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which shared pixels which share pixel transistors in a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are two-dimensionally arranged. The shared pixel transistors are divisionally arranged in a column direction of the shared pixels, the pixel transistors shared between neighboring shared pixels are arranged so as to be horizontally reversed or/and vertically crossed, and connection wirings connected to a floating diffusion portion, a source of a reset transistor and a gate of an amplification transistor in the shared pixels are arranged along the column direction.
US12047691B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels provided in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a signal processor configured to process first image data generated by the pixel array to generate a plurality of pieces of first full color image data, wherein the signal processor is further configured to split the first image data into a plurality of pieces of phase data, remosaic-process each of the plurality of pieces of phase data to generate a plurality of pieces of color phase data, merge the plurality of pieces of color phase data corresponding to a same color, respectively, to generate a plurality of pieces of preliminary color data, and compensate for the plurality of pieces of preliminary color data to generate the plurality of pieces of first full color image data.
US12047690B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing a stream of image frames captured by a camera system. When an image frame from the stream of image frames is dropped, a current camera movement is determined. A substitute image frame for the dropped image frame is generated. The substitute image frame comprises a reference to a previous image frame and includes one or more motion vectors estimated solely based on the determined current camera movement. Remaining image frames in the stream of image frames are encoded and the substitute image frame is inserted at the place of the dropped image frame in the stream of encoded image frames.
US12047676B2
A sensor system includes a camera having a first sensor configured to trigger the camera to take a photograph, a trigger device configured to couple to the camera, and a remote sensor node. The trigger device includes a heat generating member (HGM) disposed adjacent to the first sensor, a receiving node communicatively coupled to the HGM, and a housing configured to house at least one of the heat generating member and the receiving node. The remote sensor node is communicatively coupled to the receiving node, and includes a second sensor configured to detect an object in the field of view of the camera.
US12047675B2
An electronic apparatus attachable to an accessory includes a power supply unit, and a control unit for controlling the power supply unit. The electronic apparatus can transition from a normal operating state to a power-saving state that includes a first power-saving state in which a power supply switch of the electronic apparatus is turned off, and a second power-saving state in which a non-operating state continues for a predetermined time. The control unit receives first information indicating whether or not the power supply from the electronic apparatus to the accessory is requested in the first power-saving state, and second information indicating whether or not the power supply from the electronic apparatus to the accessory is requested in the second power-saving state. The control unit causes the power supply unit to supply the power in the power-saving state where the power supply is requested.
US12047665B2
An inspection device includes a small shutter in an opening of an inspection chamber, and a large shutter behind the small shutter. The small shutter has a closed state, an inward-open state, and an outward-open state. The small shutter in the inward-open or outward-open state is pushed by a workpiece and pivots inward in or outward from the inspection chamber. The large shutter has a light-shielding state, a driven state, and a stationary state. The large shutter in the light-shielding state overlaps the small shutter in the closed state and closes a clearance between the opening and the small shutter. The large shutter in the driven state is pushed by the small shutter in the inward-open state and pivots with the small shutter. The large shutter in the stationary state is separate from the small shutter in the outward-open state and at a same position as in the light-shielding state.
US12047641B2
Systems and methods are described for viewing missed media content. A media content stream is received at a user device. A first timestamp is logged, in response to determining a first failure in the receiving of the content stream, indicating when the first failure in the receiving of the content stream to the user device occurred. A second timestamp is logged, in response to determining a first restoration of the receiving of the content stream, indicating when the first restoration in the receiving of the content stream to the user device occurred. A first recorded portion of the media content stream is retrieved. The first recorded portion has a start point corresponding to the first timestamp and an end point corresponding to the second timestamp.
US12047640B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure audience exposure to media streams with a wireless isochronous data link. In one example, an apparatus includes a datastore, a network interface circuitry, and processor circuitry. The network interface circuitry obtains a first copy of audio data from a first wireless data link, the audio data transmitted from an audio source device, wherein a second copy of the audio data is transmitted, synchronously to the first copy of the audio data, to an audio sink device over a second wireless data link. The processor circuitry to instantiate data parsing circuitry to parse a media stream identifier from the first copy of the audio data and media identification assignment circuitry to assign the media stream identifier to an audio data log for the audio sink device.
US12047637B2
To provide for seamless audio, video, and contextual transitions in interactive media presentations, endpoints within the presentation are defined. The endpoints are disposed at different times within the presentation and form respective links between points in segments in the presentation. While the presentation is being played, a user interaction is received and an appropriate endpoint is selected based on the interaction. When the selected endpoint is reached, the presentation is seamlessly transitioned to the point in the segment linked to by the endpoint.
US12047632B2
An aspect of the disclosure related to methods and systems configured to detect that an item of streaming primary video content associated with a channel of scheduled streaming content is designated to be streamed to a device. Ancillary content is identified. Alternative versions of respective sections of the ancillary content are identified. Metadata corresponding to the alternative versions of ancillary content, metadata corresponding to the item of primary video content, and/or metadata corresponding to the channel are used in selecting a first section from among the alternative versions of a given section. The ancillary content, including the selected first section from among the alternative versions is streamed to the device immediately before, during, or immediately after the item of streaming video content. The alternative versions may be transcoded to generate multiple encoded iterations of respective alternative versions and the encoded versions are stored in a tree data structure.
US12047626B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining that an addressable user is subscribed to at least a first platform and a second platform that is different from the first platform, assigning an identification that maps to each of the first platform and the second platform, determining that an advertisement associated with a buyer is available to be delivered to the addressable user via the first platform, the second platform, or a combination thereof, in accordance with a first parameter associated with the addressable user and at least a second parameter associated with the first platform, the second platform, or the combination thereof, and responsive to the determining that the advertisement is available, delivering the advertisement to the addressable user in accordance with the identification. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12047621B2
An example method of mapping a plurality of modulation symbols of a plurality of physical layer pipes present in a frame to a resource grid of data cells for the frame is described. The modulation symbols of the plurality of physical layer pipes are represented by a two-dimensional array comprising the modulation symbol values for the plurality of physical layer pipes and the resource grid of data cells is represented by a one-dimensional sequentially indexed array.
US12047618B1
A first portion of a video item is transmitted using a first encoding profile. The first encoding profile is a first set of one or more first video representations of the video item having first image quality characteristics. Viewer information including at least one of a viewer quantity for the video item or a viewer playback platform distribution for the video item is receiving during transmitting the video item. A second encoding profile is determined based on the at least one of the viewer quantity or the viewer playback platform distribution. The second encoding profile is a second set of one or more second video representations of the video item having second image quality characteristics. The second image quality characteristics include a selected image quality characteristic that is not included in the first image quality characteristics. A second portion of the video item is transmitted using the second encoding profile.
US12047612B2
Methods and apparatus provide mapping functions for video encoding or decoding by replacing a pivot point of a uniformly sampled inverse mapping function by another pivot point not located on an original non-uniformly sampled inverse mapping function. In one embodiment a last pivot point of the inverse mapping function is extended based on a previous slope whose curve is plotted between two previous pivot points or based on the preservation of the slope which is dual to the existing slope of the equivalent section in the forward mapping function. Syntax is provided that assists the mapping and inverse mapping and clipping.
US12047611B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US12047609B2
An apparatus for inter prediction of a sample value of a current full-integer pixel of a plurality of pixels associated with a current block of a current frame of a video signal is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to: determine a motion vector of the current full-integer pixel based on a motion compensation model; determine for the current full-integer pixel a corresponding sub-integer pixel in a reference frame; determine positions of a set of corresponding filter support pixels in the reference frame; obtain a respective sample value of the corresponding sub-integer pixel of the current full-integer pixel and the corresponding filter support pixels in the reference frame by applying a bilinear interpolation; and determine the inter predicted sample value of the current full-integer pixel.
US12047608B2
A method performed by a decoder for decoding a bitstream comprising a picture parameter set, PPS, and a first set of slices. The method includes obtaining the picture parameter set. The method also includes decoding a syntax element included in the picture parameter set to obtain an indicator value. The decoder is configured such that if the indicator value is set to a first value then the decoder determines that a picture header included in the bitstream comprises a parameter value corresponding to a particular parameter, otherwise the decoder determines that each slice included in the first set of slices comprises a parameter value corresponding to the particular parameter. If the picture header comprises the parameter value corresponding to the particular parameter, then this parameter value is used to decode slice data of each slice included in the first set of slices.
US12047606B2
Transform kernel candidates including a vertical transform type associated with a vertical motion and a horizontal transform type associated with a horizontal motion can be encoded or decoded. During a decoding operation, a probability model for decoding encoded bitstream video data associated with a transform kernel candidate for an encoded transform block is identified based on one or both of a first transform kernel candidate selected for an above neighbor transform block of the encoded transform block or a second transform kernel candidate selected for a left neighbor transform block of the encoded transform block. The encoded bitstream video data associated with the transform kernel candidate is decoded using the probability model.
US12047603B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: dividing point cloud data into pieces of sub point cloud data by dividing a three-dimensional space into subspaces; shifting each of the pieces of sub point cloud data in accordance with a predetermined shift amount; and generating a bitstream by encoding the pieces of sub point cloud data shifted. The bitstream includes first control information common to the pieces of sub point cloud data, and pieces of second control information for each of the pieces of sub point cloud data, the first control information including first information about a shift amount of each of the pieces of sub point cloud data.
US12047600B2
A method for setting the motion vector list and the apparatus using the same may include determining the presence of a first motion vector or a second motion vector by a sequential determination process in a first spatial candidate prediction group; and setting the first motion vector or the second motion vector produced through the sequential determination process as the candidate prediction motion vector. Thus, the encoding/decoding time and the complexity can be reduced by restricting the scaling number in a process for scanning the candidate prediction motion vector.
US12047588B2
Disclosed herein is a method for adaptive bidirectional optical flow estimation for inter prediction compensation during video encoding. The method aims to reduce complexity and/or cost of bidirectional optical flow (BIO) at a pixel level or a subblock level.
US12047587B2
An encoder includes memory, and circuitry accessible to the memory. The circuitry accessible to the memory: determines whether OBMC is applicable to generation of a prediction image of a current block, according to whether BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block; when BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, determines that OBMC is not applicable to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, and applies BIO to the generation of the prediction image of the current block without applying OBMC.
US12047584B1
Methods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge flag in the prior art, a merge flag is always encoded in the encoded bit stream for each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) that is not encoded using skip mode. In some methods, in contrast to the prior art that allowed the merging candidate list to be empty, one or more zero motion vector merging candidates formatted according to the prediction type of the slice containing a PU are added to the merging candidate list if needed to ensure that the list is not empty and/or to ensure that the list contains a maximum number of merging candidates.
US12047581B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates (i) an adaptive motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode with an adaptive motion vector resolution (AMVR) mode being applied to the current block and (ii) motion information. The processing circuitry performs template matching (TM) on a plurality of MV resolutions by determining respective TM costs corresponding to each of the plurality of MV resolutions based on the plurality of MV resolutions and the motion information, reordering the plurality of MV resolutions based on the determined TM costs respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of MV resolutions, and selecting an MV resolution from the reordered plurality of MV resolutions. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the selected MV resolution.
US12047579B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring image information including chroma quantization parameter data of at least one chroma QP mapping table for chroma components, and prediction information and residual information regarding the chroma components; deriving the chroma QP mapping table on the basis of the chroma quantization parameter data; deriving a chroma quantization parameter for the chroma components on the basis of the chroma QP mapping table; deriving prediction samples for the chroma components on the basis of the prediction information; deriving residual samples on the basis of the residual information and the chroma quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples.
US12047576B2
A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for encoding/decoding video data. Video data including (1) a chroma component having a first nominal angle and a first delta angle and (2) a luma component having a second nominal angle and a second delta angle is received. An index associated with the first delta angle is parsed by an encoder and parsed by a decoder. The video data is encoded and/or decoded using intra prediction based on the parsed index.
US12047567B2
Systems and methods for applying an adaptive loop filter (ALP) in video coding are provided. The method may include determining a first rate-distortion cost of applying the adaptive loop filter on a reconstructed block. The reconstructed block includes a reconstructed version of an image block of an image frame from a video. The method may further include determining a second rate-distortion cost of not applying the adaptive loop filter on the reconstructed block. The method may additionally include determining whether to apply the adaptive loop filter for processing the reconstructed block based on the first rate-distortion cost and the second rate-distortion cost.
US12047565B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for calculating multi-pass histograms for palette table derivation are disclosed. An encoder calculates a first histogram for a first portion of most significant bits (MSBs) of pixel component values of a block of an image or video frame. Then, the encoder selects a given number of the highest pixel count bins from the first histogram. The encoder then increases the granularity of these selected highest pixel count bins by evaluating one or more additional bits from the pixel component values. A second histogram is calculated for the concatenation of the original first portion MSBs from the highest pixel count bins and the one or more additional bits, and the highest pixel count bins are selected from the second histogram. A palette table is derived based on these highest pixel count bins selected from the second histogram, and the block is encoded using the palette table.
US12047551B2
The present disclosure related generally to techniques for improving the performance and efficiency of display systems, such as laser scan beam display systems or other types of display systems (e.g., micro-displays). Display systems of the present disclosure may include a polarization compensation optic, such as a spatially varying polarizer, that provides phase retardation that varies as a function of position, which provides polarization compensation to provide light that is well suited for a polarization sensitive optic of the display system, such as a waveguide-based optical system, a pancake optical system, a birdbath optical system, a coating-based optical system, etc. The display systems of the present disclosure may be components of head-mounted display systems, or other types of display systems.
US12047545B2
An information processing apparatus saves log information related to an executed job, and includes a determination unit that determines one of at least a first mode and a second mode as a saving mode for the log information, based on setting by a user, and a saving control unit that saves log information including information about a plurality of items related to an executed job, in a case where the first mode is determined as the saving mode, and saves log information not including information about a predetermined first item and including information about a second item different from the first item, among the plurality of items related to the executed job, in a case where the second mode is determined as the saving mode.
US12047532B2
A method for automatic transmission of status information from a first communications terminal set up for speech communication to a second communications terminal set up for text communication is provided. The speech communication between communications terminals is processed over a speech communications server and the text communication between communications terminals over a text communications server. The speech communications server and the text communications server exchange messages over at least one converter device. The status information will be transmitted from the first communications terminal over the speech communications server, the converter device, and the text communications server to the second communications terminal.
US12047530B2
The disclosed system identifies international calling performance issues of a wireless telecommunication network. The system receives network traffic data for international calls including information about call attempts to a country. The system categorizes the country into a major category and a minor category based on the call attempts information. For a subset of countries, and for each key performance indicator in a subset of selected key performance indicators, the system monitors performance using an anomaly detection model to identify an anomaly in network performance, determines an actual value of the key performance indicator for the detected anomaly, and computes a variation value of the determined actual value based on a predicted range of values. The system ranks countries using the computed variation values, to indicate problematic parts of the wireless telecommunication network.
US12047519B2
Methods and endpoint nodes and controllers are disclosed for mutual authentication and key exchange. In an embodiment, physical unclonable function circuits on the endpoint nodes are used in combination with key masks to allow mutual authentication and key exchange between the endpoint nodes.
US12047502B2
A user device may determine to back up a hardware key that is associated with a hardware component of the user device. The user device may determine that the user device has an operation key. The user device may retrieve the hardware key from a first data structure that is included in the user device and may encrypt, based on the operation key, the hardware key. The user device may process, after encrypting the hardware key, the hardware key to generate a hash value and may determine that the hash value is not included in a registry of the user device. The user device may transmit, based on determining that the hash value is not included in the registry, the encrypted hardware key to a server device to cause the hardware key to be backed up in a second data structure associated with the server device.
US12047486B2
The device implements a processing pipeline having distinct circuitry for performing encryption/decryption operations and authentication operations and having state stores associated with the respective operations. The state stores store state associated with a given encryption frame, enabling the respective operations to be performed when blocks of data reach that stage in the pipeline. Due to the complexity of operations in a block cipher encryption scheme, the pipeline is deep, which provide the possibility for processing multiple data packets at any one time. The provision of the state stores at the stages in the pipeline at which they are required prevents stalling when a new data packet is received.
US12047481B1
Systems and methods for altering the character of data originating from a Virtual Private Network (VPN) are provided. First data is received from the VPN by a first network interface. The first data comprises a first plurality of packets. A message is generated by combining the first plurality of packets. Second data is generated by segmenting the message into a second plurality of packets. A third plurality of packets in the second plurality of packets is equal to the network maximum transfer unit allowed by the Internet and the last packet in the second plurality of packets is less than the network maximum transfer unit allowed by the Internet. The second data is forwarded to the second network interface. The second network interface sends the data to a webserver.
US12047479B2
A masked packet checksum is utilized to provide error detection and/or error correction for only discrete portions of a packet, to the exclusion of other portions, thereby avoiding retransmission if transmission errors appear only in portions excluded by the masked packet checksum. A bitmask identifies packet portions whose data is to be protected with error detection and/or error correction schemes, packet portions whose data is to be excluded from such error detection and/or error correction schemes, or combinations thereof. A bitmask can be a per-packet specification, incorporated into one or more fields of individual packets, or a single bitmask can apply equally to multiple packets, which can be delineated in numerous ways, and can be separately transmitted or derived. Bitmasks can be generated at higher layers with lower layer mechanisms deactivated, or can be generated lower layers based upon data passed down.
US12047476B2
A cellular conversion apparatus, system and method is disclosed and described. A cellular conversion apparatus comprises circuitry for communicating with a first local cellular device and circuitry for communicating with a second wide-area cellular system, where the first local cellular device and the second wide-area cellular system use different communication protocols.
US12047471B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing secure transaction functionality embedded into host applications executing on transaction client devices, using an integration framework and user interfaces. A transaction server may be configured to receive initial transaction sender and receiver data from an integrated software component executing within a host software application on a transaction client device. After receiving the initial transaction sender and receiver data from the integrated software component, the transaction server may determine transaction sender and transaction recipient locations, and may select a particular transaction user interface based on the sender and recipient location data. Particular transaction user interface also may be determined based on specific host applications. After determining the particular transaction user interface, the interface may be transmitted to the transaction client device, for example, via a content delivery network.
US12047470B2
Embodiments as disclosed provide a distributed caching solution that improve the performance and functionality of a content management platform for sites that are physically or logically remote from the primary site of the content management platform. In particular, according to embodiments, a remote cache server may be associated with a remote site to store local copies of documents that are managed by the primary content management platform. Periodically, a portion of the remote site's cache may be synchronized with the content management platform's primary site using an extensible architecture to ensure that content at the remote cache server is current.
US12047469B1
Placeholders are inserted and replaced in placeholders in code included in resources. A proxy receives a request for a resource from a client and verifies an authentication credential included therein. The proxy determines a placeholder value indicating the authentication credential is verified and determines the requested resource corresponds to a first modified version of the resource stored in memory accessible to the proxy, the first modified version comprising a code component including a placeholder inserted by the proxy. The proxy replaces the placeholder with a first placeholder value to generate a second modified version of the resource and transmits the second modified version of the resource to a client. In another aspect, a client-side proxy service detects events in a modified version of a web page, inserts a placeholder in code of the web page, replaces the placeholder with a placeholder value, and evaluates the modified code.
US12047454B2
System, method, and non-transitory machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive monitoring and authentication control for a premises on which a raised structure is located are disclosed. First sensor-based data received from first sensors may be processed, consequent to the first sensors detecting phenomena on or around a raised structure. A particularized specification of recognized patterns mapped to a first location may be adaptively developed, the particularized specification of the recognized patterns including recognized patterns of sensor input from the first sensors. Second sensor-based data that is based on the first sensors may be processed. A mismatch of the second sensor-based data with respect to the particularized specification of the recognized patterns mapped to the first location may be detected. Activation adjustments in operation of one or both of the first sensors and second sensors may be selectively caused, and subsequent sensor-based data may be collected based on the activation adjustment.
US12047450B1
Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a device identifier associated with a sensor device, wherein the device identifier is receivable from a location proximal to the sensor device, assigning the device identifier to a first application executing in a first network, wherein data from the sensor device is transmitted to the first application, and transmitting, to a server, an indication of the assignment of the device identifier to the first application, wherein the server stores the assignment in conjunction with a security configuration associated with the sensor device.
US12047445B2
An application interface migration method includes: receiving the recovery instruction by using a second distributed service; generating a recovery routing stack based on the page routing data, and load a first page based on the recovery routing stack and a current page routing stack; checking the UI binding data based on a declaration field corresponding to scenario information; storing the UI binding data in a shared data segment of a target application if the check succeeds; and refreshing a component view of the first page.
US12047441B2
A method for load balancing application requests across a multi-cluster container orchestration system includes receiving a load-balancing configuration for a multi-cluster service managing access to a set of destination clusters hosting a software application deployed by a user. The multi-cluster service uses the load-balancing configuration to load balance application level traffic across the set of destination clusters. Each destination cluster includes at least one container executing the software application and a respective geographical region. The method also includes receiving an application level request directed toward the software application hosted across the destination clusters. The application level request is received from a client and includes a host name and a geographical location associated with the client. The method also includes routing the request to one of the clusters based on the geographical location of the request and the respective geographical locations of the clusters.
US12047438B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for cloning a set of one or more applications implemented by a first set of machines connected through a first logical network that defines a virtual private cloud in a set of one or more datacenters. The method instantiates a cloned, second set of machines that is a replicated copy of the first set of machines. The method identifies a set of network configuration data that configures a set of logical forwarding elements (LFEs) of the first logical network. The method uses the identified set of network configuration data to define a cloned, second logical network to connect the cloned, second set of machines.
US12047433B2
A method for transmitting a model file is provided. The method includes: transmitting, in response to a target sticker triggered by a user, an algorithm acquisition request to a transmission platform of a model file, and receiving a sticker resource packet fed back by the transmission platform of the model file, where the sticker resource packet includes a target algorithm corresponding to a target sticker; determining a target model corresponding to the target algorithm according to a pre-stored correspondence table between algorithms and model files; determining whether a model file of the target model is stored locally; and transmitting a request for downloading the model file of the target model to the transmission platform of the model file, to acquire the model file of the target model, if it is determined that the model file of the target model is not stored locally.
US12047432B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for adaptively routing web traffic. A system can receive from a user computing device accessing a web resource, a content request, including data characterizing user interaction by the user computing device with the web resource before or after receiving the first content request. The system can identify a policy from a plurality of policies to execute in accordance with one or more objectives, wherein the plurality of policies are generated using data from a plurality of content requests and data characterizing user interaction with the web resource after serving a respective response to each of the plurality of content requests. The system can perform, in response to the content request, one or more actions of the ranked list of actions of the identified policy.
US12047430B2
Methods and apparatus for receiving virtual relocation during a network conference. In an embodiment, a method is provided for relocating a conference participant during a network conference. The method includes receiving a first video stream having a first background, transmitting a second video stream, and receiving a request to remove a background from the second video stream. The method also includes removing the background from the second video stream to generate a modified video stream and transmitting the modified video stream. The method also includes receiving an instruction for relocating the modified video stream within the first background and relocating the modified video stream within the first background based on the instruction.
US12047423B2
Systems, methods, and software for selecting among a plurality of IMS network slices. When an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network is partitioned into a plurality of IMS network slices, an IMS slice selection manager may be implemented at an edge of the IMS network slices. The IMS slice selection manager receives an IMS slice selection policy, and receives an IMS service request for an IMS service. The IMS slice selection manager selects an IMS network slice to provide the IMS service based on the IMS slice selection policy, and causes routing of the IMS service request to the selected IMS network slice.
US12047421B2
The continued usage of manual & static configurations as the number of network-connected devices has increased has resulted in administrative difficulties for operators and/or administrators of computer networks. To provide more automated configurations, methods, systems, and electronic devices are described that include identifying, based on received network traffic from an end electronic device, a device type of the end electronic device; and applying a network policy to subsequent network traffic between the end electronic device and network equipment (such as a switch) based on the identified device type of the end electronic device.
US12047419B2
The systems and methods to support flexible reconfiguration of a network chip by an external entity, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), while maintaining a secured environment for the chip so that it can be booted securely. Specifically, the network chip is configured to designate one or more of its networking ports to the BMC and allow the BMC to configure the designated networking ports without violating the secure areas of the network chip. To this end, the network chip is configured to allow the BMC to access a plurality of registers of the network chip via an Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) block of the network chip by issuing a plurality NC-SI compliant commands. By configuring the designated networking ports, the BMC is configured to establish a data path to a management software of a platform that includes the network chip though the designated networking ports.
US12047418B2
Presented herein is a system, device and method that involve creating a policy model and policy rule structure for a policy enforcement point to support policies adapt to rapid changing external conditions in addition to traditional policies that are static. The system facilitates the use of attributes that are either or both dynamically (at run-time) created and/or defined as ephemeral. A new policy attribute may be created dynamically (at run-time). The policy attribute may be mapped as being static or ephemeral. The methodology further involves facilitating evaluation of an attribute as an atomic or programmed set of functions.
US12047413B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided, the apparatus for identifying a set of messages of interest in a network, the apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: receive information of a plurality of sets of messages which have been exchanged by nodes in a network; select a portion of the plurality of sets of messages which have been received using a property of a source message of each set of messages of the plurality of sets of messages; generate individual first values for the nodes of each set of messages of the selected portion of the plurality of sets of messages using a property of the nodes associated with each set of messages; and identify at least one set of messages of the selected portion of the plurality of sets of messages as a set of messages of interest using the individual first values which have been generated for the selected portion of the sets of messages.
US12047406B1
Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement processing of web content for vulnerability assessments. A plurality of documents comprising web content may be obtained from multiple different web sources, and the documents may be parsed to determine a set of discrete document chunks. Parsing the documents includes determining whether a document satisfies a segmentation condition for segmenting the document into multiple discrete document chunks using a named-entity recognition system configured to segment the document based at least in part on a vulnerability identification. The discrete document chunks may be stored in a database, where vulnerability information is indexed such that each respective entry in the database corresponds to a respective vulnerability identification and a respective discrete document chunk.
US12047404B2
A method to provide secure operation of a lighting network, the lighting network comprising a lighting device arranged for illuminating an environment and a local controller for controlling the lighting device, wherein the lighting network is further controllable by an external controller, external to the lighting network, wherein the method comprises: determining a configuration status of the lighting network, analyzing the determined configuration status, switching an operational mode of the lighting network between a normal mode and a secured mode based on the analysis; wherein in the normal mode, the lighting network is operably connected to the external controller, and a light rendering function of the lighting device is being controlled by the external controller according to a predetermined set of functions, and wherein in the secured mode, the light rendering function of the lighting device is being controlled by the external controller according to a subset of the predetermined set of functions.
US12047403B2
Introduced here are security management platforms configured to identify, assess, and monitor organizational vulnerability to security threats. By monitoring netflow data regarding the traffic traversing the Internet, a security management platform can identify security threats that would otherwise go undetected. Such action can be performed instead of, or in addition to, monitoring netflow data regarding the traffic traversing a local network (also referred to as an “internal network”) associated with an organization under examination. Thus, rather than monitor the traffic leaving public-facing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses residing on the local network, the security management platform can instead monitor traffic traversing the Internet and then filter the traffic to identify flows originating from the local network, flows destined for the local network, or any combination thereof.
US12047401B2
A method for machine learning-based detection of an automated fraud or abuse attack includes: identifying, via a computer network, a digital event associated with a suspected automated fraud or abuse attack; composing, via one or more computers, a digital activity signature of the suspected automated fraud or abuse attack based on digital activity associated with the suspected automated fraud or abuse attack; computing, via a machine learning model, an encoded representation of the digital activity signature; searching, via the one or more computers, an automated fraud or abuse signature registry based on the encoded representation of the digital activity signature; determining a likely origin of the digital event based on the searching of the automated fraud or abuse signature registry; and selectively implementing one or more automated threat mitigation actions based on the likely origin of the digital event.
US12047400B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for protecting data. One system includes a plurality of data channels configured to access environmental data of a plurality of entities and one or more processing circuits communicatively coupled to the plurality of data channels, the one or more processing circuits including memory and processors configured to receive one or more cybersecurity plan offerings associated with a third-party, model the one or more cybersecurity plan offerings, monitor, using the plurality of data channels, the environmental data of the plurality of entities modeling the one or more cybersecurity plan offerings, generate a new cybersecurity incident based on detecting, from the environmental data, the new cybersecurity incident associated with an entity of the plurality of entities, and provide the new cybersecurity incident to a dashboard of the third-party.
US12047399B2
A distributed security system can include instances of a compute engine that can execute either locally in security agents on client devices or as cloud instances in a security network. Event data can be processed by elements of the distributed security system according to centrally-defined ontological definitions and/or configurations. Bounding managers of local security agents can control how much event data is sent to the security network. A storage engine in the security network can store event data received from client devices, can route event data to other elements of the security network, including cloud instances of the compute engine. An experimentation engine of the security network can also at least temporarily adjust other elements of the distributed security system during experiments or tests.
US12047396B2
A cybersecurity platform is described that processes collected data using a data model to identify and link anomalies and in order to identify generate security events and intrusions. The platform generates graph data structures using the security anomalies extended using additional data. The graph data structures represent links between nodes, the links being events, the nodes being machines and user accounts. The platform processes the graph data structures by combining similar nodes or grouping security events with common features to behaviour indicative of a single or multiple security events to identify chains of events which together represent an attack.
US12047395B2
Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform a cybersecurity investigation are to generate an information graph based on a set of information seeker tools in response to detection of a threat alert in a monitored network, and search the information graph for a reference pattern associated with a cybersecurity threat. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to detection of a portion of the reference pattern in the information graph, (i) select a first one of information seeker tools associated with a first input-output relationship capable of expanding the portion of the reference pattern to complete the reference pattern, and (ii) execute the first one of information seeker tools to complete the reference pattern associated with the cybersecurity threat.
US12047390B2
A method, system, and program product for controlling power associated with connectivity between devices is provided. The method includes scheduling a copy function associated with copying data from a production hardware device to a secure hardware device at a specified time period. A first hardware connection between the production hardware device and a production network associated with the production hardware device is disabled during the specified time period and a second hardware connection between the production hardware device and the secure hardware device is enabled. A subsequent copy function is enabled for copying the data from the production hardware device to the secure hardware device. The second hardware connection between the production hardware device and the secure hardware device is disabled after the copy function has completed. In response, the first hardware connection between the production hardware device and the production network is enabled.
US12047383B2
This disclosure describes embodiments of an improvement to the static group solution because all the administrator needs to do is specify the criteria they care about. Unlike static groups, where the administrator needs to keep track of the status of individual users and move them between static groups as their status changes, smart groups allows for automatic identification of the relevant users at the moment that action needs to be taken. This feature automates user management for the purposes of enrollment in either phishing and training campaigns. Because the smart group membership is determined as the group is about to be used for something, the smart group membership is always accurate and never outdated. The query that determines the smart group membership gets run at the time when you are about to do a campaign or perform some other action that needs to know the membership of the smart group.
US12047381B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In embodiments, a method of using a diabetes management partner interface to configure an analyte sensor system for wireless communication with a plurality of partner devices is provided. The method includes the analyte sensor system receiving authorization to provide one of the partner devices with access to a set of configuration parameters via the diabetes management partner interface. The set of configuration parameters is stored in a memory of the analyte sensor system. The method also includes, responsive to input received from the one partner device via the diabetes management partner interface, the analyte sensor system setting or causing a modification to the set of configuration parameters, according to a system requirement of the one partner device.
US12047378B2
A content transport security system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code and a database including one or more business rule(s). The processing hardware executes the software code to intercept a content file including a content asset, during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device, determine an authorization status of the destination device, and decrypt the content file, using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device. The processing hardware further executes the software code to search the content asset for a forensic identifier, assign a classification to the file transfer, based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious, and allow or block the file transfer to the destination device, based on the classification and the business rule(s).
US12047367B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive, from a given client at a single sign-on manager coupled to a database cluster comprising a plurality of databases, an access request comprising an identifier of a given one of the plurality of databases in the database cluster and single sign-on credentials for the given client to access the database cluster. The processing device is also configured to authenticate, at the single sign-on manager, the single sign-on credentials in the access request and, responsive to authenticating the single sign-on credentials in the access request, to establish a connection between the given client and the given one of the plurality of databases in the database cluster utilizing a session established between the single sign-on manager and the given one of the plurality of databases in the database cluster.
US12047365B2
A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes providing provisioning information for storage in a provisioning repository; receiving a service request from a service consumer, the service request including requestor identifying information; generating an authentication request to send to an authentication authority, the authentication request including requestor identifying information; receiving validation of an authenticated service request from the authentication authority; and providing the requested service to the service consumer.
US12047359B2
Systems and methods for secure messaging and automation are disclosed herein. An example method includes providing, by an application server layer, a user-facing application that accesses a data retention system and a predictive analytics system through a web services layer, the user-facing application being secured through use of a security token cached on a web browser that provides the user-facing application, establishing a security protocol or security token utilized between the application server layer and the web services layer that is different from the security token cached on the web browser; and performing asynchronous processing based on user interaction with a goal-based planning application that processes data from a plurality of user accounts.
US12047357B2
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a transparent and adaptable mechanism for performing secure application communications through sidecars. In an example, a set of security features is discovered by a first sidecar of a first microservice of multiple microservices of an application. The set of security features are associated with a device of multiple devices of a set of one or more host systems on which the first microservice is running. Information regarding the set of discovered security features is made available to the other microservices by the first sidecar by sharing the information with a discovery service accessible to all of the microservices. A configuration of a communication channel through which a message is to be transmitted from a second microservice to the first microservice is determined by a second sidecar of the second microservice by issuing a request to the discovery service regarding the first microservice.
US12047352B2
Methods, systems, and devices for security configurations for zonal computing architecture are described. A zonal computing system in a vehicle may be associated with multiple zones. The zonal computing system may include devices (e.g., sensors, actuators) that interact with the vehicle or an environment associated with the vehicle. A memory system included in the zonal computing system may authenticate whether a device associated with a zone is a trusted device and enable or restrict communications with the device based on the authentication. For example, the zonal computing system may include a central processor that communicates with a remote server and the multiple zones and may include a gateway processor coupled with the central processor and the device and associated with the zone. Based on whether the device is trusted, the memory system may enable or restrict communications between the central processer and the device and routed through the gateway processor.
US12047344B2
A messaging server system receives a message creation input from a first client device that is associated with a first user registered with the messaging server system. The messaging server system determines, based on an entity graph representing connections between a plurality of users registered with the messaging server system, that the first user is within a threshold degree of connection with a second that initiated a group story in relation to a specified event. The messaging server system determines, based on location data received from the first client device, that the first client device was located within a geo-fence surrounding a geographic location of the specified event during a predetermined event window, the geo-fence and event window having been designated by the second user, and causes the first client device to present a user interface element, that enables the first user to submit content to the group story.
US12047341B2
Efficiently processing unread messages is disclosed, including: determining a set of unread messages corresponding to a designated object; generating a summary message content based at least in part on the set of unread messages, wherein a summary message content size of the summary message content is less than an unread messages size of the set of unread messages; and presenting the summary message content at a user interface.
US12047333B2
The present invention is designed so that, even when communication is carried out by multiplexing a number of numerologies in the same carrier, it is still possible to communicate properly. A user terminal communicates in a radio communication system where frame structures of a plurality of numerologies are frequency-division-multiplexed, and has a receiving section that receives first information, which relates to a frame structure of a predetermined numerology, and second information, which specifies a period in which DL communication and/or UL communication are disallowed, or a period in which a specific communicating direction is configured, in the predetermined numerology, and a control section that controls DL receipt and/or UL transmission based on the first information and the second information.
US12047323B2
A method of operating a signaling radio node in a radio access network is provided. The method includes transmitting control signaling to a feedback radio node. The control signaling includes control information having a bit pattern. The bit pattern has a subpattern with M bits in which the control information pertains to feedback signaling. A number M1 of the M bits of the subpattern is assigned to represent an assignment indication, and a number M2 of the M bits of the subpattern is assigned to represent a resource indication in which M1 and M2 are determined based on a size indication pertaining to the feedback signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12047312B2
A method of two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) for sidelink transmission is described. In one novel aspect, the SCI is transmitted from a transmission UE (Tx UE) to a reception UE (Rx UE) in two stages. In one embodiment, the 1st-stage SCI carries information related to channel sensing, and is transmitted over a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The 2nd-stage SCI is transmitted over a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH. In one embodiment, the first-stage SCI includes priority information or information of time-frequency resources for the SL transmission. In another embodiment, the first-stage SCI indicates time-frequency location of the second-stage SCI.
US12047306B2
A method includes storing entries in a first first-in first-out (FIFO) buffer, each entry of the first FIFO buffer includes a respective segment of plural segments of a first data stream and timing attributes corresponding to the respective segment. The method also includes processing the respective segments in entries output from the first FIFO buffer using a first media processing task of a workflow in a network-based media processing (NBMP) system. The respective segments are processed independently from each other and the first media processing task is performed in a cloud computing environment. The method also includes generating a continuous data stream by concatenating the processed segments according to the timing attributes corresponding to the processed segments.
US12047299B2
A computer program and method for data communication in a network having a plurality of network nodes, via which method data packets are to be transferred between communication partners over protected connections, wherein the data packets originate from at least two different sending communication partners, or senders, and wherein the sending frequencies of at least two senders, at which the senders send data packets that are to be transferred over a protected connection, differ from one another, and the sending frequencies and/or variables representing same being taken into account when finding a path for the transfer of the data packets of at least one protected connection.
US12047296B2
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Internet Protocol and/or Ethernet has gained attention for datacenters. However, the sheer scale of the required RDMA networks presents a challenge. Accordingly, optical infrastructures wavelength division multiplexing within a datacenter environment have also gain attention through the wide low cost bandwidth it offers with easy expansion within this environment. However, latency is a significant issue for many applications rather than bandwidth between devices. Accordingly the inventors have established a design methodology where the network prioritises latency over bandwidth where bandwidth utilization and management offer reduced latency for such applications. Accordingly, the inventors exploit loss-tolerant RDMA architectures with quota-based traffic control, message level load balancing and a global view of virtual connections over commodity switches with simple priority queues.
US12047293B2
A packet sending method includes: A first device obtains geographical location information of the first device, and generates a first Internet Protocol version 6 IPv6 packet, where the first IPv6 packet carries the geographical location information of the first device; and the first device sends the first IPv6 packet.
US12047292B2
A medical device communication method that may be implemented within a variety of medical devices including but not limited to infusion pumps. The method may be implemented with a protocol stack for at least intra-device communication. Embodiments provide connection-oriented, connectionless-oriented, broadcast and multicast data exchange with priority handling of data, fragmentation, and reassembly of data, unique static and dynamic address assignment and hot swap capability for connected peripherals or subsystems.
US12047291B2
A packet sending method of a controller includes obtaining a forwarding latency requirement of a service flow and a destination address of the service flow; determining a forwarding path that meets the forwarding latency requirement, and determining a number of a first cycle time in which an ingress node forwards a packet and a number of a second cycle time in which an intermediate node forwards the packet; sending a first entry to the ingress node that includes a sequence number of the packet and the first cycle time number; and sending a second entry to the intermediate node that includes the sequence number of the packet and the second cycle time number.
US12047288B2
According to one embodiment, a receiving unit receives a frame from a first external communication device connected to a first communication port. First and second databases store destination determination information used to determine a second communication port to which a second external communication device is connected. A determination unit determines the second communication port by accessing destination determination information in the first database when the received frame is a first frame, and determines the second communication port by accessing destination determination information in the second database when the received frame is a second frame. The first database is accessible to the destination determination information at a higher speed than the second database.
US12047286B2
Some embodiments provide a network system. The network system includes a first set of host machines for hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network. The first set of host machines includes managed forwarding elements for forwarding data between the host machines. The network system includes a second set of host machines for hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways for forwarding data between the virtual machines and an external network. At least one of the virtualized containers peers with at least one physical router in the external network in order to advertise addresses of the virtual machines to the physical router.
US12047282B2
The method of some embodiments selects a set of links to forward packets of a data flow from an application running on a machine connected to an SD-WAN that has multiple exits. The method, based on computed sets of attributes for a first set of links and a second set of links, selects between the first set of links and the second set of links. At least the first set of links has multiple links and at least one attribute of the first set of links is an attribute that is computed by aggregating an attribute of each of the links in the first set of links. The method uses the selected set of links to forward the packets of the data flow of the application to an egress managed forwarding element of the SD-WAN.
US12047278B1
An example method of identifying an equal cost multipath (ECMP)-enabled route-based virtual private networks (RBVPN) in a virtualized computing system, comprises: obtaining, at a telemetry agent executing in an edge server of a data center, learned routes; identifying, by the telemetry agent from the routes, a destination network and a plurality of next hops associated therewith and a plurality of virtual tunnel interfaces (VTIs); identifying, by the telemetry agent for each of the plurality of VTIs, an associated VPN session; grouping, by the telemetry agent, the VPN sessions identified as associated with the plurality of VTIs into an ECMP-enabled RBVPN; adding, by the telemetry agent, a description of the ECMP-enabled RBVPN to telemetry data; and sending, by the telemetry agent, the telemetry data to a telemetry service.
US12047276B2
A method for transmitting multiple data streams of different communication services over a multipath transmission system includes: providing data to be transmitted, wherein the data to be transmitted comprises first data and second data; detecting, out of a plurality of communication services, a first communication service the first data belongs to and a second communication service the second data belongs to; mapping the first data to a first data stream and the second data to a second data stream based on the first and second detected communication services; scheduling transfer of the first data stream and the second data stream based on the first classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services; and scheduling transmission of the first data and the second data to the destination communication device based on the at least one second classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services.
US12047275B2
Methods and apparatus relating to transmission on physical channels, such as in networks on chips (NoCs) or between chiplets, are provided. One example apparatus generally includes a higher bandwidth client; a lower bandwidth client; a first destination; a second destination; and multiple physical channels coupled between the higher bandwidth client, the lower bandwidth client, the first destination, and the second destination, wherein the higher bandwidth client is configured to send first traffic, aggregated across the multiple physical channels, to the first destination and wherein the lower bandwidth client is configured to send second traffic, concurrently with sending the first traffic, from the lower bandwidth client, dispersed over two or more of the multiple physical channels, to the second destination.
US12047273B2
A control system facilitates active management of a streaming data system. Given historical data traffic for each data stream processed by a streaming data system, the control system uses a machine learning model to predict future data traffic for each data stream. The control system selects a matching between data streams and servers for a future time that minimizes a cost comprising a switching cost and a server imbalance cost based on the predicted data traffic for the future time. In some configurations, the matching is selected using a planning window comprising a number of future time steps dynamically selected based on uncertainty associated with the predicted data traffic. Given the selected matching, the control system may manage the streaming data system by causing data streams to be moved between servers based on the matching.
US12047262B2
A method includes moving one or more transmit facility or transmit facilities attached to a first component with regard to at least two receive facilities attached at a fixed position to the second component; and at least one of registering a respective error if an error condition exists for the respective receive facility or modifying an operation of an apparatus comprising the first and a second component if the error condition exists for the respective receive facility, the error condition for the respective receive facility depends on location information relating to at least one of the position of the first component with regard to the second component or orientation of the first component with regard to the second component, and/or at least one of a measure for a receive quality of the signals or data packets received from the transmit facility or from at least one of the transmit facilities.
US12047258B2
Network devices that (a) test that GPS-clock enabled network devices have synchronized clocks, (b) identify non-GPS-clock enabled network devices with symmetric latencies as likely to be synchronized to GPS-clock enabled neighbor devices, (c) determine clock skews of remaining network devices not identified in (a) or (b) against the network devices identified in (a) and (b), and re-evaluate latencies of the GPS-clock enabled network devices, the non-GPS-clock enabled network devices, and the remaining devices based on the results of (a)-(c).
US12047253B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine, in a cluster of host machines, a priority level of telemetry data collected in the cluster, at least based on a data type of the telemetry data and a tag and store the telemetry data in a storage in the cluster. In some embodiments, a quality-of-service (QoS) is associated with the priority level. In some embodiments, the storage is associated with the priority level. In some embodiments, the medium includes the instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to send the telemetry data from the storage to a server in accordance with the QoS, wherein the server is separate from the cluster.
US12047245B2
To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not delayed due to multiple requests causing one or more components to stall. In addition, each of these RIC components also has an internal architecture that is designed to operate in a non-blocking manner so that no one process of a component can block the operation of another process of the component. All of these low latency features allow the near RT RIC to serve as a high speed IO between the E2 nodes and the xApps.
US12047231B2
A system and method for configuring an intelligent electronic device (IED) from a plurality of IEDs connected in a communication network of a substation with a computing system includes a computing system communicatively connected in the communication network of the substation for transmitting a configuration of at least one application function to the IED for operating an electrical equipment in the substation. The method for configuring the IED comprises using a virtual model of the IED to generate the IED configurations through a simulation that involves a sequence prediction technique. The sequence prediction technique facilitates generating a sequence of functions arranged in an order and sequentially determining connections between at least one input and at least one output of the one or more functions that comprises the application function. The generated sequence of functions and sequence of connections constitute the IED configuration corresponding to a given application function.
US12047230B2
A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a network address type for the customer premise equipment device. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the network address type. The customer premise equipment device is provided with a network address in accordance with the network address type indicated in the message. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows what kind of address to obtain, and excessive transactions are avoided.
US12047228B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for sending event notifications. In some examples, a controller periodically sends messages concerning a status of an event corresponding to the controller. In some examples, at a first time while periodically sending the messages and in accordance with a determination that the status of the event has changed, the controller sends a message concerning data other than the status of the event. In some examples, at the first time while periodically sending the messages and in accordance with a determination that the status of the event has not changed, the controller continues to periodically send the messages without sending the message concerning data other than the status of the event.
US12047226B2
Various approaches for multi-node network cluster systems and methods. In some cases systems and methods for incident detection and/or recovery in multi-node processors are discussed.
US12047219B2
A faulted 5G/6G message may be recovered by finding the faulted message elements and altering them until the fault is corrected. Disclosed are methods to evaluate the modulation quality of each message element using multiple criteria. The receiver can determine a first quality by measuring the overall (sum-signal) amplitude and phase of each message element, and comparing to the predetermined amplitude and phase levels. The receiver can determine a second quality by separating the overall wave into orthogonal components (branches) and comparing the branch amplitudes to the predetermined levels. The receiver can determine a third quality according to the SNR of the overall signal and the two branch signals. By combining the first, second, and third quality factors, the receiver can identify the most likely faulted message elements. The receiver can then alter the worst message elements in a nested grid search to find the correct message version.
US12047218B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for maximizing use of discovery reference (DRS) resources for remaining minimum system information (RMSI) allocation. An example method includes configuring Type 0 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) CORESET monitoring to include monitoring in either a first slot or a first slot and a second slot; generating a synchronization signal block (SSB) encoding the configured PDCCH CORESET monitoring; and transmitting the SSB to a user equipment (UE) by way of a discovery reference signal (DRS).
US12047214B2
A method for reference signal generation and a communications device are provided. The method includes: in a case that indication information is received from a second communications device, performing first modulation and then discrete Fourier transform modulation on at least one of target-reference-signal sequences to generate a target reference signal, where the first modulation includes any one of the following: π/2-BPSK modulation and 8-PSK modulation, and the indication information is used to indicate that a first communications device uses the target reference signal for transmission.
US12047207B2
A communication device communicates a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical layer (PHY). The preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), an EHT-SIG-A (Extremely High Throughput Signal A Field), an EHT-STF, and an EHT-LTF, and the EHT-SIG-A includes a field indicating a standard that the radio frame complies with.
US12047191B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.
US12047184B2
Aspects relate to implementing a non-dropping rule for mini-slot based repetition of downlink channel data or control. In one example, cancelled repetition may be identified, non-cancelled remaining repetitions may be received, and acknowledgment feedback based on reception results may be generated. In another example, a plurality of time domain resource allocation (TDRA) candidate occasions may be identified where each occasion occurs within a different respective one of a plurality of mini-slots, each mini-slot carrying a different respective one of a plurality of downlink channel repetitions. A TDRA table may be maintained. The TDRA table may include TDRA entries such as location information of the plurality of TDRA candidate occasions associated with the plurality of downlink channel repetitions. The TDRA table may be maintained when at least one of the plurality of downlink channel repetitions is not decoded. A wireless communication device may refrain from dropping non-decoded downlink channel repetitions.
US12047180B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) history feedbacks are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives one or more data blocks associated with a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes. The UE may transmit an individual feedback for each of the one or more data blocks indicating whether the data block is received successfully. The UE may transmit a feedback history report for a set of HARQ processes less than all of the plurality of HARQ processes.
US12047175B2
A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises: a step of receiving configuration information related to a transmission of an SRS; and a step of transmitting the SRS. The method is characterized in that the SRS is configured in a region comprising at least one symbol excluding the last symbol of a subframe, the region comprises a certain number of guard symbols, and the guard symbols are related to at least one of frequency hopping or antenna switching of the SRS.
US12047173B2
A method and an apparatus for receiving an ACK frame in a WLAN system are proposed. Specifically, a first STA transmits a plurality of first MPDUs in a first transmitting TDD slot to a second STA. The first STA receives a first ACK frame for the plurality of first MPDUs from the second STA in a first receiving TDD slot. The first STA transmits a second MPDU to the second STA in a second transmitting TDD slot. The first STA receives a second ACK frame for the second MPDU from the second STA in a second receiving TDD slot.
US12047159B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for digital radio interference mitigation. The system includes a first interface configured to receive a first digital signal associated with a satellite ground station; a second interface configured to receive a second digital signal associated with and acquired at a radio network transceiver; and a signal processing unit connected to the first and second interfaces and configured to mitigate a radio interference associated with the second digital signal in the first digital signal. This may improve a reception of satellite ground stations, especially upon coexistence with 5G cellular services in the C-band frequency spectrum.
US12047149B2
The present disclosure provides a method in a network device for rank selection. The method includes: adjusting a rank for a transmission to or from a terminal device; and selecting a rank to be used for the transmission based on whether the transmission using the adjusted rank has been successfully received.
US12047148B2
A communication device for providing a channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a time-variant, frequency-selective MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration including a number of antenna ports, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration; and a processor. The processor estimates an explicit CSI in the frequency domain using measurements on the downlink reference signals on the radio channel, selects a Doppler-delay precoder matrix (W) for a composite Doppler-delay-beam three-stage precoder, calculates either one or more of a channel quality indicator, CQI, and/or a precoder matrix indicator, PMI, and/or a rank indicator, RI, and reports to the transmitter the CSI feedback including either one or more of the CQI, and/or the PMI and/or the RI.
US12047147B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications supporting techniques for enhanced line-of-sight (LOS) communications with analog multi-path beamforming are described. A first wireless device may receive, from a second wireless device, an indication of a capability of the second wireless device to concurrently transmit first signaling in a first analog beamforming direction using a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state corresponding to a LOS mode, and second signaling in a second analog beamforming direction using a second TCI state corresponding to an indirect LOS mode. The first wireless device may then receive, from the second wireless device, a first downlink message in the first analog beamforming direction using the first TCI state concurrently with a second downlink message in the second analog beamforming direction using the second TCI state.
US12047135B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information about a downlink (DL) transmission transmitted from NRRH>1 RRHs, wherein: NRRH=number of remote radio heads (RRHs), RRH r comprises a group of antenna ports, and r=1, . . . , NRRH; receiving the DL transmission; and decoding the information about the DL transmission; wherein the DL transmission is based on a scheme that is a combination of a precoding scheme and a diversity scheme, wherein the precoding scheme corresponds to applying an intra-RRH precoder component to antenna ports within an RRH, and wherein the diversity scheme corresponds to applying an inter-RRH diversity component to antenna ports across RRHs.
US12047122B2
A transmitting circuit, which includes a power amplifier, a processing circuit, and a signal strength indicator circuit. The power amplifier is configured to amplify an input signal according to a power gain of the power amplifier to generate an output signal. The processing circuit is configured to adjust the power gain according to an indicating signal. The signal strength indicator circuit has a plurality of power detection ranges. The signal strength indicator circuit is configured to uses one of the plurality of power detection ranges to detect a power of the output signal to generate the indicating signal.
US12047119B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing a bi-directional data communication link within a LIDAR assembly that has a stationary portion attached to an autonomous vehicle and a second portion rotatably connected to the stationary portion. The second portion may include one or more emitting/receiving devices (e.g., lasers) for detecting objects surrounding the autonomous vehicle. A first printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a first optical transceiver may be located within the stationary portion. A second PCBA having a second optical transceiver may be located within the second portion. A hollow shaft may be positioned so as to extend between the stationary portion and the second portion.
US12047115B2
First transmission device includes a first counter that generates counter value incremented in a specified cycle. Second transmission device includes a second counter that generates counter value incremented in the specified cycle. Polarization variation monitoring device acquires a first counter value generated by the first counter and a second counter value extracted by the first transmission device from a received frame transmitted from the second transmission device when the first transmission device detects polarization variation, and a third counter value generated by the second counter and a fourth counter value extracted by the second transmission device from a frame transmitted from the first transmission device when the second detector detects the polarization variation. The polarization variation monitoring device determines an occurrence position of the polarization variation based on the first counter value, the second counter value, the third counter value and the fourth counter value.
US12047109B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a lens frame configured to accommodate a display member and including a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, wearing member including a first wearing member connected to the first end and a second wearing member connected to the second end, antenna structure including a first antenna structure disposed within the first wearing member and a second antenna structure disposed within the second wearing member, connecting member including a first connecting member at least partially disposed within the first wearing member, a second connecting member at least partially disposed within the second wearing member and electrically connected to the second antenna structure, and a third connecting member disposed within the lens frame and electrically connected to the first connecting member and the second connecting member, and a communication module disposed within the first wearing member, electrically connected to the first antenna structure, and electrically connected to the second antenna structure via the connecting member.
US12047105B2
A radio system comprises a radio transmitter apparatus and a radio receiver apparatus. The radio transmitter apparatus is configured to transmit a continuous-wave radio-frequency signal having a first frequency. The radio receiver apparatus comprises: an antenna for receiving the continuous-wave radio-frequency signal; a local oscillator for generating a periodic signal at a second frequency which differs from the first frequency by a frequency offset; a mixer for mixing the received continuous-wave radio-frequency signal with the periodic signal to generate a down-mixed signal; and a processor or other circuitry configured to generate frequency-offset data from the down-mixed signal, wherein the frequency-offset data is representative of an estimate of the frequency offset. The processor or other circuitry is configured to use the frequency-offset data to generate DC-offset data representative of an estimate of a DC offset component of the down-mixed signal.
US12047100B2
Systems and methods for digital predistortion (DPD) are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a digital front-end circuit includes a DPD block, power amplifier, and transmitter. The DPD block is configured to receive an input signal and to provide a first output signal, and includes a nonlinear model that is configured to generate a nonlinear model output signal based upon the input signal. The DPD block additionally includes a first mixing module that is configured to generate a mixing module output signal based upon the input signal and the nonlinear model output signal. The DPD block further includes a summation block that is configured to generate the first output signal at least in part as a first sum of the nonlinear model output signal and the mixing module output signal, and the first mixing module includes a plurality of first finite impulse response (FIR) filters.
US12047094B2
Disclosed are a decoding method and a decoding device. In the method, a received sequence and a generator matrix are processed to obtain a hard-decision information sequence and a hard-decision codeword; an error pattern is determined according to the hard-decision information sequence and the hard-decision codeword; then, the error pattern is post-processed and an optimal decoding sequence is output as a decoding result, wherein the optimal decoding sequence is a decoding sequence with a minimized Euclidean distance. According to the present disclosure, the complexity of the algorithm is reduced while the effective decoding performance can be ensured.
US12047087B2
An AD converter includes: an accumulation conversion unit that performs a comparison of magnitudes of an input voltage V2 and an accumulated voltage V1 obtained by accumulating a unit voltage and outputs a comparison signal representing a result of the comparison; an accumulation comparison determination unit that repeatedly compares an accumulated voltage V1, obtained by repeating the comparison until the comparison signal changes and corresponding to an accumulated voltage V1 at which the comparison signal changes, and the input voltage V2 a predetermined number of times to determine an equivalent-state accumulation number in which a state probability that the comparison signal changes is equal to a threshold; and a control unit that determines conversion data of the input voltage using the equivalent-state accumulation number.
US12047071B1
In a timing signal generator having a resonator, one or more temperature-sense circuits generate an analog temperature signal and a digital temperature signal indicative of temperature of the resonator. First and second temperature compensation signal generators to generate, respectively, an analog temperature compensation signal according to the analog temperature signal and a digital temperature compensation signal according to the digital temperature signal. Clock generating circuitry drives the resonator into mechanically resonant motion and generates a temperature-compensated output timing signal based on the mechanically resonant motion, the analog temperature compensation signal and the digital temperature compensation signal.
US12047069B2
A parallel-to-serial conversion circuit includes: parallel branches, each including first input end, second input end, control ends and output end, where the first input end is configured to receive high level signal, the second input end is configured to receive low level signal, the control ends are connected to selection unit and the output end is connected to a serial wire, and the selection unit is configured to receive selection signal and at least two branch signals, and is configured to select, based on the selection signal, one of the branch signals and transmit a selected branch signal to the parallel branch; the serial wire, configured to organize signals output by the parallel branches into a serial signal; and a drive unit, connected to the serial wire for enhancing drive capability of the serial wire, where an output end of the drive unit is configured to output the serial signal.
US12047068B2
The present disclosure relates to a structure including a level shifter circuit which receives an input signal and at least one voltage reference signal and outputs at least one level shifted output signal, a pre-driver circuit which receives the at least one level shifted output signal and outputs at least one pre-driver output signal, the pre-driver circuit including at least one delay circuit, and a main driver circuit which receives the at least one pre-driver output signal and outputs a main driver output signal.
US12047065B2
A touch-based control device is operable to detect touch input over an entirety of the control device's exterior, including at regions of an exterior panel that (i) overlay portions of a circuit board where no touch sensors exist, and/or (ii) extend beyond a perimeter of a touch region or circuit board on which touch sensors are provided.
US12047064B2
The invention relates to an arrangement (10) for a capacitive sensor device (20) of a vehicle (1), in particular for control and/or evaluation at the capacitive sensor device (20) for detecting an activating action at the vehicle (1), comprising at least one sensor electrode (20.1) for sensing a change in a vicinity of the vehicle (1), a transmission arrangement (30) for a frequency- and/or phase-dependent transmission of an electrical input signal (E) and an output of an output signal (A), an output (30.2) of the transmission arrangement (30), which is electrically connected to the sensor electrode (20.1) to output the output signal (A) at the sensor electrode (20.1) for performing the sensing, wherein the transmission arrangement (30) comprises a controlled source device (30.3) to output the output signal (A) as a guided electrical signal at the sensor electrode (20.1) depending on the frequency- and/or phase-dependent transmission of the input signal (E).
US12047055B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to quartz crystal devices and more particularly to quartz crystal devices configured to vibrate in torsional mode. In one aspect, a quartz crystal device configured for temperature sensing comprises a fork-shaped quartz crystal comprising a pair of elongate tines laterally extending from a base region in a horizontal lengthwise direction of the fork-shaped quartz crystal. Each of the tines has formed on one or both of opposing sides thereof a vertically protruding line structure laterally elongated in the horizontal lengthwise direction. The quartz crystal device further comprises a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the one or both of the opposing sides of each of the tines and configured such that, when an electrical bias is applied between the first and second electrodes, the fork-shaped quartz crystal vibrates in a torsional mode in which each of the tines twists about a respective axis extending in the horizontal lengthwise direction.
US12047052B2
An acoustic wave device in which a cavity defining an acoustic reflector is formed on a first main surface side of a substrate, an excitation portion is structured above the cavity in a manner that a first electrode, a piezoelectric thin film, and a second electrode are laminated, and a periodic pattern is provided in a normal direction of a side of the excitation portion on at least one of a first extraction electrode and a second extraction electrode.
US12047042B2
A switching power amplifier with harmonic suppression including a polyphase converter and a power amplifier stage. The polyphase converter converts a frequency or phase modulated input signal into a 50% duty cycle rail-to-rail signal, a positive 25% duty cycle rail-to-rail signal that is centered with the 50% duty cycle signal when high, and a negative 25% duty cycle rail-to-rail signal that is centered with the 50% duty cycle signal when low. The power amplifier stage includes first and second branches coupled between upper and lower nodes, each including series-coupled P-channel and N-channel transistors forming an intermediate output node. The transistors of the first branch are controlled by the 50% duty cycle signal, and the transistors of the second branch are controlled by the positive and negative 25% duty cycle signals. The first and second branches generate output currents that are superimposed with each other to suppress third and fifth harmonics.
US12047035B1
Solar panels and solar platforms having three-dimensional solar harvesting surfaces are disclosed. The solar panels and solar platforms may take a volumetric approach in harvesting solar energy by having the active sides of the solar surfaces protruding upwards rather than being merely planar like a conventional solar panel. The three-dimensional design of such active sides may help in capturing scattered photons reflected by adjacent solar surfaces and also align in optimum orientations relative to the sun.
US12047034B2
A solar module system includes a frame, a microinverter, and an adapter assembly for connecting the microinverter to the frame. The frame includes a body, a mounting flange extending from a bottom of the body at an edge, and a cable management flange extending from an interior surface of the body. The cable management flange and the mounting flange define a cable cavity therebetween for retaining at least one cable. The adapter assembly includes an adapter including a microinverter attachment projection coupled to the microinverter, a frame attachment extension, and a side wall extending therebetween.
US12047032B2
A solar module holding device (10) is proposed, which is configured to enable an assembly of at least one, in particular solar-position-tracking, solar module (12), with a shaft (14), in particular a rotatable shaft (14), with a base body (16) that forms at least one support surface (18) configured for a support at least of a portion of the solar module (12), the base body (16) being embodied as a sheet part, which is preferably implemented as one piece.
US12047030B2
A roof mounting system for the attachment of an article to a roof, the system comprising a plurality of PV modules each having at least one corner and a frame member, a flashing member having a top surface; an upstanding sleeve attached to the top surface of the flashing member; an elevated water seal having a borehole formed therethrough, the elevated water seal further comprising at least one screw for providing a waterproof seal between the article and the roof structure; and whereby the plurality of PV modules are interlocked in a way to provide a corner-to-corner coupling arrangement supported above the roof through the frame members of the plurality of PV modules.
US12047029B2
A system includes a solar panel unit comprising at least one solar panel connected to a respective molten salt cell, a wind motor unit comprising at least one wind motor that is powered by the solar panel unit, each wind motor having a channel, a turbine unit comprising at least one turbine, each turbine associated with a respective wind motor via the channel, the turbine unit powered by the wind motor unit, a first battery receiving and storing power generated by the turbine unit to be used by the system, a second battery receiving and storing power generated by the turbine unit for use outside of the system, and a housing that protects at least the wind motor unit and the turbine unit.
US12047025B2
An electric drive system is connected to a power battery pack to drive a motor, the motor includes an exciting winding, and the electric drive system includes a bus, a three-level inverter circuit, an electric excitation circuit, and a controller. The bus includes a positive bus and a negative bus. The three-level inverter circuit includes a first bus capacitor and a second bus capacitor. The first bus capacitor is connected between the positive bus and a bus midpoint, and the second bus capacitor is connected between the negative bus and the bus midpoint. A first input terminal of the electric excitation circuit is connected in parallel to the first bus capacitor, a second input terminal of the electric excitation circuit is connected in parallel to the second bus capacitor, and an output terminal of the electric excitation circuit is connected to the exciting winding of the motor.
US12047023B2
A torque map generation system includes a motor, an inverter that drives the motor, a controller that controls the inverter, a torque sensor coupled to the motor, a power analyzer coupled to the torque sensor and a torque map generator that measures a current vector value of the motor by switching a MTPA (Maximum Torque Per Ampere) method and a square wave method based on a voltage utilization ratio of the inverter, wherein the torque map generator utilizes a measurement result by the MTPA method when the torque map generator uses the square wave method.
US12047021B2
A motor driver having a high success rate starting mechanism is provided. A multi-segment slope pattern circuit connects a plurality of values of waveforms of a starting waveform signal to form a curve. The multi-segment slope pattern circuit determines a plurality of slopes respectively of a plurality of curve segments included in the curve according to a plurality of parameters related to a motor. The multi-segment slope pattern circuit outputs a multi-segment slope pattern signal according to the plurality of slopes of the plurality of curve segments. A startup signal generating circuit outputs a first startup waveform signal according to the multi-segment slope pattern signal. A motor controller circuit controls a motor driving circuit to start up the motor according to the first startup waveform signal.
US12047010B2
An electrical system can include a first bidirectional AC-DC converter having an input couplable to a grid connection and an output couplable to a battery and a second bidirectional AC-DC converter having an input couplable to the grid connection or a convenience outlet and an output couplable to the battery. The electrical system can further include a controller that controls the first and second converters to operate in a plurality of modes including a two-stage charging mode in which the first and second converters operate in a forward direction to charge the battery, a single-stage charging mode in which the first converter operates in a forward direction to charge the battery and the second converter operates in a reverse direction to power the convenience outlet, and a non-charging mode in which the first converter is idle and the second converter operates in a reverse direction to power the convenience outlet.
US12047005B2
A control method is provided for operating a power converter with a power switch and an inductive device. A current-sense signal is provided to represent an inductor current through the inductive device. An ON time of the power switch is determined in response to a feedback signal and a saw-wave signal, to operate the power converter in a non-power-saving mode. The feedback signal is generated according to an output voltage of the power converter. The power converter can be operated in a power-saving mode, a burst mode. Operating in the burst mode, the ON time is determined in response to the current-sense signal and a current-limiting signal, which is increased during a soft burst-in time and is decreased during a soft burst-out time.
US12047002B2
Methods and systems for operating a multiphase voltage regulator are described. The multiphase voltage regulator can include a plurality of power stages. A controller can be connected to the plurality of power stages. The controller can detect a number of activated power stages among the plurality of power stages. The controller can adjust a gain of a current sense feedback loop of the controller to control a load-transient response of the multiphase voltage regulator. The adjustment to the gain can be based on the number of activated power stages.
US12046999B2
A DC-DC converter includes: a first switch; a second switch connected to the first switch; a mode selecting circuit to select a converting mode from one of at least a first mode and a second mode based on an input voltage; and a controller to generate a first switching control signal for controlling the first switch based on the converting mode, and a second switching control signal for controlling the second switch based on the converting mode.
US12046998B2
A power converter module includes an active metal braze (AMB) substrate, power converter circuitry, and a housing. The AMB substrate includes an aluminum nitride base layer, a first conductive layer on a first surface of the aluminum nitride base layer, and a second conductive layer on a second surface of the aluminum nitride base layer opposite the first surface. The power converter circuitry includes a number of silicon carbide switching components coupled to one another via the first conductive layer. The housing is over the power converter circuitry and the AMB substrate. By using an AMB substrate with an aluminum nitride base layer, the thermal dissipation characteristics of the power converter module may be substantially improved while maintaining the structural integrity of the power converter module.
US12046996B2
A switched capacitor bank assembly including a first capacitor, a first switch selectively connected between the first capacitor and a first phase line, and a first voltage sensor integrated within a housing of the first switch and configured to sense a voltage of the first phase line. The assembly further includes a controller including an electronic processor, the controller operably coupled to the first voltage sensor and the first switch. The first capacitor, the first switch, the first voltage sensor, and the controller are physically supported by a frame of the switched capacitor bank assembly.
US12046994B2
The present invention relates to an electrical power energy converter unit for converting Direct Current to Direct Current, DC-DC, with improved efficiency and cold-start capability. In an aspect there is provided a Direct Current to Direct Current, DC-DC, converter for converting a low-voltage input to a higher-voltage output according to a conversion factor for powering a load such as a wireless sensor node, the converter comprising: a first DC-DC converter circuit arranged for converting the low-voltage input to a first higher-voltage output during a start-up mode of the load; a second DC-DC converter circuit arranged for converting the low-voltage input to a second higher-voltage output during an normal operational mode of the load; a control circuit for control of the conversion factor; wherein each of the first and second converter circuit comprises: an input stage for receiving the low-voltage input; an intermediate stage in series with the input stage for converting the low-voltage input to the first higher-voltage or second higher-voltage output circuit at a conversion factor being defined by the ratio between the input and output; a final stage in series with the intermediate stage for outputting the first higher-voltage or the second higher-voltage output; wherein each of the stages comprises: a shared capacitor for boosting voltage of said low-voltage input to said first higher-voltage output of said first converter or to said second higher-voltage output of said second converter.
US12046992B2
Provided is an overheat protection circuit with improved accuracy of overheat detection. The overheat protection circuit includes: an input terminal; an output terminal; a first transistor containing a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first transistor being switchable between ON and OFF; and a first NPN transistor containing a base to be connected to a node between the second terminal of the first transistor and the ground terminal, an emitter to be connected to the ground terminal, and a collector to be supplied with a constant current and connected to the output terminal, the first NPN transistor being switchable between ON and OFF in accordance with a voltage level of a reference voltage to be supplied to the base, the reference voltage having a temperature characteristic of having a temperature coefficient of zero or more.
US12046989B2
During diode emulation mode, a controller controls a magnitude of current supplied by an inductor of a power converter to produce an output voltage that powers a dynamic load. In response to detecting that a magnitude of the current crosses a threshold level, the controller: i) deactivates a first switch such as a low-side switch of the power converter, and ii) starts a timer. The controller monitors a magnitude of the output voltage following deactivation of the first switch. Via the timer, the controller measures a time duration between a time of starting the timer and a trigger event of the output voltage falling below a setpoint reference voltage. In response to the output voltage falling below the setpoint reference, the controller i) selects a setting of a pulse width as a function of the time duration, and ii) activates a second switch, such as a high-side switch of the power converter, for the selected pulse width.
US12046981B2
An electric drive unit having an electric motor, which has a rotor and a stator that includes a stator core and field windings, a housing assembly into which the electric motor is received, and a seal member. The stator core defines a plurality of stator cooling passages that extend longitudinally through the stator core. Each of the field windings has a protruding portion that extends from an axial end of the stator core. The protruding portions are encapsulated in a plastic material. The housing assembly has an annular wall member that defines a seal groove. The seal member is received in the seal groove and forms a seal between the annular wall member and the plastic encapsulation on the protruding portion of the field windings. A coolant is circulated through the stator cooling channels, and the seal member inhibits ingress of the coolant between the stator and the rotor.
US12046970B2
A motor for a surgical instrument includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a shaft and a magnet. The stator includes (i) a cavity in which the rotor is disposed, and (ii) a coil assembly. The coil assembly includes multiple phase sets. The phase sets include multiple sets of wires. Each of the phase sets includes multiple coils and corresponds to a respective one of the sets of wires. The coils in each of the phase sets are at respective positions about the rotor. One of the sets of wires includes at least three wires. The stator causes the rotor to axially rotate a surgical tool of the surgical instrument based on current received at the sets of wires.
US12046961B2
A motor includes a shaft, at least two bearings supporting the shaft, a magnet supported by the shaft between the at least two bearings, a stator surrounding the magnet, and a magnetic member arranged between the magnet and at least one of the bearings in a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The magnetic member has a large outer diameter with respect to an outer diameter of the magnet.
US12046959B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a cover assembly and a motor comprising same, the cover assembly comprising: a cover plate; a ground terminal disposed on the cover plate; and a capacitor connected to the ground terminal by means of a wire. The ground terminal comprises: a body unit; a ground unit bent from one area of the upper end of the body unit to a first direction; clip units extending from both sides of the body unit to a second direction that is opposite from the first direction; and a coupling unit extending from the lower part of the body unit. The wire is coupled to the clip units by means of insertion. Accordingly, the present invention enables the wire of the capacitor to be fixed in a temporarily assembled state and thus enables an automation process during assembly of the motor.
US12046958B2
One embodiment provides a remotely controllable gas engine replacement device including a housing, a battery receptacle coupled to the housing, the battery receptacle configured to removably receive a battery pack, a motor located within the housing, a power take-off shaft receiving torque from the motor and protruding from a side of the housing, a power switching network configured to selectively provide power from the battery pack to the motor, and one or more remote control device interfaces configured to communicate with the remote control device. The remotely controllable gas engine replacement device also includes an electronic processor coupled to the power switching network and the remote control device interface. The electronic processor configured to control the power switching network to rotate the motor, receive a control signal from the remote control device, and execute a responsive action to the control signal from the remote control device.
US12046955B2
Methods and systems are provided to cool an electric machine. In one embodiment, an electric machine includes a rotor assembly that includes a rotor shaft and a stack of rotor laminations. The rotor assembly further includes one or more nozzles designed to receive pressurized coolant from a rotor shaft coolant passage and deliver the coolant to a set of open coolant channels in the stack of rotor laminations, wherein the set open coolant channels includes outlets that are profiled to direct the coolant towards a groove in a balancing plate that is coupled to the rotor assembly.
US12046947B2
An electrical system operable to supply power from at least one of a primary power source or a standby power source to one or more electrical loads. The electrical system is configured to be provided between an electricity meter and a meter socket. The electrical system includes a housing, a plurality of contacts configured to be coupled with the meter, the meter socket, and a transfer switch. The transfer switch includes a first switch configured to selectively connect the primary power source to the one or more electrical loads, a second switch configured to selectively connect the standby power source to the one or more electrical loads, and an electrical control logic.
US12046944B2
A device includes a first supply unit, which is connectable via a first switch element to a first consumer, a second supply unit, which is connectable via a second switch element and via one or more electric delimitation elements to the first consumer, and a third switch element, which is configured to bridge the one or more electric delimitation elements. A control unit is configured to cause the first switch element to close, and the second and third switch elements to open, in normal operation. The control unit is further configured to detect that a first supply voltage at the first supply unit has reached or fallen below a voltage threshold value, and in response causes first the second switch element to close, then the first switch element to open, and then the third switch element to close, such that the first consumer is coupled to the second supply unit.
US12046940B2
A system and method for digital management and control of power conversion from battery cells. The system utilizes a power management and conversion module that uses a CPU to maintain a high power conversion efficiency over a wide range of loads and to manage charge and discharge operation of the battery cells. The power management and conversion module includes the CPU, a current sense unit, a charge/discharge unit, a DC-to-DC conversion unit, a battery protection unit, a fuel gauge and an internal DC regulation unit. Through intelligent power conversion and charge/discharge operations, a given battery type is given the ability to emulate other battery types by conversion of the output voltage of the battery and adaptation of the charging scheme to suit the battery.
US12046938B2
A battery charging apparatus for device charging in a vehicle includes a charging device compartment, a housing, a blower, a charger, and a duct. The charging device compartment is configured to retain at least one device. The housing includes a top member, a bottom member, and an accommodating space. The housing further includes an air-return port. The blower is in the housing and has an input port and an output port. The charger is in the housing and between the top member of the housing and the blower. The duct has an input port and an output port. The input port of the duct is coupled to the output port of the blower, and the output port of the duct is coupled to the air-return port of the housing. The duct forms a barrier between the accommodating space and the air-return port of the housing.
US12046934B2
A charging post controller with various functional modules connected by a PCB, and a charging post thereof. The controller includes a monitoring unit (1), a direct-current main loop unit (2) and a mounting and fixing unit (3), wherein the monitoring unit (1) comprises a PCB (11) and an electronic circuit forming electrically connected functional modules (4), and the functional modules (4) are mounted on the mounting and fixing unit (3), to form a laminated arrangement structure among the monitoring unit (1), the direct-current main loop unit (2) and the mounting and fixing unit (3). A charging post using the controller has a relatively high degree of integration, relatively small overall volume and relatively low comprehensive cost, and is relatively easily promoted and applied.
US12046930B2
A battery system includes: a first battery module including a plurality of first battery cells; a second battery module including a plurality of second battery cells; a battery disconnection unit connected between the first battery module and the second battery module, the battery disconnection unit including: a first main switch connected in series between the plurality of first battery cells and the plurality of second battery cells; and a precharge switch and a precharge resistor connected in series with each other and connected in parallel with the first main switch.
US12046928B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.
US12046917B2
This application provides a wireless power transfer unit, device, and method. The wireless power transfer unit includes a radiation source, a light-emitting body, a controller, and a metasurface. The radiation source is configured to emit an electromagnetic wave signal. The controller is configured to control the light-emitting body to provide light sources of different light intensities. The light-emitting body provides the light sources of different light intensities in response to control of the controller. The metasurface is configured to perform phase adjustment on the electromagnetic wave signal that is incident to the metasurface. Equivalent impedance of the metasurface varies with a change of the light intensity, so that an offset of a phase of the electromagnetic wave signal emitted through the metasurface also varies with the change of the light intensity.
US12046904B2
An energy storage system includes an energy storage device that stores energy generated from a new and renewable energy power plant, a power management device that monitors a total amount of power produced by at least one new and renewable energy power plant in a plurality of regions, determines an operation mode of the energy storage device based on a result of monitoring a reference capacity of an integrated line through which power of the plurality of regions is transmitted and a result of monitoring the total power amount, and controls a power capacity flowing through the integrated line according to the operation mode, and a power conversion device that receives a command corresponding to the operation mode from the power management device and controls an operation of the energy storage device according to the command.
US12046868B2
A substrate for mounting a light-emitting element includes a substrate that is composed of a ceramic(s), a terminal for an element that is provided on a front surface of the substrate where a light-emitting element is mounted thereon, a terminal for a power source that is provided on the substrate where an external power source is connected thereto, and a wiring part that is provided inside the substrate and electrically connects the terminal for an element and the terminal for a power source. Furthermore, the wiring part includes a first conductor that extends in a surface direction of the substrate and a second conductor that extends substantially parallel to the first conductor on an opposite side of the front surface and is connected in parallel with the first conductor.
US12046867B2
An active laser medium for emitting a light beam by laser effect includes an X—F2-doped crystal, wherein X is a chemical element from the alkaline-earth family and F is fluorine. The crystal is doped with trivalent ions including: a first category of optically active dopant ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a first rare earth; and a second category of optically inactive dopant ions, referred to as buffer ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a rare earth different from the first rare earth. The second category of dopant ions has at least ions of a second rare earth and ions of a third rare earth, different from one another. The invention provides an active laser medium that can be used to obtain both a desired emission spectrum shape and a high thermal conductivity.
US12046863B2
A first and second substrate, and electrically conductive first and second connection parts are provided in a method for establishing an electrically conductive connection between two substrates. The first connection part is mounted on the first substrate by a first releasable connection and the second connection part is respectively mounted on the second substrate by a releasable connection. An electrically conductive connection assembly containing the first connection part and the second connection part is established by either a cohesive connection between a connection portion of the first connection part and a connection portion of the second connection part or an electrically conductive crossmember provided and a cohesive connection of a first length portion of the crossmember to the connection portion of the first connection part and a second cohesive connection of a second length portion of the crossmember to the connection portion of the second connection part being established.
US12046853B2
A cluster connector and cluster port for simultaneously engaging multiple RF connectors with a corresponding plurality of RF ports, wherein the cluster port may be coupled to an RF antenna or radio. The cluster port has a plurality of receiving interfaces wherein each of the receiving interfaces has an axial biasing element that enables simultaneous connection with a plurality of coupling interfaces, wherein each of the coupling interfaces is coupled to the end of an RF cable. The cluster connector of the disclosure also enables selective removal, replacement of one RF cable, and the corresponding coupling interface, without impacting other cables/coupling interfaces.
US12046851B2
An assembled electrical connector has a base having a terminal stage formed on a top thereof, an upper cap, a first conductive terminal mounted in a center of the terminal stage, and a second conductive terminal externally assembled on the base. The second conductive terminal is a ring sheet, surrounds the terminal stage, and is electrically isolated from the first conductive terminal via the terminal stage. The upper cap is tubular and is connected on the top of the base. The second conductive terminal abuts against an internal surface of the upper cap. Because the second conductive terminal is externally assembled on the terminal stage of the base and is not combined with the base via insert molding, the second conductive terminal does not need to use a machining product.
US12046850B2
There is provided a connector configured by a first connector and a second connector which are fitted and electrically connected to each other. The first connector includes: a first housing; and a projecting portion that projects backward from an end portion of the first housing and extends in a fitting direction. The second connector includes: a terminal; a cap that covers a front surface of the terminal; and a second housing including a guide groove that guides the projecting portion and supporting a rotating shaft. The guide groove extends along the fitting direction from an opening portion on a side of the first connector with respect to the rotating shaft toward an opposite side to the first connector.
US12046846B2
A plug-in contact assembly suitable for automatic transfer switches includes a contact holder, two moving contact pieces disposed apart from each other, a moving contact piece bracket and a biasing spring; the contact holder holds the moving contact piece bracket and the biasing spring therein; and the two moving contact pieces disposed apart from each other are held in place relative to the contact holder under the joint action of the biasing spring and the moving contact piece bracket; characterized in that, two ends of each moving contact piece are each provided with a moving contact thereon by means of welding.
US12046841B2
The design of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) antenna requires consideration of a range of characteristics including, for example, the ability for tracking satellites at low elevation, phase centre variation (PCV), antenna efficiency and impedance, axial ratio and up-down ratio (UDR), antenna bandwidth, etc. whilst also providing a light weight, compact and robust form factor. For rover applications this becomes particularly important when the satellites being accessed may be at low elevations where prior art GNSS antenna exhibit poor performance. To address this a GNSS antenna is provided comprising a domed array of opposed metallized antenna elements which are indirectly coupled via a pair of dipoles to the feed network thereby avoiding the difficulties associated with direct electrical connections of feed circuits to antenna elements.
US12046839B2
An antenna structure includes a dielectric substrate, a ground layer and a radiation layer located at two opposite sides of the dielectric substrate. The ground layer has two first gaps which are symmetrical about a central axis of the antenna structure in a first direction to introduce a radiation zero. The radiation layer has two second gaps which are symmetrical about the central axis, edges of the two second gaps are aligned with edges of the radiation layer in a second direction to introduce another radiation zero. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
US12046838B2
An element assembly has a structure in which insulator layers including first and second insulator layers are laminated in an up-down direction. The first insulator layer is above the second insulator layer. A radiant conductor layer is on an upper surface of the first insulator layer. A first capacitance defining portion includes a first interlayer connection conductor passing through one or more of the insulator layers in the up-down direction. The first interlayer connection conductor is electrically connected to the radiant conductor layer. The radiant conductor layer, a ground conductor, and the first capacitance defining portion define and function as a patch antenna. When the first interlayer connection conductor is electrically connected to the radiant conductor layer, a distance from a lower end of the first interlayer connection conductor to the ground conductor in the up-down direction is shorter than a distance from the radiant conductor layer to the ground conductor in the up-down direction.
US12046832B2
Embodiments of antenna systems and radio nodes incorporating the antenna systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a radio access node for a cellular communications system comprises one or more antenna systems comprising a first antenna system directed at a desired bore sight angle. The one or more antenna systems further comprise either or both of a second antenna system directed upwards relative to the desired bore sight angle of the first antenna system and a second antenna system directed downwards relative to the desired bore sign angle of the first antenna system. In this manner, the radio access is optimized for an indoor environment because it can add Single User Multiple Input Multiple Output (SU-MIMO) channels by utilizing reflections from the ceiling and floor in the indoor environment.
US12046824B2
The present invention discloses an ultra-wideband cross-polarized antenna and ultra-wideband cross-polarized array antenna, including a substrate, and a first polarized antenna and a second polarized antenna provided in the substrate and orthogonal to each other. The ultra-wideband cross-polarized antenna has a simple structure, is easy to produce and is able to solve challenging bandwidth issues, cross-polarized port isolation issues, and beam scanning range issues in 5G millimeter wave array antennas.
US12046819B2
A slot antenna assembly for a portable electronic device is disclosed. The assembly includes a first slot antenna having a first slot through a substrate from an outer surface of the substrate to an inner surface of the substrate. The assembly also includes a second slot antenna including a second slot through the substrate from the outer surface of the substrate to the inner surface of the substrate. An isolator includes at least one of an isolation slot and a conductor. The isolation slot includes a substrate isolation slot which extends through the substrate between the first and second slot antennas; and a conductor. The conductor connects the inner surface of the substrate between the first and second antennas to an opposite inner surface of an opposite substrate opposite the inner surface between the first and second antennas.
US12046817B2
A circularly polarized antenna having a plurality of arrays. The arrays comprised of a plurality of antenna elements which are consecutively orthogonal to each other.
US12046813B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an antenna filter unit and a radio unit. The antenna filter unit includes a radiation unit and a cavity filter coupled to the radiation unit. The radiation unit is arranged on an outer side of a wall of a cavity of the cavity filter. At least a part of the wall is also arranged as a reflection plate for the radiation unit. The radio unit includes the above-mentioned antenna filter unit and a radio circuit board. According to the antenna filter unit and the radio unit provided by embodiments of the disclosure, the number and volume of elements in a radio system are reduced, the degree of integration can be improved, the weight and installation space are reduced, and the costs are reduced.
US12046810B2
A radio-frequency module includes: a module substrate; a first circuit component and a second circuit component that are disposed inside the module substrate; and a metal shield plate set to a ground potential. The module substrate includes a dielectric part including a first dielectric material, and a dielectric part including a second dielectric material and located inward of the dielectric part, the second dielectric material having a relative permittivity different from that of the first dielectric material. The metal shield plate is disposed between the first circuit component and the second circuit component and in the dielectric part.
US12046809B1
A superconductive vortex valve apparatus and related methods of operation are disclosed. A superconductive vortex valve (SVV) apparatus has a thin film formed from a superconducting material positioned on a substrate. A receive antenna is positioned on the thin film. A resonant cavity is positioned proximate to the substrate, the thin film, and the receive antenna. A broadcast antenna is in electromagnetic connection with the receive antenna and is positioned proximate to the thin film. A radio frequency (RF) power supply is configured to supply electrical power to the broadcast antenna. A magnetic bias is applied to the thin film in a location proximate to the resonant cavity. The SVV may be embedded within a resonant circuit which may be driven with pulse width modulation (PWM), such as with a resonant circuit driven with PWM which has two PWM-driven resonant circuits in series driven in quadrature.
US12046806B2
An in-vehicle wireless system includes: multiple antennas; and multiple antenna housings that house the multiple antennas and are smaller in number than the multiple antennas. The multiple antenna housings include a vehicle interior antenna housing placed in a vehicle interior of a vehicle. The vehicle interior antenna housing houses an antenna for performing communication by connecting to a mobile communication line that is a public communication line that is connectable to a mobile wireless device.
US12046804B2
A compact automobile start switch with antenna including a button, a push switch assembly and an antenna assembly module is disclosed. The antenna assembly module is provided with an accommodating cavity in which the push switch assembly is arranged. The antenna assembly module includes an antenna module body, an antenna coil and a connector terminal. The antenna module body is provided with a winding area in which the antenna coil is arranged and a connector matching portion in which the antenna connector terminal is arranged. The antenna connector terminal comprises a connecting section, a fixing section and a terminal welding section and the antenna coil is directly connected with the terminal welding portion by a wire. The antenna coil is directly connected to the antenna connector terminal through the wire outside the antenna module body. The process of connecting the antenna module to the circuit of the PCBA is eliminated.
US12046797B2
A vehicle antenna glazing comprising an antenna element that is a WIFI antenna working at 2.41-2.48 GHz frequencies and further comprises a planar radiating element connected to a co-axial connector.
US12046795B2
The present disclosure describes a telecommunications structure including a plurality of mounting members each having a length and a diameter, the plurality of mounting members includes one or more vertically-oriented mounting members that intersect with one or more horizontally-oriented mounting members to form a frame that is configured to have telecommunications equipment mounted thereto. Each of the one or more vertically-oriented mounting members or each of the one or more horizontally-oriented mounting members includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced-apart recesses configured to receive an intersecting horizontally-oriented mounting member or vertically-oriented mounting member and form a mechanical connection therebetween. A press tool for forming the recesses and methods of using the same are also described herein.
US12046776B2
Embodiments of an arrangement for cells for storing electrical energy having at least two cells are disclosed. The cells each have an axial direction, a circumferential region, and two end faces. The end faces are arranged opposite one another in the axial direction and a pole region is provided at one end face with at least one connecting plate. The cells are arranged at the connecting plate. Contact elements are provided between the connecting plate and the pole regions of the cells for an electrical contact. The problem of providing an arrangement which enables simple and reliable contacting of cells is solved in that the contact elements in contact with a cell is designed as a spring contact element which, in a deformed state, provides a spring force for bearing against the pole region of the cells to form the electrical contact between the connecting plate and pole region.
US12046775B2
A flex circuit and a battery module including the flex circuit are provided. The flex circuit includes a first plurality of conductive traces and a second plurality of conductive traces. Each of the first plurality of conductive traces includes a first terminal configured to be electrically coupled to a first location of a respective one of a plurality of busbars that electrically connect battery cells of the battery module, and a second terminal configured to be electrically coupled to processing circuitry. Each of the second plurality of conductive traces includes a first terminal configured to be electrically coupled to a second location of a respective one of the plurality of busbars, and a second terminal configured to be electrically coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to measure a voltage level of each of the plurality of busbars using the first and second plurality of conductive traces.
US12046773B2
A battery module includes a first battery cell and a neighboring second battery cell, and an insulating member positioned therebetween. The battery module also includes a battery module enclosure surrounded by an external environment and configured to house each of the first battery cell, the second battery cell, and the insulating member. The battery module additionally includes a battery module cover mounted to the battery module enclosure. The battery module cover includes a vent feature configured to expel high temperature gases from the first battery cell and divert the high temperature gases away from the second battery cell directly to the external environment. The cover is thereby configured to minimize transfer of the high temperature gases from the first battery cell to the second battery cell and control propagation of a thermal runaway event in the battery module.
US12046772B2
The present invention relates to a secondary battery enabling enhanced safety in case of an external short circuit. According to one example, the secondary battery comprises: an electrode assembly; a case for accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the top of the case. The cap assembly comprises: a cap-up; a safety vent provided below the cap-up; a cap-down provided below the safety vent and having a through hole and a gas discharge hole; an insulator provided between the safety vent and the cap-down; a sub-plate provided below the cap-down; and a solder member for electrically connecting the safety vent and the sub-plate. The safety vent and the sub-plate are electrically connected by means of soldering.
US12046770B2
A battery includes: a casing that includes a plurality of exterior faces having outer faces facing mutually-different directions and has an arrangement concave part formed; a cell that is housed inside the casing; and a connector that includes a connection terminal connected to an electrode terminal of a connection apparatus and is arranged in the arrangement concave part, in which a face forming the arrangement concave part of the casing is formed as a concave part forming face, and the concave part forming face is present between the exterior faces and the connector.
US12046754B2
An aluminum battery negative electrode structure includes an aluminum foil and a coating layer. The coating layer is arranged on the aluminum foil. A material of the coating layer includes a high specific surface area carbon material. A specific surface area of the high specific surface area carbon material ranges from 500 m2/g to 3,000 m2/g.
US12046749B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery with improved t electrochemical characteristics through improvement of the structural stability by including a cathode active material doped with molybdenum (Mo). The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; a separator positioned between the cathode and the anode; and an electrolyte. In particular, the cathode active material includes molybdenum (Mo) doped on a composite oxide of lithium and metal including manganese (Mn) and titanium (Ti).
US12046737B2
In the present disclosure, a method, an apparatus, and a system for collecting carbon using a fuel cell principle are disclosed. More specifically, the carbon capture device may comprise an air cartridge in which a gas including a carbon component is introduced; a fuel cartridge in which a fuel is injected; a fuel cell stack; a fuel supply line for supplying the fuel between the fuel cartridge and the fuel cell stack; and a controller, wherein the fuel cell stack may include: an anode unit including a fuel electrode for performing an oxidation reaction of the fuel supplied from the fuel supply line; a cathode unit including an air electrode for performing a reduction reaction of the gas introduced from the air cartridge; and an electrolyte unit including an electrolyte for transferring metal ions generated by the oxidation reaction of the fuel between the anode unit and the cathode unit. Various embodiments for collecting carbon and generating energy are disclosed.
US12046735B2
A battery module includes a cell stack in which a plurality of unit cells including terminal parts are aligned in a first direction and an insulating member surrounds the plurality of unit cells; and a module housing in which a plurality of receiving parts, into each of which the cell stack is configured to be inserted, are provided and are aligned in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein each of the plurality of receiving parts includes a fixing wall around the cell stack and having at least a portion which is in contact with the cell stack. The cell stacks adjacent to each other in the second direction are electrically connected to each other, and the cell stacks adjacent to each other in the first direction are electrically disconnected from each other, when not connected to an end module.
US12046731B2
A battery module according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a cell stack including one or more battery cells; a mono frame accommodating the cell stack therein; and a thermally conductive resin layer positioned between a lower portion of the cell stack and the mono frame. The battery module further includes a spring positioned between an upper portion of the cell stack and the mono frame.
US12046729B2
A structural support member for a vehicle includes a structural member, a battery chiller additively manufactured and disposed at least partially within the support member. The battery chiller includes a pair of spaced apart coolant chambers and a plurality of hollow pins extending between the pair of spaced apart coolant chambers such that the pair of spaced apart coolant chambers are in fluid communication with each other via the plurality of hollow pins. A refrigerant chamber can be included and be between the pair of spaced apart coolant chambers such that coolant fluid flows from one of the pair of spaced apart coolant chambers to another of the pair of spaced apart coolant chambers through the refrigerant chamber via the plurality of hollow pins.
US12046727B2
A method for recovering valuable metals from a spent secondary battery includes a pre-processing process of pre-processing the spent secondary battery, a melting process of heating the pre-processed spent secondary battery to generate a molten solution, and a recovery process of recovering the valuable metals from the molten solution. In the melting process, a chlorinating agent is added, and, in the recovery process, lithium is recovered in a form of lithium dust.
US12046725B2
Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
US12046724B2
The present invention provides a method for reasonably adjusting an end-of-discharge voltage of a lithium battery with attenuation of a battery life. The method includes: acquiring an end-of-charge voltage, an end-of-discharge voltage and a rated capacity based on a basic parameter table for a lithium battery, then setting a safety end-of-charge voltage and a safety end-of-discharge voltage to obtain an initial safety discharge capacity, and finally setting a preset discharge capacity of the battery; using an Ampere-hour integration method to estimate a discharged power, taking the preset discharge capacity as a discharge standard, and stopping discharge when the discharged power reaches the preset discharge capacity; and the safety discharge capacity being gradually less than the preset discharge capacity within a battery life cycle, and the battery stopping discharge when the voltage reaches the safety end-of-discharge voltage. By controlling the discharge capacity to be unchanged, the present invention ensures stably outputting power in the case that the battery capacity attenuates, so that a user feels that the endurance mileage of an electric vehicle is stably unchanged within a certain period. The method has the characteristics of simple adjusting control method and convenience in commercialization.
US12046722B2
A power system for a stationary installation comprising a battery pack, a system component, and a system control unit. The batter pack has a plurality of removable battery modules. Each battery module has an internally controllable connection to a common power bus. The system component is controlled by a power controller unit having a connection to the common power bus. The system control unit is in communication with each of the battery modules and the power controller unit. The system control unit receives control inputs from an operator of the power system. The operator may be a human operator, an electronic operator unit, or a combination thereof.
US12046721B2
A battery pack and an electric apparatus are provided. The battery pack is configured to be connectable to an electric apparatus main body of the electric apparatus. The battery pack includes: a first cell unit, including a first plurality of battery cells connected to each other, a first positive terminal, and a first negative terminal; a second cell unit, including a second plurality of battery cells connected to each other, a second positive terminal, and a second negative terminal; a microcomputer; and a casing, accommodating the first cell unit, the second cell unit, and the microcomputer. The first cell unit and the second cell unit are configured to be switched a connection state each other. The microcomputer is configured to be electrically connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal of one of the first cell unit and the second cell unit and to be provided a power from the one of the first cell unit and the second cell unit.
US12046707B2
A system can include a first platen configured to rotate in a first direction and a second platen configured to rotate in a second direction. The first platen can include a first surface configured to support a first layer and contact a first portion of a second layer. The second platen including a second surface that mates with the first surface of the first platen to stack the first layer and the first portion of the second layer.
US12046706B2
A battery pack manufacturing device includes a transferring part for transferring a plurality of unit cells, an adjusting part for adjusting a position of a pack frame in which the unit cells are accommodated, and a vertical pressing part that vertically presses the unit cells accommodated in the pack frame. The transferring part includes a seating part on which the unit cells are seated. The unit cells are vertically dropped and mounted in accommodating parts of the frame when an opening and closing part of each seating part is opened.
US12046700B2
Provided is a nanorod light-emitting device including a first semiconductor layer doped with a first conductive type impurity, an emission layer disposed above the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed above the emission layer and doped with a second conductive type impurity that is electrically opposite to the first conductive type impurity, a conductive layer disposed between at least one of a center portion of a lower surface of the emission layer and the first semiconductor layer and a center portion of an upper surface of the emission layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a current blocking layer surrounding a sidewall of the conductive layer.
US12046697B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel, wherein the backlight unit includes: a substrate; and a plurality of light emitting diode groups provided on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting diode groups includes a red light emitting diode, a green light emitting diode, and a blue light emitting diode, wherein each of the red light emitting diode, the green light emitting diode, and the blue light emitting diode includes: a light emitting layer; and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) provided on the light emitting layer, and wherein reflectivities of the distributed Bragg reflectors of the red light emitting diode, the green light emitting diode, and the blue light emitting diode are within a same range of reflectivity according to an incident angle of light incident on the distributed Bragg reflectors.
US12046696B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises an active zone comprising sub-layers for forming a quantum well structure. Differences in energy levels of the quantum well structure are smaller in a central region of the optoelectronic semiconductor device than in an edge region of the optoelectronic semiconductor device. According to further embodiments, an optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises an active zone comprising a sub-layer which is suitable for forming a quantum well structure. In the active zone, quantum dot structures are formed in a central region of the optoelectronic semiconductor device. No quantum dot structures are formed in an edge region of the optoelectronic semiconductor device.
US12046693B2
Separation of individual strips from a solar cell workpiece, is accomplished by excluding a junction (e.g., a homojunction such as a p-n junction, or a heterojunction such as a p-i-n junction) from regions at which separation is expected to occur. According to some embodiments, the junction is excluded by physical removal of material from inter-strip regions of the workpiece. According to other embodiments, exclusion of the junction is achieved by changing an effective doping level (e.g., counter-doping, deactivation) at inter-strip regions. For still other embodiments, the junction is never formed at inter-strip regions in the first place (e.g., using masking during original dopant introduction). By imposing distance between the junction and defects arising from separation processes (e.g., backside crack propagation), losses attributable to electron-hole recombination at such defects are reduced, and collection efficiency of shingled modules is enhanced.
US12046691B2
Disclosed is a photovoltaic module including a transparent material layer, and a plurality of solar cells disposed inside one side of the transparent material layer, and at least one of the plurality of solar cells is disposed to be perpendicular to one side surface of the transparent material layer.
US12046688B2
The present invention discloses a light sensing unit of a light sensing device including a light sensing element and a switching element. The light sensing element includes a gate, a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source, and a drain. The gate and the semiconductor layer are disposed on a substrate, the gate insulating layer separates the gate from the semiconductor layer, and the source and the drain are connected to the semiconductor layer respectively. At least one of the source and the drain are formed of a light-transmissive conductive layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed between one of the source and the drain and the gate, and when viewed along a normal direction of the substrate, the gate overlaps the one of the source and the drain, and the gate does not overlap another one of the source and the drain.
US12046685B2
A semiconductor device includes a first diffusion region of a first type with embedded therein, a second and a third diffusion region of a second type different from the first type. The second and third diffusion regions are more doped than the first region. The second and third diffusion regions are each connected to a respective contact. A dielectric layer covers at least an edge of the second and third diffusion regions, and the region in between the second and third diffusion regions. A piezoelectric layer is disposed on, over, adjacent to or in contact with the dielectric layer. A first structure is in a first soft ferromagnetic material and is arranged to perform mechanical stress on the piezoelectric layer in response to a magnetic field.
US12046681B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a fin substrate having a first dopant concentration; an anti-punch through (APT) layer disposed over the fin substrate, wherein the APT layer has a second dopant concentration that is greater than the first dopant concentration; a nanostructure including semiconductor layers disposed over the APT layer; a gate structure disposed over the nanostructure and wrapping each of the semiconductor layers, wherein the gate structure includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode; a first epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature and a second epitaxial S/D feature disposed over the APT layer, wherein the gate structure is disposed between the first epitaxial S/D feature and the second epitaxial S/D feature; and an isolation layer disposed between the APT layer and the fin substrate, wherein a material of the isolation layer is the same as a material of the gate dielectric.
US12046677B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first gate electrode on a substrate, a first conductive contact on the first gate electrode, an etch stop layer (ESL) on the first conductive contact, and a second conductive contact extending through the ESL. The first conductive contact has a first width. The second conductive contact has a second width, the second width being smaller than the first width. The ESL overhangs a portion of the second conductive contact. A convex bottom surface of the second conductive contact physically contacts a concave top surface of the first conductive contact.
US12046674B2
The invention relates to a DEPFET comprising: a semiconductor substrate (100) of a first conduction type, which has a first main surface (101) and a second main surface (102), which are opposite one another; a source terminal region (1s) of a second conduction type on the first main surface (101); a drain terminal region (1d) of a second conduction type; a channel region (10), which is arranged between the source terminal region (1s) and the drain terminal region (1d); a gate electrode (11), which is separated from the channel region (10) by a gate insulator (6); a rear activation region (104) of a second conduction type, which is formed on the second main surface (102); and a substrate doping increase region (2) of a first conduction type, which is formed at least under the source terminal region (1s) and under the channel region (10), the substrate doping increase region (2) having a signal charge control region (20) of the first conduction type below the gate electrode (11), in which signal charge control region the effective doping dose has a higher value than at other points of the substrate doping increase region (2) below the gate electrode.
US12046660B2
A method includes forming a protruding structure, and forming a non-conformal film on the protruding structure using an Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process. The non-conformal film includes a top portion directly over the protruding structure, and a sidewall portion on a sidewall of the protruding structure. The top portion has a first thickness, and the sidewall portion has a second thickness smaller than the first thickness.
US12046654B2
Approaches for fabricating an integrated circuit structure including a titanium silicide material, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin above a substrate, a gate electrode over the top and adjacent to the sidewalls of a portion of the semiconductor fin. A titanium silicide material is in direct contact with each of first and second epitaxial semiconductor source or drain structures at first and second sides of the gate electrode. The titanium silicide material is conformal with and hermetically sealing a non-flat topography of each of the first and second epitaxial semiconductor source or drain structures. The titanium silicide material has a total atomic composition including 95% or greater stoichiometric TiSi2.
US12046643B2
Semiconductor structures are disclosed which comprise semiconductor devices having buried power rails. In one example, a semiconductor structure comprises a plurality of semiconductor devices. Each of the semiconductor devices is isolated from an adjacent semiconductor device by a dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further comprises a first diffusion break extending across the plurality of semiconductor devices, a second diffusion break extending across the plurality of semiconductor devices and a plurality of gates extending across the plurality of semiconductor devices. The gates are disposed between the first diffusion break and the second diffusion break. Each semiconductor device comprises a power rail extending between the first diffusion break and the second diffusion break under the plurality of gates.
US12046641B2
According to the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type SiC layer, an electrode that is selectively formed upon the SiC layer, and an insulator that is formed upon the SiC layer and that extends to a timing region that is set at an end part of the SiC layer. The insulator includes an electrode lower insulating film that is arranged below the electrode, and an organic insulating layer that is arranged so as to cover the electrode lower insulating film. The length (A) of the interval wherein the organic insulating layer contacts the SiC layer is 40 μm or more, and the lateral direction distance (B) along the electrode lower insulating layer between the electrode and SiC layer is 40 μm or more.
US12046639B2
A semiconductor device includes an epitaxial substrate. The epitaxial substrate includes a substrate. A strain relaxed layer covers and contacts the substrate. A III-V compound stacked layer covers and contacts the strain relaxed layer. The III-V compound stacked layer is a multilayer epitaxial structure formed by aluminum nitride, aluminum gallium nitride or a combination of aluminum nitride and aluminum gallium nitride.
US12046619B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a first substrate having a pixel circuit including a pixel array unit formed thereon, and a second substrate having a plurality of signal processing circuits formed thereon so as to be arranged through a scribe region. The first substrate and the second substrate are stacked.
US12046616B2
An image sensor includes a substrate, a first isolation region defining a unit pixel, a first photoelectric conversion region in the unit pixel, a second photoelectric conversion region in the unit pixel, the second photoelectric conversion region spaced apart from the first photoelectric conversion region, a floating diffusion region, the floating diffusion region adjacent to the first surface of the substrate, a first transfer gate on the first surface of the substrate, the first transfer gate between the first photoelectric conversion region and the floating diffusion region, and a second transfer gate on the first surface of the substrate, the second transfer gate between the second photoelectric conversion region and the floating diffusion region. At least a part of the first transfer gate is buried in the substrate, and a bottom surface of the first transfer gate is different in height from a bottom surface of the second transfer gate.
US12046615B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first deep trench isolation (DTI) structure within a substrate. The first DTI structure includes a barrier structure, a dielectric structure, and a copper structure. The dielectric structure is between the barrier structure and the copper structure. The barrier structure is between the substrate and the dielectric structure.
US12046614B2
Apparatus and methods for effective impurity gettering are described herein. In some embodiments, a described device includes: a substrate; a pixel region disposed in the substrate; an isolation region disposed in the substrate and within a proximity of the pixel region; and a heterogeneous layer on the seed area. The isolation region comprises a seed area including a first semiconductor material. The heterogeneous layer comprises a second semiconductor material that has a lattice constant different from that of the first semiconductor material.
US12046600B2
Techniques are disclosed for achieving multiple fin dimensions on a single die or semiconductor substrate. In some cases, multiple fin dimensions are achieved by lithographically defining (e.g., hardmasking and patterning) areas to be trimmed using a trim etch process, leaving the remainder of the die unaffected. In some such cases, the trim etch is performed on only the channel regions of the fins, when such channel regions are re-exposed during a replacement gate process. The trim etch may narrow the width of the fins being trimmed (or just the channel region of such fins) by 2-6 nm, for example. Alternatively, or in addition, the trim may reduce the height of the fins. The techniques can include any number of patterning and trimming processes to enable a variety of fin dimensions and/or fin channel dimensions on a given die, which may be useful for integrated circuit and system-on-chip (SOC) applications.
US12046594B1
In the monolithically integrated GaN-based half-bridge circuit, a nucleation layer, a buffer layer, a channel layer and a barrier layer are sequentially provided on a conductive substrate, the barrier layer and the channel layer are separated by isolation layers, and a diode, an integrated capacitor, a low-side transistor, a high-side transistor, a first integrated resistor and a second integrated resistor are provided. The half-bridge circuit includes: a low-side transistor and a high-side transistor, wherein a drain of the low-side transistor is connected to a source of the high-side transistor and also connected to an output terminal Vout, and a substrate of the low-side transistor is connected to a substrate of the high-side transistor, wherein a series resistor is connected in parallel to a drain of the high-side transistor and a source of the low-side transistor.
US12046592B2
In a static electricity protection circuit, an N+ embedded region is provided, extending over an upper surface of a P-type P semiconductor substrate. One N−-semiconductor region, another N−-semiconductor region, and an N− common impurity region are provided in an upward direction from the N+ embedded region. The one N−-semiconductor region and the other N−-semiconductor region are coupled together via the N− common impurity region. A P− impurity region is provided in the upward direction from the one N−-semiconductor region. Another P− impurity region is provided in the upward direction from the other N−-semiconductor region. A diode formed by the one P− impurity region and the one N−-semiconductor region and a diode formed by the other P− impurity region and the other N−-semiconductor region are coupled in opposite directions to each other via the N− common impurity region.
US12046585B2
The invention relates to an assembly, on which a plurality of light-emitting diodes are arranged and spaced apart by intermediate Spaces. According to the invention, the assembly is developed further by the fact that the intermediate Spaces between the light-emitting diodes comprise a heat-resistant or fire-resistant or non-combustible material and/or that a front panel comprising a heat-resistant or fire-resistant or non-combustible material is provided. The invention also relates to a video board.
US12046583B2
An element that is configured to bond to another element is disclosed. A first element that can include a first plurality of contact pads on a first surface. The first plurality of contact pads includes a first contact pad and a second contact pad that are spaced apart from one another. The first and second contact pads are electrically connected to one another for redundancy. The first element can be prepared for direct bonding. The first element can be bonded to a second element to form a bonded structure. The second element has a second plurality of contact pads on a second surface. At least one of the second plurality of contact pads is bonded and electrically connected to at least one of the first plurality of contact pads.
US12046579B2
A package includes a carrier substrate, a first die, and a second die. The first die includes a first bonding layer, a second bonding layer opposite to the first bonding layer, and an alignment mark embedded in the first bonding layer. The first bonding layer is fusion bonded to the carrier substrate. The second die includes a third bonding layer. The third bonding layer is hybrid bonded to the second bonding layer of the first die.
US12046570B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer formed from a strained silicon epitaxial layer, in which a lattice constant is greater than 5.461 at a temperature of 300K. The first mold compound resides over the active layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die.
US12046568B2
A package substrate is disclosed. The package substrate includes a die package in the package substrate located at least partially underneath a location of a power delivery interface in a die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Connection terminals are accessible on a surface of the die package to provide connection to the die that is coupled to the surface of the package substrate. Metal-insulator-metal layers inside the die package are coupled to the connection terminals.
US12046567B2
A semiconductor device includes a device wafer having a first side and a second side. The first and second sides are opposite to each other. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of first interconnect structures disposed on the first side of the device wafer. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of second interconnect structures disposed on the second side of the device wafer. The plurality of second interconnect structures comprise a first power rail and a second power rail. The semiconductor device includes a carrier wafer disposed over the plurality of first interconnect structures. The semiconductor device includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit formed over a side of the carrier wafer. The ESD protection circuit is operatively coupled to the first and second power rails.
US12046564B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate. A conductive layer is formed over the substrate and includes a ground plane. A first tab of the conductive layer extends from the ground plane and less than half-way across a saw street of the substrate. A shape of the first tab can include elliptical, triangular, parallelogram, or rectangular portions, or any combination thereof. An encapsulant is deposited over the substrate. The encapsulant and substrate are singulated through the saw street. An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding layer is formed over the encapsulant. The EMI shielding layer contacts the first tab of the conductive layer.
US12046559B2
A semiconductor memory stack connected to a processing unit, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the semiconductor memory stack may include one or more memory dies attached to and carried by a memory controller die—e.g., high-bandwidth memory. Further, a processing unit (e.g., a processor) may be attached to the memory controller die without an interposer to provide the shortest possible route for signals traveling between the semiconductor memory stack and the processing unit. In addition, the semiconductor memory stack and the processing unit can be attached to a package substrate without an interposer.
US12046557B2
An apparatus comprises a first metal feature in a first dielectric layer over a substrate, wherein a sidewall portion of the first dielectric layer is over a top surface of the first metal feature, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and a second metal feature extending through the second dielectric layer, wherein a bottom of a first portion of the second metal feature is in contact with the top surface of the first metal feature and a bottom of a second portion of the second metal feature is in contact with the sidewall portion of the first dielectric layer.
US12046555B2
In a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, an initial stack of sacrificial word line layers and insulating layers is formed over a substrate of the semiconductor device. The sacrificial word line layers and the insulating layers are disposed over the substrate alternately. A first staircase is formed in a first staircase region of a connection region of the initial stack. A second staircase is formed in a second staircase region of the connection region of the initial stack. The connection region of the initial stack includes a separation region between the first and second staircases, and the connection region is positioned between array regions of the initial stack at opposing sides of the initial stack.
US12046553B2
An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes electronic circuitry, an electronic fuse (eFuse) and a protection circuit. The eFuse is configured to be selectably programmed to a logical state. The electronic circuitry is configured to read the eFuse and to operate in accordance with the logical state read from the eFuse. The eFuse has a first range of operational voltages, and the electronic circuitry has a second range of operational voltages that is broader than the first range of operational voltages. The protection circuit is configured to prevent the electronic circuitry from misreading the logical state of the eFuse due to a voltage supply to the IC falling within the second operational voltage range but outside the first operational voltage range.
US12046544B2
A semiconductor device includes a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming an interconnect structure. In some embodiments, the forming of the interconnect structure includes forming a first patterned layer over a substrate, attaching a die attach film (DAF) to a permalloy device and transporting the permalloy device to the first patterned layer through a pick and place operation, forming a second patterned layer in the same tier as the permalloy device, and bonding a semiconductor die to the interconnect structure. In some embodiments, the second patterned layer is aligned with the first patterned layer, forming a third patterned layer over the second patterned layer and the permalloy device. In some embodiments, the first patterned layer, the second patterned layer and the third patterned layer collectively form a coil winding around the permalloy device.
US12046538B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, an integrated circuit layer on the semiconductor substrate, first to nth metal wiring layers (where n is a positive integer) sequentially stacked on the semiconductor substrate and the integrated circuit layer, a first through via structure extending in a vertical direction toward the semiconductor substrate from a first via connection metal wiring layer, which is one of the second to nth metal wiring layers other than the first metal wiring layer, and passing through the semiconductor substrate, and a second through via structure being apart from the first through via structure, extending in a vertical direction toward the semiconductor substrate from a second via connection metal wiring layer, which is one of the second to nth metal wiring layers other than the first metal wiring layer, and passing through the semiconductor substrate may be provided.
US12046537B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) chip comprising a front-end-of-line (FEOL) through semiconductor-on-substrate via (TSV), as well as a method for forming the IC chip. In some embodiments, a semiconductor layer overlies a substrate. The semiconductor layer may, for example, be or comprise a group III-V semiconductor and/or some other suitable semiconductor(s). A semiconductor device is on the semiconductor layer, and a FEOL layer overlies the semiconductor device. The FEOL TSV extends through the FEOL layer and the semiconductor layer to the substrate at a periphery of the IC chip. An intermetal dielectric (IMD) layer overlies the FEOL TSV and the FEOL layer, and an alternating stack of wires and vias is in the IMD layer.
US12046515B2
A semiconductor device may be formed by forming a first fin and a second fin in a first area and a second area of a substrate, respectively; which may be followed by forming of a first dummy gate structure and a second dummy gate structure straddling the first fin and second fin, respectively and forming a sacrificial layer extending along a bottom portion of the second dummy gate structure. The first dummy gate structure may be replaced with a first metal gate structure, while the second dummy gate structure and the sacrificial layer may be replaced with a second metal gate structure.
US12046512B2
A semiconductor device may comprise a plurality of conductive lines and a plurality of contact plugs. The plurality of conductive lines may include a first conductive line a second conductive line. The plurality of contact plugs may include a first contact plug and a second contact plug. The first contact plug may have a first pillar portion and a first protruding portion protruding from a sidewall of the first pillar portion at a first depth, so as to be in alignment and contact with a sidewall of the first conductive line. The second contact plug may have a second pillar portion and a second protruding portion protruding from a sidewall of the second pillar portion at a second depth, so as to be in alignment and contact with a sidewall of the second conductive line.
US12046505B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device including a device substrate, a thinned device die with a device region over the device substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The device region includes an isolation portion, a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion, and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion with a contact layer and an active section. The contact layer resides over the BEOL portion, the active section resides over the contact layer, and the isolation portion resides over the contact layer to encapsulate the active section. The first mold compound resides over the device substrate, surrounds the thinned device die, and extends vertically beyond the thinned device die to define an opening over the thinned device die and within the first mold compound. The second mold compound fills the opening and directly connects the isolation portion of the thinned device die.
US12046493B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining the position of a substrate within a closed chamber, wherein the substrate is moved within the chamber by a transport system comprising at least one rotating shaft. A load-converting element is provided adjacent to at least one of the rotating shafts, wherein the load-converting element detects a load acting on the at least one rotating shaft and converts it into an electrical parameter. While no substrate is present on the at least one rotating shaft, a first output signal corresponding to a first value of the electrical parameter is measured. The output signal is then monitored and a presence of the substrate on the at least one rotating shaft is detected when the output signal differs from the first output signal by at least a predetermined amount.
US12046492B2
A transportation monitoring method is provided, including the following steps. A monitoring image of a robot blade outside a carrier is captured from a fixed field of view by an image capturing device. The robot blade is configured to move an item into or out of the carrier. Next, a sampling area is obtained from the monitoring image by a processing device. Also, a tilting state of the robot blade is determined according to the sampling area by the processing device. When the processing device determines that the robot blade is tilted, the processing device sends a warning signal. A transportation monitoring system is also provided.
US12046490B2
A bonding head for mounting components comprises a shaft and a housing part in which the shaft is supported. The bearing of the shaft enables a rotation of the shaft about an axis and a displacement of the shaft in the longitudinal direction of the axis by a predetermined stroke. The bonding head further comprises an electric motor with a stator attached to the housing part and a rotor attached to the shaft, an encoder for measuring the rotational position of the shaft, and a force generator for applying a force to the shaft. The stator comprises coils to which currents can be applied, the rotor comprises a plurality of permanent magnets. A length of the permanent magnets measured in the longitudinal direction of the axis is shorter or longer than an effective length of the coils measured in the longitudinal direction of the axis by at least the stroke.
US12046484B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a removal module using an electric field and a magnetic field so as to self-assemble, on cells arranged in a matrix form of an assembly substrate, semiconductor light-emitting elements introduced in a fluid accommodated in a chamber, and then remove a semiconductor light-emitting element mis-assembled with the assembly substrate comprises: a fluid supply unit for supplying the fluid; and a housing of which one side is connected to the fluid supply unit, an upper plate is adjacent to the assembly substrate, and a lower plate is adjacent to the chamber, wherein the upper plate has: a nozzle hole allowing communication between the inner space of the housing and the inner space of the chamber so that the fluid supplied from the fluid supply unit is injected at a site in which the semiconductor light-emitting element is mis-assembled on the assembly substrate; and one pair of partition parts facing each other with the nozzle hole as the center thereof.
US12046471B1
A method of performing HVPE heteroepitaxy comprises exposing a substrate to a carrier gas, a first precursor gas, a Group II/III element, and ternary-forming gasses (V/VI group precursor), to form a heteroepitaxial growth of a binary, ternary, and/or quaternary compound on the substrate; wherein the carrier gas is H2, wherein the first precursor gas is HCl, the Group II/III element comprises at least one of Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Ga, and In; and wherein the ternary-forming gasses comprise at least two or more of AsH3 (arsine), PH3 (phosphine), H2Se (hydrogen selenide), H2Te (hydrogen telluride), SbH3 (hydrogen antimonide, or antimony tri-hydride, or stibine), H2S (hydrogen sulfide), NH3 (ammonia), and HF (hydrogen fluoride); flowing the carrier gas over the Group II/III element; exposing the substrate to the ternary-forming gasses in a predetermined ratio of first ternary-forming gas to second ternary-forming gas (1tf:2tf ratio); and changing the 1tf:2tf ratio over time.
US12046468B2
Methods for depositing a silicon-germanium film on a substrate are described. The method comprises exposing a substrate to a silicon precursor and a germanium precursor to form a conformal silicon-germanium film. The substrate comprises at least one film stack and at least one feature, the film stack comprising alternating layers of silicon and silicon-germanium. The silicon-germanium film has a conformality greater than 50%.
US12046466B2
The inventive concept provides a method for treating a substrate. In an embodiment, the substrate treating method includes a treatment step of treating a residue on the substrate with a first fluid in a supercritical state and a second fluid in a supercritical state in a process space of a chamber, and the first fluid in the supercritical state and the second fluid in the supercritical state have different densities.
US12046465B2
The inventive substrate treatment method includes: an organic solvent supplying step of supplying an organic solvent having a smaller surface tension than a rinse liquid to the upper surface of a substrate so that rinse liquid adhering to the upper surface of the substrate is replaced with the organic solvent; a higher temperature maintaining step of maintaining the upper surface of the substrate at a predetermined temperature higher than the boiling point of the organic solvent to thereby form a gas film of the organic solvent on the entire upper surface of the substrate including the gap of the minute pattern and to form a liquid film of the organic solvent on the gas film, the higher temperature maintaining step being performed after the organic solvent supplying step is started; and an organic solvent removing step of removing the organic solvent liquid film from the upper surface of the substrate.
US12046464B2
A substrate cleaning composition, a method of cleaning a substrate using the same, and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the same, the substrate cleaning composition including a styrene copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1-1a and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 1-1b; an additive represented by Formula 2-1; and an alcoholic solvent having a solubility of 500 g/L or less in deionized water,
US12046459B2
A heater component has a substrate part and a thin coating heater which is equipped outside this substrate part and generates heat by power supply. The thin coating heater is formed of a thermal sprayed coating. The thin coating heater has a heater body and a heater extension part. The heater body is arranged on a first end face of the substrate part. The heater extension part is extended from the heater body to a second end face of the substrate part through a side surface of the substrate part. A tip part of the heater extension part is a heater power supplying part for supplying electric power to the heater body.
US12046445B2
An electron beam inspection apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition mechanism to acquire a secondary electron image by scanning a substrate, on which a figure pattern is formed, with an electron beam, and detecting a secondary electron emitted due to irradiation with the electron beam by the scanning, a resize processing unit to perform, using design pattern data being a basis of the figure pattern, resize processing on the figure pattern to enlarge its size in a scan direction of the electron beam, a first developed image generation unit to generate, using the design pattern data which has not been resized, a first developed image by developing an image of a design pattern of a region corresponding to the secondary electron image, a second developed image generation unit to generate, using partial patterns enlarged by the resize processing in the figure pattern having been resized, a second developed image by developing an image of partial patterns in a region corresponding to the secondary electron image, a map generation unit to generate a pseudo defect candidate pixel map which can identify a pseudo defect candidate pixel that has no pattern in the first developed image and has a pattern in the second developed image, a reference image generation unit to generate a reference image of the region corresponding to the second electron image, and a comparison unit to compare, using the pseudo defect candidate pixel map, the second electron image with the reference image of the region corresponding to the second electron image.
US12046437B2
A fuse element assembly has been disclosed. The fuse element assembly includes a fuse element having a pair of side edges and at least one weak spot between the side edges. The fuse element assembly also includes an arc-quenching material attached locally to the fuse element adjacent the weak spot.
US12046434B2
Disclosed are an arc path generation unit and a direct current relay including the same. An arc path generation unit according to various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a Halbach array or a magnet part which forms a magnetic field in a space part for accommodating fixed contacts. The formed magnetic field forms an electromagnetic force, together with the current flowing a direct current relay. The formed electromagnetic force may induce generated arcs. The electromagnetic force formed near each fixed contact is formed in a direction going away from each fixed contact. Therefore, the generated arcs do not meet each other, and thus can be effectively suppressed and discharged.
US12046433B2
The application provides an electrical system with online sampling and check function and its check method for high-voltage and medium-voltage electrical equipment, including electrical equipment, gas density relay, gas density sensor, temperature regulation mechanism, online check contact signal sampling unit and intelligent control unit. The temperature rise and fall of the temperature compensation element of the gas density relay is regulated through the temperature regulation mechanism to enable the contact action of the gas density relay of electrical equipment. The contact action is transmitted to the intelligent control unit through the online check contact signal sampling unit. The intelligent control unit detects the alarm and/or blocking contact signal operating value and/or return value according to the density value of the contact action; the check of the gas density relay can be completed without maintenance personnel on site, which greatly improves the reliability of the power grid and the work efficiency, and reduces the O&M cost. At the same time, it also realizes the mutual self-inspection between gas density relay and gas density sensor, and further realizes the maintenance-free.
US12046430B2
A switch that includes a droplet capable of spreading between two conductors to allow them to be coupled when a voltage is applied. The droplet can be enclosed by a cap that is bonded to a wafer that the droplet is placed upon, and include metallic properties. The cap can create a cavity that may be filled by a fluid, gas, or vapor. The cavity can have multiple conductors that extend partially or fully through it. The droplet can couple the conductors when specific voltages, or frequencies are applied to them. At the specific voltage and frequency, the droplet can spread, allowing at least two conductors to be coupled.
US12046423B2
The present disclosure relates to a wound electrical component comprising a wound body comprising a plurality of wound layers of a web of an electrically insulating material around a longitudinal axis of the body. The wound body comprises a plurality of electrically conducting layers of an electrically conducting material, each printed onto a respective separate area of the web in the wound body. An edge zone of at least one of the plurality of electrically conducting layers is connected to a printed high permittivity layer of a high permittivity material along said edge zone such that at least a part of the high permittivity layer extends, printed on the web, beyond the edge zone.
US12046421B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers, wherein, wherein a central portion of the capacitance formation portion is Aa, a boundary portion of the capacitance formation portion, adjacent to the cover portions, is Ab, a dielectric grain size corresponding to the top 50% of dielectric grains, in order of enlargement, from the smallest grain size, among a plurality of dielectric grains included in Aa, is D50a, and a dielectric grain size corresponding to the top 50% of dielectric grains, in order of enlargement, from the smallest grain size, among a plurality of dielectric grains included in Ab, is D50b, D50a satisfies 190 nm or less and D50b satisfies 120 nm or greater.
US12046416B2
The present application relates to a composite material. According to the present application, a composite material having high magnetic permeability and excellent other physical properties such as flexibility, electrical insulation, mechanical properties and/or resistance to heat or oxidation can be provided in a simple and economical process.
US12046410B2
The invention comprises an apparatus, comprising: an inductor, comprising: an inductor core and a winding comprising a wound shape around the inductor core, where the winding comprises a first cross-sectional area at a first longitudinal position along the winding and a second cross-sectional area at a second longitudinal position along the winding, the second cross-sectional area at least twenty percent larger than the first cross-sectional area. Optionally and preferably, the winding includes a first set of cast elements sharing a first geometric shape and a second set of cast elements sharing a second geometric shape, where the alternating members of the first set of cast elements and the second set of cast elements are welded together to form the winding.
US12046409B2
A transformer and a switch-mode power supply are provided. The transformer includes: a magnetic core structure; several windings that surround a same magnetic cylinder in the magnetic core structure in a stacked manner, where the several windings include at least one primary-side winding and at least one secondary-side winding; and an electromagnetic shielding layer that is disposed between at least two adjacent windings, where the two adjacent windings are a primary-side winding and a secondary-side winding, and the electromagnetic shielding layer is made of a magnetic material. The electromagnetic shielding layer of the transformer can suppress a noise current of the winding, to reduce noise.
US12046404B2
A planar array coil includes a multilayer substrate at which a plurality of coils are formed and arranged on a plane of the multilayer substrate. First ends of the plurality of coils are connected to switching circuit units of a power conversion circuit, and second ends of the plurality of coils are connected to a common output part. The coils include two coil parts in which currents flow in opposite rotation directions, and one coil part of one coil is adjacent to one coil part of another coil. The plurality of coils are connected such that operation of switching circuits causes currents in regions of adjacent coil parts that extend in parallel to each other to flow in the same direction. Accordingly, adverse effects by unwanted coupling between adjacent coils are reduced and a switching power supply device that includes the planar array coil performs stable power conversion operations.
US12046403B2
A stacked inductor device including an 8-shaped inductor structure a stacked coil. The 8-shaped inductor structure includes a first coil and a second coil. The first coil is disposed in a first area. The first coil includes a first sub-coil and a second sub-coil, and the first sub-coil and the second sub-coil are disposed with an interval circularly with each other. The second coil is disposed in a second area, and the second coil is coupled with the first coil on a boundary between the first area and the second area. The second coil includes a third sub-coil and a fourth sub-coil, and the third sub-coil and the fourth sub-coil are disposed with an interval circularly with each other. The stacked coil is coupled to the first coil and the second coil and is stacked partially on or under the first coil and the second coil.
US12046393B2
A superconductive wire according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a first substrate made of a conductive material, a first intermediate layer made of a conductive material and disposed on the first substrate, and a first superconductive layer made of a superconductive material and disposed on the first intermediate layer. The second member includes a second substrate made of a conductive material, a second intermediate layer made of a conductive material and disposed on the second substrate, and a second superconductive layer made of a superconductive material and disposed on the second intermediate layer. The first member and the second member are stacked along a thickness direction of the superconductive wire so that the first superconductive layer and the second superconductive layer face each other. The first superconductive layer is electrically connected to the second superconductive layer.
US12046392B2
A transparent conductive film (10) that has a substrate (14) having a surface (14a, 14b), a nanowire layer (12, 12a) over one or more portions of the surface (14a, 14b) of the substrate (14), and a conductive layer (16, 16a) on the portions comprising the nanowire layer (12, 12a), the conductive layer (16, 16a) comprising carbon nanotubes (CNT) and a binder.
US12046390B2
A novel dopant according to the present disclosure includes an anion represented by the following Formula (1) and a counter cation. In Formula (1), R1 and R2 may be each at least one group selected from a nitro group, a cyano group, an acyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a haloalkyl group, a sulfo group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an halosulfonyl group, and a haloalkylsulfonyl group, or may be a group formed by R1 and R2 bonded to each other [—SO2-L-SO2—] (where L represents a haloalkylene group). The counter cation may be a radical cation represented by Formula (2), where R1 and R2 represent electron-withdrawing groups that may be bonded to each other to form a heterocycle, and R3 to R5 represent a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent, or a heterocyclic group that may have a substituent. The dopant is capable of forming an electroconductive composition that shows a high conductivity.
US12046384B2
A passive venting arrangement for use in venting gases produced by radioactive materials. The arrangement includes a source gas region for receiving the gases and a filter ullage region disposed above the source gas region and segregated therefrom. A removable lid includes the filter ullage region and a plurality of bore holes. Each bore hole extends between, and fluidly couples, the source gas region and the filter ullage region. The arrangement also includes a plurality of filters disposed in contact with the filter ullage region. Each filter is structured to provide for an exchange of gases from the filter ullage region through the filter to an ambient environment.
US12046383B2
A radiation shielding device comprising of radiation shielding material and a switchable magnet device that is at least partially disposed within the radiation shielding material. The switchable magnet device may include a plurality of permanent magnets and an actuator that adjusts an orientation of at least one of the polarities of permanent magnets to switch the switchable magnet device between an on configuration in which the switchable magnet device produces a net attractive force and an off configuration in which the switchable magnet device produces substantially reduced magnetic force.
US12046378B2
A sensor system for a fuel rod including a fuel pellet stack, the sensor system including a wireless interrogator disposed outside the fuel rod and a passive sensor component disposed within the fuel rod. The passive sensor component includes a receiver structured to receive an interrogation signal and output an excitation signal in response to receiving the interrogation signal, a reference transmitter structured to output a reference signal to the reference receiver in response to the excitation signal, a sensing transmitter structured to output a sensing signal to the sensing receiver in response to the excitation signal, and a core at least partially disposed within the sensing transmitter and coupled to move in conjunction with expansion or contraction of the fuel pellet stack, to move based on changes in pressure within the fuel rod, or to change temperature based on temperature changes within the fuel rod.
US12046371B2
Method of predicting a response of a subject to food is disclosed. The method comprises: selecting a food to which a response of the subject is unknown; accessing a first database having data describing the subject but not a response of the subject to the selected food; accessing a second database having data pertaining to responses of other subjects to foods, the responses of the other subjects including responses of at least one other subject to the selected food or a food similar to said selected food; and analyzing the databases based on the selected food to estimate the response of the subject to the selected food.
US12046367B2
Disclosed herein is a medical image reading assistant apparatus that provides hanging protocols based on a medical artificial neural network. The medical image reading assistant apparatus includes a computing system, and the computing system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire or receive a first analysis result obtained through the inference of a first artificial neural network from a first medical image, to generate a first display setting based on the first analysis result, and to execute the first display setting so that the first medical image and the first analysis result are displayed on a screen based on the first display setting.
US12046365B2
A radio wave transmitting/receiving device is placed in a vehicle in such a way that the device is near the back of the seated person, and no discomfort is caused to the back of the seated person. The vehicle seat includes a seat cushion and a seatback connected to a rear part of the seat cushion. The seatback comprises a seatback frame including a left and a right side frame portion extending vertically, and an upper frame portion extending laterally between upper ends of the side frame portions, a pressure receiving member consisting of a plate member configured to support a back of a seated person and provided with a radio wave transmissive property, and supported by the seatback frame via an elastic member, and a radio wave transmitting/receiving device supported on a back surface of the pressure receiving member to irradiate radio wave to a seated person and receive radio wave reflected by the seated person.
US12046355B2
A medical imaging study comprising a plurality of medical images having been acquired by an imaging apparatus for a given patient are received, and a plurality of data arrays representing the plurality of medical images are generated. A request to display a given image is received from a client device. Benchmark testing with the client device is performed to obtain an indication of a performance of at least one of the client device and a communication link. A given compression algorithm from a set of compression algorithms is selected based on the indication of the performance, and used to compress a set of data arrays comprising a representation of the given image to obtain a set of compressed arrays. The set of compressed arrays are transmitted to the client device, the set of compressed arrays comprising the representation of the given image to be generated by a browser application.
US12046347B2
Example embodiments may relate systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media configured to correlate image data of a user performing physical activity with data collected during the user's performance. Data may include sensor data measuring, force, acceleration, speed, and/or processed sensor data from one or more sensors. Certain embodiments may determine whether the user is within a performance zone based on user attributes. Correlation of the image data with physical activity data may be based, at least in part, whether the user is within a performance zone.
US12046344B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are provided for assisting users with adherence to a medication regimen. An attachable device includes a sensor module releasably attached to an adapter, which is in turn attached to a medication container using a connector. The sensor module can be removed from the adapter to change an included battery without removing the adapter from the medication container. The sensor module is in communication with a user device, such as a smart phone. A user can use an app on the user device to create a medicine regimen, or schedule, and send the schedule to the sensor module. The user can also set notification preferences on the user device to be sent to the sensor module. The sensor module includes audio and/or visual transducers that notify the user to take the medication at the scheduled times. The sensor module further includes one or more buttons that are pressed when a user opens the medication container. The button(s) are configured so the action of the user required to open the container also presses at least one button. The sensor module records the actions of the user, including when the medication container is opened, when a dose of the medication is missed, and when the user presses a mood indication button. The user actions can be transmitted to the user device, which can then transmit the recorded actions to a server. The sensor module may be configured to attempt communication with the user device on a periodic basis to conserve battery life.
US12046343B1
Systems and methods for identifying Good Faith Dispensing red flags, as well as evidence to support the validity of a prescriptions for any red flags, associated a patient's attempting to fill a prescription for a controlled substance based on input from pharmacists as well as patient information coordinated across a network of pharmacies are provided herein. An exemplary computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to dispense a medication prescribed to a patient, collecting information associated with the patient, and identifying, based on one or more of the medication and the information associated with the patient, one or more red flags associated with dispensing the medication to the patient. The method may further include determining, based on the one or more identified red flags associated with dispensing the medication to the patient, whether dispensing the medication to the patient would violate any regulations, and if so, preventing the dispensing of the medication to the patient.
US12046337B1
Methods and systems disclosed to provide drug pricing information for display on a graphical user interface (GUI). The methods and systems may receive an electronic request that includes a first set of information that identifies a user, identifies a plurality of different pharmacy locations, and a prescription drug and omits a second set of information corresponding to a prescription for the prescription drug. The first set of information is transmitted to a database management module to access drug pricing information for the prescription drug for each of the pharmacy locations. The module compares the drug pricing information for each of the pharmacy locations, determines a potential savings based on comparing the prescription drug price between each of the pharmacy locations, and identifies the pharmacy location having the lowest price for the prescription drug and the potential savings for display via the GUI executing on the electronic device.
US12046324B2
A memory circuit includes an array of memory cells arranged with first word lines connected to a first sub-array storing less significant bits of data and second word lines connected to a second sub-array storing more significant bits of data. A row decoder circuit coupled to the first and second word lines generates word line signals. A word line gating circuit is configured to selectively gate passage of the word line signals to the second word lines for the second sub-array in response to assertion of a maximum value signal. A data modification circuit performs a mathematical operation on data read from the array of memory cells, and asserts the maximum value signal if the mathematical operation performed on the less significant bits of data from the first sub-array produces a maximum data value.
US12046321B2
A compilation method includes the following: receiving a signal to be compiled and a resistance matching signal; performing compilation processing on the signal to be compiled to obtain a compilation result signal; and in the case where the signal to be compiled is a reserved code, performing compatibility selection processing on the compilation result signal according to the resistance matching signal to determine a first compiled value.
US12046316B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for detecting a state of a bus are described. A memory device may fail to receive or decode (e.g., successfully receive or successfully decode) an access command transmitted to the memory device via a bus. The bus may enter or remain in an idle state which may cause indeterminate signals to develop on the idle bus. A host device may obtain the indeterminate signals from the idle bus and determine that the indeterminate signals include an error based on a signal that develops on a control line of the idle bus. The signal may be associated with a control signal that indicates errors in a data signal when the control signal has a first voltage, and the control line may be configured to have the first voltage when the bus is idle.
US12046312B2
An eFuse one-time programmable (OTP) memory is provided. The eFuse OTP memory supports inter integrated circuit (I2C) communication, and an operation method thereof. The eFuse OTP memory includes: an eFuse intellectual property (IP) which data writes once and data reads multiple times for a plurality of addresses; and an I2C slave which communicates with an I2C master based on a serial clock line and a serial data line, and performs the data write and the data read to and from the eFuse IP.
US12046306B2
The memory device that includes a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. A controller is in electrical communication with the plurality of memory cells. During programming, the controller detects a temperature of the memory device. The controller then programs the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines in a plurality of program loops until programming is completed or until the plurality of program loops is greater than a maximum number of program loops. The maximum number of program loops is dependent on the temperature that is detected.
US12046301B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a buffer which outputs a memory control signal to a terminal coupled to a memory device, a power supply control circuit which controls a supply of a power supply voltage from a power supply line to the buffer based on a power control signal, a pull-up control circuit configured to control a pull-up of the terminal based on a pull-up control signal, and a control signal generating circuit. The control signal generating circuit generates, during an output period, the power control signal to supply the power supply voltage to the buffer, and the pull-up control signal to stop the pull-up of the terminal, and generates, during an idle period, the power control signal to stop the supply of the power supply voltage to the buffer, and the pull-up control signal to perform the pull-up of the terminal.
US12046299B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure may be used to improve equalization module architectures for NAND cell read information. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure may provide for de-noising of NAND cell read information using a Multiple Shallow Threshold-Expert Machine Learning Models (MTM) equalizer. An MTM equalizer may include multiple shallow machine learning models, where each machine learning model is trained to specifically solve a classification task (e.g., a binary classification task) corresponding to a weak decision range between two possible read information values for a given NAND cell read operation. Accordingly, during inference, each read sample with a read value within a weak decision range is passed through a corresponding shallow machine learning model (e.g., a corresponding threshold expert) that is associated with (e.g., trained for) the particular weak decision range.
US12046294B2
To prevent loss of data due to a word line to memory hole short (or another defect), it is proposed to perform an erase process for a plurality of memory cells, detect that a subset of the plurality of memory cells are slow to erase, and prevent successfully programming for at least some of the memory cells that are slow to erase. This technique uses the erase process to predict future word line to memory hole shorts and prevent programming of memory cells predicted to have a future word line to memory hole short so no data will be lost when the short manifests.
US12046287B2
A memory device includes a memory cell region including a first metal pad, a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first and second metal pads, a memory cell array in the memory cell region including cell strings including memory cells, word lines respectively connected to the memory cells, bit lines connected to one side of the cell strings, and a ground selection line connected to the cell strings, a control logic in the peripheral circuit region including a precharge control circuit for controlling precharge on partial cell strings among the cell strings and controlling a plurality of data program steps on the memory cells, and a row decoder in the peripheral circuit region for activating at least some of the word lines in response to a control of the control logic.
US12046282B2
The invention is notably directed to a device comprising a plurality of resistive memory elements. The plurality of resistive memory elements comprises a resistive material. The device is configured to apply programming pulses to a subset of the plurality of resistive memory elements to perform a temporary resistance change of the resistive material of the subset for a predefined retention period, thereby programming the subset of the plurality of resistive elements from a first resistance state corresponding to a first binary state to a second resistance state corresponding to a second binary state. The device is configured such that a resistance of the subset of the plurality of resistive elements reverts automatically during the predefined retention period from the second resistance state to the first resistance state by an inherent material property of the resistive material, thereby automatically deleting the second binary state.
US12046275B2
A static random-access memory (SRAM) includes a SRAM cell module, comprising a plurality of SRAM cell partitions, and an initialization register, containing data configured to control initialization of at least some of the plurality of partitions during an initialization phase. The SRAM also includes a control module coupled with the SRAM cell module and the initialization register, configured to read the initialization register during the initialization phase, and to selectively initialize a portion of the plurality of SRAM cell partitions, based at least in part on the data contained within the initialization register.
US12046270B2
A memory includes: a plurality of memory banks suitable for storing data; a read peripheral region including circuits suitable for transferring data that are read from one memory bank among the memory banks to a memory controller during a read operation; a write peripheral region including circuits suitable for transferring write data that are transferred from the memory controller to one memory bank among the memory banks during a write operation; and a self-refresh counter circuit suitable for activating a self-refresh read signal for activating the read peripheral region whenever a self-refresh operation is performed N times, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1.
US12046262B2
Systems and methods are described for retrieval and output of content in a way that addresses concerns with storing multiple copies or versions of a piece of content. The piece of content may have associated computer instructions that allow the client to access alternate portions of the piece of content during consumption. This allows the content provider to store a single copy of the complete piece of content while enabling consumers to access alternate audio or video portions of the content. A new playback architecture may execute instructions associated with a piece of content. Instructions associated with a piece of content may directly affect consumption by the consumer client and may be dependent upon user preferences or interests.
US12046257B1
An exclusive operation approach, in the context of background activity processes among multiple LUNs corresponding to a multi-actuator hard disk drive, can avoid related power peaks by controlling background operations so that they are not permitted to run concurrently across different LUNs. Managing the progress of one or more background activities such as background media scan (BMS) for each LUN, including aligning the progress of the background activity among multiple LUNs, can reduce power consumption of a multi-actuator drive.
US12046251B2
An interpolation filtering system implemented by a digital circuit is provided, it includes an interpolation filtering operation controller, a cascaded drive module, an intermediate result cache Random Access Memory (RAM), and a filter coefficient storage Read Only Memory (ROM). The intermediate result cache RAM is configured to store externally input data of the interpolation filtering system and intermediate results output by the filter operation modules. The filter coefficient storage ROM is configured to store filter coefficients required for calculation by the filter operation modules. The interpolation filtering operation controller is configured to control, under the drive of counting beats output by the cascaded drive module, the master state machine to select data of the intermediate result cache TAM or externally directly input data to be sent to the cascaded filter operation modules for accumulation operation, and to select the filter coefficients of the filter coefficient storage ROM for multiplication operation.
US12046248B2
A system includes a server to generate a real-time stream of audio packets and a client device to decode and playback the audio content of the stream. The client device includes a network interface configured to receive a stream of audio packets via a network and a buffer configured to temporarily buffer a subset of audio packets of the stream. The client device further includes an audio decoder having an input to receive audio packets from the buffer and an output to provide corresponding segments of a decoded audio data stream. The client device also includes a stream monitoring module configured to provide an audio packet of the subset in the buffer which was previously decoded by the decoder to the input of the decoder again for a repeated decoding in place of a decoding of an audio packet that is lost or late.
US12046245B2
At least one target in a speech of a first speaker during an electronic conference is identified. A closest vector between the identified target and a group of possible matches for the target is determined. A most similar match for the identified target is determined based on a current usage context for the identified target, a history of stored information associated with the first speaker and the identified target, and the determined closest vector. The most similar match to a set of participants of the electronic conference is displayed.
US12046242B2
Audio message processing methods and apparatuses are provided, where a method may include a server recognizing types of communication messages transmitted between communicating counterparties; when a type of any communication message is an audio type, the server acquiring the any communication message, and converting the any communication message to corresponding text content; and upon determining that any communicating party has a conversion need for the any communication message, the server sending the text content to the any communicating party. Through technical solutions of the present disclosure, text conversion may be performed upon audio messages in advance, thereby increasing response speed for audio conversion requests of users.
US12046237B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a speech interaction method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring videos shot by a camera device in a target space and at least one channel of audio acquired by at least one audio acquisition device; determining to-be-recognized audio that respectively corresponds to each of the sound areas in the target space based on the at least one channel of audio; determining a target sound area from the target space based on the video and at least one channel of to-be-recognized audio; performing speech recognition on the at least one channel of to-be-recognized audio to obtain a recognition result; and controlling a speech interaction-targeting device in the target sound area for speech interaction in a preset mode according to the recognition result. The speech interaction method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present disclosure may detect a target object by the method of integration of an image and speech, a speech control mode corresponding to the target object is automatically entered according to a detection result, making objects on the speech recognition and corresponding speech control for various types more targeted, and helping to avoid misoperation caused by recognized sound of the target object during speech control.
US12046232B1
Systems and methods for determining contextual rules are described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus may identify a context datum and an interaction datum as a function of a user datum. In some embodiments, an apparatus may determine an interaction feature and a reaction datum as a function of an interaction datum. In some embodiments, an apparatus may determine a contextual rule as a function of the context datum, interaction feature, and reaction datum. In some embodiments, an apparatus may display a visual element to a user as a function of a contextual rule.
US12046231B2
A method for facilitating a multiparty conversation is disclosed. An electronic device using the method may facilitate a multiparty conversation by identifying participants of a conversation, localizing relative positions of the participants, detecting speeches of the conversation, matching one of the participants to each of the detected speeches according to the relative positions of the participants, counting participations of the matched participant in the conversation, identifying a passive subject from all the participants according to the participations of all the participants in the conversation, finding a topic of the conversation between the participants, and engaging the passive subject by addressing the passive subject and speaking a sentence related to the topic.
US12046227B2
A method for generating frame values using a key frame network includes receiving a text utterance having at least one phoneme, and for each respective phoneme of the at least one phoneme, predicting, using a predictive model, a fixed quantity of key frames. Each respective key frame of the fixed quantity of key frames includes a representation of a component of the respective phoneme. The method also includes generating, using the fixed quantity of key frames, a plurality of frame values. Here, each respective frame value of the plurality of frame values is representative of a fixed-duration of audio.
US12046226B2
A text-to-speech synthesis method comprising: receiving text; inputting the received text in a prediction network; and generating speech data, wherein the prediction network comprises a neural network, and wherein the neural network is trained by: receiving a first training dataset comprising audio data and corresponding text data; acquiring an expressivity score for each audio sample of the audio data, wherein the expressivity score is a quantitative representation of how well an audio sample conveys emotional information and sounds natural, realistic and human-like; training the neural network using a first sub-dataset, and further training the neural network using a second sub-dataset, wherein the first sub-dataset and the second sub-dataset comprise audio samples and corresponding text from the first training dataset and wherein the average expressivity score of the audio data in the second sub-dataset is higher than the average expressivity score of the audio data in the first sub-dataset.
US12046220B2
A marching carrier is worn by a percussion player and supports an instrument at a front of a body of the player. The marching carrier includes a belly plate that covers an abdomen region of the player and includes a belly pad in a section that contacts the abdomen region, and a carrier main body that is put on shoulders of the player and is fixed to the belly plate. The carrier main body includes shoulder pads in sections that contact the shoulders. The carrier main body includes a rod that includes two front extending portions. The front extending portions extend from the shoulders toward the abdomen region. The carrier main body is configured to adjust a position in a front-rear direction of the belly pad.
US12046212B2
A GOA circuit and a display panel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include multi-stage cascaded GOA units. Each GOA unit includes a pull-up control module, an output module, a stage transfer module, a pull-down module, and a pull-down maintenance module. The GOA circuit has a simple structure and can reduce a space occupied by a circuit layout while ensuring the circuit function. Therefore, an aperture ratio of the display panel is increased, and requirements for a narrow frame and a high resolution for the display panel are met.
US12046211B2
The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a terminal portion, a switching transistor, a driver circuit portion, and a pixel circuit portion including a pixel transistor and a plurality of pixels, a second substrate provided with a common electrode electrically connected to the terminal portion through the switching transistor, and liquid crystal between a pixel electrode and the common electrode. In a period during which a still image is switched to a moving image, the following steps are sequentially performed: a first step of supplying the common potential to the common electrode; a second step of supplying a power supply voltage to the driver circuit portion; a third step of supplying a clock signal to the driver circuit portion; and a fourth step of supplying a start pulse signal to the driver circuit portion.
US12046210B2
Provided is an array substrate including: a first base, wherein the first base is provided with a plurality of pixel regions, and the pixel region includes a white sub-pixel region and at least two color sub-pixel regions; and a plurality of photosensitive devices disposed on the first base, wherein an orthographic projection of the photosensitive device onto the first base at least partially overlaps with the white sub-pixel region. A liquid crystal display panel and a display apparatus are also provided.
US12046198B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in m rows and n columns, where the pixels receive write scan signals, data voltages and compensation scan signals, a plurality of write scan lines which provides the write scan signals to the pixels, a plurality of data lines which provides the data voltages to the pixels, and a plurality of compensation scan lines which provides the compensation scan signals to the pixels, wherein in h-th to p-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels arranged in first to i-th rows, and in h-th to (h+k)-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels of a row unit by increasing sequentially the number of the row unit to which the data voltages are applied in at least one row unit from an i-th row to an (i+1)-th row.
US12046195B2
A display substrate, including a base substrate, and a driving circuit layer and light emitting elements formed on the base substrate, and in a same pixel circuit, an active general layer includes a first column-wise active portion including active layers of the a data writing transistor and the a first light emission control transistor, and a first active connection portion, an orthographic projection of the first active connection portion on the base substrate at least partially overlapping an orthographic projection of a corresponding power supply line on the base substrate, a dimension of the first active connection portion in a row direction of pixel units being less than a dimension of the active layer of the data writing transistor in the row direction, and a dimension of the active layer of the first light emission control transistor in the row direction. A display panel is further provided.
US12046193B2
An application processor includes a main processor and a display controller controlled by the main processor. The display controller controls a display device that is located outside the application processor and operates based on a variable frame rate scheme, receives an event signal associated with a frame update of the display device, adjusts a frame rate of the display device based on the event signal, records timing information associated with the frame update of the display device based on the event signal, and provides the timing information to the main processor.
US12046182B2
The present disclosure provides a compensation control method and a display device. The method includes in a standstill phase, controlling the display panel to stand still; after the standstill phase ends, sensing, by the timing controller, characteristic values of each row of the pixel circuits in the display panel in a time division manner by controlling the gate driver and the source driver; setting a black insertion time period between time periods for sensing characteristic values of different rows of pixel circuits, during the black insertion time period, controlling, by the timing controller, the gate driver and the source driver, to display a black picture on the display panel.
US12046177B1
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display having a variable display area including: a visible first region, and a second region that is stowable/extendable, a display driver integrated circuit (DDI), and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: when the housing is disposed in a first state in which the second region is stowed, control the flexible display to display a user interface (UI) screen through the first region based on a first driving frequency and a first light emission frequency, control the flexible display to display a compensation image through the second region based on a second driving frequency and a second light emission frequency, wherein the second driving frequency is equal to or less than the first driving frequency, and the second light emission frequency is less than the first light emission frequency.
US12046176B2
A display panel includes a shift register, a pixel circuit, and a driving circuit. The shift register includes a first control unit, a second control unit, a third control unit, and a fourth control unit. The first control unit is configured to receive an input signal and control a signal of a first node in response to a first clock signal. The second control unit is configured to receive a first voltage signal and control a signal of a second node in response to the input signal and the first clock signal. The third control unit is configured to receive the first voltage signal and a second voltage signal and control a signal of a fourth node in response to the signal of the second node and a signal of a third node.
US12046171B2
The electronic display board system with a modified Ethernet network according to the present invention comprises a main controller 1 provided with a main Ethernet switch 10 comprising a first main port 101 and a second main port 102; and first to Nth display units D1, D2, . . . , DN (N is an integer of 2 or more) sequentially connected with each other by an Ethernet network to receive image data transmitted from the main controller 1 to output the data on a display module 21 or transmit the data to a neighboring display unit or the main controller 1, wherein the first to Nth display units D1, D2, . . . , DN each comprise a first sub-port 201 and a second sub-port 202 to receive a first image data transmitted from the second main port 102 to transmit the data in a forward direction and to receive a second image data transmitted from the first main port 101 to transmit the data in a reverse direction.
US12046167B2
An apparatus for inspecting a display panel for defects includes a table which supports the display panel, a laser excitation unit that irradiates a non-display area of the display panel with a point laser beam, a thermal wave detecting unit that generates thermal wave images of irradiated portions of the non-display area, a driving unit, and a control unit. A groove corresponding to an edge of the display panel may be defined in a top surface of the table. A defect, such as a crack, may be detected by comparing a defect pattern obtained from the thermal wave images with a pre-registered defect pattern.
US12046163B2
An electronic shelf label, which is arranged to be attached to a shelf, preferred to a shelf rail located at the front edge of a shelf floor, more preferred to form the shelf rail by itself and to be directly attached to the shelf floor, the electronic shelf label comprises: a display screen arranged on or as the front wall of the electronic shelf label to display content in the form of a still or video image, the display screen comprises a light source to provide a backlit for the display screen, and an illumination device, which is independently controllable form the light source and arranged to emit light from the electronic shelf label from a different wall than its front wall.
US12046156B2
Unsupervised machine scoring of free-response answers can be provided, eliminating the need to create a model answer. A scoring system can receive a set of free-response answers with associated response content and determine, from all the associated response content, a commonality content by identifying semantically related response content from the set of free-response answers. For each free-response answer, the scoring system can determine an amount of similarity between the associated response content for that free-response answer and the commonality content and assign a similarity value from the amount of similarity to that free-response answer. The amount of similarity indicates a degree of “correctness” of an answer and, according to an implementation, can be considered to be the distance of an embedding of a free-response answer from a vector-related average of all the free-response answers. The scoring system can provide the set of free-response answers and the corresponding assigned similarity values.
US12046150B2
In one embodiment, a bathymetry system includes a base slab, multiple spacer assemblies, a decking layer, multiple computer numerical control routed blocks, a waterproof coating, and multiple floor joints. The spacer assemblies are coupled with a top surface of the base slab, the decking layer is disposed on top surfaces of the spacer assemblies, the blocks are disposed on a top surface of the decking layer, floor joints are disposed between blocks and the decking layer, and the waterproof coating is disposed on top surfaces of the blocks. The top surfaces of the routed blocks are shaped so that the blocks collectively provide a bathymetry profile, such as a bottom contour of a riverbed.
US12046142B2
The methods, devices, and systems discussed herein periodically broadcast a signal containing an indicator to a first area that is near a potential safety scenario, such as an intersection. In some examples, the broadcast signal is part of a Synchronization System Block (SSB). In other examples, the broadcast signal is a System Information Block (SIB) message. Upon entering the first area and waking from an IDLE state, a mobile wireless communication device (WCD) receives the broadcast signal. In response to receiving the broadcast signal, the WCD activates a collision-avoidance procedure. In some examples, the collision-avoidance procedure includes sensing device-to-device (D2D) resources in order to detect D2D transmissions from an approaching D2D-capable device (e.g., a vehicle). In other examples, the collision-avoidance procedure includes transmitting a periodic D2D safety message using D2D resources.
US12046139B1
A vehicle parking management system includes one or more processors configured to receive data indicative of one or more characteristics of one or more parking locations. The one or more processors is also configured to determine one or more recommended parking locations of the one or more parking locations based on the data and based on an input related to a vehicle. The one or more processors is further configured to output a recommendation of the one or more recommended parking locations via a display screen to a driver of the vehicle.
US12046135B2
A traffic management system for controlling traffic flow in an area is provided. The system has sensors (10) positioned at respective junctions (2) in the area, forming a network of nodes (2). Software (25) processes the sensor signals to derive vehicle signatures indicative of a particular vehicle detected at the node at a particular time. This is used to track the progress of vehicles traveling across the network and derive vehicle statistics (60) as to traffic volumes (64), routes (66) and journey times (62) at various times. Artificial intelligence (AI) (80) trained on historical vehicle statistics arranged to predict traffic arriving at plural junctions at a future time based on receiving a current count of vehicles sensed at nodes in the network. Based on the prediction, a control plan for traffic lights (3) is determined to optimise traffic flow.
US12046133B2
A detection method of key road-sections based on Ricci flow is provided and includes: building a weighted road network according to static road network data and actual traffic flow data; calculating initial values of Olivier Ricci curvature at different times; obtaining a weight system of making edges of the weighted road network be with a same value of Olivier Ricci curvature by a Ricci flow iterative process; and calculating direction and degree of weight change of each of the edges corresponding to road-sections, and setting a threshold to extract key road-sections. The method solves problems that the existing methods analyze the key road-sections from the topological structure of the road network without fully considering the actual distribution and transmission characteristics of the traffic flow in the network, is simple and easy; and the detection result more meet the traffic distribution and the flow of the actual road-sections.
US12046127B2
A video doorbell and an automatic setting method thereof are provided. The video doorbell includes a bridge rectifying unit, a switch unit, and a processing unit. The bridge rectifying unit is configured to output a DC voltage when receiving an AC power from a transformer. During a chime type detection mode, the switch unit is configured to switch a path of the AC power for generating a short-circuit current to trigger a chime. After the short-circuit current is kept for a detection time, the short-circuit current is terminated. During the chime type detection mode, when the short-circuit current is terminated, the processing unit detects a rising time of the DC voltage rising from a first level to a second level, and determine whether the chime is an analog chime or a digital chime according to the rising time.
US12046122B1
Disclosed is a tracking method comprising: detecting, by a tracking device, a trigging event; automatically sending, by the tracking device, a notification associated with the trigging event to a principal device to determine whether to send a controlling signal to the tracking device; receiving, by the tracking device, the controlling signal from the principal device; and broadcasting, by the tracking device, one or more alarm signals associated with the trigging event to one or more affiliate device.
US12046120B1
According to some embodiments, a system is provided. The system comprises a computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises, receive alarm event data associated with an alarm event, store the alarm event data associated with the alarm event in at least one data store of the computing system, enforce an access control policy on the alarm event data stored in the at least one data store, the access control policy restricting access to the alarm event data based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the computing system, perform at least one analytics operation on the alarm event data associated with the alarm event, and update a value of a current alarm score based on an output of the at least one analytics operation.
US12046105B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for implementing free-for-all game session participation and administration including creating a game session hosted at a social platform, issuing a plurality of prizes, populating the issued prizes with quantities of a commodity, setting a task as a precondition to claiming the issued prizes, awarding prizes to claiming users from whose respective user devices the social platform received successful claims based on performance of the task, and disbursing each awarded prize. Example embodiments of the present disclosure implement collective activities which encourage participation by groups of people affiliated by friend and/or group relationships using token or nominal commodity prizes to provide incentives, and furthermore provide token levels of challenge to provide participants with entertainment. Friends, family, colleagues, and other such extended groups of people may be incentivized to participate for the sake of collective low-stakes competition without extensive investment.
US12046103B2
A convenience gaming system is provided. The convenience gaming system allows users to access applications via gaming communication devices coupled to a communication network. At least a portion of the network may be wireless. The gaming applications include gambling, financial, entertainment service, and other types of transactions. The system may include a user location determination feature to prevent users from conducting transactions from unauthorized areas.
US12046100B2
A system which enables a user to customize the user interface of a gaming terminal to present different content at different times and responsive to different triggering events.
US12046096B2
A switch monitors an access (A) to a machine or plant. The switch has a switching device (3) housing switching mechanism, an actuator device (2), and a push-button panel (12). The housing switching mechanism operatively connects to one or more circuits of the machine or plant. The actuator device (2) interacts with the switching mechanism at the opening/closing of the access (A). The push-button panel (12) has a shell (14) provided with controls (13) designed to operate on one or more of the circuits of the machine or plant. The shell anchors to a fixed part (F) of the access (A) to allow the rotation of the shell (14) around a rotation axis (R), so as to vary an orientation of the shell (14) with respect to the switching device (3) and/or to control and/or service circuits.
US12046091B2
An electronic handheld device includes a housing which has at least one housing element, including an electronics arrangement and a battery compartment, which is arranged in the housing element, for accommodating a flat battery. The battery compartment terminates with an insert opening of the battery compartment being located at an access surface of the housing element, wherein a circumferential sealing groove is formed on the housing element. The insert opening is closed by a sealing hood which is arranged on a restraint element. The sealing hood has an elastically deformable raised sealing portion.
US12046085B2
An apparatus that includes a parameter acquisition circuit, a parameter conditioning circuit, and a parameter storage circuit. The parameter acquisition circuit interprets a plurality of vehicle parameter values. The parameter conditioning circuit conditions the plurality of vehicle parameter values for storage in one or more cache devices. The parameter storage circuit stores the conditioned plurality of vehicle parameter values in the one or more cache devices.
US12046068B2
A method includes transmitting a request for a computer-readable routing diagram, such as a wiring diagram, a pneumatic or hydraulic line diagram, or an optical cable diagram. The method also includes receiving, in response to the request, a routing diagram including a connectable component and at least a portion of a routing set. The connectable component is associated with both a connectable component identifier and the routing set. The routing set contains one or more routable components, such as electrical circuits, pneumatic or hydraulic lines, or optical cables. Further, the method includes displaying, on a display, the routing diagram and at least the portion of the routing set highlighted. Displaying at least the portion of the routing set highlighted occurs in response to an occurrence of the connectable component being selected from the routing diagram displayed on the display or in response to the request including the connectable component identifier.
US12046063B2
The accuracy of existing machine learning models, software technologies, and computers are improved by using one or more machine learning models to map data inside structural elements, such as rows or columns, as found within a document to data objects of other documents, where the data objects are at least partially indicative of candidate categories that the data can belong to.
US12046059B2
An unrecognized item code is identified during a transaction at a transaction terminal. When the unrecognized code is determined to be associated with a typographical error, alternative corrected item codes are supplied to the transaction terminal to replace the unrecognized code. When the unrecognized code is determined to be missing from a product catalogue, an ordered list of most likely corrected item codes for the unrecognized code is provided to the transaction terminal for selection of one of the corrected item codes by an operator.
US12046056B2
A computer device obtains a to-be-annotated image having a first magnification. The device obtains an annotated image from an annotated image set, the annotated image distinct from the to-be-annotated image and having a second magnification that is distinct from with the first magnification. The annotated image set includes at least one annotated image. The device matches the to-be-annotated image with the annotated image to obtain an affine transformation matrix, and generates annotation information of the to-be-annotated image according to the affine transformation matrix and the annotated image. In this way, annotations corresponding to images at different magnifications may be migrated. For example, the annotations may be migrated from the low-magnification images to the high-magnification images, thereby reducing the manual annotation amount and avoiding repeated annotations, and further improving annotation efficiency and reducing labor costs.
US12046052B2
A method for detecting a lane line of a lane on a road using a lane detection device is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a lidar sensor, point data by scanning the surroundings of the lidar sensor, detecting one or more lane line points constituting the lane line from among a plurality of points included in the point data using a threshold set based on a driving situation of a driving vehicle equipped with the lane detection device, and detecting the lane line using the one or more lane line points.
US12046051B2
A system is provided that includes a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to: receive an image depicting a parking spot, determine a length of the parking spot based on a classified endpoint of the parking spot, compare the length to an average length, and determine an endpoint of the parking spot when the length is less than the average length, wherein the determined endpoint is distal to the classified endpoint.
US12046048B2
A device may receive accelerometer data and video data for a vehicle and may identify bounding boxes and object classes for objects near the vehicle. The device may identify tracks for the objects and may filter out tracks that are not associated with vehicles or vulnerable road users to generate one or more tracks or an indication of no tracks. The device may generate a collision cone identifying a drivable area of the vehicle to identify objects more likely to be involved in a collision and may filter out tracks from the one or more tracks, based on the bounding boxes, and to generate a subset of tracks or another indication of no tracks. The device may determine scores for the subset of tracks and may identify a track of the subset of tracks with a highest score. The device may perform actions based on the identified track.
US12046046B2
A vision sensing system of a vehicle comprising a camera, an object detection module, and a calibration module. The object detection module is configured to detect a first object in data received from the camera. The calibration module is configured to calibrate the object detection module to detect the first object in the presence of a second object that obstructs a view of the camera and that includes a predetermined pattern sensed by the camera. A driver monitoring system for a vehicle comprises a camera and a driver monitoring module. The camera is arranged proximate to a steering wheel of the vehicle to monitor a face of a driver of the vehicle. The driver monitoring module is configured to detect an obstruction between the camera and the face of the driver and to ignore the obstruction in response to the obstruction including a predetermined pattern sensed by the camera.
US12046039B2
One or more highlights of a video stream may be identified. The highlights may be segments of a video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest to one or more users. According to one method, at least a portion of the video stream may be stored. The portion of the video stream may be compared with templates of a template database to identify the one or more highlights. Each highlight may be a subset of the video stream that is deemed likely to match the one or more templates. The highlights, an identifier that identifies each of the highlights within the video stream, and/or metadata pertaining particularly to the one or more highlights may be stored to facilitate playback of the highlights for the users.
US12046023B2
Generating soft labels used for training a unified model is achieved by unification of models having respective target classes with distillation. A collection of samples is prepared. Predictions are generated by individual trained models. Individual trained models have an individual class set to form a unified class set that includes target classes. The unified soft labels are estimated for each sample over the target classes in the unified class set from the predictions using a relation connecting a first output of each individual trained model and a second output of the unified model. The unified soft labels are output to train a unified model having the unified class set.
US12046017B2
A computer-implemented method can include receiving, by a computing system including one or more computing devices, data describing a media content item that includes a plurality of image frames for sequential display. The method can include inputting, by the computing system, the data describing the media content item into a machine-learned temporal analysis model that is configured to receive the data describing the media content item, and in response to receiving the data describing the media content item, output temporal analysis data that describes temporal information associated with sequentially viewing the plurality of image frames of the media content item. The method can include receiving, by the computing system and as an output of the machine-learned temporal analysis model, the temporal analysis data.
US12046009B2
A graph dictionary learning method for a 3D point cloud comprises: obtaining N point clouds to form training dataset; performing voxelization process on the point cloud data to obtain voxelized point cloud data of the training dataset; performing voxel block division on the point cloud data of the training dataset, selecting a plurality of voxel blocks as the training dataset, and constructing a graph dictionary learning model according to the training dataset; and performing iterative optimization on the graph dictionary learning objective function to obtain a graph dictionary for encoding and decoding a 3D point cloud signal. The present disclosure effectively uses the spatial correlation between point cloud signals to near-optimally remove the redundancy among point cloud signals.
US12046007B2
The present invention discloses a processing method of an event data stream, which is from a dynamic vision sensor, the method comprises steps of: acquiring inertial measurement parameters, which corresponds to one segment of the event data stream for generating one frame of image; determining attitude angle data based on the acquired inertial measurement parameters and calibration parameters of the dynamic vision sensor; generating a transformation matrix based on the determined attitude angle data; processing the one segment of the event data stream using the transformation matrix, to generate the processed event data stream. The present invention also discloses a corresponding computing apparatus.
US12046006B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise receiving a LIDAR scan of a scene from a LIDAR of a vehicle with the scene comprising a board, detecting the board in the LIDAR scan, fitting a plane through LIDAR coordinates corresponding to the detected board, projecting the plane from the LIDAR coordinates to a first set of camera coordinates, detecting the board in a camera image from a camera of the vehicle at a second set of camera coordinates, and calibrating the LIDAR of the vehicle and the camera of the vehicle by determining a transform between the first set of camera coordinates and the second set of camera coordinates.
US12046005B2
A transcranial magnetic stimulation diagnostic and treatment device includes a horizontal translation platform, a base, an articulated robot, a TMS coil, a 3D camera, and a computer, where the base is provided with a controller, and the controller is respectively electrically connected to the horizontal translation platform, the articulated robot, the 3D camera, and the computer; the articulated robot and the horizontal translation platform are both provided above the base; a clamping part of the articulated robot clamps the TMS coil. The data of the head of a patient is acquired by the 3D camera, modeling is performed by the computer on the head of the patient, a position of a stimulation target on the head of the patient is determined, and the TMS coil is moved by the articulated robot to the stimulation target on the head of the patient to carry out magnetic stimulation treatment.
US12046002B1
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for depth guided structure from motion. A system may obtain a plurality of image frames from a digital content item that corresponds to a scene and determine, based at least in part on a correspondence search, a set of 2-D keypoints for the plurality of image frames. A depth estimator may be used to determine a plurality of dense depth map for the plurality of image frames. The set of 2-D keypoints and the plurality of dense depth maps may be used to determine a corresponding set of depth priors. Initialization and/or depth-regularized optimization may be performed using the keypoints and depth priors.
US12046000B2
A learning device makes an object detection device learn how to detect an object from an input image. A feature extraction unit performs feature extraction from input images including real images and pseudo images to generate feature maps, and the object detection unit detects objects included in the input images based on the feature maps. The domain identification unit identifies the domains forming the input images and generates domain identifiability information. Then, the feature extraction unit and the object detection unit learn common features that do not depend on the difference in domains, based on the domain identifiability information.
US12045999B2
A duration of time in which an individual observed a region can be determined. An image can be received. The image can include an indication of a point of gaze of the individual at a production time of the image. The image can include a visual fiducial marker, which can be disposed at a position in the image and can include a visual symbol. The visual symbol can be associated with data that define the region. The region can have a shape and a size and can be disposed a displacement in a direction from a position of the visual fiducial marker. Using the visual symbol, a location of an edge of the region can be determined. The indication of the point of gaze can be determined to be within the region. The production time of the image can be determined to be within the duration of time.
US12045981B2
Methods for co-registering images of different imaging modalities include obtaining a photograph and a medical image, maximizing mutual information between the photograph and the medical image, automatically locating features common to both the photograph and the medical image based on maximized mutual information between the photograph and the medical image, and automatically highlighting the located features within the photograph or medical image.
US12045980B2
A Method for generating a biomarker includes acquiring an image using an MRI system; processing the MRI image to generate a three-dimensional image of the lung; generating a first function corresponding to the distribution of the different signal intensity values; automatically calculating a filtering threshold of the first function from a second signal intensity value distribution function; segmenting a lung volume comprising: a main volume; a filtered volume of a volume of voxels quantified by the first function and filtered by at least the calculated filtering threshold, normalizing the values of the three-dimensional image of the lung volume; generating a biomarker indicating a normalized segmented volume ratio.
US12045979B2
A medical image processing device includes: image acquisition unit configured to acquire image information obtained by imaging with a medical observation device; and superimposed image generation circuitry configured to generate a superimposed image in which a pattern image having first images with a specific shape arranged in parallel in a specific pattern and a captured image based on the image information are superimposed on each other.
US12045970B2
A method for detecting defects in product applied in a computer device inputs an image of a product under test to an automatic encoder to obtain a reconstructed image, and the image is segmented into N image blocks and the reconstructed image is segmented into N image blocks. The computer device associates each of the N testing blocks with one reconstructed blocks according to positions of the N testing blocks in the image and positions of the N reconstructed blocks in the reconstructed image. The computer device further calculates mean square errors between each of the N testing blocks and each of the N reconstructed blocks, and associates each mean square error with each of the N testing blocks, whether the product has defects being determined based on the mean square errors corresponding to each of the N testing blocks.
US12045963B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems detect, via a graphical user interface of a client device, a user selection of an object portrayed within a digital image. The disclosed systems determine, in response to detecting the user selection of the object, a relationship between the object and an additional object portrayed within the digital image. The disclosed systems receive one or more user interactions for modifying the object. The disclosed systems modify the digital image in response to the one or more user interactions by modifying the object and the additional object based on the relationship between the object and the additional object.
US12045959B2
Examples are disclosed relating to performing denoising and adaptive precision control on time-of-flight sensor data using noise metrics. One example provides a computing system, comprising, a logic machine, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to obtain time-of-flight (ToF) image data comprising a plurality of pixels, for each pixel of the ToF image data, determine one or more noise metrics by applying a spatial kernel, segment the ToF image data based on the one or more noise metrics to obtain differently classified pixels, during a denoising phase, process pixels of a first classification differently than pixels of a second classification, after the denoising phase, determine a depth image, and output the depth image.
US12045955B2
System and methods are provided for generating panoramic imagery. An example method may be performed by one or more processors and includes obtaining first panoramic imagery depicting a geographic area. The method also includes obtaining an image depicting one or more physical objects absent from the first panoramic imagery. Further, the method includes transforming the first panoramic imagery into second panoramic imagery depicting the one or more physical objects and including at least a portion of the first panoramic imagery.
US12045948B2
An image processing method including obtaining image data. The image data includes a plurality of image data values. The image processing method also includes processing the image data, thereby generating output data. Processing the image data includes applying a convolution operation to the plurality of image data values using a kernel including a plurality of coefficients. Applying the convolution operation includes obtaining a sum of image data values of the plurality of image data values that correspond respectively to coefficients of the plurality of coefficients that each have a common coefficient value. Applying the convolution operation also includes multiplying the sum by the common coefficient value.
US12045946B2
A method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a picture to be processed, where the picture to be processed includes a plurality of pixels, and the plurality of pixels comprise first pixels for forming an image and second pixels for forming an image background; rotating the picture to be processed, where for each rotation angle, an intermediate picture is obtained; selecting at least two pictures from the picture to be processed and several intermediate pictures for calculating an area of a bounding box surrounding the image respectively; and removing second pixels outside the bounding box in a picture with the smallest area of bounding box to obtain a processed picture.
US12045945B2
A control device includes circuitry configured to: generate, based on respective pieces of imaging data obtained by a plurality of imaging devices of a moving body, a three-dimensional image indicating a space including both the moving body and surroundings of the moving bod; and cause a display device to display generated the three-dimensional image. The circuitry is capable of rotation of the space in the three-dimensional image. When it is predicted that a boundary region of the respective pieces of imaging data in the three-dimensional image is present in a specific region at time of stop of the rotation, the circuitry changes the boundary region.
US12045914B2
An image coloring method includes: acquiring first color a priori information about an image-to-be-colored; transforming the first color a priori information to obtain second color a priori information aligned with the image-to-be-colored; downsampling the image-to-be-colored to obtain a first image feature; performing modulation coloring processing on the first image feature based on the second color a priori information to obtain a second image feature; and upsampling the second image feature based on the second color a priori information to obtain a first colored image, where the first colored image is aligned with the image-to-be-colored.
US12045913B2
Method and apparatus for displaying virtual landscape picture, storage medium, and electronic device
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for displaying a virtual landscape picture, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes acquiring a plurality of landscape layer types comprised in the target landscape area to be displayed and determining a type weight corresponding to each landscape layer type in the plurality of landscape layer types; screening at least one target landscape layer type with a corresponding type weight which satisfies a condition from the plurality of landscape layer types, and acquiring an index value of a landscape layer corresponding to each of the screened at least one target landscape layer type; and sequentially storing the index value in each image color channel of the landscape layer index map to obtain the landscape layer index map corresponding to the target landscape area to be displayed.
US12045905B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating, arranging and/or managing transportation. These systems and methods can be used and applied in a variety of settings and industries, including healthcare, travel, hospitality, event, dining and entertainment, and others.
US12045904B2
According to various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for enabling parties to create, define, buy, and sell usage rights in radio frequency (RF) ranges, e.g., via a computerized trading exchange. The usage rights may comprise exclusive or shared ownership or lease interests. A government or other entity may initially offer on the exchange usage rights in radio frequencies owned or controlled by the government. The usage rights may be sold to market participants, e.g., through a competitive bidding process such as a reverse auction, Dutch auction, RFQ, or other methodology. Such rights may be transferred subject to government use, e.g., in emergency situations. Information associated with offered RF usage rights such as historical usage data, geographical reach, and available RF equipment may be published on the exchange. The exchange may also enable secondary trading of usage rights.
US12045896B2
Apparatus and methods for generating automated time entries utilizing automated time capture. In an exemplary method, a duration of a communication session between a timekeeper operating a first communication device and a client operating a second communication device is determined in response to a termination of the communication session. The duration is determined by automated time capture without further input from the timekeeper. An automated time entry is generated upon termination of the communication session. The automated time entry identifies the timekeeper, the client, a date of the communication session, and the duration. A list of automated time entries is generated for review by the timekeeper. The list of automated time entries is provided to the timekeeper on one or more computing devices that includes the first communication device.
US12045895B1
A Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, the SMP configured to perform a method including: receiving a plurality of expense records for a customer organization, wherein each one of the plurality of expense records identifies a user, a vendor, and an amount spent; using a first machine learning model to analyze the plurality of expense records and determine which ones of the expense records represent software purchases; using a second machine learning model to analyze the expense records that are determined to represent software purchases, and identify software titles that the software purchases are for; surfacing the expense records that represent software purchases, in association with their respective identified software titles, through a user interface of the SMP for the customer organization.
US12045893B2
A method of identifying a vehicle total loss claim includes retrieving a plurality of historical vehicle records, labeling the records as repaired or total loss, calculating mean cost values, training a regression model, optimizing a probability threshold, analyzing a plurality of inputs to generate a prediction, and transmitting the prediction. A computing system includes a transceiver; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to receive answers, transmit the answers, receive a prediction, when the prediction is repairable, generate a repair suggestion, and when the prediction is total loss, generate a settlement offer. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to receive answers, transmit the answers, receive a prediction, when the prediction is repairable, generate a repair suggestion, and when prediction is total loss, generate a settlement offer.
US12045891B2
A method includes receiving a digital file from a customer, extracting metadata from the file, and verifying the metadata prior to accepting the digital file. The method may include verifying that a representation of a required physical token appears in the digital file.
US12045888B2
The disclosed embodiments provide pre-hedge rules and tools for creating pre-hedge rules. An example method includes receiving an indication that a first leg of a spread trade is at least partially filled; and in response to the indication and before an order associated with a second leg of the spread trade is placed, determining whether a condition defined in a rule is satisfied and, when the condition is satisfied, performing an action defined in the rule.
US12045884B2
Embodiments for determining a traded item's value are described herein. An embodiment includes identifying conditions for use in computing a value of the tradable object. The embodiment further includes determining whether a condition is satisfied based on market data, for example, and if the condition is satisfied, then determining the value of the item based on a rule associated with the condition; and if the condition is not satisfied, then determining whether a subsequent condition is satisfied. If a subsequent condition is satisfied, then determining the value of the tradable object based on a rule associated with the subsequent condition. An embodiment further includes computing an open profit and loss value based on the item's value. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US12045875B2
A system and method are described herein for providing an internet connected computer system for improved business to business lending experience, including an enhanced customer experience; privacy and security; product flexibility; and while minimizing merchant risk. Through the use of a simplified underwriting architecture, and a minimalistic or light weight user interface, the system improves the quality of the lending experience while reducing merchant risk and allowing product flexibility. The system further describes a secure environment, providing additional advantages over traditional methods of business to business underwriting by capturing and verifying user identity and likelihood that a user will pay the charges incurred. Biometric indicia such as facial or retina recognition, passwords, voiceprints or finger prints may be employed alongside geolocation services to insure consumer identification. In addition, credit agency records or other enterprise resource planning may be accordingly gathered and factored into lending decisions efficiently.
US12045871B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for improving the security of an e-commerce system using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The security of the e-commerce system is improved by receiving a transaction request via a response email that contains a token. This token is decoded to uncover the user's email address. The system then undertakes a verification using Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to decide whether to accept or reject. Following this, a confirmation email, which includes a clickable link, is sent to the user's email address derived from the token. The transaction is processed once the user clicks on the link in the confirmation email, completing the security enhancement process.
US12045868B2
A system and method for providing payments is disclosed. A method can include establishing a wireless link between a mobile device and a merchant device. After an instruction is displayed on the mobile device, a combination of a first type of input and a second type of input are received on the mobile device, first type of input including at least one button press of a physical button and the second type of input received from a user to confirm a payment for the purchase. Based on the inputs, payment data is retrieved from a memory of the mobile device. The method includes receiving the payment data at the merchant device to make the purchase, wherein receiving the payment data, via the wireless link, at the merchant device to make the purchase is performed according to a protocol for communicating the payment data to the merchant device.
US12045866B2
A cloud-based system for use by retail store employees or customers at any location to facilitate the sale of automotive tires to consumers is provided. The system accesses multiple independent tire inventory systems from different distributors/manufacturers and provides a personalized set of recommendation tire options and accompanying TPMS service packs.
US12045862B2
Disclosed is a system and method for enhancing value for advertisers by helping them select and initiate the purchase of an advertisement associated with an advertising (ad) words or phrases that have strong semantic relationships to a given context, but which are not necessarily the most popular ad words or phrases with the highest costs. Advertisements associated with ad words or phrases that have strong semantic relationships to a given context, and yet are still cost effective in that their calculated value exceeds the costs of purchasing the ad keywords, are bid for and bought. In an embodiment, the system and method may be adapted to automatically purchase advertisements associated with ad words or phrases when the ad words or phrases fall within a desired price range based on their calculated value. As the prices of advertisements associated with these words or phrases fluctuate over time based on their popularity of the words or phrases, the automated bidding and buying of advertisements may be used to purchase advertisements associated with words or phrases at a price desirable to a given ad purchaser. By automatically purchasing such advertisements, the return on investment (ROI) for an advertiser may be improved.
US12045861B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating recommendations to users based on historical travel information and electronic communication data. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating the transmission of electronic travel-related recommendations to users by consistently monitoring electronic messages received at an electronic communication mailbox corresponding to a user. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging historical user data, data parsed from electronic communication mailbox corresponding to a user, or various vendor information, and using the aforementioned data as inputs for travel-related recommendation models, in order to generate and transmit the optimal travel-related recommendations to a user.
US12045852B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic filtration by content providers. One method includes receiving a content request from a device of a user; determining whether one or more container tags are associated with requested content; determining, prior to responding to the content request, whether the content request is by a user based on the content request and the one or more container tags; generating, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request based on the content request and the one or more container tags; determining, prior to responding to the content request, an ad request recipient based on the generated ad request and the one or more container tags; transmitting the ad request to the determined ad request recipient; and transmitting, over the electronic network to the device, a response to the content request when the content request is determined to be by a user.
US12045839B1
A system and method reduces or minimizes the number of characteristic values required to evaluate a rule by selecting elements of the rule in an order most likely to allow evaluation of the rule without requiring evaluation of other elements of the rule. The selection may be a function of one or both of the structure of the rule and the probability that an element will resolve to a particular value of true or false.
US12045837B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a smart gas inspection plan and an Internet of Things system, the method is implemented based on a smart gas pipeline network safety management platform, including: obtaining an area to be inspected; determining one or more downstream users based on the area to be inspected, and obtaining gas consumption data of each of the one or more downstream users; determining, based on the gas consumption data of the each of the one or more downstream users, peak-valley features of gas consumption at the future time; and determining, based on the peak-valley features of gas consumption at the future time, an inspection time of the area to be inspected.
US12045832B2
A method is provided for displaying an augmented reality image of account information associated with an indicialess transaction card having a card surface with a background pattern applied thereto. A real-time image of the card surface is captured and processed to determine if the background pattern matches a card background pattern associated with a cardholder account. Responsive to a positive determination, communication is established between the user device processor and a card processor carried by the indicialess transaction card. The user device processor receives from the card processor an encrypted verification block and transmits, to an authentication server, an authentication request including the verification block. Responsive to receiving a positive authentication response, the user device constructs an augmented reality image comprising account indicia and displays the augmented reality image superimposed over the real-time image of the background pattern on the card surface of the indicialess transaction card.
US12045830B2
A method of validating transactions for recordal in a blockchain comprises receiving one or more transactions at a node of a blockchain network. For each received transaction a protocol for validating the transaction is applied. The protocol is configured to allow a termination opcode to be included in an output script of the transaction. The termination opcode is configured to, upon being executed by the node, a) terminate execution of the output script, and b) not to invalidate the transaction based only on the inclusion of the termination opcode in the output script. The protocol is also configured to disallow any instance of the termination opcode from being included in an input script of the transaction, said disallowing comprising the node at least invalidating the transaction if any instance of the termination opcode is included in the input script.
US12045827B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a system comprising a server and a consumer device in operative communication with the server. The server comprises a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises computer readable program code embodied therein. The computer readable program code is adapted to be executed by the processor to receive an authorization request message for a transaction conducted by a consumer with a merchant, send the authorization request message to an issuer, modify an authorization response message to include receipt preference data, and send the authorization response message comprising the receipt data to the merchant, wherein the merchant generates a receipt for the consumer according to the receipt preference data.
US12045825B2
From transaction data, a graph modeling a set of relationships between transaction elements is constructed, a node of the graph representing a transaction element, an edge of the graph representing a relationship between two transaction elements. Using a part of speech analysis model, a subset of the nodes is tagged with a corresponding first part of speech tag. An alternative part of speech tag is generated for a tagged node. A set of tagged nodes is grouped into a word group including at least one tagged node having an alternative part of speech tag. The word group is validated against a grammar of a natural language. Responsive to the validating determining that the word group conforms to the grammar, a set of additional nodes representing the word group is added to the graph. Using the modified graph, a transaction in the transaction data is validated.
US12045818B2
In some implementations, an identity verification device may receive a request to verify an identity associated with a user accessing a social media account to share information on a social media platform. The identity verification device may generate, based on the request, a virtual credential linked to a primary credential associated with a financial account belonging to a holder of the social media account. The virtual credential may be used in an identity verification transaction to prove that the user accessing the social media account has access to the financial account associated with the social media account holder. The identity verification device may store a record indicating that the virtual credential was used to conduct the identity verification transaction and may provide, to the social media platform, information to verify the identity associated with the user accessing the social media account based on the record.
US12045815B2
System and methods are described for enabling a first client device to authorize a second client device to use a payment token for contactless payments, in which the payment token is authorized to be used by the second device with restrictions set by the first device. In one embodiment, a system comprises a computing device that includes a secure element. The system also includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least receive an indication for generating a sub-payment token and receive a selection of a key restriction for the sub-payment token. An application stored in the secure element is called to generate the sub-payment token based on the key restriction. The sub-payment token is received and comprises a sub-payment key and an application transaction counter range. The sub-payment token is sent through the wireless communication session to a second computing device.
US12045813B2
Disclosed herein are method and system for modifying transactions already recorded on blockchains. The method for managing transactions based on blockchains may include a process for proceeding with mining blocks by separating approval and modification of transactions by using transaction approval block for proving approval of transactions and transaction modification block for proving modification of transactions.
US12045811B2
A system, device and method of confidential secure custodial transfers of asset between entities utilizing transaction agents implemented via a distributed ledger (e.g. a blockchain). In particular, the transaction agents securely record each of the transactions on the ledger utilizing obfuscated or proxy data state such that information about the transactions cannot be gleaned from the ledger. In particular, the transaction agents are able to enforce business rules of the system by requesting zero-knowledge proofs from participants to the transaction (e.g. sender and recipient) in place of actual data for the transaction. The zero-knowledge proofs are able to be designed to prevent an observer of the distributed ledger from determining any information of the transaction that is taking place.
US12045808B2
Methods and systems for providing browser extension are disclosed. In some embodiments, the browser extension system includes a communication device in communication with a computing device and a networked system. The browser extension system also includes a processor configured to perform operations comprising: maintaining data associated with the computing device; detecting, through a browser extension application running on the computing device, a field in a web page associated with the networked system and provided by a web browser application running on the computing device; and in response to detecting the field: (i) automatically populating the field, through the browser extension application, with a secure token mapped to the data, (ii) detecting, through the browser extension application, a submission script associated with the web page, and (iii) automatically executing the submission script to submit the secure token through the browser extension application to the networked system.
US12045793B2
Systems and methods for handling tokens. In one aspect, a token is intercepted by a data processor and a contact is made with a detokenization provider by the data processor. In another aspect, token service is aggregated. In another aspect, tokenization is extended to physical cards, to deter certain kinds of fraud.
US12045791B2
An ultra-thin Self-Service Terminals (SSTs) is provided. The ultra-thin SST lacks an Operating System (OS). When the ultra-thin SST is powered on, firmware of the ultra-thin SST connects to a virtualized environment over a first network connection and a Virtual Machine (VM) instance having the OS is loaded within the virtualized environment. The OS of the VM instance obtains middleware services from a second network connection to a middleware environment. The middleware services provided authentication, management, and audit services for the VM instance based on the ultra-thin SST.
US12045789B2
In embodiments of the present invention, systems are provided for an interface configured to handle a unique identifier for a first digital token, a cryptographic token generation system that generates a second digital token that is unique and cryptographically secure, and a linking system configured to generate a one-to-at-least-one link between the second digital token generated by the cryptographic token generation system and the first digital token, such that the second digital token provides a unique digital tokenization of the first digital token. In embodiments, a rule system is configured to manage and apply a set of rules to the second digital token, wherein the set of rules includes a lock rule that restricts one or more transaction actions involving the second digital token and an unlock rule that removes the restriction of the one or more transaction actions involving the second digital token.
US12045785B2
An information processing apparatus is provided with: an obtaining portion that obtains purchase information on a commodity or a service purchased by a user; a deciding portion that decides on a quantity of virtual currency to be provided to the user, based on the purchase information; a providing portion that provides the user with the virtual currency of the quantity decided on; an accepting portion that accepts, from the user, an exchange request to exchange the virtual currency for a substitute; a determining portion that determines, when the exchange request is accepted, whether or not it is within a predetermined period from a point of time when the virtual currency was provided; and an exchange processing portion that performs processing related to exchange of the virtual currency when it is determined that it is within the predetermined period.
US12045784B2
The present subject matter involves a system and method for producing and processing electronic transactions, including electronic checks, in a secure manner. In various embodiments, a secure server provides an electronic check service that maps payees to participating lockbox service providers and provides electronic payment instructions from the payor to the lockbox service providers to process payments to the payees. In various embodiments, a check is printed to fulfill Check21 Act requirements, electronic images are obtained of front and back of the printed check, and check image pairs are created of the electronic images of the front and back of the printed check. In various embodiments, paper items are processed where the electronic check service does not find an electronic deposit match. In various embodiments, the electronic lockbox files are used in a secure electronic payment platform that assists in the generation of electronic checks.
US12045780B2
One or more embodiments of the present specification relates to an online interview method and system. The method includes: establishing communication connection between an interviewing terminal and an interviewed terminal through a network; and acquiring communication information between the interviewing terminal and the interviewed terminal. The communication information includes one or more types of audio information, video information, and text information. The interviewing terminal includes one or more of a first host terminal, a second host terminal, and a text processing terminal. The first host terminal is configured to host an interview, and the first host terminal displays an interview outline and/or information of the interviewed terminal. The second host terminal is configured to host the interview and/or participate in the consultation of interview questions. The text processing terminal converts the audio information and/or the audio information in the video into corresponding text information.
US12045775B2
A part management apparatus may include an acquisition unit configured to acquire part information indicating a part having a symptom of a failure among a plurality of parts configuring a drive mechanism mounted to a vehicle. The part management apparatus may include an identification unit configured to refer to a storage unit that is configured to store a material configuring each of the plurality of parts to identify a material of the part indicated by the part information. The part management apparatus may include a notification unit configured to notify a material management apparatus configured to manage an inventory of a material of a part, of information related to the material of the part.
US12045773B2
The present disclosure is directed to a dispenser that includes a receiving opening configured to receive a plurality of medical products into a cavity of the dispenser as an available inventory, wherein each of the plurality of medical products includes an identifier; a plurality of holders in the cavity, each of the plurality of holders configured to store at least one of the plurality of medical products in a fixed location that is associated with the one of the plurality of medical products, and each of the plurality of holders including a dispensing opening; at least two emitters and at least two sensors around a periphery of the receiving opening, wherein the at least two emitters and the at least two sensors are arranged around a periphery of the receiving opening on a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the plurality of dispensing openings; a processor; and a electronic storage device.
US12045762B2
An operating method of an electronic apparatus for detecting misdelivery may comprise: monitoring a location of a courier terminal using at least one of first location information, second location information, and third location information; obtaining delivery completion information from the courier terminal; and detecting misdelivery of an item by a courier based on a delivery address and the location of the courier terminal. Accordingly, the electronic apparatus may induce correct delivery to the courier by determining misdelivery of the item based on the location of the courier and the delivery address.
US12045754B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on users regarding boarding and biometrics information on the users acquired by a check-in procedure of the users in association with each other; and a comparison unit that compares target biometrics information, which is biometrics information acquired in a procedure up to the boarding for one of the users, with registered biometrics information, which is the biometrics information registered by the information management unit, and the comparison unit selects the registered biometrics information to be compared with the target biometrics information based on status regarding the procedure up to the boarding of the user corresponding to the registered biometrics information.
US12045745B2
A booking management system for secure authentication of payment information and delayed transaction processing is provided. Third-party services partner with booking management systems to aggregate and list offerings of the third-party services in a digestible display on a one-stop platform. A booking management system can manage the authentication of payment card information on behalf of any number of such third-party services. The booking management system may receive a delayed transaction request from one or more such third-party service. The booking management system may provide virtual payment information to the third-party services for delayed transactions. The third-party services may later initiate the delayed transactions using the virtual payment information, without being required to perform authentication processing on the payment card information maintained by the booking management system.
US12045735B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating multimodal content utilizing multimodal templates. One method includes presenting, in a user interface (UI), a template-selection option with one or more templates. Each template comprises a sequence of operations, where each operation comprises a prompt for creating items using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. Further, each operation in the template is multimodal to be configurable to create text and configurable to create one or more images. The method further includes detecting a selection of a template in the UI. For each operation in the selected template, perform operations comprising: presenting, in the UI, the prompt associated with the operation; in response to receiving an input for the prompt, selecting a GAI tool based on a mode of the operation; providing the input to the selected GAI tool to generate the item; and presenting, in the UI, the generated item.
US12045734B2
Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) successively stacks many decision trees which at each step try to fix the residual errors from the previous steps. The final score produced by the GBDT is the sum of the individual scores obtained by the decision trees for an input vector. Overfitting in GBDT can be reduced by removing the input values that have the least impact on the output from the training data. One way to determine which input variable has the lowest predictive value is to determine the input variable that is used for the first time in the latest decision tree in the GBDT. This method of identifying the low-predictive features to be removed does not require that earlier trees be regenerated to generate the new GBDT. Since the removed feature was already not used in the earlier trees, those trees already ignore the removed feature.
US12045721B2
In a neural network (NN) based wireless communication system, a BS determines, for an one-round latency T and an overall model size L of the NN model, i) Tu that makes {circumflex over (L)}*(Tu) larger than L and ii) Tl that makes {circumflex over (L)}*(Tl)
US12045720B2
The invention provides systems and method for generating device-specific artificial neural network (ANN) models for distribution across user devices. Sample datasets are collected from devices in a particular environment or use case and include predictions by device-specific ANN models executing the user devices. The received datasets are used with existing datasets and stored ANN models to generate updated device-specific ANN models from each of the stored instances of the device ANN models based on the training data.
US12045716B2
A method of updating a first neural network is disclosed. The method includes providing a computer system with a computer-readable memory that stores specific computer-executable instructions for the first neural network and a second neural network separate from the first neural network. The method also includes providing one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory. The one or more processors are programmed by the computer-executable instructions to at least process a first data with the first neural network, process a second data with the second neural network, update a weight in a node of the second neural network by a delta amount as a function of the processing of the second data with the second neural network, and update a weight in a node of the first neural network as a function of the delta amount. A computer system for updating a first neural network is also disclosed. Other features of the preferred embodiments are also disclosed.
US12045705B2
A system receives information associated with an interaction with an individual in a context. Then, the system analyzes the information to extract features associated with one or more attributes of the individual. Moreover, the system generates, based at least in part on the extracted features, a group of behavioral agents in a multi-layer hierarchy that automatically mimics the one or more attributes. Next, the system calculates one or more performance metrics associated with the group of behavioral agents and the one or more attributes. Furthermore, the system determines, based at least in part on the one or more performance metrics, one or more deficiencies in the extracted features. Additionally, the system selectively acquires second information associated with additional interaction with the individual in the context based at least in part on the one or more deficiencies to at least in part correct for the one or more deficiencies.
