US12063875B2
A method for manufacturing a resistive random access memory structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, and the substrate includes an array region and a peripheral region. The method includes forming a first low-k dielectric layer in the peripheral region, and the first low-k dielectric layer has a dielectric constant of less than 3. The method includes forming a plurality of memory cells on the substrate and in the array region. The method includes forming a dummy memory cell at a boundary between the array region and the peripheral region. The method includes forming a gap-filling dielectric layer on the substrate. The method includes forming a plurality of first conductive plugs in the gap-filling dielectric layer, and each of the plurality of first conductive plugs is in contact with one of the plurality of memory cells.
US12063874B2
Electrical, mechanical, computing, and/or other devices formed of extremely low resistance materials
Electrical, mechanical, computing, and/or other devices that include components formed of extremely low resistance (ELR) materials, including, but not limited to, modified ELR materials, layered ELR materials, and new ELR materials, are described.
US12063862B2
A piezoelectric fiber composite that includes a substrate having a first expansion and contraction rate, a piezoelectric fiber assembly having piezoelectric fibers that generate electrical charges upon application of external energy and has a second expansion and contraction rate different from the first expansion and contraction rate of the substrate, and a joint portion that joins the substrate and the piezoelectric fiber assembly.
US12063859B2
A device of application of a cold surface of a thermoelectric cooling (TEC) chip, the device includes a cooling part, a plate coil, a pump, a reservoir and a pipeline, the cooling part is used for connecting to the cold surface of TEC chip, the pump transfers antifreeze to circulate through the cooling part, the plate coil and the reservoir. Due the cooling part and the plate coil have large heat exchange area and excellent thermal conductivities, the device according to the present invention immediately conducts the cold temperature of the cold surface of TEC chip on operation of the TEC chip, the cooling efficiency thereof meets the standards of vehicle air conditioners and other products, so that the device according to the present invention has extremely high industrial availability.
US12063858B2
The invention discloses a method and modified aerodynamic apparatuses: fluid pushers-off and fluid motion-sensors, making enable efficient implementation and use of a controllable enhanced jet-effect, either the waving jet-effect, the Coanda jet-effect, the lift-effect, the effect of thrust, the Venturi effect, and/or the de Laval jet-effect, all are controllable using the Peltier effect and/or the Seebeck effect. The modified aerodynamic apparatuses are geometrically shaped and supplied with built-in thermoelectric devices, wherein the presence of the thermoelectric devices provides for new functional properties of the modified aerodynamic apparatuses. The method solves the problem of effective control of the operation of modified aerodynamic apparatuses such as airfoil wings of a flying vehicle, convergent-divergent nozzles, loudspeakers, and detectors of acoustic waves, all of a highly-efficient functionality.
US12063849B2
A flexible display module includes a first light-transmissive layer and a first display layer. The first light-transmissive layer includes a display surface. The first light-transmissive layer has a first width in a second direction. The first display layer is disposed below the first light-transmissive layer. The first display layer has a second width in the second direction. The first display layer includes a circuit layer. The flexible display module is configured to be bent along an axis, the axis extends along a first direction, the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction, and the first width is greater than the second width. A line width of the circuit layer more close to a periphery of the display surface is less than a line width of the circuit layer more close to an inner area of the display surface.
US12063843B2
Provided is a heat dissipation film, including: an elastic cushion layer, provided with a first fingerprint through-hole; a heat dissipation layer, disposed on a first side surface of the elastic cushion layer, wherein the heat dissipation layer is provided with a second fingerprint through-hole, an orthographic projection of the first fingerprint through-hole on the first side surface being within an orthographic projection of the second fingerprint through-hole on the first side surface; and an isolation layer, disposed on the first side surface of the elastic cushion layer, wherein the isolation layer is provided with a third fingerprint through-hole, the orthographic projection of the first fingerprint through-hole on the first side surface being at least overlapped with an orthographic projection of the third fingerprint through-hole on the first side surface, and a surface, distal from the first side surface, of the isolation layer is non-adhesive.
US12063830B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels. At least one of the pixel includes a light emitting diode, a first transistor connected between a power line receiving a power source voltage and an anode of the light emitting diode, a second transistor connected between a data line and a first reference node, a first capacitor connected between the power line and the first reference node, a second capacitor connected between the first reference node and a second reference node, a third transistor connected between the first refence node and a reference voltage line receiving a reference voltage, a fourth transistor connected between an initialization voltage line receiving an initialization voltage and a drain of the first transistor, and a fifth transistor connected between the drain of the first transistor and the anode of the light emitting diode.
US12063823B2
The present application relates to the field of display technologies, and provides a display panel including a base substrate; a plurality of pixel structures arranged in an array on the base substrate including a main light-emitting portion and an auxiliary light-emitting portion independently driven and having a same light-emitting color, as well as a microstructure covering the main light-emitting portion and the auxiliary light-emitting portion, light emitted by the main light-emitting portion and the auxiliary light-emitting portion of the same organic light-emitting sub-pixel is emitted through the microstructure; and wherein the initial brightness of the organic light-emitting sub-pixel is the initial brightness of the main light-emitting portion; and a control structure configured to control brightness of the auxiliary light-emitting portion according to brightness of the main light-emitting portion to compensate the brightness of the main light-emitting portion, so that brightness of the organic light-emitting sub-pixel remains consistent with its initial brightness.
US12063814B2
A display panel includes: a substrate having a main display area, an auxiliary display area, and a peripheral area, the auxiliary display area having a circuit area and a component area; main display elements arranged in the main display area and main pixel circuits respectively connected to the main display elements; first display elements arranged in the component area; second display elements arranged in the circuit area; and auxiliary pixel circuits arranged in the circuit area, wherein the circuit area is arranged between the main display area and the component area, the auxiliary pixel circuits include: first pixel circuits connected to the first display elements, respectively; and second pixel circuits connected to the second display elements, respectively, and at least some of the second display elements overlap the first pixel circuits.
US12063810B2
A display substrate motherboard has display areas and at least one cutting area located at least among the display areas. The display substrate motherboard includes a base substrate, first barrier groups disposed on the base substrate, an inert material layer and a first inorganic insulating layer. Each first barrier group is located on at least one side of a corresponding display area and includes two first barriers. A region between the two first barriers is located in a cutting area. The inert material layer is disposed in the region. The first inorganic insulating layer is disposed on a side of the first barrier groups away from the base substrate, and is further located in the display areas. An orthogonal projection of the first inorganic insulating layer on the base substrate is non-overlapping with an orthogonal projection of the inert material layer on the base substrate.
US12063803B2
A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.
US12063798B2
A first transistor, a second transistor, a capacitor, and first to third conductors are included. The first transistor includes a first gate, a source, and a drain. The second transistor includes a second gate, a third gate over the second gate, first and second low-resistance regions, and an oxide sandwiched between the second gate and the third gate. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulator sandwiched therebetween. The first low-resistance region overlaps with the first gate. The first conductor is electrically connected to the first gate and is connected to a bottom surface of the first low-resistance region. The capacitor overlaps with the first low-resistance region. The second conductor is electrically connected to the drain. The third conductor overlaps with the second conductor and is connected to the second conductor and a side surface of the second low-resistance region.
US12063797B2
An apparatus includes a substrate and a memory cell array disposed on the substrate. The apparatus also includes a logic cell disposed on the substrate in a peripheral region adjacent the memory cell array. The apparatus further includes a trench isolation region disposed in the substrate in the peripheral region. The trench isolation region either separates a first active area of the logic cell from a second active area of the logic cell or separates the logic cell from an adjacent logic cell. The logic cell includes a connection line that is buried within the trench isolation region. The connection line can be formed as an extension of a buried word line in the memory cell array region during a same fabrication process that forms the corresponding buried word line. By extending the buried word line into the peripheral region, the buried connection line can be formed without additional processing.
US12063793B2
Provided are a chalcogen compound having ovonic threshold switching characteristics, and a switching device, a semiconductor device, and/or a semiconductor apparatus which include the chalcogen compound. The chalcogen compound includes five or more elements and may have stable switching characteristics with a low off-current value (leakage current value). The chalcogen compound includes: selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te); a first element comprising at least one of indium (In), aluminum (Al), strontium (Sr), and calcium (Ca); and a second element including germanium (Ge) and/or tin (Sn), and may further include at least one of arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), and bismuth (Bi).
US12063787B2
A memory device includes a first stacking structure, a second stacking structure, a plurality of first isolation structures, gate dielectric layers, channel layers and channel layers. The first stacking structure includes a plurality of first gate layers, and a second stacking structure includes a plurality of second gate layers, where the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure are located on a substrate and separated from each other through a trench. The first isolation structures are located in the trench, where a plurality of cell regions are respectively confined between two adjacent first isolation structures of the first isolation structures in the trench, where the first isolation structures each includes a first main layer and a first liner surrounding the first main layer, where the first liner separates the first main layer from the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure. The gate dielectric layers are respectively located in one of the cell regions, and cover opposing sidewalls of the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure as well as opposing sidewalls of the first isolation structures. The channel layers respectively cover an inner surface of one of the gate dielectric layers. The conductive pillars stand on the substrate within the cell regions, and are laterally surrounded by the channel layers, where at least two of the conductive pillars are located in each of the cell regions, and the at least two conductive pillars in each of the cell regions are laterally separated from one another.
US12063781B2
A vertical memory device includes a lower circuit pattern on a substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes spaced apart from another in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate on the lower circuit pattern, a channel extending through the gate electrodes in the first direction, a memory cell block including a first common source line (CSL) extending in a second direction substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate, and a first contact plug connected to the lower circuit pattern and the first CSL and overlapping the first CSL in the first direction.
US12063778B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulating structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers individually comprising one of the conductive structures and one of the insulating structures, staircase structures within the stack structure and having steps comprising edges of the tiers, and a doped dielectric material adjacent the steps of the staircase structures and comprising silicon dioxide doped with one or more of boron, phosphorus, carbon, and fluorine, the doped dielectric material having a greater ratio of Si—O—Si bonds to water than borophosphosilicate glass. Related methods of forming a microelectronic device and related electronic systems are also disclosed.
US12063777B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a stack with alternately stacked first material layers and second material layers, forming a first opening that passes through the stack, forming a blocking layer in the first opening, forming a data storage layer in the blocking layer, forming a slit passing through the stack, forming second openings by selectively removing the second material layers through the slit, selectively forming a protective layer on exposed surfaces of the first material layers, etching the blocking layer through the second openings, oxidizing the protective layer, and forming insulating layers in the second openings.
US12063753B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, a display disposed on the first housing and the second housing, a first hinge plate coupled to the first housing, a second hinge plate coupled to the second housing, and at least one hinge structure coupled to the first hinge plate and the second hinge plate, wherein the at least one hinge structure comprises a center bracket, a first hinge bracket coupled to the center bracket and configured to rotate in a first direction, a second hinge bracket connected to the center bracket and configured to rotate in a second direction, and at least one hole formed in the center bracket.
US12063748B2
Systems, methods, and devices related to catalyzed metal foils are disclosed. Contemplated metal foils have a bottom surface, preferably roughened to Ra of at least 0.1 μm, bearing a catalyst material. The metal foils are etchable, typically of aluminum or derivative thereof, and is less than 500 μm thick. Methods and systems for forming circuits from catalyzed metal foils are also disclosed. The catalyst material bearing surface of the metal foil is applied to a substrate and laminated, in some embodiments with a thermoset resin or thermoplastic resin therebetween or an organic material first coating the catalytic material. The metal foil is removed to expose the catalyst material, and a conductor is plated to the catalyst material.
US12063746B2
A component mounting system includes a component mounter group, a storage, and a loader. The storage is provided on an upstream side or a downstream side of the component mounter group and has a storage area in which multiple component supply devices are arranged and supported detachably. The loader automatically takes out and/or attach the component supply devices from and/or to the component mounters and the storage. When an occupancy state of the component supply device supported by the storage area reaches a predetermined high occupancy state, the control section of the component mounting system outputs at least one of a recovery urging warning for prompting recovery of the component supply devices supported by the storage area and a replenishment prohibition warning for prohibiting replenishment of the component supply device used in a next production or later onto the storage area.
US12063737B2
A circuit board according to an embodiment includes an insulating layer; and a lead pattern portion disposed on the insulating layer, wherein the lead pattern portion includes: a first portion disposed on the insulating layer; and a second portion extending from one end of the first portion; wherein the first portion is disposed overlapping the insulating layer in a vertical direction, wherein the second portion is disposed in an outer region of the insulating layer and does not overlap the insulating layer; and wherein the lead pattern portion has a centerline average roughness in a range of 0.05 μm to 0.5 μm or a 10-point average roughness in a range of 1.0 μm to 5.0 μm.
US12063733B2
A household oven includes a cooking chamber (6), a light source mount (31), an LED light source (20) arranged on the light source mount (31) to shine light into THE cooking chamber (6), a heat sink (16), and a heat pipe (15) thermally coupling the LED light source (20) to the heat sink (16). This design allows to carry off heat from the LED light source (20).
US12063727B2
A tubular LED lamp to be used with an external electronic power controlling device which is adapted to provide an input voltage to the lamp, comprising: a LED unit; a driving circuit for the LED unit; and a safety detection circuit adapted to detect whether the tubular LED lamp is correctly connected to an external lamp fixture; characterized in that further comprising: a holding current providing circuit adapted to provide a holding current through the electronic controlling device so as to maintain the electronic controlling device to be conductive; and a controlling circuit adapted to synchronize the safety detection circuit with the holding current providing circuit such that the safety detection circuit is adapted to carry out the detection when the hold current providing circuit is adapted to provide the holding current and the electronic controlling device is conductive; wherein the controlling circuit is adapted to deactivate the holding current providing circuit and the safety detection circuit after the detection in one cycle of the input voltage, and re-activate and deactivate them in a later cycle.
US12063726B2
A lighting unit having a light-emitting diode matrix and a controllable power source, in particular for a headlight. The light-emitting diode matrix is equipped with at least one first supply connection, a number m of first switches which have a first connection that is connected to the first supply connection, at least one second supply connection, a number n of second switches which have a second connection that is connected to the second supply connection, a number of m*n inorganic light-emitting diodes, a first connection of which is connected to a second connection of one of the first switches and a second connection of which is connected to a first connection of one of the second switches.
US12063723B2
The invention concerns a motor vehicle light assembly comprising a pixelated light emitting diode designed to project, from the motor vehicle, a predefined image, and a device for controlling the pixelated light emitting diode, the pixelated light-emitting diode comprising a plurality of elementary diodes supplied with a common DC current and respectively driven by a pulse-width modulation signal of the supply common DC current, the pixelated light-emitting diode comprising a temperature sensor, and the control device being configured to modify the pulse-width modulation signal depending on a temperature of the pixelated light emitting diode and/or of one or more elementary diodes.
US12063715B2
Generally, according to aspects of the present invention, a multi-access edge computing a.k.a., mobile edge computing (MEC) server may be deployed in a wireless communication network such as a cellular communication system and wireless local area network (WLAN) for provision of an edge-based MEC service in an edge site. The MEC service may include a local communication for an audio/video distribution, data analysis, audio/video upload, etc. An access to the Internet may be provided via an access point, gateway, etc. in the wireless communication network. An Internet server accessible over the Internet may provide an Internet service associated with the MEC service. The Internet service may include recording of the edge-based local communication, backup communication as an alternative to the edge-based local communication, transfer of a media file to be used in the edge-based local communication, etc.
US12063708B1
Routing servers (DRA, STP, GTP proxy) coupled to one or more home servers (HLR, HSS) enforce a policy on SS7 or LTE or GTP messages destined to a core network associated with the one or more home servers. IMSI ranges associated with the different home servers are used to filter and route messages at the DRA, STP, and GTP proxy servers.
US12063706B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for logical channel selection for non-discontinuous reception (non-DRX) enabled devices. A method may include determining a sidelink discontinuous reception state of at least one receiving user equipment. The method may also include examining one or more conditions associated with the at least one receiving user equipment. The method may further include selecting at least one sidelink destination related to a logical channel among the at least one receiving user equipment based on the determined sidelink discontinuous reception state and the examination.
US12063705B2
A communication control method according to one embodiment is a method in a mobile communication system. The communication control method includes receiving, by a user equipment in an RRC connected mode, an RRC release message from a base station with a condition for releasing or suspending an RRC connection, performing, by the user equipment, data communication with the base station until the condition is met even in a case of receiving the RRC release message, and transitioning, by the user equipment, to an RRC idle mode or an RRC inactive mode when the condition is met.
US12063704B2
A host device includes a processor, a wireless communication device in data communication with the processor, and a hardware storage device in data communication with the processor. The hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the host device to establish a wireless data channel with an accessory device and assign the wireless data channel to a resource unit with a bandwidth less than 20 MHz. The instructions further cause the host device to send a trigger signal to the accessory device and receive state data from the accessory device in response to the trigger signal.
US12063703B2
In a case where a version of Bluetooth supported by an information processing device is a predetermined version and service discovery by the information processing device is not completed, a notification unit executes an error notification using an error code of DATABASE OUT OF SYNC. In a case where the version of the Bluetooth supported by the information processing device is a version earlier than the predetermined version and the service discovery by the information processing device is not completed, the notification unit executes an error notification using an error code of INVALID HANDLE.
US12063698B2
The present disclosure discloses example communication apparatuses. One example communication apparatus includes sending request information from a first network device to a second network device, where the request information includes an identifier of a network slice, configuration information of a data radio bearer corresponding to the identifier of the network slice, and first general packet radio service tunneling protocol-user plane (GTP-U) tunnel address information corresponding to the identifier of the network slice. Feedback information is received by the first network device and from the second network device, where the feedback information includes second GTP-U tunnel address information corresponding to the identifier of the network slice. The first GTP-U tunnel address information and the second GTP-U tunnel address information identify a user plane tunnel that corresponds to the identifier of the network slice and that is between the first network device and the second network device.
US12063687B2
A method includes cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) allocation collision detection and reporting. An allocation collision detection module detects control channel allocations from transmitting user equipments (UEs) in each time period of a group of time periods. A quantity of detected control channel allocations is determined in each time period. A report is then built and transmitted to at least one of the transmitting UEs. The report indicates collisions in each time period, based on the quantity and a location of the detected control channels in each time period, as well as based on a type of UE interface.
US12063686B2
A communication device that determines a backoff time of multiband transmission is provided. A communication device includes: a communication unit that transmits and receives wireless signals in a plurality of bands; and a control unit that controls an operation in the communication unit. The control unit sets, for each band, a first random standby time for performing transmission in each of the plurality of bands, sets a second random standby time for performing simultaneous transmission of data in two or more of the plurality of bands, and controls countdown of the second random standby time or the first random standby time of each band on the basis of a comparison between the first random standby time of each band and the second random standby time.
US12063683B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access message (e.g., msgA or msg3) using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selected based on the frequency band and subcarrier spacing utilized for the random access procedure. The MCS may depend on the frequency band and a size of the SCS satisfying a threshold. In some cases, a base station may select and indicate the MCS for the UE. Additionally or alternatively, a phase tracking reference signal may be transmitted along with a random access message to correct for phase noise.
US12063680B2
The present disclosure refers to a method comprising: a) selecting an edge computing system (212) of a plurality of edge computing systems each located nearby a respective base station (211) of a wireless network (110) and deployed and managed by a network provider, the selected edge computing system (212) being configured to provision at least one latency critical application (214) which is to be provided to at least one end user device (230) in a cell via the base station (211) serving the cell and located nearby the selected edge computing system (212), b) provisioning, at the selected edge computing system (212), the at least one latency critical application (214) and a service layer radio application (SLRA) (215) for communication with a scheduler associated with the base station (211); c) transferring transmission specific data in real time between the at least one latency critical application (214) and the scheduler associated with the base station (211) via the service layer radio application (SLRA) (215) which is implemented on both, the selected edge computing system (212) and the scheduler, and d) continuously optimizing allocation of resources in the cell by taking into account current status and operation requirements of the at least one latency critical application (214) and/or continuously optimizing current use of the resources in the cell by using those transmission specific data for adapting the at least one latency critical application (214) in real time to current conditions on the cell. The present disclosure also refers to an appropriate system and an appropriate computer-readable medium.
US12063678B2
An information sending method, a user terminal and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method comprises: determining whether physical channels in target information exist channel collision, in response to detecting an instruction for sending target information; determining a priority corresponding to each physical channel in the target information, in response to existing channel collision in the target information; processing the target information based on the priority of each physical channel in the target information, wherein said processing the target information comprises: multiplexing information carried by a physical channel with a lower priority in the target information to a physical channel with a higher priority in the target information; or, discarding the information carried by a physical channel with a low priority in the target information; and sending processed target information.
US12063674B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reducing channel state information (CSI) reporting time for cell activation are provided. One method may include receiving, from a network node, one or more semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) configurations to be employed during secondary cell (SCell) activation, and receiving an activation command for a secondary cell (SCell) and information on a semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) configuration to be activated from among the one or more semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) configurations. The method may also include measuring a CSI-reference signal (RS) using the semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) configuration indicated with the activation command and transmitting a semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) report for a subset of secondary cells (SCells) available for activation.
US12063673B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Linking multiple search space sets for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetition may be enabled in a system. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configured search space set association from a base station. The association may indicate, to the UE, a configuration between a first PDCCH candidate and a second PDCCH candidate. The first PDCCH candidate may correspond to a first search space set, while the second PDCCH candidate may correspond to a second search space set. The UE may monitor the first and second search space set based on the configuration. The UE may combine the first PDCCH candidate with the second PDCCH candidate monitored in the first and second search space set based on capabilities of the UE and the configuration. The UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidates along with individual PDCCH candidates.
US12063665B2
One embodiment relates to a method for sidelink related operation of a receiving (RX) user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps in which: the RX UE receives first SCI from a transmitting UE (TX UE) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH); and the RX UE receives a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and second SCI from the TX UE on the basis of the first SCI, wherein the second SCI includes information about activating physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) transmission related to the PSSCH, and whether to start a retransmission timer on the basis of the PSFCH transmission being dropped is determined on the basis of whether the dropped PSFCH transmission is related to either NACK or ACK.
US12063649B2
Methods and systems are described herein for bandwidth part (BWP) operation in 5G wireless systems. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may be configured to receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission on a first BWP associated with a first carrier. The PDCCH transmission may include scheduling information for receiving a physical shared downlink channel (PDSCH) transmission via a second BWP associated with a second carrier. The WTRU may be configured to determine one or more quasi co-located (QCL) parameters for the PDSCH transmission using a lowest transmission configuration indication (TCI) state associated with the second BWP associated with the second carrier based on a scheduling offset of the PDSCH transmission being less than a threshold and on the PDSCH transmission being received via the second BWP. The WTRU may be configured to receive the PDSCH transmission using the determined one or more QCL parameters.
US12063644B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives configuration information indicating association between a scheduling request (SR) configuration and a service, and a control section that, when a first time resource of an SR corresponding to a first service contends with a second time resource of an uplink transmission corresponding to a second service, performs transmission of at least one of the SR and the uplink transmission based on the configuration information.
US12063638B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a wireless device may support multi-band joint communication and radar (JCR) techniques. In some cases, a first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device, a capability message indicating whether a set of bands supports JCR operations. The second wireless device may transmit control signaling, based on the capability message, indicating a set of parameters for JCR operations including resources allocated for JCR operations. The first wireless device may transmit a JCR signal based on the control signaling via the allocated resources. For example, the first wireless device may transmit the signal for both communications and radar sensing in accordance with the set of parameters via the allocated resources.
US12063637B2
The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and a communication method capable of realizing more reliable communication. Provided is a communication apparatus including a control unit that performs control to use an available frequency channel to transmit a data frame to another communication apparatus, and add, to the data frame, available channel information regarding the frequency channel available for transmitting and receiving a frame. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
US12063628B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications: a first receiver, receiving a first signaling group and a second signaling group; and a first transceiver, transmitting a first signal, or, receiving a first signal in a first time-frequency resource pool; herein, the first signaling group and the second signaling group respectively indicate a first index and a second index, the first index being different from the second index; the first signaling group is used to determine the first time-frequency resource pool; the second signaling group is used to determine a second numerical value set; a second numerical value is used to determine a HARQ process number corresponding to the first signal, the second numerical value belonging to the second numerical value set.
US12063624B2
A user equipment participates in vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communications. The user equipment comprises processor circuitry and a transmitter and/or receiver. The processor circuitry configured is to autonomously make a selection of a radio resource(s) for transmission and/or reception of a V2X message of the V2X communication in dependence upon a characteristic of the V2X message. The transmitter and/or receiver is configured to use the selected radio resource(s) for the transmission and/or reception of the V2X message.
US12063621B2
Systems and methods for using ranging signals with cellular devices. The ranging signals may utilize ranging slots and resources at least partially allocated by a cellular network. The resources may include frequencies used for uplink or downlink communications between the cellular network and the cellular devices. Alternatively, the resources may include frequencies outside of a spectrum used for communication between the cellular network and the cellular devices.
US12063618B2
A home appliance configured to be registered in a server, the home appliance includes: a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) module, based on the home appliance being registered in the server, communicatively connected to an access point (AP) and configured to periodically operate in an AP mode through a virtual interface, and a controller configured to control the Wi-Fi module to periodically operate in the AP mode. The Wi-Fi module is configured to generate a beacon signal to search for an unregistered home appliance based on the Wi-Fi module being operated in the AP mode.
US12063616B2
Technology for an Information Centric Networking gateway (ICN-GW) operable to modify an ICN message received from a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular network is disclosed. The ICN-GW can decode the ICN message received from the UE via a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) and an ICN point of attachment (ICN-PoA). The ICN-GW can modify the ICN message to produce a modified ICN message. The ICN-GW can encode the modified ICN message to route the modified ICN message to a data network.
US12063613B2
A communication method and device, the method including obtaining, by a terminal device, a timing advance (TA), determining, by the terminal device according to a preset rule and first information, whether the TA is valid, where the first information includes a first parameter, and wherein the first parameter is information related to a location of the terminal device, and performing at least one of determining, by the terminal device, in response to the TA being invalid, that uplink data transmission cannot be performed, or determining, by the terminal device, in response to the TA being valid, that the TA can be used for uplink data transmission.
US12063607B2
A method for simultaneous response consistency and user experience includes, in response to detecting a response indication, a first electronic device that sends a response instruction to a second electronic device after a duration T−t1, and sends a response instruction to a third electronic device after a duration T−t2. The first electronic device performs a response operation after a target duration T, where T is greater than or equal to a maximum time consumption t, and t is a larger one of a first time consumption t1 between the first electronic device and the second electronic device and a second time consumption t2 between the first electronic device and the third electronic device. The second electronic device and the third electronic device each performs a response operation in response to receiving the response instruction.
US12063605B2
Disclosed is a method by a terminal for performing a sidelink (SL) communication, including receiving, from a base station, configuration information on an SL communication including information on one or more SL resource pools and information on a BWP for each of the one or more SL resource pools, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) indicating resources for the SL communication from the one or more SL resource pools, identifying the resources and the BWP for the SL communication based on the configuration information and the DCI, and performing the SL communication based on the resources on the BWP.
US12063604B2
Methods related to wireless communication systems and transmission and/or reception of synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions (e.g., in full-duplex slots) are provided. For example, a wireless communication device receives a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission schedule. The SSB transmission schedule is at least partially overlapping with an uplink (UL) frequency portion of a full-duplex slot. The wireless communication device receives a first portion of a SSB in a downlink (DL) frequency portion of the full-duplex slot; and receiving a second portion of the SSB in the UL frequency portion of the full-duplex slot based on the SSB being scheduled in the full-duplex slot and at least partially overlapping with the UL frequency portion of the full-duplex slot. Other features are also claimed and described.
US12063591B2
A relaying method, performed by a relay terminal using sidelink in a communication system, may comprise: receiving a plurality of data units from a plurality of remote terminals; generating a multiplexed data unit including identification information of the plurality of remote terminals and the plurality of data units; and transmitting the multiplexed data unit to a base station, wherein the identification information includes a terminal identifier used to identify each of the plurality of remote terminals.
US12063582B2
There is provided a method in a device of a cellular network, the method comprising: receiving a user plane data from a source network node of the cellular network; detecting that at least one quality condition with respect to the user plane data transfer is met; and in response to the detecting that the at least one quality condition is met, causing a transmission of an indication for a data forwarding or duplication to a target network node of the cellular network or to the source network node, the data forwarding or duplication causing the source network node to forward or duplicate a user plane data of the device to the target network node.
US12063578B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure are directed to creating a profile for a user that includes information content rules and information delivery rules. Upon detecting a triggering event, a set of information is created for the user based on the information content rules. The information is delivered to the user according to the information delivery rules.
US12063574B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for reliable delivery of enhanced broadcast services (EBCS) downlink (DL) packets to wireless stations (STAs) that support EBCS (also referred to as “EBCS STAs”) and maintaining interoperability with STAs that do not support EBCS. A wireless communication device may broadcast one or more EBCS DL packets carrying data associated with an EBCS service. In some aspects, the wireless communication device may subsequently transmit a trigger frame soliciting information indicating which, if any, of the EBCS DL packets were missed by EBCS STAs in the vicinity. In some other aspects, each EBCS DL packet may carry signaling indicating that the broadcast data is intended only for EBCS STAs. Still further, in some aspects, the wireless communication device may broadcast an EBCS traffic advertisement indicating a timing of the one or more EBCS DL packets.
US12063571B2
A positioning method relating to the field of communications technologies includes: a positioning device obtains a positioning parameter set and sends the positioning parameter set to a positioning center, where the positioning parameter set includes multipath information of a to-be-positioned terminal, and the multipath information is used to position the to-be-positioned terminal. The positioning center may position the to-be-positioned terminal by using the multipath information of the to-be-positioned terminal.
US12063569B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a user interface for relative device positioning. The program and method provide for receiving a first location of a first device associated with a first user, and a second location of a second device associated with a second user, the first and second users corresponding to contacts in a messaging application; providing an indication of the second location to the first device, and an indication of the first location to the second device; determining that a direction in which the first device is pointing corresponds to the second location, and that a direction in which the second device is pointing corresponds to the first location; providing, in response to the determining, a notification to at least one of the first device or the second device.
US12063564B2
A wireless telecommunications system including a terminal device; first infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and second infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a second RAT. During a handover procedure for handover from the first infrastructure equipment as a source master infrastructure equipment to a third infrastructure equipment as a target master infrastructure equipment, the second infrastructure equipment is operable to communicate with the third infrastructure equipment using an interface associated with the second RAT so as to allow information necessary for completing the handover to be exchanged between the first infrastructure equipment and the third infrastructure equipment via the second infrastructure equipment.
US12063563B2
The present application discloses technologies handover methods, base stations, and terminal devices. One handover method includes: sending, by a source base station, a handover request to a target base station, where the handover request includes information about a first service of a terminal device, receiving, by the source base station, a handover response sent by the target base station, wherein the first service is supported by the target base station, the handover response includes information about a handover instruction for the first service, and the handover instruction is used to instruct the terminal device to hand over the first service from the source base station to the target base station, and sending, by the source base station, a handover response to the terminal device.eodcmaster.
US12063558B2
An example method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for early data transmission (EDT) random access (RA) procedure for dual connectivity or carrier aggregation. In an example implementation, the method may include receiving configuration information from a network node, initiating an early data transmission (EDT) random access (RA) procedure with one or more cells indicated in the configuration information, determining a secondary cell of the one or more cells as a preferred secondary cell, and transmitting data to the preferred secondary cell.
US12063555B2
A method and system for interworking between cellular networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs) are disclosed. At least one cellular network, at least one WLAN, and an IP network may be deployed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish a connection to a WLAN and a tunnel between an access point (AP) and a packet data gateway (PDG) may be established. The PDG may establish a tunnel to an IP network. The WTRU may invoke a service which is delivered through the WLAN. As signal quality from the AP degrades below a predetermined threshold, a handover from the WLAN to the cellular network may be performed. A new connection to the cellular network may be established either before or after breaking the current connection to the WLAN or the two connections may be maintained simultaneously.
US12063551B2
Data communication can be appropriately performed in unlicensed bands. A mobile station (200) includes: reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives first information relating to a size configured for data, and second information relating to a resource to which the data is assigned; and control circuitry, which, in operation, controls reception of the data based on the first information and the second information.
US12063542B2
One example data processing method includes obtaining an industry identifier and a service identifier, determining, based on a first preset mapping table, a target packet delay value corresponding to the industry identifier and the service identifier, obtaining a translation parameter including at least one of a scheduling feature identifier, a quantity of retransmissions, and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) number, and calculating a base station packet delay value based on a preset terminal processing delay, a preset base station processing delay, a first time division duplex air interface waiting delay, a preset time division duplex air interface transmission delay, and the translation parameter. When the base station packet delay value is greater than the target packet delay value, the translation parameter is adjusted, and execution of the previous step is triggered.
US12063540B2
Processes, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may monitor a wakeup signal monitoring occasion in an inactive duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The communication device may transmit, in a first active duration of the DRX cycle, a channel state information (CSI) report on one or more resources based on monitoring the wakeup signal monitoring occasion. In some examples, the communication device may transmit an indication that the communication device requests reporting of the CSI report in the first active duration of the DRX cycle. The communication device may, in some examples, receive, in a second active duration of the DRX cycle, control information for the UE based on the CSI report.
US12063528B2
An anomaly detection method and device, a terminal and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: generating at least one clustering set of objects based on configuration data and performance indicator data of the objects; determining an algorithm configuration parameter corresponding to each clustering set based on a preset anomaly detection algorithm and the performance indicator data corresponding to the objects in the clustering set; and determining, based on the algorithm configuration parameter, abnormal performance indicator data of the objects in the corresponding clustering set, so as to determine abnormal objects based on the abnormal performance indicator data.
US12063526B2
Provided is a system, comprising: an information-providing device; and a flying object functioning as a stratosphere platform and equipped with a control device radiating a beam to form a wireless communication area to provide wireless communication service to a user terminal in the wireless communication area, wherein the information-providing device irradiates the flying object with a radio wave including a response signal to the beam when a frequency of the beam is a predetermined frequency band, and the control device comprises: a radio wave receiving unit receiving the radio wave; a non-target area judging unit judging whether a non-target area of the wireless communication service exists in the wireless communication area based on the response signal; and a flying object controlling unit controlling the flying object not to irradiate the non-target area with the beam in response to the non-target area judging unit judging that the non-target area exists.
US12063521B2
A user equipment includes a reception unit that performs a measurement for determining an optimum beam from among a plurality of reception beams that is usable in the user equipment; and a control unit that selects, based on information of a past measurement by the reception unit, a reception beam to be used in the user equipment, upon receiving, by the reception unit, a signal including information indicating to update a configuration.
US12063520B2
A station installation designing assistance device that divides a service providing area into a plurality of areas, and performs station installation designing for the plurality of areas in parallel, the station installation designing assistance device including: an area dividing unit that divides an entirety of the service providing area into the plurality of areas; a station installation priority determining unit that determines, for each of the plurality of areas, station installation priorities of station installation location candidates that are present in the area; and a station installation priority adjusting unit that adjusts the station installation priorities determined by the station installation priority determining unit, based on a degree of overlap of cells formed as a result of base stations being installed in station installation location candidates in the areas, respectively.
US12063518B2
According to certain embodiments, a method is provided for resource allocation between a first network node (160) associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second network node (160) associated with a second RAT where the first RAT and the second RAT use an overlapping spectrum. The method includes determining, by the first network node, one or more resources of a plurality of resources for use by the second network node. The plurality of resources is represented by a bit string. A message is transmitted to the second network node. The message includes the bit string in which the one or more resources for use by the second network node are indicated.
US12063511B2
V2X trusted agents provide technical solutions for technical problems facing falsely reported locations of connected vehicles within V2X systems. These trusted agents (e.g., trusted members) may be used to detect an abrupt physical attenuation of a wireless signal and determine whether the attenuation was caused by signal occlusion caused by the presence of an untrusted vehicle or other untrusted object. When the untrusted vehicle is sending a message received by trusted agents, these temporary occlusions allow trusted members to collaboratively estimate the positions of untrusted vehicles in the shared network, and to detect misbehavior by associating the untrusted vehicle with reported positions. Trusted agents may also be used to pinpoint specific mobile targets. Information about one or more untrusted vehicles may be aggregated and distributed as a service.
US12063510B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for enabling signalling storm mitigation in Internet Protocol (IP) Security (IPsec)-secured virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN). In one embodiment a method in a first network node includes receiving a trigger to establish an IPsec session with a second network node, the IPsec session being associated with a user equipment (UE); responsive to the trigger to establish the IPsec session associated with the UE, derive a unique identifier for the UE; generate a Security Parameter Index (SPI) value based at least in part on the unique identifier derived for the UE, the SPI value being unique to the IPsec session; and communicate an indication of the SPI value to the second network node.
US12063502B2
Systems and methods for PKI certificate and key allocations to wireless base station radio units are provided. In one embodiment, a system for obtaining PKI credentials for a remote unit for a wireless base station, the system comprises: a remote unit, the remote unit configured to implement a radio frequency (RF) interface; a gateway coupled to the remote unit, the gateway communicatively coupled to an online provision service (OPS) certificate authority (CA); wherein the gateway is configured to generate an AuthToken unique to the remote unit, wherein the remote unit is configured to request a RU digital certificate and private key from an OPS CA based on the AuthToken.
US12063497B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. According to an example method, a source location corresponding to the audio signal is identified. For each of the respective left and right ear of the user, a virtual speaker position, of a virtual speaker array, is determined, the virtual speaker position collinear with the source location and with a position of the respective ear. For each of the respective left and right ear of the user, a head-related transfer function (HRTF) corresponding to the virtual speaker position and to the respective ear is determined; and the output audio signal is presented to the respective ear of the user via one or more speakers associated with the wearable head device. Processing the audio signal includes applying the HRTF to the audio signal.
US12063493B2
A display device, including a display panel, a box, a connection frame and a vibration actuator provided on the display panel. The connection frame includes: a frame-shaped member including a first end face and a second end face arranged opposite to each other, the first end face being attached to a top face of the box, a plurality of protrusions being provided on the second end face, a surface of each protrusion away from the first end face forming a support face, and the display panel being fixed on the support face; and a connection member fixedly coupled to the frame-shaped member, and detachably coupled to the box via a fastener.
US12063487B2
Acoustic Voice Activity Detection (AVAD) methods and systems are described. The AVAD methods and systems, including corresponding algorithms or programs, use microphones to generate virtual directional microphones which have very similar noise responses and very dissimilar speech responses. The ratio of the energies of the virtual microphones is then calculated over a given window size and the ratio can then be used with a variety of methods to generate a VAD signal. The virtual microphones can be constructed using either an adaptive or a fixed filter.
US12063475B2
The present disclosure relates in one aspect to methods of adjusting a second system clock frequency of a slave or second device to a first system clock frequency of a first device connectable thereto via a unidirectional or bidirectional wireless data communication link so to reduce clock skew between the first and second system clock frequencies.
US12063472B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an earphone, comprising a sound production component, comprising a transducer and a housing accommodating the transducer, a sound outlet hole being provided on an inner side surface of the sound production component, the inner side facing an auricle of a user, and the sound outlet hole being configured to transmit a sound produced by the transducer out of the housing toward an ear canal of the user; and an ear-hook, configured to place the sound production component at a position adjacent to the car canal but not blocking an ear canal opening in a wearing state; wherein, at least a portion of the sound production component inserts into a cavum concha.
US12063469B2
A MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) device includes a suspended electrode structure anchored to a substrate, the MEMS device having a MEMS resonance mode, and a Tuned Mass Damping (TMD) structure, wherein a portion of the suspended electrode structure forms a TMD structure having a TMD spring element and a TMD mass element, for providing a TMD resonance mode counteracting the MEMS resonance mode.
US12063468B2
[Problem] The present invention is directed to a higher-performance and higher-quality curved diaphragm speaker system without deficiency of performance for both a hearing-impaired person and a normal hearing person. [Solution] A speaker unit 10 according to the present invention includes at least a first diaphragm 1 having a corn shape, a second diaphragm 2 having a curved sheet shape, and a driver unit 3 that drives both the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm. A small diameter side 1a of the first diaphragm and one end side 2a of the second diaphragm are coupled to the driver unit. When the speaker unit is mounted in a housing 50 to be a speaker 100, a large diameter side 1b of the first diaphragm is coupled to a support plate 511 of a support member 51 that is a part of the housing, and the other end side 2b of the second diaphragm is coupled to a support leg 513 of the support member that is a part of the housing.
US12063466B2
A charging case for a pair of wireless earphones comprising: a housing having a peripheral wall that defines a shell; a frame insert coupled to the housing and extending into the shell, the frame insert having one or more insert walls that define first and second pockets sized and shaped to accept first and second wireless earphones, respectively, wherein the one or more insert walls cooperate with the housing primary wall to define a sealed chamber within the charging case; a lid coupled to the housing and operable between a closed position in which the lid covers the first and second pockets and an open position in which the first and second pockets are exposed; a speaker module disposed within the sealed chamber, the speaker module comprising an audio driver having a diaphragm that separates a front volume of the audio driver from a back volume of the audio driver and a speaker vent disposed within the back volume; one or more first openings formed through the peripheral wall and opening into the front volume, wherein the audio driver is positioned and aligned to emit sound into the front volume and through the one or more acoustic openings; and one or more second openings formed through the peripheral wall at a location spaced apart from the front volume, wherein at least one of the one or more second openings is an acoustic vent acoustically coupled to the back volume of the audio driver through the speaker vent ear tip.
US12063456B2
A refrigerator appliance is provided including a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, and a camera assembly positioned within the chilled chamber and being rotatable between a first position and a second position. A controller is configured to obtain one or more images using the camera assembly, determine a position of the camera assembly, and generate a modified image by cropping the one or more images based on a field of view associated with the position of the camera assembly.
US12063452B2
There is provided a control device, an imaging system, and a 3D model data generation method capable of appropriately extracting a subject from a moving image. The control device includes a control unit that performs control to synchronize an imaging timing at which an imaging device performs imaging with a display timing at which a display device located in an imaging range of the imaging device displays a first moving image, and an image processing unit that performs foreground/background difference processing on the basis of a second moving image captured by the imaging device at a first timing and a third moving image captured by the imaging device at a second timing different from the first timing. The second moving image and the third moving image both include at least a part of the first moving image whose display timing is synchronized between the second moving image and the third moving image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging system for capturing a moving image used for generating a 3D model.
US12063434B2
The present disclosure relates to imaging systems and methods. An imaging method may include determining a first remaining power based on a maximum power of a camera and a working power of the camera; determining whether an operation condition of a first load is satisfied based on the first remaining power; and in response to a determination that the operation condition of the first load is satisfied, enabling the first load.
US12063432B2
An information processing apparatus includes a computer executing instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to acquire an image captured by an image capturing apparatus, to cause a display to display the acquired image, and to perform control process for controlling an image capturing range of the image capturing apparatus. A first placement candidate in which an object in the image capturing range is placed at a first position, and a second placement candidate in which the object in the image capturing range is placed at a second position different from the first position are displayed on the display. In a case where one of the first and the second placement candidates is selected by a user, the image capturing range is controlled based on information of the selected placement candidate.
US12063429B2
An image collection method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes: a housing provided with a light transmission hole and an opening, where the light transmission hole and the opening are respectively disposed on adjacent first and second sides of the housing; a camera module including a first camera module and a second camera module disposed in the housing; and a driving mechanism connected to the camera module and configured to drive the camera module to move between a first position and a second position. When the camera module is located at the first position, the first camera is opposite to the light transmission hole. When the camera module is located at the second position, the first camera at least partially extends out of the housing from the opening. The second camera is opposite to the light transmission hole.
US12063427B2
The present embodiment relates to a sensor driving apparatus comprising: a first substrate including a first opening; a support member arranged at a position corresponding to the first opening; a first connector for electrically connecting the support member and the first substrate and elastically supporting the support member; a base coupled to the support member; a second substrate arranged on the base; an image sensor mounted on the second substrate; a second connector which is arranged on the base and electrically connects the second substrate and the first connector; a first driving unit arranged on the first substrate; and a second driving unit arranged on the base and facing the first driving unit.
US12063420B2
A method for providing image content associated with music channels includes the steps of: receiving, from a user, a selection of a music television channel; providing, to the user, the music television channel associated with the user's selection, wherein the music television channel comprises a signal comprising audio information and metadata associated with the audio information; retrieving, based on the metadata associated with the audio information, visual content relevant to the audio information; and simultaneous providing to the user both the visual content and the audio information.
US12063412B2
Example techniques relate to a loss of control of a playback queue. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving, from a native controller, an instruction to add audio tracks to a queue, where, in a first mode associated with the native controller, the playback device is configured to play back from the queue. While the audio tracks are in the queue, the playback device receives, from a media player application associated with a particular wireless protocol, an instruction to play back a media item. In response, the playback device is configured to play back in a second mode associated with the particular wireless protocol, where, in the second mode, the queue is not in use. While playing back the media item, the playback device detects a loss of control by the media player application and configures the playback device to play back in the first mode.
US12063411B2
Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid.
US12063396B2
A portable device includes solid-state memory, an Ethernet and/or wireless network connection, and an HDMI. The portable device receives content guide data from a first server and displays a content guide on a display. In response to a user's selection of a content item, the portable device requests the content item over the Internet from a second server. The portable device receives the content item, stores the content item in solid-state memory, generates display signals that represent the content item, and sends the display signals to a display. The second server may match the content item with relevant advertisements based on keywords associated with the content item and the advertisements. The second server may send selected advertisement URLs to the portable device. Using the URLs, the portable device may obtain the advertisements over the Internet and cause the display to display the advertisements in conjunction with the content item.
US12063391B2
A concept for coding a CFA pattern image is provided, wherein, for each of the sample clusters of the CFA pattern image, having first to fourth sample positions, first to fourth color coordinates are computed, so as to provide an image representation of the CFA pattern image.
US12063388B2
A method of coding implemented is provided. The method includes the following operations: obtained the height and width of a prediction block without applying clipping operation; calculating a value of a vertical component of an intra prediction sample based on the height and width of the prediction block; calculating a value of a horizontal component of the intra prediction sample based on the height and width of the prediction block; and generating the intra prediction sample based on the value of the vertical component and the value of the horizon component.
US12063386B2
Methods, apparatuses, devices and storage media for decoding and encoding are provided. In one aspect, a decoding method includes: obtaining a value of an Enhanced Temporal Motion Vector Prediction (ETMVP) mode flag and an ETMVP mode index value for a current coding unit (CU); when the value of the ETMVP mode flag is a first value, determining coordinate information of an initial matching CU of the current CU according to coordinate information of the current CU; constructing an enhanced temporal candidate list based on the coordinate information of the initial matching CU; determining coordinate information of a target matching CU according to the ETMVP mode index value; and determining motion information of a subblock at a corresponding position in the current CU according to the motion information of the target matching CU.
US12063369B2
A method of coding implemented by an encoding device for encoding video data is disclosed. The method comprises reducing at least part of Least Significant Bits of Picture Order Counter (POC_LSB) in the video data by omitting one bit of the POC_LSB or by omitting a number of bits of the POC_LSB depending on the layer IDs of the video data. The method further includes coding the reduced POC_LSB.
US12063361B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise generating a reconstructed block for a current block, determining a target boundary for the reconstructed block, determining a first target block and a second target block based on a sample adjacent to the target boundary, and performing deblocking filtering on the sample adjacent to the target boundary, based on a prediction mode of at least one of the first target block or the second target block. In this case, a value of the sample adjacent to the target boundary may not be changed based on the prediction mode of at least one of the first target block or the second target block being a palette mode.
US12063358B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation: derives, as a first parameter, a total sum of absolute values of sums of horizontal gradient values respectively for pairs of relative pixel positions; derives, as a second parameter, a total sum of absolute values of sums of vertical gradient values respectively for the pairs of relative pixel positions; derives, as a third parameter, a total sum of horizontal-related pixel difference values respectively for the pairs of relative pixel positions; derives, as a fourth parameter, a total sum of vertical-related pixel difference values respectively for the pairs of relative pixel positions; derives, as a fifth parameter, a total sum of vertical-related sums of horizontal gradient values respectively for the pairs of relative pixel positions; and generates a prediction image to be used to encode the current block using the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth parameters.
US12063343B2
A media data preparation device adapted to receive media data, including at least one processor, and at least one non-transitory memory having computer program code stored thereon for execution by the at least one processor, the computer program code including instructions to receive a set of metadata that is based on at least one spatial coordinate, where the set of metadata is associated with the media data, and determine a representation of the media data in a virtual reality space based on the set of metadata
US12063335B2
The present application discloses an image processing method, an image processing device, and a computer device. The image processing method includes: acquiring a first to-be-processed chromaticity data set and a second to-be-processed chromaticity data set of a preset color of a to-be-processed picture, acquiring a Gaussian probability of the preset color, identifying a picture region in the to-be-processed picture that contains the preset color of the preset scene, and acquiring a color output correction value. The method of the present application can effectively improve a color cast phenomenon and a quality of the displayed picture.
US12063334B2
An image reading apparatus includes an image reading sensor, a transparent plate, a guiding member, a first roller pair, and a second roller pair provided upstream of the first roller pair with respect to a sheet feeding direction. The first roller pair and the second roller pair are disposed so as to nip a sheet in each of nips of the first roller pair and the second roller pair when a leading end of the sheet enters between the guiding member and the transparent plate.
US12063326B1
A computer-implemented method of predicting purpose of call for a call center is disclosed to support various analytical functions, Automatic discovery of call topics, clustering of topics, and assigning of utterance to clusters may be provided. In some implementations, a pipeline includes an inference engine that includes a machine learning model trained on call transcripts and call attribute data to predict purpose of call.
US12063323B2
This disclosure generally relates to various directional input units of a mobile communication terminal, where such directional input units receive a single user input or multiple concurrent user inputs and then acquires at least one selecting (user) sub-input therefrom while a terminal is in its powered-off state or its off-state. After acquiring the selecting user sub-input, a terminal runs at least one pre-selected operation which is selected from a set of multiple pre-selected operations and which matches the selecting user sub-input when a terminal powers on from its powered-off state or wakes up from its off-state. A directional input unit may acquire the selecting user sub-input from a movement of at least a portion thereof, a contact between at least a portion thereof and a user body part, or the like. As a result, a terminal can provide a user with more seamless operations.
US12063321B2
Systems, devices, methods, instructions stored on media, and other embodiments for a camera interface are described. A standardized modular camera interface may be presented with context elements based on a target interface used to initiate presentation of the camera interface, and with customized actions for creating and sending content, as well as returning to the target interface. In some embodiments, the camera interface includes an audio quality feedback element that is displayed while content is being captured. Such an element can provide feedback on audio quality as the content is being captured. In various embodiments, shape or color displays and changes indicate varying audio quality conditions. Such indicators are, in some embodiments, generated by processing audio stream segments in a machine learning model to generate an audio quality score used to generate the feedback element.
US12063317B2
Implementing methods to provide a shortened textual summary that includes status information that is most pertinent to the user for a plurality of connected smart devices. The method includes determining a list of current statuses for a plurality of enabled smart devices and filtering the list to remove statuses that may not be of interest to the user. The filtering of the list is based on a current context of the requesting user and one or more previous contexts of the user. The resulting filtered statuses are then converted to textual snippets, summarized, and provided to the user via one or more output devices.
US12063312B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus configured at least to determine whether a cryptographic signature of a token received in the apparatus from a network function consumer is valid, obtain a cryptographic signature of the apparatus of the token responsive to the cryptographic signature of the token being valid, and provide the token to a peer entity of the apparatus, wherein the cryptographic signature of the apparatus is either included into the token or provided in a header external to the token, wherein the peer entity is comprised in a second network, different from a first network where the apparatus is comprised in. The request may serve a user equipment, directly or indirectly.
US12063307B2
Disclosed are blockchain type contract terminal and method using position information. 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 blockchain creation module that encrypts the contract created by the 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.
US12063306B2
A method for locating a mobile device which is not in possession of the owner using an owner verification server. A mobile network operator server sends a message to the owner verification server requesting verification of ownership. The owner verification server retrieves ownership status and transmits a request to the mobile network operator server to transmit location tracking data when the ownership status indicates that the device is not in the owner's possession. The owner verification server forwards the location tracking data to the device owner.
US12063305B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to manage application access in networked environments are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring accesses made using a credential to a first set of one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) and with a second set of one or more APIs, the credential associated with a first permission for access to the first set of one or more APIs and a second permission for access to the second set of one or more APIs, determining, based on access to one or more APIs of the first set of one or more APIs using the credential, that the first permission is to be suspended, and in response to the determination that the first permission is to be suspended, suspending the first permission while maintaining the second permission.
US12063301B2
A device for generating a digital random encryption key includes an input unit adding a non-volatile active element for overcoming a limit of a passive element when generating an encryption key, applying a random passive filter, and inputting an analog voltage signal to an encryption key generator, an encryption key generator including a non-volatile active element and a passive filter, connected to the input unit through a connection substrate, and generating a random encryption key from an entropy source, and a converter for converting a signal generated by the encryption key generator into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal is provided, thereby improving robustness of security compared to the case of applying the general passive element, allowing regeneration or random generation, and generating an excellent encryption key working excellently for physical reverse engineering violations.
US12063299B2
Dynamic encryption and decryption method among lock control system modules comprise the following steps: step 1. filling hardware ID data, an unlocking communication protocol and a mask variable into an array according to a predefined variable space, and encrypting the array based on the mask variable to obtain an encrypted array; step 2. decrypting the encrypted array based on the mask variable to obtain a decrypted array, executing data division on the decrypted array according to the predefined variable space, matching the divided data with data recorded in advance one by one, and if the divided data are consistent with the data recorded in advance, executing related operations according to the decrypted unlocking communication protocol content; otherwise, executing no operation.
US12063297B2
Indicating to a receiver node in a network that the receiver node should begin tracking signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a received signal for a new power and rate (PAR) interval for data sent from a transmitter node. A method includes determining that a new PAR interval is beginning. The method further includes adding an identifier to a data block. The identifier corresponds to the new PAR interval. The method further includes sending the data block from the transmitter node to the receiver node, where the receiver node will use the identifier to determine that a new tracking interval of SNR should be performed for the data block and subsequent data blocks having the identifier.
US12063286B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing delivery of content fragments to a device in response to a bandwidth determination. In one implementation of the disclosure, when a content player or device requests a content fragments, a local cache may determine a bandwidth or data rate related to transmission of a content fragment from a source to the cache, and send the fragment to the player at a rate corresponding to the determined bandwidth or data rate.
US12063272B2
Migration of a user of a computing device to accept an updated version of a software feature to the exclusion of a prior version of the software feature is implemented without user friction. Telemetry data corresponding to use of the updated version and of the prior version is stored. The telemetry data is evaluated utilizing a trained machine learning model trained using external telemetry data with respect to use of the updated version and to use of the prior version. A migration acceptance value indicative of whether the user will accept use of the updated version to exclusion of the prior version is calculated. The migration acceptance value is compared to a threshold value determined by the trained model. If the migration acceptance value exceeds the threshold value, the prior version is excluded from the user profile.
US12063271B2
A gateway system is described for use as a gateway between a client device and a remote server. The client device may stream a data stream via the gateway system to the remote server for remote processing. The gateway system may receive the data stream and markers which identify respective blocks of packets in the data stream, wherein each identified block of packets is independently processable. In response to an instruction or configuration to effect a migration of the remote processing from the remote server to a further remote server, the gateway system may determine a block of packets in the data stream from which block of packets onwards the further remote server is to start processing the data stream so as to effect or initialize the migration, and when received, stream the determined block of packets and subsequent blocks of packets of the data stream to the further remote server.
US12063263B2
A system is provided for dynamically managing a media production work package. The system includes a media production work package generator that builds a media production work package that includes media processing functions; and a processing function manager that generates function trackers that are each assigned to a respective one of the plurality of media processing functions and comprise a unique identity. Moreover, the system includes a function deployment manager that embeds the function trackers in the respective media processing functions, and deploys the media processing functions to resources available in a cloud computing network that includes both physical resources and software resources. A performance metric collector generates a graphical representation of respective total costs of each the deployed media processing functions and a work package controller generates a data point structure that uniquely identifies the deployed media processing functions and the total costs for each deployed function.
US12063259B2
Systems and methods are directed to synchronizing comments between a document and a virtual meeting. The document is shared in a screen-share section of a meeting user interface. A comment widget monitors for comments made to the document. In response to detecting a first comment made to the document, the comment widget synchronizes the first comment with a chat section of the meeting user interface. The comment widget also monitors for comments made in the chat section of the meeting user interface and detects that a second comment made in the chat section is linked to the first comment. In response, the comment widget synchronizes the second comment to the document by positioning a copy of the second comment relative to the first portion of the document and the first comment in the same context. The first and second comment create a first comment thread in the chat section.
US12063248B2
Techniques for providing deep learning for malicious URL classification (URLC) using the innocent until proven guilty (IUPG) learning framework are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product includes storing a set comprising one or more innocent until proven guilty (IUPG) models for static analysis of a sample; performing a static analysis of one or more URLs associated with the sample, wherein performing the static analysis includes using at least one stored IUPG model; and determining that the sample is malicious based at least in part on the static analysis of the one or more URLs associated with the sample, and in response to determining that the sample is malicious, performing an action based on a security policy.
US12063246B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing security of a communication network. A message, formatted based on a stateless communication protocol for a communication network, may be received from a first computing device and by a second computing device. The second computing device generates a fingerprint of the message based on at least a portion of a header of the message or a portion of a body of the message. In addition, the second computing device detects whether the generated fingerprint of the message has a duplicated fingerprint already stored in the storage device, where the message is a retried message or replayed message of a message having the duplicated fingerprint. In embodiments, the fingerprint may be generated using a hash function based on the message.
US12063236B2
An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate, from a log obtained from a device, a graph structure indicating one or more associations between one or more processes and one or more objects related to the one or more processes, and an identifying unit configured to, in a case where one of objects of the device is specified, identify at least one process related to the specified one of the objects, based on the generated graph structure, and identify one or more objects related to the identified at least one process.
US12063234B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for determining an anomaly based on properties associated with an entity are described. The determination of an anomaly associated with an entity may include accessing network traffic from a network and storing a first value of a property associated with an entity communicatively coupled to the network. The first value of the property is based on the network traffic. Additional network traffic associated with the entity may be accessed and a second value of the property determined based on the additional network traffic. Whether the first value of the property does not match the second value of the property may be determined and in response to the first value of the property not matching the second value of the property, an indicator that an anomaly has detected may be stored. An action may be performed based on determination of an anomaly.
US12063232B2
A dynamic hybrid residential threat detection method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a packet selector on a customer premises equipment (CPE), communication sessions and selecting and sending, by the packet selector, a predefined number of packets of the communication sessions to a CPE detection engine based on packet selection rules. The method also includes inspecting, by the CPE detection engine, the predefined number of packets of each communication session based on CPE detection rules that establish what type of inspection is to be performed by the CPE detection engine based at least in part on CPE resource constraints. The method further includes sending, by the packet selector, the predefined number of packets of at least some of the communication sessions to a cloud detection engine and blocking particular communication traffic on the CPE based on the inspection and/or an instruction from the cloud detection engine.
US12063219B2
Methods and systems for detecting forged Kerberos protocol tickets are presented. In one embodiment, a method is presented that includes receiving and decrypting an authentication request including a ticket. A validity start time and a validity end time may then be extracted from the ticket and a validity period may be calculated based on the validity start time and the validity end time. The method may then include retrieving a domain validity period from a domain controller and comparing the validity period to the domain validity period. If the validity period differs from the domain validity period, the authentication request may be blocked.
US12063207B2
Non-interfering access layer end-to-end encryption for IOT devices over a data communication network
Once a new session of data packets is detected, whether to proxy encrypt the data packets, on behalf of a specific headless endpoint device from the plurality of headless endpoint devices for a session, is determined based on analysis of payload data of a data packet from a session. Responsive to a determination to proxy encrypt data packets, encryption attributes are set up between a local data port on the network device and a remote data port on a remote network device as parsed from a header of the data packet. Outbound and inbound data packets of the session secure OSI layers 4 to 7 of the outbound data packets of the session are encrypted, according to the encryption attributes, without interference to OSI layers 1 to 3.
US12063204B2
The disclosure provides an approach for processing communications between connected data centers. Embodiments include receiving, at a first gateway of a first data center from a second gateway of a second data center, one or more policies associated with traffic attributes. Embodiments include programming priority routes between the first gateway and the second gateway over a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel based on the one or more policies, wherein each of the priority routes is associated with a traffic attribute of the traffic attributes. Embodiments include providing the one or more policies to a central controller of the first data center and programming, by the central controller, one or more tables associated with a centrally-managed virtual switch based on the one or more policies. Embodiments include updating a database associated with each of a plurality of hosts based on the programming of the one or more tables.
US12063203B2
A method including receiving, by a first server from a second server, an encrypted authentication packet to enable the first server and the second server to conduct an authentication process, the encrypted authentication packet including a crypted code field indicating that a portion of the encrypted authentication packet is encrypted and a crypted payload including an encrypted initial authentication packet; and transmitting, by the first server to the second server, a response based at least in part on determining that the portion of the encrypted authentication packet is encrypted and on decrypting the encrypted initial authentication packet. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12063201B1
A first device in a mesh network and connected to a LAN being configured to: receive, from the second device, a first network packet to be transmitted by the first device to a first LAN device connected to the LAN, the first network packet indicating a first subnet IP address as a first destination address; select to transmit the first network packet to the first LAN device; receive, from the second device, a second network packet to be transmitted by the first device to a second LAN device connected to the LAN, the second network packet indicating a second subnet IP address as a second destination address; and select to refrain from transmitting the second network packet to the second LAN device based at least in part on the second packet indicating the second subnet IP address as the second destination address is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12063200B2
Systems, methods and products for determining the trustworthiness of anonymous sensors, including a sensor health check, a data ballpark check, a reputation comparison, and optional “last resort” procedures. The sensor health check examines sensor operating parameters to see if they fall within an envelope of expected values. If not, the sensor is unhealthy and is not trusted. The data ballpark check determines whether the sensor's traffic data falls within a predefined envelope of values. If the sensor is healthy and the traffic is within expected ranges, the sensor is trusted. If the traffic data is outside expected ranges, the reputation comparison, determines whether IP addresses, domains or other IOCs in the traffic data are found in the reputation list which may corroborate the traffic as trustworthy because it represents malicious or not-in-the-wild traffic. “Last resort” procedures may include applying safelists/blocklists, signature controls etc. to verify sensor/data trustworthiness.
US12063199B1
The invention is an improvement to an originally patented invention titled the Global portal network that allows the use of any domain name followed by a name or email address in the address bar of any internet browser to, using an algorithm that is part of the platform, generate and implement a query that will cause the internet browser to publish information stored in an active directory system and/or database that is on the platform.
US12063198B2
A multi-channel communication platform includes a messaging engine a routing engine and a queue manager. The messaging engine is operative to receive a plurality of textual messages from a user, the plurality of textual messages forming a message thread and including at least one query requesting a reply. The routing engine is operative to transmit the message thread to a message queue associated with a live agent and to receive a reply from the live agent and transmit the reply to the user. The queue manager is operative to provide the live agent with an adjustable reward following a response to the query, with the amount of the award being based on one or more of: the perceived complexity of the query; a number of outstanding or unassigned queries; or the perceived urgency of the query.
US12063195B2
Systems and methods for a social networking platform or users thereof to solicit candid content from users. One or more users are selected for receipt of a post request. The users may be selected for a given post request based upon rules-based criteria and algorithmic optimization. Request recipients may provide qualified content posts in response to receipt of a post request. Content posts may be qualified based upon systematically-imposed editorial constraints including a time period during which a qualified post may be made, or other restrictions on the post authoring process.
US12063193B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for integrating data from multiple computer-based communication platforms within a single user session at a mobile device application. The mobile device application may interact with a first platform in a first format. The first platform may include an interactive response system such as a chatbot. The mobile device application may receive a request to interact with a live agent and may interact with a second platform in a second format. The second platform may include an agent interface. In response to the transfer request, the first interface may capture the interactions with the first platform, convert the interactions from the first format to the second format, and transmit them to the second platform. The second platform may display the session history to the agent on the same screen as real-time, ongoing agent interactions with the user.
US12063182B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception and transmission in 5G NR at a frequency larger than 52.6 GHz and with a subcarrier spacing larger than 120 KHz.
US12063176B2
In some circumstances, a URLLC may preempt resource. An apparatus may be configured to receive a set of resource blocks from a base station including at least one of eMBB data or URLLC data in a PDSCH. The apparatus may receive a URLLC indicator from the base station. The URLLC indicator may be received embedded within the URLLC data or received separate from the URLLC data within DCI of a PDCCH. The URLLC indicator indicates whether the set of resource blocks includes at least part of the URLLC data. The apparatus may determine, based on the URLLC indicator, whether the set of resource blocks includes the URLLC data and processing the set of resource blocks based on a result of determining whether the set of resource blocks includes the URLLC data.
US12063175B2
An embodiment method of network node operation includes indicating, by a first network node, to a first UE, a first number of REs in a first set of RBs for a first reference signal, transmitting, by the first network node, to the first UE, the first reference signal in accordance with the first number of REs and a first precoding in a first subframe, receiving, by the first network node, from the first UE, a report indicating a first MCS in accordance with a level of signal and interference measured by the first UE, wherein the measurement is restricted to the first reference signal, and transmitting, by the first network node, a first data with the indicated first MCS and the first precoding in a second subframe, the first data being transmitted on a second number of REs in the first set of RBs in the second subframe.
US12063169B2
Embodiments herein describe using translation mappings and security contracts to establish interconnects and policies between switching fabrics at different sites to create a unified fabric. In one embodiment, a multi-site controller can stretch endpoint groups (EPGs) between the sites so that a host or application in a first site can communicate with a host or application in a second site which is assigned to the same stretched EPG, despite the two sites have different namespaces. Further, the shadow EPGs can be formed to facilitate security contracts between EPGs in different sites. Each site can store namespace translation mapping that enable the site to convert namespace information in packets received from a different site into its own namespace values. As a result, independent bridging and routing segments in the various sites can be interconnected as well as providing application accessibility across different fabrics with independent and private namespaces.
US12063163B2
Systems and methods for sending and receiving messages, including training data, using a multi-path packet spraying protocol are described. A method includes segmenting a message into a set of data packets comprising training data. The method further includes initiating transmission of the set of data packets to a receiving node. The method further includes spraying the set of data packets across the switch fabric in accordance with the multi-path spraying protocol such that depending upon a value of a fabric determination field associated with a respective data packet, the respective data packet can traverse via any one of a plurality of paths offered by the switch fabric for a connection between the sending node to the receiving node. The method further includes initiating transmission of synchronization packets to the receiving node, where unlike the set of data packets, the synchronization packets are not sprayed across the switch fabric.
US12063156B2
A system for admission and flow control is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a switch for routing network traffic, having multiple classes of service (CoSs), from multiple ingress ports to one or more of multiple egress ports. The system also includes multiple ingress-level class of service queues (InCoS-Qs) and one or more egress-level class of service queues (EgCoS-Qs), each InCoS-Q and EgCoS-Q corresponding to one of CoSs. The switch is configured to detect congestion in a particular EgCoS-Q, corresponding to a particular CoS, the particular EgCoS-Q being associated with a particular host; identify an InCoS-Q corresponding to that particular CoS, and associated with that particular host; and block that InCoS-Q, while allowing routing of the network traffic from one or more InCoS-Qs corresponding to that particular CoS, the one or more InCoS-Qs corresponding to one or more other hosts.
US12063153B2
A method and apparatus for implementing multicast. When a multicast source performs route advertisement, route update is performed on a cross-DC integrated device, and a received device identifier and a received AS number are replaced with a device identifier and an AS number that are of the integrated device. In this way, when a multicast user joins the multicast source, each network device in the network can trace the multicast source based on a received route, and determine a multicast path that is from the multicast source to the multicast user. Therefore, it is possible to accurately perform, in a NG MVPN, cross-DC multicast on traffic of the multicast source.
US12063152B2
An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to receive a heartbeat message from a second information handling system via a network, wherein the second information handling is system not publicly accessible via the network, and wherein the heartbeat message is operable to establish a communication channel between the information handling system and the second information handling system; and transmit a response to the second information handling system via the communication channel, wherein the response indicates whether any management tasks should be executed by the second information handling system.
US12063147B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a communication network to satisfy a set of demands. A network management system can obtain a network graph representing the communication network, connectivity relationship that indicates valid pairs of edges for each vertex in the network graph, and a structure that lacks zero divisors. The network management system can use the network graph, connectivity relationship, and structure to determine a path length for which a valid path connecting a source vertex and a terminal vertex exists. The path length can be determined using a dynamic programming approach that associates an element of the structure with the collection of paths connecting the source vertex and the terminal vertex. The network management system can then use the network graph, connectivity relationship, and structure to determine a valid path of the path length that connects the source vertex and the terminal vertex.
US12063146B2
An apparatus comprises a first processing device configured to manage, in a first mode of operation, one or more first tasks for a network switch, and to replicate, in the first mode of operation, state information for a network operating system of the network switch, the network operating system running on a second processing device in the first mode of operation. The first processing device is also configured to initiate, in response to one or more trigger conditions, an in-service switch-over from the first mode of operation to a second mode of operation. The first processing device is further configured to suspend, in the second mode of operation, at least one of the one or more first tasks, and to run, in the second mode of operation, at least a portion of the network operating system utilizing the replicated state information.
US12063145B2
A computing system includes an account associated with a user of the system, and a server. One or more processors are configured to receive user information from a user computing device, wherein the user information is related to a user of the account, determine, based on the user information, one or more user settings preferences related to a second computing device, receive an information request, wherein the information request includes a request to send the one or more user settings preferences to the second computing device, and to send the one or more user settings preferences to the second computing device, wherein the one or more user settings preferences are useable by the second computing device to adjust one or more settings of the second computing device.
US12063144B2
The invention relates to a method for configuring a user equipment, comprising the steps of a) accessing user related information, preferably account information, on the user equipment, b) transmitting the user related information to a dedicated configuration server, c) matching the user related information to a specific configuration information, d) upon matching, transmitting the configuration information to the user equipment, e) configuring the user equipment with the configuration information, and wherein initiation of the steps a)-e) is performed by a one-touch-client and wherein the configuration server is provided as a one-touch-server. The invention also relates to a system for configuring a user equipment.
US12063142B2
A computing system identifies mitigation actions in response to failures within a computer network. A service level objective is obtained by the computing system for client-resource data flows traversing the computer network between client-side and resource-side nodes. Indication of a failure event at a network location of the computer network is obtained. For each mitigation action of a set of candidate mitigation actions, an estimated impact to a distribution of the service level objective is determined for the mitigation action by applying simulated client-resource data flows to a network topology model of the computer network in combination with the mitigation action and the failure event. One or more target mitigation actions are identified by the computing system from the set of candidate mitigation actions based on a comparison of the estimated impacts of the set of candidate mitigation actions.
US12063140B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for test system agent deployment in a smartswitch computing environment are disclosed. One example method occurs at a test system, the method comprising: obtaining test information indicating a smartswitch or a data processing unit (DPU) of the smartswitch for testing in a smartswitch computing environment or at least one test system agent deployment factor, wherein the smartswitch includes a switch processor and DPUs; determining, using the test information and topology information about the smartswitch computing environment, at least one location for deploying at least one test system agent; and providing placement information indicating the at least one location for deploying the at least one test system agent to a target system or to a test system agent controller.
US12063134B2
A wireless communication device and a communication method for header repetition are described. The device and method receive and decode a wireless packet through a communication channel. Formats of the wireless packet includes a first packet format and a second packet format. In this regard, the first packet format comprises a first header field carried by a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol while the second packet format comprises both the first header field carried by the first OFDM symbol and a second header field carried by a second OFDM symbol which follows the first OFDM symbol. The second header field is a repetition of the first header field. According to an exemplary embodiment, the second packet format is distinguished from the first packet format by detecting, from the received wireless packet, the second header field which repeats the first header field.
US12063132B2
Embodiments of this application disclose example data processing methods and example apparatuses. One example method includes determining, by a first terminal device based on a parameter group, a first sequence including N elements, where the parameter group includes a first parameter, a second parameter, and a cyclic shift value, the first sequence is obtained by performing cyclic shift on a second sequence based on the cyclic shift value, and the second sequence is determined based on the first parameter and the second parameter. The first terminal device can then send a signal to a network device based on the first sequence.
US12063122B2
Disclosed is a method for operating and participating in a voice chat room subordinate to a message chat room is disclosed. The method for operating a voice chat room subordinate to a message chat room includes: managing, by a server, messages transmitted and received through the message chat room in which a first user and a second user participate; receiving, by the server, a request for creation of the voice chat room subordinate to the message chat room from the first user; creating, by the server, the voice chat room in response to the received request for creation of the voice chat room; providing, by the server, information that the voice chat room is being operated to the second user through the message chat room; providing, by the server, information that the voice chat room is being operated to the second user through a message chat room list.
US12063121B2
Provided is a method by a user equipment (UE), comprising: acquiring, from a Base Station (BS), one or more messages comprising a first group of parameters and a second group of parameters of one or more Configured Grant (CG) configuration in a bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell, at least one CG configuration with the second group of parameters indicates a plurality of transmission occasions within a period, and repeating transmission of a Transport Block (TB) in the plurality of transmission occasions based on the at least one CG configuration.
US12063120B2
A base station transmits one or more radio resource control messages to a wireless device. The base station receives from the wireless device, a transport block via an uplink data channel. The one or more radio resource control messages include: a HARQ RTT timer value indicating the wireless device to start an uplink HARQ RTT timer with the uplink HARQ RTT timer value in response to transmitting the transport block to the base station, a DRX retransmission timer value indicating the wireless device to start an uplink DRX retransmission timer with the uplink DRX retransmission timer value in response to transmitting the transport block. The uplink DRX retransmission timer is for UE to monitor a downlink control channel while the uplink DRX retransmission timer is running.
US12063119B2
A user equipment (UE) associated with a wireless communication system is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to receive a first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The first DCI includes a non-numerical (NN) value of K1 for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK feedback. The processor is further configured to determine a first priority class associated with the first PDSCH, and determine K1 value and priority class associated with one or more subsequent PDSCH received from the BS, until a selected PDSCH having a numerical K1 value and a same priority class as the first priority class is identified. Further, the processor is configured to provide HARQ-ACK feedback associated with the first PDSCH using a PUCCH/PUSCH occasion indicated by a second DCI scheduling the selected PDSCH.
US12063118B2
A wireless communication device generates physical layer (PHY) protocol service data units (PSDUs), and, in response to determining that the PHY data unit is to be transmitted according to a HARQ process, generates HARQ coding units of a common length, each of the HARQ coding units including a respective set of one or more PSDUs, and individually encodes the HARQ coding units. The wireless communication device also generates a HARQ signal field to the included in a PHY preamble of the PHY data unit. The HARQ signal field includes i) a common information subfield to indicate one or more parameters that commonly apply to each of at least some of the one or more HARQ coding units and ii) a respective HARQ coding unit information subfield for each of the HARQ coding units to indicate one or more parameters that apply to only the corresponding HARQ coding unit.
US12063117B2
A wireless data transmission system and method is disclosed. A given frame comprising a distinct message is transmitted to a designated receiver. Responsive to a failure of the designated receiver to detect the distinct message, one or more first copies of the distinct message are added to at least one first subsequent frame of one or more subsequent frames, subsequent to the given frame, designating the designated receiver. Moreover, one or more second copies of the distinct message are added to at least one second subsequent frame of the subsequent frames, wherein a first number of the first copies is different than a second number of the second copies. The first copies and the second copies are added to meet a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement for a communication link between the wireless data transmission system and the designated receiver and a delay requirement for the communication link.
US12063116B2
This application discloses that a terminal device determines at least one target time parameter set based on N time parameter sets, where time unit lengths corresponding to at least two of the N time parameter sets are different; determines M target times based on a first time and the at least one target time parameter set, generates a codebook based on response information corresponding to downlink information received at at least one of the M target times, and sends the codebook to a network device at the first time. Correspondingly, the network device determines, based on the response information included in the codebook, whether the downlink information corresponding to the response information is successfully transmitted. Therefore, when the time unit lengths corresponding to the at least two of the N time parameter sets are different, the network device and the terminal device have a consistent understanding of the codebook.
US12063108B2
System and for signal re-transmission including a channelizer, a signal-effect-processor and a controller. The signal-effect-processor includes a plurality of sub-band-processors and a summer. The channelizer receives a sampled Intermediate-Frequency signal exhibiting a first sampling-rate. The channelizer produces a plurality of sub-band-signals, each associated with a respective sub-band of the Intermediate-Frequency signal. Each sub-band-signal exhibit a second sampling-rate lower than the first sampling-rate. Each of at least one selected sub-band-processor receives a respective sub-band-signal, introduces at least one effect to the respective sub-band-signal, and increases the sampling-rate of the respective sub-band-signal to the first sampling-rate, thereby producing a respective affected sub-band re-transmit signal. Each selected sub-band-processor is further provides the respective affected sub-band re-transmit signal to a respective input of the summer. The summer sums the inputs thereof to produce a wideband affected re-transmit signal. The controller selects the selected sub-band processor and controls settings of the at least one effect.
US12063106B2
Disclosed are an overhead monitoring method and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method may include: receiving a flexible Ethernet (FlexE) signals from one or more PHY interfaces respectively; de-interleaving each FlexE signal with the transmission rate of N*Y Gbps in the received FlexE signals respectively into N PHY signals each having a transmission rate of Y Gbps; selecting M valid data signals from the FlexE signal with the transmission rate being the target transmission rate in the received FlexE signals and the de-interleaved PHY signals with the transmission rate of Y Gbps; removing each pad from each of the M valid data signals, performing frame delimitation on each of the M valid data signals, and extracting each FlexE overhead from each of the M valid data signals; and generating a linear overhead frame based on the extracted FlexE overheads, and outputting the linear overhead frame.
US12063096B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may receive, via a first frequency band, a first one or more signals of a communication that is associated with a multiple hop link, wherein the first one or more signals are associated with a first one or more communication parameters that result in a data capacity for the first one or more signals. The repeater may perform an action to adjust the first one or more communication parameters to a second one or more communication parameters for transmission via a second frequency band, the second one or more communication parameters causing the data capacity to be maintained. The repeater may transmit, via the second frequency band, a second one or more signals of the communication using the second one or more communication parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12063085B2
Apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums enable L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. More specifically, rules and operations performed during L1/L2 based cell handover operations. A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a network entity of a source cell via at least one of L1 or L2 signaling, a handover command for the UE to handover from the source cell to a target cell. The UE determines at least one transient period during which the UE is served by both the source cell and the target cell, and performs the handover while communicating with the source cell and target cell during the transient period.
US12063082B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a network entity. The method may include receiving an indication indicating a subset of one or more precoding matrix vectors associated with an estimated channel between a user equipment (UE) and the network entity. The subset of one or more precoding matrix vectors are part of a precoding matrix. The method may include calculating remaining precoding matrix vectors for the precoding matrix, based on the subset of one or more precoding matrix vectors. The method may include generating the precoding matrix based on the subset of one or more precoding matrix vectors and the remaining precoding matrix vectors. The method may include performing precoding of a downlink transmission based on the precoding matrix.
US12063081B2
A method of communication between a first node and a second node operating in a communications network. The method includes sending, by the first node, to the second node, a first transmission to configure a communication channel between the first node and the second node. The first transmission includes a first frame including a first capability indicator. The first capability indicator indicates a first MU-MIMO capability of a transmitter of the first node. The first multi-user (MU)-MIMO capability includes a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) processable by the first node or a first number of spatial streams (NSS) processable by the first node.
US12063080B2
This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. According to the communication method, a first device sends to one or more second devices, by using a control trailer, configuration information used for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication between the first device and the one or more second devices, so that the MIMO communication can be performed between the first device and the one or more second devices based on the configuration information.
US12063078B2
A method, performed by a node, of provisioning a plurality of cable modems connected to the node, the method including: recording a respective transmit power level for each cable modem of the plurality of cable modems; determining a first set of the plurality of cable modems that can be allocated to a specified frequency band available for upstream communications according to an aggregation of the transmit power levels of the first set of the plurality of cable modems; and provisioning each cable modem of the first set to use at least a portion of the specified frequency.
US12063076B2
A device may include a processor, a receiver, and a transmitter. The receiver may be configured to receive a content signal. The transmitter may be configured to transmit the content signal. The transmitter may be configured to transmit an associated inaudible signal. The content signal, the associated inaudible signal, or both, may be transmitted to one or more electronic devices. Each of the one or more electronic devices may be configured with audio interfaces. The receiver may be configured to receive a respective message from each of the one or more electronic devices. Each respective message may be based on the associated inaudible signal. Each respective message may include a respective electronic device identifier. The transmitter may be configured to transmit one of the respective messages.
US12063068B2
A tracking system includes one or more cameras and machine-vision processors configured to track the position of a plurality of optical tracking emitters. Each of the plurality of tracking emitters is modulated with a message. The message includes identification information for any of the plurality of tracking cameras receiving the message, so that the cameras can track the location of each emitter.
US12063066B2
An object of the present disclosure is to make already installed smart lightings available as optical base stations as they are without modifying them, and perform connection/authentication control for RF communication using an optical signal sent out from the optical base stations. The present disclosure is a wireless communication system including: one or more wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with a terminal; a base station control device that collects wireless base station information from each wireless base station, determines a wireless base station that wirelessly communicates with the terminal using the collected wireless base station information, and transmits an optical ID corresponding to the determined wireless base station; and one or more optical base stations that receive the optical ID from the base station control device, and transmit the received optical ID to the terminal using an optical signal, wherein the wireless base station determined by the base station control device wirelessly communicates with the terminal that receives the optical ID.
US12063062B2
Radio frequency (RF) communication systems with coexistence management are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a method of coexistence management in a mobile device includes processing a wireless local area network (WLAN) observation signal to generate WLAN observation data using a WLAN observation channel of a WLAN transceiver, processing an RF cellular receive signal to generate a digital baseband cellular receive signal using a cellular receive channel of a cellular transceiver, processing a cellular observation signal to generate cellular observation data using a cellular observation channel of the cellular transceiver, and compensating the digital baseband cellular receive signal for RF signal leakage based on the WLAN observation data and on the cellular observation data using a discrete time cancellation circuit of the cellular transceiver.
US12063061B1
A mobile phone accessory that allows a user to hold and mount a cell phone freely using a magnetic band is provided. The mobile phone accessory according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a magnet band with magnets on opposite sides thereof and a metal plate positioned on a backside of a mobile phone or a mobile phone case, and to which the magnet provided on the magnet band is attached. Thereby, by using the magnetic band, the mobile phone can be used while freely changing a position and a direction of the mobile phone on the palm. And the mobile phone can be used by being placed on the floor in various directions and at various angles.
US12063060B2
According to certain aspects a wireless device includes transmitters, and a processor coupled to the transmitters. The processor is configured to determine a radio frequency (RF) exposure value at a peak location based on transmission power levels for the transmitters, determine a contribution of each one of the transmitters to the RF exposure value at the peak location, and reduce the transmission power level for each one of one or more of the transmitters based on the contributions of the transmitters to the RF exposure value at the peak location.
US12063057B2
A signal coupler (100) comprising: a main-transmission-line (114) that extends in a longitudinal direction within a substrate (102) between an input port and an output port; and a coupled-transmission-line (116) that extends in the longitudinal direction within the substrate (102) between a coupled port and a termination port. The coupled-transmission-line (116) is in a second layer (110). The main-transmission-line (114) comprises a first-portion (120) in a first layer (108), a second-portion (122) in a second layer (110), and a third-portion (124) in a third layer (112). At least part of the first-portion (120) is spaced apart from the coupled-transmission-line (116) in a depth direction. At least part of the second-portion (122) is spaced apart from the coupled-transmission-line (116) in the depth direction. At least part of the third-portion (124) is spaced apart from the coupled-transmission-line (116) in the depth direction.
US12063056B2
The present disclosure is directed to improvements in interference mitigation for Adjacent Channel Leakage in wireline communication, and more specifically, but not exclusively, to improved kernel designs that can facilitate interference mitigation for Adjacent Channel Leakage in cable modem systems. Examples of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for a transceiver device that comprises interference cancellation circuitry configured to cancel interference caused by upstream signals in one or more upstream sub-bands on one or more downstream sub-bands based on a combination of a plurality of kernels. The interference is at least partially caused by non-linearities within a transmission circuitry of the transceiver device, the plurality of kernels representing the non-linearities within the transmission circuitry of the transceiver device. Each of the kernels comprises one or more associated terms, with each of the associated terms being in-band for at least one of the one or more downstream sub-bands.
US12063055B2
An apparatus and method for performing a fast Fourier transform in the analog domain with passive components. A complex analog signal that is shift and scale invariant is derived from analog circuit properties. A butterfly circuit processes such signals using only passive components by mapping the Kirchhoff current and voltage laws into operations on the signals. A fast Fourier transform circuit of any desired width is constructed from such butterfly circuits. The passive networks require no power as the operations are on the presented signal; energy is taken from the source signal so no battery or power supply is needed. Thus, when the signal becomes quiescent, the power consumed is zero. Further there is no need of a clock or other timing device; rather, it is the operation of Kirchhoff laws in the network, which apply essentially upon arrival of the signal, that is made analogous to the desired operation.
US12063053B2
An analog-to-digital converter includes a primary converter and a secondary converter. The primary converter executes conversion processing to convert an analog input signal to a first digital signal through delta-sigma modulation. The secondary converter outputs a second digital signal by converting amplified analog output of a quantization error in the primary converter to the second digital signal.
US12063052B2
An analog error correction circuit is disclosed that implements an analog error correction code. The analog circuit includes a crossbar array of memristors or other non-volatile tunable resistive memory devices. The crossbar array includes a first crossbar array portion programmed with values of a target computation matrix and a second crossbar array portion programmed with values of an encoder matrix for correcting computation errors in the matrix multiplication of an input vector with the computation matrix. The first and second crossbar array portions share the same row lines and are connected to a third crossbar array portion that is programmed with values of a decoder matrix, thereby enabling single-cycle error detection. A computation error is detected based on output of the decoder matrix circuitry and a location of the error is determined via an inverse matrix multiplication operation whereby the decoder matrix output is fed back to the decoder matrix.
US12063050B2
An analog-to-digital converter comprising a plurality of sampling cells. At least one of the plurality of sampling cells comprises a capacitive element coupled to a cell output of the at least one of the plurality of sampling cells, wherein a cell output signal is provided at the cell output. The at least one of the plurality of sampling cells further comprises a first cell input for receiving an input signal to be digitized, and a second cell input for receiving a calibration signal. Additionally, the at least one of the plurality of sampling cells comprises a first switch circuit capable of selectively coupling the first cell input to the capacitive element based on a clock signal, and a second switch circuit capable of selectively coupling the second cell input to the capacitive element, wherein a size of the second switch circuit is smaller than a size of the first switch circuit.
US12063047B2
Systems and methods for integrating injection-locked oscillators into transceiver arrays are disclosed. In one aspect, there is provided an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) distribution system including a master clock generator configured to generate a master clock signal. The ILO distribution system also includes an ILO distribution circuit including an ILO and configured to receive the master clock signal. The ILO is configured to generate a reference clock signal based on the master clock signal. The ILO distribution circuit is further configured to generate an output signal indicative of an operating frequency of the ILO. The ILO distribution system further includes an injection-locked detector (ILD) configured to receive the master clock signal and the output signal. The ILD is further configured to determine whether the ILO is in a locked state or in an unlocked state based on the master clock signal and the output signal.
US12063045B2
The disclosure relates to monitoring of feedback systems such as phase lock loops. A system is disclosed, comprising: a feedback circuit (100); and a monitoring module (190). The monitoring module (190) is configured to: i) receive actual values of at least one state variable describing the state of the feedback circuit at a first time; ii) determine a predicted future value of the at least one state variable at a second time from the actual values at the first time using a model of the feedback circuit; iii) receive actual values of the at least one state variable at the second time; iv) compare the predicted future value of the at least one state variable at the second time with the actual value of the at least one state variable at the second time; and v) determine whether the feedback circuit has a fault condition, depending on the results of step iv).
US12063042B2
A duty cycle correction device includes a duty cycle correction circuit and a duty cycle control circuit. The duty cycle correction circuit corrects a duty cycle of an input dock signal based on a duty cycle control signal and a duty cycle resolution control signal to generate an output dock signal. The duty cycle control circuit generates the duty cycle control signal by detecting a duty cycle of the output clock signal, generates a duty cycle correction completion signal when duty cycle correction is completed, and recorrects the duty cycle of the input clock signal by activating the duty cycle resolution control signal when the duty cycle correction completion signal is activated at an earlier timing than a reference time.
US12063033B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implementing a multi-driver architecture are described. The multi-driver architecture may include a first driver and a second driver configured to receive an input voltage. A predriver logic circuit may select one of the first driver and the second driver to convert the input voltage into an output voltage. A controller may be connected to the first driver and the second driver, and a switch may be connected between an output terminal of the first driver and the controller. The controller may be configured to control an internal resistance of the switch. In response to the first driver being selected by the predriver logic circuit, the first driver may output the output voltage at a constant impedance level.
US12063032B2
A relay circuit, including a solid state relay switch, connected to a first relay line and to a charging capacitor, and connected to a second relay line. The relay circuit may also include a solid state relay control circuit, coupled between the charging capacitor and the solid state relay switch. The solid state relay control circuit may include a voltage detection circuit, having an input coupled to an output of the charging capacitor, and having an output arranged to generate a LOW voltage signal when a voltage level of the charging capacitor is below a low threshold value. The solid state relay control circuit may also include a zero crossing circuit, coupled to the first relay line and the second relay line, and having an output to generate a clock signal when a zero crossing event takes place between the first relay line and the second relay line.
US12063024B2
An LC circuit includes a first capacitor provided between a first connection point and a second connection point, a second capacitor provided between the second connection point and a third connection point, a third capacitor provided between the third connection point and a fourth connection point, a fourth capacitor provided between the first connection point and the third connection point, a fifth capacitor provided between the second connection point and the fourth connection point, a first inductor connected to the second connection point, and a second inductor connected to the third connection point.
US12063016B2
Methods and devices to support multiple gain states in amplifiers are described. The methods and devices are based on implementing a feedback element in the amplifier and adjusting the impedance of the feedback element to provide a desired gain while maintaining the overall performance of the amplifier and reducing degradation of the S12 parameter. The feedback element includes an adjustable attenuator and a tunable resistive element. The adjustable attenuator is provided in a path that is common to the feedback path and the bypass path of the amplifier. Exemplary implementations of adjustable attenuators are also presented.
US12063006B2
A motor control device controls a driving of a motor having a motor winding. The motor control device includes a motor control unit and a parameter setting unit. The motor control unit controls the driving of the motor. The parameter setting unit sets a control parameter related to a driving control of the motor such that at least one of a motor torque and a motor speed is variable according to a system temperature.
US12062996B2
Synchronizing a grid side harmonic filter and pre-charging cell capacitors in modular multilevel converters by: opening a transmission circuit breaker disposed on a first path between a power grid and a converter system; closing a pre-charging contactor disposed on a second path between the power grid and the converter system that includes a set of pre-charge resistors; connecting the power grid to the converter system and the harmonic filter over the second path; selectively charging cell capacitors in the converter system until a charge threshold is reached, wherein a smaller subset of the cell capacitors is charged at a given time than in an earlier time, and each cell capacitor is charged to a higher cell voltage than in the earlier time; and closing the transmission circuit breaker and connecting a generator to the converter system via a generator circuit breaker while leaving the pre-charging contactor closed.
US12062989B2
A power supply comprises a controller configured to control a power converter by generating drive signals that control the opening and closing of a high side switch and a low side switch. The controller is configured to selectively control the high side switch according to various modes of operation depending on operating conditions such as input voltage and load power consumption. The modes of operation can include, for example, a mode in which the high side switch is closed and then opened once during each of the series of switching cycles and a mode of operation in which the high side switch is closed and then opened two times during each of the series of switching cycles.
US12062986B2
A dual path and mode start-up circuit includes a high-voltage start-up circuit, an auxiliary start-up circuit, a capacitor, and a sensing circuit. The high-voltage start-up circuit has high-voltage input and output voltage nodes and is configurable to be operated in a first or second mode of operation. The auxiliary start-up circuit has auxiliary input and output voltage nodes. The auxiliary output voltage node, the high-voltage output voltage node, and the capacitor are in signal communication. The sensing circuit is configured to sense a voltage level at the capacitor and to configure the high-voltage start-up circuit to operate in the first mode of operation if the voltage level at the capacitor is less than a first threshold voltage level, and configure the high-voltage start-up circuit to operate in the second mode of operation if the voltage level at the capacitor is greater than a second threshold voltage level.
US12062975B2
An output short-circuit protection method, a power management chip and a switched-mode power supply are disclosed. When current accumulation has occurred in a power transistor, the number of consecutive current pulses during which the current accumulation occurred is counted. Upon the number of consecutive current pulses reaches a preset value, a regulation interval spanning switching periods is triggered, for at least some of the switching periods, the leading-edge blanking time is shortened or cancelled. In this way, an excessively large current flowing through the power transistor is prevented. Compared with existing fault response measures for power management chips, restart of the power supply and adjustment of the system timing are not needed, allowing easier implementation. Further, the automatic restart during chip start up due to false triggering as found in the existing measures for power management chips is circumvented.
US12062972B2
The invention relates to a cooling device with at least one first cooling duct element comprising at least one first cooling duct, and at least one second cooling duct element comprising at least one second cooling duct, where the first and the second cooling duct element each have a circular arc-shaped basic shape around a central axis of the cooling device. The first cooling duct element and the second cooling duct element are arranged concentrically to one another, where the second cooling duct element is arranged with respect to the first cooling duct element in such a way relative to the central axis that the first and the second cooling duct overlie each other along the first and the second cooling duct element at least in part in the radial direction. The invention further relates to a motor housing and a motor unit.
US12062968B2
A synchronous motor, including: an orientation sheet, an orientation gear set, a casing, a rotor, a transmission gear set, an input gear and an output gear set; wherein the orientation sheet is connected with the orientation gear set, and the orientation sheet is provided with a positioning rod, an orientation member and a groove for storing lubricating oil; the bottom surface of the casing is provided with a positioning groove, and the positioning rod is slidably connected with the positioning groove; the rotor is provided inside the casing, the rotor protrudes from the bottom of the casing and is provided with an orientation boss, and the orientation boss bears against the orientation member.
US12062964B2
An armature which radially faces a magnetic field-producing unit equipped with a magnet unit having a plurality of magnetic poles includes a housing, an armature core, a multi-phase armature winding, and bus bars. The housing includes a cylinder and a disc-shaped end plate placed in contact with one of axially opposed ends of the cylinder. The armature core is disposed on a portion of the cylinder which radially faces the magnet unit. The armature winding is disposed on a portion of the armature core which radially faces the magnet unit. The bus bars electrically connect phase windings of the armature winding together. The armature also includes a bus bar module which is of a circular or C-shape extending along the circumference of the armature core. The bus bar module is secured to the cylinder, the end plate, or one of axially opposed ends of the armature core.
US12062960B2
A method for producing a stator for an electric machine includes providing a stator with an annular stator body, from which a plurality of stator teeth protrude radially inwardly, wherein an intermediate space is formed in each case between two stator teeth that are adjacent in a circumferential direction, encapsulating two stator teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction with a first plastic mass, arranging a stator winding on a stator tooth, fixing the stator winding on the stator tooth by encapsulating said stator winding with a second plastic mass, following the encapsulation with the first plastic mass and before the fixing of the stator winding, a first mask is introduced into the intermediate space between the two stator teeth, such that the volume of the intermediate space that is filled with the first mask remains free from the second plastic mass to form a cooling duct during the encapsulation.
US12062959B2
The present invention relates to a coil module for an electric machine, comprising at least one coil disc comprising a coil carrier made of an electrically insulating material and a plurality of individual windings made of an electrically conductive material and being circumferentially arranged on the coil disc around a center of the coil disc. Each of the windings comprises two active regions extending radially from the center and two passive regions extending tangentially at its radially outer and inner edges, wherein, in a top view of the coil disc, the active regions of different windings do not overlap each other, but each passive region of one of the windings partially overlaps the corresponding passive regions of the two directly adjacent windings. In the active regions, the respective winding in cross-section has a greater thickness in the axial direction than in the passive regions.
US12062958B2
In this armature, facing surfaces which are portions where a first segment conductor and a second segment conductor are joined together are disposed so as to overlap each other as viewed in a radial direction, and an end part of at least one of the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor is provided with chamfered parts at edge parts on both circumferential sides of the end part.
US12062948B2
A rotor for a rotary electric machine is provided, the rotor including a pack of plates mounted on a shaft, the pack having a plurality of main plates mounted alternately with another plurality of spacer plates and the spacer plates having a base plate with a plurality of spacer profiles, the spacer plate having a crown region close to the shaft and a peripheral region with slots, wherein the plurality of spacer profiles includes at least one guiding spacer profile that has a first end portion arranged radially in relation to the shaft in the crown region of the spacer plate and a second end portion arranged radially in relation to the shaft in the peripheral region of the spacer plate, and the second end portion is offset angularly in relation to the first end portion.
US12062945B2
Techniques described here provide a rotor and a method of making a rotor. In an embodiment, a method of making a rotor includes forming a magnet array by assembling a plurality of magnets into the magnet array, providing pre-preg adjacent to the magnet array, co-curing the magnet array with the pre-preg, and magnetizing the magnet array subsequent to the formation of the magnet array.
US12062942B1
Methods and systems described herein are directed to alternatively sourcing and distributing power in the event of an expected deficiency in conventional power delivery. A power distribution system can define a cell of interlinked entities of power consumers and power producers, such as by identifying which of the entities are anticipated to experience the expected power deficiency, an amount of power allocated to one or more of the entities, and an ability of an entity to produce power. The system can control power distribution throughout the cell according to a power supply transmission schedule for the expected deficiency, where power can be sourced from one or more of a solar energy system, a wind turbine energy system, and a gasoline operated generator energy system, and disbursed to power consumers on a rotating basis.
US12062937B2
A control method includes determining whether an internal resistance of a secondary battery is higher than a first threshold resistance, performing first discharge of the secondary battery if it is determined that the internal resistance is higher than the first threshold resistance, and performing at least one of a charge operation of the secondary battery and a discharge operation of the secondary battery after the first discharge is performed.
US12062934B2
A system includes a first, particularly mobile, unit which has a number m of function terminals, a first potential equalization terminal, which is intended to be galvanically connected to a reference potential, an energy source, a power converter, which is fed from the energy source and produces a number m of signals, a switching unit, the signals produced by the power converter being fed to the input side of the switching unit, and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the function terminals, or the input side of the switching unit being connected to the energy source and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the power converter, an insulation monitoring unit, which detects an undesired galvanic connection of a component of the system to the reference potential, and a connection monitoring unit, which monitors whether the first potential equalization terminal is properly electrically connected to a corresponding potential equalization terminal of a second unit to be connected to the first unit.
US12062920B2
A counter-solar power plant may include a controller configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, the instructions including operations to receive data associated with power outputs of a plurality of legacy solar-only resources (LSORs), determine an estimated power output of the plurality of LSORs based on the received data, obtain a target power delivery profile of the plurality of LSORs, the target power delivery profile including a plurality of target power outputs, determine an output of a CSPP renewable energy system (RES) and a charge/discharge of a CSPP energy storage system (ESS) such that a combined output of the CSPP and the estimated power output of the plurality of LSORs satisfies at least one of the plurality of target power outputs of the target power delivery profile, and control the CSPP RES and CSPP ESS according to the determined CSPP RES output and CSPP ESS charge/discharge.
US12062919B2
A multi-modal maximum power point tracking optimization solar photovoltaic system is provided. A maximum power point tracking optimizer is connected to and powered by at least one solar cell. The maximum power point tracking optimizer configured to operate: in a pass-through mode when said at least one solar cell voltage is greater than a pass-through threshold and greater than a ratio of the open-circuit voltage of said at least one solar cell, said pass-through mode flowing current through a pass-through circuit; in an optimizing mode when said at least one solar cell voltage is greater than an optimizing threshold and less than a ratio of the open-circuit voltage of said at least one solar cell, said optimizing mode modulating current flow using a DC-to-DC switching circuit to direct the voltage of said at least solar cell towards said ratio of the open-circuit voltage; in an active bypass mode when said at least one solar cell voltage is less than an active bypass threshold, said active bypass mode flowing current through an active bypass circuit.
US12062907B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for protecting DC line impedance phase based on protection and control coordination, and an application scenario of the method for protecting is a three-terminal flexible DC transmission network. The method uses high controllability of a converter after a fault, injects a characteristic signal at a characteristic frequency, and calculates a phase angle of input impedance to determine a fault interval, which effectively improves protection performance, turns passive to active, and is not affected by nonlinearity of the converter. At the same time, compared with a full-bridge MMC, using a half-bridge MMC does not need to perform fault ride-through first when identifying a fault, and does not need to add additional equipment, it creates fault features and can reliably identify an fault interval; improves protection quickness and at the same time also has better economic benefits. It has selectivity, and an entire system may not be shut down due to failure of a single line.
US12062894B2
Cable clips for supporting one or more cables or wires that can be quickly and releasably affixed to metal structures for wire management purposes are provided. The cable clips include a cable holding portion and a plurality of attachment members used to quickly and releasably affixed to the cable clip to metal structures. The cable holding portion and plurality of attachment members are made of an environmentally durable material.
US12062891B2
Techniques, systems and articles are described for preparing electrical cables for connections to a power grid. In one example, a system includes a rotatable tool head having a plurality of rollers, a cutting tool, a signal reflection target coupled to the at least one cutting tool, a transceiver configured to transmit a signal toward the reflection target and detect a reflected signal from the reflection target; and at least one computing device configured to cause the transceiver to transmit the signal toward the reflection target and determine, based on the reflected signal, a current relative position of the cutting tool.
US12062890B2
A cable-shaving tool for midspan shaving of a cable jacket includes a housing bottom having a first hinge member along an upper edge, a cavity, and at least one cable groove extending through a length of the housing bottom. The cable-shaving tool includes a second housing shell having an interior portion having at least one recess having an upper control surface, an exterior portion, and a second hinge member along a second housing shell edge engageable with the first hinge member wherein the second housing shell is rotatable about the first hinge member. The cable-shaving tool includes a blade removably securable between a blade holder and a blade support surface on the housing lid, the blade extending within a portion of the recess and a movable cable ramp disposed in the cavity of the bottom housing for urging the cable toward the blade when the second housing shell is in a closed position.
US12062880B2
An in-line portable, handheld hydraulic scissor-type action crimping tool having a handle assembly and a working head assembly is provided. The handle assembly has a tool frame portion and a neck portion. The working head assembly has a pair of jaw members joined so that they are movable relative to each other and held in place by a locking pin. One jaw member has a nest secured to or directly formed into the jaw member. The other jaw member has an indentor secured to or directly formed into the jaw member.
US12062871B2
An electrical connector contains a plurality of contacts, a first ground plate and a second ground plate facing the plurality of contacts and arranged so as to be separated from each other in a ground plane parallel to the at least one plane in which the plurality of contacts are arranged and an insulator for holding the plurality of contacts, the first ground plate and the second ground plate in a state that the plurality of contacts, the first ground plate and the second ground plate are insulated from each other. Both of the first ground plate and the second ground plate include an extending portion extending from one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate toward the other one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate in the ground plane.
US12062866B2
A connector includes: a contact including a contact portion connected to a connection terminal by pushing the connection terminal of an external device; a protector protecting the contact portion by covering the contact and including a first opening portion making the contact portion protrude; and a base body accommodating the contact and the protector, and including a second opening portion making the protector protrude; a first waterproof elastic member provided between the contact and the first opening portion and preventing liquid from intruding from a space between the contact and the first opening portion; a second waterproof elastic member provided between the protector and the second opening portion and preventing liquid from intruding from a space between the protector and the second opening portion. The contact portion is movable with respect to the first opening portion. The protector is movable with respect to the second opening portion.
US12062865B2
A device having a dual-inverted L antenna (DILA) and an LC tank circuit configured to improve specific absorption rate (SAR) hotspots. The SAR hotspots are split between a first aperture defined between the DILA and a daughter printed circuit board (PCB), and the second aperture defined between the daughter PCB and a battery casing. A main PCB is coupled to battery by a flexible circuit board (FCB). The DILA is configured to radiate RF energy at a first frequency, and the LC tank circuit is configured to radiate RF energy at a second frequency to improve bandwidth.
US12062863B2
Antenna device comprising one or more antennas, and a feeding element configured to feed a feeding signal to the one or more antennas. An antenna includes a substrate, a first patch arranged on a first layer of the substrate, and a second patch arranged on a second layer of the substrate substantially parallel to the first layer, wherein the first patch and the second patch have a different size and/or are offset with respect to each other in a direction substantially parallel to the first and second layers.
US12062860B2
An antenna system includes a dielectric substrate, a ground element, and a first antenna element. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite to each other. The ground element is disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The first antenna element includes a first radiation element, a feeding radiation element, a second radiation element, and a shorting radiation element. The first radiation element has a feeding point, and is disposed on the second surface of the dielectric substrate. The feeding radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding radiation element. The second radiation element is further coupled through the shorting radiation element to the ground element.
US12062853B2
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 Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. 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. According to the disclosure, an antenna module includes a first substrate layer on which at least one substrate is stacked; an antenna coupled to an upper end surface of the first substrate layer; a second substrate layer having an upper end surface coupled to a lower end surface of the first substrate layer and on which at least one substrate is stacked; and a radio frequency (RF) element coupled to a lower end surface of the second substrate layer.
US12062849B2
A method of slant-polarization energy transfer includes: at least one of: transmitting a first slanted polarization signal by: transmitting a first component signal of a first polarization from at least one first antenna element; and transmitting a second component signal of a second polarization from at least one second antenna element, the at least one first antenna element and the at least one second antenna element being complementary antenna elements; or receiving a second slanted polarization signal by: receiving a third component signal of the first polarization with the at least one first antenna element; and receiving a fourth component signal of the second polarization with the at least one second antenna element.
US12062848B2
To provide a technology that can suppress the reduction of an antenna gain while maintaining the quality of the design of the exterior furnishing of the antenna. Provided is an antenna apparatus including: an antenna module that includes a first slot antenna that transmits or receives a first wireless signal, a first feed element that supplies power to the first slot antenna, a second slot antenna that transmits or receives a second wireless signal having a polarization direction orthogonal to a polarization direction of the first wireless signal, and a second feed element that supplies power to the second slot antenna; and a metal plate that includes a first slot, and a second slot a longitudinal direction of which is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the first slot.
US12062847B2
This application discloses an antenna, an antenna array, and a communications device. The antenna includes a radiation part and a feeding part. The feeding part is coupled to the radiation part and is configured to feed power to the radiation part, so that the radiation part radiates a low-frequency signal outward. The radiation part includes one or more frequency selection units with a bandpass characteristic, and the radiation part is a structure that is capable of exciting, when a high-frequency signal passes through, coupling currents. When the high-frequency signal passes through the radiation part, each pair of coupling currents excited on the radiation part appear in pairs and can cancel each other. This can reduce or even completely eliminate a high-frequency induced current with the same frequency as the high-frequency signal on the radiation part.
US12062838B2
A multiport antenna in which the antenna conductive elements are arranged to form an at least partially enclosed volume which can accommodate an enclosure containing one or more electronic components, or optical components, or optoelectronic components, or a combination of these. The enclosure may also be provided with a conductive transparent window which permits optical components to receive and/or send optical information.
US12062835B2
An electronic device may be provided with first, second, and third antennas and a dock flex. A first feed terminal for the first antenna may be coupled to a second feed terminal for the second antenna over a first path. The first path may be coupled to ground over a second path. Tuning components may be interposed on the first and second paths. The third antenna may be patterned on a first portion of the dock flex. Front end components for the first antenna may be mounted to a second portion of the dock flex. The first and second portions may extend from a tail of the dock flex. The tail may be wrapped around a plastic support block to hold the second portion over the first portion. The plastic support block may have a snap hook clip that holds the second portion in place.
US12062833B2
A method for forming packaged electronic device structure includes providing a conductive leadframe. The leadframe can include a die pad and a plurality of conductive leads. The method can include coupling an electronic device to the plurality of conductive leads. The method can include providing an antenna structure, which can include a conductive pillar structure and an elongated conductive beam structure. The method can include providing a package body encapsulating the electronic device, at least portions of each conductive lead, and at least portions of the die pad. In an example, the conductive pillar structure can extend from the first package body surface to the second package body surface, the elongated conductive beam structure can be disposed adjoining the first package body surface and can be electrically connected to the conductive pillar structure, and a portion of the elongated conductive beam structure can be exposed outside of the package body.
US12062827B2
An apparatus includes a directional coupler and an absorptive low pass filter, in which the directional coupler has a first transmission line extending from a first port to a second port and a second transmission line extending from a third port to a fourth port, the first transmission line and the second transmission line configured such that a portion of a signal travelling from the first port onto the first transmission line is coupled to the second transmission line and towards the third port. The second port is connected to the fourth port of the directional coupler via the absorptive low pass filter. When the signal is input into the first port of the directional coupler and output through the third port of the directional coupler, the signal is substantially unattenuated if the frequency of the signal is in a passband of the absorptive low pass filter.
US12062820B2
One or more methods of designing microchannel fluid flow networks in a fuel cell bipolar plate includes executing one or more programs on one or more computing devices having one or more processors to optimize the spatially varying orientations of homogenized anisotropic porous media by iteratively executing a gradient-based algorithm that incorporates objective functions of reaction uniformity and flow resistance, and then generate, in response to the homogenized anisotropic porous media optimization, one or more microchannel fluid flow networks by dehomogenizing the optimized anisotropic porous media.
US12062816B2
Provided are a lithium primary battery in which a structure of an electrode closely related to output characteristics of the battery is improved to expand a reaction area, thus improving the output characteristics of the battery, and a method for manufacturing the lithium primary battery.
US12062811B2
An electrode sheet and a secondary battery comprising the same are provided. The electrode sheet comprises a current collector and an active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector. A first inorganic separation layer and a second inorganic separation layer are sequentially formed on the active material layer. The first inorganic separation layer comprises a plurality of pores having a diameter of 300 nm to 600 nm, and each of the plurality of pores extends from the first inorganic separation layer toward the second inorganic separation layer and penetrates through the second inorganic separation layer. The pore diameter of the pores in the second inorganic separation layer is uniform.
US12062808B2
A degassing unit for an electronics housing is provided with a base body to be connected fluid-tightly to a rim of a pressure compensation opening of the electronics housing. The base body has at least one gas passage opening. A semipermeable membrane covers, in a normal operating state of the degassing unit, the at least one gas passage opening of the base body. The semipermeable membrane enables passage of gaseous media from an environment into the electronics housing and in reverse, but prevents passage of liquid media and/or solids. The degassing unit can be transferred into an emergency degassing state by release of at least one emergency degassing opening bypassing the semipermeable membrane for providing an emergency degassing gas path. A first monitoring device is provided for detecting whether the degassing unit is in the normal operating state and/or in the emergency degassing state.
US12062806B2
A power tool system includes a power tool having a tool housing and a load disposed in the tool housing. The tool housing includes a battery pack receptacle having a set of tool terminals. The power tool system includes a set of battery packs. Each battery pack includes a battery pack housing operably connectable to the battery pack receptacle through a battery pack interface disposed on the battery pack housing, a set of battery cells disposed in the battery pack housing, and a set of battery pack terminals electrically connectable to the set of tool terminals and electrically connected to the set of battery cells. Each battery pack in the set of battery packs has a same nominal voltage and defines a common interface and at least a portion of the set of battery packs defines a total volume in a range of approximately 150 cm3 to 1300 cm3.
US12062799B2
A power source for a micro-device is provided. The power source may include a cup, a lid and electrolytes. The cup may be formed of a hard metal material and walls of the cup may define a cavity. An opening in the cup may provide access to the cavity and a surface of the cavity may be deposited with one of an anode or cathode material. The lid may be formed of a hard metal material, the lid may cooperate with the cup to fit into the opening closing off the cavity. The cavity may be coated with the other of the anode or cathode material. Electrolytes may be contained in the cavity.
US12062796B2
A catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction containing catalyst particles having a shell-core structure containing a PtCo alloy or a PtCoMn alloy as a core, and platinum as a shell layer. A specific plane of a face-centered cubic lattice is formed by a plurality of platinum atoms contained in the shell layer, and a lattice constant of the plane of the face-centered cubic lattice on the catalyst particle surface is 3.70 Å or more and 4.05 Å or less (in a PtCo alloy), or 3.870 Å or more and 4.10 Å or less (in a PtCoMn alloy). A catalyst design method includes a step of calculating, with respect to an orientation plane such as the plane formed by platinum atoms of the shell layer, adsorption energies for an oxygen molecule, an OH group and a water molecule by first-principles calculation based on density functional theory.
US12062795B2
Electrolyte solutions for flow batteries and other electrochemical systems can contain an active material that is capable of transferring one or more electrons per molecule during an oxidation-reduction cycle. Doubly bridged aromatic groups or their coordination compounds can be particularly suitable active materials. Flow batteries can include a first half-cell containing a first electrolyte solution, and a second half-cell containing a second electrolyte solution, in which at least one of the first electrolyte solution and the second electrolyte solution contains an active material having at least two aromatic groups doubly bridged by a carbonyl moiety and a bridging moiety containing a bridging atom selected from carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium. Such bridged compounds can directly function as the active material, or coordination compounds containing the bridged compounds as at least one ligand can serve as the active material.
US12062790B2
A solid-state ion conductor including a compound of Formula 1: Li(3+2y1)B(P1-y1A1y1O4)2 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, A1 is an element of Groups 4, 14, or a combination thereof, and has an oxidation state of +4, and 0
US12062786B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, the second compound having a smaller particle size than that of the first compound, wherein cation mixing in the surface portion of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 7.5%, cation mixing in the bulk of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 3%, a residual lithium content on the surface of the positive active material is less than or equal to about 3,000 ppm, and the first compound and the second compound each independently include 90 at % to about 98 at % of Ni with respect to the metals excluding Li. Lia1Nix1Coy1M11−x1−y1O2, Chemical Formula 1 Lia2Nix2Coy2M21−x2−y2O2. Chemical Formula 2
US12062785B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a rechargeable high-energy battery with an anion-redox-active composite cathode containing lithium hydroxide as the electrochemically active component, which is mixed and contacted with electronically or mixed-conductive transition metals and/or transition metal oxides, so that an electronically or mixed-conductive network is formed, this mixture is applied to a current drain, and the composite cathode thus formed is placed in a cell housing together with a separator, a lithium-conductive electrolyte and a lithium-containing anode, so that an electrochemical cell is present and is subjected to at least one initial forming cycle.
US12062784B2
Provided are a negative electrode for a lithium secondary negative electrode battery including: a current collector; a first negative electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector and including a silicon-based active material, a first graphite-based active material, and a linear conductive material; and a second negative electrode active material layer disposed on the first negative electrode active material layer and including a second graphite-based active material. The first graphite-based active material has a carbon coating layer on at least a part of a surface. Also provided is a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode.
US12062782B2
Electrochemical cells of the present disclosure may include one or more multilayered electrodes. One or both multilayered electrodes may be configured such that a second layer farther from the current collector has a higher resistance to densification than a first layer closer to the current collector. This may be achieved by including a plurality of non-active ceramic particles in the second layer. Accordingly, calendering of the electrode results in a greater compression of the first layer, and a beneficial porosity profile is created. This may improve the ionic conductivity of the electrode, as compared with known systems.
US12062781B2
A cathode material includes a lithium composite oxide matrix including lithium (Li) and at least one selected from the group consisting of cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), and aluminium (Al), and has a surface layer which is a rocksalt structure and includes tungsten (W); and a material layer formed on the surface layer of the lithium composite oxide matrix and including tungsten (W) and lithium (Li). The cathode material of the present application provides excellent high-temperature cycle and high-temperature storage performance, and the capability of discharge at a high rate, and improves the safety performance of the electrochemical device.
US12062778B2
A sulfur-carbon composite for controlling the particle size of the sulfur-carbon composite to a specific range and a method for preparing the same.
US12062769B2
A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power, and includes: a stack limiting structure; a plurality of pouch cells, wherein the pouch cells are disposed in a stack, wherein the stack is disposed within the stack limiting structure; an outer temperature sensor, wherein the outer temperature sensor is disposed and configured for measuring an outer temperature of the stack outside the stack at an edge of the stack or the stack limiting structure, and/or outside the stack limiting structure; and a control device. The control device is configured for comparison of the measured outer temperature and/or a quantity based on the measured outer temperature to at least one temperature comparative value. The at least one temperature comparative value is a function of at least one of the pouch cells. The control device is configured for controlling the battery pack in response to a result of the comparison.
US12062767B1
An electric vehicle includes a chassis, a battery in a battery compartment supported by the chassis and a dual underside battery cooling system to transfer heat from the battery by drawing hot air from the battery compartment via air outlets. The dual underside battery cooling system includes a left fan for generating a left airflow along a left underside path of the vehicle and a right fan for generating a right airflow along a right underside path of the vehicle, the left and right airflows expelling the hot air from the battery compartment toward a rear of the vehicle. The processor independently controls the left fan and the right fan to selectively generate a differential downforce on left and right wheels of the vehicles when cornering to thereby compensate for centrifugal roll and to generate an equal downforce on the left and right wheels when accelerating in a straight line.
US12062766B2
A system or method for individualized coolant flow to each of a plurality of energy storage devices 10 housed in an electric vehicle. Each energy storage device 10 includes a heat exchanger 11 coupled in thermal conductivity with a segmented battery module 13. The segmented battery module 13 includes battery cells 13B and sensors (13C, 13D, and 13E). The heat exchanger 11 includes an HE flow controller 11C. Individual sensor information for each energy storage device 10 is collected via the BMU 13A of each segmented battery module 13. The charging SCC 22 uses this individual sensor information to calculate the HE flow rate of coolant pumped through each energy storage device's 10 heat exchanger 11 to cool the battery cells 13B of the energy storage device 10. Coolant delivered to the heat exchangers 11 is cooled by an external cooling unit 21 of a power source 20 during each charging session.
US12062764B2
A semiconductor device that inhibits deterioration of a secondary battery is provided. The semiconductor device includes a secondary battery module and a first circuit. The secondary battery module includes a secondary battery and a sensor. The first circuit includes a variable resistor. The sensor has a function of measuring a temperature of the secondary battery. The first circuit has a function of judging the charge voltage of the secondary battery and outputting a first result; a function of judging the temperature of the secondary battery measured by the sensor and outputting a second result; a function of determining the magnitude of the variable resistor on the basis of the first result and the second result; a function of discharging the charge voltage through the variable resistor; and a function of stopping discharge when the charge voltage reaches a specified voltage.
US12062748B2
A light-emitting device includes a carrier, a light-emitting element and a connection structure. The carrier includes a first electrical conduction portion. The light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer capable of emitting first light and a first contact electrode formed under the light-emitting layer. The first contact electrode is corresponded to the first electrical conduction portion. The connection structure includes a first electrical connection portion and a protective portion surrounding the first contact electrode and the first electrical connection portion. The first electrical connection portion includes an upper portion, a lower portion and a neck portion arranged between the upper portion and the lower portion. An edge of the upper portion is protruded beyond the neck portion, and an edge of the lower portion is protruded beyond the upper portion.
US12062733B2
The present invention relates to a solar cell manufacturing method, a solar cell manufactured thereby, and a substrate for a solar cell. The solar cell manufacturing method involves forming a separating portion for separating a substrate, which is for manufacturing the solar cell, into a plurality of pieces. The solar cell manufacturing method comprises: a step for preparing the substrate; a first substrate etching step for forming a first groove in one surface of the substrate; a second substrate etching step for forming a second groove inside the first groove; and a third substrate etching step for etching the substrate including the second groove, wherein the separating portion includes the first groove and the second groove.
US12062725B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor, a display panel and a display device. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor material layer, a first insulating layer and a gate layer. The semiconductor material layer is at a side of a base substrate, and includes a first channel portion, a first doped portion and a second channel portion sequentially connected. The first insulating layer is at a side of the semiconductor material layer facing away from the base substrate. The gate layer is at a side of the first insulating layer facing away from the semiconductor material layer, and includes a first gate portion and a second gate portion. An orthographic projection of the first gate portion on the base substrate coincides with an orthographic projection of the first channel portion on the base substrate, and the first gate portion is configured to receive a gate driving signal.
US12062720B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack over an active region and a source/drain region in the active region adjacent the gate stack. The source/drain region includes a first semiconductor layer having a first germanium concentration and a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a second germanium concentration greater than the first germanium concentration. The source/drain region further includes a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer and a fourth semiconductor layer over the third semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer has a third germanium concentration greater than the second germanium concentration. The fourth semiconductor layer has a fourth germanium concentration less than the third germanium concentration.
US12062715B2
An HEMT includes: a heterostructure; a dielectric layer on the heterostructure; a gate electrode, which extends throughout the thickness of the dielectric layer; a source electrode; and a drain electrode. The dielectric layer extends between the gate electrode and the drain electrode and is absent between the gate electrode and the source electrode. In this way, the distance between the gate electrode and the source electrode can be designed in the absence of constraints due to a field plate that extends towards the source electrode.
US12062709B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a sacrificial gate structure over an active region. A first spacer layer is formed along sidewalls and a top surface of the sacrificial gate structure. A first protection layer is formed over the first spacer layer. A second spacer layer is formed over the first protection layer. A third spacer layer is formed over the second spacer layer. The sacrificial gate structure is replaced with a replacement gate structure. The second spacer layer is removed to form an air gap between the first protection layer and the third spacer layer.
US12062708B2
Horizontal gate-all-around devices and methods of manufacturing same are described. The hGAA devices comprise a trimmed semiconductor material between source regions and drain regions of the device. The method includes selectively isotropically etching semiconductor material layers between source regions and drain regions of an electronic device.
US12062702B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, a substrate is provided; a stack layer is formed on the substrate, the stack layer including an interfacial layer, a high-k dielectric layer and a work function composite layer which are sequentially stacked; a transition layer is formed on the stack layer; and a metal gate layer is formed on the transition layer. The work function composite layer is prepared by a physical vapor deposition process.
US12062697B2
Provided is a semiconductor device which use a two-dimensional semiconductor material as a channel layer. The semiconductor device includes: a gate electrode on a substrate; a gate dielectric on the gate electrode; a channel layer on the gate dielectric; and a source electrode and a drain electrode that may be electrically connected to the channel layer. The gate dielectric has a shape with a height greater than a width, and the channel layer includes a two-dimensional semiconductor material.
US12062695B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a channel region; a gate dielectric layer on the channel region; a first work function tuning layer on the gate dielectric layer, the first work function tuning layer including a p-type work function metal; a barrier layer on the first work function tuning layer; a second work function tuning layer on the barrier layer, the second work function tuning layer including a n-type work function metal, the n-type work function metal different from the p-type work function metal; and a fill layer on the second work function tuning layer.
US12062694B2
A layout structure of a capacitive cell using forksheet FETs is provided. In transistors P3 and N3, VDD is supplied to a pair of pads and a gate interconnect, and VSS is supplied to a pair of pads and a gate interconnect. Capacitances are produced between nanosheets and the gate interconnect and between nanosheets and the gate interconnect. The faces of the nanosheets closer to the nanosheets are exposed from the gate interconnect, and the faces of the nanosheets closer to the nanosheets are exposed from the gate interconnect.
US12062693B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first gate electrode layer, a second gate electrode layer disposed over and aligned with the first gate electrode layer, and a gate isolation structure disposed between the first gate electrode layer and the second gate electrode layer. The gate isolation structure includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. At least a portion of the first surface is in contact with the first gate electrode layer. The second surface includes a first material and a second material different from the first material, and at least a portion of the second surface is in contact with the second gate electrode layer.
US12062688B2
Some embodiments include dielectric material having a first region containing HfO and having a second region containing ZrO, where the chemical formulas indicate primary constituents rather than specific stoichiometries. The first region contains substantially no Zr, and the second region contains substantially no Hf. Some embodiments include capacitors having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric material between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric material includes one or more first regions and one or more second regions. The first region(s) contain(s) Hf and substantially no Zr. The second region(s) contain(s) Zr and substantially no Hf. Some embodiments include memory arrays.
US12062680B2
A package structure that includes a cavity between a solid-state imaging element and a cover member prevents damage caused due to an increase in the internal pressure in the cavity, for example, upon reflow. A solid-state imaging device includes a solid-state imaging element that includes a semiconductor substrate and of which a light-receiving side is a side of one of plate surfaces of the semiconductor substrate; a translucent cover member that is provided on the light-receiving side of the solid-state imaging element, and a support that is provided on the light-receiving side of the solid-state imaging element, and supports the cover member. The semiconductor substrate further includes a concave portion that is formed on another of the plate surfaces of the semiconductor substrate.
US12062677B2
An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixel blocks that each includes a plurality of light-receiving pixels including color filters of mutually the same color, the plurality of light-receiving pixels being divided into a plurality of pixel pairs each including two light-receiving pixels; and a plurality of lenses provided at respective positions corresponding to the plurality of pixel pairs.
US12062676B2
An image sensor in which a shading phenomenon is decreased and the quality is increased is provided. The image sensor includes a light-receiving region including a plurality of unit pixels. The image sensor further includes a first region with unit pixels adjacent to a center of the light-receiving region, and a second region with the unit pixels spaced apart from the center of the light-receiving region. In both regions, a plurality of color filters corresponding to the plurality of unit pixels is disposed on a first face of the substrate, as well as a grid pattern interposed between the plurality of color filters defining boundaries between the unit pixels. A width of the grid pattern in the second region is greater than a width of the grid pattern in the first region, thereby adjusting light receiving areas near the edge of the image sensor to correct for a shading phenomenon.
US12062668B2
Disclosed are a crystallization process of an oxide semiconductor, a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor including the same, a thin film transistor, a display panel, and an electronic device. The crystallization process of an oxide semiconductor includes forming an amorphous oxide semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a crystallization auxiliary layer including a light absorbing inorganic material on the amorphous oxide semiconductor layer, and annealing the crystallization auxiliary layer to crystallize the amorphous oxide semiconductor layer.
US12062660B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate, a first etch stop layer, a second etch stop layer, and an interlayer insulation layer that are stacked on the gate structure, and a contact plug penetrating the interlayer insulation layer, the second etch stop layer, and the first etch stop layer and contacting a sidewall of the gate structure. The contact plug includes a lower portion having a first width and an upper portion having a second width. A lower surface of the contact plug has a stepped shape.
US12062658B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a lower interconnect structure, a first semiconductor fin, a lower gate structure, first source/drain structures, an upper gate structure, and an upper interconnect structure. The first semiconductor fin is above the lower interconnect structure. The lower gate structure is under the first semiconductor fin and extends across the first semiconductor fin. The first source/drain structures are in the first semiconductor fin and on opposite sides of the lower gate structure. The first source/drain structures forms a lower transistor with the lower gate structure. The upper gate structure is above the first semiconductor fin and extends across the first semiconductor fin. The upper gate structure forms an upper transistor with the first source/drain structures. The upper interconnect structure is above the upper gate.
US12062657B2
A semiconductor including a short channel device including a vertical FET (Field-Effect Transistor), and a long channel device comprising a second vertical FET integrated with the short channel device. The long channel device including a plurality of short channel devices.
US12062655B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided in which a semiconductor element that generates heat during operation is formed in an active region of a semiconductor substrate and a temperature sensitive diode sensor arranged to detect temperature is formed in a temperature sensitive diode region of the semiconductor substrate. The method includes: forming a polysilicon layer that composes the temperature sensitive diode sensor in the temperature sensitive diode region, forming a mask, and introducing impurities through the mask into the semiconductor substrate and the polysilicon layer. The mask has an element pattern having an element opening through which a region composing the semiconductor element is exposed in the active region, a diode pattern having a diode opening through which a portion of the temperature sensitive diode region is exposed, and a monitoring pattern provided within the diode pattern with a size smaller than that of the diode opening.
US12062641B2
An integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor wafer, a second semiconductor wafer, a first interconnect structure, a first through substrate via, and an under bump metallurgy (UBM) layer. The first semiconductor wafer has a first side of the first semiconductor wafer. The second semiconductor wafer is coupled to the first semiconductor wafer, and is over the first semiconductor wafer. The second semiconductor wafer has a first device in a first side of the second semiconductor wafer. The first interconnect structure is on a second side of the first semiconductor wafer opposite from the first side of the first semiconductor wafer. The first interconnect structure includes an inductor below the first semiconductor wafer. The first through substrate via extends through the first semiconductor wafer. The first through substrate via electrically couples the inductor to at least the first device. The UBM layer is on a surface of the first interconnect structure.
US12062640B2
A semiconductor device including a first integrated circuit component, a second integrated circuit component, a third integrated circuit component, and a dielectric encapsulation is provided. The second integrated circuit component is stacked on and electrically coupled to the first integrated circuit component, and the third integrated circuit component is stacked on and electrically coupled to the second integrated circuit component. The dielectric encapsulation is disposed on the second integrated circuit component and laterally encapsulating the third integrated circuit component, where outer sidewalls of the dielectric encapsulation are substantially aligned with sidewalls of the first and second integrated circuit components. A manufacturing method of the above-mentioned semiconductor device is also provided.
US12062633B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including: at least one semiconductor device on a first substrate; a non-conductive film (NCF) on the at least one semiconductor device and comprising an irreversible thermochromic pigment; and a molding member on the at least one semiconductor device in a lateral direction, wherein a content of the irreversible thermochromic pigment in the NCF is about 0.1 wt % to about 5 wt % with respect to a weight of the NCF.
US12062628B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate line extending in a first direction, parallel to an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate; a first active region including a first channel region disposed below the gate line and including a first conductivity-type impurity; a second active region disposed to be separated from the first active region in the first direction, including a second channel region disposed below the gate line, and including the first conductivity-type impurity; and a plurality of metal wirings disposed at a first height level above the semiconductor substrate, wherein at least one metal wiring, among the plurality of metal wirings, is directly electrically connected to the first active region, no metal wirings at the first height level are electrically connected to the second active region, and at least one metal wiring, among the plurality of metal wirings, is connected to receive a signal applied to the gate line.
US12062623B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer, a contact layer, and isolation sections. Herein, the active layer and the isolation sections reside over the contact layer, and the active layer is surrounded by the isolation sections. The first mold compound resides over the active layer without silicon crystal, which has no germanium content, in between. The multilayer redistribution structure includes redistribution interconnections and a number of bump structures that are at bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the mold device die via the redistribution interconnections.
US12062621B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution layer, a semiconductor chip on the redistribution layer, and a molding layer covering a sidewall of the semiconductor chip and a top surface and a sidewall of the redistribution layer. The sidewall of the redistribution layer is inclined with respect to a bottom surface of the redistribution layer, and a sidewall of the molding layer is spaced apart from the sidewall of the redistribution layer.
US12062620B2
An array substrate includes connecting leads, a signal channel region extending in a first direction, a first power voltage lead, and a second power voltage lead. Any one of the signal channel region includes at least two control region columns extending in the first direction, and any one of the control region columns includes a plurality of control regions arranged along the first direction. Any one of the control regions includes a pad connecting circuit and a first pad group for bonding a microchip, the first pad group is electrically connected to the first power voltage lead. The pad connection circuit includes a plurality of second pad groups, and is provided with a first end electrically connected to the first pad group, and a second end electrically connected to the second power voltage lead.
US12062616B2
Methods/structures of joining package structures are described. Those methods/structures may include a die disposed on a surface of a substrate, an interconnect bridge embedded in the substrate, and at least one vertical interconnect structure disposed through a portion of the interconnect bridge, wherein the at least one vertical interconnect structure is electrically and physically coupled to the die.
US12062597B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes: a package substrate having a die mount portion and lead portions; at least one semiconductor device die over the die mount portion of the package substrate, the semiconductor device die having bond pads on an active surface facing away from the package substrate; electrical connections between at least one of the bond pads and one of the lead portions; a post interconnect over at least one of the bond pads, the post interconnect extending away from the active surface of the semiconductor device die; and a dielectric material covering a portion of the package substrate, the semiconductor device die, a portion of the post interconnect, and the electrical connections, forming a packaged semiconductor device, wherein the post interconnect extends through the dielectric material and had an end facing away from the semiconductor device die that is exposed from the dielectric material.
US12062586B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and multiple first conductive lines over the semiconductor substrate. The first conductive lines are not electrically connected to each other. The semiconductor device structure also includes multiple first magnetic structures wrapped around portions of the first conductive lines and multiple second conductive lines over the semiconductor substrate. The second conductive lines are electrically connected in series. The semiconductor device structure further includes multiple second magnetic structures wrapped around portions of the second conductive lines. A size of each of the second magnetic structures and a size of each of the first magnetic structures are substantially the same.
US12062583B2
An optical metrology model for in-line thickness measurements of a film overlying non-ideal structures on a substrate is generated by performing pre-measurements prior to deposition of the film and performing post-measurements after the deposition. The pre- and post-measurements are performed at at least one of multiple polarization angles or multiple orientations of the substrate. Differences in reflectance between the pre- and post-measurements are determined at the multiple polarization angles and the multiple orientations. At least one of the multiple polarization angles or the multiple orientations are identified where the differences in reflectance are indicative of a suppressed influence from the non-ideal structures. The optical metrology model is generated using the identified polarization angles and the identified orientations as inputs to a machine-learning algorithm.
US12062577B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a bit line contact hole in a substrate; forming a first spacer on a sidewall of the bit line contact hole; forming a sacrificial spacer over the first spacer; forming a first conductive material that fills the bit line contact hole over the sacrificial spacer; forming a second conductive material over the first conductive material; forming a bit line by etching the second conductive material; and forming a bit line contact plug and a gap between the bit line contact plug and the first spacer by partially etching the first conductive material and the sacrificial spacer to be aligned with the bit line.
US12062571B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabricating procedure of a radio frequency device, in which a precursor wafer including active layers, SiGe layers, and a silicon handle substrate is firstly provided. Each active layer is formed from doped epitaxial silicon and underneath a corresponding SiGe layer. The silicon handle substrate is over each SiGe layer. Next, the silicon handle substrate is removed completely, and the SiGe layer is removed completely. An etch passivation film is then formed over each active layer. Herein, removing each SiGe layer and forming the etch passivation film over each active layer utilize a same reactive chemistry combination, which reacts differently to the SiGe layer and the active layer. The reactive chemistry combination is capable of producing a variable performance, which is an etching performance of the SiGe layer or a forming performance of the etch passivation film over the active layer.
US12062567B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include coupling a fluid conduit within a substrate support in a semiconductor processing chamber to a system foreline. The coupling may vacuum chuck a substrate with the substrate support. The methods may include flowing a gas into the fluid conduit. The methods may include maintaining a pressure between the substrate and the substrate support at a pressure higher than the pressure at the system foreline.
US12062566B2
A die-ejector (2) comprising a chamber (4) with a cover plate (40) having a passageway, a plurality of plates (56) arranged inside the chamber (4) and reciprocally movable between an initial position (58) and an operating position (60), respectively, intended to interact with the carrier to support the removal of the dies from the carrier, and a drive member (100) for moving the plates (56) to be moved from the operating position towards the initial position. The die-ejector (2) further comprises a magnet (20) and a spring system, respectively, which interacts with anchor sections (74) of the plates (56) and exerts on the plates (54) an attraction force (F′) or an impact force, respectively, directed towards the operating position, and a stop member (78) for stopping the movement of the plates (56) in the operating position, the plates abutting the stop member (78) in the operating position.
US12062562B2
Air curtain devices can reduce defects on semiconductor wafers when implemented on a track equipped with robotic wafer transport. The air curtain devices can be added to one or more processing devices arranged along the track to prevent defects from landing on wafer surfaces. For example, the air curtain devices can prevent volatile organic solvent mist from drifting towards processing devices on the track and preventing contamination via a wafer transport system.
US12062558B2
A treatment method for an OOC action during a semiconductor production process includes: multiple Out Of Control Action Plan IDs (OCAPID) respectively corresponding to multiple semiconductor production process steps and multiple identified contents in one-to-one correspondence with the multiple OCAPIDs are established, and an OOC action checklist including multiple OOC action check items according to the identified contents is established; it is determined whether the OOC action occurs to a wafer subjected to the current semiconductor production process step, and if the OOC action occurs to the wafer, the current OCAPID corresponding to the current semiconductor production process step is automatically obtained, and the wafer is inspected according to the current identified content corresponding to the current OCAPID.
US12062554B2
A heater control system for a gas delivery system of a substrate processing system includes an oven, N resistive uninsulated heaters arranged inside of the oven, where N is an integer greater than one, and a controller. The oven encloses one or more components of the substrate processing system and to maintain a predetermined temperature in the oven. Each of the N resistive heaters selectively heats at least a portion of one of the components in the oven. The controller is configured to maintain the predetermined temperature in localized regions in the oven by determining a resistance in each of the N resistive heaters and adjusting power to each of the N resistive heaters based on N-1 resistance ratios of N-1 of the N resistive heaters relative to one of the N resistive heaters.
US12062551B2
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods that include an organic high density interconnect structure and techniques for making the same. According to an example a method can include forming one or more low density buildup layers on a core, conductive interconnect material of the one or more low density buildup layers electrically and mechanically connected to conductive interconnect material of the core, forming one or more high density buildup layers on an exposed low density buildup layer of the one or more low density buildup layers, conductive interconnect material of the high density buildup layers electrically and mechanically connected to the conductive interconnect material of the one or more low density buildup layers, and forming another low density buildup layer on and around an exposed high density buildup layer of the one or more high density buildup layers.
US12062544B2
A laser annealing method for a semiconductor device, includes: a first step of adding an impurity to a semiconductor substrate; and a second step of irradiating a region to which the impurity is added with a pulsed laser beam a plurality of times to anneal the semiconductor substrate. In the second step, a first region of a portion of the region to which the impurity is added is irradiated with the pulsed laser beam, and after a predetermined time interval, a second region adjacent to the first region is irradiated with the pulsed laser beam. The predetermined time interval is larger than a pulse interval of the pulsed laser beam.
US12062542B2
A test wafer is placed inside a baking module and is baked. Via one or more temperature sensors, a cumulative heat amount delivered to the test wafer during the baking is measured. The measured cumulative heat amount is compared with a predefined cumulative heat amount threshold. In response to the comparing indicating that the measured cumulative heat amount is within the predefined cumulative heat amount threshold, it is determined that the baking module is qualified for actual semiconductor fabrication. In response to the comparing indicating that the measured cumulative heat amount is outside of the predefined cumulative heat amount threshold, it is determined that the baking module is not qualified for actual semiconductor fabrication.
US12062540B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit device is provided. The method includes forming a transistor over a frontside of a substrate; forming an interconnect structure over the transistor; depositing a first transition metal layer over the interconnect structure; performing a plasma treatment to turn the first transition metal layer into a first transition metal dichalcogenide layer; forming a dielectric layer over the first transition metal dichalcogenide layer; forming a first gate electrode over the dielectric layer and a first portion of the first transition metal dichalcogenide layer; and forming a first source contact and a first drain contact respectively connected with a second portion and a third portion of the first transition metal dichalcogenide layer, the first portion of the first transition metal dichalcogenide layer being between the second and third portions of the first transition metal dichalcogenide layers.
US12062536B2
Methods for depositing an amorphous carbon layer on a substrate and for filling a substrate feature with an amorphous carbon gap fill are described. The method comprises performing a deposition cycle comprising: introducing a hydrocarbon source into a processing chamber; introducing a plasma initiating gas into the processing chamber; generating a plasma in the processing chamber at a temperature of greater than 600° C.; forming an amorphous carbon layer on a substrate with a deposition rate of greater than 200 nm/hr; and purging the processing chamber.
US12062535B2
A system for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The system includes a processing tool. The system also includes gas handling housing having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The system further includes an exhaust conduit fluidly communicating with the processing tool and the gas inlet of the gas handling housing. In addition, the system includes at least one first filtering assembly and at least one second filtering assembly. The first filtering assembly and the second filtering assembly are positioned in the gas handling housing and arranged in a series along a flowing path that extends from the gas inlet to the gas outlet of the gas handling housing. Each of the first filtering assembly and the second filtering assembly comprises a plurality of wire meshes stacked on top of another.
US12062527B2
A baffle unit includes an inner ring, an outer ring disposed outside the inner ring, and a connecting portion connecting the inner ring with the outer ring. The connecting portion includes multiple openings arranged in a radial direction of the baffle unit and in a circumferential direction of the baffle unit, each of the multiple openings being arcuate and extending in the circumferential direction; multiple rigid portions each being disposed between the adjacent openings of the multiple openings that are adjacent to each other on a same concentric circle of the baffle unit; and multiple walls each being formed between the adjacent openings of the multiple openings that are adjacent to each other in the radial direction. Each of the multiple walls connects a rigid portion of the multiple rigid portions with another rigid portion of the multiple rigid portions.
US12062521B2
A method and a device for prefixing substrates, whereby at least one substrate surface of the substrates is amorphized in at least one surface area, characterized in that the substrates are aligned and then make contact and are prefixed on the amorphized surface areas.
US12062518B2
A cathode assembly for emitting charged particles, used in for example an electron gun as source for generating an electron beam is provided. The cathode assembly has a cathode including an emitting member and a carrier. The emitting member is mounted in the carrier, and the carrier is electrically connected to a holder. The cathode is heated by irradiation from an external source, whereby the emitting member emits charged particles from an emitting surface at an emitting temperature. The connection between the carrier and the holder provides a thermal barrier for reducing the amount of thermal energy transferred from the cathode to the holder.
US12062513B2
A circuit element protection apparatus applied to a signal input terminal, the circuit element protection apparatus includes a slave processing unit, a main processing unit, a first soft start unit and a second soft start unit. The first soft start unit receives a signal from the signal input terminal, and is used for noise filtering on the signal and delayed a transmission of the signal to the slave processing unit. The second soft start unit receives the signal from the signal input terminal, and is used for noise filtering on the signal and delayed the transmission of the signal to the main processing unit. The present disclosure further includes a protection method for circuit elements.
US12062511B2
An arc path formation unit and a direct current relay are disclosed. The arc path formation unit, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, includes a Halbach array provided in at least one of the forward and backward directions. The Halbach array forms a magnetic field within an arc chamber by itself or along with another magnetic body. An electromagnetic force may be generated for inducing an arc that is generated by a formed magnetic field and current flowing through the direct current relay. The electromagnetic force is generated in a direction away from each fixed contact. Accordingly, the generated arc can be extinguished and discharged effectively.
US12062508B2
Disclosed are an electromagnet driving mechanism, an electromagnet driving assembly and a dual power automatic transfer switch. The electromagnet driving mechanism includes: a mechanism frame; a stationary core; a movable core, including a moving stroke between a first position away from the stationary core and a second position in contact with the stationary core, the moving stroke including an approaching stroke section; a coil, configured to generate a magnetic attraction force between the stationary core and the movable core upon being energized to drive the movable core to move towards the second position; a reset spring member; and a reset auxiliary assembly, including a push member and a reset auxiliary spring. The reset auxiliary assembly applies a reset auxiliary spring force to the movable core in the approaching stroke section through the push member.
US12062507B2
A wall box may provide adjustable support for a control device, such as a keypad, to allow for level alignment of the control device when mounted to the wall box. The wall box may have an adjustable support frame to which the control device may be mounted. When the control device is mounted to the support frame of the wall box, the support frame may be rotated to adjust the alignment of the control device. In addition, the wall box may comprise one or more projections configured to be received in respective detents in notched surfaces of the control device to allow for adjustment of the alignment of the control device. Further, the wall box may have a modular assembly and may be constructed from a central portion and two side portions at the time of installation of the wall box.
US12062506B2
An illuminated keyswitch structure and an illuminating module thereof are provided. A base plate has an opening. The illuminating module includes a drive circuit board, having a face reflector and at least one dot reflector disposed thereon, a spacer adhered on the drive circuit board and having a through hole and an adhesive-less clearance fringe at least partially surrounding the through hole, a light-emitting part disposed on the drive circuit board and proximate to the face reflector and the dot reflector, and a translucent covering structure covering above the light-emitting part and including a reflective layer. The reflective layer reflects off light from the light-emitting part, and the face reflector and/or the at least one dot reflector reflect light to pass through the through hole of the spacer and then illuminate upward through the translucent covering structure and further through the opening of the base plate.
US12062505B2
A movement mechanism includes: a case; a moving portion movable with respect to the case; and a support member that links the case and moving portion together and supports the moving portion so as to be movable with respect to the case. The support member has a plurality of pairs of first support portions and a plurality of pairs of second support portions, each of which is elastically deformable, has a plate-like shape, and extends between the case and the moving portion. The first support portions and second support portions are respectively placed on a first side and a second side in a moving direction of the moving portion so as to be symmetric with respect to the moving portion in plan view.
US12062504B2
A switch panel for an aircraft includes a cover and aback plate. A distance from the cover to the back plate is a thickness of the switch panel. In some cases, the thickness is less than about 9.525 mm. A button assembly for a switch panel for an aircraft includes a button base, a button retainer, and a lens. The button base includes a bottom end, a base side, and a transition portion between the bottom end and the base side. In certain cases, the transition portion of the button base is beveled or radiused with a sloped or concave shape.
US12062503B2
A photoelectric conversion element including: a first substrate; a first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer; a second electrode; and a second substrate, wherein the photoelectric conversion element includes a sealing part sealing at least the photoelectric conversion layer, the sealing part is disposed so as to surround periphery of the photoelectric conversion layer, and a width of the sealing part disposed at each side has a minimum width A and a maximum width B in a width direction, and a ratio (B/A) of the maximum width B to the minimum width A is 1.02 or more but 5.0 or less.
US12062496B2
A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a pair of bus bars, and an insulating member. The capacitor element includes a positive electrode surface and a negative electrode surface. The pair of bus bars includes a positive electrode bus bar that is connected to the positive electrode surface of the capacitor element and a negative electrode bus bar that is connected to the negative electrode surface, A plate-shaped insulating member is disposed between the positive electrode bus bar and the negative electrode surface. A part of the insulating member is inserted into a bus bar through-hole provided in the positive electrode bus bar.
US12062489B2
A module comprises at least two ultracapacitors and at least one balancing circuit. The balancing circuit is connected to a heat dissipation component. The heat dissipation component is present on a heat sink comprising a metal.
US12062481B2
A coil component includes a body; a support substrate disposed in the body; a coil portion including a first coil pattern, a first lead-out pattern, and a second lead-out pattern; a first slit portion defined at a corner portion between the first end surface and the first surface, and a second slit portion defined at a corner portion between the second end surface and the first surface, the first and second slit portions exposing the first and second lead-out patterns; a first external electrode and a second external electrode spaced apart from each other on the first surface, and respectively extending onto the first and second slit portions to be connected to the first and second lead-out patterns; and a surface insulating layer disposed on the first and second slit portions to cover a portion of the first and second external electrodes and extending onto the first surface.
US12062457B2
Provided herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a real-time global bio-surveillance and response solution. The systems and apparatuses may include one or more sentinel subsystems and one or more surge subsystems that each include a real-time, cloud-based, distributed, interconnected set of hardware, software, and/or firmware for comprehensive surveillance, complete detection, and immediate response various to biological, chemical, and/or bio-chemical anomalies, for example, a new or emerging pathogen or other health condition.
US12062451B2
An emergency medical treatment system is provided that can be used in connection with providing prehospital medical treatment to a patient. The system includes a patient data display device programmed to receive and display data associated with the patient; an environmental assessment device configured to capture visual, aural, or other ambient environmental data associated with an emergency treatment site associated with the patient; a patient monitoring device configured to be positioned on the patient and having multiple sensors programmed to collect physiological data or vitals data associated with the patient; and a patient data processing device configured with a speech-to-text module. Rules-based or machine learning based algorithm modules can be provided for generating alerts or making treatment option recommendations in connection with the patient data collected and displayed on the patient display device.
US12062442B2
A method for adjusting the operation of a surgical instrument using machine learning in a surgical suite is disclosed.
US12062433B2
A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images. In an example implementation, a server is configured to retrieve a medical image file including medical data and metadata, in a medical data format, determine an output destination type based on the metadata, identify standardized format specifications based on the determined output destination type from the retrieved metadata, convert the medical data into a format compatible with the identified standardized format, and transmit an output message of the converted medical data to at least a recipient delivery address.
US12062430B2
A surgery visualization theatre comprising: an augmented/extended reality (AXR) headset; a digital viewport mounted on a cobotic arm; a monitor mounted on a monitor cobotic arm; a camera subsystem mounted on a camera cobotic arm; and a frame with cobotic arms featuring intelligence and command and control for the system and visualization methodologies, where the digital viewport cobotic arm, the monitor cobotic arm, and the camera cobotic arm are mounted on the frame and the AXR headset is connected thereto.
US12062419B2
A system writes input data to a storage device as machine-written polynucleotides; and reads machine written polynucleotides from the storage device as output data. The storage device includes a flow cell including a plurality of storage wells in which machine written polynucleotides may be stored. The storage device may include a set of electrodes corresponding to the storage wells that allow for selective interactions with wells across the surface of a flow cell. Operation of the storage device may include receiving a read request associated with a particular location in the storage device, creating a copy of a nucleotide sequence located at the particular location in the storage device, transferring the copy of the nucleotide sequence to a read location, and reading the copy of the nucleotide sequence at the read location.
US12062413B1
A first-in-first-out (FIFO) storage structure within an integrated-circuit component is loaded with qualification values corresponding to respective pairs of edges expected within a timing strobe signal transmitted to the integrated-circuit component. The qualification values are sequentially output from the FIFO storage structure during respective cycles of the timing strobe signal and a gate signal is either asserted or deasserted during the respective cycles of the timing strobe signal according to the qualification values output from the FIFO storage structure.
US12062408B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory array including a set of memory cells and a set of switches to configure the set of memory cells. In one aspect, each switch is connected between a corresponding local line and a corresponding subset of memory cells. The local clines may be connected to a global line. Local lines may be metal rails, for example, local bit lines or local select lines. A global line may be a metal rail, for example, a global bit line or a global select line. A switch may be enabled or disabled to electrically couple a controller to a selected subset of memory cells through the global line. Accordingly, the set of memory cells can be configured through the global line rather than a number of metal rails to achieve area efficiency.
US12062402B2
A non-volatile memory device including a memory cell array including a plurality of cell strings, wherein each cell string of the plurality of cell stings includes a string selection transistor, a plurality of memory cells, and a ground selection transistor connected in series between a bit line and a common source line; and a control circuit configured to perform a program operation on a selected memory cell from among the plurality of memory cells and pre-charge a selected cell string including the selected memory cell in a pre-charge section included in a verification section, wherein the selected cell string is pre-charged as a first pre-charge voltage is applied to a selected bit line connected to the selected memory cell.
US12062398B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit that performs a program operation of repeatedly performing a program loop. The program loop includes performing a program by applying a program voltage to memory cells selected from the plurality of memory cells, and a first verify by applying a plurality of verify voltages to the selected memory cells. The peripheral circuit completes the program operation in response to a success of the first verify, performs a second verify by applying an additional verify voltage different from the plurality of verify voltages to the selected memory cells, and determines the program operation has failed in response to a failure of the second verify.
US12062392B2
A floating body SRAM cell that is readily scalable for selection by a memory compiler for making memory arrays is provided. A method of selecting a floating body SRAM cell by a memory compiler for use in array design is provided.
US12062390B2
A memory device includes: a refresh control circuit configured to generate a self-refresh command and a refresh address, word line control circuits configured to control a refresh operation of a plurality of word lines, a group management circuit configured to classify N address groups by grouping the refresh addresses to be generated by the refresh control circuit and to select from the N address groups, a current address group including a refresh address to be currently generated and a subsequent address group including a refresh address to be generated after the current address group according to the predetermined order, a row control circuit configured to group the plurality of word line control circuits with N control signals respectively corresponding to the N address groups, respectively, and a supply control circuit configured to activate signals corresponding to the current and subsequent address groups among the N control signals.
US12062380B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for coding speech using neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining a bitstream of parametric coder parameters characterizing spoken speech; generating, from the parametric coder parameters, a conditioning sequence; generating a reconstruction of the spoken speech that includes a respective speech sample at each of a plurality of decoder time steps, comprising, at each decoder time step: processing a current reconstruction sequence using an auto-regressive generative neural network, wherein the auto-regressive generative neural network is configured to process the current reconstruction to compute a score distribution over possible speech sample values, and wherein the processing comprises conditioning the auto-regressive generative neural network on at least a portion of the conditioning sequence; and sampling a speech sample from the possible speech sample values.
US12062373B2
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for facilitating the creation of a master transcription (or simply “transcript”) that more accurately reflects underlying audio by comparing multiple independently generated transcripts. The master transcript may be used to record and/or produce various forms of media content, as further discussed below. Thus, the technology described herein may be used to facilitate editing of text content, audio content, or video content. These computer programs may be supported by a media production platform that is able to generate the interfaces through which individuals (also referred to as “users”) can create, edit, or view media content. For example, a computer program may be embodied as a word processor that allows individuals to edit voice-based audio content by editing a master transcript, and vice versa.
US12062371B2
A client device attempts to communicate with an access point device both when it is connected to the wireless network along with the access point device as well as when the client device is remote communicating over the Internet. The client device determines a communications path and appropriate command protocol depending upon the client device's location and the communications command protocol supported by the access point device. Once this selection occurs, a user may provide a voice command which is translated into text and converted into an appropriate formatted command message for transmission to the access point device. Any response from the access point device is received by the client device as the same formatted command message which is converted to speech and presented to the user and both an audio and a visual display corresponding to the response.
US12062369B2
A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamic noise reduction in a voice call. The system includes an encoder having a short-time Fourier transform module to determine a magnitude spectrum and a phase spectrum of an input audio signal, including speech and dynamic noise. A separator coupled to the encoder comprises a temporal convolution network (TCN) used to develop a separation mask using the magnitude spectrum as input. The TCN is trained using a frequency SNR function used to calculate loss during training. A mixer is coupled to the separator to multiply the separation mask with the magnitude spectrum to separate the speech from the dynamic noise to obtain a denoise magnitude spectrum. A decoder coupled to the mixer and the encoder includes an inverse short-time Fourier transform module to reconstruct the input audio signal without the dynamic noise using the denoise magnitude spectrum and the phase spectrum.
US12062368B1
Systems and methods to detect themes in contacts data. Contacts data may be encoded as text (e.g., chat logs), audio (e.g., audio recordings), and various other modalities. Text-based transcripts of contacts data may be parsed into turns, an issue turn may be detected using a machine learning model, a key phrase may be extracted from the issue turn. Key phrases from across multiple contacts data may be clustered to identify themes.
US12062367B1
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for processing video streams. Metadata is extracted from an input video stream and processed using a video stream analyzer. The extracted metadata may be correlated along a time dimension. A metadata graph is generated based on relationships between various information present in the video stream as well as external fact sources. Machine learning models may be trained to receive an input phrase, determine a graph query from the input, and determine an output by traversing the metadata graph according to the graph query.
US12062350B2
This application discloses a method for adjusting image luminance performed at an electronic device. The method includes: determining that an original luminance of a target pixel in an image is lower than a luminance threshold of the image, the luminance threshold being determined according to luminance of pixels in the image; in accordance with the determination: obtaining a luminance distribution intensity of pixels adjacent to the target pixel in the image; determining a luminance difference between the luminance threshold and the luminance distribution intensity of the adjacent pixels; and adjusting the original luminance of the target pixel to a corresponding target luminance according to the luminance difference. By preserving the changing characteristic of relative luminance between the target pixel and the adjacent pixel, the luminance adjustment is more consistent with the luminance distribution of the image, thereby achieving a technical effect of improving the luminance adjustment on an image.
US12062336B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a first transistor disposed on a substrate and including a gate electrode, an input electrode, and an output electrode, a second transistor electrically connected to a scan line, a data line, and the input electrode of the first transistor, a third transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode electrically connected to the output electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and an overlapping layer that overlaps the gate electrode of the third transistor in a plan view. The overlapping layer is disposed between the substrate and a semiconductor layer of the third transistor.
US12062335B2
A display device includes: a first light emitting element; a third light emitting element adjacent to the first light emitting element in a first direction; second light emitting elements respectively adjacent to the first and third light emitting elements in a second direction crossing the first direction; first pixel circuits respectively under the first and third light emitting elements; second pixel circuits respectively under the second light emitting elements; and a dummy pixel circuit in a dummy circuit area adjacent to a display area in which the first, second, and third light emitting elements and the first and second pixel circuits are arranged and connected to the third light emitting element, wherein the dummy pixel circuit has a width smaller than a width of each of the first pixel circuits in the second direction.
US12062314B2
Provided are a compensation method for a display panel and a display device. The compensation method for a display panel includes: obtaining a first display grayscale obtained to be displayed in a to-be-displayed image by a first sub-pixel, and obtaining a first display data voltage corresponding to the first display grayscale; determining whether the first display data voltage is greater than a low brightness demarcation voltage; and if yes, obtaining a first compensation data voltage corresponding to the first sub-pixel according to the first display grayscale; and determining, according to a lighting voltage corresponding to the first sub-pixel, whether the first compensation data voltage is in a dark-state voltage range; and if yes, compensating the first sub-pixel by using the lighting voltage corresponding to the first sub-pixel, and if not, compensating the first sub-pixel by using the first compensation data voltage.
US12062313B2
This disclosure is directed towards systems and methods of power saving in electronic displays based on changing clock signal frequencies supplied to the gate-in-panel (GIP) circuitry during extended blanking modes of the electronic display. The display driver circuitry of the display may reduce and/or halt clock signal frequencies sent to GIP circuitry in the display, to reduce power output during extended blanking modes of the electronic display.
US12062309B2
A device and method for detecting a screen freeze error of a display of a vehicle. The method comprises monitoring a drive pattern of at least one pixel in a porch area during a time period corresponding to a plurality of image frames, wherein the porch area including at least one of a front porch area and a back porch area of a display panel driven according to the plurality of image frames; and determining occurrence of a screen freeze error by comparing the drive pattern of the at least one pixel with a preset drive pattern.
US12062292B2
An updatable, single fault impervious integrated control and monitoring system (ICMS) for airfield avionics comprising at least a pair of I/O Processors connected in parallel by two separate networks to each of a) a plurality of workstations, preferably including a Master Workstation, and b) one or more Equipment I/O Interface backplanes; said one or more Equipment I/O Interface backplanes comprising one or more programmable Equipment I/O Interface circuit card plugged therein and being structured to be programmed to bidirectionally translate at least one of a plurality of signal types required for control and monitoring of avionic equipment and convert said at least one of a plurality of signal types to and from a common signal type usable by the I/O Processors. Methods of making and using the updatable, single fault impervious ICMS are also described.
US12062286B2
A collision accident prevention method, apparatus, server, and computer program are proposed. The method can include predicting, based on data on a three-dimensional (3D) space corresponding to a caution zone, motion of each of at least one pedestrian in the caution zone and at least one vehicle in the caution zone. The method may also include determining, based on the predicted motion, a degree of risk of collision between the at least one pedestrian and the at least one vehicle. The method may further include providing a message corresponding to the determined degree of risk of collision to the at least one vehicle.
US12062284B2
Vehicle display control device, control method of vehicle display control device, and storage medium
A vehicle display control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to identifying a specific vehicle that is another vehicle satisfying a specific condition based on information acquired according to communication from another vehicle located near a host vehicle, identifying a distance and a direction associated with the specific vehicle viewed from the host vehicle, and causing a display device to display a notification image capable of including a first area surrounding a host vehicle icon indicating the host vehicle and a second area surrounding the first area and a display icon indicating the position of the specific vehicle.
US12062281B1
A traffic obstruction early warning system installed in roadway locations with limited visibility or restricted line of sight to warn drivers approaching a hazardous road condition well in advance so that precautionary measures may be taken and thereby reduce the risk of the multiple vehicle involvement. Selected roadway locations for the system installations can be the location of past vehicle pile-ups, or at-risk locations. The system timely and cohesively integrates inputs from a plurality of roadway sensors and human reporting to deploy a variety of visible and audible alerts to approaching drivers, law enforcement, emergency responders, local hospitals, utility companies, vehicle apps, and others using a variety of communication modalities.
US12062275B2
Some embodiments are directed to an emergency response system implemented via a back-end application computer server. A vehicle telematics data store may contain electronic records and each electronic record may include, for example, an electronic record identifier and at least one vehicle operation parameter (e.g., a vehicle speed, an accident location, an accident time of day, etc.). The computer server may receive, from an emergency responder (e.g., a police officer, ambulance, firefighter, etc.) via an interactive graphical emergency responder interface display, a vehicle tag (e.g., based on a QR code). The computer server may then retrieve, from the vehicle telematics data store, a vehicle operation parameter associated with the vehicle tag and update the display based on the retrieved a vehicle operation parameter associated with the vehicle tag.
US12062274B2
To appropriately exclude alarms not requiring maintenance operator confirmation. An alarm control device 1 includes: an individual filter determination unit 11 which acquires, from a storage unit, a determination condition (an individual filter) for whether or not maintenance operator confirmation corresponding to a device alarm issued from a network element device 2 is necessary; an alarm evaluation unit 12 which acquires information corresponding to a determination criterion of the determination condition from a management database 4 managing the network element device 2, checks the acquired information with the determination condition, and determines whether or not maintenance operator confirmation is necessary; and an alarm notification unit 13 which transmits a device alarm to a maintenance operator terminal 5 when the maintenance operator confirmation is determined to be necessary and does not transmit the device alarm to the maintenance operator terminal 5 when the maintenance operator confirmation is determined to be unnecessary.
US12062239B2
An information processing device of the present invention includes a detection means that detects the content of an image, a determination means that determines a processing mode for the image based on the result of detection of the content of the image, and an execution means that executes processing for a captured image corresponding to the processing mode.
US12062231B2
Disclosed is an inundation and overflow prediction system, and particularly, when there is provided an inundation and overflow prediction system, which can visually express the areas and degree of inundation and overflow on an orthophotograph, a Digital Elevation Model, and a Digital Surface Model based on images captured by a drone, which can reflect the latest environment and provide accurate numerical data, visualized information on inundated areas may be used in real-time for management of land to identify areas vulnerable to inundation and overflow and quickly respond to disasters, and objective information on numerical data may be provided in selecting locations for installing safety facilities against flood. Additionally, reports and documents, drawings for creating data, and visible simulation values may be output to supports works, and, there is an effect of constructing and utilizing a database regarding maintenance of social infrastructures through continuously learning of drone images.
US12062229B2
The invention relates to a process for identification of an implant, optionally worn by an individual, comprising the following steps, performed by a processing unit: obtaining a radiographic input image in which a dental implant is visible; classification of a region of interest of said radiographic image by means of at least one convolutional neural network; said classification producing a list of candidate implants to be the implant visible on the image, the list being ordered as a function of a probability of being the implant visible on the image.
US12062227B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure can include a computer-implemented method for efficient machine-learned model training. The method can include obtaining a plurality of training samples for a machine-learned model. The method can include, for one or more first training iterations, training, based at least in part on a first regularization magnitude configured to control a relative effect of one or more regularization techniques, the machine-learned model using one or more respective first training samples of the plurality of training samples. The method can include, for one or more second training iterations, training, based at least in part on a second regularization magnitude greater than the first regularization magnitude, the machine-learned model using one or more respective second training samples of the plurality of training samples.
US12062216B1
A fingerprint reader comprises a platen comprising a light-reflecting surface; a light source configured to emit light rays to illuminate a subject placed in contact with the light-reflecting surface of the platen; a camera configured to capture image data of the subject in contact with the light-reflecting surface of the platen; multiple optical elements arranged in an optical path between the platen and the camera; and an optical chassis comprising: multiple parallel raceway plates, the raceway plates fabricated from carbon fiber, and multiple crossmembers connecting pairs of the raceway plates, wherein the multiple optical elements are disposed in the multiple crossmembers.
US12062215B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for using latency compensatory pose prediction with respect to three-dimensional (3D) media data to perform rendering in a communication system supporting mixed reality (XR)/augmented reality (AR). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for a first device, which receives 3D media data from a media server in a communication system, to perform rendering comprises the steps of: receiving, from AR glasses, pose prediction-related information including pose information of a first point in time; performing pose prediction of a second point in time, at which 2-dimensional (2D) rendering is to be performed in the AR glasses, on the basis of the pose prediction-related information; rendering one or a plurality of 2D pose prediction rendering views with respect to the received 3D media data on the basis of one or a plurality of pieces of predicted pose information of the second point in time; and transmitting, to the AR glasses, 2D media data compressed by encoding the one or plurality of 2D pose prediction rendering views.
US12062214B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for encoding a Morton code. Techniques disclosed comprise receiving location vectors associated with primitives, where the primitives are graphical elements spatially located within a three-dimensional scene. Techniques further comprise determining a code pattern comprising a prefix pattern and a base pattern, and, then, coding each of the location vectors according to the code pattern.
US12062204B2
Various examples of systems and methods are provided for imaging calibration for slide processing. In one example, among others, a system for processing microscope slides includes a light source; an imaging device comprising a lens; and a slide positioner that can position the ground-glass portion of a slide between the light source and lens. Processing circuitry of the system can acquire an image of at least a section of the ground-glass portion at an initial position; analyze contrast of adjacent pixels with respect to a defined contrast characteristic; iteratively advance the lens and acquire additional images based upon analysis of contrast of adjacent pixels with respect to the defined contrast characteristic; and identify an optimal focal location of the lens based upon the defined contrast characteristic. Subsequent image acquisition via the lens can be based at least in part upon the optimal focal location.
US12062197B2
Systems and methods for validation of modeling and simulation systems that provide for the virtual fitting of wearable devices, such as glasses, by a user. Three-dimensional modeling and simulation of test subject both with and without fitting frames corresponding to a wearable device may be captured to validate the modeling and simulation modules and associated algorithms and machine learning modules used to simulate the fit of the wearable device on a user. Validation in this manner may provide for increased accuracy/realism of the modeling and simulation systems.
US12062196B2
The present invention provides a method for registering a circuit design layout and a scanning electron microscope image. The method comprises: step S1, providing a circuit design layout and a scanning electron microscope image; step S2: processing the circuit design layout to acquire a binary design layout image, and processing the scanning electron microscope image to acquire a binary scanning electron microscope image; step S3: performing Gaussian filtering on the binary design layout image and the binary scanning electron microscope image to maximize a gray value at a central axis of regions corresponding to a design pattern and a scanned pattern; and Step S4: performing registration according to the central axis of the design pattern and the scanned pattern. The present invention also provides a system for registering a circuit design layout and a scanning electron microscope image, a circuit design layout and an imaging error calculation method thereof, and an electronic device. The method and system for registering a circuit design layout and a scanning electron microscope image, the circuit design layout and the imaging error calculation method thereof, and the electronic device feature accurate registration and accurate error calculation.
US12062195B2
An example disclosed method includes (i) transmitting a first point cloud to a client, wherein the first point cloud corresponds to a reference point cloud, (ii) receiving a second point cloud, and (iii) hierarchically determining changes in the second point cloud from the reference point cloud, wherein hierarchically determining the changes includes (a) identifying first areas in the second point cloud that have changed from the reference point cloud, and (b) for a first area having a highest priority, determining a first rigid 3D transformation that approximates a first change from the reference point cloud, and if the first rigid 3D transformation cannot be determined, further determining first points to be used to modify the reference point cloud, wherein the first points are representative of the first change.
US12062186B2
A method, machine readable medium and system for RGBD semantic segmentation of video data includes determining semantic segmentation data and depth segmentation data for less than all classes for images of each frame of a first video, determining semantic segmentation data and depth segmentation data for images of each key frame of a second video including a synchronous combination of respective frames of the RGB video and the depth-aware video in parallel to the determination of the semantic segmentation data and the depth segmentation data for each frame of the first video, temporally and geometrically aligning respective frames of the first video and the second video, and predicting semantic segmentation data and depth segmentation data for images of a subsequent frame of the first video based on the determination of the semantic segmentation data and depth segmentation data for images of a key frame of the second video.
US12062185B2
A method and system for mapping boundary detecting features of at least one source triangulated mesh of known topology to a target triangulated mesh of arbitrary topology. A region of interest in a volumetric image associated with each triangle of the target triangulated mesh is provided to a feature mapping network. The feature mapping network assigns a feature selection vector to each triangle of the target triangulated mesh. The associated region of interest and assigned feature selection vector for each triangle of the target triangulated mesh are provided to a boundary detection network. A predicted boundary based on features of the associated region of interest selected by the assigned feature selection vector is obtained from the boundary detection network.
US12062181B2
An image processing apparatus configured to extract an irradiation field from an image obtained through radiation imaging, comprises: an inference unit configured to obtain an irradiation field candidate in the image based on inference processing; a contour extracting unit configured to extract a contour of the irradiation field based on contour extraction processing performed on the irradiation field candidate; and a field extracting unit configured to extract the irradiation field based on the contour.
US12062176B2
The present disclosure describes systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for detecting and indicating modifications between a digital image and a modified version of a digital image. For example, the disclosed systems generates an ordered collection of change records in response to detecting modifications to the digital image. The disclosed systems generates determine one or more non-contiguous modified regions of pixels in the digital image based on the change records. The disclosed system generate an edited region indicator corresponding to the non-contiguous modified regions. The disclosed systems can further color-code the edited region indicator at an object level based on objects in the modified version of the digital image.
US12062170B2
System and method for classifying a tooth condition based on landmarked anthropomorphic measurements
Disclosed is a system and method for classifying a tooth condition, comprising: a localization layer; a classification layer; a processor; a non-transitory storage element coupled to the processor; encoded instructions stored in the non-transitory storage element, wherein the encoded instructions when implemented by the processor, configure the automated parsing pipeline system to: localize a present anatomical landmark in a patient's oral or maxillofacial region depicted in a parsed image frame by the localization layer, said landmark comprising of a feature or features with anatomical or pathological significance; and classify a dental or maxillofacial condition based on measuring any kind of relation between two or more features within and/or between landmarks by the classification layer.
US12062162B2
An image processing device performs projection conversion that makes an image captured of an object to be recognized closer to a normal image captured from front of the object to be recognized based on a correlation between: a pre-specified plurality of feature ranges dispersed within a range of the object to be recognized; and a plurality of feature ranges designated based on the dispersion in the image.
US12062159B1
A camera apparatus includes control circuitry configured to acquire an input color image of an agricultural field, smoothen the input color image with a median blur and convert the smoothened input color image into a plurality of different color spaces. The control circuitry is configured to execute a set of channel operations on an individual channel or combined channels in each color space of the plurality of different color spaces and generate a normalized image based on outputs received from each color space processing path. The control circuitry is configured to determine a threshold value based on a histogram of the normalized image and apply the determined threshold value to generate a first binary mask image. The control circuitry is configured to apply one or more morphology operations to remove noise in the first binary mask image and generate an output binary mask image of foliage mask.
US12062157B2
Disclosed is a system and associated methods for generating a composite image from scans or images that are aligned using invisible fiducials. The invisible fiducial is a transparent substance or a projected specific wavelength that is applied to and changes reflectivity of a surface at the specific wavelength without interfering with a capture of positions or visible color characteristics across the surface. The system performs first and second capture of a scene with the surface, and detects a position of the invisible fiducial in each capture based on values measured across the specific wavelength that satisfy a threshold associated with the invisible fiducial. The system aligns the first capture with the second capture based on the detected positions of the invisible fiducial, and generates a composite image by merging or combining the positions or visible color characteristics from the aligned captures.
US12062147B2
An information processing system includes an estimation unit that, when map information indicating a map of an environment around a first device in a real space is updated, estimates a position of the first device, based on observation information obtained by observing the environment around the first device and the map information after update, an identification unit that identifies a position of a virtual camera provided in a virtual space associated with the real space, based on the position of the first device estimated by the estimation unit, and a video generation unit that generates a video of the virtual space corresponding to an imaging range of the camera at the position identified by the identification unit.
US12062141B2
The subject technology receives information for a product. The subject technology generates a 3D model file of the product in a first format. The subject technology converts the 3D model file to a 3D object file in a second format. The subject technology associates the 3D object file to the product in a product catalog service. The subject technology publishes an augmented reality (AR) content generator corresponding to the product.
US12062139B2
A virtual scenario generation method includes acquiring scenario characteristic information corresponding to a target virtual scenario to be generated; generating a scenario division mesh in an initial virtual scenario based on the scenario characteristic information, the scenario division mesh comprising division marking data configured to divide the initial virtual scenario; generating a scenario object collection which is about to be added to the scenario division mesh and comprises one or more scenario objects; performing attribute matching on the one or more scenario objects and the division marking data to obtain one or more candidate scenario objects allocated to the division marking data; selecting a target scenario object from the one or more candidate scenario objects according to position associated information between the candidate scenario objects and the division marking data; and matching the target scenario object with the division marking data to generate the target virtual scenario.
US12062137B2
An information processing apparatus has an identification unit, an obtaining unit, and an output unit. The identification unit identifies, in a virtual viewpoint image generated using shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of an object, a target for which to generate data for modeling a three-dimensional object, based on time information related to the virtual viewpoint image as well as a position of a virtual viewpoint and a direction of a line of sight from the virtual viewpoint related to the virtual viewpoint image. The obtaining unit obtains shape data on a first object in the virtual viewpoint image, the first object corresponding to the identified target. The output unit outputs data for modeling a three-dimensional object generated based on the obtained shape data.
US12062131B2
The invention relates to a six-DoF measurement aid for determining 3D coordinates of a multiplicity of object points to be measured in the form of 3D points of a point cloud in cooperation with a laser tracker, having an environment sensor arrangement and a control module. The control module comprises a platform control assistance functionality, which is configured to instruct the environment sensor arrangement, during the automatically guided movement of the six-DoF measurement aid, in a first mode to generate environmental information for determining an environmental normal, and in a second mode to generate environmental information for detecting anomalies with respect to the environmental normal, and to provide the environmental information generated by the environment sensor arrangement for control assistance of the platform control.
US12062128B2
Described herein is a computer-implemented method for simulating texture features of a n-layer target coating, the method including at least the steps of: a) providing known real geometrical properties and known individual ingredients with known real material properties; b) modelling the n-layer target coating in a virtual environment; c) virtually tracing rays of light from one or more light sources towards an aim region defined on a surface of the n-layer target coating; d) virtually collecting rays of light that interacted with the n-layer target coating; e) virtually determining, at least one of an angular, a spectral and a spatial distribution of intensity of the rays of light re-emitted from or reflected by the n-layer target coating; and f) evaluating the determined distribution(s) of intensity and outputting, by an output device, at least one image based on the evaluation.
US12062119B2
Embodiments presented in this disclosure provide for dynamic application of user selected visual accessibility transforms onto glyphs of standard fonts so that, for instance, a user device can present textual content to a user in a form personalized by the user to be more readable. In accordance with some aspects, a user selection of a font transformation is received. A set of initial control points of an initial glyph is transposed based on the font transformation to generate a set of modified control points. A modified glyph is constructed using differential evolution based at least on the set of initial control points and the set of modified control points.
US12062111B2
The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for rendering images, the system having one or more client digital data processors and a server digital data processor in communications coupling with the one or more client digital data processors, the server digital data processor having one or more graphics processing units. The system additionally comprises a render server module executing on the server digital data processor and in communications coupling with the graphics processing units, where the render server module issues a command in response to a request from a first client digital data processor. The graphics processing units on the server digital data processor simultaneously process image data in response to interleaved commands from (i) the render server module on behalf of the first client digital data processor, and (ii) one or more requests from (a) the render server module on behalf of any of the other client digital data processors, and (b) other functionality on the server digital data processor.
US12062101B2
The system creates a first start time and a first recording of a first user interface with which a user is interacting. Upon determining that the user is not interacting with the first user interface, the system creates a first end time, a second start time, and a second recording of a second user interface with which the user is interacting. Upon obtaining an indication to create a second end time, the system creates the second end time. The system calculates a first difference between the first end time and first start time and a second difference between the second end time and second start time. The system obtains a first task and second task associated with the first recording and second recording, respectively. Based on the first and second differences and the first and second tasks, the system creates a first and a second time entry, respectively.
US12062096B2
A method for providing actionable intelligence in real-time to facilitate a plurality of transactions is disclosed. The method includes compiling historical activity data for potential clients; defining, by using a model, a score for each of the potential clients based on the compiled historical activity data; receiving, via an event stream, a request, the request relating to a transaction request for a financial instrument; retrieving client coverage data that corresponds to the potential clients, the client coverage data including a strategic client plan that relates to development of client relationships; identifying a predetermined rule that corresponds to the request; and automatically determining, in real-time for the request, a recommended client from the potential clients based on at least one from among the score, the client coverage data, the corresponding predetermined rule, and the historical activity data.
US12062093B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for executing a quantitative trading strategy, for executing the quantitative trading strategy through a graphical interface, without requiring a user to have a capability of writing program codes, thereby improving the user experience. The method for executing the quantitative trading strategy includes: displaying a graphical interface including an execution area; obtaining a first instruction inputted by a user; obtaining a first quantitative trading strategy in response to the first instruction, the first quantitative trading strategy including at least one parameter related to a real market operation; adding the first quantitative trading strategy to the execution area to form a first execution record corresponding to the first quantitative trading strategy; and executing, based on the first execution record, the first quantitative trading strategy to obtain execution information of the first quantitative trading strategy.
US12062090B2
A blockchain enabled electronic futures trading system and method provided which allows for optional computerized delivery of cryptocurrency. A trade determination system allows a buyer and seller computer system to trade a future on a cryptocurrency such as bitcoin. Additionally, the trade determination system communicates with a central clearing computer system that allows the seller to provide, using the block chain, an amount of bitcoin equal to or greater than the underlying future by transferring the bitcoin from a seller bitcoin wallet associated with the seller computer system to a central clearing bitcoin wallet associated with the central clearing computer system. Upon the expiration date of the future, the seller may optionally select to provide to the buyer the bitcoin that was previously transferred to the central clearing bitcoin wallet instead of fiat currency.
US12062088B1
The present application is directed to apparatuses, methods, and systems for remote deposit capture with enhanced image detection. In one form, a system includes a processor configured to extract an instrument image from an image that is associated with an account, where the instrument image is extracted by determining at least one corner of a plurality of corners of an instrument in the image, and to transmit the instrument image to a financial institution server to transfer funds between financial institution accounts.
US12062081B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform functions including: receiving a respective item description and at least one respective attribute value for each item of a set of items; generating at least one respective text embedding; generating a graph of the set of items based on at least co-view data to create pairs of items that are co-viewed by joining respective pairs of items; training the text embedding model and a machine learning model using a neural loss function based on the graph; and automatically determining, using the machine learning model, as trained, a label for each item of the set of items. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12062080B2
The present disclosure relates to improving recommendations for small shops on an ecommerce platform while maintaining accuracy for larger shops by retraining a machine-learning recommendation model to reduce sample selection bias using a meta-learning process. The retraining process comprises identifying a sample subset of shops on the ecommerce platform, and then creating shop-specific versions of the recommendation model for each of the shops in the subset by optimizing the baseline model to predict user-item interactions in a first training dataset for the applicable shop. Each of the shop-specific models is then tested using a second training dataset for the shop. A loss is calculated for each shop-specific model based on the model's predicted user-item interactions and the actual user-item interactions in the second training dataset for the shop. A global loss is calculated based on each of the shop-specific losses, and the baseline model is updated to minimize the global loss.
US12062068B2
A OneAPP platform system and method provide hyperlocal searching. Each computing device has a OneApp that identifies a user action on the computing device that indicates an interest in a point of interest (PoI) and transform, in response to the user action on the computing device, the OneApp stored on the computing device into a PoI specific App that delivers PoI specific content and offers to the computing device.
US12062063B1
A system for a product bundle may include a user device for acquiring an image including stocked food products, and a bundle server configured to obtain the image from the user device. The bundle server may identify each of the stocked food products using image recognition, and associate at least one of the identified stocked food products with a recipe. The recipe may include needed food products. The bundle server may generate a product bundle for purchase that includes the needed food products. The product bundle may have a bundle price less than a sum of individual purchase prices of each of the needed food products. The bundle server may also communicate the product bundle for purchase and the bundle price to the user device, and generate a digital promotion redeemable toward the purchase of the product bundle and communicate the digital promotion to the user device.
US12062060B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and a device for processing user interaction information. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a set of user interaction information associated with a preset interaction operation, wherein the user interaction information comprises category information and brand information of an interaction object, user attribute information, and operation time information of interaction operations corresponding to a brand of the interaction object; generating a corresponding interaction feature of a user on the basis of the set of user interaction information; and determining, on the basis of the interaction feature of the user and a pre-trained preset operation probability generation model, a probability of the user executing a target operation associated with a brand of the interaction object in the corresponding user interaction information.
US12062052B2
Systems for securing transactions based on merchant trust score are disclosed. The system may receive information identifying a merchant from a user device and, in response, retrieve transaction data associated with the merchant and receive website data in response to receiving information identifying the merchant. The system may use a machine learning model to generate a merchant trust score for the merchant, and determine whether the merchant trust score is less than a predetermined threshold. The system may also generate or retrieve an alternative payment method and provide related information or a recommendation to the user device.
US12062050B2
A method executed by a computing entity includes interpreting digital records to produce a first digital record representing a first contingent asset. The method further includes interpreting a first authenticity indicator associated with the first digital record to produce a first contingent asset risk level. When the first contingent asset risk level is greater than a contingency risk threshold level, the method further includes establishing a set of first contingent asset available terms for a corresponding set of portions of the first contingent asset, generating a set of first smart contracts to represent the set of portions to include the set of first contingent asset available terms and a contingent status. The method further includes causing generation of a non-fungible token to represent the set of first smart contracts in an object distributed ledger.
US12062043B1
A system for processing distributed ledger transactions using a time-sequenced, asynchronous, Byzantine Fault Tolerant (taBFT) consensus system. Transaction data from a client device is received by a full node in a distributed ledger network. The full nodes are preferably satellite based nodes. The full nodes include an object router and a validator node. Transaction data is received at the object router, a timestamp is attached to the transaction data, and the combined data is encrypted and sent to the validator node, and also to other full nodes. The validator node verifies the format, structure and correctness of the data contained in the transaction, and validates the requested transaction. Other full nodes receive the encrypted transaction data and make their own determination of the validity of the transaction data. Upon consensus approval of a transaction, the transaction data is executed and submitted to a permanent data store.
US12062033B2
The present disclosure describes devices and methods for an anonymized tracking service. In particular, devices and methods are described for a third party system that allows a user to selectively opt-in to wireless location tracking at specific stores. The anonymized tracking service may include a third party, a third party server system, a mobile device, and one or more store computing systems. In one aspect, a third-party (e.g., not associated with a store) mobile application may be downloaded onto a mobile device of a user. The mobile application provides a central control unit that allows the user to select which stores have permission to track the location of the user within a building associated with the store. In some embodiments, the central control unit may also allow a user to select which type or how much additional information the store may collect and save.
US12062027B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, a request for particular data, determining, by the server, a transport that can provide the particular data based on one or more current settings of the transport and a current route of the transport, requesting, by the server, the transport to provide the particular data for a value, and receiving, by the server, the particular data.
US12062023B1
A waste management system includes a waste management device, a monitoring unit, and a communication unit. The waste management device includes a collection unit, a classification unit, a segregation unit, a plurality of sensors, a power unit, and a plurality of waste bins. The collection unit collects one or more waste articles. The classification unit utilizes a machine-learning model and identifies a waste category of the one or more waste articles. The segregation unit transports the one or more waste articles to a particular waste bin corresponding to the identified waste category. The power unit supplies power to the waste management device. The monitoring unit monitors the waste management device and controls a resultant action. The communication unit communicates one or more data between a control station and the waste management device using a plurality of IoT devices.
US12062020B2
Systems and methods for dynamically displaying recipient calendar information in electronic messages
Systems and methods for presenting calendar information in electronic messages can include a data processing system receiving a request for calendar information for display in an electronic message responsive to the client device accessing the electronic message. The data processing system can identify, using information in the request, the calendar information of the sender of the electronic message and calendar information of the recipient of the electronic message. The data processing system can retrieve the calendar information of the sender of the electronic message and the calendar information of the recipient of the electronic message. The data processing system can automatically generate an image depicting the calendar information of the sender of the electronic message and the calendar information of the recipient of the electronic message, and send instructions to the client device to cause display of the image within the electronic message accessed by the client device.
US12062019B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for delivering and receiving messages. An embodiment operates by allowing users to subscribe to various chat panels of a messaging system. Users will be able to utilize the chat panels to send and receive messages. In a corporate context, an administrator may be able to quickly send unidirectional messages to employees as well as assign users to mandatory divisions based on job function. In an embodiment, the messaging system also allows for email integration and graphical user interface workspace configuration.
US12062013B1
A system and method applying store operational data for automated product location tracking within an environment can include collecting operational data with item identifier information, generating item event location data through a sensor monitoring system, processing the operational data and establishing a candidate item location dataset using item event location data associated with the operational data, and translating the candidate item location dataset into an item location map. Variations of the system and method can integrate with product scanning events and/or transaction data.
US12062012B2
Dispensing units or stations for dispensing items, such as in a healthcare facility, are linked in a network. The dispensing stations are arranged in groups. Inventory data for all the stations in a group is combined together, and displayed at a graphical view or widget. Multiple widgets may be displayed on a dashboard screen of a user system, for use in managing inventory.
US12061993B2
Disclosed is a service providing system capable of providing an information processing function effective for a variety of system constructions as a service. The service providing system of the present embodiment realizes an information retrieval function, a knowledge base construction function, and a knowledge presentation function. The information retrieval function retrieves information on an analysis target and information indicating a condition of the analysis target; the knowledge base construction function constructs a knowledge database for acquiring knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target based on the information retrieved by the information retrieval function. The knowledge presentation function presents knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target from the knowledge database.
US12061991B2
Transfer learning in machine learning can include receiving a machine learning model. Target domain training data for reprogramming the machine learning model using transfer learning can be received. The target domain training data can be transformed by performing a transformation function on the target domain training data. Output labels of the machine learning model can be mapped to target labels associated with the target domain training data. The transformation function can be trained by optimizing a parameter of the transformation function. The machine learning model can be reprogrammed based on input data transformed by the transformation function and a mapping of the output labels to target labels.
US12061984B2
In one aspect, the invention comprises a system and method for control of a transaction state system utilizing a distributed ledger. First, the system and method includes an application plane layer adapted to receive instructions regarding operation of the transaction state system. Preferably, the application plane layer is coupled to the application plane layer interface. Second, a control plane layer is provided, the control plane layer including an adaptive control unit, such as a cognitive computing unit, artificial intelligence unit or machine-learning unit. Third, a data plane layer includes an input interface to receive data input from one or more data sources and to provide output coupled to a decentralized distributed ledger, the data plane layer is coupled to the control plane layer. Optionally, the system and method serve to implement a smart contract on a decentralized distributed ledger.
US12061981B1
Some embodiments provide a method for training parameters of a network. the method receives a machine-trained (MT) network with multiple layers of computation nodes. Each computation node of a set of the layers computes an output value based on a set of input values and a set of trained weight values. A first layer of the MT network includes a first number of filters. The method replaces the first layer with (i) a second layer having a second number of filters that is less than the first number of filters and (ii) a third layer having the first number of filters. Output values of computation nodes of the second layer are quantized and the third layer using the quantized output values of the second layer as input values.
US12061980B2
System and methods for training neural network models for real-time flow simulations are provided. Input data is acquired. The input data includes values for a plurality of input parameters associated with a multiphase fluid flow. The multiphase fluid flow is simulated using a complex fluid dynamics (CFD) model, based on the acquired input data. The CFD model represents a three-dimensional (3D) domain for the simulation. An area of interest is selected within the 3D domain represented by the CFD model. A two-dimensional (2D) mesh of the selected area of interest is generated. The 2D mesh represents results of the simulation for the selected area of interest. A neural network is then trained based on the simulation results represented by the generated 2D mesh.
US12061975B2
A reconfigurable, for example with time, network switch matrix coupling switch charge circuits representing multiply and add circuits (MACs) and neurons (MACs with activations) capable of accepting and outputting proportional to charge pulses through crossbars within said network, said crossbars controlled by local controllers and higher level controllers to setup said crossbar communications.
US12061973B2
A neural processing device and transaction tracking method thereof are provided. The neural processing device comprises a first set of a plurality of neural cores, a shared memory shared by the first set of the plurality of neural cores, and a programmable hardware transactional memory (PHTM) configured to receive a memory access request directed to the shared memory from the first set of the plurality of neural cores and configured to commit or buffer the memory access request.
US12061968B2
A computer-implemented method that includes receiving, by a processing unit, an instruction that specifies data values for performing a tensor computation. In response to receiving the instruction, the method may include, performing, by the processing unit, the tensor computation by executing a loop nest comprising a plurality of loops, wherein a structure of the loop nest is defined based on one or more of the data values of the instruction. The tensor computation can be at least a portion of a computation of a neural network layer. The data values specified by the instruction may comprise a value that specifies a type of the neural network layer, and the structure of the loop nest can be defined at least in part by the type of the neural network layer.
US12061965B2
A method for training a model for generating simulation data for training an autonomous driving agent, comprising: analyzing real data, collected from a driving environment, to identify a plurality of environment classes, a plurality of moving agent classes, and a plurality of movement pattern classes; generating a training environment, according to one environment class; and in at least one training iteration: generating, by a simulation generation model, a simulated driving environment according to the training environment and according to a plurality of generated training agents, each associated with one of the plurality of agent classes and one of the plurality of movement pattern classes; collecting simulated driving data from the simulated environment; and modifying at least one model parameter of the simulation generation model to minimize a difference between a simulation statistical fingerprint, computed using the simulated driving data, and a real statistical fingerprint, computed using the real data.
US12061962B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for leveraging unsupervised machine learning to produce interpretable routing rules. In various embodiments, a training dataset comprising a plurality of data records is created. The plurality of data records includes message data comprising a plurality of messages and action data comprising a plurality of actions that correspond to the plurality of messages. A first machine learning model is trained using the training dataset. The first machine learning model as trained provides cluster data that indicates, for each data record of the plurality of data records of the training dataset, membership in a cluster of a plurality of clusters. An enhanced training dataset is created that comprises the message data from the training dataset, the action data from the training dataset, and the cluster data. A set of second machine learning models is trained using the enhanced training dataset, each respective second machine learning model of the set of second machine learning models providing a decision tree of a plurality of decision trees and corresponding to a distinct cluster of the plurality of clusters. Rules can be extracted from each decision tree of the plurality of decision trees and used as a basis for creating and transmitting alerts based on incoming messages.
US12061960B2
A learning device is configured to perform learning of a decision tree. The learning device includes a gradient output unit and a branch score calculator. The gradient output unit is configured to output a cumulative sum of gradient information corresponding to each value of a feature amount of learning data. The branch score calculator is configured to calculate a branch score used for determining a branch condition for a node of the decision tree, from the cumulative sum without using a dividing circuit.
US12061956B1
Techniques for utilizing a federated learning service are described. An exemplary method includes causing a development of a deployable machine learning model using at least two devices, the development of the deployable machine learning model including: providing an initial machine learning model or algorithm to the at least two devices external to the provider network, causing each of the at least two devices external to the provider network to locally train the initial machine learning model or algorithm using training data to each generate a modified version of the initial machine learning model, determining updates between the initial model and the generated modified versions of the initial machine learning model, and applying the determined updates to the initial model to generate the candidate machine learning model.
US12061943B2
The invention relates to measuring devices or display devices and a method for operating these devices, in particular instruments for level measurement, for level detection, for detecting the topology of a product surface or for displaying the measured values of these instruments. A measuring device or display device has an RFID unit. The RFID unit is set up to exchange data with a memory on an external command from an external communication device, to switch a controllable switch on and off, and/or to transfer energy to an energy storage device.
US12061924B2
Finding optimal solutions to Web Service Location Allocation Problem (WSLAP) using exhaustive algorithms and exact approaches is not practical. Computational time required to solve WSLAP using exact approaches increases exponentially with the problem size. The disclosure herein generally relates to service deployment, and, more particularly, to a method and system for web service location allocation and virtual machine deployment. The system identifies a plurality of web-services that are associated with the WSLAP and then decomposes the WSLAP to a plurality of sub-problems. For each sub-problem, the system determines at least one non-dominating solution, which are then merged to generate the solution for the WSLAP. The generated solution to the WSLAP can be used for perform Virtual Machine (VM) deployment under uncertainties, using a stochastic approach, wherein the uncertainties refer to dynamic change in requirements in terms of parameters such as but not limited to configuration, and cost.
US12061922B2
Techniques for decoupling compute and storage resources in a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a control plane of the HCI deployment can provision a host from a host platform of an infrastructure on which the HCI deployment is implemented and can provision one or more storage volumes from a storage platform of the infrastructure, where the storage platform runs on physical server resources in the infrastructure that are separate from the host platform. The control plane can then cause the one or more storage volumes to be network-attached to the host in a manner that enables a hypervisor of the host to make the one or more storage volumes available, as part of a virtual storage pool, to one or more virtual machines in the HCI deployment for data storage.
US12061919B2
A system and method for providing dynamic I/O virtualization is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a device capable of performing hypervisor-agnostic and device-agnostic I/O virtualization includes a host computer interface, memory, I/O devices (GPU, disk, NIC), and efficient communication mechanisms for virtual machines to communicate their intention to perform I/O operations on the device. According to one embodiment, the communication mechanism may use shared memory. According to some embodiments, the device may be implemented purely in hardware, in software, or using a combination of hardware and software. According to some embodiments, the device may share its memory with guest processes to perform optimizations including but not limited to a shared page cache and a shared heap.
US12061918B2
Provided herein are systems and method for providing routing of complex dynamically updated website applications using micro front ends (MFEs). The MFEs can be instantiated in a nested fashion. Each MFE can be agnostic to other levels of the website application structure that are not directly adjacent to the MFE in the hierarchy of the nesting. Navigation events can be bubbled up to a shell application to retain top-level control of routing within the website application without requiring the shell application to have all levels of routing in the hierarchy.
US12061890B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to install a software system via a host platform, where the software system comprises a plurality of software programs of a plurality of providers, respectively, generating a non-fungible token (NFT) for a software program from among the plurality of software programs based on a private key, embedding the NFT with the software program within the software system and storing provider data of the software program mapped to the NFT via a blockchain ledger, and installing the software system via the host platform with the NFT embedded therein.
US12061888B2
A method can be used for verifying an execution of a compiled software program stored in a program memory of a processor and executed by the processor. A write operation includes assigning a destination address in a register of the processor and writing a datum at a location pointed to by the destination address contained in the register. A verification operation includes reassigning the same destination address in the same register, reading the datum contained at the location pointed to by the destination address contained in the register after the reassignment, and comparing the read datum and the written datum.
US12061885B2
A compilation method includes obtaining a source program code. The source program code includes a first function in a first language code and a second function in a second language code. The first language code is a native language. The second language code is a non-native language. The method also includes generating a third language code based on the source program code. The third language code includes a third function, a fourth function and a fifth function. The third function is generated based on the first function. The fourth function is generated based on the second function. The fifth function is generated based on the first function and the second function. Executing the third function invokes the fourth function via the fifth function.
US12061878B2
A system and method for the creation of locality sensitive hash signatures using weighted feature sets is disclosed. The disclosed methodology takes advantage of discretization mechanisms commonly used in computer systems to model the influence of the feature weights on the calculated hash signature. Pseudo random numbers required for the signature calculation are created in ascending order, which enables the signature generation mechanism to identify and avoid the unnecessary creation of pseudo random numbers to improve the performance of the signature calculation process. Further, hierarchic, tree-search like algorithms are used during the processing of signature weights to further decrease the number of required random numbers. The features of the Poisson Process model, like its ability to provide random numbers in ascending order and the split—and mergeability of Poisson Processes are used to further improve the performance of the signature calculation process.
US12061876B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the building and use of natural language understanding models. The systems and methods identify a plurality of tokens and use them to generate one or more pre-trained natural language models using a transformer. The transformer disentangles the content embedding and positional embedding in the computation of its attention matrix. Systems and methods are also provided to facilitate self-training of the pre-trained natural language model by utilizing multi-step decoding to better reconstruct masked tokens and improve pre-training convergence.
US12061875B2
A corpus of textual data records, labeled by experts as corresponding to a defined characteristic, that comprise descriptions of problems with an item are collected. A language model generates a plurality of n-grams from the corpus. Frequently occurring n-grams are analyzed using a zero-shot learning model to determine similarity to the defined characteristic. N-grams highly similar to the defined characteristic may be selected as defined phrases. N-grams highly similar to another characteristic may also be selected to reduce false positives. The zero-shot model may also be used to determine a weighting factor for each defined phrase for each record. A relevance score is determined for a record by multiplying the weighting factors for each phrase that has a similarity score relative to the record above a threshold based on the expert labeling. The relevancy score may be used to automatically diagnose problems with the item.
US12061860B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating uniform hierarchical views of technical documents irrespective of a file format for the technical document. Metadata definitions may be received that define a technical document hierarchy for the technical document. Based on the metadata definitions, technical data element may be mapped to the technical document hierarchy. The technical document may be generated, the technical document comprising the technical data elements. Based in part on the technical document and the metadata definitions, the uniform hierarchical view may be generated. The uniform hierarchical view may be populated with at least a subset of the technical data elements from the technical document. Once generated, the uniform hierarchical view may be displayed.
US12061853B2
Various implementations described herein refer to a device having an integrated circuit with multiple tiers including a first tier and a second tier that are arranged vertically in a stacked configuration. The first tier may have first functional components, and the second tier may have second functional components. The device may have a three-dimensional (3D) connection within the first tier that allows for synchronous signaling between the first functional components and the second functional components for reducing latency between the multiple tiers including the first tier and the second tier.
US12061843B2
A method of controlling an environment using a roaming electronic assistant. The method comprises capturing a plurality of associations of voice commands to device commands coded for a first electronic assistant (EA) device by a home electronic assistant (EA) client application, where each association links a voice command to a corresponding device command coded for the first EA device, and where the first EA device takes action in a home environment based on the voice commands, sending the associations of voice commands to device commands coded for the first EA device to an EA client application executing on a computer system, and building a mapping of the associations for the first EA device to associations for a second EA device by the EA client application, where each association for the second EA device links a voice command to a device command coded for the second EA device.
US12061841B2
A computer-implemented method allocates screen space to two or more voice commands concurrently. The method includes receiving, by a voice controlled device (VCD), two or more voice commands including a first voice command and a second voice command, where a result for each of the voice commands can be displayed on a screen associated with the VCD. The method further includes allocating a portion of the screen for each command including, a first allocation for a first result of the first command and a second allocation for a result of the second command. The method also includes displaying, based on the allocating, the first result and the second result simultaneously on the screen.
US12061829B2
A monitoring control apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises at least one memory; and at least one processor. When executing a program stored in the at least one memory, the processor causes the apparatus to operate as a saving unit saving a capturing order of devices for each capturing unit; a holding unit holding, for each job, a state of a device used in the job; and a control unit specifying a target device in accordance with the capturing order and capture the specified target device with the capturing unit. The control unit specifies a target device as a next capturing target in accordance with the capturing order and if there is no job in which a state of the specified target device is a waiting state, specifies a next device as a target device in accordance with the capturing order.
US12061813B2
A request to restore a specific backup instance is received. In response to the received request to restore the specific backup instance, a new reference backup instance based on the specific backup instance stored at the storage controlled by the backup system is created at a storage controlled by a backup system. Data associated with the specific backup instance is provided to a recipient system from the storage associated with a backup system. A constructive incremental backup snapshot of the recipient system is performed based on the new reference backup instance.
US12061811B2
Methods and systems for multi-device, multi-channel cloud-based differential data synchronization. The system includes a server system, a source device including a first migration application instance, the source device configured to execute the first migration application instance to initiate a data transfer process with the server system to transfer user data to the server system upon a user ordering a target device, and the target device including a second migration application instance, the target device configured to execute the second migration application instance to initiate a data transfer process with the server system to transfer the user data to the target device, and execute a second data transfer with the source device to finalize data synchronization when the user is picking up the target device.
US12061795B2
This document describes aspects of communicating information about repair elements of a memory device. A memory device can include multiple repair elements that can each replace a defective or damaged memory element, such as a memory row, using a repair operation. By knowing a quantity of remaining available repair elements, a user of a memory device can make informed decisions about whether to make a replacement. In operation, a host device can send a command to the memory device requesting repair element information. Logic of the memory device can determine a quantity of repair elements that are available for a repair operation. In some cases, the logic may store this quantity in a register of the memory device. The memory device can signal the quantity of repair elements to the host device in response to the command.
US12061793B1
A decoding engine within an integrated-circuit (IC) component iteratively executes error detection/correction operations with respect to a sequence of input data volumes to generate a corresponding sequence of error syndrome values, the input data volumes each including a first block of data and corresponding error correction code retrieved from one or more external memory components together with a respective one of a plurality of q-bit data patterns. Selector circuitry within the decoding engine selects one of the plurality of q-bit data patterns to be an output q-bit value according to error-count differentiation indicated by the error syndrome values.
US12061792B1
A method for use in a flash memory to handle host write commands includes: performing a dummy pattern detection while programing data into a specific section of a first block or a first super block of the flash memory; setting a dummy pattern indicator if all the data that is programmed to the specific section of the first block or the first super block of the flash memory corresponds to a predetermined dummy pattern; and in response to host write commands, modifying a host-to-flash (H2F) address mapping table regarding data that is requested by the host write commands to be programmed to a second block or a second super block of the flash memory without programming the data into the second super block or the second block to complete the host write commands if the dummy pattern indicator is set.
US12061791B2
A data storage device includes a host interface for coupling the data storage device to a host system. The data storage device also includes a device memory and a controller. The controller is configured to determine if a retrim is needed for the data storage device. In accordance with a determination that the retrim is needed, the controller is configured to identify a time to initiate a new trim on the data storage device, and cause the new trim on the data storage device at the time identified.
US12061786B2
A computer-implemented method for setting a typed parameter of a typed operation applied to a 3D modeled object in a 3D scene. The method comprises displaying a representation of the 3D modeled object in the 3D scene. The method comprises obtaining the typed operation to be applied on a point of interest of the displayed representation of the 3D modeled object and selecting a first typed parameter among at least two typed parameters, thereby defining the selected first typed parameter as a current selected typed parameter. The method comprises providing a 2D manipulator in the 3D scene for setting the current selected typed parameter and setting the current selected typed parameter upon user interaction with at least one logical area of the 2D manipulator associated with the current selected typed parameters. The method improves the setting of a typed parameter of a typed operation.
US12061779B2
Techniques and systems for receiving and using a customization file are provided, including a computing device, a method, or a computer-program product. For example, a method may include receiving a customization file that includes customized content for customizing a communication interface overlay. The method may further include accessing native application code and executing the native application code to run a native application. The method may further include accessing a compiled set of code that is separate from the native application code. The compiled set of code is accessible by the native application code. The method may further include executing the compiled set of code, wherein a default file of the compiled set of code provides a native communication interface overlay, wherein the native communication interface overlay is overlaid over a graphical interface of the native application, and wherein the native communication interface overlay allows communication with a resource of a third-party. The method may further include executing the received customization file, wherein executing the received customization file customizes the compiled set of code, and wherein the customized compiled set of code customizes the native communication interface overlay to provide a customized communication interface overlay.
US12061772B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve ranking augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application, a request from a first user to compose a message for sending to a preselected second user, the message being configured to include an image captured by a device camera, the first user and the second user corresponding to contacts in the messaging application; determining, in response to receiving the request, a ranking for a plurality of augmented reality content items configured to be displayed with the image, the ranking being based on at least one signal that relates the first user to the second user; and displaying, based on the ranking, the image with a user interface comprising multiple icons, each icon being user-selectable to display a respective one of the plurality of augmented reality content items with the image.
US12061767B2
Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments. At least some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. At least some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes navigation controls that enable a user to navigate virtual areas and interaction controls that enable the user to interact with other communicants in the one or more virtual areas.
US12061764B2
A touch panel comprising a transparent substrate and a layer of transparent conducting material on the transparent substrate, the layer of transparent conducting material being provided in a pattern comprising a plurality of electrode cells connected along a first direction and isolated from each other in the layer by gaps between the electrode cells in a second direction. A pattern of transparent insulating material is provided on the layer of transparent conducting material so as to provide bridging portions of the transparent insulating material that span across at least a subset of the gaps between the electrode cells in the second direction. The touch panel further comprises a plurality of transparent electrically conductive tracks, each comprising a plurality of at least one of nanowires, nano tubes and nanosheets. Each track is provided over a respective one of the bridging portions to electrically connect a respective two of the electrode cells.
US12061760B2
Provided is an imaging device that includes a rear display and an electronic viewfinder and is excellent in operability to a touch panel when an electronic viewfinder is used. When a user performs a touch manipulation on a touch panel installed in a rear display in order to set a focus area, an effective detection area for detecting a touch position is different between when the rear display is used and when the electronic viewfinder is used. When the rear display is used, the effective detection area is set to coincide with the entire display screen, and when the electronic viewfinder is used, the effective detection area is set to be reduced to an area of a part of the display screen of the rear display.
US12061759B2
Disclosed herein is a touch sensing device including a first touch controller configured to transmit and receive data, wherein the first touch controller includes a clock terminal and a plurality of input/output terminals, and ternary data is transmitted and received through the clock terminal and at least two terminals among the plurality of input/output terminals of the first touch controller, and binary data is transmitted through the remaining input/output terminals.
US12061756B2
A touch sensing unit includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes disposed on in a touch sensor area which includes a round portion having a curvature. A driving line is connected to a first touch electrode among the first touch electrodes are disposed in the round portion of the touch sensor area. A sensing line is connected to a second touch electrode among the second touch electrodes disposed in the round portion of the touch sensor area. The driving line and the sensing line intersect each other.
US12061754B2
A stylus includes a first transmission circuit, a second transmission circuit, and a control circuit which controls the first and second transmission circuits according to a first transmission mode in which the control circuit controls the first transmission circuit to transmit a first downlink signal from a tip electrode and controls the second transmission circuit to not transmit a second downlink signal from a tail electrode, a second transmission mode in which the control circuit controls the first transmission circuit to not transmit the first downlink signal from the tip electrode and controls the second transmission circuit to transmit the second downlink signal from the tail electrode, and a third transmission mode in which the control circuit controls the first transmission circuit to transmit the first downlink signal from the tip electrode and controls the second transmission circuit to transmit the second downlink signal from the tail electrode.
US12061746B2
An interactive simulation system with a stereoscopic image and a method for operating the system are provided. The system includes a three-dimensional display and a control host. The stereoscopic image display is used to display a stereoscopic image. The system includes an interactive sensor that is used to sense gesture of a user or an action that the user manipulates a haptic device so as to produce sensing data. In the meantime, the system detects eye positions of the user. The changes of coordinates with respect to the gesture or the haptic device can be determined and referred to for forming a manipulation track. An interactive instruction can be determined. The stereoscopic image can be updated according to the interactive instruction and the eye positions of the user.
US12061745B2
Gesture input with multiple displays, views, and physics is described. In one example, a method includes generating a three dimensional space having a plurality of objects in different positions relative to a user and a virtual object to be manipulated by the user, presenting, on a display, a displayed area having at least a portion of the plurality of different objects, detecting an air gesture of the user against the virtual object, the virtual object being outside the displayed area, generating a trajectory of the virtual object in the three-dimensional space based on the air gesture, the trajectory including interactions with objects of the plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and presenting a portion of the generated trajectory on the displayed area.
US12061739B2
A system for the generation and management of tactile sensation includes a computing subsystem. A method for the generation and management of tactile sensation includes receiving a set of inputs and processing the set of inputs. Additionally or alternatively, the method 200 can include: communicating tactile commands to a tactile interface system; operating the tactile interface system based on the tactile commands; and/or performing any other suitable processes.
US12061738B2
A method including determining a gaze direction of a user of a wearable device, capturing an image using a forward-looking camera of the wearable device, detecting a surroundings of the user based on the image, determining whether or not the user is distracted based on the gaze direction and the surroundings, and in response to determining the user is distracted, causing an operation to be performed on the wearable device, the operation configured to cause the user to change the user's attention.
US12061737B2
An image processing apparatus displaying an image of an appearance of a virtual object from a virtual camera to a head mounted display. Memories store programs including instructions for obtaining degree information indicating a degree of gaze for the virtual object of a user wearing the head mounted display and changing an optical axis position of the virtual camera. Selectively switching one of the images to another, includes a virtual image corresponding to an appearance of a virtual space from the virtual camera in which the virtual object is arranged, and a mixed image in which a captured image is overlapped by an image corresponding to an appearance of the virtual object, and the head mounted display displays the image as the display image, and changing the position of the virtual camera in the optical axis direction based on the degree information when the plurality of images is selectively switched.
US12061728B2
Provided is a technology including an apparatus and a machine-implemented method for operating a content sending apparatus attachable to a network, comprising acquiring a sequence comprising at least two content blocks; generating at least one authentication metadata block comprising at least one signed digest derived by a chaining digest technique from the sequence of content blocks; deriving a content transform encoding for each of the content blocks; and sending the at least one authentication metadata block and at least one content transform encoding to at least one of a set of recipient devices, the at least one device being operable to apply an inverse transformation to the content transform encoding and to authenticate at least one resultant content block according to the authentication metadata block.
US12061719B2
A system and method for agentless detection of sensitive data in a cloud computing environment. The method includes detecting a first data object including a data schema and a content in a cloud computing environment; detecting a second data object, having the data schema of the first data object; generating in a security graph: a first data object node representing the first data object, a second data object node representing the second data object, and a data schema node representing the data schema; storing a classification based on the content in the security graph, wherein the content is classified as sensitive data or non-sensitive data; and rendering an output based on the classification and the data schema node, in lieu of the first data object node and the second data object node, in response to receiving a query to detect a node representing a data object classified as sensitive data.
US12061709B2
A computing device, such as a server, has a sealed housing and runs one or more data extraction agents. In some embodiments, the computing device includes one or more processors and memory located inside the sealed housing, the memory stores instructions that when executed by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to: authenticate with a data recipient system using a prestored security engine and using a shared registration secret uniquely associating the computing device with the data recipient system; retrieve an extraction job specification from an extraction job specification repository associated with the data recipient system; and using the extraction job specification, communicate to one or more client computing devices associated with a client system to extract data records from one or more data stores of the client system. Related methods are also disclosed.
US12061706B2
An access client may transmit an access request to a server, and the access request may be an example of a decryption request or an encryption request. The access request may include access information and file information for a file to be accessed. The server may validate the access information and generate an access package that includes a set of access keys and executable code. The access keys may be transmitted to the access client. The access client may execute the executable code and decrypt or encrypt the file. The file may include one or more data packs that include file access policies, ownership information, and file access logs.
US12061697B2
Detecting a malicious package associated with a software repository. A method identifies a subject package in a software repository, and extracts a feature set from the subject package. The feature set includes single-version features, including whether the subject package accesses personally identifying information, accesses specified system resource(s), uses specified application programming interface(s), includes installation script(s), and/or includes a binary, minified, or obfuscated file. The feature set also includes change features, including an amount of time since publication of a prior version of the subject package, a semantic update type, and/or how single-version feature(s) have changed since the prior version. The method provides the feature set as input to a set of classifiers, each being configured to use the feature set to generate a prediction of whether the subject package is malicious or benign. Based at least on the prediction, the method classifiers the subject package as being malicious or benign.
US12061695B2
In some examples, a storage system creates a first copy of a data volume, and receives write requests having a specified characteristic from a host system, the write requests to write data of the data volume, where the storage system is to reject the write requests having the specified characteristic and to accept write requests without the specified characteristic. The storage system maintains metadata for the first copy of the data volume, the metadata indicating blocks of the data volume that have changed since the first copy of the data volume was created. The storage system determines, using the metadata, whether an unauthorized data encryption of the data of the data volume has occurred.
US12061680B1
Electronic devices in a system may be controlled by a user. The user may have one or more wearable devices or other devices. A user's device may be used by the user in identifying a target electronic device of interest among the electronic devices in the system. The target electronic device may be identified using a gaze tracking sensor that senses the user's point-of-gaze, an orientation sensor that detects a direction in which the user's device is pointed, or other sensor circuitry. Visual feedback, audio feedback, and/or haptic feedback may be provided to the user to confirm which electronic device has been identified as a target electronic device of interest. User input may be gathered by sensors and used in adjusting operating parameters in the target electronic device of interest. Health monitoring operations and other operations may also be performed.
US12061670B2
The technology relates to methods and systems for recognition of conditions from ventilation data. The methods may include acquiring ventilation data for ventilation of a patient during a time period; generating an image based on the acquired ventilation data; providing, as input into a trained machine learning model, the generated image, wherein the trained machine learning model was trained based on images having a same type as the generated image; and based on output from the trained machine learning model, generating a predicted condition of the patient. The image may be generated by storing ventilatory data as pixel channel values to generate a human-indecipherable image.
US12061667B2
A data processing method is a data processing method in which variable measurement data transmitted from a sensor at a first cycle is computationally processed at a second cycle that is longer than the first cycle. The measurement data is acquired in a third cycle that is longer than the first cycle and shorter than the second cycle, an average value of the acquired measurement data is calculated at the second cycle, and computation processing thereof is performed.
US12061665B2
According to one embodiment, in an inverse element arithmetic apparatus, a word unit processing unit, as approximate calculation loop for extended binary GCD process, iterates a first loop in a case where a value of |r−s| is a subtraction threshold or more, and is capable of iterating a second loop instead of the first loop in a case where the value of |r−s| is smaller than the subtraction threshold. In the first loop, values of r, s, a, b, m, and n is updated and an update matrix M is generated or updated. In the second loop, the values of m and n are updated without updating the values of r, s, a, b and the update matrix M. The control unit terminates the loop of the inverse element arithmetic process in a case where a loop number of times of the inverse element arithmetic process reaches a number-of-times threshold.
US12061661B2
Provided are systems and methods for providing insights to users of a mobile application based on triggers that may be detected from within the data or externally. In one example, a method may include receiving, via a message transmitted to a uniform resource locator (URL) of a host platform, information about a user of a software application, reading a plurality of records associated with the user from the received information, the plurality of records comprising data and a plurality of timestamps, respectively, generating derived data based on the data included in the plurality of records, converting the plurality of timestamps into a single timing identifier that represents all of the plurality of timestamps, and transmitting, to a computing system, a notification comprising the derived data and the new timing identifier.
US12061657B2
Systems and methods for identifying a user are disclosed. One aspect comprises providing an address element and a class identifier, receiving a request for a file, wherein the request comprises the address element and the class identifier, comparing the class identifier to a comparator element, providing a first file if the class identifier is within the comparator element, and providing a second file if the class identifier is outside the comparator element.
US12061655B2
Some embodiments provide a method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system. The method receives a request from a user of the research system for information about a particular category. The method generates a chart that displays a set of events associated with the particular category over a particular period of time. The method incorporates the chart into a GUI for the particular category for transmission to the user. Some embodiments generate a list of events associated with the particular category and generate a GUI that displays the list of the events. Each event is represented in the list by a title of a document identified by the research system as representative of the event.
US12061643B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing images for generating query responses. One of the methods includes determining, using a textual query, an image category for images responsive to the textual query, and an output type that identifies a type of requested content; selecting, using data that associates a plurality of images with a corresponding category, a subset of the images that each belong to the image category, each image in the plurality of images belonging to one of the two or more categories; analyzing, using the textual query, data for the images in the subset of the images to determine images responsive to the textual query; determining a response to the textual query using the images responsive to the textual query; and providing, using the output type, the response to the textual query for presentation.
US12061642B2
Techniques for providing recommended keywords in response to an image-based query are disclosed herein. In particular, various embodiments utilize an image matching service to identify recommended search keywords associated with image data received from a user. The search keywords can be used to perform a keyword search to identify content associated with an image input that may be relevant. For example, an image search query can be received from a user. The image search query may result in multiple different types of content that are associated with the image. The system may present keywords associated with matching images to allow a user to further refine their search and/or find other related products that may not match with the particular image. This enables users to quickly refine a search using keywords that may be difficult to identify otherwise and to find the most relevant content for the user.
US12061640B2
Techniques facilitating using flow graphs to represent a data analysis program in a cloud based system for open science collaboration and discovery are provided. In an example, a system can represent a data analysis execution as a flow graph where vertices of the flow graph represent function calls made during the data analysis program and edges between the vertices represent objects passed between the functions. In another example, the flow graph can then be annotated using an annotation database to label the recognized function calls and objects. In another example, the system can then semantically label the annotated flow graph by aligning the annotated graph with a knowledge base of data analysis concepts to provide context for the operations being performed by the data analysis program.
US12061637B2
Technologies for document evaluation and identification of shared textual substrings between documents are described herein. Documents are evaluated and organized according to textual elements within the documents. A suffix index is generated from a reference document. The suffix index is used to identify common substrings of text within query documents using variable evaluation windows within the query documents. Indications of overlapping textual information between the reference document and query documents is generated as an output.
US12061634B2
Systems and methods are described herein that maintain a context in a conversational search systems. An artificial neural network accepts current and previous queries as input and outputs a value indicating whether the previous query and the current query should undergo a merge operation or a replacement operation to maintain an intent of the user. To perform a merge operation, the previous query and the current query are combined to form a search query. To perform a replace operation, a portion of the previous query is replaced with a portion of the current query.
US12061624B2
Techniques for processing commands may include: initially synchronizing a target database of volume reservation and registration information with a source database of volume reservation and registration information; while initially synchronizing the target database with the source database, enabling volume reservation and registration command processing on both a first node managing the source database and a second node managing the target database; while initially synchronizing the target database with the source database, performing first processing to service a first command that is any of a reservation command and a registration command for a first volume; and after initially synchronizing the target database with the source database, using the target database of the second node when servicing reservation and registration commands received at both the first node and the second node.
US12061623B2
A system can selectively synchronize content based on synchronization settings. In some examples, a client stores a local tree representing a local set of content items associated with an account on a content management system, the local tree including respective local nodes corresponding to the local set of content items. The client stores a remote tree representing a remote set of content items associated with the account, the remote set being stored at the content management system and including respective remote nodes corresponding to the remote set of content items. The client receives a synchronization setting disabling local storage of the content item. In response, the client deletes a local copy of the content item, removes a corresponding local node from the local tree, and adds, to a remote node on the remote tree, an attribute indicating that local storage of the content item has been disabled.
US12061615B2
Methods of operating a search engine may include calculating multi-modal document vector models for each of a plurality of electronic documents, training category-specific, search query-specific ranking models with respective machine learning algorithms based on those document vector models, and applying each of those models to further instances of the same search query to rank the documents responsive to that search query.
US12061612B1
A platform receives an input document from a user device and automatically determines a semantic signature for the input document based on a probabilistic distribution of rare words within the input document. The platform automatically scrapes at least one Internet database for additional documents and webpages, determining semantic signatures for each document or webpage. Based on similarity of semantic signatures, the platform automatically constructs and displays a graphical network of documents, wherein each document is represented as a node and similarity of semantic signatures is used to determine the locations of edges between nodes. The graph automatically groups nodes by communities and selects nodes in different communities to promote serendipity of results.
US12061607B2
A method and a system for high-throughput distributed computing of computational jobs, comprise setting up a data storage system and a grid of user devices that offer computational capacity. Customer entities upload in a customer platform first job specification parameters, and then the full job data. A partitioning scheme is selected based on the job specification and on the grid status, that is periodically updated by querying the user devices. Based on the partitioning scheme, the job data are split on the fly in input chunks, that are included in executable tasks and assigned to different user devices. To this end, devices may be selected based on computing capacity and availability parameters, and on a priority level selected for the job. Output chunks are generated by executing the tasks, and after verification of timely arrival of all the required output chunks, they are assembled as a complete job result, for download by the customer.
US12061606B1
This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniques for tracking changes to a base record, such as a database. An example method includes identifying a change associated with a first entry in the base record and identifying a time of the change. A corresponding change entry, indicating the first entry and the time of the change in the base record, can be stored in a change record. The change record can be a database that can be queried by external systems to retrieve updated data about changes to the base record. One or more external systems can update derived records by retrieving, from the change record, the latest updated data associated with the source base record within a specified time frame or based on a last retrieved change entry ID. Likewise, one or more external auditing systems can retrieve, from the change record, all applied changes to the source base record.
US12061600B2
An example operation may include one or more of storing a batch scoring engine and an application programming interface (API) for the batch scoring engine, receiving a trigger to perform a batch prediction process, reading input data from a source data store and executing, via the batch scoring engine, one or more predictive models on the input data to generate a predictive output and metadata associated with the predictive output, storing the predictive output and the metadata in a target data store, and updating the API with a location of the predictive output within the target data store and a location of the metadata within the target data store.
US12061586B2
A system for clustering data into corresponding files comprises one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors is/are configured to: 1) determine to cluster a set of data into a set of files; 2) determine a set of split points in a corresponding set of dimensions of the set of data to determine the set of files, wherein each file of the set of files has an approximate target size; and 3) store one or more items of the set of data into a corresponding file of the set of files based at least in part on the set of split points. The memory is coupled to the one or more processors and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US12061583B1
Systems and techniques for processing data using data pipelines. For instance, a first version of data may be read from one or more databases for processing by a data pipeline. Stages of the data pipeline may then process the data, such as by transforming, validating, or changing the data, in order to generate additional versions of the data. These versions of the data are passed through the subsequent stages of the data pipeline. Additionally, metadata may be generated for one or more stages of the data pipeline, where the metadata represents information describing the processing by the one or more stages. This metadata may also be passed through the subsequent stages of the data pipeline. Based on the last stage of the data pipeline processing the data, the versions of the data along with the metadata may then be written into the one or more databases.
US12061575B2
Embodiments for providing adaptive namespace verification with high efficiency. The verification process is used in modern filesystems to check the integrity of key data structures, such for backup systems where providing thorough and efficient mechanisms for verification is critical. Embodiments accelerate the verification process by selectively applying continuous, differential, and integral verification techniques for startup and runtime repair purposes to overcome present problems for system capacities that exceed the petabyte range and impose significant time requirements using existing verification methods. Embodiments work with both single-node and distributed filesystems.
US12061572B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for data blocking for application platforms are disclosed. An application platform may comprise a plurality of systems. A system may store data having a residence period. Upon expiration of the residence period, the data may be blocked from further processing. The plurality of systems may comprise multiple leading systems. Each leading system may have at least one dependent system. The plurality of systems may be grouped into system groups comprising a leading system and at least one dependent system. Data blocking may be triggered from the leading system to the dependent systems for each system group. An interim blocking mode for determining which systems have data that need to be blocked, and an overall blocking mode for performing the data blocking may be provided.
US12061570B2
A control circuit accesses a memory having stored therein data for a three-dimensional model in a first file format (such as, for example, an OBJ file format). The control circuit correlates components of the three-dimensional model in the first file format to corresponding codes, and then expresses the three-dimensional model as data for the three-dimensional model in a second file format (such as, for example, an RVT file format) that is different from the first file format as a function of the aforementioned corresponding codes.
US12061568B2
A two-wire interface (300) for connecting a first device (106) and a second device (108). The two-wire interface (300) is operable in a handshaking mode and a data transfer mode. In the handshaking mode the first wire (302) of the interface (300) is driven by the first device (106) and the second wire (304) of the interface (300) is driven by the second device (108) so that the first (106) and second (108) devices can perform a handshaking sequence. In the data transfer mode one of the first wire (302) and the second wire (304) is driven by one of the first (106) and second (108) devices to provide a clock signal, and the other wire is driven by either the first device (106) or the second device (108) depending which device is transmitting data. Accordingly, the two-wire interfaces (300) are operable in two modes (e.g. handshaking mode and data transfer mode) and one of the wires (302, 304) of the interface (300) may be driven by a different device in the two modes.
US12061566B2
This application provides an IO request processing method, used in an external device. The external device includes a processor and a first hardware interface, and the first hardware interface is an interface that supports a PCIe protocol. The external device communicates with a physical host through the first hardware interface. The method includes: The processor synchronizes, through the first hardware interface, queue information in storage space of a virtual machine running on the physical host to storage space of the external device, where the queue information includes one or more input/output IO requests; and the processor sends the one or more IO requests to a storage server or a network server for processing. According to this application, all hardware resources of the physical host can be used to provide virtual machine services for users, thereby improving utilization of hardware resources of the physical host.
US12061558B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for protecting data in a memory of an integrated circuit (IC). A process token is obtained in a special purpose IC from a host that is external to and communicatively connected to the special purpose IC. The process token is stored in a first memory portion of the special purpose IC. In response to receiving a processing request from the host, the processing request is processed, and data generated by processing the processing request is written in a second memory portion of the special purpose IC. When a read request is received to read the data in the second memory portion, a determination is made whether the read request includes a read token that matches the previously stored process token. If the read token matches the process token, the data in the second memory portion may be returned to the host.
US12061556B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for determining whether data accessed by the command in a storage system is hot or cold. An apparatus may include a first interface to be coupled to a host and a storage controller configured to: receive a command that contains an address in a data storage system; generate a set of hash addresses for the address; for each hash address of the set of hash addresses: obtain a stored hotness score associated with the hash address, update the stored hotness score to generate an updated hotness score associated with the hash address, and determine that the updated hotness score is above a hotness threshold; and determine that the address is hot.
US12061555B1
A load/store circuit performs a first lookup of a load virtual address in a virtually-indexed, virtually-tagged first-level data cache (VIVTFLDC) that misses and generates a fill request that causes translation of the load virtual address into a load physical address, receives a response that indicates the load physical address is in a non-cacheable memory region and is without data from the load physical address, allocates a VIVTFLDC data-less entry that includes an indication that the data-less entry is associated with a non-cacheable memory region, performs a second lookup of the load virtual address in the VIVTFLDC and determines the load virtual address hits on the data-less entry, determines from the hit data-less entry it is associated with a non-cacheable memory region, and generates a read request to read data from a processor bus at the load physical address rather than providing data from the hit data-less entry.
US12061538B2
The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for continuous testing of microservice applications. In an example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining changes to source code, determining at least one related microservice related to the source code, determining at least one related microservice test related to the at least one microservice, executing automated tests to validate the source code, executing the at least one related microservice test to validate the at least one related microservice, generating test outcome data based on the automated tests and the at least one related microservice test, and providing a notification based on the test outcome data.
US12061537B2
Systems and techniques are provided for testing software changes and determining a repeatability of software tests. An example method can perform software tests at different timepoints, each software test being based on a test scenario comprising a test simulation environment configured to test a software; determine one or more software tests from the software tests having a variation in test scores that exceeds a divergence threshold, the one or more software tests comprising at least one test scenario; rerun a software test a number of times, the software test configured to test changes to a code of the software, the changes to the code being associated with the software test and/or the at least one test scenario; and determine, based on test scores generated by the software test performed the number of times, a repeatability score for the software test on the changes to the code of the software.
US12061531B2
The systems and methods may use machine learning models to process device data of user devices and determine device usage behaviors for the users of the user devices based on the device data. The systems and methods may provide relatable insights for the device usage behaviors in a user-friendly manner. The systems and methods may provide actional recommendations that users may take in response to the insights provided to promote healthy device usage behaviors or to prevent or reduce the device usage behavior. The systems and methods may also provide recommendations with access to information or other content related to the device usage behavior.
US12061526B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to a database system includes worker nodes operable to perform transactions and director nodes operable to ensure transactional consistency for the transactions. A worker node may receive a request to perform a transaction involving writing a record. The worker node may then issue, to director nodes of the database system, a request for information that facilitates performance of an operation for the transaction. A director node may determine whether to approve the request based on whether the operation could cause transactional inconsistency in the database system. The worker node may proceed to perform the operation for the transaction in response to receiving approval responses from a majority of the director nodes, with none of the received responses indicating a disapproval of the transaction.
US12061525B2
Techniques are provided for a snapshot difference interface integrated into an object store data management container. The snapshot difference interface is capable of interpreting an object format and snapshot file system format of snapshots backed up to an object store within objects formatted according to the object format. The snapshot difference interface can identify differences between snapshots, such as files that changed between the snapshots, while the snapshots are still resident within the object store. Because the snapshot difference interface does not retrieve the snapshots from the object store, security is improved, resource and network consumption is reduced, there is less of an impact upon client I/O processing, and a catalog of the snapshots can be more efficiently built and recovered in the event of corruption.
US12061524B2
A streamlined approach analyzes block-level backups of VM virtual disks and creates both coarse and fine indexes of backed up VM data files in the block-level backups. The indexes (collectively the “content index”) enable granular searching by filename, by file attributes (metadata), and/or by file contents, and further enable granular live browsing of backed up VM files. Thus, by using the illustrative data storage management system, ordinary block-level backups of virtual disks are “opened to view” through indexing. Any block-level copies can be indexed according to the illustrative embodiments, including file system block-level copies. The indexing occurs offline in an illustrative data storage management system, after VM virtual disks are backed up into block-level backup copies, and therefore the indexing does not cut into the source VM's performance. The disclosed approach is widely applicable to VMs executing in cloud computing environments and/or in non-cloud data centers. The illustrative content indexing is accomplished without restoring the VM data files being indexed to a staging location.
US12061518B2
Methods, devices, and systems related to storing parity data in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are described. In an example, a method can include generating, at a controller, parity data based on user data queued for writing to a non-volatile memory device, receiving the parity data at a DRAM device from the controller and writing the parity data to the DRAM device, receiving the user data at a non-volatile memory device from the controller and writing the user data to the non-volatile memory device, reading the user data from the non-volatile memory device via the controller, and receiving the parity data at the controller from the DRAM device.
US12061510B2
The computer system responds to a first trigger event to enter a partial off state in which a boot cycle is required to return to a working state. A device plugged into a serial bus port can be charged in the partial off state. A configuration register or runtime environment controls whether the computer system enters the partial off state in response to a trigger event. The computer system stays in the partial off state until another trigger event returns the computer system to the working state. In some implementations, the computer system leaves the partial off state and enters the shutdown state after an unplug event, a predetermined amount of time after an unplug event, a predetermined amount of time after entering the partial off state, a predetermined amount of time after charging of a device is complete, or any combination of such events.
US12061505B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first component and a second component. The first component is configured to connect to a processing device containing a power storage module, and the second component is configured to connect to an extension device. In a first state, the electronic apparatus connects to the processing device and the expansion device. An external power supply provides power to the processing device through the first component, and provides power to the expansion device. In a second state, the electronic apparatus connects to the processing device and the expansion device. In response to the external power supply being cut off, power is supplied to the expansion device through the second component. The processing device is powered by its power storage module. After the electronic apparatus switches from the first state to the second state, the connection state of the expansion device and the processing device is capable of being maintained.
US12061500B2
A communication system includes a substrate, a plurality of antennas disposed on the substrate, and a radio frequency (RF) tag. A distance between the RF tag and at least one antenna among the plurality of antennas is detected based on a signal emitted by the RF tag and received by the at least one antenna.
US12061493B2
A low power hybrid reverse (LPHR) bandgap reference (BGR) and digital temperature sensor (DTS) or a digital thermometer, which utilizes subthreshold metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and the PNP parasitic Bi-polar Junction Transistor (BJT) device to form a reverse BGR that serves as the base for configurable BGR or DTS operating modes. The LPHR architecture uses low-cost MOS transistors and the standard parasitic PNP device. Based on a reverse bandgap voltage, the LPHR can work as a configurable BGR. By comparing the configurable BGR with the scaled base-emitter voltage, the circuit can also perform as a DTS with a linear transfer function with single-temperature trim for high accuracy.
US12061486B2
Disclosed are an area cleaning planning method for robot walking along the boundary, a chip and a robot. The area cleaning planning method includes: on a laser map which is scanned and constructed by a robot in real time, the robot is controlled to walk along the boundary in a predefined cleaning area framed at the current planning starting point position, so that the robot does not cross out the predefined cleaning area in the process of walking along the boundary; meanwhile, according to the division condition of the room cleaning subareas that conform to the preset wall environment condition in the predefined cleaning area, the robot is controlled to walk along the boundary in a matched area, when the robot walks along the boundary in the matched area and returns to the planning starting point position, the robot is controlled to perform planned cleaning in the matched area.
US12061485B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing aviation safety, ensuring that unmanned aircraft remain well clear of other flying objects, are disclosed. A control station acquires a direction of a path of a flying object and periodically transmits requests to a transponder of the flying object to acquire specific data. Upon receiving a response to a request, a range of the flying object from the control station is determined. Using data acquired from each three consecutive responses, the displacement magnitude, the speed, and angular displacements of the flying object are determined. The method assesses potential crossing of a protection zone surrounding a protected aircraft based on most recent acquired data.
US12061480B2
A mobile robot can be caused to move according to a planned trajectory. The mobile robot can be a vehicle. Information about agents in an environment of the mobile robot can be received from sensors. At a first time, a spatiotemporal graph can be produced. The spatiotemporal graph can represent relationships among the agents in the environment. The mobile robot can be one of the agents in the environment. Information from the spatiotemporal graph can be input to neural networks to produce information for a mixture of affine time-varying systems. The mixture of affine time-varying systems can represent an evolution of agent states of the agents. Using the mixture of affine time-varying systems and information associated with the first time, a prediction of the agent states at a second time can be calculated. The mobile robot can be caused to move according to the planned trajectory determined from the prediction.
US12061478B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing of detection of active emergency vehicles within an autonomous vehicle fleet. Information specifying detection of an active emergency vehicle at a first location in an environment is received. The active emergency vehicle is detected based upon sensor inputs of a first autonomous vehicle in an autonomous vehicle fleet. A second autonomous vehicle, at a second location, in the autonomous vehicle fleet is identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle based on the information specifying the detection of the active emergency vehicle at the first location and the second location of the second autonomous vehicle. A remote assistance session for the second autonomous vehicle is caused to be initiated based on the second autonomous vehicle being identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle. The second autonomous vehicle is controllable by a remote operator during the remote assistance session.
US12061471B2
A wearable remote control device 1 for controlling a movable equipment 10 includes a wearable carrier 2 adapted for being worn on a user's hand, a control interface 3 configured for converting user's input into instructions; a communication module 4 configured for sending the instructions receivable by the movable equipment 10, an actuation interface 5, and a tracking module 6 configured for being actuated by the actuation interface 5. The actuation interface 5 includes an actuation module 51 adapted for being actuated by the user's hand, and a gesture sensing module 52 configured for detecting a predetermined hand gesture. Upon the actuation module 51 is actuated, the actuation interface 5 provides a tracking signal 61 receivable by the movable equipment 10 for determining a traveling path with respect to movements of the wearable remote control device 1.
US12061467B2
A data processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates visualization data for displaying estimation results of manufacturing conditions based on estimation results and relationship data. The relationship data includes first relationship data as a relationship between first manufacturing conditions recorded during an analysis, and second relationship data as a relationship between second manufacturing conditions corresponding. The processor divides the estimation results of the manufacturing conditions into a first group based on the first relationship data, and into a second group based on the second relationship data. The processor generates the visualization data based on a change in manufacturing condition relationship between the first group and the second group.
US12061456B2
An electrical safety device is described which includes a socket arranged to receive an electrical plug of an electrical appliance to connect a current supply to the electrical appliance, a thermal sensor arranged to detect the surface temperature of an electrical plug when received in the socket and a processor in communication with the thermal sensor, the processor configured to determine when the sensed surface temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold. The invention also includes an electrical safety system comprising the electrical safety device configured to communicate with a remote device. The device and system provide early detection of electrical faults and hazards to reduce the risk of fires.
US12061453B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure is a system. The system includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include: obtaining first data indicating operating parameters of a server of a building management system (BMS), obtaining second data regarding indicating operating parameters of at least one of a supervisory controller or a field controller of the BMS, obtaining third data regarding indicating operating parameters of one or more edge building devices, and calculating a performance index value for the BMS based on an aggregate of the first data, the second data, and the third data.
US12061448B2
An example operation includes one or more of directing, by a transport, another transport in need of a first amount of charge to an off-grid stationary battery, providing, by the transport, a second amount of charge to the off-grid stationary battery, and notifying, by the transport, the another transport to retrieve the first amount of charge, wherein the first amount of charge is less than the second amount of charge.
US12061441B2
Toners are provided which may comprise toner particles, a colorant, and optionally, a wax, wherein the toner particles comprise a resin comprising a polymerization product of reactants comprising a dioxane/dioxolane monomer and a vinyl co-monomer, wherein the dioxane/dioxolane monomer is an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxane moiety, an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxolane moiety, or both.
US12061440B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a toner for electrostatic-image development comprising: a dispersing step of performing a dispersing treatment in which a cavitation effect is obtained on a color resin particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a release agent in an aqueous dispersion medium so as to obtain a dispersion of the color resin particle; and a heating step of performing a heat treatment on the dispersion of the color resin particle at a temperature of equal to or more than a glass transition temperature of the color resin particle and 95° C. or less for a heating time of 5 minutes or more and 10 hours or less.
US12061428B2
According to one embodiment, the temperature control device is a temperature control device for controlling temperature of a temperature controlled target to which heat is propagated from a heater by supplying power to the heater, the device including: a temperature estimation unit; a duty generation unit; and a signal generation unit. The temperature estimation unit estimates the temperature of the temperature controlled target based on the duty value. The duty generation unit generates the duty value based on the temperature estimation result by the temperature estimation unit, the temperature detection result of the temperature controlled target by the temperature sensor, and the target temperature. The signal generation unit outputs an energization pulse for controlling the power supplied to the heater based on the duty value.
US12061416B2
A photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material, a fullerene or fullerene derivative in an amount of at least 0.2 wt % and not greater than 5.0 wt %, and a photoinitiator and may be adapted for AIP or NIL processing. A photo-cured layer made from the photocurable composition can have an improved thermal stability in comparison to a photo-cured layer made from the same photocurable composition except not containing a fullerene or fullerene derivative.
US12061415B2
A method for producing a composition, the method being for producing a composition using a stirring device provided with a stirring tank and a stirrer, includes a mixing step of charging a resin, an acid generator, and a solvent into the stirring tank, and a stirring step of stirring the mixture accommodated in the stirring tank, using the stirrer, in which a ratio c of a content of the acid generator to a total mass of the mixture is 0.3% to 2.5% by mass, the stirrer is provided with a rotatable stirring shaft, a plurality of support parts attached to the stirring shaft, and a plurality of stirring elements attached to each of end parts of the plurality of support parts, the shape and the arrangement of the stirring elements are specified, and the positions of the plurality of stirring elements are specified so as to satisfy a specific Expression (1).
US12061413B2
An elevating mechanism includes a base member, a first movable member, a second movable member, a first magnetic member, and a second magnetic member, the first movable member is movably disposed on the base member, the second movable member is movably disposed on the base member, the first magnetic member disposed on the first movable member, the second magnetic member corresponds to the first magnetic member and is disposed on the second movable member, when the second movable member is in a holding position, the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member are attracted to each other.
US12061407B2
Beam steering device such as optical phased array (OPA) is a key component in applications of solid-state LIDAR and wireless communication. The traditional single-layer OPA results in a significant energy loss due to the substrate leakage caused by the downward coupling from the grating coupler structure. In the present disclosure, we have investigated a structure based on multi-layers Si3N4/SiO2 platform that can form a 3D OPA to emit the light from the edge of the device with a high efficiency, a 2D converged out-coupling beam will be end-fired to the air. The high efficiency and wide horizontal beam steering are demonstrated numerically, the influence of vertical crosstalk, the delay length, number of waveguide layers, and the fabrication feasibility are also discussed.
US12061406B2
A lens module in an embodiment includes a first plate having therein a first cavity; a second plate overlapping the first plate in a vertical direction, the second plate having therein a second cavity; a first liquid disposed in the first cavity; and a second liquid disposed in the second cavity, wherein a cross-section obtained by cutting the first cavity in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the vertical direction has a polygonal shape, and wherein a cross-section obtained by cutting the second cavity in the horizontal direction has a circular shape.
US12061405B2
A method includes receiving first dimensions of an electrochromic device and second dimensions of one or more obstructions of the electrochromic device. The method further includes generating, based on the first dimensions and the second dimensions, an obstruction map that indicates at least one of an obstructed portion or an unobstructed portion of the electrochromic device. The method further includes determining, based the obstruction map, a first desired tinting state of the electrochromic device. The method further includes causing a current tinting state of the electrochromic device to correspond to the first desired tinting state.
US12061392B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device that has a wide reproduced color gamut without noticeable color unevenness even if it is an image display device that shows an steep emission spectrum in the red region, in particular, even if it comprises a light source having a steep emission spectrum in the red region, such as a KSF phosphor, as a backlight light source. The image display device comprises an image display cell and at least one polarizer, wherein the at least one polarizer is a polarizer in which light incident on the polarizer has a plurality of peak groups in the range of 600 to 650 nm, and the at least one polarizer comprises a polarizing element-protection film having a 45-degree light source fit index (FI(45)) of 0.4 or more and 0.62 or less as determined by the following formula 1: FI(45)=Wd/[Wc/(Rob(45)/Wc)] formula 1.
US12061389B2
An embodiment of the application discloses a liquid crystal display device. In the liquid crystal display device, the backlight module includes a backlight module including a conductive back frame; a display panel including a liquid crystal cell and a first polarizer, wherein the first polarizer is disposed on a side of the liquid crystal cell facing the backlight module, and the first polarizer includes a conductive structure layer, a first base layer, and a polarizing layer disposed on the backlight module in sequence; and a conductive component electrically connected to the conductive back frame and the conductive structure layer.
US12061382B2
A progressive ophthalmic lens adapted to a wearer in given wearing conditions having an addition and fulfilling an acuity performance criterion determined by: defining a set of at least three different vision distances including at least a first vision distance greater than or equal to 4 m, a second vision distance greater than or equal to 0.6 m and smaller than or equal to 2 m and a third vision distance smaller than or equal to 0.5 m, each vision distance being associated with an acuity loss threshold value and an acuity area threshold value, providing an acuity model defining acuity loss as a function of lens power and resulting astigmatism, determining of each vision distance using the acuity model the area of gaze directions for which the acuity loss is below the associated acuity loss threshold value.
US12061378B2
An imaging apparatus includes a photographing optical lens assembly and an image sensor. The photographing optical lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements. The plurality of lens elements includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a last lens element. Each of the lens elements has an object-side surface facing the object side and an image-side surface facing the image side. At least one of the lens elements is plastic and at least one of the lens elements has at least one inflection point. There is at least one variable axial distance between adjacent lens elements thereof.
US12061375B1
A window reflector or heliostat is disclosed that is reversibly installed onto a window sill in order to reflect a view of the sun or sunlight into a room in a building. Window reflector or heliostat is a reflective member that is reversibly rigidly attached to a window sill on a window in a room. Window reflector or heliostat is an ultra-lightweight specially shaped biplanar reflective member with a reflectivity of 95 percent or greater at ninety degree incidence. Biplanar reflective member may be a one-piece assembly or a two-piece assembly with adjustable hinges. Window reflector or heliostat is reversibly attachable to the window sill using hook or loop attachment strips or window sill attachment fasteners.
US12061367B2
An apparatus arranged for deflecting an optical component for alignment purposes of the optical component with a further optical component, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of adjacently placed elongate carriers, extending mutually parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction, wherein two adjacently placed elongate carriers have a spacing between them for receiving a first optical component such that the received optical component rests against two adjacently placed elongate carriers, wherein the two elongate carriers have slopes such that the spacing between the two adjacently placed elongate carriers is smaller at a bottom side compared to the spacing at a top side of the carriers, wherein the carriers comprise piezoelectric material configured to deflect the carriers in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction by actuating the piezoelectric material.
US12061358B2
A method for manufacturing an optical fiber emitting plasma light includes a coating removal step of removing a coating of an optical fiber; a photocatalyst application step of applying a photocatalyst to an end surface of a core layer of the optical fiber from which the coating has been removed through the coating removal step; and a molding step of molding the end surface of the core layer into a curved surface by applying a laser to the core layer of the optical fiber applied with the photocatalyst through the photocatalyst application step. The method for manufacturing an optical fiber including the above processes may be effectively used for therapy such as plasma disc coagulation therapy (PDCT) by converting the applied laser light into plasma light.
US12061354B2
A backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a back plate, wherein the back plate has a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates, the side plates cooperate with the bottom plate to form an accommodating space, and the side of each of the side plates facing the accommodating space is provided with a groove having an opening facing the accommodating space; and a mold frame, includes bezels in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of side plates; in each group of a side plate and a bezel, the bezel includes a clamping part, a supporting part and a limiting part, the clamping part is located at a side of the limiting part away from the accommodating space, and is embedded into the groove to clamp with the groove.
US12061353B2
A backlit module for a backlit keyboard is provided. The backlit module includes a lighting board. The lighting board includes a substrate and an electronic device layer. The electronic device layer is disposed on the substrate. The electronic device layer includes a plurality of key circuit groups. Each of the key circuit groups corresponds to a key group of the backlit keyboard, and includes one or more light sources and a resistor. When the key circuit group includes a plurality of light sources, the light sources are arranged in parallel. The one or more light sources correspond to one or more key of the key group. The resistor is arranged in series with the one or more light sources.
US12061350B2
Some embodiments of an apparatus may include: a plurality of light sources, wherein each of the plurality of light sources is configured to emit a respective light beam; one or more diffractive layers; and an optical mask configured to be synchronized to an illumination of the respective light beams. Some embodiments of a method may include: emitting a light beam from each of a plurality of light emitting sources to generate a plurality of light beams; diffracting each of the plurality of light beams to generate a plurality of diffracted light beams; and synchronizing an optical mask to the plurality of diffracted light beams.
US12061342B2
A two-dimensional optical waveguide, a virtual and real optical beam combiner, and an AR device. A surface of a substrate is divided into an in-coupling region, a folding area, and an out-coupling region. The folding area is provided with a defect area and at least two line defects, and the defect area extends from the in-coupling region toward a side away from the in-coupling region. The line defects have one end in contact with the defect area, and another end extending to the out-coupling region. The at least two line defects are distributed along an axis of the defect area. A photonic crystal is provided along a periphery of the defect area and the line defects. The photonic crystals includes multiple scattering rods having an axis perpendicular to a surface of the folding area.
US12061337B2
This disclosure relates to the field of head-up display (HUD) technology, and more particularly to an HUD system with a transparent nano film for image display. Specifically, an HUD system including ultra-thin glass is provided in the disclosure. The HUD system includes a projection light source, and laminated glass, and a transparent nano film. The transparent nano film includes at least two metal layers. The projection light source is configured to generate P-polarized light. The laminated glass provided with the transparent nano film has a maximum reflectivity Rmax and a minimum reflectivity Rmin for the P-polarized light that has the incident angle ranging from 45° to 72°, where Rmax/Rmin ranges from 1.0 to 2.0.
US12061335B2
A light source unit used for a vehicular head-up display includes a prism-shaped multi-reflection member and a substrate. The multi-reflection member has: an entrance surface; an emission surface; and a reflective surface connecting the entrance surface and the emission surface. The substrate faces the entrance surface and is provided with a plurality of light sources mounted in a matrix. A ratio Ra=A/B or a ratio Rc=a/b is larger than a ratio Rb=C/D, where A and B is the number of the light sources provided in a longer and shorter direction of the entrance surface, respectively, C and D is a longer and shorter dimension of the emission surface, respectively, and a and b is the sum of lengths of light-emitting surfaces of the plurality of light sources in the longer and shorter direction of the entrance surface, respectively.
