US12058936B2
Provided is a thermoelectric material which exhibits excellent thermoelectric characteristics at room temperature; a method for producing this thermoelectric material; and a thermoelectric power generation element using this thermoelectric material. In an embodiment of the present invention, a thermoelectric material contains an inorganic compound that contains magnesium (Mg), antimony (Sb) and/or bismuth (Bi), copper (Cu), and if necessary M (M is composed of at least one element that is selected from the group consisting of selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te)); and inorganic compound is represented by MgaSb2-b-cBibMcCud, wherein a, b, c and d satisfy 3≤a≤3.5, 0≤b≤2, 0≤c≤0.06, 0≤d≤0.1, and (b+1)≤2.
US12058933B2
Devices include a substrate, a collector layer, and an emitter layer positively biased relative to the collector. Devices further include a semiconductor layer located between the collector and the emitter. The semiconductor layer includes an organic semiconductor polymer with a donor-acceptor structure.
US12058930B2
An organic electroluminescence device, comprising: an anode, an emitting layer, a first electron-transporting layer, a second electron-transporting layer and a cathode in this order, wherein the second electron-transporting layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1), and the emitting layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (10).
US12058928B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the polycyclic compound includes a boranamine derivative, a first ring and a second ring, each directly linked to a boron atom of the boranamine derivative, a third ring and a fourth ring, each directly linked to a nitrogen atom of the boranamine derivative, and at least one substituted or unsubstituted boryl group, linked to at least one ring among the first to fourth rings, thereby showing long-life characteristics and excellent color reproducibility.
US12058909B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a display device, as disposing a clock signal line on an area overlapping with an area where a gate circuit is disposed on a non-active area of a display panel, a gate driving circuit can be disposed on the non-active area while minimizing an increase of the non-active area. Furthermore, as disposing the clock signal line by using metal layers that a first metal layer with a low resistance and a second metal layer with a high reflectance are stacked, the clock signal line disposed on the non-active area and a pixel electrode disposed on an active area can be implemented as a same layer, the clock signal line disposed on the gate circuit can be implemented while reducing the number of masks.
US12058905B2
A display substrate and a display substrate are provided. The display substrate includes a voltage bus line in the peripheral region, the voltage bus line at least partially surrounds the transparent region, and is configured to be connected with sub-pixels in a plurality of first pixel rows to provide a first voltage; the display substrate further includes a plurality of first signal lines extended along the first direction, and each first signal line includes a first signal line portion in the display region and a second signal line portion, which is electrically connected with the first signal line portion, in the peripheral region, and the second signal line portion includes a bent portion extended along the transparent region, bent portions of second signal line portions of the plurality of first signal lines are all located at a side of the voltage bus line close to the transparent region.
US12058902B2
A display device, including a display panel and a cover plate covering the display panel. The display panel is provided with a through hole extending through the display panel in a thickness direction thereof. The display panel includes a frame area and an active area. The frame area surrounds the through hole. The active area surrounds the frame area. The cover plate includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first region covers the active area. The second region covers the frame area. A surface of the second region adjacent to the display panel is provided with a light-shielding portion thereon. The third region covers the through hole.
US12058893B2
A plurality of thin film transistors provided in a peripheral region are first staggered thin film transistors where a first channel layer configured of low-temperature polysilicon is included, and the first channel layer is not interposed between a first source electrode and a first gate electrode, and between a first drain electrode and the first gate electrode. A plurality of thin film transistors provided in a display region are second staggered thin film transistors where a second channel layer configured of an oxide semiconductor is included, and the second channel layer is not interposed between a second source electrode and a second gate electrode, and between a second drain electrode and the second gate electrode. The first thin film transistor is located below the second thin film transistor.
US12058892B2
A display panel and a method for fabricating the same are discussed. The display panel can include a first area in which pixels are disposed, and a second area in which pixels having lower pixels per inch (PPI) than the first area are disposed and a plurality of light-transmitting portions are disposed. The light-transmitting portions include circular or elliptical light-transmitting portions arranged in a zigzag pattern along a second direction crossing a first direction in the second area. Each of the pixel groups in the second area includes a second electrode, and the second electrode is removed from the light-transmitting area to expose light-transmitting portions.
US12058891B2
A display device includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a first metal oxide layer having crystallinity, and a second metal oxide layer having non-crystallinity. The first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer are sequentially laminated on a substrate. The first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer are in contact with each other in all regions where the first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer overlap each other. The first metal oxide layer at least partially has a first semiconductor region serving as a semiconductor. One of the first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer at least partially has a conductor region made electrically conductive.
US12058888B2
A method of manufacturing a polycrystalline silicon layer for a display device includes the steps of forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate, cleaning the amorphous silicon layer with hydrofluoric acid, rinsing the amorphous silicon layer with hydrogenated deionized water, and irradiating the amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam to form a polycrystalline silicon layer.
US12058887B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first area including a peripheral region and an emission region of a pixel of a first group; and a second area including a peripheral region and an emission region of a pixel of a second group; at least one insulating layer disposed on the display panel and overlapping the second area; an organic layer disposed on the at least one insulating layer and overlapping the second area; and a light blocking pattern disposed on the organic layer and overlapping the second area. A first opening corresponding to the emission region of the pixel of the second group is formed in the organic layer, and a first light blocking opening corresponding to the first opening is formed in the light blocking pattern.
US12058872B2
An integrated device includes: a substrate; and a laminated structural body. The substrate has a plurality of switching elements. The laminated structural body has a plurality of magnetic elements having a first element group disposed in a first hierarchical layer and a second element group disposed in a second hierarchical layer. Each of the plurality of magnetic elements includes a conductive layer and a laminated body including a ferromagnetic layer. The plurality of switching elements include a plurality of first switching elements connected to first ends of the conductive layers and a plurality of second switching elements connected to second ends of the conductive layers. A first switching element connected to a second magnetic element belonging to a second element group which is present between a first switching element and a second switching element connected to a first magnetic element belonging to a first element group.
US12058871B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises: providing a substrate; forming a ferroelectric layer on the substrate; stacking two-dimensional conductive metal-organic frameworks that include cavities on the ferroelectric layer to form a metal-organic framework layer, the cavities of the conductive metal-organic frameworks being disposed to overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the metal-organic framework layer; disposing metal particles within the overlapping cavities to form a charge trap layer; forming a gate insulation layer on the charge trap layer; and forming a gate electrode layer on the gate insulation layer.
US12058868B2
A semiconductor die comprises: a device portion comprising an array of semiconductor devices extending in a first direction; and at least one interface portion located adjacent to an axial end of the device portion in the first direction. The at least one interface portion has a staircase profile in a vertical direction. The interface portion comprises: a stack comprising a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of insulating layers alternatively stacked on top of one another, and memory layers interposed between each of the plurality of gate layers and the plurality of insulating layers.
US12058867B2
Provided are a memory device and a method of forming the same. The memory device includes a first tier on a substrate and a second tier on the first tier. The first tier includes a first layer stack; a first gate electrode penetrating through the first layer stack; a first channel layer between the first layer stack and the first gate electrode; and a first ferroelectric layer between the first channel layer and the first gate electrode. The second tier includes a second layer stack; a second gate electrode penetrating through the second layer stack; a second channel layer between the second layer stack and the second gate electrode; and a second ferroelectric layer between the second channel layer and the second gate electrode.
US12058863B2
A semiconductor memory device with improved reliability and a related method are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a mold structure including a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of mold insulating films on a first substrate, a channel structure penetrating the mold structure and crossing a respective level of each of the gate electrodes, a plurality of first insulating patterns in the mold structure, the first insulating patterns including a material different from that of the mold insulating films, and a first through via in the first insulating patterns, the first through via penetrating the first substrate and the mold structure. The gate electrodes include a first word line and a second word line on the first word line. A first distance from the first word line to the first through via is different from a second distance from the second word line to the first through via.
US12058862B2
A non-volatile semiconductor storage device has a plurality of memory strings to each of which a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells are connected in series. Each of the memory strings includes first semiconductor layers each having a pair of columnar portions extending in a vertical direction with respect to a substrate and a coupling portion formed to couple the lower ends of the pair of columnar portions; a charge storage layer formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions; and first conductive layers formed to surround the side surfaces of the columnar portions and the charge storage layer. The first conductive layers function as gate electrodes of the memory cells.
US12058860B2
A memory device includes a first multi-layer stack, a channel layer, a charge storage layer, a first conductive pillar, and a second conductive pillar. The first multi-layer stack is disposed on a substrate and includes first conductive layers and first dielectric layers stacked alternately. The channel layer penetrates through the first conductive layers and the first dielectric layers, wherein the channel layer includes a first channel portion and a second channel portion separated from each other. The charge storage layer is disposed between the first conductive layers and the channel layer. The first conductive pillar is disposed between one end of the first channel portion and one end of the second channel portion. The second conductive pillar is disposed between the other end of the first channel portion and the other end of the second channel portion.
US12058856B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory includes a first dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, a floating gate disposed on the dielectric layer, a control gate and a second dielectric layer disposed between the floating gate and the control gate. The second dielectric layer includes one of a silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a multi-layer thereof. The first dielectric layer includes a first-first dielectric layer formed on the substrate and a second-first dielectric layer formed on the first-first dielectric layer. The second-first dielectric layer includes a dielectric material having a dielectric constant higher than silicon nitride.
US12058848B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure having an air gap with a height greater than or equal to that of an adjacent bit line. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a first bit line structure disposed over the substrate; a second bit line structure disposed adjacent to the first bit line structure over the substrate; a first dielectric layer, surrounding the first bit line structure and the second bit line structure; and an air gap, disposed between the first bit line structure and the second bit line structure, and sealed by the first dielectric layer, wherein a height of the air gap is greater than or equal to a height of the first bit line structure.
US12058847B2
Embodiments may relate to a microelectronic package that includes a first plurality of memory cells of a first type coupled with a substrate. The microelectronic package may further include a second plurality of memory cells of a second type communicatively coupled with the substrate such that the first plurality of memory cells is between the substrate and the second plurality of memory cells. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US12058843B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a substrate, a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, and a label. The first semiconductor device is on a first surface side of the substrate. The second semiconductor device is also on the first surface side of the substrate. The label has a first thermal conductive portion proximate to the first semiconductor device, a second thermal conductive portion proximate to the second semiconductor device, and an insulating portion that is between the first and second thermal conductive portions.
US12058833B2
Example implementations relate to a computing system having a chassis and a front panel pivotably coupled to the chassis via a pair of retention brackets. In some examples, the chassis has a pair of frames that is disposed spaced apart and in parallel to each other. Further, each retention bracket of the pair of brackets is movably coupled to a respective frame of the pair of frames. The front panel is releasably engaged to the pair of frames and pivotably coupled to the pair of retention brackets such that the front panel is movable independently relative to the chassis. During installation and maintenance of the computing system, the front panel is movable linearly along a radial direction relative to the pair of frames and rotatable independently relative to the pair of retention brackets so as to provide clearance for accessing interiors of the chassis.
US12058832B2
A chassis quick release device includes a housing including a base provided with a sliding channel, a compression space, and accommodating space, a rotating space and a shaft in the rotating space and covered with a cover, a locking block linearly movably set in the accommodating space and providing a guide groove, a guide chamber, a receiving groove and an elastic member set in the receiving groove, a locking member having a shaft hole coupled to the shaft, a rotary reset member positioned on the shaft, resisting edge located at one end thereof that can rotate and protrude from the housing and a locking edge located at the other end thereof, and an operating handle including a rod body positioned in the sliding channel, the guide groove and the guide chamber and mounted with a grp and having a locking portion stopped against the guide chamber.
US12058830B2
Provided is an electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, a flexible housing including a hinge structure, a first printed circuit board disposed in the first housing, a second printed circuit board disposed in the first housing, laminated on one surface of the first printed circuit board facing a second direction and including a connector on one surface facing the second direction, a flexible printed circuit board connected with the connector, extending from the second housing through the hinge structure to the first housing, a rib supporting the first printed circuit board, disposed between the first printed circuit board and a first surface, including a through hole through which part of the flexible printed circuit board passes, extending in the second direction from one end, and at least one sealing member sealing a space between the through hole and part of the flexible printed circuit board.
US12058826B2
A hinge, a display panel, and an electronic device are disclosed. The hinge includes a fixed bracket and a supporting mechanism, wherein the supporting mechanism includes a first supporting element rotatably connected to the fixed bracket along a first shaft, a second supporting element rotatably connected to the first supporting element along a second shaft, a third supporting element rotatably connected to the fixed bracket along a third shaft, and a fourth supporting element rotatably connected to the third supporting element along a fourth shaft.
US12058820B2
A control device includes a standard substrate on which a first input/output circuit and a control circuit configured to control the first input/output circuit are mounted, and a power supply substrate on which a connection portion and a power supply circuit are mounted. The first input/output circuit is at least one of an input circuit or an output circuit for a standard electrical equipment. The connection portion is configured to be connected to a power supply line for supplying electric power. The power supply circuit is configured to generate electric power for operating the standard substrate from the electric power supplied from the power supply line.
US12058809B2
A control unit for a motor vehicle is provided. The control unit includes a printed circuit board having a first side and an edge. The first side is delimited by the edge. At least one electronic component is arranged on the first side of the printed circuit board and is electrically conductively connected to the printed circuit board. At least one first conductor loop is arranged on the first side of the printed circuit board and at least one second conductor loop is arranged at a distance from the first conductor loop. The first conductor loop is arranged between the edge and the second conductor loop, and the second conductor loop is arranged between the first conductor loop and the at least one electronic component. An encapsulation surrounds at least the first side, the at least one electronic component, the first conductor loop and the second conductor loop.
US12058804B2
Formed waveguide antennas using one or metal sheets can improve the materials and manufacturing process of a radar assembly. For example, the radar system can include a printed circuit board (PCB) and a metal sheet attached to the PCB. The metal sheet can be formed to provide multiple waveguide antennas that each include multiple waveguide channels. Multiple radiation slots can be formed on a surface of each of the multiple waveguide channels. The PCB can include an MIMIC and a thermally conductive material covering a portion of a first and a second surface of the PCB. The metal sheet can also be formed to provide a shield for the MIMIC. In this way, the described techniques and systems permit the waveguide antennas to formed with materials and a manufacturing process that reduce costs while still providing high performance (e.g., minimized loss).
US12058800B2
A CNT X-ray tube control system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a CNT X-ray tube including an anode electrode, a gate electrode, and a cathode electrode, and configured to generate X-rays from electric field emission; a dummy load including an anode electrode, a gate electrode, and a cathode electrode, and configured not to generate X-rays, the dummy load being connected to the CNT X-ray tube in parallel; a high-voltage part configured to control a voltage applied to the CNT X-ray tube; and a controller configured to control the CNT X-ray tube, the dummy load, and the high-voltage part. Particularly, a portable X-ray generation apparatus reduced in size can be provided, the apparatus including the dummy load having the same structure as a CNT to minimize the voltage variation of the high-voltage part during the ON/OFF operation of the CNT.
US12058798B2
A cooking apparatus has a cooking chamber, a microwave unit to radiate microwaves to the cooking chamber, a convection unit to supply hot air to the cooking chamber, a grill unit to supply radiant heat to the cooking chamber, an input unit to receive a cooking command and a control unit to perform a cooking corresponding to the received cooking command by performing one of a first heating stage and a second heating stage, and after performing the one of the first heating stage and the second heating stage, performing the other one of the first heating stage and the second heating stage. In the first heating stage, the control unit operates the microwave unit and at least one of the convection unit and the grill unit, and in the second heating stage, the control unit operates the grill unit and the convection unit while not operating the microwave unit.
US12058786B2
A vaporizer device includes a cartridge having a reservoir that holds a vaporizable material and an atomizer chamber that includes a heating element. The heating element can heat the vaporizable material. The heating element can include two rigid portions that are spaced apart by a span that defines a capillary gap. The capillary gap can draw the vaporizable material from the reservoir to a heater region to be vaporized.
US12058784B2
A thermal immersion circulator can comprise a heater including a hollow cylindrical main body having an inlet opening at a first end thereof and an outlet opening in a side wall thereof. The heater can include a flexible circuit board having a plurality of resistive bands controlled by controlling electronics such as TRIACs, which can be water-cooled. A thermal immersion circulator including such a heater can be used in scientific laboratories or sous vide food cooking.
US12058780B2
Methods, a transmitter device and a receiver device are provided for communication of media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU). According to an embodiment, the transmitter device determines an MAC PDU including an MAC subheader and transmits the MAC PDU to a receiver device. The MAC subheader includes a second logical channel identity (LCID) field which is an extension of a first LCID field. A presence of the second LCID field is indicated by an indicator that is included in the MAC subheader.
US12058774B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a data processing method, a data processing apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, and relate to the technical field of mobile communication network. The method includes: acquiring first data from a network element interface, the first data being business-related data; acquiring first target data by processing the first data; and transmitting the first target data to a second functional entity, for the second functional entity to generate a control instruction based on the first target data and second target data and to send the control instruction to the network element related to the control instruction. In embodiments of the present application, the collection and processing tasks of the business data are undertaken by the first functional entity, and the network element is freed from the collection and processing of the business data contributing a larger proportion of data.
US12058773B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for WLAN selection. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to cause the apparatus to receive WLAN selection/routing signaling from a serving PLMN and to identify whether the apparatus is connected to a WLAN. The processor is further configured to cause the apparatus to determine whether to accept the WLAN selection/routing signaling based on whether the apparatus is connected to a WLAN and/or a based on a device configuration. In various embodiments, the WLAN selection/routing signaling is a LWA command, a RCLWI command, or a LWIP command.
US12058764B2
Disclosed is a method comprising initiating, by an apparatus, an activation procedure for activating one or more positioning reference units for a positioning session of the apparatus; wherein the activation procedure is initiated via a small data transmission based on at least one of: a number of detected network nodes being above a first threshold value, or a number of detected positioning reference units being above a second threshold value; or wherein the activation procedure is initiated by transmitting an activation request to the one or more positioning reference units over sidelink based on the number of detected positioning reference units comprising at least the one or more positioning reference units.
US12058762B2
In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer readable medium is disclosed. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions for providing a mobile user monitoring solution that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to capture a first message transmitted over an N11 interface, extract at least one type of session ID and a first Next Generation Application Protocol (NGAP) tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) from the first message, store the at least one type of session ID and the first NGAP TEID in a first N11 protocol data unit (PDU) session record, capture a second message transmitted over an N3 interface, extract a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP)-user plane (U) TEID from the second message, wherein the GTP-U TEID matches the first NGAP TIED, and retrieve information associated with session details record using the GTP-U TEID.
US12058747B2
A user device for a radio communication system supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is disclosed. The user device includes a transmitter that transmits a D2D signal by mapping a reference signal to a physical channel according to a first mapping configuration or according to a second mapping configuration. The reference signal is mapped to more symbols in the second mapping configuration than in the first mapping configuration. When transmitting the D2D signal by applying the second mapping configuration to a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH), the transmitter of the user device generates parameters for generating the reference signal to be mapped to the PSSCH based on information included in a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSSCH).
US12058737B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for an access point (AP) for a wireless communication system operating in a licensed and an unlicensed spectrum. The AP includes processor circuitry configured to determine a plurality of interleaved interlaces based on a bandwidth of a physical uplink channel and a subcarrier spacing (SCS). The processor circuitry is configured to identify a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) corresponding to a first interleaved interlace of the plurality of interleaved interlaces, which are based on a number of subcarrier per RB. The processor circuitry is configured to allocate the plurality of RBs corresponding to the first interleaved interlace among one or more user equipments (UEs), and generate an indication of the allocated plurality of RBs, the first interleaved interlace, and the one or more UEs to transmit to the one or more UEs via radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry.
US12058734B2
An information transmission method, apparatus and device and a storage medium. The method comprises: performing channel sensing on a sidelink to determine whether the sidelink is available in a preset time period (61); when the sidelink is available in the preset time period, determining an available resource set of the sidelink in the preset period (62); and sending data information in the preset time period by occupying a target resource in the available resource set (63). In the method, a terminal device determines an available resource set of the channel within a preset time period when a channel is idle, and sends data information on a target resource in the available resource set, so that the service quality of each system does not interfere with each other, and the systems stability is improved.
US12058723B2
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for providing enhanced distribution channel access (EDCA). A wireless device can receive, from a wireless node, an advertisement message comprising a first plurality of parameters for a plurality of time slots available for prioritized access in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate data. The wireless device can send to the wireless node, a request to assign a first time slot of the plurality of time slots to the wireless device for prioritized access. The wireless device can receive, from the wireless node, a response granting access to a first time slot of the plurality of time slots. The response can indicate one or more parameters of the first plurality of parameters for the first time slot. The wireless device can access the first time slot according to the first plurality of parameters.
US12058721B2
A method for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) based resource allocation in a private 5G network comprises receiving location data of a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the private 5G network in a last subframe of respective current communication periods of the UEs and determining distance distribution of the UEs in a subsequent communication period of a candidate UE of the plurality of UEs, based on the respective location data of the UEs. The method further comprises determining signal to noise ratio expectation of the UEs for the subsequent communication period, solving an optimization problem optimizing an expectation of data to be carried by each of the one or more SPS channels in the subsequent communication period, to obtain scheduling result for each of the one or more SPS channels and generating resource allocation data for the candidate UE based on the scheduling result.
US12058720B2
Systems and methods for improving the robustness of a DCI triggered beam update in 5G NR are disclosed herein. A g Node B (gNB) may associate a reference signal to a beam pattern (or beam configuration) and prepare Downlink Control Information (DCI) of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) that includes aperiodic Channel-State Information Reference Signal (AP CSI-RS) information indicating the beam pattern. A user equipment (UE) may decode the DCI, extract the AP CSI-RS information, update the beam pattern of a reference signal based on the AP CSI-RS information, and generate an uplink (UL) feedback message indicating that the PDCCH was successfully decoded by the UE. The gNB may then decode the uplink (UL) feedback message and, in response, update a receive (RX) beam of the gNB to correspond to the beam pattern associated to the reference signal.
US12058714B2
Methods and apparatuses for PDCCH reception and transmission. A method for PDCCH reception includes transmitting a capability for receptions of PDCCHs on a downlink (DL) cell. PDCCH receptions on the DL cell are according to (X1, Y1) or (X2, Y2) when any two PDCCH receptions are within Y1 or Y2 symbols or have first symbols separated by at least X1 or X2 symbols, respectively. The method further includes receiving a configuration of search space sets for PDCCH receptions on the DL cell; determining, based on the configuration of the search space sets, whether PDCCH receptions are according to (X2, Y2); and receiving on the DL cell: a maximum number of MPDCCHmax,X1,μ PDCCHs within Y1 symbols when PDCCH receptions are not according to (X2, Y2), and a maximum number of MPDCCHmax,X2,μ PDCCHs within Y2 symbols when PDCCH receptions are according to (X2, Y2).
US12058704B2
A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs, configured for a sidelink communication using resources from a set of sidelink resources of the wireless communication system. The plurality of UEs includes at least one transmitting UE and at least one receiving UE, the transmitting UE and the receiving UE configured to use at least a subset of the sidelink resources of the wireless communication system for the sidelink communication. The wireless communication system is configured to allow a data duplication on the sidelink, wherein the data duplication on the sidelink is activated or triggered dependent on one or more of a sidelink quality of the sidelink between the transmitting UE and the receiving UE, and/or an occupancy of the sidelink resources, and/or data received by a network element/network function, and/or the application service running on one of the UEs.
US12058702B2
Aspects described herein relate to resource allocation in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system. A central unit (CU) transmits over a backhaul link a message to a distributed unit (DU) including a resource configuration for a DU cell and a child cell corresponding to a child node served by the DU cell. The DU determines that the message misidentifies the child cell using an ID of a different cell. In response to that determination, the DU communicates with the child node based on the resource configuration specific to the misidentified child cell. Using this coordinated technique enables the CU to provide the DU with a child-node specific resource configuration to enable the DU to use this configuration for communicating with the child node. This maximizes efficiency in multi-node communications between one or more child nodes and cells while adding minimal, if any, signaling overhead.
US12058691B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state that is associated with at least two signals or at least two communication channels. The UE may use the TCI state as the default beam to receive an aperiodic channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based at least in part on a scheduling offset between a scheduling downlink control information, which schedules the aperiodic CSI-RS, and a transmission time of the aperiodic CSI-RS being less than a beam switch latency threshold. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12058689B2
An approach to reduce the signaling overhead for tracking reference signal (TRS) configuration signaling to idle and inactive user equipments (UEs) operating in a wireless communication system. Conventional signaling approaches require more bits that can be conveyed in the maximum system information block (SIB) message size. One proposed approach optimizes the signaling by removing unnecessary or redundant information, using a single TRS configuration to replace multiple configurations, size reduction in some fields, and the sharing of some fields across different TRS configurations. Another proposed approach uses an SIB message to carry the TRS configurations for a particular beam or subset of beams. These two proposed approaches may be combined to provide further optimization possibilities.
US12058688B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless node may receive a grant of a set of resources for an uplink transmission from another wireless node. The wireless node may identify a plurality of beams for performing channel access for the uplink transmission based on receiving the grant. The wireless node may perform channel access procedures over at least a subset of beams of the plurality of beams. The wireless node may transmit over one or more beams of the subset of beams based on successful completion of one or more of the channel access procedures.
US12058687B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which one or more semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations may provide periodic resources for communications between a base station and a user equipment (UE). One or more of the SPS configurations may also provide alternative resources that may be used for the communications in the event that a communication on the periodic or dynamically scheduled resources is cancelled. In the event that the base station transmits a cancellation indicator that cancels one or more of the communications, it may be determined whether to use the alternative resources for the associated communication. The determination to sue the alternative resources may be based on a time duration of the cancellation, a frequency portion of the cancelled resources, or combinations thereof.
US12058683B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing direct current locations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) in a BWP hopping pattern. Certain aspects relate to a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). In some examples, the UE may receive, from a base station (BS), a request for uplink direct current location information of the UE, wherein the UE is configured to transmit to the BS on an uplink according to a frequency hopping pattern for hopping between a plurality of uplink bandwidth parts corresponding to different frequency bandwidths. In some examples, the UE may transmit, to the BS, at least one uplink direct current location applicable to the plurality of uplink bandwidth parts. In some examples, the UE may transmit, to the BS, on the uplink according to the frequency hopping pattern.
US12058682B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive scheduling information for transmitting uplink control information in a first resource, where the first resource spans at least portions of a set of transmission time intervals. The UE may receive downlink data to be acknowledged via a feedback message in a second resource, where the second resource is within one of the set of transmission time intervals. The UE may identify that the first resource overlaps in time with the second resource. The UE may determine a transmission resource for the feedback message based on the first resource overlapping the second resource, the first resource spanning at least portions of the set of transmission time intervals, and the second resource being within one of the set of transmission time intervals. The UE may transmit feedback message via the transmission resource.
US12058681B2
Methods and apparatuses for reporting buffer status are disclosed. A method of reporting buffer status, comprising: sending a control element including buffer status information for a logical channel group on which first packets transmit and buffer status information for a corresponding logical channel group on which duplicated packets transmit.
US12058678B2
A method performed by a first wireless device in a wireless communication system including receiving, from a second first wireless device, a first message comprising information for requesting a resource allocation to the second wireless device; transmitting, to a network, a second message comprising a resource request for the second wireless device, the resource request comprising the information and an identifier (ID) of the second wireless device allocated by the first wireless device; receiving, from the network, a third message comprising a resource configuration for the second wireless device, the resource configuration comprising information for a resource for the second wireless device related to the resource request, and the ID of the second wireless device; and transmitting, to the second wireless device, a fourth message comprising the resource configuration related to the ID of the second wireless device.
US12058677B2
A system and method of providing a mechanism for determining control information, such as PDSCH scheduling delay and/or HARQ-ACK delay. The system and method include receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a control signal indicating one of a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling delays and one of a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) delays; receiving, by the wireless communication device from the wireless communication node, based on the PDSCH scheduling delays, a PDSCH; transmitting, by the wireless communication device to the wireless communication node, based on the HARQ-ACK delays, a HARQ-ACK that corresponds to the received PDSCH.
US12058669B2
A repeater BWP switching schedule is provided for a repeater that is responsive to a user equipment BWP switching schedule. Should the repeater support a plurality of active user equipments, the user equipment BWP switching schedule is a superset of the BWP switching schedule for each individual user equipment. The repeater BWP switching schedule may thus be more granular than the UE BWP switching schedule.
US12058665B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a beam, according to a measurement configuration, to determine a channel condition value of the beam, modify the channel condition value based at least in part on at least one of one or more beam characterizations, a derivation of a beamforming gain value, or an estimation of the beamforming gain value, and transmit, to a base station, a measurement report indicating the modified channel condition value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12058657B2
A wireless device and network node are provided. According to one aspect, the wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to determine at least a first timing adjustment parameter based on at least a first numerology parameter and adjust the timing of an uplink transmission based on the first timing adjustment parameter. According to another aspect, a method includes a timing adjustment parameter determiner module configured to determine at least a first timing adjustment parameter based on at least a first numerology parameter. The method also includes a timing adjustment module configured to adjust the timing of an uplink transmission based on the first timing adjustment parameter. These arrangements allow for the preservation of network node reception performance.
US12058656B2
Base station devices 20 and 30 includes communication units 21 and 31 and control units 24 and 34. The communication units 21 and 31 communicate with the terminal devices 40 and 50. When at least one symbol included in a slot format configured in the terminal devices 40 and 50 is a symbol for communication other than sidelink communication, the control units 24 and 34 transmit, to the terminal devices 40 and 50, information for use by the terminal devices 40 and 50 as a symbol for sidelink communication with at least one symbol.
US12058649B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present application discloses a method, a reception device, and a transmission device for sidelink communication, capable of determining a physical structure of a sidelink feedback channel and determining resources for transmitting the sidelink feedback channel. The method for sidelink communication includes: receiving a physical sidelink channel, to obtain sidelink data corresponding to the physical sidelink channel; obtaining physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) configuration, wherein a PSFCH is used to carry feedback information for the sidelink data; determining at least one PSFCH resource for transmitting the PSFCH based on the PSFCH configuration; and transmitting the PSFCH on the determined PSFCH resources.
US12058646B2
An embodiment relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a sidelink signal for a first terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a signal for allocating one or more first resources; transmitting the sidelink signal to a second terminal by using the one or more first resources; receiving, from the second terminal, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) non-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, in response to the sidelink signal; and retransmitting the sidelink signal to the second terminal by using a second resource, wherein the second resource is selected from a preset source pool on the basis of the absence of a resource for the retransmission of the sidelink signal.
US12058644B2
A network configures and transmits paging information. The network transmits configuration information to a user equipment (UE) operating in the network, wherein the configuration information comprises a value N based on a minimum gap between reception of a paging downlink control information (DCI) by the UE and fully processing the paging DCI by the UE, configures a paging DCI to be transmitted to the UE on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), wherein the paging DCI includes scheduling information for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and transmits the paging DCI to the UE on the PDCCH.
US12058641B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting positioning information in sidelink communication system is provided. A first wireless device determines positioning information of the first wireless device based on a position of the first wireless device. A first wireless device split the positioning information into first positioning information and second positioning information. A first wireless device transmits, to a second wireless device, the first positioning information via sidelink control information (SCI). A first wireless device transmits, to the second wireless device, the second positioning information via a data unit.
US12058636B2
The present specification provides a method and an apparatus therefor, in which, in a method for performing an integrated access and backhaul (JAB) operation performed by a node in a wireless communication system, an initial access operation is performed with another node, information about a capability supported by the node is transmitted to the other node, wherein the information about the capability is information informing about at least one timing alignment case supported by the node among a plurality of timing alignment cases, and the IAB operation is performed on the basis of the at least one timing alignment case.
US12058626B2
A device control method and an apparatus are provided. The device control method, applied to a main control device, includes: receiving a control instruction; sending a first signal to candidate controlled devices according to the control instruction; receiving second signals sent by the candidate controlled devices in response to the first signal, where the second signal carries a transmit power value of the candidate controlled device; determining a candidate controlled device corresponding to a minimum signal attenuation value as a target controlled device according to received power values for receiving the second signals by the main control device and the transmit power values of the candidate controlled devices carried in the second signals; and sending the control instruction to the target controlled device.
US12058622B2
A first wireless device receives a configuration message indicating: a first power control parameter set for a first sidelink feedback type; and a second power control parameter set for a second sidelink feedback type. Based on the sidelink feedback type indication one of the first power control parameter set and the second power control parameter set is selected as a selected power control parameter set. A transmit power of a sidelink feedback signal is determined based on the selected power control parameter set. The sidelink feedback signal is transmitted to the second wireless device based on the transmit power.
US12058619B2
The present specification relates to a method for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, in which a discontinuous reception (DRX) inactivity timer is started and a PDCCH is monitored while the DRX inactivity timer is in operation, wherein the terminal performs a power saving operation on the basis of receiving a go to sleep signal (GTS) while the DRX inactivity timer is in operation.
US12058616B2
An electronic device and a method for operating the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a communication processor configured to support a C-DRX; and a communication circuit configured to switch a first on-duration period to a sleep duration according to expiration of a predetermined time corresponding to an inactivity timer, wherein the communication processor is configured to determine whether to change a length of the sleep duration of the C-DRX, based on a state of the electronic device, control the communication circuit to transmit UE assistance information for changing the length of the sleep duration of the C-DRX, based on the determination, to a network, and control an operation related to the C-DRX of the communication circuit, based on the inactivity timer having a changed predetermined time included in an RRC reconfiguration message received according to an RRC connection with the network. Various other embodiments are possible.
US12058615B2
Embodiments of a device and a method for multi-link communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a processor configured to identify that an update event has occurred on a first link of an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), and transmit a management frame on a second link, where the management frame includes a Change Sequence field and a multi-link (ML) element that indicates the update event.
US12058609B2
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment comprising a receiver receiving a minimum-system-information message from a first radio base station. System information for the first radio cell that can be acquired by the UE is carried within the minimum-SI message and one or more additional-SI messages. The minimum-SI message includes system information for accessing the first radio cell and at least one system information index, each of which is associated with one of the additional-SI messages. The SI message index comprises a value tag and an area pointer, the latter pointing to one area already defined. Processing circuitry determines whether the UE had already acquired before the additional-SI message associated with the same value tag and the same area. If the determination is positive, the processing circuitry determines that system information included in said additional-SI message acquired before is applicable to the first radio cell.
US12058605B2
In some examples, an access point determines, based on at least one criterion that includes a non-time based criterion, whether to activate group-addressed transmission of information relating to an access network. In response to determining, based on the at least one criterion, to activate group-addressed transmission of information relating to the access network, the access point transmits information relating to the access network in a message targeted to a group address.
US12058602B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to select at least one first RF path, perform first communication based on the at least one first RF path, identify at least one second RF path simultaneously available with the at least one first RF path, and perform second communication based on the at least one second RF path. A first baseband signal may be converted into a first RF signal and a first communication signal corresponding to the first RF signal may be radiated based on the at least one first RF path, and a second baseband signal may be converted into a second RF signal and a second communication signal corresponding to the second RF signal may be radiated based on the at least one second RF path.
US12058594B2
A system allows an end-user to locate and gain access to an access-controlled facility or resource, such as a restroom, phone charging station, or Wi-Fi hot spot. Some implementations of the system monitor the formation and concentration of individuals into crowds that may place a higher demand on facilities and resources located near the crowd. The system may distribute mobile facilities to areas that offer convenient access to potential developing crowds, and when the system determines that there is a disparity between available resources and crowd demand reaches a certain level it may deploy one or more mobile facilities to positions proximate to that crowd. A mobile facility may also be requested on demand by a user or organizer, and some implementations provide cost sharing mechanisms and other user benefits related to requesting and accessing the facility.
US12058593B2
Provided are a driving negotiation method and apparatus for supporting stability against a blind spot, an unexpected situation, etc. and a rapid judgment and response of an autonomous vehicle in various driving environments. The driving negotiation apparatus includes a wireless communication module configured to support vehicle to everything (V2X) communication and at least one processor connected to the wireless communication module. The at least one processor receives a cooperative request message from a first vehicle, broadcasts a cooperative request message and additional information required for a negotiation to surrounding vehicles, receives a cooperative response message from at least one second vehicle among the surrounding vehicles, and transmits a message indicating that the negotiation is possible or impossible to the first vehicle on the basis of the cooperative response message.
US12058591B2
A computing device may perform various aspects of the techniques described in this disclosure, and comprises a processor, a network interface, and a memory. The processor may receive, from a vehicle head unit, and via a wireless inter-device communication process, connection information identifying a wireless network provided by the vehicle head unit. The network interface may automatically establish, based on the connection information, a wireless network connection to the wireless network provided by the vehicle head unit. The processor may project, via the wireless network connection, a vehicle operating system to the vehicle head unit for display by the vehicle head unit. The memory may store the connection information.
US12058579B2
Provided in the present application are a cell reselection method and apparatus based on a slice, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: a network device transmitting, to a terminal device, slice-related information that is associated with a serving cell frequency point and/or slice information that is associated with at least one neighboring cell frequency point; and the terminal device determining a final target reselected cell on the basis of the slice-related information that is associated with the serving cell frequency point and/or the slice information that is associated with the at least one neighboring cell frequency point.
US12058576B2
A method is applicable to a terminal supporting a plurality of subscriber identification module (SIM) cards. The method includes that the terminal performs a cell reselection through a first SIM card among a plurality of SIM cards to obtain a cell reselection result. Additionally, the terminal sends the cell reselection result from the first SIM card to a second SIM card among the plurality of SIM cards. Furthermore, the terminal takes a cell indicated by the cell reselection result as a new cell in which the second SIM card is to reside.
US12058569B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a Vehicle to Everything Policy (V2XP). The method includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, at least one of first information and second information to a Policy Control Function (PCF), the first information being used for requesting a configuration of a policy for V2X communication over a PC5 interface, and the second information being used for requesting a configuration of a policy for V2X communication over a Uu interface; and receiving, by the terminal device from the PCF, at least one of the policy corresponding to the first information and the policy corresponding to the second information.
US12058567B2
The present disclosure is directed to migrating network traffic from a licensed spectrum to an unlicensed spectrum within the same radio access technology (RAT). In one aspect, a method includes identifying a user device connected to a cellular wireless access technology, over a licensed spectrum; determining whether a condition for switching network traffic associated with the user device to an unlicensed spectrum is triggered; in response to determining that the condition is triggered, determining an unlicensed spectrum to move the network traffic to, the unlicensed spectrum being within a same cell as the licensed spectrum or in a different cell compared to a cell in which the licensed spectrum is; and migrating at least a portion of the network traffic to the unlicensed spectrum while maintaining network connectivity of the user device over the cellular wireless access technology.
US12058563B2
Embodiments herein provide a wireless communication system for managing a network slice congestion. The wireless communication system includes a User Equipment (UE), operably coupled to a core network. The UE is configured to transmit a first NAS signaling message to the core network, wherein the first NAS signaling message comprises a specific network slide identity. The core network i configured to detect the network slice congestion in the wireless communication system. Further, the core network is configured to indicate the network slice congestion using a second NAS signaling message to the User Equipment (UE), wherein the second NAS signaling message comprising a reject cause value and a back off timer for the requested network slice identity.
US12058553B2
A method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), power measurement information related to beam reporting in a wireless communication system includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) triggering reporting of the power measurement information; receiving a downlink reference signal for reporting of the power measurement information; and transmitting, to a base station, power measurement information determined based on the received downlink reference signal. A minimum required time for reporting of the power measurement information is (i) calculated as the sum of a first minimum required time from the last timing of the downlink reference signal to a transmission timing of the power measurement information and a second minimum required time between DCI triggering the downlink reference signal and reception of the downlink reference signal or (ii) calculated based on a pre-configured threshold value related to reporting of the power measurement information.
US12058537B2
A method for improving call performance in a wireless network includes applying AI techniques at the physical layer (PHY) to perform digital predistortion, channel estimation, and channel resource optimization including applying AI-based channel state information compression to compress feedback data from user equipment to a base station and applying AI-based fingerprinting processes to optimize positioning and localization in indoor environments and mapping disruptions to propagation patterns caused by individuals in a wireless environment; adjusting transceiver parameters during a call using an AI-based autoencoder design; and optimizing resource allocation and improving call quality between two devices by deploying AI at the PHY.
US12058529B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12058520B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a relay UE, a first message comprising a first freshness parameter, an identity of the UE, and authentication information, where the authentication information is used by a network node to authenticate the UE with security context information of the UE. The UE may derive a relay key for security establishment between the UE and the relay UE based on the first freshness parameter, a set of key generation parameters, and a shared key with the network node. The UE may derive a relay session key for security establishment between the UE and the relay UE based on the relay key, a first nonce of the UE, and a second nonce of the relay UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12058509B1
A system configured to create a flexible home theater group using a variety of different devices. To enable the home theater group to generate synchronized audio, the system performs device localization to generate map data, which represents locations of devices in a device map. The map data may include a listening position and/or television, such that the map data is centered on the listening position with the television along a vertical axis. To generate the map data, the system selects a primary device that determines calibration data indicating a sequence when each of the individual devices generates playback audio. The primary device sends the calibration data to secondary devices and each device generates playback audio at a designated time in the sequence, enabling other devices to capture the output audio and determine a relative position of the playback device (for example using angle of arrival and distance information).
US12058508B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to, among other things, a transducer capable of producing acoustic and tactile stimulation. The transducer includes a rigid mass element disposed on the diaphragm of a speaker. The mass element may optionally be removable and may have a mass selected such that the resonant frequency of the transducer falls within the range of frequencies present in an input electrical audio signal. The systems and methods advantageously benefits from both the fidelity and audio performance of a full-range speaker while simultaneously producing high-fidelity, adjustable and palpable haptic vibrations.
US12058506B2
This application provides a mobile terminal including a first magnet and a second magnet. At least a part of the first magnet and at least a part of the second magnet are disposed in the accommodating space. The first magnet is disposed on a back facet of the display module, the second magnet is disposed on the middle frame, and positions of the first magnet and the second magnet are disposed opposite to each other. The first magnet is a coil, and the second magnet is a main magnet; or the first magnet is a main magnet, and the second magnet is a coil. The main magnet is a Halbach array, and the main magnet generates a unilateral magnetic field on a side opposite to the coil.
US12058498B2
A noise detection method includes: inputting a key audio signal with multiple frequencies to an audio device to be tested; measuring a first output audio signal emitted by the audio device to be tested; performing an audio analysis on the first output audio signal to generate a measurement signal; and comparing the measurement signal with a qualified signal to generate a comparison result, and determining whether the first output audio signal has noise based on the comparison result.
US12058497B2
A bone conduction device, including a transducer and a housing, wherein the housing is directly flexibly connected to the transducer at a dynamic component of the bone conduction device and directly flexibly connected to a static component of the bone conduction device. In an exemplary embodiment, the bone conduction device is a percutaneous bone conduction device.
US12058496B2
A hearing system includes a processing device, a hearing aid adapted to be worn by a user, and a data logger. The hearing aid includes an input transducer providing an electric input signal representing sound in the environment of the user, and a hearing aid processor executing a processing algorithm in dependence of a specific parameter setting. The data logger stores time segments of said electric input signal, and data representing a corresponding user intent. The processing device comprises a simulation model of the hearing aid. The simulation model is based on a learning algorithm configured to provide a specific parameter setting optimized to the user's needs in dependence of a hearing profile of the user, the logged data, and a cost function. A method of determining a parameter setting for a hearing aid is further disclosed.
US12058492B2
A sound-producing device includes a housing having a front and a top, a first electro-acoustic transducer facing from the front of the housing, a second electro-acoustic transducer facing from the top of the housing, and a third electro-acoustic transducer facing from the top of the housing. There is at least one processor that is configured to, during audio playback, generate a first array using the first and second electro-acoustic transducers, the first array providing a left height component of the audio playback, and generate a second array using the first and third electro-acoustic transducers, the second array providing a right height component of the audio playback.
US12058487B2
A sound output device includes a main device portion that incorporates at least a battery and that is positioned behind an auricle, a sound output portion that incorporates at least a speaker and that is positioned in front of the auricle, a connection portion that connects the main device portion and the sound output portion to each other and that is positioned to run up along an ear lobe, and a joint that is removably attached to the sound output portion, that has a sound emitting opening, and that guides sound output from the speaker to an external acoustic opening, in which the joint for one of a left ear or a right ear is mounted on the sound output portion.
US12058479B2
The present invention provides a display screen with an integrated video camera optimized to capture the display screen's information and a light source that injects colored light into the edge of the display screen. Additionally, the system comprises a color blending instrument to blend the primary colors of red, green, blue, and a combination thereof to create an unlimited variety of color combinations that are injected into the display screen.
US12058476B2
Provided is an operation method of a server for relaying a call. The server relays a preliminary call between a first terminal and a second terminal for a preset time, based on matching of a first user of the first terminal and a second user of the second terminal, and after the preset time has elapsed, receives, from the first terminal and the second terminal, a response as to whether to continue the preliminary call. The server may determine whether to proceed with a main call based on the received response.
US12058472B2
An imaging unit includes a housing having a wall portion in which a slit for passing radiation is formed, a scintillator having an input surface to which radiation passing through the slit is input, a first mirror that reflects scintillation light output from the input surface, and a line scan camera that detects scintillation light reflected by the first mirror. The scintillator is placed to make the input surface parallel to both the conveying direction and a line direction. The first mirror is positioned outside an irradiation region connecting the peripheral edge of the slit to the input surface of the scintillator.
US12058461B2
Disclosed are an image sensor, an operating method thereof, and an electronic device including the image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a first selection/read-out circuit, a second selection/read-out circuit, and a controller provided to select a pixel of the pixel array and control the first and second selection/read-out circuits to read out information of the selected pixel. The first selection/read-out circuit provides a signal for selecting a pixel of the pixel array in a first direction, reads out a plurality of pixel signals received from the pixel array in a direction corresponding to the first direction, and the second selection/read-out circuit provides a signal for selecting a pixel of the pixel array in a second direction, and reads out a plurality of pixel signals received from the pixel array in a direction corresponding to the second direction.
US12058451B2
Video or image capture device and method of operation of the capture device are described. One example apparatus includes a first sensor array comprising a first plurality image sensors, a second sensor array comprising a second plurality image sensors; a third sensor array comprising a third plurality image sensors; a fourth sensor array comprising a fourth plurality image sensors and a fifth sensor array comprising a fifth plurality image sensors. The second sensor array and the fourth sensor array are configured to be excluded from use for capturing images in a portrait format. The third sensor array and the fifth sensor array are configured to be excluded from use for capturing images in a landscape format. The first sensor array is configured to be used for capturing images in the portrait format and the landscape format.
US12058447B2
The present disclosure provides systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media that support improved image signal processing, particularly in low-light or high dynamic range (HDR) scenes. The image processing techniques may include performing two automatic exposure control (AEC) operations, in which a first AEC operation targets obtaining good conditions for autofocus (AF) operation, and a second AEC operation follows the AF operation and targets obtaining good conditions for an image capture. The image processing techniques may also include communication between the AEC operations and AF operations to coordinate the operations by locking and releasing exposure levels and focus positions as part of the image signal processing. In one aspect, a processing technique may include an AF measuring statistics from target, coordinating with AEC, and performing interleaving of a lock-and-resume state machine to achieve better AF result in challenging low-light or HDR scenes while maintaining an overall image quality.
US12058446B2
Provided are an image processing method, apparatus and system, a network device, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring composition indication information for indicating a composition and display manner of regions of interest (ROIs) in a video image; and generating a media stream of the video image based on at least the composition indication information, i.e., writing the composition indication information into a code stream of the video image.
US12058443B2
An optical image stabilization actuator is provided. The optical image stabilization actuator includes a sensor substrate on which an image sensor having an imaging plane is disposed; a fixed frame configured to accommodate the sensor substrate; a movable frame accommodated in the fixed frame and configured to move in a direction parallel to the imaging plane; a first ball member disposed between the fixed frame and the movable frame and configured to support movement of the movable frame; and a first driver disposed on the movable frame and the fixed frame and configured to provide driving force to the movable frame, wherein the sensor substrate includes a movable portion coupled to the movable frame, a fixed portion coupled to the fixed frame, and a plurality of bridges configured to movably support the movable portion.
US12058437B2
A method including, at a camera, detecting motion in a field of view of the camera using a motion sensor, initiating processing of video data corresponding to the field of view in which the motion was detected, ceasing the processing after a first time duration, and determining a cool-off period for the motion sensor, the cool-off period having a second time duration based on the first time duration during which the camera does not detect motion using the motion sensor.
US12058435B2
An information processing apparatus including a display control unit that causes an image captured by any of one or a plurality of imaging devices to be displayed in a captured image display region that is a part of a display unit, causes second information related to the one or plurality of imaging devices to be displayed in a captured image hiding region that is a part of the display unit and different from the captured image display region, and causes first information related to the one or plurality of corresponding imaging devices to be displayed in the captured image display region in accordance with the second information being displayed and the one or plurality of imaging devices being in a predetermined state.
US12058434B2
In one or more implementations, a camera user interface of a client application may be accessed from a third-party application. The camera user interface may be modified based on input from a developer of the third-party application. Modifications to the camera user interface may be made according to a framework provided by a service provider related to the client application. The modifications to the camera user interface of the client application may be directed to modifying one or more user interface elements of an initial version of the camera user interface, modifying functionality available via the initial version of the camera user interface, or adding information related to the third-party application into the initial version of the camera user interface.
US12058431B2
Systems, methods, and devices for hyperspectral imaging in a light deficient environment are disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller comprising a processor in electrical communication with the image sensor and the emitter, wherein the controller synchronizes timing of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation during a blanking period of the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, or electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm.
US12058429B2
A lens is provided. The lens includes a lens unit, and a serrated layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the lens unit, wherein the serrated layer includes a plurality of particles dispersed therein that are injected into the serrated layer. The serrated layer includes a plurality of conical structures having different sizes, accordingly, a refractive index on the surface of the serrated layer may gradually change.
US12058420B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable a user to view a video image as intended by a content provider side. In an image processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology, an image quality adjustment menu is displayed that includes display related to setting of an image quality adjustment mode for a specific distribution service, in a case where an instruction is made to perform image quality adjustment during execution of an application that is used for viewing a content distributed by the specific distribution service. The present technology can be applied to television receivers that support video image content distribution services.
US12058416B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to impute media consumption behavior are disclosed. An example system includes one or more media meters to obtain tuning data, one or more people meters to obtain viewing data, and one or more servers to, in response to a determination that a difference satisfies a first threshold, determine that a first subset of the tuning data associated with first panelist households having tuned to first media in a first area exhibits local bias, determine that a second subset of the viewing data associated with second panelist households having viewed the first media in the second area represents heavy viewing, and impute the second subset of the viewing data for the first subset of the tuning data in response to the second subset of the viewing data representing heavy viewing.
US12058415B2
Improved technical functionality is provided to dynamically select and seamlessly play advertisements immediately before playing of a recorded program upon selection of the recorded program for playing, or upon other detected events and conditions associated with the set-top-box (STB) or user. In some embodiments, this is performed by using metadata which may be delivered to and stored on a digital video recorder (DVR) prior to recording the program, providing a technical solution to enable opportunities for additional advertisement impressions. Playing of the advertisement may also or instead occur upon the recorded program finishing playing. Thus, the technical solution provides the additional opportunity for the content creator and/or the satellite television or cable service provider to sell advertising spots in addition to those already sold for breaks within the recorded program.
US12058412B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a sequence of monitored media signatures with a library of reference signatures to determine a signature match, the monitored media signatures representative of a monitored media presentation. Disclosed example methods also include determining duration and offset of the signature match, the offset to represent a position of the signature match relative to a start of a reference media asset associated with the signature match. Disclosed example methods further include crediting a segment of the monitored media presentation represented by the signature match to an identifier of a class of media assets including the reference media asset in response to a determination that (i) the duration of the signature match does not exceed a first threshold and (ii) the offset does not exceed a second threshold.
US12058411B2
A data analytics device for application monitoring includes an application-monitor manager engine to receive configuration files from a cloud server and to generate monitoring rules for a number of monitors. A data-processing engine is coupled to the application-monitor manager engine and the monitors and coordinates activities of the plurality of monitors. The monitors are embedded in a user space and a kernel of a host operating system, and the monitoring rules for the monitors are generated based on the configuration files.
US12058403B2
An electronic apparatus includes a communication interface, a broadcasting signal receiver to receive a broadcasting signal, and a processor configured to receive first broadcasting schedule information including channel names and broadcasting program information for a plurality of first broadcasting channels from a server through the communication interface, obtain second broadcasting schedule information including channel names and broadcasting program information for a plurality of second broadcasting channels from the broadcasting signal, match the plurality of first broadcasting channels with the plurality of second broadcasting channels, and generate a channel matching table by matching the plurality of first broadcasting channels with the plurality of second broadcasting channels by comparing at least one of the channel names or the broadcasting program information included in the first broadcasting schedule information with at least one of the channel names or the broadcasting program information included in the second broadcasting schedule information.
US12058394B2
Systems and methods provide features in streaming media and video distribution by taking streaming video, including video-on-demand and live streams, and applying a dynamic visual watermark as desired by the content owner or broadcaster. The dynamic visual watermark can be a visible watermark that can be generated for each stream, viewer, or user. The techniques can retain the quality of the stream, make anti-piracy implementation feasible (typically about 1% of the cost of conventional techniques), work on live streams, work with any choice of vendor for cloud platforms, DRM providers, or other watermarking vendors, and does not require huge setup and integration to make it work. The video streaming solutions provides a tool to the broadcasters to mark every stream if desired. The video streaming solutions can be burnt in at the server-side and can be platform agnostic to the cloud platforms, software, and networks.
US12058385B2
This application provides a livestreaming processing method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining real-time livestreaming data of a livestreaming room while displaying livestreaming content of the livestreaming room; acquiring a portion of the livestreaming content of the livestreaming room according to the real-time livestreaming data, and generating a promotion video according to the acquired portion of the livestreaming content; and; and transmitting the promotion video to a plurality of social networking accounts of a social networking application, wherein the transmitted promotion video provides an option for a user associated with one of the plurality of social networking accounts to join the livestreaming room.
US12058383B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream including a first slice of a coded image. The coded image is associated with a picture parameter set (PPS) in the bitstream. The first slice is associated with a slice header in the bitstream. A list of identifiers (IDs) is parsed from the PPS. A first ID is parsed from the slice header of the first slice. The first ID matches one of the IDs in the list of IDs in the PPS. A list of tiles coded in the first slice is determined based on the first ID. The first slice is determined to generate a reconstructed sub-image of the coded image.
US12058373B2
A transform method applied to an encoder includes: determining a prediction mode parameter of a current block; determining a CCLM parameter when the prediction mode parameter indicates that CCLM is used for the current block to determine an intra prediction value; determining the intra prediction value of the current block according to the CCLM parameter and calculating a residual value between the current block and the intra prediction value; performing a first transform on the residual value to obtain a first coefficient matrix; determining an LFNST coefficient scanning order used for the current block according to the CCLM parameter when an LFNST is used for the current block; constructing an input coefficient matrix of the LFNST by using the first coefficient matrix according to the LFNST coefficient scanning order; and performing an LFNST processing on the input coefficient matrix to obtain a transform coefficient matrix of the current block.
US12058372B2
An encoding device evaluates a plurality of processing and/or post-processing algorithms and/or methods to be applied to a video stream, and signals a selected method, algorithm, class or category of methods/algorithms either in an encoded bitstream or as side information related to the encoded bitstream. A decoding device or post-processor utilizes the signaled algorithm or selects an algorithm/method based on the signaled method or algorithm. The selection is based, for example, on availability of the algorithm/method at the decoder/post-processor and/or cost of implementation. The video stream may comprise, for example, downsampled multiplexed stereoscopic images and the selected algorithm may include any of upconversion and/or error correction techniques that contribute to a restoration of the downsampled images.
US12058370B2
A point cloud data transmission device according to embodiments may comprise: an acquisition unit for acquiring point cloud data; an encoder for encoding the acquired point cloud data; and a transmitter for transmitting a bitstream including the encoded point cloud data. A point cloud data reception device according to embodiments may comprise: a receiver for receiving a bitstream including point cloud data; a decoder for decoding the point cloud data; and a renderer for rendering the point cloud data.
US12058361B2
Predictive coding techniques may include resampling of reference pictures, where various coding parameters are determined based on the resolution(s) or pixel format(s) of the prediction references. In a first aspect, lists of weights for use in weighted prediction are based on the resolution(s) of prediction references. In a second aspect, resampling filter parameters are selected based on the resolutions of prediction references. In a third aspect, deblocking filter parameters are based on the resolution(s) of prediction references.
US12058352B2
A video decoder is configured to decode a plurality of video frames which are subdivided into a set of one or more slices. The decoder evaluates slice type information indicating whether a slice is encoded using an independent coding mode having no prediction of video content of a current frame on the basis of a video content of a previous frame, or using a single-predictive mode having a prediction of a block of pixels on the basis of one block of pixels of a previous frame, or using a bi-predictive mode having a prediction of a block of pixels on the basis of two or more blocks of pixels of one or more previous frames, to select a mode of operation for decoding a slice. The video decoder includes an arithmetic decoder for providing a decoded binary sequence on the basis of an encoded representation of the binary sequence.
US12058351B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for a mobile device to decode video based on available power and/or energy. For example, the mobile device may receive a media description file (MDF) from for a video stream from a video server. The MDF may include complexity information associated with a plurality of video segments. The complexity information may be related to the amount of processing power to be utilized for decoding the segment at the mobile device. The mobile device may determine at least one power metric for the mobile device. The mobile device may determine a first complexity level to be requested for a first video segment based on the complexity information from the MDF and the power metric. The mobile device may dynamically alter the decoding process to save energy based on the detected power/energy level.
US12058342B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises determining whether a prediction mode of a current block is an intra block copy (IBC) mode based on information on the prediction mode of the current block, based on the prediction mode of the current block being an IBC mode, deriving motion information of the current block based on motion information of a corresponding block corresponding to the current block, and generating a prediction block for the current block, by performing IBC prediction based on the derived motion information of the current block. Based on absence of motion information of the corresponding block, the motion information of the current block is derived based on default motion information.
US12058338B2
A method and apparatus for local illumination compensation (LIC) for inter-prediction that uses a MinMax method to derive linear model parameters for the LIC. Values of parameters α and β for the linear model of the LIC are derived, based on reconstructed neighboring samples of the current block and reconstructed neighboring samples of the reference block. When a condition for the value of β is met, the value of α is clipped based on the value of β and the value of β is updated based on the clipped value of α before updating the inter-predicted sample values for the current block.
US12058334B2
A method is proposed of encoding a change time The change time indicates a change in time of a characteristic luminance of the video data. The characteristic luminance summarizes the set of luminances of pixels the video data. The encoding of the time variation of the characteristic luminance provides a more compact and accurate storage and transmission of content.
US12058322B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for applying intra prediction refinement to intra predicted samples. An exemplary method includes: determining a filter based on neighboring samples of intra predicted samples of a picture; generating an offset value based on the neighboring samples; refining the intra predicted samples by adding the offset value; and applying the filter to the intra predicted samples.
US12058312B2
A method and an apparatus for video processing are provided. The method includes that a decoding terminal receives a plurality of coded video frames coded using one or more generative adversarial networks (GANs), receives network parameters related to the one or more GANs, and decodes the plurality of coded video frames using GANs based on the network parameters. Further, the one or more GANs respectively implement one or more video coding functions including reference-frame coding, motion-compensated frame prediction, and residue-frame coding.
US12058310B2
Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of video coding, comprising performing a conversion between a video comprising a plurality of pictures and a bitstream of the video, wherein each picture comprises an alpha layer and a base layer, and wherein the bitstream comprises a current block in the alpha layer of a current picture that is predicted from one or more reference blocks in the base layer.
US12058309B2
A system including an acceleration device including input circuitry configured, for each of a first plurality of video frames to be encoded, to receive an input including at least one raw video frame and at least one reference frame, and to divide each of the first plurality of video frames to be encoded into a second plurality of blocks, and similarity computation circuitry configured, for each one of the first plurality of video frame to be encoded: for each the block of the second plurality of blocks, to produce a score of result blocks based on similarity of each the block in each frame to be encoded to every block of the reference frame, and a displacement vector. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.
US12058308B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, vehicles, and methods for detecting optical defects in an optical path of a camera system. An example system may include an image sensor configured to provide images of a field of view via an optical path that extends through an optical window. The system also includes at least one phase-detection device and a controller. The controller is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory so as to carry out various operations, including receiving, from the image sensor, first pixel information indicative of an image of the field of view. The operations additionally include receiving, from the at least one phase-detection device, second pixel information indicative of a portion of the field of view. The operations yet further include determining, based on the first pixel information and the second pixel information, at least one optical defect associated with the optical path.
US12058303B2
An ocular optical system configured to allow imaging rays from a display image to enter an observer's eye through the ocular optical system so as to form an image is provided. A direction toward the eye is an eye side, and a direction toward the display image is a display side. The ocular optical system sequentially includes a first and a second lens elements having refracting power from the eye side to the display side along an optical axis. Each lens element includes an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. An optical axis region of the eye-side surface of the first lens element is concave. An optical axis region of the eye-side surface of the second lens element is concave.
US12058295B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller and a memory interface having a port to receive a portable memory. The controller performs a portable memory using process that includes storing data in a dedicated memory, and performing a process using the data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via a user interface. The controller stores, before the portable memory using process, identification information in a portable memory attached to the port, thereby setting the portable memory as the dedicated memory. The controller determines whether a target portable memory as attached to the port is set as the dedicated memory, based on whether the identification information is stored in the target portable memory. The controller determines whether to display a first screen or a second screen, based on whether the target portable memory is set as the dedicated memory.
US12058294B2
An image forming apparatus capable of leaving necessary images formed on seal paper, even when a removal operation is performed on an image forming paper, which includes the seal paper and release paper, after half-cutting processing. The image forming apparatus has an image forming part for forming a first image and a second image indicating additional information related to the first image, on the seal paper. The image forming apparatus makes setting related to the additional information, acquires information related to first half-cutting for leaving a portion of the first image in the seal paper on the release paper after the half-cutting processing and information related to second half-cutting for leaving, based on the setting, a portion of the second image in the seal paper on the release paper after the half-cutting, and forms the first and second images on the seal paper.
US12058284B2
The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
US12058273B2
Disclosed are blockchain type contract terminal and method using a digital contents original confirmation key. There are provided: an input module that is inputted with a contract term regarding an object of contract; a position information collection module that collects, in real time, position information of the object at the time of contract; a contract creation module that creates a contract by using the contract term inputted by the input module and the position information at the time of contract collected in real time by the position information collection module; a digital contents original confirmation key interface module that provides the contract term inputted by the input module and the position information at the time of contract collected in real time by the position information collection module to a contents initializer and an international authentication adjustment server, and receives a digital contents original confirmation key from the contents initializer or the international authentication adjustment server; a digital contents original contract creation module that combines the digital contents original confirmation key received at the digital original confirmation key interface module with the contract created at the contract creation module to create a digital contents original contract; a blockchain creation module that encrypts the contract created by the digital contents original contract creation module to create a blockchain; and a blockchain distributed storage control module that transmits the blockchain created at the blockchain creation module to another terminal in a P2P manner for storing on a network in a distributed manner.
US12058265B2
Techniques for verifiable computation for cross-domain information sharing are disclosed. An untrusted node in a distributed cross-domain solution (CDS) system is configured to: receive a first data item and a first cryptographic proof associated with the first data item; perform a computation on the first data item including one or more of filtering, sanitizing, or validating the first data item, to obtain a second data item; generate, using a proof-carrying data (PCD) computation, a second cryptographic proof that indicates (a) validity of the first cryptographic proof and (b) integrity of the first computation on the first data item; and transmits the second data item and the second cryptographic proof to a recipient node in the distributed CDS system. Alternatively or additionally, the untrusted node may be configured to transmit a cryptographic proof to a trusted aggregator in the CDS system.
US12058263B2
A system and method are provided for generating access tokens on a user device rather than via a remote server computer. An access token can be generated on a second user device by combining and encrypting, with format preservation, a primary access identifier, variable value, and salt. The resulting value can be provided to a first user device that subsequently can provide the access token to an access device as a part of an interaction. The access device can generate an authorization request message that includes the access token and transmit the authorization request message to a remote server computer for processing. The remote server computer can process the access token to determine the primary access identifier despite not being involved in the generation of the access token, providing an improvement over conventional tokenization methods.
US12058259B2
This disclosure relates to data storage device (DSD) hardware and, more specifically, to systems and methods for encrypting data stored on a DSD. A DSD comprises a non-volatile storage medium to store multiple file system data objects using block addressing. The multiple file system data objects are addressable by respective ranges of blocks. A device controller is integrated with the DSD and comprises hardware circuitry configured to encrypt data to be stored on the storage medium and decrypt data stored on the storage medium based on different cryptographic keys, and to use each of the different cryptographic keys for one of the ranges of blocks addressing a respective file system data object. The decryption part of the hardware circuitry can be deactivated so that the data can be read in encrypted form.
US12058258B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating, by a secure executable container executed by an endpoint device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and a first secure public key; first establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a second endpoint device, including receiving a second secure public key of the second endpoint device; second establishing, by the secure executable container, a two-way trusted relationship with a replicator device, including receiving a third secure public key of the replicator device; generating, by the secure executable container using the second secure public key, a secure data packet destined for the second endpoint device, including generating an encrypted payload for the secure data packet; and generating and outputting to the replicator device, by the secure executable container using the third secure public key, a secure tunneled data packet, including encrypting the secure data packet.
US12058254B2
A method for storing key data in an electronic component formed as an integrated programmable circuit, such as a field programmable gate array, which includes a base structure consisting of base elements, wherein configuration data is loaded, for each current program, onto the base elements and stored in a volatile matter, the key data is divided into key sub-data blocks, and a base element position is selected for each key sub-data block, where upon generating the configuration data for each current program or circuit function of the electronic component, selected base element positions of the key sub-data blocks are considered, while loading the configuration data, key sub-data blocks are stored in the base elements defined by selected base element positions, and after successfully programming the electronic component, the key sub-data blocks of base elements specified by selected base element positions are ascertained and assembled to form the key data.
US12058250B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a dynamic white box-based data processing method, apparatus, and device, the method comprising: using a pre-generated key obfuscation mapping relationship set to perform obfuscation processing on an original key to obtain a redundant key; and inputting the redundant key and to-be-processed data into a white box algorithm library to implement encryption and decryption processing; thus, in the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application, different redundant keys can be inputted into the white box algorithm library, so that there is no need to change the white box algorithm library and the key together, increasing the flexibility of the solution.
US12058245B2
Technology permitting secure storage and transmission of data stream as well as tiered access to multiple data stream according to permission. Data streams may be encrypted using symmetric encryption performed with varying symmetric keys according to a key stream of symmetric keys. Native data may be discarded for safety. Whole or partial key streams may be encrypted using the public keys of authorized entities having permission to access respective data streams or portions thereof. Only the corresponding private keys can decrypt the encrypted key streams required to decrypt the encrypted data streams. Thus rigorous access control is provided. IT personnel accessing data stream files on a server or intruders maliciously obtaining files will not be able to derive the data stream. Sensitive data streams may be stored using cloud services despite inherent risks.
US12058239B2
A method, and related apparatuses are provided. The method comprises receiving an initial layer-3 message, wherein the initial layer-3 message comprises an indication indicating that a part of the initial layer-3 message is encrypted, and generating a keystream, wherein the keystream is used to decrypt the encrypted part of the initial layer-3 message.
US12058237B2
A communication network can include a random number beacon broadcasting a random number stream to multiple computing devices. At least two of those computing devices can generate private keys for secured communication based a subset of random numbers from the random number stream. Other devices do not have access to these private keys even though they have access to the subset of random numbers by virtue of receiving the broadcasted random number stream. The subset of random numbers can be extracted based on a predetermined time known only to the two or more devices, and/or the subset of random numbers can be extracted following detection of a predetermined number sequence in the random number stream known only to the two or more devices. Following a similar concept, a computing device can generate private cryptographic keys from a public random number stream.
US12058233B2
There may be provided a computer-implemented method that includes: broadcasting, by a node in a blockchain network, a transaction to transfer one or more digital assets to a public group address associated with a congress public key, the public group being associated with one or more other digital assets associated with other members of a congress; generating a private key share to be used in a threshold signature scheme in which at least a threshold of private key shares must be used to generate a valid signature through combination of partial signatures on behalf of the congress, wherein other holders of the private key shares are the other members of the congress who have joined the congress by transfer of respective digital assets to the public group address; and using the private key share to cooperatively generate a valid signature for a transaction from the public group address.
US12058224B2
System and method for efficiently implementing scalable, highly efficient decentralized proxy services through proxy infrastructures situated in different geo-locations. In one aspect, the systems and methods enable users from any geographical location to send requests to the geographically closest proxy infrastructure. One exemplary method described allows proxy infrastructures to gather, classify, and store metadata of exit nodes in its internal database. In another aspect, systems and methods described herein enable proxy infrastructures to select metadata of exit nodes from its internal database and forward requests from a user device to respective proxy servers or proxy supernodes to which the selected exit nodes are connected.
US12058221B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards determining that information of interest, corresponding to as a meaningful event, is available to be captured and saved, and capturing the information. When an event is determined to satisfy a defined meaningful event likelihood criterion, sensor data (which can include media data), time data and location data are collected and associated with the meaningful event, e.g., in a data store. A presentation/package is generated from the various data, and maintained for subsequent access, e.g., for sending to a recipient. The presentation can include annotation data. The presentation can be conditionally marked for future presentation if and when certain condition data is satisfied. The presentation can be associated with at least one conditional gift.
US12058219B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a predictive communication system. In one embodiment, a communication is received from a user, and a profile associated with the user is identified. Real-time activity data associated with the profile and obtained from one or more internal channels via a messaging bus is accessed. A redeemable value accumulation in the activity data is determined to have reached a specified threshold. An intent prediction alert associated with the communication is determined according to one or more of a plurality of intent prediction rules based at least in part on the redeemable value accumulation reaching the threshold, where the intent prediction alert includes a predicted reason for the communication.
US12058212B2
A method for commissioning a building comprises identifying a building asset within a digital representation of a building having one or more parameters describing relationships of the building asset within the building, controlling one or more other building assets included within the digital representation to change an environmental parameter of the building, monitoring a response of at least one of the building asset or one of the one or more other building assets to the change in the environmental parameter, generating a parameter for the digital representation associated with the building asset based on the monitoring, and updating the digital representation using the parameter.
US12058208B2
A leader control plane node of a set of control plane nodes of a node cluster, may receive a request to store data in a distributed storage system including a set of access manager nodes. The leader control plane node may generate cache data identifying an instruction from the leader control plane node to one or more access manager nodes managed by the leader control plane node of the plurality of access manager nodes, the instruction instructing the one or more access manager nodes to store the data indicated in the request. The leader control plane node may then transmit a replication instruction to one or more follower control plane nodes of the plurality of control plane nodes to replicate the cache data in a respective cache of the one or more follower control plane nodes.
US12058206B1
This disclosure describes a cloud exchange that offers dynamic network connectivity and performance-based recommendation services for application workloads. For example, a cloud exchange comprises a network configured with respective network connections to at least one of a plurality of cloud service providers (CSPs), wherein an application workload is deployed to a first CSP according to a first application workload deployment scenario, wherein the application workload is for a customer of the first CSP; and a programmable network platform configured to: receive telemetry information of the network for the network connections; determine, based on the telemetry information, whether the application workload meets a performance objective; and in response to determining that the application workload does not meet the performance objective, send, to the customer, a recommendation for a second application workload deployment scenario that includes a deployment template to configure a second CSP with the second application workload deployment scenario.
US12058200B1
In some implementations, a file sharer may receive, from a first user device, a file and an indication of a set of additional users and may perform encryption on the file to generate an encrypted file. The file sharer may transmit the encrypted file to a cloud storage. The file sharer may receive, from a second user device, a request for the file and may contact a single sign on service to authenticate a user of the second user device. The file sharer may verify that the user of the second user device is included in the set of additional users. The file sharer may receive the encrypted file from the cloud storage and may perform decryption on the encrypted file to generate a copy of the file. The file sharer may transmit, to the second user device, the copy of the file.
US12058197B2
A method implemented e.g. in a Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LwM2M) server, comprises establishing a secure communication session with a client and transmitting an observation request to the client. The observation request identifies a first resource at the client, one or more criteria relating to the first resource to trigger a notification to be transmitted from the client to the server, and one or more resources at the client comprising at least one resource other than the first resource, the value of which is to be included in the notification.
US12058195B1
Systems and methods for managing distributed computing resources including blockchain-based management of serverless computing and edge computing. Distributed computing resources are managed on a peer-to-peer network, and serverless functions are hosted on a distributed IT infrastructure. Developers for the serverless functions and providers of distributed IT infrastructure utilize a blockchain-based IT marketplace platform to make transactions relating to computing resource consumption.
US12058190B2
A system and method is provided for performing lossless switching in a redundant multicast network. An exemplary method includes receiving a primary media stream and a redundant media stream over different forwarding network paths by network ports of a receiver communicatively coupled to an A/V device. Furthermore, the receiver outputs media data of the media streams to the A/V device to be presented thereon. In response to a control signal to switch the receiver to a new primary media stream, the method disconnected either the primary ort the redundant media streams from the respective network port of the receiver receiving that stream. Furthermore, the method includes controlling the disconnected network port to receive the new primary media stream and then outputting media data of the new primary media stream to the A/V device to be presented thereon.
US12058189B2
Systems, methods, and devices for establishing a context-centric shared-viewing party. A processor in a network server may determine content for shared viewing based on inputs received from a user via a user device, and select a context participant group. Each of the user and participants in the selected group may share a commonality with the other participants in that group. The processor may receive complementary context from at least one or more of the user device or user devices of participants in the selected group. The processor may generate a context stream based on the received contextualized content, and send the context stream to the user device.
US12058184B2
A screen control method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: in a case that a screen of multi-party video communication is displayed, receiving a first input by a first user; and in response to the first input, establishing a first communication connection between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. Both the first electronic device and the second electronic device are electronic devices participating in the multi-party video communication. The first communication connection is used to transmit a control instruction of the second electronic device on a screen display content of the first electronic device. In a case that the control instruction is received, a control operation corresponding to the control instruction is performed on the screen display content of the first electronic device.
US12058176B1
A connection-based service impersonates request-based security for requests from clients that do not include credentials for the requests (e.g., data plane requests made via a connection-oriented security). A connection between a client and a connection-based service is established based on connection credentials that are based on security credentials from a request-based security service. The credentials are sent by a security component of the service to a local agent of the remote security service to be authenticated by the security service. An impersonation token is returned by the security service and cached by the local agent. Requests from the client to perform operations do not include credentials. For each request, the service passes an identifier for the client and the operation to a local authorization component that calls the agent for authorization of the requested operation. The agent uses the impersonation token to obtain authorization for the requested operation.
US12058172B2
Systems and methods for defending against emoji domain web address phishing are disclosed. A system may provide computer system security in various instances in which a web address includes an emoji character, which can be rendered as a graphical icon on a user system, and which may cause user confusion leading to a possible computer security breach. The system receives a web address as an input to a web browser. The system processes the received web address to remove any emoji characters present in the received web address. The system compares the processed web address to the received web address and determines whether the processed web address matches the received web address. Various actions are performed to prevent successful phishing attempts against users based on whether the processed web address matches the received web address.
US12058155B2
An input data generation unit is configured to generate, based on log data indicating a log of a behavior of a user with respect to a given computer resource for each period, input data for the period, which is associated with the log data. A user probability data generation unit is configured to generate user probability data based on output obtained from a trained machine learning model when the input data is input to the trained machine learning model. An anomaly determination unit is configured to determine whether an anomaly has occurred in the behavior of the user during a latest period based on the user probability data generated based on the input data for the latest period and the user probability data generated based on the input data for a period before the latest period.
US12058145B2
A device control method includes a first electronic device that configures a network for a home device using a first home application logged in using a first account, sends, in response to a first user operation, an authorization request to a device server, and receives a first authorization code; the home device receives the first authorization code; the first electronic device outputs the first authorization code; the device server stores second personal information corresponding to the second account; a second electronic device sends account information of the second account and a second authorization code to the home device, wherein a second home application is installed on the second electronic device and is logged in using a second account; the home device performs verification on the second authorization code based on the first authorization code, and when the verification succeeds, stores the account information of the second account.
US12058140B2
Preference data is received. The received preference data is compared to stored preference data associated with a user with which the received preference data is associated. A determination is made whether to authorize an action based at least on the comparison. The preference data is received as a selection.
US12058136B2
A system and method for securely sharing metadata among virtualized network functions (VNFs) disposed within a cluster of host computers includes a distributed forwarding and metadata sharing (DFMS) framework that forwards received data packets and provides remote direct memory access (RDMA) enabled sharing of secured metadata among the VNFs from more than one host computer in the cluster of host computers, and a DFMS controller that resides in the cluster of host computers as a VNF and registers VNFs in the cluster to at least one group of VNFs in the cluster and assigns access rights to the metadata of VNFs within respective groups of VNFs in the cluster. In operation, each registered VNF in a group in the cluster uses RDMA requests to access the metadata for other registered VNFs in the group in the cluster to which the each registered VNF in the group has access rights.
US12058135B2
An authorization access system and method of minimizing unauthorized access to a resource are provided. The authorization access system comprises at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the at least one processor to perform the method. The method comprises assigning a first risk score to application programming interface (API) traffic associated with a user device and/or user behaviour pattern observed prior to an API gateway, assigning a second risk score to the API traffic associated with the user device observed at the API gateway, assigning a third risk score to the API traffic associated with the user device and/or back end service responses observed after the API gateway, and performing an authorization action based on any of the first, second or third risk scores.
US12058134B2
Disclosed is a system for providing chatbot services in an integrated way, in which a client can receive query processing services by immediately accessing at least one of other chatbot servers without changing a preexisting accessing means while being initially connected to a specific chatbot server, so that a user can use a plurality of query processing services without difficulties by linking the chatbot servers operated by the plurality of service providers, thereby minimizing the time, efforts and costs of the user who wants to receive the plurality of query processing services through the plurality of service providers.
US12058133B2
A method and system for performing federated identity management are described. The method and system include receiving a communication for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The communication corresponds to end user credentials for an end user. The method and system include providing the communication from the dispatcher to the data source and to the service. The method and system also use the service to authenticate the end user based on the end user credentials and utilizing federated identity management.
US12058131B2
Systems and methods are provided for persistent cross-application mobile device identification. A mobile device may have a plurality of sandboxes in memory containing applications. The mobile device may have a shared storage which may accessible by applications from different sandboxes. A storage location identifier may be used to access information in shared storage. A universal device identifier may be stored in the shared storage to identify the mobile device and may be accessible by multiple applications and updates to applications. The universal device identifier may be used to track the mobile device for advertising, fraud detection, reputation tracking, or other purposes.
US12058127B2
A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment.
US12058112B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for binding data to a network in the presence of an entity. In one implementation, a cryptographic system is provided. The cryptographic system includes a memory to store encrypted data, and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to identify a public key for a communications device in response to an indication of a presence of the communications device on a network. A first intermediate is determined in view of the public key for the communications device and in view of an acquisitioning public key. The acquisitioning public key is associated with the encrypted data. A second intermediate public key is received from the communications device in view of the first intermediate public key. Thereupon, the encrypted data is decrypted using an encryption key derived at least from the second intermediate public key.
US12058110B2
Described herein are improved systems and methods for provisioning of private computer networks and application software as well as providing private SaaS.
US12058101B2
Package structures and methods of forming package structures are described. A method includes placing a first package within a recess of a first substrate. The first package includes a first die. The method further includes attaching a first sensor to the first package and the first substrate. The first sensor is electrically coupled to the first package and the first substrate.
US12058097B2
This disclosure describes techniques for performing domain name system (DNS) support on public resolvers. For instance, an electronic device may send a query to a local DNS resolver. The electronic device may then receive an answer from the local DNS resolver that includes a pattern. Using the answer, the electronic device may generate a DNS packet that includes at least the answer and a query for a first Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a first IP version, such as IPv6. The electronic device may then send the DNS packet to a public DNS resolver. Using the DNS packet, the public DNS resolver may generate a synthesized IP address associated with the first IP version. For example, the public DNS resolver may identify a second IP address associated with a second IP version, such as IPv4, and generate the synthesized IP address using the second IP address and the answer.
US12058088B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide a message relay service. The message relay service provides an application programming interface (API) with which messages can be sent and received without handling specific implementation details of a messaging system. When inbound messages are received, the message relay service may provide a push notification and/or may store the message for later access. In examples, one or more source addresses are used to send messages. If the client device indicates a group of addresses should be used, one address is selected from the group and used to send a message accordingly. In some examples, the message relay service determines that a messaging gateway need not be used to message a recipient address, and transmits the message without use of the messaging gateway. The same API may be used to send and receive messages across different messaging systems without a customer handling system-specific complexities.
US12058082B2
A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating a time division duplex (TDD) configuration; a control unit that obtains information related to an uplink, in the received information indicating the TDD configuration; and a transmitting unit that transmits the information related to the uplink on a sidelink.
US12058081B2
Secondary cell management in wireless communications is described. A cell group may comprise a plurality of secondary cells. The cell group may comprise a first cell with a control channel. The wireless device may keep the first cell active while at least one secondary cell in the cell group is active.
US12058070B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may inform a base station of multiple transmission-antenna switching capabilities supported by the UE. The supported transmission-antenna switching capabilities may include a first transmission-antenna switching capability and a second transmission-antenna switching capability. The UE may receive a message that triggers the UE to switch from using a first configuration associated with the first transmission-antenna switching capability to using a second configuration associated with the second transmission-antenna switching capability. The UE may perform a sounding procedure using the second configuration associated with the second transmission-antenna switching capability based on receiving the message.
US12058069B2
This application provides a training sequence transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: A first AP broadcasts a trigger frame, where the trigger frame indicates a time sequence of separately sending channel sounding frames by N STAs, and N is an integer greater than 1. The first AP receives the channel sounding frames sequentially sent by the N STAs, where one channel sounding frame includes one or more training sequences. In this solution, only one trigger frame needs to be sent, so that the N STAs can be triggered to separately report channel sounding frames to M+1 APs. However, in the conventional technology, each AP needs to send one channel training request to each STA, that is, N×(M+1) channel training requests are sent in total, to trigger each STA to report a training sequence. Therefore, this solution can significantly reduce signaling overheads.
US12058058B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to techniques for transmitting reference signals in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication protocols. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for use by a group of mobile devices in association with uplink data transmissions, wherein respective mobile devices of the group of mobile devices are configured to employ a same time and a same frequency resource of a wireless communication network in association with communicating with network devices of the wireless communication network according to a NOMA communication protocol. The method further comprises determining different configuration parameters for application by the respective mobile devices in association with transmitting the DMRS with the uplink data transmissions, wherein the different configuration parameters facilitate differentiating between the DMRS as transmitted by the respective mobile devices. The method further comprises sending the DMRS and the different configuration parameters to the respective mobile devices.
US12058052B2
Traffic flow across a backbone network can be determined even though flow data may not be available from all network devices. Flow data can be observed using types of backbone devices, such as aggregation and transit devices. An algorithm can be applied to determine which data to utilize for flow analysis, where this algorithm can be based at least in part upon rules to prevent duplicate accounting of traffic being observed by multiple devices in the backbone network. Such an algorithm can use information such as source address, destination address, and region information to determine which flow data to utilize. In some embodiments, address mapping may be used to attribute this traffic to various services or entities. The data can then be analyzed to provide information about the flow of traffic across the backbone network, which can be useful for purposes such as network optimization and usage allocation.
US12058048B2
Implementations are described herein for leveraging an “out-of-band” communication channel between nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, an out-of-band communication channel may be established between two or more process automation nodes of a process automation system. The out-of-band communication channel may be outside of a process automation network through which the two or more process automation nodes are communicatively coupled with other process automation nodes of the process automation system. The two or more process automation nodes may cooperate with one or more of the other process automation nodes to implement an at least partially automated process. One or more characteristics of the process automation system may be monitored, and based on the monitoring, traffic may be selectively diverted from the process automation network to the out-of-band communication channel.
US12058035B2
Data-driven intelligent networking systems and methods are provided. The system can accommodate dynamic traffic with fast, effective congestion control. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow can be acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the acknowledgement packets can be sent back to the ingress point of the flow along the same data path. As a result, each switch can obtain state information of each flow and perform flow control on a per-flow basis.
US12058033B2
Methods and systems are provided to facilitate network ingress fairness between applications. At an ingress port of a network, the applications providing data communications are reviewed so that and arbitration process can be used to fairly allocate bandwidth at that ingress port. In a typical process, the bandwidth is allocated based upon the number of flow channels, irrespective of the source and characteristics of those flow channels. At the ingress port, an examination of the application providing the data communication will allow for a more appropriate allocation of input bandwidth.
US12058020B1
Delay reporting information descriptive of an existing delay of the participant computing device is received from each participant computing device of a participant cohort. The existing delay includes a period of time between transmission of audio data from the teleconference computing system and receipt of the audio data by the participant computing device. The participant cohort includes multiple participant computing devices that are co-located within a same area and are connected to a teleconference hosted by the teleconference computing system. A target delay is determined for the participant cohort. The target delay includes a period of time greater than the existing delay of participant computing devices. The target delay is configured to cause synchronized audio playback when implemented by the devices. Target delay information indicative of the target delay is provided to the participant cohort.
US12058018B2
An object of the present disclosure is to collectively collect sensing data and metadata regarding normality of equipment by utilizing light communication protocol. The present disclosure is a system that collects sensing data from a sensor terminal in a data collection unit using a data collection network, the sensor terminal including a detection unit configured to detect metadata regarding internal information of the sensor terminal other than a sensor device that detects sensing data and equipment information and transmitting the metadata detected by the detection unit using an extended area or an optional area defined in communication protocol for transmitting the sensing data or the equipment information in a frame defined in the communication protocol, and the data collection unit associating the sensing data, the equipment information, and the metadata on the basis of information for identifying the sensor terminal described in the frame.
US12058016B2
Described herein are a device and a method for performing a network analysis. In one aspect, the device includes a feature extraction circuit, an input processing circuit, and a reconfigurable neural network circuit. In one aspect, the feature extraction circuit receives a raw packet stream, and obtains temporal statistics of a flow, according to a first packet attribute or a first flow attribute of the raw packet stream. In one aspect, the feature extraction circuit generates a feature data including one or more statistical features based on the temporal statistics of the flow. In one aspect, the input processing circuit scales the feature data to generate an adjusted feature data. In one aspect, the reconfigurable neural network circuit performs computations corresponding to a neural network on the adjusted feature data to determine a predicted network characteristic.
US12058015B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods, techniques, and systems to compute relevant and useful information that may be presented to users in an understandable, intuitive, and actionable platform. The interactive platform includes a format and visualization that is capable of presenting data for a wide range of protocols and topologies at various functional layers of the network. The interactive platform provides selectable categories of filters which update the network data and views displayed to the users to aid in the analysis and investigation of potential root causes of problems, rather than merely presenting examples of symptoms. The interactive platform includes a method and visualization that is capable of presenting differences in network behavior at various functional layers of the network.
US12058013B2
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein enable the provisioning of one or more virtual resources within a cloud-computing environment based at least in part on user-defined constraints. By way of example, a request to provision one or more virtual resources within the cloud-computing environment may be received. The request may include a set of user-defined constraints. Placement data indicating a mapping of a particular virtual resource to a particular hardware resource may be obtained based at least in part on the set of user-defined constraints. The virtual resource(s) may be provisioned within the cloud-computing environment in accordance with the set of user-defined constraints based at least in part on utilization of the placement data.
US12058005B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine learning models to automatically generate spine-leaf network topologies. A computing system may receive one or more prompts to generate a spine-leaf network topology based on a non-spine-leaf network topology of a non-spine-leaf network. Based on inputting the prompts into a natural language processing model, network criteria for generating the spine-leaf network topology may be generated. Non-spine-leaf network topology data comprising network metadata, network dependency parameters, and network constraint parameters, may be retrieved. Based on inputting the network criteria and the non-spine-leaf network data into a generative adversarial network implemented on a quantum computing device, candidate spine-leaf topologies comprising a qualified candidate spine-leaf network topology that meets the network criteria may be generated. A block of a blockchain may be generated and may comprise the qualified candidate spine-leaf network topology that meets the network criteria.
US12057999B2
The virtual network performance acceleration method includes step S1, monitoring whether an OVS invokes a CT mechanism; step S2, if it is detected that the OVS invokes a CT mechanism, triggering a translation rule; and step S3, forwarding a translation message translated by the translation rule. A virtual network performance acceleration apparatus and a storage medium are also disclosed.
US12057991B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for orchestrating server management in a modern IT network. The described techniques may be implemented to manage any number of networked severs, whether local, remote, or both. Server orchestration may leverage a central, cloud-based management system and/or one or more autonomous agents installed on servers with the network. The autonomous agents may each be registered with the supervisory server and may have awareness of one another.
US12057989B1
Described is a system for Neuromorphic Adaptive Core (NeurACore) signal processor for ultra-wide instantaneous bandwidth denoising of a noisy signal. The NeurACore signal processor includes a digital signal pre-processing unit for performing cascaded decomposition of a wideband complex valued In-phase and Quadrature-phase (I/Q) input signal in real time. The wideband complex valued I/Q input signal is decomposed into I and Q sub-channels. The NeurACore signal processor further includes a NeurACore and local learning layers for performing high-dimensional projection of the wideband complex valued I/Q input signal into a high-dimensional state space; a global learning layer for performing a gradient descent online learning algorithm; and a neural combiner for combining outputs of the global learning layer to compute signal predictions corresponding to the wideband complex valued I/Q input signal.
US12057984B2
A communication device for handling a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR), includes a transforming module, configured to perform a first plurality of inverse fast Fourier transforms (IFFTs) on a plurality of coefficients in a scene according to a first inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) size and the scene, to obtain a plurality of results; a processing module, coupled to the transforming module, configured to obtain a plurality of norms of the plurality of results, and to obtain a plurality of values of the plurality of coefficients; and a transmitting module, coupled to the processing module, configured to perform a second plurality of IFFTs on a plurality of frequency-domain signals according to a second IFFT size, the plurality of coefficients with the plurality of values and the scene, to obtain a plurality of time-domain signals, wherein the second IFFT size is greater than the first IFFT size.
US12057983B2
Data communications and storage systems require error control techniques and digital modulation schemes to be transferred efficiently and successfully. Constellation shaping based on probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) offers an energy-efficient transmission in particular for long shaping blocks. However, longer shaping blocks can cause burst errors and enhancement of bit error rates besides longer latency to complete distribution matcher and dematcher operations. Methods and systems are disclosed that provide a way to resolve the issues by introducing a dual concatenation of pre-shaping and post-shaping error correction codes to mitigate burst errors of shaping. This enables low-complexity, high-performance and parallel architecture with a balanced overhead of dual-concatenation codes for shaping systems.
US12057972B2
This disclosure provides channel estimation methods and apparatuses. One method includes: determining Ps initial sample channel matrices that indicate channel states, where the Ps initial sample channel matrices include P1 first sample channel matrices and Ps-P1 second sample channel matrices, the P1 first sample channel matrices are determined based on a previous sample channel matrix or a given reference signal, and Ps is an integer greater than 1; and determining a channel matrix based on the Ps initial sample channel matrices, and obtaining a channel estimation result. Because the P1 initial sample channel matrices in the Ps initial sample channel matrices are determined based on the previous sample channel matrix or the given reference signal, an initial channel estimation result may be provided as an iterative initial sample channel matrix.
US12057970B2
The present disclosure provides a method for estimating timing and/or frequency of a wireless signal; the method including the steps: receiving a digitally modulated signal; extracting a plurality of signal samples associated with a short training field (STF) of a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) of an 802.11 frame; performing correlation operations on the plurality of signal samples to generate a predetermined number of correlation peaks; comparing the generated correlation peaks with a variable dynamic threshold; and calculating timing and/or frequency of the digitally modulated signal using the outcome of the comparing step.
US12057958B2
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.
US12057931B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The data transmission method includes: determining a basic unit carrying client data, wherein a rate of the client data is less than a set value determined according to a rate of a carrying container of an optical transport network (OTN) frame, and the basic unit is a basic unit contained in a basic unit set; mapping the client data to the basic unit; and sending, through the OTN frame, the basic unit set to which the client data is mapped.
US12057929B2
An optical transmission device and an optical communication system being capable of coping with various installation forms of a transponder in a unit of optical fiber transmission path are provided. The optical transmission device is installed inside a station building. First and second interface units are connected to first and second fiber transmission paths accommodated in a submarine optical fiber cable. A first fiber transmission path mediates an optical signal to be transmitted between the first interface unit and a first transponder. A second fiber transmission path mediates an optical signal to be transmitted between the second interface unit and a second transponder.
US12057926B2
A scientific system and methods are disclosed for optimizing television (e.g., “CTV” and “OTT”) advertising and related expenditure to maximize efficiency and return on investment (“ROI’) for advertisers. The scientific system comprises an initial-feedback engine that develops and refines creatives or outcomes by creating and using an artificial intelligence (“AI”) engine that creates an initial feedback loop from social media platforms and subsequently uses an intelligent advertisement-selection engine that takes the highest performing advertising on the social media platforms and directs or imports them for connected television or over-the-top advertising. The system includes a performance engine that optimizes performance of the connected television and over-the-top advertising and then moves the winning combination of a creative or outcome resulting from the application inventory, the audience segment, the part of day, the frequency or the like to linear television purchase actions.
US12057925B2
A method for estimating a location of a terminal device of a non-terrestrial cellular data communication network is disclosed. The non-terrestrial cellular data communication network includes at least one airborne or spaceborne base station moving along a flight trajectory. The terminal device and a location service node store information describing the flight trajectory of the at least one airborne or spaceborne base station. The method further includes: at the at least one airborne or spaceborne base station, transmitting a reference timing signal; at the terminal device, accumulating over time the respective arrival times of the reference timing signal received from at least three different positions taken by the at least one airborne or spaceborne base station; and at the terminal device, computing, from said arrival times, at least two arrival time differences with respect to one reference arrival time.
US12057906B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, downlink beamforming in MU-MIMO systems is proposed. Embodiments of the present disclosure take practical receivers into consideration, to further mitigate the interferences sensed by terminal devices. The beamforming scheme according to embodiments of the present disclosure has many advantages. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure tackle interferences from terminal device view, to mitigate the interferences which really affect the received signals of terminal devices. Embodiments of the present disclosure do not assume that terminal devices utilize Eigen receivers but consider more practical receivers used by the terminal devices to mitigate the interferences. Embodiments of the present disclosure have high flexibility, different interference cancelling methods can be used to replace the ZF method.
US12057904B2
An apparatus: obtains K downlink channel weight matrices based on K pieces of downlink channel information sent by K UEs, where the downlink channel information is fed back by the UE in response to a preset reference signal sent by the base station, the downlink channel weight matrix is an NT×rank-dimensional matrix, and rank is a quantity of signal streams received by the UE; obtains K×rank first initial phase difference matrices and K×rank second initial phase difference matrices based on the K downlink channel weight matrices and a first polarization direction and a second polarization direction of transmit channels of the base station; obtains a cell initial phase difference matrix based on the K×rank first initial phase difference matrices and the K×rank second initial phase difference matrices; and implements initial phase correction of the transmit channels based on the cell initial phase difference matrix.
US12057897B2
An information handling system may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit (PMU); a wireless interface adapter to communicate, via a plurality of transceiving antennas operated by one or more radios, a plurality of operating wireless links, wherein the plurality of transceiving antennas operate in a multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) array configuration; an antenna controller to receive data descriptive of network data traffic information, wireless connection states, and signal telemetry data via a sideband wireless communication link from a wireless front end and initiate a dual high band wireless local-area network (WLAN) communication by switching a first transceiving antenna of the plurality of transceiving antennas associated with the cellular front end to be operatively coupled to one or more high band ports at the WLAN front end; and the antenna controller to issue instructions to the cellular front end to adjust a subset of transceiving antennas and to issue instructions to a WLAN front end to operate with the first transceiving antenna.
US12057895B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data regarding passive intermodulation (PIM) detected in a received communication signal, and performing polarization adjusting for a communications system such that an impact of the PIM on the communications system is minimized. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12057888B2
A laser light source includes an inner ring and an outer ring. The inner ring includes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), a pair of optical circulators, a first optical filter, and a first optical waveguide connecting those in series. The outer ring includes the SOA, a pair of optical circulators, a second optical filter, an output port, and a second optical waveguide connecting those in series except for a portion shared. The inner ring operates as a gain-clamped SOA with a feedback control light defined by the first optical filter. The outer ring generates a laser output in a gain region of the clamped SOA, and with multiple peak wavelengths defined by the second optical filter, in a range from L Band to U band, applicable to WDM network systems. A WDM network system and a method of controlling the laser light source are also disclosed.
US12057882B2
A cable distribution system that includes a headend connected to a plurality of customer devices through a transmission network that includes a remote fiber node that converts digital data to analog data suitable for the plurality of customer devices. The remote fiber node receiving a downstream external protocol interface packet that includes a header portion and a data portion in memory. The remote fiber node encoding and transmitting the data portion to at least one of the plurality of customer devices, wherein the data portion is transferred from the memory using direct memory access based upon a buffer descriptor for the encoding.
US12057878B2
Desired characteristics can be achieved. A radio-frequency circuit includes an inductor and a switch. The inductor has a first end and a second end. The switch has a first input-output terminal, a second input-output terminal, a first switching terminal coupled to the first end of the inductor, and a second switching terminal coupled to the second end of the inductor. The switch can switch between a first state and a second state. In the first state, the first input-output terminal is coupled to the first switching terminal, and the second input-output terminal is coupled to the second switching terminal. In the second state, the first input-output terminal is coupled to the second switching terminal, and the second input-output terminal is coupled to the first switching terminal.
US12057867B2
The present disclosure provides a power mixer having high-linearity transconductance, a transmitter and an RF transceiver. The power mixer having high-linearity transconductance comprises a power mixer and the following circuit structure: a mixer switching circuit having an output terminal directly connected to an input terminal of the power mixer; and a transconductance amplifier having an input terminal connected to an input terminal of the mixer switching circuit, wherein the output terminal of the mixer switching circuit supplies a current to the power mixer based on a voltage received by the transconductance amplifier from the input terminal of the mixer switching circuit.
US12057863B2
An aspect of the present invention is a communication system including: an encoding unit configured to transform an input symbol sequence into an output symbol sequence, the input symbol sequence being a sequence of first symbols, the output symbol sequence being a sequence of second symbols; and a decoding unit configured to transform the output symbol sequence into the input symbol sequence in accordance with a decoding-side transformation mapping for transforming the output symbol sequence into the input symbol sequence that is a transformation source for the output symbol sequence, wherein the encoding unit transforms the input symbol sequence into the output symbol sequence in accordance with encoding-side transformation destination candidate information, the input symbol sequence, and a transformation probability, the encoding-side transformation destination candidate information being information indicating candidates of a transformation destination for the input symbol sequence, the transformation probability being a probability of transformation into the transformation destination indicated by the encoding-side transformation destination candidate information, and a probability of appearance of the second symbol conforms to a predefined prescribed probability distribution.
US12057861B2
A system and method for extracting data from a compressed and encrypted data stream employing lossless compression and a codeword-to-byte mapping enables selective random extraction from compressed and encrypted data. Initially, data is compressed to reduce its size without information loss. A codeword-to-byte mapping table is created, associating codewords with specific positions in the compressed data. When a request for a specific byte range is received, the system uses the mapping to identify the codewords linked to that range within the compressed data. The system then selectively decompresses the identified codewords and subsequently decrypts the decompressed data. This process ensures that only the relevant data is processed, eliminating the need to decompress and decrypt the entire dataset. This approach provides efficient and secure random access to specific data segments within the compressed and encrypted dataset, making it ideal for scenarios requiring selective data retrieval while maintaining data integrity and confidentiality.
US12057859B1
Techniques for implementing a local neural network and global decoding scheme for quantum error correction of circuit-level noise within quantum surface codes such that the decoding schemes have fast decoding throughout and low latency times for quantum algorithms are disclosed. A local neural network decoder may be pre-trained via a supervised learning technique such that the local neural network decoder may be applied for error correction in the presence of circuit-level noise in arbitrarily sized surface codes in a local decoding stage. Prior to a global decoding stage, an intermediate stage may be used to remove vertical pairs of highlighted vertices within the matching graph, which may reduce a syndrome density within the matching graph to allow for faster decoding at the global decoding stage. Such an intermediate stage may include application of a syndrome collapse or vertical cleanup technique.
US12057851B2
A time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC) operates in a first mode or a second mode and includes M analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), a reference ADC, a digital correction circuit, and a control circuit. The M ADCs sample an input signal according to M enable signals to generate M digital output codes. The reference ADC samples the input signal according to a reference enable signal to generate a reference digital output code. The digital correction circuit corrects the M digital output codes to generate M corrected digital output codes. The control circuit generates the M enable signals and the reference enable signal according to a clock. The control circuit outputs the M corrected digital output codes in turn but does not output the reference digital output code in the first mode and randomly outputs the M corrected digital output codes and the reference digital output code in the second mode.
US12057840B1
A single-ended to a differential signal converter (converter) includes, in part, first, second, and third inverting elements, each having a first size, and coupled in series to form a chain of inverting elements. The converter further includes a fourth inverting element of a second size and coupled to the input of the first inverting element, a fifth inverting element of a third size and coupled to an output terminal of the first inverting element, a sixth inverting element of the third size and coupled to an output of the second inverting element, and a seventh inverting element of the second size and coupled to the output of the third inverting element. The outputs of the fourth and sixth inverting elements form a first one of the differential signals. The outputs of the fifth and seventh inverting elements form a second one of the differential signals.
US12057838B2
Provided are a low-jitter digital isolator circuit and a digital isolator including the same. The digital isolator circuit includes a signal transmitting module, a signal receiving module, and an isolation channel connected between the signal transmitting module and the signal receiving module. The signal transmitting module is provided with a signal input terminal, and the signal receiving module is provided with a signal output terminal. The signal transmitting module includes a reset circuit, an oscillator and a transmitting circuit which are sequentially connected. The reset circuit is connected to the signal input terminal. The transmitting circuit is connected to the isolation channel. The signal receiving module includes a receiving circuit connected to the isolation channel. In the present invention, signal jitter is reduced, more stable signal transmission and a better isolation effect are achieved, and the area and cost of the digital isolator circuit are reduced.
US12057833B2
A timer circuit switches a second changeover switch and a third changeover switch to a pulse output unit for a certain period of time when power supply is started, and causes the pulse output unit to output a code pulse to a second communication line. An input-output control unit switches a first changeover switch to a first terminal for the certain period of time when the power supply is started, determines whether a code indicated by the code pulse received from the first terminal is a regular code, and cuts off electric power supplied from a first power supply line to a second power supply line when the code is not the regular code.
US12057832B2
A semiconductor device includes an input, a level shifter, an output, and a switch module. The input is configured to receive an input signal in a first voltage domain. The level shifter is connected to the input and is configured to shift the input signal from the first voltage domain to a second voltage domain. The switch module is configured to connect one of the input and the level shifter to the output. A method of mitigating a delay between input and output signals of the semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US12057802B2
A structural bracket for use with a solar mounting system is provided. The bracket has a first planar portion, and a second planar portion angularly positioned relative to the first planar portion, a mounting tab coupled to the second planer portion proximate a distal end of the second planer portion and a hook extending outwardly from the mounting tab at an angle, wherein the hook is configured to securely lock the structural bracket to a mating beam using an interference fit.
US12057798B2
According to some embodiments, method for controlling a motor comprises generating a drive signal for the motor, the drive signal comprising a demand flux generating voltage parameter. A feedback torque generating current parameter and a feedback flux generating current parameter are determined based on a three-phase motor current measurement. A feedback flux generating voltage parameter is determined based on the feedback torque generating current parameter and the feedback flux generating current parameter. An estimated motor position and an estimated motor speed are determined based on the feedback flux generating voltage parameter and the demand flux generating voltage parameter. The drive signal is generated based on the estimated motor position and the estimated motor speed.
US12057797B2
An electric-powered wheelbarrow in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, a wheel, an electromagnetic brake, a control circuit, a signal-processing circuit, and a drive circuit. The electromagnetic brake includes an electromagnetic coil. The electromagnetic brake (i) applies a braking force to the wheel in response to the electromagnetic coil being de-energized and (ii) releases the braking force from the wheel in response to the electromagnetic coil being energized. The control circuit outputs a first control signal and a second control signal. The signal-processing circuit receives the first and second control signals to thereby output a deactivating signal. The drive circuit receives the deactivating signal and delivers an excitation current to the electromagnetic coil.
US12057787B2
A power conversion device includes a power conversion circuit unit including a plurality of leg circuits, and a control device. Each of the leg circuits includes a plurality of first converter cells each having a capacitor and connected in series to each other and a plurality of second converter cells each having the capacitor and connected in series to each other. The plurality of first converter cells are controlled not based on a circulating current circulating between the plurality of leg circuits, and the plurality of second converter cells are controlled based on the circulating current. The control device stops a switching operation of at least one second converter cell in the plurality of second converter cells when a voltage at the capacitor in the second converter cell becomes less than a first threshold.
US12057786B2
A converter for connecting a battery end and a link end, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a switch unit including at least four switches connected in series to link; an inductor for connecting a node between two of the four switches with a battery end; a capacitor unit which includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series and which are connected in parallel with the switch unit; a resistor having one end connected to a node between the first capacitor and the second capacitor; a flying capacitor connected in parallel with at least two of the four switches; a first diode connected to the other end of the resistor and one end of the flying capacitor; and a second diode connected to the other end of the resistor and the other end of the flying capacitor.
US12057781B2
A sampling circuit for a switching power supply, can include: a first sampling circuit configured to acquire a first sampling signal of a current flowing through an inductor in the switching power supply; and a second sampling circuit configured to obtain a compensation signal with a same rising slope as the first sampling signal within a turn-off delay time of a power switch in the switching power supply, and to superimpose the compensation signal on the first sampling signal to generate a second sampling signal.
US12057780B2
A two-transistor forward switching cell includes two primary switching elements connected between an input voltage source and a primary winding of a transformer. The switching elements are connected to the primary winding at opposite ends of the winding. Reset diodes are connected between one of the opposite ends of the primary winding and one termination of the voltage source, and between another of the opposite ends of the primary winding and another termination of the voltage source. The transformer has at least a secondary winding connected to drains of synchronous rectifiers. One of the rectifiers is on during at least a portion of a time when the switching elements are on. The other of the rectifiers is a freewheeling rectifier, is connected to at least one controlled current source, and is off when the switching elements are on. Both rectifiers are on for a common predetermined time.
US12057778B2
Examples provide a system and method for driving a DC-DC voltage with a primary-side full bridge and a transformer arranged between the primary-side full bridge and a secondary side of the DC-DC voltage converter. A first diagonal branch and a second diagonal branch are driven alternately. In a first switching sequence between driving the first diagonal branch and driving the second diagonal branch, the connecting elements of a primary side of the transformer are electrically connected to one another using the upper switching elements of the primary-side full bridge. In a second switching sequence between driving the first diagonal branch and driving the second diagonal branch, the connecting elements of the primary side of the transformer are electrically connected to one another using the lower switching elements of the primary-side full bridge. The primary-side full bridge is driven alternately according to the first switching sequence and the second switching sequence.
US12057773B2
An embodiment voltage converter includes a first transistor connected between a first node of the converter and a second node configured to receive a power supply voltage, a second transistor connected between the first node and a third node configured to receive a reference potential, a first circuit configured to control the first and second transistors, and a comparator configured to compare a first voltage with a threshold, the first voltage being equal, during a first period, to a first increasing ramp and, during a second period, to a second decreasing ramp, the threshold having a first value during the first period and a second value during the second period, the first and second values being variable.
US12057769B2
An auxiliary circuit for reducing an output voltage ripple of a DC-DC converter includes: a capacitor configured to perform charging and discharging, a main buck converter including a first switch and a second switch connected to a voltage source, and a first inductor connected between the capacitor and a contact point of the first switch and the second switch, the first inductor having a first inductor current that flows therethrough, and an auxiliary buck converter including a third switch and a fourth switch respectively connected to the first switch and the second switch in parallel, and a second inductor connected between the capacitor and a contact point of the third switch and the fourth switch, the second inductor having a second inductor current that flows therethrough, and the auxiliary buck converter configured to control the second inductor current by generating two envelopes with different heights to compensate for a difference between the first inductor current and an output current.
US12057764B2
Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a first terminal configured to receive a first terminal voltage; a second terminal configured to receive a second terminal voltage; a comparator configured to receive a first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage and to generate a comparison signal based at least in part on the first threshold voltage and the second terminal voltage; and a switch configured to receive the first terminal voltage and the comparison signal, the switch being further configured to be closed to allow a current to flow out of the second terminal through the switch if the comparison signal is at a first logic level; wherein the comparator is further configured to: receive a first reference voltage as the first threshold voltage if the first terminal voltage is smaller than a second threshold voltage.
US12057759B2
The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include an atomizer, a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition and an electrical circuit coupled to the atomizer. The electrical circuit may include an electrical generator assembly including a moveable input member and an electrical generator configured to produce an electrical current from movement of the moveable input member. The electrical circuit may be configured to direct the electrical current to the atomizer to produce an aerosol from the aerosol precursor composition. A related aerosol production method is also provided.
US12057758B2
A rotary apparatus includes a motor, a plurality of gears, and a sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of one of the plurality of gears. The sensor includes a first connection terminal electrically connecting to the outside, and a base portion. The first connection terminal is disposed at the base portion. A second connection terminal is disposed at the base portion.
US12057757B2
A flywheel includes a hub configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis. At least one member having a laminate casing connected to the hub, the laminate casing is formed with an enclosed space for housing at least one mass with a fixed shape. The enclosed space is structured to control radial displacement of the at least one mass. Wherein upon rotation, an operational radial force applies a through thickness laminate radial load to the laminate casing, while simultaneously radially displacing the at least one mass to apply a controllable compressive load on the laminate casing. The applied controllable compressive load increases a predetermined laminate loading capacity by an amount of compressive load counteracting the through thickness laminate radial load, resulting in a corresponding increase in a flywheel angular velocity, that therefore increases an amount of energy stored by the at least one energy storage unit.
US12057752B2
Provided is a stator for an electrical machine, in particular a generator of a wind turbine, wherein the cylindrical stator includes multiple similar stator segments, each stator segment constituting a fraction of the circumference of the stator and having at least one coil element and one pre-installed bus bar segment per phase provided to or by the electrical machine, wherein each bus bar segment is electrically connected to a coil element of the respective phase, wherein at least two circumferentially adjacent stator segments form a section and multiple subsets of an even number of radially opposing sections are respectively assigned to a connector at a respective connection position along the circumference of the stator, wherein in each section, segmented bus bars for each phase are provided by connecting bus bar segments of adjacent stator segments.
US12057748B2
The present disclosure relates to a stator for a rotating electric machine. A plurality of electrically-connected parts is formed on one side surface of a stator core to electrically connect a plurality of hairpins. Among portions of two electrically-connected parts adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the stator core, portions located at the same distance from the one side surface of the stator core have shortest distances therebetween, which are set to have difference values included in a preset range value. This may result in preventing a generation of a vulnerable portion at which two adjacent electrically-connected parts are excessively adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of the stator core.
US12057746B2
A novel high torque density double stator permanent magnet electric machine is provided. An outer stator is provided which has complex teeth and optionally can have windings every tooth or every other tooth. A rotor is provided having a plurality of magnet receivers, each with a complex topology. Magnets are provided in the rotor which are tangentially magnetized with alternating polarities and a complex topology to increase torque density. An inner stator is provided having a plurality of teeth with complex topologies. Windings are provided around every tooth or every other tooth, alternatively. Air-gaps are provided between the outer stator and the rotor and between the rotor and inner stator. The air-gap between the inner stator and the rotor is smaller than the air-gap between the outer stator and the rotor. A lower current density in certain windings improves thermal response without comprising average torque.
US12057741B2
A rotor includes: a shaft; a rotor back yoke having a through hole defined in an axial center through which the shaft is inserted, the rotor back yoke being integrally and rotatably connected to the shaft; and magnets fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor back yoke, the plurality of magnets being disposed with magnetic poles of different polarities being arranged alternately along a circumferential direction. The rotor back yoke includes a plurality of first cutout portions provided at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction and extending from an inner peripheral surface of the rotor back yoke outward in a radial direction. Each of the plurality of first cutout portions extends along an axial direction, from one end surface to the other end surface of the rotor back yoke.
US12057736B2
When a laminated core is formed in an annular shape, a radially inner part of a contact surface formed by a projecting end of a first core piece and a recessed end of another first core piece that are adjacent in a circumferential direction, and a radially inner part of a contact surface formed by a projecting end of a second core piece and a recessed end of another second core piece that are adjacent in the circumferential direction, are positioned in a plane including a center axis of the annular laminated core.
US12057733B2
A sheath with a raised portion with a second open end, a bottom portion, a power storage space in a body, a magnet component configured to receive a mobile phone wireless charging holder, a USB cable having a female connector with an operative end, at least a portion of the bottom portion is in communication with the body, at least a portion of the sheath extends above the body, the operative end of the female connector is retained in the second open end to provide the female connector of the USB cable in a firm and flat position with the operative end of the female connector being operable and above the surface of the body, an exit on the body is adjacent to the sheath for the cable going through, which connects the female connector in the sheath to the power storage space and the wireless charger connects to the operative end.
US12057727B2
A wireless power system may include an electronic device. The electronic device can include a camera and wireless power circuitry configured to perform a wireless power transfer operation with an external device. To promote coexistence of the camera with the wireless power circuitry, the electronic device can alter the wireless power transfer operation.
US12057722B2
A battery-based wireless power device for clamping onto a furniture article is provided. The battery-based wireless power device includes an upper housing having an electrical connector, such as an AC outlet or USB plug, and a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing. The upper housing and the lower housing are positioned substantially parallel to one another and define a mounting cavity therebetween configured for removable attachment to an edge of the furniture article. The battery-powered device provides power through the use of a self-contained electrical power source, such as a rechargeable battery. The rechargeable battery can be removed, replaced with a charged battery, and recharged for later use.
US12057719B2
A battery pack is configured to supply electric power to an electric work machine, such as a power tool or outdoor power equipment. The battery pack includes a first battery-signal terminal and a second battery-signal terminal. The first battery-signal terminal outputs, to the electric work machine, a first signal indicating that discharging is to be prohibited or permitted. The second battery-signal terminal outputs, to the electric work machine, a second signal indicating that discharging is to be prohibited or permitted. Thus, two communication paths are provided for transmitting signals to permit or prohibit discharging of the battery pack.
US12057718B2
An electronic apparatus may include: batteries; a charger configured to charge the batteries; a switch network electrically connected to the batteries; and a charging controller configured to control the switch network to change a connection relationship between the batteries and to control the charger to charge the batteries while the batteries are in the changed connection relationship.
US12057714B2
An on-vehicle device that is to be mounted in a vehicle includes: an electrical component including a sensor; a power supply module including a power receiving antenna and a power supply circuit configured to convert radio waves for power feeding received by the power receiving antenna into electric power and supply the electric power to the electrical component; and a line member having flexibility and electrically connecting the electrical component to the power supply module.
US12057705B1
The disclosure relates to the technical field of power control, a power control method for wind power and photovoltaic combined power generation is provided, and includes: obtaining wind parameters and light intensity parameters of a wind power photovoltaic combined power generation system, and simultaneously obtaining a current operation characteristic of the power generation system; determining a first power adjustment amount for the power generation system based on the wind parameters, and determining a second power adjustment amount for the power generation system based on the light intensity parameters; obtaining an optimal power ratio condition under the current operation characteristic; determining a power control instruction for a current power output value of the power generation system based on the first power adjustment amount and the second power adjustment amount according to the optimal power ratio condition, and performing power control on power units in the power generation system.
US12057700B2
Systems and methods for controlling and methods for controlling the power factor in a generator system are provided. In some embodiments, the generator system includes one or more generators configured to supply power to a power grid, an automatic voltage regulator configured to regulate a voltage of an output of the generator to a set voltage and regulate a power factor of the output to a set power factor, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect a fault on the output and to adjust the set power factor of the automatic voltage regulator based on the fault. The controller is further configured to ramp the set power factor from the adjusted value to an initial value over a set period of time.
US12057698B2
A power management system for providing a mechanism of power transaction between two or more facilities connected to a power grid, the system includes a controller configured to extract, from the two or more facilities, a power selling facility other than a power purchasing facility by an input from a user terminal corresponding to the power purchasing facility which is one of the two or more facilities, and calculate a score indicating a value of the power transaction based on a communication time in a communication path between the power selling facility and the power purchasing facility, and a notification unit configured to notify the user terminal of the score.
US12057690B2
The present disclosure is directed to an adjustable-depth ring assembly for connection to an electrical box that is accessible through a wall opening in a wall member disposed forward of the electrical box. The assembly generally comprises a cover plate having a planar rigid plate and a raised portion, and an extension ring. A method of installing the assembly is also provided herein.
US12057684B2
A variable frequency electromagnetic compensating device for protecting wind tower blades or other mobile or static structures includes two conductive adapters of connection (1, 2) charged, one (1) of the connections of the device with the external collectors of the element to be protected on the one hand and another (2) of the connections with the earth, on the other hand; and two elements of high reactance to the passage of high frequency current and absorbers of energy in form of heat (3, 4) connected on both sides of a frequency resonator composed of a dielectric insulator (9) located between a first and a second conductive elements (7, 8) and respectively to the two adapters (1, 2), generating a force against electromotive to the passage of initial high frequency current, lowering the frequency and absorbing a part of the energy generated in heat.
US12057682B2
A node pedestal includes a box configured to house communication system components, a housing configured to be removably coupled with the box and having opposite end walls, a pair of supports extending from the box at opposite ends of the box, and a locking mechanism configured to latch the housing with the box. The locking mechanism includes a latch rotatingly mounted to a first one of the end walls and a catch extending from a first one of the supports in a direction toward a second one of the supports, and the latch is configured to engage the catch to secure the housing to the box.
US12057680B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)-based free space active optical transceiver component includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes first VCSELs, at least one first photodiode, a first focusing lens array or optical system (14), and a first printed circuit board. The receiver includes second photodiodes, at least one second VCSEL, a second focusing lens array or optical system, and a second printed circuit board. The transmission and reception of a short/medium-distance free space (wireless) high-speed optical communication signal can be implemented, and a single-channel transceiving rate may reach 10 Gbps or higher. The component may be used for implementing a free space high-speed signal transmission function in a short/medium-range high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) device.
US12057678B2
A method for manufacturing a GaN-based surface-emitting laser by an MOVPE includes: growing a first cladding layer with a {0001} growth plane; growing a guide layer on the first cladding layer; forming holes which are two-dimensionally periodically arranged within the guide layer; etching the guide layer by ICP-RIE using a chlorine-based gas and an argon; supplying a gas containing a nitrogen to cause mass-transport, and then supplying the group-III gas for growth, whereby a first embedding layer closing openings of the holes is formed to form a photonic crystal layer; and growing an active layer and a second cladding layer on the first embedding layer, The step includes a step of referring to already-obtained data on a relationship of an attraction voltage and a ratio of gases in the ICP-RIE with a diameter distribution of air holes embedded, and applying the attraction voltage and the ratio to the ICP-RIE.
US12057672B2
The invention relates to crimping pliers wherein a die comprises two die half units. The die half units each comprise a die half and a bearing body. The bearing body is supported in an associated bearing accommodation of a pliers jaw. The die halves are supported by a rotational bearing for being rotated about a crimping axis relative to the bearing body. According to the invention it is possible to assemble and disassemble the bearing body of the die half unit to and from the bearing accommodation of the pliers jaw without the use of any tool. It is also possible that a latching or locking device is used for the assembly.
US12057667B2
An electrical plug provides protection against electrical surges with a replaceable surge protector cartridge that is readily removable and replaceable along an exterior of the plug. Surge protector circuitry in the cartridge can absorb an electrical surge received at the plug from an electrical mains source, and the electrical plug can maintain electrical continuity from plug prongs to an electrical cord both before and after the surge protector has absorbed an electrical surge.
US12057656B2
The present disclosure relates to a receptacle connector, comprising a plurality of contacts for electrically connecting a plug connector and a substrate which is provided in an electronic device; an insulating part; a shell; and a sealing part for sealing between the electronic device and the shell, wherein the shell includes a shell body, and a first support part, wherein the first support part may include a first rear support member; a first outer support member which protrudes forward from the first rear support member; a first connecting member which is coupled to the front of the first outer support member; and a first inner support member which is coupled to each of the first connecting member and the shell body and is disposed spaced apart from the first outer support member.
US12057653B2
There is disclosed an electrical connection unit for a refrigeration system comprising: a container defining an interior for containing electrical circuitry, the container having an external port configured to couple with an external connector; a closure moveable relative to the container between a closed configuration in which access to the interior is prevented, and an open configuration in which access to the interior is permitted. The closure has a locking portion defining a connector opening for receiving the connector, configured so that movement of the closure to the open configuration is prevented by interlocking engagement of the connector and the closure. There is also disclosed an associated method of coupling or decoupling a connector and an electrical connection unit.
US12057651B2
A plug connector according to an embodiment includes: a connector main body which includes one pair of first sidewalls extended in a first direction and facing each other, and one pair of second sidewalls extended in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and facing each other; one pair of fitting nails which are coupled to the connector main body; and a plurality of plug terminals which are coupled to the one pair of second sidewalls, wherein each of the one pair of fitting nails includes: an upper surface which is in contact with an upper end of the first sidewall; a central reinforcement portion which is curved downward from the upper surface to come into contact with at least a portion of an outer surface of the first sidewall; and one pair of lateral reinforcement portions which are extended from both ends of the upper surface in the second direction to come into contact with an upper end of the second sidewall, wherein the central reinforcement portion includes a central solder portion which is extended downward from a lower end of the central reinforcement portion and encloses at least a portion of a lower surface of the first sidewall, wherein each of the one pair of lateral reinforcement portions includes: a first outer wall terminal which is extended downward; a second outer wall terminal which is spaced apart from the first outer wall terminal in the second direction and is extended downward; and a first inner wall terminal which is spaced inward from the second outer wall terminal and is extended downward, wherein each of the one pair of lateral reinforcement portions includes a lateral solder portion which is extended downward from at least one of the first and second outer wall terminals and encloses at least a portion of a lower surface of the second sidewall.
US12057648B2
Provided is a flexible printed circuit board with connection terminal, including: a base film and a conductor layer provided on the base film, wherein the connection terminal includes a plurality of crimping pieces for fixing the connection terminal to the flexible printed circuit board, the crimping pieces penetrate the flexible printed circuit board by being crimped, and are bent in a direction opposite to a direction in which the crimping pieces penetrate the flexible printed circuit board, to bite into at least a part of the conductor layer, and the conductor layer is removed in a region of the conductor layer which the crimping pieces penetrate.
US12057643B2
The present invention relates to an antenna clamping device and a method of controlling the same, and particularly, the antenna clamping device includes a tilting rotation motor configured to rotate an antenna in a vertical direction, a tilting rotation prevention motor configured to lock or unlock a vertical rotation of the antenna, a rotating rotation motor configured to rotate the antenna in a horizontal direction, a rotating rotation prevention motor configured to lock or unlock a horizontal rotation of the antenna, and a controller configured to adjust a direction of the antenna by controlling the tilting rotation motor, the tilting rotation prevention motor, the rotating rotation motor, and the rotating rotation prevention motor, thereby improving operation convenience.
US12057642B2
Antenna-plexers for interference cancellation are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a wireless device includes an antenna, an antenna-plexer coupled to the antenna and configured to generate a feedback signal, a transmitter configured to transmit a transmit signal to the antenna by way of the antenna-plexer, a receiver configured to process a receive signal, and a feedback receiver configured to process the feedback signal from the antenna-plexer to provide compensation to the receive signal.
US12057640B2
An antenna assembly includes an array of patch antennas arranged above a rectangular ground plane. The patch antennas are arranged in a sequence beginning at a first end of the rectangular ground plane and continuing across a width of the rectangular ground plane to a second end. With regard to this sequence, a plurality of polarization feeds alternate between being adjacent a first corner to being adjacent a second corner of the patch antennas and/or a plurality of via walls alternate in orientation along portions of a first edge of the rectangular ground plane and along portions of a second edge of the rectangular ground plane.
US12057638B2
There is described a dielectric polariser for a bicone antenna. The polariser can include radiating vanes that are spaced circumferentially around an aperture of the bicone antenna. The vanes are orientated at 45° to the polarised waves propagated from the antenna in order to circularly polarise the linearly polarised waves. The polariser can be configured for manufacture using a 3D printing process. Surfaces of a central hub of the polariser can be metallised to provide the radiating surfaces of the antenna. This removes the need to use separate antenna elements. Alternative arrangements of 3D printed dielectric polariser are disclosed for use with antenna horns.
US12057637B2
A reflector apparatus is provided. A further aspect employs at least one antenna or radar operably emitting signals, and a moving object-mounted reflector which operably reflects at least some of the signals back to the at least one antenna or radar, the reflector including trihedral walls with metallic reflective surfaces. In another aspect, a programmable controller in an automotive vehicle determines a moving object-characteristic based on at least reflected signals received by a horn antenna using a Doppler or micro-Doppler effect. Still another aspect includes a trihedral reflector which moves with a movable object including handlebars, a straddled user seat and being one of: a bicycle, a motorcycle, or an all-terrain vehicle. A further aspect includes multiple spaced apart trihedral reflectors attached to a user-wearable, flexible and nonconductive substrate.
US12057626B2
A transmitter comprising a planar antenna including a ground plane and first and second spiral radiating elements wrapping around the ground plane, and a driving circuit. Proximal ends of the spiral radiating elements terminate near points located along a perimeter of the ground plane. Exactly one of the first and second spiral radiating elements are electrically isolated from the ground plane. The first and second spiral radiating elements are wound in the same direction for approximately a single turn and increase in thickness for approximately three-fourths of the turn. The driving circuit drives one of the first and second spiral radiating elements.
US12057623B2
Metallic, electrically conductive, structures on smart glasses, which can be utilized to provide structural integrity and/or thermal dissipation capability, can be leveraged to provide antenna capability as well. Metallic structures on smart glasses are utilized as antenna grounds, with corresponding antenna elements being electrically coupled thereto, and located on the glasses temple. Such antenna elements implement folded antennas having an antenna length selected in accordance with desired communicational frequencies. A shorting pin establishes the electrical connection to the antenna ground. Metallic structures on smart glasses are also utilized as antenna elements, with different metallic structures acting as the antenna ground. Such antenna elements implement monopole antennas having a length selected in accordance with desired communicational frequencies, and a width that can maintain structural integrity and/or thermal dissipation capability. Multiple antenna elements are manufactured onto a single glasses temple, and both temples of the smart glasses comprise antennas.
US12057601B2
A disclosed liquid composition includes particles; a resin; a solvent A; and a solvent B differing from the solvent A, wherein a surface tension with respect to air at 25° C. is 25 mN/m or more and less than 50 mN/m, a 90% diameter is 2.5 μm or less, and a median diameter is 1 μm or less.
US12057597B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell stack formed by a plurality of stacked battery cells, a battery module housing configured to wrap the other outer surfaces of the battery cell stack excluding a first surface and a second surface, from which electrode leads protrude, a water tank configured to supply a coolant to the battery cell or the battery module housing, and a battery pack case configured to receive a plurality of battery module housings. The battery pack case includes a pack case space portion located adjacent to the first surface and a crossbeam located adjacent to the second surface, whereby, when fire breaks out in the battery cell, it is possible to rapidly and accurately prevent spread of flames of the ignited battery cell.
US12057595B2
Embodiments of this application provide a box, a battery pack, and a device, and relate to the technical field of energy storage devices. The box includes a frame member, a fixing member, and a shielding member. The frame member is configured to form an accommodation cavity. The fixing member is configured to mount the box. The fixing member is connected to the frame member. The shielding member is configured to be connected to the frame member. The shielding member includes a hollow portion. At least a part of the fixing member is accommodated in the hollow portion. The battery pack includes the box and a battery accommodated in the accommodation cavity of the box. The device includes the battery pack, and the battery pack is configured to provide electrical energy.
US12057591B2
Provided is a technique capable of suppressing movement of an electrode body inside an exterior body. According to the technique disclosed herein, a sealed battery is provided, which includes an electrode body having a wide face having a rectangular shape, an exterior body made of a laminated film, and positive electrode and negative electrode current collector terminals. The exterior body includes a housing part housing the electrode body, and a sealed part formed around the housing part to isolate the inside and the outside of the exterior body from each other. The housing part has a flat face facing the wide face of the electrode body and four side walls corresponding to four sides of the wide face respectively, the four side walls being formed so as to rise from the sealed part toward the flat face. A pair of the side walls corresponding to long sides of the wide face curves toward the electrode body and inward of the exterior body so as to closely approach the electrode body.
US12057586B2
A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The negative electrode forms a honeycomb core. The honeycomb core includes a first face, a second face, a partition, and a circumferential wall. The second face faces the first face. The partition is formed between the first face and the second face. The partition extends in a grid pattern to separate a plurality of hollow cells. The circumferential wall surrounds a circumference of the partition. The separator includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer covers at least part of the partition. The second layer covers at least part of the first face and the second face. The positive electrode includes a first region and a second region. The first region is inserted in the hollow cells. The second region extends outwardly beyond the second layer of the separator.
US12057578B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode includes first negative electrode active material particles. The first negative electrode active material particles each include a center part and a covering part. The center part includes a silicon-containing material. The covering part is provided on a surface of the center part and includes a first compound and a second compound. The first compound includes at least one of polyacrylate or polyacrylamide. The second compound includes at least one of polyvinyl alcohol or polyvinyl acetal.
US12057576B2
This application discloses a positive electrode active material, including secondary particles and a coating layer applied on an exterior surface of each of the secondary particles, where the secondary particle includes a lithium transition metal oxide that contains a doping element M1, the coating layer includes an oxide of element M2, M1 is selected from one or more of Si, Ti, Cr, Mo, V, Ge, Se, Zr, Nb, Ru, Rh, Pd, Sb, Te, Ce, and W, and M2 is selected from one or more of Mg, Al, Ca, Ce, Ti, Zr, Zn, Y, and B; a relative deviation of local mass concentration of element M1 in the secondary particle is less than 20%; and the secondary particle from the core to the exterior surface of the particle includes a plurality of layers of primary particles arranged along radial direction of the secondary particle.
US12057569B2
Silicon-carbon composite materials and related processes are disclosed that overcome the challenges for providing amorphous nano-sized silicon entrained within porous carbon. Compared to other, inferior materials and processes described in the prior art, the materials and processes disclosed herein find superior utility in various applications, including energy storage devices such as lithium ion batteries.
US12057559B2
Disclosed herein is a method of recovering lithium or sodium from an active material of a lithium or sodium ion battery. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises a redox-targeting reaction of a used active material LiFeP04 with a redox mediator [Fe(CN)6]3− in a tank to produce lithium ions, circulating the reacted redox solution into a cell to regenerate said redox mediator and enabling said lithium ions to migrate through a membrane towards a cathode wherein said lithium ions are captured as LiOH through an electrochemical reaction.
US12057555B2
The present invention is directed to a hybrid high voltage aqueous electrolyte battery that combines Ni/Mg2NiH4 and Mg-ion rechargeable battery chemistries. The hybrid aqueous electrolyte battery can be used for plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles and electric vehicles.
US12057545B2
A pouch exterior material that enables an electrode assembly to be easily mounted on an accommodating portion at a proper position, having an integrated shape and including an inserting portion provided at a center of the pouch exterior material and having a width equal to a thickness of the electrode assembly, accommodating portions provided symmetrically at two sides of the inserting portion and gradually deepening from a portion corresponding to a width center of the electrode assembly towards a portion corresponding to an edge of the electrode assembly, and a triangular stepped portion provided at two ends of the inserting portion and having a depth gradually decreasing towards an end.
US12057542B2
A light emitting device including a first light emitting part, a second light emitting part disposed on a first surface of the first light emitting part, and a third light emitting part disposed on a first surface of the second light emitting part, a first contact member contacting a surface of a second n-type semiconductor layer of the second light emitting part, an ohmic electrode electrically connected to a third p-type semiconductor layer of the third light emitting part, and an adhesive layer disposed between the second light emitting part and the third light emitting part, in which the first contact member extends toward the first light emitting part to be electrically connected to a first n-type semiconductor layer of the first light emitting part, and the adhesive layer extends toward the ohmic electrode.
US12057537B2
Disclosed in an embodiment are a semiconductor device and a light-emitting device package including same, the semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a plurality of semiconductor structures arranged in a matrix shape in the central area of the substrate; passivation layers arranged on upper surfaces and lateral surfaces of the semiconductor structures and on the edge area of the substrate; a plurality of first wiring lines which are arranged at lower parts of the plurality of semiconductor structures and electrically connected thereto, and which include first end parts extending from the central area to the edge area of the substrate; a plurality of second wiring lines which are arranged at the lower parts of the plurality of semiconductor structures and electrically connected thereto, and which include second end parts extending from the central area to the edge area of the substrate; a plurality of first pads penetrating the passivation layer so as to be connected to the plurality of first end parts; and a plurality of second pads penetrating the passivation layers so as to be connected to the plurality of second end parts, wherein the plurality of semiconductor structures include a plurality of first semiconductor structures, which are arranged in a first area of the central area, and a plurality of second semiconductor structures, which are arranged in a second area of the central area, and the size of the plurality of first semiconductor structures differs from the size of the plurality of second semiconductor structures.
US12057522B2
Disclosed is method for making a component and a component comprising a substrate, a semiconductor element arranged on the substrate, an intermediate layer arranged at least in sections between the substrate and the semiconductor element, and a first contact structure, wherein the semiconductor element has a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active zone, which is arranged in a vertical direction between the semiconductor layers and designed for generating electromagnetic radiation. The active zone has locally deactivated regions along lateral directions, which are not designed for generating electromagnetic radiation. The semiconductor element has an opening which extends through the second semiconductor layer and the active zone to the first semiconductor layer, wherein the opening is different from the deactivated regions of the active zone and is partially filled with a material of the intermediate layer.
US12057519B2
Discussed is a self-assembly apparatus of a semiconductor light emitting device, the self-assembly apparatus including a fluid chamber configured to accommodate a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices, each semiconductor light emitting device having a magnetic body; a magnet disposed to be spaced apart from the fluid chamber and configured to apply a magnetic force to the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices; and a position controller connected to the magnet, and configured to control a position of the magnet; and a power supply configured to induce formation of an electric field on a substrate placed at an assembly position so that the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices are seated at preset positions on the substrate while being moved due to a positional change of the magnet, wherein the position controller transfers the magnet in one direction while rotating the magnet about a rotation axis for the magnet.
US12057518B2
An avalanche photodiode includes a silicon layer on a substrate; a germanium layer on the silicon layer; a cathode and an anode on any of the silicon layer and the germanium layer; and a plurality of contacts on the germanium layer, in addition to the cathode and the anode. The silicon layer can include a highly doped region at each end, an intrinsic doped region in a middle, and an intermediately doped region between the highly doped region at each end and the intrinsic doped region, and the cathode and the anode are each at a respective a highly doped region at each end. The germanium layer can include a plurality of highly doped regions with each including one of the plurality of contacts.
US12057515B2
A solid state active pixel image sensor for back illumination by an electron beam is described. The image sensor comprises a thermal conduction layer for heat removal. The image sensor may also comprise a thinned silicon substrate on which an epitaxial layer is formed. The substrate may also be completely removed before or after application of the thermal conduction layer. The thermal conduction layer may comprise a metal, a metal compound, silicon, diamond or graphite.
US12057503B2
The present disclosure provides semiconductor devices with asymmetric source/drain structures. In one example, a semiconductor device includes a first group of source/drain structures on a first group of fin structures on a substrate, a second group of source/drain structures on a second group of fin structures on the substrate, and a first gate structure and a second gate structure over the first and the second group of fin structures, respectively, the first and second groups of source/drain structures being proximate the first and second gate structures, respectively, wherein the first group of source/drain structures on the first group of fin structures has a first source/drain structure having a first vertical height different from a second vertical height of a second source/drain structure of the second group of source/drain structures on the second group of fin structures.
US12057496B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress the passage of bipolar current in a silicon carbide semiconductor device by reducing a voltage applied to a terminal well region during reflux operations. An SiC-MOSFET includes a plurality of first well regions, a second well region, a third well region in a surface layer of a drift layer, the first, second, and third well regions being of a second conductivity type. The third well region is provided on the side of the second well region opposite to the first well regions. A unit cell that includes the first well regions includes a unipolar diode. The SiC-MOSFET includes a source electrode connected to the unipolar diode and the ohmic electrode and not having ohmic connection with the second well region and the third well region.
US12057490B2
A high electron mobility transistor includes a substrate. A first III-V compound layer is disposed on the substrate. A second III-V compound layer is embedded within the first III-V compound layer. A P-type gallium nitride gate is embedded within the second III-V compound layer. A gate electrode is disposed on the second III-V compound layer and contacts the P-type gallium nitride gate. A source electrode is disposed at one side of the gate electrode. A drain electrode is disposed at another side of the gate electrode.
US12057468B2
An inductor includes a core and a conductive spiral wound around the core. The core includes a buffer layer, an etch stop layer, and a core material layer sequentially stacked. The core material layer includes a ferromagnetic material. A total area of a vertical projection of the core material layer is smaller than an area occupied by the etch stop layer. The vertical projection of the core material layer falls entirely on the etch stop layer. The etch stop layer horizontally protrudes with respect to the core material layer.
US12057467B2
A method includes forming a plurality of openings extending into a substrate from a front surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a first semiconductor material. Each of the plurality of openings has a curve-based bottom surface. The method includes filling the plurality of openings with a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material. The method includes forming a plurality of pixels that are configured to sense light in the plurality of openings, respectively, using the second semiconductor material.
US12057462B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a first substrate which includes a first semiconductor substrate and a first multi-layered wiring layer that are stacked, a second substrate which includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second multi-layered wiring layer that are stacked, and a third substrate which includes a third semiconductor substrate and a third multi-layered wiring layer that are stacked. The solid-state imaging device further includes a first coupling structure for electrically coupling a circuit of the first substrate and a circuit of the second substrate to each other. The first coupling structure includes a via in which one through hole electrically couples a predetermined wiring line in the first multi-layered wiring layer, and a predetermined wiring line in the second multi-layered wiring layer or a predetermined wiring line in the third multi-layered wiring layer to each other.
US12057454B2
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of source bus lines and a plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs that have a plurality of pixel TFTs, each of which is associated with one of the plurality of pixel regions, and a plurality of circuit TFTs constituting a peripheral circuit, in which each of oxide semiconductor TFTs has an oxide semiconductor layer and a gate electrode disposed on a channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer via a gate insulating layer, the plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs have a plurality of first TFTs, a plurality of second TFTs, and/or a plurality of third TFTs, and the plurality of first TFTs have the plurality of pixel TFTs, and the plurality of second TFTs and/or the plurality of third TFTs have at least a portion of the plurality of circuit TFTs.
US12057453B2
It is an object to manufacture and provide a highly reliable display device including a thin film transistor with a high aperture ratio which has stable electric characteristics. In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a thin film transistor in which a semiconductor layer including a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor film, a heat treatment for reducing moisture and the like which are impurities and for improving the purity of the oxide semiconductor film (a heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed. Further, an aperture ratio is improved by forming a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer using conductive films having light transmitting properties.
US12057451B2
A retention circuit provided in a logic circuit enables power gating. The retention circuit includes a first terminal, a node, a capacitor, and first to third transistors. The first transistor controls electrical connection between the first terminal and an input terminal of the logic circuit. The second transistor controls electrical connection between an output terminal of the logic circuit and the node. The third transistor controls electrical connection between the node and the input terminal of the logic circuit. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor. In a data retention period, the node becomes electrically floating. The voltage of the node is held by the capacitor.
US12057450B2
A method includes forming a gate stack on a first portion of a semiconductor fin, removing a second portion of the semiconductor fin to form a recess, and forming a source/drain region starting from the recess. The formation of the source/drain region includes performing a first epitaxy process to grow a first semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer has straight-and-vertical edges, and performing a second epitaxy process to grow a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are of a same conductivity type.
US12057448B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a 1st transistor formed on a substrate, and including a 1st active region surrounded by a 1st gate structure and 1st source/drain regions; and a 2nd transistor stacked on the 1st transistor, and including a 2nd active region surrounded by a 2nd gate structure and 2nd source/drain regions, wherein the 1st active region and the 1st gate structure are vertically mirror-symmetric to the 2nd active region and the 2nd gate structure, respectively, with respect to a virtual plane therebetween.
US12057438B2
A die stack structure including a first die, an encapsulant, a redistribution layer and a second die is provided. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the first die. The redistribution layer is disposed below the encapsulant, and electrically connected with the first die. The second die is disposed between the redistribution layer and the first die, wherein the first and second dies are electrically connected with each other, the second die comprises a body portion having a first side surface, a second side surface and a curved side surface therebetween, and the curved side surface connects the first side surface and the second side surface.
US12057431B2
A method of forming a wire interconnect structure includes the steps of: (a) forming a wire bond at a bonding location on a substrate using a wire bonding tool; (b) extending a length of wire, continuous with the wire bond, to a position above the wire bond; (c) moving the wire bonding tool to contact the length of wire, at a position along the length of wire, to partially sever the length of wire at the position along the length of wire; and (d) separating the length of wire from a wire supply at the position along the length of wire, thereby providing a wire interconnect structure bonded to the bonding location.
US12057428B2
A wire bonding includes a capillary that extrudes a wire; a wire clamp assembly disposed on the capillary; a support disposed on the wire clamp assembly; a wire contact member; and a slide rail that provides a slide hole. The wire clamp assembly includes: a first member; a second member spaced apart from the first member; a first contact member coupled to the first member; and a second contact member coupled to the second member and spaced apart from the first contact member. The first member includes a first body that extends in a first direction and a first tilting member that extends at an acute angle relative to the first direction. The second member includes a second body that extends in the first direction and is spaced apart from the first body in a second direction a second tilting member.
US12057427B2
A wire bonding apparatus (100) includes a bonding stage (12), a bonding head (20), an XY driving mechanism (30), and a frame (50). The XY driving mechanism (30) includes: an X-direction guide (31) installed to the frame (50); an X-direction slider (32), supported by the X-direction guide (31) and moving in the X direction, an X-direction mover (41) being installed thereto; a Y-direction guide (33) installed to a lower side of the X-direction slider (32); and a Y-direction slider (34), supported by the Y-direction guide (33) and moving in the Y direction, the bonding head (20) being installed thereto. The XY driving mechanism (30) is installed to the frame (50), so that a portion of the Y-direction guide (33) is overlapped with a mounting surface (12a) of a bonding stage (12) above the mounting surface (12a) and behind the mounting stage (12) in the Y direction.
US12057422B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first substrate; a first insulating film provided on the first substrate; a first plug provided in the first insulating film; a second substrate provided on the first insulating film; and a first wiring including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is provided in the second substrate and coupled to the first plug, and the second portion is provided on the second substrate and coupled to a bonding pad.
US12057415B2
A semiconductor device including a chip package, a dielectric structure, and a first antenna pattern is provided. The dielectric structure is disposed on the chip package and includes a cavity and a vent in communication with the cavity. The first antenna pattern is disposed on the dielectric structure, wherein the chip package is electrically coupled to the first antenna pattern, and the cavity of the dielectric structure is disposed between the chip package and the first antenna pattern.
US12057407B2
A semiconductor device includes a first plurality of dies on a wafer, a first redistribution structure over the first plurality of dies, and a second plurality of dies on the first redistribution structure opposite the first plurality of dies. The first redistribution structure includes a first plurality of conductive features. Each die of the first plurality of dies are bonded to respective conductive features of the first plurality of conductive features by metal-metal bonds on a bottom side of the first redistribution structure. Each die of the second plurality of dies are bonded to respective conductive features of the first plurality of conductive features in the first redistribution structure by metal-metal bonds on a top side of the first redistribution structure.
US12057405B2
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, which processes include forming a first plurality of dielectric layers having first thicknesses, and forming a second plurality of dielectric layers having second thicknesses smaller than the first thicknesses. The first plurality of dielectric layers and the second plurality of dielectric layers are laid out alternatingly. The method further includes forming a plurality of redistribution lines connected to form a conductive path, which processes include forming a first plurality of redistribution lines, each being in one of the first plurality of dielectric layers, and forming a second plurality of redistribution lines, each being in one of the second plurality of dielectric layers.
US12057404B2
A semiconductor device includes pads of a first group and a plurality of first peripheral pads, which are adjacent to each other and spaced apart by a first horizontal gap in a first direction, and pads of a first group and a plurality of first peripheral pads, which are connected to each other and spaced apart by a first vertical gap, greater than the first horizontal gap, in a second direction. A plurality of first wiring patterns include first horizontal extension portions extending at an angle exceeding about 45 degrees with respect to the first direction within the first horizontal gap.
US12057402B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic assemblies including microelectronic components that are coupled together by direct bonding, as well as related structures and techniques. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include an interposer, including an organic dielectric material, and a microelectronic component coupled to the interposer by direct bonding.
US12057394B2
Three-dimensional (3D) interconnect structures employing via layer conductive structures in via layers are disclosed. The via layer conductive structures in a signal path in an interconnect structure are disposed in respective via layers adjacent to metal lines in metal layers. The via layer conductive structures increase the conductive cross-sections of signal paths between devices in an integrated circuit (IC) or to/from an external contact. The via layer conductive structures provide one or both of supplementing the height dimensions of metal lines and electrically coupling metal lines in the same or different metal layers to increase the conductive cross-section of a signal path. The increased conductive cross-section reduces current-resistance (IR) drop of signals and increases signal speed. As metal track pitches are reduced in size, signal path resistance increases. The via layer conductive structures are provided to reduce or avoid an even greater increase in resistance in the signal paths.
US12057385B2
Semiconductor devices and methods are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a substrate that includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer; forming a plurality of fins over the third semiconductor layer; forming a trench between two of the plurality of fins; depositing a dummy material in the trench; forming a gate structure over channel regions of the plurality of the fins; forming source/drain features over source/drain regions of the plurality of the fins; bonding the substrate on a carrier wafer; removing the first and second semiconductor layers to expose the dummy material; removing the dummy material in the trench; depositing a conductive material in the trench; and bonding the substrate to a silicon substrate such that the conductive material is in contact with the silicon substrate. The trench extends through the third semiconductor layer and has a bottom surface on the second semiconductor layer.
US12057382B2
A chip on film assembly, a display panel, and a display module are disclosed. The chip on film assembly includes a substrate, an input terminal disposed on a first end of the substrate, a plurality of output terminals disposed on a second end of the substrate, wherein the second end is opposite to the first end, and a plurality of driving chips disposed on a surface of the substrate. The driving chips are electrically connected to the input terminal and are electrically connected to the output terminals by one to one, so space utilization of chip on films (COFs) can be improved, and a problem of insufficient COF bonding spaces for high-resolution products can be solved.
US12057379B2
A multi-layer substrate stacking a plurality of insulating substrates supports one or more devices. Each substrate includes a face supporting conductive traces and edges surrounding the face at a substantially perpendicular angle. The multi-layer substrate includes a ground plane on a first substrate and a power plane on a second substrate. The ground plane is connected to at least one ground pad disposed on a first edge of the first substrate, which provides a low inductance ground path to the ground plane. The power plane is connected to at least one power pad disposed on a second edge of the second substrate, which provides a low inductance power path to the power plane.
US12057378B2
In one example, a packaged electronic device includes a molded substrate. The molded substrate includes a conductive structure having an edge lead with an edge lead outward side and an edge lead inward side opposite to the edge lead outward side, and an inner lead having an inner lead outward side and an inner lead inward side opposite to the inner lead outward side. The molded substrate includes a substrate encapsulant covering a lower portion of the edge lead inward side, a lower portion of the inner lead inward side, and a lower portion of the inner lead outward side. An upper portion of the edge lead outward side and an upper portion of the inner lead outward side are exposed from the substrate encapsulant. An electronic component is connected to the edge lead and the inner lead. A body encapsulant covers the electronic component and portions of the conductive structure. The body encapsulant has a body encapsulant top side and body encapsulant sides, the upper portion of the edge lead outward side is exposed from one of the body encapsulant sides, and the body encapsulant covers the upper portion of the inner lead outward side and the upper portion of the inner lead inward side. A conductive cover is over the body encapsulant top side, the body encapsulant sides, and outer sides of the substrate encapsulant. The conductive cover contacts the upper portion of the edge lead outward side. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US12057375B2
A semiconductor device A1 includes a semiconductor element 10A having an element obverse face 101 and an element reverse face 102, the element obverse face 101 having an obverse face electrode 11 formed thereon and the element reverse face 102 having a reverse face electrode 12 formed thereon, a conductive substrate 22A including an obverse face 221A opposed to the element reverse face 102, and to which the reverse face electrode 12 is conductively bonded, a conductive substrate 22B including an obverse face 221B and spaced from the conductive substrate 22A in a width direction x, and a lead member 51 extending in the width direction x, and electrically connecting the obverse face electrode 11 and the conductive substrate 22B. The lead member 51 is located ahead of the obverse face 221B in the direction in which the obverse face 221B is oriented, and bonded to the obverse face electrode 11 via a lead bonding layer 32. The conductive substrate 22A, the semiconductor element 10A, and the lead bonding layer 32 overlap with the conductive substrate 22B, as viewed in the width direction x.
US12057356B2
An electronic element mounting substrate according to the present disclosure includes a base body having a recessed portion including a mounting region on which an electronic element is mounted and a cutout section located on an outer periphery of the base body in a plane perspective, and a channel having an inner end portion located on an inner wall of the base body and an outer end portion located on the outer periphery of the base body. The inner end portion of the channel is open to the recessed portion, and the outer end portion of the channel is continuous with the cutout section.
US12057352B2
A front surface of a semiconductor wafer is rapidly heated by irradiation of a flash of light. Temperature of the front surface of the semiconductor wafer is measured at predetermined intervals after the irradiation of the flash of light, and is sequentially accumulated to acquire a temperature profile. From the temperature profile, an average value and a standard deviation are each calculated as a characteristic value. It is determined that the semiconductor wafer is cracked when an average value of the temperature profile deviates from the range of ±5σ from a total average of temperature profiles of a plurality of semiconductor wafers or when a standard deviation of the temperature profile deviates from the range of 5σ from the total average thereof of the plurality of semiconductor wafers.
US12057348B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a trench extending from a top surface of a semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate dielectric layer lining the trench. The method also includes forming a gate electrode layer in the trench and over the top surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a bit line structure over a S/D region of the semiconductor structure. The bit line structure includes a protection liner having a U-shaped profile and in direct contact with an upper portion of the gate dielectric layer. The formation of the gate electrode layer includes performing a first deposition process, performing a first etching process after the first deposition process, and performing a second deposition process after the first etching process.
US12057344B2
A method includes forming a gate stack over a substrate and a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack; forming a source/drain region in the substrate and adjacent to the gate spacer; forming a first interlayer dielectric layer over the source/drain region; forming a protective layer over the gate stack and in contact with a top surface of the gate spacer; removing the first interlayer dielectric layer after forming the protective layer; forming an etch stop layer over the protective layer; forming a second interlayer dielectric layer over the etch stop layer; etching the second interlayer dielectric layer and the etch stop layer to form an opening that exposes a top surface of the protective layer; and forming a contact plug in the opening.
US12057341B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes providing a workpiece including a frontside and a backside. The workpiece includes a substrate, a first plurality of channel members over a first portion of the substrate, a second plurality of channel members over a second portion of the substrate, an isolation feature sandwiched between the first and second portions of the substrate. The method also includes forming a joint gate structure to wrap around each of the first and second pluralities of channel members, forming a pilot opening in the isolation feature, extending the pilot opening through the join gate structure to form a gate cut opening that separates the joint gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure, and depositing a dielectric material into the gate cut opening to form a gate cut feature.
US12057340B2
A micro-device structure comprises a source substrate comprising sacrificial portions laterally spaced apart by anchors. At least a portion of each of the sacrificial portions is exposed through an opening. A micro-device is disposed on (e.g., exclusively in direct contact with) each of the sacrificial portions and laterally attached to one of the anchors by a hybrid tether. The hybrid tether comprises an organic tether layer and an inorganic tether layer.
US12057336B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for estimating heights of defects in a wafer. The method comprises creating an un-calibrated 3D model of a defect in a wafer, determining one or more attributes associated with the un-calibrated 3D model, transforming the un-calibrated 3D model to a calibrated 3D model, and estimating a height of the defect using the calibrated 3D model. Creating an un-calibrated 3D model corresponds to a defect present in a wafer based on a plurality of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of the defect. Transforming the un-calibrated 3D model to a calibrated 3D model uses a scaling factor corresponding to the determined one or more attributes associated with the un-calibrated 3D model. A height of the defect is estimated based on the calibrated 3D model of the defect.
US12057334B2
A method for monitoring a semiconductor processing system including a gas delivery system, a thermal system, and a fluid flow line includes obtaining a plurality of operational data from the gas delivery system, the thermal system, or a combination thereof and determining a performance characteristic of the fluid flow line based on one or more operational data of the plurality of operational data. The method includes identifying one or more locations associated with the one or more operational data in a reference virtual model and generating a dynamic state model of the fluid flow line based on the reference virtual model, the one or more identified locations, and the determined performance characteristic, where the dynamic state model is a digital representation of the fluid flow line.
US12057333B2
Metrology slot plates, processing chamber lids and processing chambers having metrology slot plates are described. Each of the metrology slot plates independently comprises one or more of a plate blank, a reflectometer, a capacitance sensor, a gas flow meter, a manometer, a pyrometer, a distance sensor (laser) or an emissometer.
US12057329B2
Semiconductor systems and methods may include methods of performing selective etches that include modifying a material on a semiconductor substrate. The substrate may have at least two exposed materials on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The methods may include forming a low-power plasma within a processing chamber housing the semiconductor substrate. The low-power plasma may be a radio-frequency (“RF”) plasma, which may be at least partially formed by an RF bias power operating between about 10 W and about 100 W in embodiments. The RF bias power may also be pulsed at a frequency below about 5,000 Hz. The methods may also include etching one of the at least two exposed materials on the surface of the semiconductor substrate at a higher etch rate than a second of the at least two exposed materials on the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US12057322B2
A method of plasma processing that includes maintaining a plasma processing chamber between 10° C. to 200° C., flowing oxygen and nitrogen into the plasma processing chamber, where a ratio of a flow rate of the nitrogen to a flow rate of oxygen is between about 1:5 and about 1:1, and etching a ruthenium/osmium layer by sustaining a plasma in the plasma processing chamber.
US12057321B2
A method for forming a polycrystalline semiconductor layer includes forming a plurality of spacers over a dielectric layer, etching the dielectric layer using the plurality of spacers as an etch mask to form a recess in the dielectric layer, depositing an amorphous semiconductor layer over the plurality of spacers and the dielectric layer to fill the recess, and recrystallizing the amorphous semiconductor layer to form a polycrystalline semiconductor layer.
US12057318B2
A method for forming a film layer includes: a substrate is provided; a pretreatment step is performed, in which the pretreatment step includes providing a reaction source gas, which forms attachment points on the substrate; and a deposition step is performed, in which the reaction source gas is formed into a plasma, which is deposited on the substrate based on the attachment points to form a first film layer.
US12057317B2
Apparatuses and methods for manufacturing semiconductor memory devices are described. An example method includes: forming a conductive layer and sputtering the conductive layer with gas. The conductive layer includes a first portion having a top surface having a first height; and a second portion having a top surface having a second height lower than the first height. Sputtering the conductive layer with gas may be performed to remove the first portion of the conductive layer and increase the second height of the second portion of the conductive layer concurrently.
US12057314B2
A method of forming a silicon germanium layer on a surface of a substrate and a system for forming a silicon germanium layer are disclosed. Examples of the disclosure provide a method that includes providing a plurality of growth precursors to control and/or promote parasitic gas-phase and surface reactions, such that greater control of the film (e.g., thickness and/or composition) uniformity can be realized.
US12057294B2
An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium reduces the power level of a reflected wave from a load coupled to a radio-frequency power supply. A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate support, a radio-frequency power supply, a bias power supply, and a controller. The bias power supply periodically applies a pulsed negative voltage to the substrate support. The controller controls the radio-frequency power supply to provide radio-frequency power with a changed frequency within a period in which the pulsed negative voltage is applied from the bias power supply to the substrate support, to reduce a power level of a reflected wave from a load that is coupled to the radio-frequency power supply.
US12057293B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods are described herein for controlling a pulsed plasma. Pulse timing parameters (e.g., the pulse on-time and/or the pulse-off time) of the plasma generation source may be controlled based on the measurement data received from measurement device(s), to control the plasma exposure of the substrate during a sequence of dynamically controlled pulses within the plasma process chamber. In addition or alternatively, pulse timing parameters (e.g., the pulse on-time and/or the pulse-off time) can be applied to the source power, bias power, and/or both based on the measurement data received from measurement device(s), to control a plasma exposure of the substrate. The pulse timing changes may be made in a feedforward or feedback manner.
US12057284B2
A switch device structure includes an assembly of a main body and an operation body. An electrical connection module and an elastic unit are mounted on the main body. The contact arm of the electrical connection module has a first member and/or a second member with variable arrangement position. According to the position or motion of the operation body, the elastic unit provides an elastic force to push the contact arm of the electrical connection module into a contacting circuit closed state or make the elastic unit separate from the contact arm to form a circuit open state. The arrangement form of the first member and/or the second member of the contact arm of the electrical connection module is variable in accordance with the specification of the switch to achieve NO mode and NC mode.
US12057273B2
A method for preparing an inorganic perovskite battery based on a synergistic effect of gradient annealing and antisolvent includes preparing a perovskite layer by a gradient annealing and an antisolvent treatment. A thickness of the perovskite layer is 100 to 1000 nm; when preparing a perovskite precursor solution of the perovskite layer, a solvent is an amide-based solvent and/or a sulfone-based solvent; a concentration of the perovskite precursor solution for preparing the perovskite layer is 0.4 to 2 M; and the gradient annealing is conducted at 40 to 70° C./0.5 to 5 min+70 to 130° C./0.5 to 5 min+130 to 160° C./5 to 20 min+160 to 280° C./0 to 20 min; and a solvent for the anti-solvent treatment is an alcohol solvent, a benzene solvent or an ether solvent.
US12057262B2
Since the cross-sectional area of the plastic deforming portion of the extrusion die gradually decreases from the starting end portion toward the terminal end portion, the pressure applied to the molded body in hot deforming is not loosened, hence, the occurrence of cracks can be effectively suppressed.
US12057260B2
A silicon oxide-coated iron powder has a small particle diameter, can achieve high in a high frequency band, and has high insulating property. In a method for producing the powder, a silicon alkoxide is added to a slurry containing iron powder having an average particle diameter of 0.25 μm or more and 0.80 μm or less and an average axial ratio of 1.5 or less dispersed in a mixed solvent of water and an organic material containing water in an amount of 1% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less. Then, a hydrolysis catalyst for the silicon alkoxide is added to perform silicon oxide coating, the method resulting in a silicon oxide-coated iron powder having the high μ′ in a high frequency band and the high insulating property.
US12057253B2
A coil component includes a body, a support portion disposed in the body, a coil portion disposed on a first surface of the support portion, a lead portion disposed on a second surface of the support portion facing the first surface of the support portion and connected to the coil portion, and a via penetrating through the support portion to connect an inner end portion of the coil portion and an inner end portion of the lead portion to each other, wherein the coil portion includes a first conductive layer embedded in the support portion and having a first surface exposed to or facing the first surface of the support portion, a second conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the first conductive layer, and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer and protruding from the first surface of the support portion.
US12057249B2
A coil component includes a body, a coil portion disposed in the body and having first and second lead-out portions exposed to at least one surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other, first and second external electrodes disposed on the at least one surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other, and respectively connected to the first and second lead-out portions, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the body, and a third external electrode disposed on the surface of the body having the dielectric layer disposed thereon to be spaced apart from each of the first and second external electrodes, and covering the dielectric layer.
US12057244B2
One aspect relates to a process for preparing a processed filament, including provision of a filament, including a segment. At least in the segment, the filament includes a core, including a first metal, a first layer which is superimposed on the core, and includes a polymer, and a second layer which is superimposed on the first layer, and includes a second metal. The segment of the filament is processed by interaction of the segment with at least one beam of electromagnetic radiation of a first kind. The electromagnetic radiation of the first kind has a spectrum with a peak wavelength in the range from 430 to 780 nm. Further, one aspect relates to a processed filament, obtainable by the process; a filament; an electrical device, including at least a part of the processed filament.
US12057241B1
Provided are systems for filling containers with radioactive and/or other types of potentially hazardous materials. In some aspects, the systems include a shielding material that substantially defines a chamber and, preferably, substantially blocks radioactivity, a conduit extending from outside to into the chamber, and a unit that is disposed in the chamber proximal to the conduit and is adapted to receive a capsule through the conduit. The systems of the present disclosure can further comprise a syringe, a syringe controller that is disposed in the dispensing chamber and adapted to meter an aliquot from a radioactive stock solution and inject the aliquot into the capsule or a vial.
US12057240B2
A compact pressurized water nuclear reactor having connected to the reactor pressure vessel a plurality of pressure vessels connected by nozzles, and connected by curved horizontal pressure vessel heads by having their central axis horizontal, with reduced stress and simple single connection between the respective nozzle of the reactor pressure vessel with the respective nozzle of each curved horizontal pressure vessel heads, all with the same internal and external design pressure.
US12057231B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for monitoring patients and quantitatively predicting whether an event, such as a significant change in health status meriting intervention, is likely to occur within a future time interval subsequent to computing the prediction. Medical data for a patient is collected from one or more different inputs and used to determine time series data. From this, a forecasted numerical value is computed for one or more physiologic parameters associated with the patient, which may be used to further monitor the patient and facilitate decision making about a need for intensified monitoring or intervention to prevent or manage deterioration of hemostasis. An evolutionary algorithm, such as particle swarm optimization and/or differential evolution, may be used to determine the most probable value of the one or more physiologic parameters at one or more future times.
US12057229B1
A system and method for delivering diagnostic information to a user in an automated manner. An image processing module reads magnified raw image data from whole slides containing tissue cells. A background deletion process identifies and isolates cell images. A neural network, which is trained based upon image data, classifies the cell images. The classification uses specialist criteria to categorize/segment the cell images into a plurality of discrete cell types. A display process provides the diagnostic information to the user. The neural network can be trained using a plurality of cell types each having the specialist criteria. The diagnostic information includes filtered and/or reorganized images of the tissue cells. Additionally, the user can request the diagnostic information based upon an account that provides payment according to a predetermined formula associated with at least one of a type, format, and timing of information delivered to the user.
US12057224B2
An adaptive control method and system for an upper limb rehabilitation robot based on a game theory and surface Electromyography (sEMG) is disclosed. A movement trajectory that a robot is controlled to run within a training time is designed during subject operation. An sEMG-based Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) muscle force estimation model establishes a nonlinear dynamic relationship between an sEMG signal and end force by constructing a three-layer neural network. A human-computer interaction system is analyzed by the game theory principle, and a role of the robot is deduced. The control rate between the robot and a subject is updated by Nash equilibrium, and adaptive weight factors of the robot and the subject are determined. The robot adaptively adjusts the training mode thereof according to a movement intention of the subject during operation and a weight coefficient obtained by the game theory principle.
US12057212B2
A computer system for automatically performing medical diagnoses having a main portal configured to allow data communication with a user device, an AI bot in data communication with the main portal, the AI bot being configured to guide the user through a medical assessment, perform the medical assessment and diagnose the patient, wherein the AI bot is further configured to receive video data of the patient performing a physical activity, analyze each individual frame of the video using a custom trained model in order to diagnose the patient, a patient portal in data communication with a processing and communication module and the AI bot, a central database in data communication with the processing and communication module, an internal database, the AI bot and the patient portal, the central database being configured to facilitate an interconnection of the AI bot with the internal database and an external database.
US12057204B2
Health care information for multiple patients is processed to classify patients into categories. Additional data fields related to a category in which a patient is classified are added to the patient record. These data fields are populated in part by automatically processing the existing patient data. Such automatic processing can result in a probability that the underlying data supports having a particular value stored in one of the added data fields, and this probability also can be stored. Over time, additional data can be obtained from patients, caregivers and other sources, for structured data fields based on data entry forms for patient reported outcomes, caregiver reported outcomes, events of interest, survival and resource utilization. A set of factor scores is computed for each patient, for each category in which the patient is classified. An outcome score is computed for each patient for each category in which the patient is classified, using an outcome function defined for that category, as a weighted function of one or more of the factor scores. The outcome function for a category is standardized across all patients classified in that category.
US12057197B2
A machine-learned model can be trained on and applied to oligonucleotide data. The machine-learned model can be, for example, a neural network, a random forest classifier, or a regression model, and can be trained in one or more stages. The machine-learned model can be applied in design settings, for instance by being configured to predict biophysical effects corresponding to oligonucleotides, by processing real-world experimental or laboratory data, and by retraining the machine-learned model in response to the processed data.
US12057193B2
A memory device includes: a first clock receiver configured to receive a first clock signal; a second clock receiver configured to receive a second clock signal when data is input or output, wherein the second clock signal has a first clock frequency in a preamble period, and has a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency after the preamble period; a command decoder configured to receive a clock synchronization command synchronized with the first clock signal and generate a clock synchronization signal, wherein the clock synchronization signal is generated during the preamble period; and a clock synchronizing circuit configured to generate a plurality of division clock signals in response to the second clock signal, latch the clock synchronization signal during the preamble period, and selectively provide the plurality of division clock signals as internal data clock signals according to a result of the latching.
US12057177B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory device including a memory cell and a bias supply circuit providing a bias voltage to the memory cell. In one aspect, the bias supply circuit includes a bias memory cell coupled to the memory cell, where the bias memory cell and the memory cell may be of a same semiconductor conductivity type. The memory cell may include at least two gate electrodes, and the bias memory cell may include at least two gate electrodes. In one configuration, the bias memory cell includes a drain electrode coupled to one of the at least two gate electrodes of the bias memory cell. In this configuration, the bias voltage provided to the memory cell can be controlled by regulating or controlling current provided to the drain electrode of the bias memory cell.
US12057176B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a 3D NAND memory using a read operation. The method can include increasing a voltage to a plurality of top select gates, with respect to a first reference voltage level, during a pre-pulse period of the read operation prior to a read period of the read operation. The method can also include increasing a voltage to a plurality of word lines, with respect to a second reference voltage level, during the pre-pulse period. The method can also include decreasing a voltage to a bit line, with respect to the first voltage, during the pre-pulse period. The method can also include applying no voltage change to a bottom select gate during the pre-pulse period.
US12057164B2
A method of storing a data into a memory storage having bit cells. The method includes identifying each of the binary one and the binary zero in the data as either a majority bit value or a minority bit value based on the probability of finding the binary one in the data or based on the probability of finding the binary zero in the data. In the method, a bit of the data is stored into the bit cell as the more preferred state if the bit of the data has the majority bit value, and a bit of the data is stored into the bit cell as the less preferred state if the bit of the data has the minority bit value.
US12057161B2
The memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks that can individually operate in either a multi-bit per memory cell mode or a single-bit per memory cell mode. Certain voltage parameters during programming and reading are shared between these two operating modes, and certain voltage parameters are unique to each operating mode. One unique voltage parameter is a pass voltage VREADK that is applied to word lines adjacent a selected word line being read. Another unique voltage parameter is a VSGD voltage that is applied to a select gate drain transistor during programming. Yet another unique voltage parameter is an inhibit voltage that is applied to a bit line coupled with a memory cell being inhibited from programming while other memory cells are programmed.
US12057152B2
The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. An anisotropic magnetic field Hk is 12 kOe or more, a center line average roughness Ra of the surface of the magnetic recording medium on the magnetic layer side is 1.2 nm or less, and a ratio θr of a contact angle θ2 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on a surface on the magnetic layer side after a 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion, to a contact angle θ1 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on the surface on the magnetic layer side before the 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion is 0.95 or less.
US12057150B2
The magnetic tape has one or more of each of an area A and an area B having different center line average surface roughness Ra measured on a surface of a magnetic layer in a region over a part of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction, with a ratio BMag/AMag of 1.20 to 10.00 and a ratio BMag/BBack of equal to or greater than 2.0 in a case where extraction amounts per unit area of a component selected from the group consisting of fatty acid, fatty acid ester, and fatty acid amide extracted from a magnetic layer side of the area A and the area B are defined as AMag and BMag respectively, and an extraction amount per unit area of the above component extracted from a back coating layer side of the area B is defined as BBack.
US12057145B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to magnetic recording heads (e.g., magnetic write heads) for magnetic recording devices (e.g., hard disk drives (HDD's)). A magnetic recording head includes, in a gap between a write pole and a trailing shield: a spin polarization layer (SPL), a free layer, and a spacer layer between the SPL and free layer. A spin torque layer (STL) is additionally included, and is separated from the free layer by a barrier layer that reduces or eliminates spin torque between the free layer and the STL. In one or more embodiments, to enable a thinner barrier layer, one or more dusting layers are inserted between the write pole and the trailing shield, and the one or more dusting layers are each formed of iron-chromium (FeCr). This helps maintain a thinner or narrower material stack in the gap and enhances writer performance.
US12057142B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for generating visual effects based on text. The techniques comprise initiating a process of generating a visual effect in response to a selection of an interface element; generating the visual effect, wherein the generating the visual effect comprises generating a first image based on a first text input by a first user, and wherein content of the first image correlates with the first text; and causing to display the first image on a screen of a computing device.
US12057141B2
A video editing system includes an import manager for importing media files into the video editing system; a user interface; and a synchronization engine for detecting imported media files having one or more common attributes and causing a display in the user interface of an indicia for each detected media file.
US12057139B2
A device, system, and method whereby a speech-driven system can distinguish speech obtained from users of the system from other speech spoken by background persons, as well as from background speech from public address systems. In one aspect, the present system and method prepares, in advance of field-use, a voice-data file which is created in a training environment. The training environment exhibits both desired user speech and unwanted background speech, including unwanted speech from persons other than a user and also speech from a PA system. The speech recognition system is trained or otherwise programmed to identify wanted user speech which may be spoken concurrently with the background sounds. In an embodiment, during the pre-field-use phase the training or programming may be accomplished by having persons who are training listeners audit the pre-recorded sounds to identify the desired user speech. A processor-based learning system is trained to duplicate the assessments made by the human listeners.
US12057135B2
This application discloses a speech noise reduction method performed by a computing device. The method includes: obtaining a noisy speech signal, the noisy speech signal including a pure speech signal and a noise signal; estimating a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio and a priori signal-to-noise ratio of the noisy speech signal; determining a speech/noise likelihood ratio in a Bark domain based on the estimated posteriori signal-to-noise ratio and the estimated priori signal-to-noise ratio; estimating a priori speech existence probability based on the determined speech/noise likelihood ratio; determining a gain based on the estimated posteriori signal-to-noise ratio, the estimated priori signal-to-noise ratio, and the estimated priori speech existence probability, the gain being a frequency domain transfer function used for converting the noisy speech signal into an estimation of the pure speech signal; and exporting the estimation of the pure speech signal from the noisy speech signal based on the gain.
US12057132B2
Disclosed is a method, an apparatus, and a device for transient noise detection. The method includes: obtaining an audio frame signal having a preset duration; performing wavelet decomposition on a first audio frame signal to obtain a first wavelet decomposition signal corresponding to the first audio frame signal; determining a first reference audio intensity value of a first sub-wavelet decomposition signal according to reference audio intensity values of all samples in the first sub-wavelet decomposition signal; determining energy distribution information of the first wavelet decomposition signal according to first reference audio intensity values of all sub-wavelet decomposition signals in the first wavelet decomposition signal; and determining a probability that the first audio frame signal is transient noise according to the energy distribution information of the first wavelet decomposition signal.
US12057130B2
An audio signal encoding method and apparatus, and an audio signal decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The audio signal encoding method includes: obtaining a frequency-domain coefficient of a current frame and a frequency-domain coefficient of a reference signal of the current frame; performing filtering processing on the frequency-domain coefficient of the current frame to obtain a filtering parameter; determining a target frequency-domain coefficient of the current frame based on the filtering parameter; performing filtering processing on the frequency-domain coefficient of the reference signal and a reference frequency-domain coefficient based on the filtering parameter to obtain a target frequency-domain coefficient of the reference signal; and encoding the target frequency-domain coefficient of the current frame based on the target frequency-domain coefficient of the current frame, the target frequency-domain coefficient of the reference signal, and a reference target frequency-domain coefficient. The method can improve audio signal encoding/decoding efficiency.
US12057126B2
According to an aspect, a method for distributed sound/image recognition using a wearable device includes receiving, via at least one sensor device, sensor data, and detecting, by a classifier of the wearable device, whether or not the sensor data includes an object of interest. The classifier configured to execute a first machine learning (ML) model. The method includes transmitting, via a wireless connection, the sensor data to a computing device in response to the object of interest being detected within the sensor data, where the sensor data is configured to be used by a second ML model on the computing device or a server computer for further sound/image classification.
US12057122B2
Systems and methods for providing enhanced teleconferencing. An example method includes receiving audio streams from a plurality of client devices of participants of a teleconference; converting the audio streams for a first conversation within the teleconference into first text; converting the audio streams for a second conversation within the teleconference into a second text; analyzing the first text to identify one or more topics being discussed in the first conversation; analyzing the second text to identify one or more topics being discussed in the second conversation; and presenting, in a teleconference user interface, at least one of the one or more topics being discussed in the first conversation or the one or more topics being discussed in the second conversation.
US12057121B2
A cognitive agent system provides a centralized capability for users to configure and deploy cognitive agents across multiple heterogeneous vendor platforms. The cognitive agent system provides a design environment that allows users to define skills, as well as a new conversation construct that supports more complex interactions with users. The cognitive agent system also includes a deployment environment that allows users to register users and cognitive agents, deploy skills and conversations, and monitor the activity of cognitive agents across multiple vendor platforms. These users may use the cognitive agent system to define skills and conversations once and then deploy the skills and conversations to multiple service endpoints across different vendor platforms. In addition, the cognitive agent system allows user to directly manage cognitive agents that are not specific to any particular vendor.
US12057117B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus of verifying information based on a voice interaction, a device, and a computer storage medium, and relates to a field of artificial intelligence technology. The present disclosure is implemented to include: acquiring a text of a voice response of a user to a voice inquiry, wherein the voice inquiry is provided for verifying information with the user; and inputting each character of the text of the voice response and a phonetic information associated with the each character to a pre-trained semantic analysis model so as to obtain an user intention information and/or an information of an object to be verified output by the pre-trained semantic analysis model, wherein the user intention information includes a confirmation, a denial, an answer, or a question.
US12057115B2
Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.
US12057113B2
In various examples, systems and methods of the present disclosure combine open and closed dialog systems into an intelligent dialog management system. A text query may be processed by a natural language understanding model trained to associate the text query with a domain tag, intent classification, and/or input slots. Using the domain tag, the natural language understanding model may identify information in the text query corresponding to input slots needed for answering the text query. The text query and related information may then be passed to a dialog manager to direct the text query to the proper domain dialog system. Responses retrieved from the domain dialog system may be provided to the user via text output and/or via a text to speech component of the dialog management system.
US12057111B2
A system and method for authenticating an identity may include generating a first generic representation representing a stored audio content, generating a second generic representation representing input audio content, and, providing the first and second generic representations to a voice biometrics unit adapted to authenticate an identity based on the first and second generic representations.
US12057109B2
Disclosed are an information processing method and a terminal device. The method comprises: acquiring first information, wherein the first information is information to be processed by a terminal device; calling an operation instruction in a calculation apparatus to calculate the first information so as to obtain second information; and outputting the second information. By means of the examples in the present disclosure, a calculation apparatus of a terminal device can be used to call an operation instruction to process first information, so as to output second information of a target desired by a user, thereby improving the information processing efficiency. The present technical solution has advantages of a fast computation speed and high efficiency.
US12057108B2
A system for classifying words in a batch of words can include at least one memory device storing instructions for causing at least one processor to create dictionary vectors for each of a plurality of dictionary words using a neural network (NN), store each dictionary vector along with a classification indicator corresponding to the associated dictionary word, and create word vectors for each word in a batch of words for classification using the NN. The closest matching dictionary vectors are found for each word vector and the classification indicators of the closest matching dictionary vector for each word vector in the batch is reported.
US12057105B2
Provided is a speech recognition device capable of implementing end-to-end speech recognition considering a context. The speech recognition device includes a model parameter learning unit that learns a model parameter θ by using a word sequence of concern as an observation value and using a word sequence previous to the word sequence of concern, an acoustic feature value sequence corresponding to the word sequence of concern, and the model parameter θ as parameters to perform maximum likelihood estimation for a likelihood function of a probability that the observation value occurs under the parameters and an uttered speech recognition unit that repeats, in order of time sequence, processing of recognizing a word sequence to be recognized, the processing of recognizing the word sequence to be recognized being performed by using the word sequence to be recognized as an observation value and using an already recognized word sequence previous to the word sequence to be recognized, an acoustic feature value sequence corresponding to the word sequence to be recognized, and the learned model parameter θ as parameters and based on a maximum likelihood criterion for the likelihood function of the probability that the observation value occurs under the parameters.
US12057100B2
A simulation system and method for simulating a noise environment of a vehicle includes a memory configured to store a reference sample signal and a noise sample signal, a control unit electrically connected to the memory and configured to generate a reference signal based on the reference sample signal, generate a noise signal based on the noise sample signal, and transmit the reference signal to a noise control system, and a speaker electrically connected to the control unit and configured to convert the noise signal into a sound wave and output the sound wave.
US12057089B2
A method includes obtaining rendered image data that includes a representation of an object for display using a see-through display. The see-through display permits ambient light from a physical environment through the see-through display. The method includes sensing a plurality of light superposition characteristic values associated with the ambient light that quantifies the ambient light. The method includes determining a plurality of display correction values associated with the electronic device based on the plurality of light superposition characteristic values and predetermined display characteristics of the representation of the object. The method includes generating, from the rendered image data, display data for the see-through display in accordance with the plurality of display correction values in order to satisfy the predetermined display characteristics of the representation of the object within a performance threshold.
US12057088B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to adjusting an illumination of a user depicted in one or more images when using a video conferencing application. In one example, one or more images depicting the user may be received from an image sensor. Further, an illumination of the user depicted in the one or more images may be determined to be unsatisfactory. For example, the user's face may be too bright or too dim. Accordingly, content displayed at a display device may identified and then modified. The modified content may then be rendered to a display device thereby changing the illumination of the user depicted in subsequent images. In examples, the modified content may include a graphical element, such as a ring of a specific color at least partially surrounding content rendered to and displayed at the display device.
US12057081B2
A display device includes: a display which includes a display screen on which a video is displayed; a decorative sheet disposed on a display screen side of the display, is larger than the display screen in a front view of the display screen, and covers the display screen, the decorative sheet including a first region which overlaps with the display screen in the front view and a second region which does not overlap with the display screen in the front view; and a controller which controls a luminance of the video that is displayed by the display, based on (i) an illuminance of ambient light around the display and the decorative sheet and (ii) first information indicating a relationship between the illuminance and appearances of a third region corresponding to a black display region of the video in the first region and the second region on the decorative sheet.
US12057072B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method therefor, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a data write module, a compensation module, a current leakage suppression module, and a first storage module. A first terminal of the compensation module is electrically connected to a second terminal of the drive module. The control terminal of the compensation module accesses a first light emission control signal. A first terminal of the current leakage suppression module is electrically connected to the control terminal of the drive module. A second terminal of the current leakage suppression module is electrically connected to a second terminal of the compensation module. The control terminal of the current leakage suppression module accesses the first light emission control signal. A first terminal of the first storage module is electrically connected to the second terminal of the compensation module.
US12057070B2
The present application provide a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes: a driving module, a control end of the driving module being electrically connected to a first node; a threshold compensation module, electrically connected to a first scan signal line, the first node, and a first end of the driving module; a first switch module, electrically connected to a first light emitting control signal line and the first end of the driving module; a second switch module, electrically connected to a second light emitting control signal line, a second end of the first switch module, and a first electrode of a light emitting element; and a voltage regulator module, electrically connected to a constant voltage signal line and a target node.
US12057068B2
An electro-optical apparatus includes selector switches. One selector switch is provided for each data line. One data line is disposed for each pixel column of a pixel section that includes pixel circuits that are arranged in a matrix form. Each of the pixel circuits includes a drive transistor and a light-emitting element that emits light at luminance that is commensurate with a magnitude of a current supplied via the drive transistor. The selector switches write an input data signal to the data lines. The selector switches write a correction potential for correcting a threshold voltage of the drive transistor to the data lines that are divided into groups, at a timing different for each group.
US12057064B2
The present disclosure can provide a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display device. By arranging a data write circuit, a driving control circuit, a light-emitting control circuit and a light-emitting device, the data write circuit provides a data signal of the data signal end for the driving control circuit in response to a signal of a first scanning signal end; the driving control circuit generates a driving current according to the data signal; and the light-emitting control circuit connects the driving control circuit with a cathode of the light-emitting device in response to a signal of a second scanning signal end, so that the driving current is input into the light-emitting device to control the light-emitting device to emit light. Besides, a voltage of the first power end is larger than that of the second power end.
US12057060B1
A display device includes a circuit substrate, a light emitting diode, an encapsulation layer, a color conversion layer and a first optical structure. The light emitting diode is located on the circuit substrate. The encapsulation layer covers the light emitting diode. The color conversion layer overlaps the light emitting diode. The first optical structure overlaps the color conversion layer and is located between the encapsulation layer and the color conversion layer. The first optical structure includes first gaps periodically arranged with a first pitch on a first direction. The width of each first gap in the first direction is 1 micrometer to 10 micrometers. A refractive index of a material of the first optical structure is greater than a refractive index of a material of the encapsulation layer.
US12057055B2
A display driving circuit for receiving image data from a host and driving a display panel, the display driving circuit including: an interface configured to receive the image data from the host; and a timing controller configured to control a first interrupt signal for waking up the host in a low-power mode and to control a second interrupt signal based on a light emission control signal, wherein the light emission control signal is for controlling a light emission time of a pixel included in the display panel, and wherein the timing controller is further configured to control a level of the second interrupt signal based on whether the image data has started to be received from the host in response to the first interrupt signal and the second interrupt signal.
US12057043B2
Provided are a display panel, a crack detection method, and a display apparatus. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display panel includes a crack detection line located in the non-display area. The crack detection line includes a main detection line and at least one auxiliary detection line. The auxiliary detection line includes a first end and a second end each being connected to the main detection line.
US12057037B2
User interface systems for sterile fields and other working environments are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user interface system can include a projector that projects a graphical user interface onto a data board or other substrate disposed within a working environment. The system can also include a camera or other sensor that detects user interaction with the data board or substrate. Detected user interactions can be processed or interpreted by a controller that interfaces with equipment disposed outside of the working environment, thereby allowing user interaction with such equipment from within the working environment. The data board can be an inexpensive, disposable, single-use component of the system that can be easily sterilized or another component suitably prepared for use in a sterile field.
US12057036B2
Embodiments include methods for managing component temperatures in wearable devices by a remote computing device, such as an edge server, instructing changes in wearable device component processing loads, operations or operating modes. Methods performed in a wearable device receiving data from an edge server may include obtaining a plurality of temperature measurements from a plurality of hardware components, transmitting the temperature measurements to the edge server, receiving an instruction related to operations of an application executing on the processor of the wearable device, and adjusting an operating parameter based on the received instruction. Methods performed in the edge server include receiving the temperature measurements from the wearable device, identify one or more adjustments to operations of the plurality of hardware components based on the plurality of temperature measurements, and sending the wearable device an instruction to adjust operations of at least one of the plurality of hardware components.
US12057035B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a housing having an opening, a roll provided inside of the housing, a display configured to be rolled around the roll and drawn out or in through the opening, a frame provided on an upper end or a lower end of the display, a first link having a first end rotatably connected to a first end of the frame, a second link having a first end rotatably connected to a second end of the frame, a first slider and a second slider rotatably connected to a second end of the first link and a second end of the second link, respectively, and a first rail and a second rail horizontally provided inside of the housing and providing movement paths of the first slider and the second slider, respectively, wherein the first rail and the second rail at least partially overlap each other in a front-rear direction.
US12057026B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented process for evaluating user activity, user preference, and/or user habit via one or more personal devices and providing precisely timed and situationally targeted prompts and stimuli for encouraging lifestyle choices and reinforcing health habits. It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a technological solution to the long felt need in health management services caused by the technical problem of procuring timely health management by encouraging healthy choices.
US12057023B1
A method of detecting and preventing airspace collision with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes dividing an airspace into a plurality of sectors, positioning a plurality of sensor installations to detect presence of an aircraft at respective boundaries between the sectors, detecting presence of the aircraft at a first of the boundaries based on sensor data collected from a first one of the sensor installations that is positioned to detect presence of the aircraft at the first boundary, and transmitting a signal based on the detection of the presence of the aircraft at the first boundary to a control system of the UAV.
US12057021B2
A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. A transportation system determines a first and a second hub for a leg of the transport request serviced by the VTOL aircraft and calculates a set of candidate routes from the first hub to the second hub. A provisioned route is selected from among the set of candidate routes based on network and environmental parameters and objectives including pre-determined acceptable noise levels, weather, and the presence and planned routes of other VTOL aircrafts along each of the candidate routes.
US12057017B2
A mobile terminal includes an input unit that is capable of receiving input of a dispatch request and a destination and a position determiner that is capable of obtaining a terminal position which is its own current position. In accordance with the dispatch request, an autonomous vehicle is designated as a vehicle that is to be dispatched. The autonomous vehicle includes an autonomous driving controller that performs driving control so as to track the mobile terminal based on the terminal position while on its way to pick up the user.
US12057014B2
Disclosed in one embodiment is a method for performing an operation for a first road side unit (RSU) in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: transmitting a first message to a second RSU; and receiving a second message from the second RSU, wherein the first message includes position information and a first position list of the first RSU, the second message includes position information and a second position list of the second RSU, and the first position list is updated with the position information and the second position list of the second RSU.
US12057002B2
Anti-abandonment system (99) in a vehicle (100), comprising: at least one laser sensor (1a; 1b) structured for detecting a movement in the vehicle (100) by emission of a laser beam and measurement of a respective time of flight; at least one camera sensor (2a; 2b) structured for detecting a movement in the vehicle (100); a command-and-control unit (3) operatively connected to the at least one laser sensor (1a; 1b) for receiving a first detection signal representative of the movement detected by the at least one laser sensor (1a; 1b) and to the at least one camera sensor (2a; 2b) for receiving a second detection signal representative of the movement detected by the at least one camera sensor (2a; 2b), the command-and-control unit (3) being configured and programmed for: processing the first and second detection signal for verifying an achievement of a respective alarm condition; provided the achievement of the respective alarm condition for both the first and second detection signal, sending a respective command signal to at least one between an alarm system (8; 9; 10; 11; 13) and an emergency system (15; 16; 17) mounted on the vehicle (100).
US12056996B2
Described is a security sensor comprising two or more sub-sensors for use in a variety of installations where different magnetic fields may be experienced by the security sensor as a result of the variety of installations. One of the sub-sensors may have a low magnetic sensitivity while the other sub-sensor may have a much higher sensitivity to magnetic fields. In operation, one or both sub-sensors are used to determine if a door or a window has been opened.
US12056991B1
An automated teller machine (“ATM”) receives, from a user computing device via a first wireless communication session, a unique transaction identifier (“UTN”). The ATM transmits the UTN to a bank computing system via a network. The ATM receives, from the bank computing system responsive to transmitting the UTN, transaction details and a first security code associated with the UTN. The ATM receives, from the user computing device via a second wireless communication session, a second security code. Responsive to determining that the first security code matches the second security code, the ATM processes a transaction in accordance with the transaction details.
US12056989B2
Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
US12056987B2
A gaming system includes at least one input device adapted to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance, an input indicative of a wager drawn from the credit balance for a wagering game, and a cashout input that initiates a payout from the credit balance. In response to a wager input, a wagering game is initiated. The gaming system includes an electronic display device adapted to display an active array of symbol positions that are populated by symbols randomly generated from one or more spins of a set of symbol-bearing reels. The active array may be progressively expanded in response to collecting a requisite number of special symbols among the randomly generated symbols at each active array size.
US12056980B2
An gaming system includes a display device, an input device, and a game controller. When the game controller determines that a condition is met, the game controller modifies a plurality of symbols selected for display to include a prize awarding symbol. When the game controller determines that a designated condition is met, the game controller modifies the prize awarding symbol to reveal an award. The game controller evaluates the plurality of symbols to determine an award amount.
US12056979B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming devices, systems, and methods. As an example, a gaming device is disclosed to generate game outcomes based on game instructions applying game rules to user inputs; cause gameplay graphics to be rendered by the user interface in accordance with the game outcomes; receive, from a sensor, information that enables the processor to identify a number of players positioned in proximity of the user interface; dynamically modify the game rules based on the identified number of players being greater than one; generate additional game outcomes based on the game instructions applying the modified game rules to user inputs; and cause additional gameplay graphics to be rendered by the user interface in accordance with the additional game outcomes.
US12056964B2
A work vehicle state detection system includes: a travel state detector provided in a work vehicle having a rotating machine and detecting a travel state of the work vehicle; a vibration sensor in the rotating machine; a travel state data acquisition unit acquiring travel state data indicating the travel state; a condition satisfaction determination unit determining whether the travel state satisfies a condition; a vibration detection data acquisition unit acquiring vibration detection data indicating a detection value of the vibration sensor when the travel state satisfies the condition; a normal vibration data storage storing normal vibration data indicating a detection value of the vibration sensor when the rotating machine is normal and the travel state satisfies the condition; and an analysis unit that, based on the vibration detection data and the normal vibration data, analyzes a state of the rotating machine when the vibration detection data is acquired.
US12056962B2
A vehicle cargo utilization control system includes a processor disposed in a vehicle controller and a memory for storing executable instructions. The processor is programmed to execute the instructions to receive identity information associated with a vehicle user from a mobile device and vehicle sensory devices, and determine identity of the vehicle user. The system receives receive anthropometry information, and entry and exit data associated with the vehicle user that can indicate mobility limitations or special uses of the vehicle cargo hold that have been observed and recorded by the system. The processor may determine a vehicle recommendation based on the identity of the vehicle user and the anthropometry information, and cause a vehicle configuration change that modifies a vehicle system based on the unique user identity, mobility limitations, and predicted use of the vehicle.
US12056959B2
A device and method for displaying the arrival time of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, are provided. The device includes: at least one display device which is designed to show a display, in particular a time display; a detection device which is designed to detect a parked position of the vehicle and/or that the vehicle has stopped, and output corresponding signals; and a computing unit which is communicatively connected to the detection device and the display device and which is designed to output the display on the display device while taking into consideration the signals.
US12056954B2
Technologies are provided herein for determining if a face image is of sufficient quality for facial recognition processing. An image that contains a face image is received and analyzed to identify facial features of the face image. Distances between the facial features are determined and dimensions of regions for the facial features are calculated based on those distances. A plurality of regions in the face image are defined based on the calculated dimensions. A combined pixel contrast quality of the face image is then calculated based on a combination of separate pixel contrast qualities for the plurality of regions. The face image is determined to be of sufficient quality for facial recognition processing in response to the combined pixel contrast quality satisfying one or more criteria.
US12056951B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for estimating the shape, size, and mass of fish are described. A pair of stereo cameras may be utilized to obtain right and left images of fish in a defined area. The right and left images may be processed, enhanced, and combined. Object detection may be used to detect and track a fish in images. A pose estimator may be used to determine key points and features of the detected fish. Based on the key points, a three-dimensional (3-D) model of the fish is generated that provides an estimate of the size and shape of the fish. A regression model or neural network model can be applied to the 3-D model to determine a likely weight of the fish.
US12056950B2
The invention discloses a Transformer-based multi-scale pedestrian re-identification method. The present invention proposes a pedestrian re-identification network based on multi-scale pedestrian feature extraction and Transformer. Firstly, we designed a multi-scale feature cascade module, which aims to mine detailed feature information of pedestrians at different depths and scales, so as to obtain stronger feature representation. Secondly, we constructed a feature extraction based on Transformer to learn pedestrian features at a global scale. Finally, the features output by the Transformer are aggregated to obtain a better expression of pedestrian features, thereby improving the discrimination ability of the model. The result shows that this method has better robustness and adaptive ability, and effectively enhances the generalization ability of the model.
US12056947B2
A document management system utilizes document models for querying, validating, and customizing electronic agreement documents. Document models can be a data structure including document attributes that represent an agreement document. Examples of document attributes include customizable data values, conditions related to the operation of the agreement document and satisfiable by certain values of the customized data values, and rendering parameters for the appearance of the electronic agreement document. The document management system enables a user to create custom document models for generating electronic agreement documents that can be queried, validated, and customized through querying, validating, and customizing the corresponding document models.
US12056938B2
This disclosure provides a parking space identification method, a parking space identification apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device, and relates to the field of smart transportation technology. The method includes: obtaining an around-view image of a target vehicle and determining a target region from the around-view image; segmenting the target region in a target direction to obtain multiple grids, where the target direction is perpendicular to a driving direction of the target vehicle; and determining a parking space based on image semanteme information corresponding to the multiple grids separately.
US12056927B2
A distributed systems and methods for generating composite media including receiving a media context that defines media that is to be generated, the media context including: a definition of a sequence of media segment specifications and, an identification of a set of remote devices. For each media segment specification, a reference segment may be generated and transmitted to at least one remote device. A media segment may be received from each of the remote device, the media segment having been recorded by a camera. Verified media sequences may replace the corresponding reference segment. The media segments may be aggregated and an updated sequence of media segments may be defined. An instance of the media context that includes a subset of the updated sequence of media segments may then be generated.
US12056926B2
A method for controlling video processing. A stream of images emanating from an image sensor is received. The contents of an image in the stream is evaluated. A part of the image stream, which part is antecedent the image being evaluated, is forwarded to a video encoder. Until the evaluation is complete, one or more empty frames are added at the end of an encoded image stream corresponding to the forwarded image stream.
US12056913B2
A test and measurement device is described that has an input for receiving a selected image, a display output, and one or more processors configured to receive a maximum and minimum luminance value related to the selected image, and generate a chromaticity diagram of the image on the display output for only those pixels in the selected image that have luminance values between the maximum and minimum luminance values. The device may also generate a modified image from the selected image in which pixels from the selected image that fall within the maximum and minimum luminance value are reproduced in the modified image without modification and other pixels not within the maximum and minimum luminance value are modified. Methods are also described.
US12056906B2
Embodiments are generally directed to compression in machine learning and deep learning processing. An embodiment of an apparatus for compression of untyped data includes a graphical processing unit (GPU) including a data compression pipeline, the data compression pipeline including a data port coupled with one or more shader cores, wherein the data port is to allow transfer of untyped data without format conversion, and a 3D compression/decompression unit to provide for compression of untyped data to be stored to a memory subsystem and decompression of untyped data from the memory subsystem.
US12056905B1
Disclosed is a system and associated methods for compressing data in a three-dimensional (“3D”) model. The system receives the constructs that form different shapes of a 3D object represented by the 3D model. The system selects a set of the constructs based on the set of constructs forming a particular shape that is compressible with a function. The system defines the function that generates an approximate shape for the particular shape formed by the set of constructs, and compresses the 3D model by replacing the set of constructs with the function. The system may tune the function so that the approximate shape matches the particular shape with more specificity, may define a noise pattern that approximates and applies the non-uniformity of the particular shape to the approximate shape, and may define a gradient pattern that approximates and applies the coloring of the set of constructs to the approximate shape.
US12056899B2
Methods and/or apparatus provide for obtaining intrinsics and extrinsics of a plurality of cameras arranged to capture a scene and based thereon, generate a voxel representation of the scene; obtaining extrinsics and intrinsics of a virtual camera; mapping the extrinsics and intrinsics of the virtual camera to at least one voxel surface defined in a data structure and to identify at least one camera pair suitable for obtaining depth data for that voxel surface based on the corresponding camera pair identifier; and receiving an input from the mapping unit, and in response obtaining images captured by the cameras in the at least one camera pair identified as being suitable for reconstructing the scene from the viewpoint of the virtual camera, and to generate an image of the scene from the viewpoint of the virtual camera based on the obtained images.
US12056892B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for IoT. The disclosure 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. An image processing method and apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium, which belong to image processing field are provided. The method and apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium include segmenting an image to be processed to obtain a target region in the image to be processed, and performing style transfer on the target region. The solution provided may effectively improve effects of image processing, and better meet requirements of practical application.
US12056887B2
Methods and systems for unsupervised depth estimation for fisheye cameras using spatial-temporal (and, optionally, modal) consistency. This unsupervised depth estimation works directly on raw, distorted stereo fisheye images, such as those obtained from the four fisheye camera disposed around a vehicle in rigid alignment. Temporal consistency involves training a depth estimation model using a sequence of frames as input, while spatial consistency involves training the depth estimation model using overlapping images from synchronized stereo camera pairs. Images from different stereo camera pairs can also be used at different times. Modal consistency, when applied, dictates that different sensor types (e.g., camera, lidar, etc.) must also agree. The methods and systems of the present disclosure utilize a fisheye camera projection model that projects a disparity map into a point cloud map, which aides in the rectification of stereo pairs.
US12056886B2
Systems and methods for depth estimation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for estimating depth from images. The method includes steps for receiving a plurality of source images captured from a plurality of different viewpoints using a processing system configured by an image processing application, generating a target image from a target viewpoint that is different to the viewpoints of the plurality of source images based upon a set of generative model parameters using the processing system configured by the image processing application, and identifying depth information of at least one output image based on the predicted target image using the processing system configured by the image processing application.
US12056877B2
A device receives a two-dimensional (2-D) image that depicts a cross-sectional view of a macula comprised of layers and boundaries to segment the layers, and determines spatial coordinates of the 2-D image that include x-coordinates and y-coordinates. The device uses a data model, that has been trained using a deep learning technique, to process the 2-D image and the spatial coordinates to generate boundary maps that indicate likelihoods of voxels of the 2-D image being in positions that are part of particular boundaries. The device determines, by analyzing the boundary maps, an initial set of boundary positions, and determines a final set of boundary positions by using a topological order identification technique to refine the initial set of boundary positions. The device determines the thickness levels of the layers of the macula based on the final set of boundary positions, and performs one or more actions based on the thickness levels.
US12056861B2
The present invention provides an image processing circuit and associated image processing method. In the image processing circuit, a characteristic value calculation circuit is designed to calculate the plurality of characteristic values of consecutive-three-pixels with increasing/decreasing brightness, the plurality of left-side characteristic values of consecutive-three-pixels with increasing/decreasing brightness and the plurality of right-side characteristic values of consecutive-three-pixels with increasing/decreasing brightness, for the brightness adjustments. The adjusted brightness values of the present invention have sharper edges to improve the image quality.
US12056850B2
An image processing device includes at least one processor configured to acquire target data as an image processing target and a designated parameter designated by a user to receive a request for image processing from the user, extract, from a storage unit in which subjects of processed image data previously subjected to the image processing and applied parameters applied to the processed image data are accumulated in association with each other, the applied parameter applied to the processed image data having a subject similar to the target data, derive a use frequency of the designated parameter among the extracted applied parameters based on parameter values of the extracted applied parameters, and output the use frequency of the designated parameter.
US12056832B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a person wearing a fashion item; generating a segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person depicted in the video; applying one or more augmented reality elements to the fashion item worn by the person based on the segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person; detecting a gesture performed by the person in the video; and modifying the one or more augmented reality elements that have been applied to the fashion item worn by the person based on the gesture performed by the person.
US12056829B2
A method of registering geological data at a formation core tracking system includes, at the tracking system, registering a formation core provided within a field of view of an optical imaging system of the tracking system; tracking the orientation of the formation core relative to the tracking system and the distance of the formation core relative to the tracking system; obtaining data associated with a first section of the formation core which is located at a predetermined distance from the tracking system, displaying the data together with an image of the formation core such that an augmented reality image is provided on a display device of the tracking system, changing the distance between the tracking system and the core; and updating the displayed data by obtaining data associated with a second section of the formation core which is located at said predetermined distance from the tracking system.
US12056820B2
A 3D scanning toolkit to perform operations that include: accessing a first data stream at a client device, wherein the first data stream comprises at least image data; applying a bit mask to the first data stream, the bit mask identifying a portion of the image data; accessing a second data stream at the client device, the second data stream comprising depth data associated with the portion of the image data; generating a point cloud based on the depth data, the point cloud comprising a set of data points that define surface features of an object depicted in the first data stream; and causing display of a visualization of the point cloud upon a presentation of the first data stream at the client device.
US12056819B2
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or CPU. The apparatus may configure a BVH structure including a plurality of nodes, the BVH structure being associated with geometry data for a plurality of primitives in a scene. The apparatus may also detect a set of child nodes for a current node of the plurality of nodes. Further, the apparatus may identify a first child node of the set of child nodes based on a node ID of the first child node. The apparatus may also calculate an offset between the node ID of the first child node and a node ID of each of the remaining child nodes in the set of child nodes. The apparatus may also store a representation of the node ID of each of the set of child nodes based on the calculated offset.
US12056817B2
A plurality of images is obtained, whether as separate images or part of a video. The plurality of images is used to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of the imagery. The 3D model is registered to a geographic coordinate system as a first registered 3D model. The first registered 3D model is merged with a second registered 3D model to generate a merged 3D model. A request including a value corresponding to a location within the geographic coordinate system that includes at least a portion of the merged 3D model is received from a client device. A message identifying at least a subset of points in the portion of the merged 3D model is sent to the client device, each point in the subset having a three-dimensional coordinate.
US12056812B2
A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
US12056801B2
A method of coloring a target image includes generating at least one target mask including a part of the target image by using a first artificial neural network, which has been trained; generating at least one reference mask that corresponds to the at least one target mask and includes at least part of a reference image, by using the first artificial neural network; generating at least one colored target mask by coloring the at least one target mask in reference to the color of the at least one reference mask; and generating a colored target image from the target image, the at least one target mask, and the at least one colored target mask by using a second artificial neural network, which has been trained.
US12056793B2
Example methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for processing images by using a convolutional neural network (CNN) are described herein. In one example, an original image is received from an image source. The original image has a predefined size and high resolution, and is represented in a first color space supported by the image source. Then, an intermediate image is obtained by downscaling the original image in the first color space, and converted from the first color space to a second color space. Next, a restored image is obtained by upscaling the converted intermediate image to the predefined size of the original image. Upscaling is performed by using the CNN on the original image and the converted intermediate image as inputs and return the restored image. The CNN is pre-trained on a set of triplets, comprising a past original image, a converted past intermediate image and a past restored image.
US12056791B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately, efficiently, and flexibly generating image layers and determining layer labels utilizing a machine learning approach. For example, the disclosed systems utilize an image segmentation machine learning model to segment the digital image and identify individual objects depicted within the digital image. Additionally, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine object classifications for the depicted objects by utilizing an object classification machine learning model. In some cases, the disclosed systems further generate image layers for the digital image by generating a separate layer for each identified object (or for groups of similar objects). In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems also determine layer labels for the image layers according to the object classifications of the respective objects depicted in each of the image layers.
US12056780B2
A neural network trainer trains neural networks to estimate secondary data at locations throughout a geological formation where secondary data is unknown. The neural networks are trained to estimate secondary data using locations in the geological formation as input. Subsequently, the secondary data is deleted from memory using the trained neural network as a proxy representation to reduce memory footprint and allow for estimation of secondary data at locations where it is unknown.
US12056776B2
Methods and systems for assembling and monitoring remote students in an online academic environment are provided, the monitoring including an electronic proctor that determines whether meeting criteria are met. The method includes a use of the system to filter a subpopulation from a population stored in a database, the population including students in the self-paced, online environment. The subpopulation can be selected to meet a first set of criteria for a grouping of students for a group interaction. Additional criteria can be added to provide control over the selection of students for the subpopulation and, thus, control over the design of groups to provide a desired group profile for the group interaction. The methods and systems provided can align and group students of the self-paced, online environment for a group interaction, as well as electronically proctor and otherwise monitor and control the interaction.
US12056771B1
A method and apparatus for performing automated underwriting based on document images are described. The method may include receiving a document image corresponding to a form and data contained within the form for which an underwriting decision is to be rendered. The method may also include performing a first machine learning based analysis of the document image by extracting one or more keys and one or more values corresponding to the keys from the document image using a first machine learning model trained to digitize the form from the document image. The method may also include performing a second machine learning based analysis using the one or more keys and one or more values corresponding to keys as an input into a second machine learning model trained to make the decision based on key, value pairs. Furthermore, the method may include transmitting, to an organization system, a user interface generated using the decision and a confidence of the decision determined from the second machine learning based analysis.
US12056770B2
An investment manager engine automatically manages an investment fund. During an accumulation phase, the investment manager receives messages that include contributions to the investment fund. For each contribution, the investment manager determines an allocation of the contribution among securities and guaranteed income assets. The investment manager allocates at least a portion of the contribution to guaranteed income assets, according to the determined allocation. The guaranteed income assets provide a guaranteed annual income stream upon a predetermined date.
US12056758B2
Items are identified from one or more catalogues and images of the items are obtained. A dynamically rendered Virtual Reality (VR) store is constructed from the images and from images of objects/structures associated with a store. The item images that populate the VR store can be customized to a given customer and/or a given store. A VR session is established with a customer within the VR store, the item images can be selected, examined, and purchased during the session by the customer as the customer navigates through the VR store. Specialized rooms during the VR session allow the customer to interact in real time with other customers shopping via other VR sessions. The customer and other customers are rendered as avatars within the specialized room. A designated avatar or automated chatbot provides automated and real time assistance to the customer during the VR session.
US12056757B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for enhancing a user's on-line experience by utilizing a computer-implemented on-line session trace system is provided. The on-line session trace system is provided in connection with an on-line trading platform. The on-line session trace system records and stores a state of an on-line session associated with a user identification and permits a user associated with the user identification to commence a further on-line session from a state corresponding to the saved state of a previous on-line session.
US12056753B2
A system functions to recommend equipment expansions, additions and/or substitutions; interconnections; supplemental capabilities; features; etc. based upon a knowledge of a consumer's existing audio and/or visual system configuration.
US12056750B2
Various embodiments improve existing technologies by generating one or more user interface elements or personalized pages based on determining that a set of inventory items are within a geographical vicinity (e.g., a threshold distance) of a user. In response to a determination that a particular item is within a geographical vicinity of a user, some embodiments cause display of a page (e.g., a personalized page) that identifies item and/or other information, such as an identity and address of the local retailers that offer the item for sale. Such functionality can be integrated with additional functionality, such as electronic marketplace searches and item listings, and local delivery service requests, among other things.
US12056745B2
A data processing system for machine-learning driven data analysis and reminders implements obtaining an electronic copy of demographic information and an electronic copy of insurance and benefits information associated with a user; providing the demographic information and the insurance and benefits information to a first machine learning model; analyzing the demographic information and the insurance and benefits information with the first machine learning model to output a first benefits utilization prediction that the one or more benefits are available to the user; providing the first benefits utilization prediction as an input to a recommendation engine; generating, using the recommendation engine, a benefits usage summary recommendation report that presents the information regarding the one or more benefits available to the user based on the first benefits utilization prediction; and causing a user interface of a display of a computing device to present the benefits usage summary recommendation report.
US12056743B2
The specification discloses image and data processing methods and apparatuses. The method includes: obtaining a source pose and texture information according to a source image; obtaining a first synthetic image according to the source image, a target pose, and the source pose; obtaining a residual map according to the texture information and the first synthetic image; and obtaining a second synthetic image according to the first synthetic image and the residual map. The specification resolves the technical problem of lacking a sense of reality in a synthetic image due to loss of texture details in feature extraction during character action transfer in the existing technologies.
US12056741B1
Described is a system for the placement of digital content items on a digital content item space for a point of care (POC) facility by identifying a display interface for a point of care (POC) facility, the display interface including a digital content item space to display a digital content item, identifying one or more digital content item providers for the digital content item space; accessing a selection of the one or more digital content item providers, and identifying a set of digital content item providers for the digital content item space based on the selection. The system then causes display of the digital content item on the display interface based on the identified set of digital content item providers.
US12056740B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for adaptively generating an electronic bid value for a tail digital content object.
US12056738B2
Techniques described herein provide for a live advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. The live advertising processing engine service can further track where, in playback the live content, a client currently is, to indicate to the client—or other application—when advertisement breaks are and/or provide supplemental advertisement information to enable the client to provide a rich user experience.
US12056735B2
Methods and systems of providing alternative advert (AA) query items for an AA system are disclosed. A request is received to generate an AA query. In response to the request, it is determined whether a percentage of scoreable AA query items for which a viewer has a known or derived preference exceeds a threshold value. Each scoreable AA query item has an assigned equity score and an assigned viewer-item affinity score. In response to determining that the percentage of scoreable AA query items exceeds the threshold value, one or more first AA query types are determined to create for the viewer. The requested AA query is sent. A response to the sent AA query is received. Equity scores and viewer-item affinity scores of total scoreable AA query items are updated based on the response.
US12056732B2
There are provided systems and methods for the location-based secured transfer of a service associated with a loyalty point between mobile devices. A first mobile device submits a services request to a central system, the request identifying a service and inclusive of the position (geographical location) of the first mobile device. The central system identifies service providers capable of fulfilling the request and account owners having sufficient loyalty points to fulfill the request that are in proximity to the first mobile device. Secure communications between the first mobile device and a second mobile device enable negotiations. The central system guides the first mobile device and the second mobile device to a predetermined location to enable secure communication of transaction information, payment information, personal information (needed to procure services), etc. The central system verifies the transaction, ensuring both the first and second mobile devices fulfill the agreed upon terms.
US12056731B1
Techniques described herein include techniques for communicating information about the social behavior of users and transactions performed by users on a computer network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving information about identity disclosure activities performed by each of a plurality of users on the network; determining that the information about identity disclosure activities includes information consistent with a prior identity disclosure activity performed by a first user having a first user status on the network; increasing the first user status; determining that the information about identity disclosure activities includes information that is not consistent with a prior identity disclosure activity performed by a second user having a second user status on the network; and decreasing the second user status.
US12056722B1
Method, system, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for data management. In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes: collecting a plurality of personal data sets continually; collecting a plurality of sensor data sets continually via one or more sensing modules; generating and continually updating an operator profile including the personal data set associated with the vehicle operator; determining and continually updating one or more relative telematics inferences based at least in part upon the sensor data set associated with the vehicle operator, the one or more relative telematics inferences being indicative of the vehicle operator's desirability relative to one or more groups of similar vehicle operators sharing at least one common operator characteristic; generating and continually updating a data profile including the one or more relative telematics inferences associated with the vehicle operator; and listing and continually updating the data profile onto a telematics marketplace.
US12056717B2
Systems and methods for triggering a virtual certification number (VCN) generation for use at a source include receiving a VCN generation request from an external entity, the VCN generation request comprising an external request code, external risk signals, and one or more source data for the source, verifying a registration authentication of an account associated with the external request code by comparing the external request code to a database entry, identifying a certification mechanism reference identifier associated with the external request code based on verifying the registration authentication, generating a risk authentication based on a risk analysis conducted using the external risk signals and the external request code, identifying a source identifier based on the one or more source data, and generating the VCN based on the certification mechanism reference identifier and the source identifier.
US12056712B2
A system for detecting fraud within a payment card network includes a memory storing historical transaction data and a processor configured to identify a set of historical transaction data, the set of historical transaction data include one or more test transactions labeled as having been used to test validity of an underlying account, train a model using the identified set of historical transaction data as labeled training data, the model is configured to accept transaction data associated with an input transaction and to classify the input transaction as a test transaction, apply a suspect transaction of a cardholder account as the input transaction to the model, the model generates an indication that the suspect transaction is a test transaction, mark the cardholder account as compromised based on having experienced test transaction activity, and reject a pending transaction based on the cardholder account being marked as compromised.
US12056711B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for preventing payments to unintended beneficiaries. A service provider system may receive, from a user device of a user, a payment request to transfer funds from a source account to an identified destination account. A beneficiary system may be identified, and a validation request (e.g., an API call) may be transmitted to the beneficiary system. The service provider system may receive from the beneficiary system a transmission indicating whether the destination account is associated with the recipient identified in the payment request. The user may be alerted if the account number for the destination account is not validated.
US12056699B2
Child/family support payments are made on a multilayered consortium ledger network using blockchain, IoT, and other technologies to expedite the process and disbursement of child/family support payments. The multilayered consortium ledger network may cater to local and/or global child support agencies and/or local and global Parties/Parents/family members who elect to send child/family support payments to their family(ies) outside the traditional child support agencies/district attorney offices. The plurality of technologies used support payments made/received using, but not limited to, domestic/foreign fiat, cryptocurrency, tokens, an/or native tokens.
US12056671B2
A method for calculating an index that provides insight as to the state and condition of industrial equipment, allowing for timely maintenance and better longevity, as well as more reliability as to its functioning.
US12056669B2
A maintenance method for servicing a component includes generating, via an electronic control unit, a digital model of the component, detecting, via the electronic control unit, a defect of the component, classifying, via the electronic control unit, the defect as a defect type, and evaluating the defect to determine, according to the defect type, whether to repair the defect or to replace a section of the component containing the defect. A maintenance system for servicing components may include a scanner and an ECU configured to create a digital model of a component, detect a defect of the component from the digital model and/or three-dimensional data of the component, classify the defect as a defect type of a plurality of defect types, and/or evaluate the defect according to the defect type.
US12056653B1
Devices and methods for detecting an end of trip by an asset tracker are described. An end of trip may be detected using a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) module or an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), such as a three-axis accelerometer. In some implementations, the asset tracker uses the IMU for end of trip detection. In other implementations, the asset tracker uses the IMU for impact detection while using the GNSS module for end of trip detection.
US12056649B2
A computerized-method for recommending activities for an agent, in a contact center is provided herein. The computerized-method includes operating an activities-recommendation module, for agents in a contact center, during a work-shift of an agent. The operating of the activities-recommendation module includes: (i) operating a machine-learning-model to calculate a motivation-score; (ii) associating a preconfigured score-range for the calculated motivation score; (iii) collecting activities which were preassigned to the preconfigured score-range; (iv) retrieving one or more predetermined agent favorite activities; (v) retrieving one or more agent history activities, which were previously selected by the agent; (vi) calculating an activity-occurrence score for each activity of the collected activities, which were preassigned to the preconfigured score-range, by adding the: (a) motivation-score; (b) the one or more predetermined agent favorite activities; and (c) the one or more agent history activities; and (vii) displaying a rated list of recommended activities, according to the calculated activity-occurrence score.
US12056638B2
Disclosed is system and method for allocating vehicles to ride requests. A ride request comprising information indicative of a pickup location and a drop location of a given ride is received. Vehicle information of a plurality of currently-available vehicles, driver information of respective drivers of the plurality of currently-available vehicles and fuel-station information of the one or more of the plurality of fuel stations is accessed. A distance to empty for each of the plurality of currently-available vehicles is predicted based on the vehicle information. One or more eligible vehicles that satisfy eligibility criteria are selected from amongst the plurality of currently-available vehicles. A vehicle from amongst the one or more eligible vehicles that is nearest to the pickup location is allocated.
US12056636B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for platform work order linkage processing based on a smart gas operation. The method includes: extracting work order features of work orders to be assigned, and the work order features including at least one of a gas failure type, a gas failure repairing difficulty, a gas failure location, a gas failure repairing material requirement, a work order urgency level, or a required work order completion time; determining at least one linked work order set based on the work order features, wherein the linked work order set includes at least one work order to be assigned; extracting a set feature of each linked work order set in the at least one linked work order set; and determining an assignment scheme of the linked work order set and planning a linkage processing scheme.
US12056630B1
Systems and methods are directed to managing reservation modifications using machine-learning analysis. The system trains a modification probability model to determine probabilities for modification option acceptance. The system performs machine learning analysis by applying attributes associated with an item to the modification probability model to generate modification recommendations. Modification options are established for the item based on the modification recommendations. Subsequently, in response to a modification request from a customer, a modification user interface is provided to the customer using the modification options. The modification user interface includes blocked off time periods that cannot be selected and available time periods for modification along with a fee associated with each available time period. If an alternative start time or end time (e.g., an available time period) is selected, the system processes the selection and provides a confirmation to the customer.
US12056625B2
A method comprises collecting data from a computing environment comprising one or more storage devices, wherein the data comprises information identifying assignments of the one or more storage devices to one or more servers in the computing environment. In the method, the data is analyzed using one or more machine learning algorithms, wherein the analyzing comprises predicting whether a given configuration of the one or more storage devices in combination with the one or more servers is a specified configuration. The method also includes generating a storage configuration recommendation for a user based on the analysis, and transmitting the storage configuration recommendation to the user.
US12056621B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to evaluating and identifying optimal features to address and improve automation patching success. An embodiment of the present invention compares machine leaning algorithms and their accuracy in predicting the outcome of upcoming scheduled maintenance activities. Understanding that predicted outcome and the path that is generated to reach that outcome, the features that predispose an asset into a failure state can be addressed preemptively.
US12056615B2
A method for generating a convolutional neural network to operate on a spherical manifold, generates locally-defined gauges at multiple positions on the spherical manifold. A convolution is defined at each of the positions on the spherical manifold with respect to an arbitrarily selected locally-defined gauge. The results of the convolution that is defined at each position based on gauge equivariance is translated to obtain a manifold convolution.
US12056610B2
A learning mechanism with partially-labeled web images is provided while correcting the noise labels during the learning. Specifically, the mechanism employs a momentum prototype that represents common characteristics of a specific class. One training objective is to minimize the difference between the normalized embedding of a training image sample and the momentum prototype of the corresponding class. Meanwhile, during the training process, the momentum prototype is used to generate a pseudo label for the training image sample, which can then be used to identify and remove out of distribution (OOD) samples to correct the noisy labels from the original partially-labeled training images. The momentum prototype for each class is in turn constantly updated based on the embeddings of new training samples and their pseudo labels.
US12056604B2
Layers of a deep neural network (DNN) are partitioned into stages using a profile of the DNN. Each of the stages includes one or more of the layers of the DNN. The partitioning of the layers of the DNN into stages is optimized in various ways including optimizing the partitioning to minimize training time, to minimize data communication between worker computing devices used to train the DNN, or to ensure that the worker computing devices perform an approximately equal amount of the processing for training the DNN. The stages are assigned to the worker computing devices. The worker computing devices process batches of training data using a scheduling policy that causes the workers to alternate between forward processing of the batches of the DNN training data and backward processing of the batches of the DNN training data. The stages can be configured for model parallel processing or data parallel processing.
US12056587B2
A method for automated machine learning includes controlling execution of a plurality of instantiations of different automated machine learning frameworks on a machine learning task each as a separate arm in consideration of available computational resources and time budget. During the execution by the separate arms, a plurality of machine learning models are trained and performance scores of the plurality of trained machine learning models are computed such that one or more of the plurality of trained machine learning models are selectable for the machine learning task based on the performance scores. This invention can be used for predicting patient discharge, predictive control in buildings for energy optimization, and so on.
US12056584B2
An online machine learning model such as an autonomous agent predicts an action. A processor associated with, or running, the online machine learning model observes an environment for an interval of time for a real reward associated with the action. Responsive to determining that the real reward is not received within the interval of time, the processor determines based on a criterion whether to allocate an immediate reward received within the interval of time to the online machine learning model, where the immediate reward is an approximation of the real reward. Responsive to determining that the immediate reward is to be allocated, the processor allocates the immediate reward to the online machine learning model. The online machine learning model further learns or retrains itself based on the immediate reward.
US12056581B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for training of an action determining component of a computer character. In some implementations, actions are taken by the character in a 3D environment according to an action determining component of the character, where the character is rewarded or penalized for interactions associated with an object/concept in the 3D environment according to an assigned object/concept reward or penalty. In some implementations, the reward or the penalty assigned to the object/concept is modified, and the character is then rewarded or penalized for interactions associated with the object/concept according to the modified reward or the modified penalty. The action determining component of the character is trained using a reinforcement learning technique that accounts for rewards or penalties obtained by virtual character for interactions associated with the object/concept.
US12056576B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for operating a system of qubits. In one aspect, a method includes operating a first qubit from a first plurality of qubits at a first qubit frequency from a first qubit frequency region, and operating a second qubit from the first plurality of qubits at a second qubit frequency from a second first qubit frequency region, the second qubit frequency and the second first qubit frequency region being different to the first qubit frequency and the first qubit frequency region, respectively, wherein the second qubit is diagonal to the first qubit in a two-dimensional grid of qubits.
US12056568B2
A transparent substrate that encodes data therein having optically readable identification indicia corresponding to identifying information regarding the substrate. The optically readable identification indicia may be readable from the transparent substrate by altering the reflectivity of the transparent substrate in indicia portions that may be read by a scanner or reader (e.g., a barcode reader). The optically readable identification indicia may be provided on a common surface with a data zone in which data is encoded in the transparent substrate. Alternatively or additionally, the optically readable identification indicia may be provided on another, different surface than the surface on which the data is encoded in a data zone.
US12056556B2
An image forming device capable of reducing resources related to destruction of a wireless tag is provided. The image forming device according to the present embodiment includes a reader and writer, a fixing unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The reader and writer reads information from the wireless tag. The fixing unit heats and conveys a sheet having the wireless tag. The determination unit determines a defect of the wireless tag based on a reading result of the reader and writer. If the determination unit determines that the wireless tag is defective, the control unit controls the fixing unit to increase an amount of heat applied to the wireless tag such that information cannot be read from the wireless tag.
US12056551B2
A display system includes a plurality of tags and a detection device. Each tag of the plurality of tags stores an identification code for identifying that tag, generates electric power upon receiving light that contains identification information to be compared with the identification code, and emits light using the electric power of that tag when the identification information contained in the received light matches the identification code. The detection device generates image data in accordance with an input of the identification information on a selected article, projects scanning light containing identification information on the position of the tag extracted from the generated image data, and, when emitted light from any of the plurality of tags is detected from the image data acquired during a period in which the scanning light is projected, projects marking light within a range attached with the tag that has emitted light.
US12056550B2
Various implementations include an optically readable coded device. The device includes a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite and spaced apart from the first surface, wherein the second surface defines a cavity. The cavity has a cavity interior surface spaced apart from the second surface. The first surface defines one or more code openings extending from the first surface to the cavity interior surface and in fluid communication with the cavity. The cavity has a cavity cross-sectional area in a plane parallel to the first surface, and the code openings have a code opening total cross-sectional area at the intersection of each code opening and the cavity interior surface. The cavity cross-sectional area is larger than the code opening total cross-sectional area. The code openings define an optically readable code on the first surface.
US12056549B1
A system includes a first device to select and transmit a first code by a transmitter to a remote device controlling a mechanism or access to a database or a computing device. The remote device implements a switching device based on the first code; the transmitter in the first device generates a first sequence of signals based on the first code; the switching device in the remote device processes the first sequence of signals and activates the mechanism based on the processing of the first sequence of signals. The first device may be a smartphone, a fob, an access card, or any other computing device.
US12056548B2
In some implementations, a transaction card includes a card body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and the card body may be in a configuration that defines a storage area for a physical key. The transaction card may include at least one of an integrated circuit chip or a magnetic stripe accessible from at least one of the first surface or the second surface of the card body. The transaction card may include a connecting element to connect the physical key to the card body. The connecting element may be configured to enable movement of the physical key between a storage position, in which at least a portion of the physical key occupies the storage area, and a use position, in which at least a portion of the physical key is outside of the storage area.
US12056547B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a quick response QR code and a printing apparatus, a method for generating a quick response (QR) code, comprising obtaining an original image of the QR code, wherein the original image of the QR code is a bitmap image and is a color image or a grayscale image; obtaining information contained in the QR code; and generating a monochrome image of the QR code based on the information.
US12056545B2
A printing system includes an offline estimation device that provides estimates for ink or toner use for a print job at a target printing device. The offline estimation device retrieves digital front end (DFE) version information, configuration setting information, and color printing resources from the target printing device. Using the DFE version information, the offline estimation device selects a raster image processor (RIP) from a plurality of RIPs of software versions available within the printing system. The offline estimation device configures the RIP with configuration settings of the configuration setting information. The color printing resources also are pushed to the RIP. The offline estimation device provides the ink or toner use estimate using the configured RIP.
US12056542B2
A computer-implemented method of providing unified event monitoring and log processing is disclosed. The method comprises receiving streaming event data comprising a plurality of event entries from a plurality of domains including a cloud manager for a cloud platform and an application running within a container on the cloud platform; processing the streaming event data into a normalized, domain-independent format; evaluating a plurality of policy rules on the streaming event data, wherein the plurality of policy rules is defined with a unified syntax; and in response to the evaluating satisfying a condition of a first rule of the plurality of policy rules, transmitting to a remote device data related to an action defined in the first rule, wherein the receiving, processing, evaluating, and transmitting for each event entry for the plurality of event entries are performed in real time.
US12056539B2
A data processing system comprising a plurality of processing nodes that are arranged to update a model in a parallel manner Each of the processing nodes starts with a different set of updates to model parameters. Each of the processing nodes is configured to perform one or more reduce-scatter collectives so as to exchange and reduce the updates. Having done so, each processing node is configured to apply the reduced set of updates to obtain an updated set of model parameters. The processing nodes then exchange the updated model parameters using an all-gather so that each processing node ends up with the same model parameters at the end of the process.
US12056531B2
A method and apparatus for accelerating a convolutional neural network. The method comprises: splitting, according to rows, a weight matrix of a convolutional layer into a plurality of weight segments, and respectively caching the plurality of weight segments to a plurality of calculation units in a calculation unit array (step 301); reading a plurality of input data streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of weight segments, and inputting the plurality of input data streams in parallel into the plurality of calculation units (step 302), wherein the input data streams are formed by means of splicing a plurality of rows of data in an input feature map of the convolutional layer; and within each calculation unit, performing a sliding window operation and a multiply-accumulate computation on the input data streams on the basis of the cached weight segments, so as to obtain an output feature map of the convolutional layer (step 303). By means of the method, data that enters each row of calculation units is continuously read according to the whole row of data, and does not need to be read in a cross-row or cross-column manner, such that a special design is not needed for the arrangement of a memory, convolutions of different sizes are supported, and the function of Im2col does not need to be realized, thereby reducing the complexity.
US12056530B2
A dilated convolution acceleration calculation method and apparatus. The method comprises: decomposing a dilated convolution computation of R×S into S sub-dilated convolution computations of R×1 (301); for each sub-dilated convolution computation, caching a plurality of weight values in parallel to a plurality of calculation units in a calculation unit array (302); determining, from input image data, a plurality of input data streams respectively corresponding to the plurality of weight values, and inputting the plurality of input data streams in parallel into the plurality of calculation units (303); within the plurality of calculation units, executing a sliding window operation and a multiplication operation on the basis of the cached weight values and the input data streams, and executing an accumulation operation between the plurality of calculation units, so as to output an intermediate result of the sub-dilated convolution computation (304); and superimposing intermediate results of the S sub-dilated convolution computations of R×1, so as to obtain a convolution result of the dilated convolution computation (305). By using the method, a dilated convolution operation is accelerated with a relatively low complexity, and the function of Im2col does not need to be separately realized, thereby reducing the complexity.
US12056527B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to register one or more applications to receive resource state change invocation calls from one or more assets of an information technology infrastructure, to detect resource state changes for the one or more assets of the information technology infrastructure, and to provide, from a given one of the one or more assets of the information technology infrastructure to a given one of the one or more applications, a given resource state change invocation call responsive to detecting one or more resource state changes for the given asset. The processing device is also configured to receive, from the given application, an instruction to initiate one or more reactive actions based at least in part on the detected one or more resource state changes for the given asset, and to apply at least one of the one or more reactive actions to the given asset.
US12056526B2
A system for reference-aware application recreation in a container deployment environment is presented. The system includes a reference detection module configured to detect and store one or more reference paths corresponding to each resource type of a plurality of resources in the container deployment environment; a resource ordering module configured to generate a recreation sequence by ordering the plurality of resources based on corresponding references at the reference paths, such that a referenced resource is recreated before the referring resource; and an application recreation module configured to recreate an application based on the recreation sequence. A related method is also presented.
US12056518B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a reset signal from a host computer system in communication with the memory system; identify, by decoding the reset signal, a host event specified by the reset signal; and process the identified host event.
US12056517B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for controlling thereof. According to an embodiment, a method for controlling an electronic apparatus includes: obtaining a voice command while a first application is executed in foreground; obtaining a text by recognizing the voice command; identifying at least one second application to perform the voice command based on the text; based on information of the first application and the at least one second application; identify whether to execute each of the first application and the at least one second application in the foreground or background of the electronic apparatus; and providing the first application and the at least one second application based on the identification.
US12056512B2
A system comprising a hosting service configured to perform: providing, to a trusted entity on a central processing unit, a command for a launch of a virtual machine (VM); assigning, to the VM, at least a portion of memory for the guest operating system; submitting, to the trusted entity, a request to measure an address space of the VM to provide a measurement digest of the address space of the guest operating system; including, in a configuration object, a policy provided by the user for the service logic, wherein the policy defines one or more rules for the service logic, wherein the one or more rules include at least one rule for which containers may run in the guest operating system; hashing the policy to provide a hash digest of the policy; submitting, to the trusted entity, the hash digest of the policy; and completing the launch of the VM.
US12056511B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a request to create a container; retrieving a manifest for a container image of the container; and mounting a file system for the container, utilizing the manifest.
US12056507B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for validating a data flow system represented by a data flow graph, comprising: —an acquisition module (9) configured to acquire data related to first and second common parts of the data flow graph, and—a supervision module (11) configured to incrementally verify the coherence of the data flow system by verifying the local coherence of a common unidirectional connection connecting the first common part of the data flow graph to the second common part of the data flow graph at each increment.
US12056505B2
Embodiments herein describe a distributed configuration system for a configurable device. Instead of relying solely on a central configuration manager to distribute configuration information to various subsystems in the device, the embodiments herein include configuration interface managers (CIM) that are distributed in different regions of the device, whether those regions are in one integrated circuit or include multiple integrated circuits. The embodiments can still use a central configuration manager to distribute configuration information in a device image to the plurality of CIMs, which can then forward the configuration information to their assigned regions.
US12056501B2
A method, a computing device and a computer program is disclosed. A method comprises receiving, from a module comprising first executable software that is executable on one or more processors of a computing device, first data indicative of at least one class of peripheral device connectable to the computing device, whereby each class is associated with a plurality of predetermined peripheral devices and providing a software container element that contains second executable software that is executable on said one or more processors of the computing device, whereby the software container element is associated with peripheral device connection data that enables the software container element to have access to and communicate with each peripheral device of the plurality of predetermined peripheral devices associated with each class.
US12056487B2
A library model addition engine adds library models to a library knowledge base by defining a template for a library configuration file that conveys information about each library model, custom inputs and code snippets to facilitate library comparison operations, and education content for the library model. The library configuration file template may be automatically filled with extracted data using an iterative sequence of operations to retrieve, scrape, or extract data to automatically populate data fields in a library configuration file template for validation processing to ensure that the file is in the correct format and satisfies the constraints provided by the library recommendation engine.
US12056485B2
A method for enabling intelligence at the edge. Features include: triggering by sensor data in a software layer hosted on either a gateway device or an embedded system. Software layer is connected to a local-area network. A repository of services, applications, and data processing engines is made accessible by the software layer. Matching the sensor data with semantic descriptions of occurrence of specific conditions through an expression language made available by the software layer. Automatic discovery of pattern events by continuously executing expressions. Intelligently composing services and applications across the gateway device and embedded systems across the network managed by the software layer for chaining applications and analytics expressions. Optimizing the layout of the applications and analytics based on resource availability. Monitoring the health of the software layer. Storing of raw sensor data or results of expressions in a local time-series database or cloud storage.
US12056480B2
A vehicle program rewriting system includes a first control unit configured to execute a first control program for controlling a vehicle, a second control unit configured to execute a second control program for controlling the vehicle, a first communication line that connects, when rewriting at least one of the first and second control programs, the first control unit and a program update unit which transmits program update information to the first control unit, and a second communication line branching from the first communication line and connected to the second control unit. The second control unit executes control of, when the program update information for updating the second control program is transmitted, acquiring the program update information for the second control program from among communication contents between the program update unit and the first control unit acquired via the second communication line.
US12056479B2
This application provides example mobile service upgrade methods, media, and devices. One example method includes receiving a target service invocation request sent by an application, where a target service is one of a plurality of services comprised in a mobile service. A new version of the target service is downloaded from a remote computer in response to determining, based on the target service invocation request, that the target service needs to be upgraded, where the new version is a version that meets a requirement of the target service invocation request. The new version of the target service is loaded and run.
US12056477B2
Method, apparatus and computer program product embodiments are provided for distributing and installing content and settings on client devices without receiving any user input at the client devices, which limit usage of the client device a user at the client device to a first set of the usage activities. A device controller may remotely configure and control client devices by providing instructions and content for distribution to the client devices. The instructions may cause the client devices to install the content on the client devices without requiring any user input to initiate the installation or during installation of the content. The client device may be further configured to allow management of the client device by the device controller.
US12056466B2
A design assistance tool, which assists a design of at least one process, defines a metamodel using at least one metaclass, performs a design of the at least one process using the metamodel, stores a content of the design in a database as a design content, displays the design content as a view on a display, and performs creation, modification, or deletion of at least one of the metamodel or a design result based on the metamodel using the view on the display. The view on the display includes multiple view types described in different formats. When the creation, modification, or deletion of at least one of the metamodel or the design result based on the metamodel is made using one view type, corresponding design information is stored in the database, and the creation, modification, or deletion is reflected in another view type based on the stored design information.
US12056460B2
Aspects of the invention include physical design-optimal Dadda architectures that scale with increasing operand size. Partial product arrays can be generated for two n-bit operands and columns in the partial product arrays can be shifted to a first row. The number of partial products in each column can be iteratively reduced across one or more stages until each column has at most two partial products. At each stage a maximum column height is determined and each column having a height greater than the maximum column height is reduced using half-adders and full-adders. Result bits of the half-adders and the full-adders are placed at the bottom of the current column and carry bits of the half-adders and the full-adders are placed at the bottom of the next column.
US12056452B2
Conversational agents (CAs) may analyze language input and generate and output a response to a user. For example, when receiving a user's support request, the CA may determine whether to conduct self-disclosure by including information about the CA's “self” in a response to the user. For example, based on performing sentiment analysis of a support request user input, the CA may determine that the user is expressing negative emotions. Based on the user's expression of negative emotions, the CA may perform self-disclosure as part of generating a response to the user. A CA that is configured to engage in self-disclosure, for instance by including information about a CA's self in an output response, may increase users' acceptance of the CA, which may make a user more likely to trust and/or interact with a CA.
US12056447B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for document branching. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a branch model associated with a set of related documents, the branch model comprising one or more branches, each branch of the one or more branches comprising a branch type and one or more nodes, the one or more branches comprising a primary branch associated with a primary document, the set of related documents comprising the primary document having a first document identifier; generating a secondary branch based upon a revision of the primary document, the secondary branch associated with a secondary document of the set of related documents, the secondary document having a second document identifier; and adding the secondary branch to the branch model.
US12056445B2
The technology disclosed improves the creation, modification and presentation of spreadsheet charts. The technology makes creating charts from non-contiguous data, i.e., data requiring more than one non-contiguous ranges, easy and intuitive for users. Instead of placing the inputs in pop-ups, drop-downs and/or sidebars employing ribbons and other steps, the inputs are placed on the desired chart proximate to where the populated data will display. The inputs accept typed text, spreadsheet cells and provide a selector for cell selection. Embodiments will pre-populate title locations accepting similar inputs, add color for easier information identification and provide user sidebar or other input options. Error and warning messages are provided to help users generate the chart they desire.
US12056439B2
Disclosed herein is a text generation system, which is designed to be used either individually or by a group of users. The system can be part of a larger application or can stand alone, being implemented on a user device or a server/cloud computing device. The user interface of the system is designed for user interaction, and the text generation and manipulation module is the core mechanism for text processing. The system offers two distinct operating modes: freeform and classic. In the freeform mode, users can freely input and manipulate text without any constraints. In the classic mode, the system enables users to manipulate text within selected linguistic constraints, such as syllabic structure. Additionally, the system stores previous iterations of text, providing users with an extra layer of control and customization. This system aims to facilitate the transition between different poetic structures and enhance poets' creative process.
US12056434B2
Techniques for generating formatting tags for textual content obtained from a source electronic document are disclosed. A system parses a digital file to obtain information about characters in an electronic document. The system applies tags to text generated based on the textual content of the electronic document by creating segments of textually-consecutive characters and applying corresponding text formatting style tags to the segments. The system further identifies segments of text overlapping bounding boxes in the electronic document. The system generates textual content including a segment of text and a corresponding hyperlink associated with the segment of text. The system further generates textual content by selectively applying line breaks from the source electronic document in the textual content.
US12056433B2
A system for displaying electronic content in one of multiple view modes using a web browser client application. Specifically, the web browser client application may present the electronic content in a first view mode in which the content displayed in a content pane that is configured to provide continuous scrolling of the content, and content tree content is displayed in a content tree pane. In response to a request to display the content of the page in a second view mode, the content is displayed in a full-screen pane that covers a substantial entirety of an available display area. The full-screen pane is configured to provide toggle-based navigation in which a user input automatically advances a display of the content to a respective topic portion identified within the content.
US12056424B2
A method and device for simulating microstructure evolution of a material based on solution in an exponential time-difference format. The method includes: establishing a reaction rate theory model for substance defects, wherein the model is expressed with equations that comprise linear terms having coefficients characterized with matrixes; and iteratively solving the equations by using an exponential time-difference format, wherein during the iterative solving, the linear terms with exponential powers of the matrixes as the coefficients are integrated. Since a rate theory is not limited by spatial-temporal scales, the advantages of the rate theory can be significantly reflected when the microstructure evolution is simulated under a high damage dose condition; and then, the equations are solved by using the exponential time-difference format, with a solved result better in accuracy and higher in precision.
US12056415B2
A desktop sharing method, including receiving, by a second terminal, a desktop drawing file shared by a first terminal, where the desktop drawing file includes a desktop description file and a file package of a screen interface on a desktop of the first terminal, the desktop description file includes a location of an application interface element on the desktop of the first terminal, and the file package includes a thumbnail of the application interface element, and replacing, by the second terminal, a desktop of the second terminal with the received desktop drawing file, where replacing a desktop of the second terminal with the received desktop drawing file includes displaying a special mark for a desktop application icon, the application corresponding to the desktop application icon is not installed on the second terminal but the information of the application is in the desktop drawing file shared by the first terminal.
US12056412B2
This application provides example image display methods, media, and electronic devices. One example method includes detecting, by an electronic device that has a camera and a display, an operation of opening experience data by a user, where the experience data is stored in the electronic device and includes video data, and the video data includes multiple frames of images. A first interface is displayed in response to the operation, where the first interface includes a first image. Pose change information is determined within a preset duration, where the pose change information includes location movement information of the electronic device and pose change information of the camera. A second image including digital signage or a 3D virtual object is displayed based on pose data during collection of the first image and based on the pose change information, where the multiple frames of images include the second image.
US12056411B2
A method, a processing unit, a non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing recommendations in content rendering environment with presenter and attendees. For providing the recommendations, initially, user data is received for content rendering environment. The user data relates to the attendees. Further, the recommendations to the presenter are generated based on the user data. The recommendations are used to initiate interaction in the content rendering environment between the presenter and at least one selected attendee amongst the one or more attendees. The recommendations are provided to the presenter during rendering of the content to the one or more attendees. By the proposed system and method, the interaction between the presenter and the attendees may be enhanced and customized to be as per their preferences.
US12056408B2
In response to a print instruction instructing a printer to print an image being made with respect to a general-use printing program implemented in an operating system of the information processing device, the information processing device uses a supporting program to obtain an image size of print data subject to printing based on the number of vertical dots, the number of horizontal dots, and print resolution of the print data. Further, the information processing device obtains second size information indicating a sheet size included in a print setting and determines, by comparing the image size the sheet size, whether the sheet size conforms to the image size. When determining that the sheet size does not conform to the image size, the information processing device performs a warning process of displaying a warning message using a user interface.
US12056404B2
Securing printing systems and methods include a printer with a controller coupled to a memory and configured to perform a printer operation. The printer controller receives an instruction comprising a first font element and a second font element. An identifier corresponding to the second font element is retrieved from a memory. The printer generates and prints a graphical character that based on the first font element and an augmented symbol corresponding to the identifier.
US12056399B2
According to one embodiment, a controller of a memory system reorders a plurality of first write commands in an order in which writing within a first zone is executed sequentially from a next write location within the first zone. The controller transfers a plurality of write data associated with the plurality of first write commands reordered from a write buffer of a host to an internal buffer in a same order as the order of the plurality of first write commands reordered, and writes the plurality of write data transferred to the internal buffer to a first storage region managed as the first zone.
US12056387B2
Methods, and computer program product for writing data sets to and from cloud storage for legacy mainframe applications. A call to a mount request issued by the operating system is intercepted. An exit call to prepare for dataset write is received from an OS open routine. At least one call to a Basic Sequential Access Method (BSAM) End of Block (EOB) write routine is intercepted. Subject to the at least one call to the BSAM EOB routine being associated with cloud storage, data chunks are sent in an asynchronous manner to cloud storage. A second exit call for finalizing writing of the data chunks to the cloud storage is received. A call to an unmount request is intercepted. As a result, data is written directly from the mainframe to the cloud storage without intermediate storage.
US12056375B2
Apparatuses and methods related to port arbitration of a memory system are described. A memory system can receive a first number of transactions and a second transaction from a first traffic stream and a third number of transactions and a fourth transaction from a second traffic stream. The memory system can process the first number of transactions at least partially concurrently with the third number of transactions. Responsive to a total quantity of transactions of the first number of transactions and the second transaction being at least a threshold quantity of transactions, the second transaction can be processed by the memory system and, subsequent to processing the second transaction, the fourth transaction can be processed by the memory system.
US12056369B2
In some implementations, a memory device may detect power up and may identify, based on detecting the power up, a plurality of blocks of the memory device for which a power up based refresh determination is to be performed. The memory device may perform the power up based refresh determination on the plurality of blocks. The memory device may determine whether a block, of the plurality of blocks, satisfies at least one of an age condition that is based on a difference between a current time and an opening time associated with opening the block for programming, or a temperature condition that is based on a difference between a current temperature and an opening temperature associated with the block at the opening time. The memory device may selectively refresh the block based on determining whether the block satisfies at least one of the age condition or the temperature condition.
US12056363B2
In some embodiments, there is provided a system which allows data to be received into a placement intelligence. After the data is analyzed, the data is written to a persistent storage device. Subsequently, the data may be written. Periodically, self-optimization may occur to improve read speeds or other metrics.
US12056355B2
This disclosure provides a memory device, a memory system, and an operation method. The memory device includes a memory array having a plurality of memory blocks and a control circuit coupled to the memory array and used to control the memory array. The control circuit is configured to determine a first average value of threshold voltages of bottom dummy cells in an unused memory block, determine a difference value between the first average value and a first reference value, and judge based on the difference value when bottom dummy cells in the memory block are to be programmed so that the first average value reaches a first threshold.
