US12062812B2
The present application relates to a battery module and a method and equipment for manufacturing the same, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The battery module includes Type 1 battery cells and Type 2 battery cells connected in series; the Type 1 battery cells and the Type 2 battery cells satisfy the following criteria: 1.01×C1/C2≤N2≤1.25, and C1
US12062804B2
Impact protection plate that, applicable to motorcycles, bicycles and similar vehicles as protection means against impacts that can occur and affect the block (4) of the battery or the motor of the vehicle that includes: a protection external body (2) at least partly rigid directly joined to the block (4) of the battery or motor, and an internal core (1) of resilient material and absorbing impacts, intercalated between the lower base of the block (4) of the battery or motor to be protected and the external body (2) so that, in case of impact on the external body (2), a displacement of the rigid part of the body (2) towards the block (4) of the battery or motor and compressing the internal core (1) and capable to allow, when the impact ceases, that the external body (2) returns to its initial position ceasing to compress the internal core (1).
US12062803B2
Systems, methods and articles having a heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material layer or coating are disclosed. In one example, the heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material completely covers the interior of a housing having a plurality of battery cells removably disposed therein. Other examples include a heat-shielding or blocking, heat-dissipating and/or heat signature-reducing material layer having anti-static, anti-radio frequency (RF), anti-electromagnetic interference (EMI), anti-tarnish, and/or anti-corrosion materials and properties that effectively protect battery-operated devices and/or the batteries that power them from damage or diminished operation.
US12062800B2
An energy storage/battery system is disclosed. The system can include a multi-voltage configurable module (MVCM) and a multi-voltage configurable backplane (MVCB) that form the system. The system can be dynamically controlled to bring MVCMs on or offline to deliver power and capacity to a device.
US12062797B2
A square battery includes a battery case containing therein an electrode body. The battery case includes a case main body having a square shape substantially in the form of a cuboid having an open side surface and a lid bonded to the case main body so as to close an opening of the case main body. The case main body includes a rectangular bottom surface portion, a pair of wider surface portions facing each other, and a pair of narrower surface portions facing each other. The wider surface portion and the narrower surface portion adjacent to each other are bonded together. In the opening of the case main body, an inner side of a corner portion between the wider surface portion and the narrower surface portion adjacent to each other has an R-shape, and an outer edge of the lid is welded to the inner side of the corner portion.
US12062794B2
An electrical storage device includes high surface area fibers (e.g., shaped fibers and/or microfibers) coated with carbon (graphite, expanded graphite, activated carbon, carbon black, carbon nanofibers, CNT, or graphite coated CNT), electrolyte, and/or electrode active material (e.g., lead oxide) in electrodes. The electrodes are used to form electrical storage devices such as electrochemical batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors, and asymmetrical capacitors.
US12062789B2
Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material that is capable of electrochemically absorbing and desorbing lithium. The negative electrode active material contains a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles that are dispersed in the lithium silicate phase. The lithium silicate phase is an oxide phase that contains lithium, silicon, and oxygen. The atomic ratio O/Si of oxygen relative to silicon in the lithium silicate phase is greater than 2 and less than 4. The electrolyte solution contains a halogenated benzene. The amount of halogenated benzene contained in the electrolyte solution is 1 ppm or more and 500 ppm or less.
US12062788B2
This negative electrode active material for a secondary cell which is one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a silicate phase that contains Li, Si, and Mx (Mx alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, and an element other than Si); silicon particles dispersed in the silicate phase; and oxide particles that contain Zr dispersed in the silicate phase. The content of each element with respect to the total of the elements other than oxygen in the silicate phase is 3 to 45 mol % for Li, 40 to 78 mol % for Si, and 1 to 40 mol % for Mx.
US12062787B2
A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a lithium-cobalt composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes graphite. An open circuit potential of the negative electrode measured in a full charge state is from 19 mV to 86 mV. A potential variation of the negative electrode is greater than or equal to 1 mV when the secondary battery is discharged from the full charge state by a capacity corresponding to 1% of a maximum discharge capacity. The maximum discharge capacity is obtained when the secondary battery is discharged with a constant current from the full charge state until the closed circuit voltage reaches 3.00 V, following which the secondary battery is discharged with a constant voltage of the closed circuit voltage of 3.00 V for 24 hours.
US12062779B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery with a negative electrode active material including a carbon material, and a silicon-containing material in which Si particles are dispersed in a lithium ion conductive phase. The negative electrode material mixture layer having a thickness T0 includes a first region on the negative electrode surface side having a thickness of T1, and a second region on the negative electrode current collector side, and the ratio T1/T0 is 1/20 to 19/20. The ratio of a mass ratio MS1 of the silicon-containing material in the first region to a mass ratio MS2 of the silicon-containing material in the second region is not less than 0 and less than 1. An open circuit potential of the negative electrode in a fully charged condition is higher than 0 mV and 70 mV or lower relative to lithium metal.
US12062777B2
The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode including a first lithium cobalt oxide and a second lithium cobalt oxide which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, a negative electrode including first graphite and second graphite which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, and an electrolyte including a a first additive as a nitrile-based compound, wherein the first lithium cobalt oxide and the second lithium cobalt oxide each independently contain aluminum in a concentration of 2,500 ppm to 4,000 ppm.
US12062775B2
The invention discloses a method of preparing a current collector surface enriched with cathode active material. The method comprises preparing a precursor solution by dissolving at least two metal salts and one or more organic acids in a first solvent, adding one or more basic compounds and one or more non-metallic salts to the precursor solution, diluting the precursor solution by adding a second solvent, preparing a surface-treated current collector by disposing at least part of the diluted precursor solution on a current collector surface material, and heating the surface-treated current collector at a temperature of 500° C. or less under an oxidative or inert atmosphere, thereby decomposing the diluted precursor solution.
US12062771B2
An energy storage device includes a coated anode. The coated anode includes a metallic anode in contact with an electrically non-conductive star polymer coating. The star polymers in the star polymer coating include a core with at least 3 arms attached to the core. At least some of the arms of the star polymers have ionically conductive polar functional groups. The energy storage device further includes a cathode and an electrolyte in contact with both the cathode and the coated anode.
US12062761B2
A semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same is disclosed. The structure incudes a silicon substrate having at least one trench disposed therein. An electrical and ionic insulating layer is disposed over at least a top surface of the substrate. A plurality of energy storage device layers is formed within the one trench. The plurality of layers includes at least a cathode-based active electrode having a thickness of, for example, at least 100 nm and an internal resistance of, for example, less than 50 Ohms/cm2. The method includes forming at least one trench in a silicon substrate. An electrical and ionic insulating layer(s) is formed and disposed over at least a top surface of the silicon substrate. A plurality of energy storage device layers is formed within the trench. Each layer of the plurality of energy storage device layers is independently processed and integrated into the trench.
US12062756B2
The present invention provides a composition for a gel polymer electrolyte, a gel polymer electrolyte prepared using the same, and a lithium secondary battery, the composition including: an oligomer represented by Formula 1, an additive, a polymerization initiator, a lithium salt, and a non-aqueous solvent. The additive includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an imide-based compound, a compound having a Si—N-based bond, a nitrile-based compound, a phosphate-based compound, and a borate-based compound.
US12062751B2
A pouch type secondary battery in which an electrode lead of the pouch type secondary battery and an electrode lead of an adjacent different pouch type secondary battery are welded together to construct a battery module is provided. The electrode lead of the pouch type secondary battery includes a length extended part so that, after cutting a welded part of the electrode leads of the pouch type secondary battery and the adjacent different pouch type secondary battery to form electrode leads of remaining length, the electrode leads of remaining length are welded together again. A battery module and method of reusing the battery module are also provided.
US12062743B2
An electronic device including a substrate and at least one light emitting unit is provided. The at least one light emitting unit is disposed on the substrate. The at least one light emitting unit includes a light emitting diode and a protective layer. The protective layer includes a portion overlapped with the light emitting diode, and the portion has a concave part adjacent to an edge of the light emitting diode in a top view of the electronic device.
US12062737B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel; and a light emitting diode (LED) chip configured to emit light to the display panel. The LED chip includes: a light emitting layer configured to emit light; a semiconductor layer provided on the light emitting layer; and a growth substrate provided on the semiconductor layer. The light emitting layer is arranged to be biased toward a first side of the growth substrate such that a center of an upper surface of the growth substrate is provided between a center of the light emitting layer and a center of the semiconductor layer.
US12062734B2
Discussed is a display device and a method for manufacturing same, specifically, to a display device using semiconductor light-emitting elements of a few micrometers to tens of micrometers in size, and includes substrate having a wiring electrode, and a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements electrically connected to the wiring electrode, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting elements includes of a buffer layer and an oxide layer formed on the buffer layer, and the oxide layer includes of an oxide of the buffer layer.
US12062732B2
In one aspect, optoelectronic devices are described herein. In some implementations, an optoelectronic device comprises a photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic cell comprises a space-charge region, a quasi-neutral region, and a low bandgap absorber region (LBAR) layer or an improved transport (IT) layer at least partially positioned in the quasi-neutral region of the cell.
US12062728B1
A solar cell is provided. The solar cell includes: an N-type silicon substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a tunnel passivation structure and a first passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the first surface, a boron-doped emitter structure layer including a first emitter layer and a second emitter region formed on the second surface, a second passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the emitter structure layer, a first electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the second emitter region, and a second electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the tunnel passivation structure. The solar cell of the present application has a selective emitter structure. The metal contact region has a large junction depth to meet the metallization requirements. The region outside the metal contact region has a small junction depth to improve the optical response.
US12062724B2
The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and a highly reliability can be obtained.
US12062718B2
A transistor arrangement includes a drift and drain region arranged in a semiconductor body and each connected to a drain node, a plurality of load transistor cells each comprising a source region integrated in a first region of the semiconductor body, a plurality of sense transistor cells each comprising a source region integrated in a second region of the semiconductor body, a first source node electrically connected to the source region of each of the plurality of the load transistor cells via a first source conductor, and a second source node electrically connected to the source region of each of the plurality of the sense transistor cells via a second source conductor, and wherein a resistance of the second source conductor is different from a resistance of the first source conductor.
US12062707B2
Field effect transistor and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The field effect transistor includes a substrate, fins, a gate structure, a first spacer and a second spacer. The fins protrude from the substrate and extend in a first direction. The gate structure is disposed across and over the fins and extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first spacer is disposed on sidewalls of the gate structure. The second spacer is disposed on the first spacer and surrounds the gate structure. The first spacer is fluorine-doped and includes fluorine dopants.
US12062703B2
A fin-shaped field effect transistor (finFET) device comprising includes a substrate. an insulating layer displaced over the substrate, and a fin. The device also includes a gate formed over the fin, the gate including: a gate stack; and a high-k dielectric on opposing side of the gate stack. The device further includes metallic source and drain regions formed over the fin and on opposing sides of the gate.
US12062696B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a heat transfer layer disposed over a substrate, a channel material layer, a gate structure and source and drain terminals. The channel material layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the channel material layer is disposed on the heat transfer layer with the first surface in contact with the heat transfer layer. The gate structure is disposed above the channel material layer. The source and drain terminals are in contact with the channel material layer and located at two opposite sides of the gate structure.
US12062684B2
A light emitting diode (LED) pixel for a display including a first LED stack having a first well layer, a second LED stack disposed on the first LED stack and having a second well layer, a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack and having a third well layer, a first electrode disposed on the first LED stack and in ohmic contact with the first LED stack, a second electrode disposed on the second LED stack and in ohmic contact with a surface of the second LED stack, and a third electrode in ohmic contact with a surface of the third LED stack, in which the first well layer includes at least one base material different from that of the second well layer.
US12062683B2
A light panel, includes: a printed circuit board (PCB); a light emitting element array, comprising a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on a first surface of the PCB and arranged in an array in a first direction and in a second direction; and a driving chip, disposed on a second surface of the PCB, which is opposite to the first surface; wherein the light-emitting element array comprises a light-emitting element sub-array, and orthographic projections of at least portion of light-emitting elements of the light-emitting element sub-array on the PCB are located outside an orthographic projection of the driving chip on the PCB. A display device is further provided.
US12062682B2
A solid-state imaging device and method of making a solid-state imaging device are described herein. By way of example, the solid-state imaging device includes a first wiring layer formed on a sensor substrate and a second wiring layer formed on a circuit substrate. The sensor substrate is coupled to the circuit substrate, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer being positioned between the sensor substrate and the circuit substrate. A first electrode is formed on a surface of the first wiring layer, and a second electrode is formed on a surface of the second wiring layer. The first electrode is in electrical contact with the second electrode.
US12062675B2
A device in which the influence of α-ray is reduced, and a composition for forming an organic layer. The device includes an α-ray source, an electronic circuit influenced by α-ray, and an organic layer including an α-ray shielding agent, in which an α-ray shielding ability X of the α-ray shielding agent is 0.50 or less.
US12062673B2
A curved-surface image-sensor assembly has a porous carrier having a concave surface with a thinned image sensor bonded by an adhesive to its concave surface of the porous carrier; the porous carrier is mounted into a water-resistant package. The sensor assembly is made by fabricating a thinned, flexible, image-sensor integrated circuit (IC) and applying adhesive to a non-illuminated side of the IC; positioning the IC over a concave surface of a porous carrier; applying vacuum through the porous carrier to suck the IC onto the concave surface of the porous carrier; and curing the adhesive to bond the IC to the concave surface of the porous carrier.
US12062663B2
As a display device has higher definition, the number of pixels is increased and thus, the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased. When the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased, it is difficult to mount IC chips including driver circuits for driving the gate lines and the signal lines by bonding or the like, whereby manufacturing cost is increased. A pixel portion and a driver circuit for driving the pixel portion are provided on the same substrate, and at least part of the driver circuit comprises a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor sandwiched between gate electrodes. A channel protective layer is provided between the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode provided over the oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion and the driver circuit are provided on the same substrate, which leads to reduction of manufacturing cost.
US12062662B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active fins extending in a first direction, and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, the plurality of active fins having upper surfaces of different respective heights, a gate structure extending in the second across the plurality of active fins, a device isolation film on the substrate, a source/drain region on the plurality of active fins, and including an epitaxial layer on the plurality of active fins, an insulating spacer on an upper surface of the device isolation film and having a lateral asymmetry with respect to a center line of the source/drain region in a cross section taken along the second direction, an interlayer insulating region on the device isolation film and on the gate structure and the source/drain region, and a contact structure in the interlayer insulating region and electrically connected to the source/drain region.
US12062656B2
A semiconductor device structure including a doped region under an isolation feature is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first substrate, a first well region, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a first doped region, and a first conductive feature. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first well region is in the first substrate. The first well region has a first conductive type. The first gate structure is disposed on the second surface. The second gate structure is disposed on the second surface. The first doped region includes a second conductive type different from the first conductive type. The first doped region is disposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The first conductive feature extends between the first surface of the first substrate and the first doped region.
US12062649B2
A light-emitting module includes a light-emitting panel which includes a first rigid substrate, a flexible substrate, a circuit layer, a light-emitting element, and a driver chip. The flexible substrate includes a light-emitting region, a bending region, and an epitaxial region, and the light-emitting region and the epitaxial region are located on two ends of the bending region. The circuit layer includes a first connection terminal located on the epitaxial region and the driver chip is bonded to the first connection terminal. The light-emitting element is located on the light-emitting region, and the light-emitting element emits light toward the first rigid substrate. The flexible substrate is bent in the bending region and the flexible substrate in the epitaxial region is bent to a side of the light-emitting elements facing away from the first rigid substrate. The process difficulty can be reduced and the product yield can be improved.
US12062644B2
An LED-filament includes first and second connectors for receiving a variable power; an at least partially light-transmissive substrate; a first LED array of serially connected first LED chips on a front face of the substrate; a second LED array of serially connected second LED chips on the front face of the substrate; a first photoluminescence layer covering the first LED array for generating a first color temperature; a second photoluminescence layer covering the second LED array for generating a second different color temperature; and at least one resistor serially connected to one of the first LED chips, where the first LED array and second LED array are connected in parallel to the first and second connectors, and where current flowing through the first LED and second LED arrays depends on the power applied to the first and second connectors and where the final color temperature of light generated by the LED-filament depends on the power applied to the first and second connectors.
US12062638B2
This invention relates to integrating pixelated micro-devices into a system substrate. Defined are methods of transferring a plurality of micro-devices into a receiver substrate where a plurality of micro-devices is arranged in one or more cartridges that are aligned and bonded to a template. Further, defining the transfer process, the micro-devices may be selected, identified as defective and a transfer adjustment made based on defective micro-devices.
US12062635B2
Semiconductor device packages may include a first semiconductor device over a substrate and a second semiconductor device over the first semiconductor device. An active surface of the second semiconductor device may face away from the substrate. Conductors may extend from bond pads of the second semiconductor device, along surfaces of the second semiconductor device, first semiconductor device, and substrate to pads of routing members of the substrate. The conductors may be in contact with the bond pads and the routing members and a dielectric material interposed between the conductors and the first semiconductor device and between the conductors and the second semiconductor device. An encapsulant distinct from the dielectric material may cover the conductors, the first semiconductor device, the second semiconductor device, and an upper surface of the substrate. Methods of fabrication are also disclosed.
US12062618B2
A display device comprises a display panel substrate and a glass substrate over said display panel substrate, wherein said display panel substrate comprises multiple contact pads, a display area, a first boundary, a second boundary, a third boundary and a fourth boundary, wherein said display area comprises a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, wherein said first boundary is parallel to said third boundary and said first and third edges, wherein said second boundary is parallel to said fourth boundary and said second and fourth edges, wherein a first least distance between said first boundary and said first edge, wherein a second least distance between said second boundary and said second edge, a third least distance between said third boundary and said third edge, a fourth distance between said fourth boundary and said fourth edge, and wherein said first, second, third and fourth least distances are smaller than 100 micrometers, and wherein said glass substrate comprising multiple metal conductors through in said glass substrate and multiple metal bumps are between said glass substrate and said display panel substrate, wherein said one of said metal conductors is connected to one of said contact pads through one of said metal bumps.
US12062611B2
Examples of an integrated circuit with an interconnect structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, the method includes receiving a workpiece having an interconnect structure that includes a first conductive feature, a second conductive feature disposed beside the first conductive feature, and an inter-level dielectric disposed between the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature. A conductive material of an etch stop layer is selectively deposited on the first conductive feature and on the second conductive feature without depositing the conductive material on the inter-level dielectric, and the inter-level dielectric is removed to form a gap between the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature.
US12062603B2
Embodiments include plating a contact feature in a first opening in a mask layer, the contact feature physically coupled to a contact pad, the contact feature partially filling the first opening. A solder cap is directly plated onto the contact feature in the first opening. The mask layer is then removed to expose an upper surface of a work piece, the contact feature vertically protruding from the work piece. After utilizing the solder cap, etching the solder cap to remove the solder cap from over the contact feature. A first encapsulant is deposited laterally around and over an upper surface of the contact feature. The first encapsulant is planarized to level an upper surface of the first encapsulant with the upper surface of the contact feature.
US12062596B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a semiconductor die including an active surface with bond pads, an opposite inactive surface, and stepped side surfaces extending between the active surface and the inactive surface. The stepped side surfaces include a first planar surface extending from the inactive surface towards the active surface, a second planar surface extending from the active surface towards the inactive surface, and a side surface offset between the first planar surface and the second planar surface. The semiconductor device further includes an adhesive layer covering at least a portion of a surface area of the second surface and attaching the semiconductor die to the substrate.
US12062595B2
A semiconductor device includes a resin member, a die pad including a first surface on which a semiconductor chip is disposed and covered by the resin member, and a second surface opposite to the first surface and partially covered by the resin member such that a first portion of the second surface is exposed from the resin member, and a plurality of electrodes each separated from the die pad and including a first surface connected to the semiconductor chip and covered by the resin member, and a second surface partially covered by the resin member such that a second portion of the second surface is exposed from the resin member. The first portion of the die pad includes at least four sides, each of which is nonparallel to a side of the second portion of one of the electrodes that faces the side.
US12062593B2
A power device assembly includes a heat-generating device, one or more porous bonding layers, and one or more cap layers. The one or more porous bonding layers are formed on a surface of the heat-generating device and define a plurality of embedded vapor channels. The one or more cap layers are engaged with a porous bonding layer of the one or more porous bonding layers opposite the heat-generating device. The one or more cap layer comprise a plurality of liquid feed channels for feeding cooling fluid to the heat-generating device via the porous bonding layer.
US12062591B2
A power semiconductor module includes a baseplate that has a first region at a first side located adjacent to an edge of the baseplate and proceeding in a first plane. An encapsulation material covers portions of the baseplate so that the first region of the baseplate is free of the encapsulation material and the baseplate at the edge side adjacent to the first region is at least partly covered by the encapsulation material. The baseplate at its first side is configured for being provided with an electric circuit and the baseplate at its second side is configured for being brought into contact to a heat dissipating element by applying a clamping force with a clamping part to the first region.
US12062584B1
A method to deposit a multi-layer stack for device applications includes implementing a model driven target selection for deposition. One or more targets may be procured with an initial stoichiometric composition or elemental purity. The targets may be utilized to form the multi-layer stack, and measurements may be made of chemical composition and electrical properties of the multi-layer stack. The measurements may be compared to reference target values and if measurement results are not within tolerance, the composition of the targets can be changed to yield a successive multi-layer stack. The process can be iterated until measurement results are within tolerance of target results. Additional experimentation with post deposition thermal anneal can be performed to optimize multi-layer stack properties.
US12062582B2
In a method, a structure including two or more materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion is prepared, and the structure is subjected to a cryogenic treatment. In one or more of the foregoing and following embodiments, the structure includes a semiconductor wafer and one or more layers are formed on the semiconductor wafer.
US12062575B2
A wafer processing method includes an adhesive film bonding step of bonding an adhesive film on a side of a back surface of the wafer, an adhesive film cutting-off step of cutting off at least the adhesive film that is bonded on the side of the back surface of the wafer along streets from the side of the back surface of the wafer, a modified layer forming step of irradiating a laser beam of a wavelength that has transmissivity through the wafer with the laser beam focused inside the wafer, so that modified layers are formed along the streets, respectively, and a dividing step of, after performing the adhesive film cutting-off step and the modified layer forming step, applying an external force to the wafer so that the wafer is divided from the modified layers as starting points.
US12062574B2
Disclosed is an integrated circuit (IC) structure that includes a through-metal through-substrate interconnect. The interconnect extends essentially vertically through a device level metallic feature on a frontside of a substrate, extends downward from the device level metallic feature into or completely through the substrate (e.g., to contact a backside metallic feature below), and extends upward from the device level metallic feature through interlayer dielectric (ILD) material (e.g., to contact a BEOL metallic feature above). The device level metallic feature can be, for example, a metallic source/drain region of a transistor, such as a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) or a metal-insulator-semiconductor high electron mobility transistor (MISHEMT), which is formed on the frontside of the substrate. The backside metallic feature can be a grounded metal layer. The BEOL metallic feature can be a metal wire in one of the BEOL metal levels. Also disclosed is an associated method.
US12062569B2
A processing apparatus configured to process a substrate includes a substrate holder having a substrate holding surface configured to attract and hold the substrate thereon; and an edge cleaning device configured to clean an edge portion of the substrate holding surface. Further, a processing method of processing a rear surface of the substrate by using the processing apparatus includes processing the rear surface of the substrate while a front surface of the substrate is attracted to and held by a substrate holding surface of a substrate holder; and cleaning an edge portion of the substrate holding surface.
US12062564B2
An operating method of a vacuum processing apparatus for processing multiple wafers sequentially in a vacuum processing apparatus comprising multiple vacuum transfer containers, adjacent two of which are interlinked, a lock chamber inside which a wafer is housed. The multiple processing units are each subjected to cleaning the interior thereof upon elapse of a predetermined period. In advance of processing multiple wafers, the operating method configures multiple sets of processing units to process each of the wafers from among the multiple processing units and starts processing of the wafers, delayed by a predetermined time in descending order of the number of processing units included in each of the multiple sets of processing units and in descending order of distance of the processing units included from the lock chamber.
US12062560B2
A reticle pod includes an outer pod, an inner pod cover and an inner base plate. A reticle is supported on the base and is contained within the environment created by the inner pod cover and the inner pod base. The inner pod cover can include a plurality of reticle retainers configured to contact a side wall of the reticle and limit movement of the reticle in a horizontal direction.
US12062559B2
A substrate processing system for performing processing on a plurality of substrates. The substrate processing system comprises: a processing unit comprising a plurality of processing modules each configured to perform a predetermined process; a transfer unit having a transfer device configured to transfer a substrate to each of the plurality of processing modules; a loading/unloading unit configured to hold a plurality of substrates and load/unload a substrate to/from the processing unit; and a controller configured to control the processing unit, the loading/unloading unit, and the transfer unit. The controller controls the transfer unit to transfer to the plurality of processing modules in a serial manner a plurality of substrates that are sequentially loaded from the loading/unloading unit to the processing unit, the controller further comprises a standby mode setting unit configured to set a standby period of the substrate at an appropriate timing depending on a content of the process.
US12062546B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate holding member configured to hold a plurality of substrates; a reaction tube configured to accommodate the substrate holding member and process the substrates; a processing gas supply system configured to supply a processing gas into the reaction tube; and an exhaust system configured to exhaust an internal atmosphere of the reaction tube. The reaction tube includes: a cylindrical portion; a gas supply area formed outside one side wall of the cylindrical portion and connected to the processing gas supply system; and a gas exhaust area formed outside the other side wall of the cylindrical portion opposed to the gas supply area and connected to the exhaust system. Each of the gas supply area and the gas exhaust area has an inner wall which partitions the interior of each of the gas supply area and the gas exhaust area into a plurality of spaces.
US12062534B2
Processed inorganic wafers and processing a wafer stack including an abrasive process are disclosed. A wafer stack may be formed at least by performing a temporary bonding process to temporarily bond at least a first inorganic wafer to a first surface of a handle wafer. The handle wafer may include at least one inorganic wafer, and the temporary bonding process may include formation of an adhesion layer between the first inorganic wafer and the first surface of the handle wafer. The adhesion layer may include a vacuum deposited carbonaceous film with a thickness between 1 nm and 100 nm, inclusive. An abrasive process may be applied to at least part of the wafer stack, and the abrasive process may reduce a thickness of the first inorganic wafer of the wafer stack. The first inorganic wafer may be debonded from the handle wafer after applying the abrasive process.
US12062533B2
The invention relates to a method of producing a substrate. The method comprises providing a workpiece having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and providing a carrier having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The method further comprises attaching the carrier to the workpiece, wherein at least a peripheral portion of the first surface of the carrier is attached to the first surface of the workpiece, and forming a modified layer inside the workpiece. Moreover, the method comprises dividing the workpiece along the modified layer, thereby obtaining the substrate, wherein the substrate has the carrier attached thereto, and removing carrier material from the side of the second surface of the carrier in a central portion of the carrier so as to form a recess in the carrier. The invention further relates to a substrate producing system for performing this method.
US12062528B2
A plasma reactor for inductively coupled plasma includes: a ferrite core assembly including a ferrite core stacked body including a plurality of ferrite cores stacked and a first passage portion and a second passage portion arranged in parallel, and a ferrite core accommodating structure; a first chamber body including a first base portion configured to provide a first internal space therein, a first A-extension pipe extending from the first base portion, communicating with the first internal space and accommodated in the first passage portion, and a second A-extension pipe extending from the first base portion; and a second chamber body including a second base portion configured to provide a second internal space therein, a first B-extension pipe extending from the second base portion, and a second B-extension pipe extending from the second base portion.
US12062524B2
A plasma reactor having tunable low frequency RF power coupling to annular electrode. The reaction chamber has electrically conductive base connected to a low frequency RF source via RF match. An electrostatic chuck is attached to the electrically conductive base. An outer sidewall of the electrically conductive base is coated with plasma corrosion-resistance dielectric layer. A coupling ring is made of a dielectric material and surrounds an outer perimeter of the base. A focus ring is disposed above the coupling ring, the focus ring being arranged to surround the electrostatic chuck and be exposed to the plasma. The plasma reactor further comprises an annular electrode that is disposed above the coupling ring but below the focus ring, a wire having a first end electrically connected to the base, and a second end connected to the annular electrode. A variable capacitance is serially connected to the wire.
US12062519B2
The present disclosure pertains to a beam deflection device capable of properly deflecting a beam. The present disclosure provides a beam deflection device for deflecting a beam inside a charged particle beam device, said beam deflection device being provided with: one or more electrostatic deflectors (207, 208) each having a pair of electrodes disposed so as to face each other across a beam path in a first direction orthogonal to the beam path; and one or more magnetic deflectors (209) each having a pair of magnetic poles disposed so as to face each other across the beam path in a second direction orthogonal to the beam path and to the first direction. When viewed from an incident direction of the beam, the one or more electrostatic deflectors and the one or more magnetic deflectors are stacked along the beam path such that the pair of electrodes at least partially overlap with the pair of magnetic poles and with a gap between the pair of magnetic poles.
US12062516B2
High reliability and long life are achieved by being sliding-less.
The switch according to the present invention includes: first terminal and a second terminal that are adjacently attached to a stator; a movable shaft movable in a first direction and a second direction, a plurality of movers attached to the movable shaft; and a movable segment that is connected to two of the plurality of movers and biases the two movers in a direction in which they are away from each other. The switch is capable of switching among: a first mode in which when the movers move in the first direction, the mover is pushed by the stator to deform the movable segment so as to protrude toward the terminal, and the movable segment comes into contact with the first terminal; an intermediate mode in which deformation of the movable segment by the movers is released, and the movable segment is in contact with neither the first terminal nor the second terminal; and a second mode in which when the movers move in the second direction, the mover is pushed by the stator to deform the movable segment so as to protrude toward the terminal, and the movable segment comes into contact with the second terminal.
US12062510B2
A switch includes: an actuator; a conductor having a length extending between two ends and a width extending between two sides, the conductor having a connection contact at either end and at least one switching region disposed between the connection contacts, each switching region extending between two sides of the conductor and including: a hole through the conductor, at least one shearable portion bounded by the hole and a nearest of the two sides of the conductor, and an insert conductor inserted into the hole and in electrical contact with the conductor, via the hole, such that a current conduction path is defined along the length of the conductor via the insert conductor and the at least one shearable portion of each switching region; and a moveable member aligned with the at least one switching region and arranged to move in a first direction.
US12062509B2
An arc path forming unit and a direct current relay including same are illustrated. The arc path forming unit according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises multiple magnets. Each of the magnets is configured to form a magnetic field at a point where each stationary contact is located. Each of the magnets located adjacent to each stationary contact is configured such that the opposite surfaces thereof have different polarities. A current flowing through a stationary contact and a movable contact and a magnetic field formed by each of the magnets generate an electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force travels in a direction away from the center of the direct current relay. Therefore, a generated arc travels in the direction of the electromagnetic force and is thus moved in a direction away from the center of the direct current relay. Accordingly, the direct current relay can be prevented from being damaged.
US12062500B2
The present invention relates to a photovoltaic device (1a) comprising a solar cell unit (2a) including a working electrode comprising a light-absorbing layer (3), a counter electrode including a porous conductive layer (6), and a conducting medium for transferring charges between the counter electrode and the working electrode, and a conductor (7) electrically connected to the porous conductive layer (6). The solar cell unit (2a) comprises at least one adhering layer (8) arranged between the conductor (7) and the porous conductive layer (6) for attaching the conductor to the porous conductive layer. The adhering layer (8) comprises an adhesive and conducting particles distributed in the adhesive so that a conducting network is formed in the adhesive.
US12062495B2
An electronic device includes a chip component including a terminal electrode, a case having an accommodation recess accommodating the chip component, a conductive terminal attached to the case and connected to the terminal electrode, and a case cover disposed on an opening-edge surface of the case so as to cover the accommodation recess. The opening-edge surface has an opening-edge recess at least partly covered by the case cover. The opening-edge recess and the case cover have a space therebetween. The space is filled with a resin.
US12062491B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, third and fourth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces, connected to the third and fourth surfaces, and opposing each other, first and second side portions disposed on the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the third and fourth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second internal electrodes have protrusions at one-side edge in a direction perpendicular to the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body.
US12062483B2
A current sensor includes an excitation detection winding configured such that an excitation signal for exciting a second magnetic core is input, the excitation detection winding detects magnetic flux flowing through the second magnetic core and outputs a detection signal indicating a measurement-target current. The current sensor includes an auxiliary winding that detects the magnetic flux and outputs an auxiliary signal indicating the measurement-target current. The current sensor includes a feedback winding wound around first and second magnetic cores, the feedback winding being configured such that a signal generated from the detection signal is input, and the feedback winding being wound to cancel out magnetic flux of the first and second magnetic cores. The current sensor includes a circuit to output an output signal indicating a level of the measurement-target current by modifying a signal output from the feedback winding based on a correction signal generated from the auxiliary signal.
US12062477B2
A reactor includes an assembly of a coil and a magnetic core; a case that houses the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that seals a portion of the assembly. The reactor further includes a heat dissipation member interposed between the coil and the case. The case has an inner bottom surface and the pair of coil facing surfaces have inclined surfaces that are inclined away from each other. The coil includes a first winding portion and a second winding portion disposed opposite of the inner bottom surface with respect to the first winding portion. The first winding portion and the second winding portion are parallel with each other, and have the same width. The heat dissipation member includes a first heat dissipation portion interposed between at least one of the inclined surfaces and the second winding portion.
US12062476B2
There are provided a chip electronic component and a board having the same. The chip electronic component includes: a substrate; a first internal coil part disposed on one surface of the substrate; a second internal coil part disposed on the other surface of the substrate opposing one surface thereof; a via penetrating through the substrate to connect the first and second internal coil parts to each other; and first and second via pads disposed on one surface and the other surface of the substrate, respectively, to cover the via, wherein the first and second via pads are extended in a direction toward portions of the first and second internal coil parts adjacent thereto.
US12062470B2
A cable is provided having at least one electrically insulating layer obtained from a polymer composition with at least one polypropylene-based thermoplastic polymer material and at least one inorganic filler selected from aluminium oxide, a hydrated aluminium oxide, magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, and a mixture thereof; and a method for making the cable.
US12062468B2
A wiring member includes: a flat wiring body including a plurality of wire-like transmission members, and a base member that holds the plurality of wire-like transmission members to be flat; and a pattern provided on the flat wiring body, and making a three-dimensional posture of the flat wiring body recognizable.
US12062464B2
Collimators and other components for use in neutron scattering experiments or to provide neutron shielding in nuclear reactors or accelerator based neutron sources are produced by additive manufacturing from neutron absorbing material, such as boron carbide (B4C) or isotopically enriched boron carbide (10B).
US12062461B2
Supports with integrated sensors for nuclear reactor steam generators, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed. A representative method for forming a nuclear-powered steam generator includes forming an instrumented support, the instrumented support including a carrier portion and a retainer portion, with at least one of the carrier portion or the retainer portion being integrally formed with a sensor via an additive manufacturing process. The method can further include coupling the sensor to a communication link, supporting a helical steam conduit on the instrumented support, and installing the helical steam conduit and the instrumented support in a nuclear reactor. The helical steam conduit is positioned along a primary flow path, which is in turn positioned to circulate a heated primary flow in thermal communication with the helical steam conduit.
US12062455B2
The present invention discloses a coronavirus real-time map to alarm users when approaching infected locations. The infected locations are updated in real-time based on the life cycle of the virus on surfaces, and the virus test results of the users. The data collected about the user's geographic locations are locally stored on the user's mobile phone to secure their personal privacy.
US12062449B2
Various embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis operations by using an agent machine learning model to determine an optimal clinical intervention based at least in part on the current clinical state and an inferred reinforcement learning policy that is determined based at least in part on a familiarity-adjusted reward function, where the familiarity-adjusted reward function is generated by an environment machine learning framework based at least in part on one or more next state predictions for one or more pruned action-state combinations based at least in part on a historical clinical outcome database, and the one or more pruned action-state combinations are determined based at least in part on one or more pruned clinical actions that are selected from a plurality of candidate clinical actions based at least in part on one or more action pruning criteria.
US12062441B2
A system includes a computing device a personal protective equipment (PPE) device. The PPE device is configured to be worn by a worker and includes and at least one physiological sensor configured to generate physiological data indicative of one or more physiological characteristics of a worker. The computing device is configured to determine a safety risk score for the worker based at least in part on the physiological data and a risk profile associated with the worker.
US12062440B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for maintaining and controlling surgical tools are disclosed. For each surgical tool, a surgeon can give verbal commands which can result in feedback provided by a synthesized voice or the execution of an action as instructed by the verbal command. The tools are monitored during use to ensure the tools remain within their operating parameters. The system alerts the surgeon should the tools approach their operational limitations.
US12062428B2
A system (100) for context aware medical recommendations includes a recommendation engine (138) and a user interface (122). The recommendation engine (138) identifies at least one suggested recommendation (140) according to a medical guideline and context in response to a first input indicating a finding (150) in a medical image (112) of a patient. The user interface (122) displays on a display device (120) the at least one suggested recommendation selectable as a second input.
US12062424B2
An activity monitoring device may provide data indicating one or more activities performed by a user. The wearable device may send the data to another computing device. An interface may be used to display the data. One or more display characteristics associated with the interface may be determined based on a location of the activity monitoring device.
US12062420B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating record matching and entity resolution and for enabling improvements in record linkage. A power-spectrum-based temporal pattern-specific weight may be incorporated into record linkage methods to enhance the record linkage accuracy and statistical performance. For example, in embodiments, a value-specific weight may be calculated from a population-based frequency of field-specific values and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative importance of specific values found in a field. A timeseries-derived Bayesian power spectrum weight may be calculated from the population-based frequency of temporal pattern-specific values in terms of intensities at various frequencies of the power spectrum computed from the timeseries, and further provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative importance of specific sequences of care episodes.
US12062417B2
An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for multiplexing base-calling of a plurality of nucleic acid molecules in the same flow cell is provided. When multiplexing for just two nucleic acid molecules, it can operate by selecting a first base call for a first nucleic acid molecule and a second base call for a second nucleic acid molecule, after having placed them in the same flow cell and obtaining the combined raw intensity output. It can use as prior the appropriate reference genome sequences from which the nucleic acid molecules can be derived in order to create a score function, which can additionally be constrained by various penalty functions. It can derive accuracy and speed by using a branch and bound strategy as well as by performing alignment and base-calling in one step per cycle.
US12062409B2
A memory device that may include a primary PCB that is configured to support one or more SSD units and one or more volatile memory units; a secondary PCB that is configured to mechanically support multiple supercapacitors; wherein the secondary PCB comprises an aperture and an array of heat different reduction elements configured to reduce temperature differences between different parts of the secondary PCB; a board to board connector for electrically coupling at least one electrical conductor of the primary PCB to at least one electrical conductor of the secondary PCB; a mechanical interface that has a base, a top section and a threaded hole that passes through the base and the top section; wherein the base is wider than the top section; wherein the top section is shaped and sized to enter the aperture of the secondary PCB; wherein the base is configured to support the secondary PCB when the top section enters the aperture. The height of the base, a height of the board to board connector, and a width of the secondary PCB may be smaller than a millimeter.
US12062405B2
A semiconductor device in which a decrease in the yield by electrostatic destruction can be prevented is provided. A scan line driver circuit for supplying a signal for selecting a plurality of pixels to a scan line includes a shift register for generating the signal. One conductive film functioning as respective gate electrodes of a plurality of transistors in the shift register is divided into a plurality of conductive films. The divided conductive films are electrically connected to each other by a conductive film which is formed in a layer different from the divided conductive films are formed. The plurality of transistors includes a transistor on an output side of the shift register.
US12062404B2
A voltage trimming circuit including: a first resistance circuit having a first resistance value determined by up codes and down codes; a second resistance circuit having a second resistance value determined by the up codes and the down codes; and a comparator to output a voltage detection signal by comparing a voltage level of a reference voltage trimming node to that of a feedback node, wherein the voltage detection signal adjusts the up and down codes, which increase the first resistance value and decrease the second resistance value when the voltage level of the reference voltage trimming node is higher than that of the feedback node, and adjusts the up and down codes, which decrease the first resistance value and increase the second resistance value when the voltage level of the reference voltage trimming node is lower than that of the feedback node.
US12062400B2
A memory system includes a memory including nonvolatile memory cells, and a controller configured to set read voltages for reading data stored in the nonvolatile memory cells. The controller stores first shift patterns relating to a plurality of read voltages, first index information associating to a first shift pattern with each of a plurality of memory cell groups, second shift patterns relating to differences between read voltages and read voltages set according to a first shift pattern, and second index information associating a second shift pattern with each memory cell group. The controller generates read voltages of a target memory cell group based on the first shift pattern voltages and the second shift pattern voltages.
US12062396B2
Memory devices, memory cell strings and methods of operating memory devices are shown. Configurations described include directly coupling an elongated body region to a source line. Configurations and methods shown should provide a reliable bias to a body region for memory operations such as erasing.
US12062395B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory block and a control circuit. The memory block includes a plurality of cell strings where each of the plurality of cell strings includes a string selection transistor, a plurality of memory cells and a ground selection transistor which are connected in series and disposed in a vertical direction between a bit-line and a common source line. The control circuit adjusts a level of a high voltage applied to a gate of a pass transistor of a selected word-line such that a voltage difference between the high voltage and a program voltage applied to a drain of the pass transistor differs in at least a portion of a plurality of program loops based on a comparison of a number of the program loops and a reference number during a program operation on a target memory cells.
US12062389B2
Methods, systems, and devices for accessing a ferroelectric memory cell are described. In some examples, during a first portion of an access procedure, the voltages of a digit line and word line coupled with the memory cell may be increased while the voltage of a plate coupled with the memory cell is held constant, which may support sensing a logic state stored by the memory cell prior the access procedure, and which may result in a first logic state being written to the memory cell. A voltage of the plate may then be increased, and the digit line may then be coupled with the plate. Because the first logic state was previously written to the memory cell, a target logic state may not need to be subsequently written to the memory cell unless different than the first logic state.
US12062386B2
A plurality of video clips comprising audio of a song are identified from a pool of videos. A portion of the song corresponding to the audio in each video clip is then determined. Using the determined portion, each video clip is mapped to a timeline of the song. A subset of video clips comprising different sections of the song are then selected. Video clips comprising audio from different sections of the song are selected to be included in the personalized video, which is then generated from the selected subset of video clips. The personalized video is then generated for display to the user.
US12062384B1
A computer-implemented method and a related tape library system for controlling an operation of a tape library system comprising at least one magnetic-tape drive unit and a plurality of tape cartridges, wherein the operation of the tape library system comprises a usage optimization of available resources of the tape library system, is disclosed. The method comprises determining a load value of the resources of the tape library system, accumulating requests to a tape cartridge in a batch before using tape library system to physically accessing the tape cartridge, and dynamically adjusting a number of requests in the batch before physically accessing the tape cartridge dependent on the load value such that a response time of the tape library system is optimized.
US12062372B2
A method and system of audibly broadcasting responses to a user based on user queries about a specific patient report, the method comprising receiving an audible query from the user to a microphone coupled to a collaboration device, identifying at least one intent associated with the audible query, identifying at least one data operation associated with the at least one intent, associating each of the at least one data operations with a first set of data presented on the report, executing each of the at least one data operations on a second set of data to generate response data, generating an audible response file associated with the response data and providing the audible response file for broadcasting via a speaker coupled to the collaboration device.
US12062365B2
An apparatus for training a dialogue summary model according to an embodiment includes a parameter transferer configured to transfer one or more learning parameter values of a pre-trained natural language processing model to a sequence-to-sequence-based dialogue summary model, and a model trainer configured to train the dialogue summary model by using the transferred learning parameter values as initial values for learning parameters of each of an encoder and a decoder in the dialogue summary model.
US12062362B2
Provided is a limited utterance determination unit that determines whether or not a user utterance is a limited utterance among one or more pre-registered limited utterances, a risk determination unit that, in the case where the result of the determination is that the user utterance is not any one of the one or more pre-registered limited utterances, determines a risk of a process corresponding to the user utterance, and a process execution unit that, in the case where the risk of the process corresponding to the user utterance is not a low risk, outputs a guidance that prompts a user to make a limited utterance included in the pre-registered limited utterances are provided. In the case where the risk is not the low risk, the process execution unit outputs an alert including explanation information regarding the risk.
US12062360B2
The present invention has an issue of effectively reducing the input load related to a voice trigger. There is provided an information processing device comprising a registration control unit that dynamically controls registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the registration control unit temporarily additionally registers at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice. There is also provided an information processing method comprising dynamically controlling, by a processor, registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the controlling further includes temporarily additionally registering at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice.
US12062357B2
A method of registering an attribute in a speech synthesis model, an apparatus of registering an attribute in a speech synthesis model, an electronic device, and a medium are provided, which relate to a field of an artificial intelligence technology such as a deep learning and intelligent speech technology. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of data associated with an attribute to be registered; and registering the attribute in the speech synthesis model by using the plurality of data associated with the attribute, wherein the speech synthesis model is trained in advance by using a training data in a training data set.
US12062356B2
To protect a user's privacy by reducing a malicious developer's ability to eavesdrop on unwitting HMD users by converting signals from a motion sensor in the HMD to speech or speaker recognition, a microphone can record ambient sound and voice which is subtracted from the motion sensor data before the sensor data is made available to the game developer. Additionally, ANC (active noise cancellation) techniques can be adapted to cancel noise from a motion sensor's data. In another technique, a band pass filter subtracts frequency in the sensor signals within the voice range. Still a third technique blends statistical noise into the motion sensor signal before passing to game developers to obfuscate the user's speech.
US12062355B2
There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver mounted to the housing, a reference internal noise disposed within the housing and a reference ambient noise mounted to the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured to simultaneously use both a signal provided by the reference internal noise and the signal provided by the reference ambient noise to operate the acoustic driver.
US12062351B2
A display device is provided, the display device includes a first display portion having a first surface, a second display portion having a second surface not in a same plane with the first display portion, a side display portion having a third surface connected between the first display portion and the second display portion. A main body, wherein the first display portion, the second display portion and the side display portion are disposed on the main body, the first surface, the second surface and the third surface have a normal respectively, and the normal of the first surface, the normal of the second surface and the normal of the third surface face different directions respectively, and an end portion of the main body includes a curved shape.
US12062345B2
A display device, which fixes the magnitude of a driving current flowing through light-emitting devices in a low luminance region and controls an application period of the driving current, includes: light-emitting devices; a processor for controlling the light-emitting devices on the basis of a gray level required for the light-emitting devices in each unit frame; and a timing controller which divides the unit frame into a plurality of sub-frames and generates a scan signal corresponding to each sub-frame. The processor: when the gray level is greater than or equal to a preset value, determines a luminance value of the light-emitting devices on the basis of the gray level and turns on the light-emitting devices with the determined luminance value in all of the plurality of sub-frames; when the gray level is less than the preset value, determines a light-emitting period of the light-emitting devices on the basis of the gray level and divides, on the basis of the light-emitting period, the plurality of sub-frames into a first and a second sub-frame group; turns on the light-emitting devices with a preset luminance value in all sub-frames belonging to the first sub-frame group; and turns off the light-emitting devices in sub-frames belonging to the second sub-frame group or turns on the light-emitting devices with a luminance value less than the preset luminance value.
US12062337B2
Disclosed is a display device including a first output part, a second output part, a power supply circuit connected to input terminals of the first output part and the second output part, a first sensing part connected to an output terminal of the first output part, a second sensing part connected to an output terminal of the second output part, a first voltage output terminal connected to the first sensing part and the second sensing part, a plurality of pixels connected to the first voltage output terminal and configured to display an image, and a defect determination part controlling shutdown of the power supply circuit by comparing a first sensing value and a second sensing value, which are received from the first sensing part and the second sensing part, with a first reference value and a second reference value having a level lower than the first reference value.
US12062331B2
An OLED pixel compensation circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The OLED pixel compensation circuit includes an input sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit and a light-emitting sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is coupled to the compensation sub-circuit and configured to input a data signal into the compensation sub-circuit. The compensation sub-circuit is coupled to the driving sub-circuit and the light-emitting sub-circuit and configured to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting sub-circuit to emit light after the threshold voltage of the driving sub-circuit is compensated.
US12062328B2
The present embodiments disclose a pixel driving circuit. A pixel driving circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is electrically connected to a luminous element and comprises a first circuit configured to control light-emission and non-emission of the luminous element in response to a control signal applied to each of a plurality of subframes included in a frame, a second circuit configured to store bit values of multi-bit data in the frame and generate the control signal based on the stored bit values, and a clock signal such that each subframe included in the frame is controlled according to each bit value, and wherein each of the plurality of subframes includes a data-writing period and a light-emitting period, during the data-writing period of each subframe, the second circuit receives and stores a corresponding bit string from among a plurality of bit strings of n-bit data, wherein the plurality of bit strings are generated by a combination of bits in the number of n, which is smaller than m, from among m bits constituting a bit string of the multi-bit data, and the n-bit data is a bit string in which n bits from among the m bits are combined such that a difference in light-emitting periods of the plurality of subframes is minimized.
US12062324B2
A current mirror circuit includes a first transistor configured to be supplied with a data current from a data driving circuit; a second transistor configured to drive a light emitting diode by mirroring the data current transferred to the first transistor; and a voltage compensation circuit disposed between one terminal of the first transistor and one terminal of the second transistor and configured to compensate for a difference between voltages of the one terminals of the first transistor and the second transistor.
US12062322B2
A signal generation apparatus, a driving chip, a display system and an LED displaying driving method are described. A circuit comprises a first generation device for generating a first PWM wave with period T1; a second generation device for generating a delayed clock signal with period T2, T1=NT2, the first time is delayed by F×T2 compared with the second time, the first time is the time corresponding to a first rising edge of the delayed clock signal, the second time is the time corresponding to a first rising edge of the first PWM wave; a third generation device for generating a third PWM wave with period T3 according to the first PWM wave the delayed clock signal, T3=T1+F×T2, a first rising edge of the third PWM wave is synchronous with the first rising edge of the first PWM wave.
US12062321B2
An LED display device includes a system board, and multiple daughterboards that are assembled on the system board. The system board includes a drive power circuit, a first gate circuit and a second gate circuit. Each daughterboard includes a substrate, multiple LEDs that are disposed on the substrate, multiple first transistor switches that are respectively connected to the LEDs, and at least one second transistor switch that is connected to the LEDs. With respect to each daughterboard, the first transistor switches and the at least one second transistor switch cooperatively control current flows through the LEDs; the first transistor switches are further connected to the drive power circuit to respectively receive multiple drive currents, and are further connected to the first gate circuit to receive a timing signal; and the at least one second transistor switch is further connected to the second gate circuit to receive a timing signal.
US12062320B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a pixel circuit comprising: a light emitting device which emits light with a luminance corresponding to an amount of driving current applied thereto; a driving transistor which controls the amount of the driving current applied to the light emitting device; a storage capacitor which is connected to the driving transistor; a first transistor which is turned on according to a first scan signal and transmits a data voltage to the storage capacitor; and a second transistor which is turned on according to a second scan signal and diode-connects the driving transistor, wherein the driving transistor and the first transistor are low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin film transistors, and wherein the second transistor is an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor.
US12062315B2
The present application provides a display device driving method and a display device. In the display device driving method, when optimal common voltages of other grayscales are determined using an optimal common voltage of a standard grayscale, and when grayscale shift occurs in the other grayscales, the optimal common voltages of the other grayscales are corrected, so that correct common voltages can be adopted when the display device is driven, and problems such as screen flicker caused by the grayscale shift in the display device are prevented.
US12062293B1
The method can include performing inference using the system; and can optionally include training the system components. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from a stream of air traffic control (ATC) radio communications. The method can additionally or alternatively function to train and/or update a natural language processing system based on ATC communications. Additionally, the method can include or be used in conjunction with collision avoidance and/or directed perception for traffic detection associated therewith.
US12062289B2
The present application discloses systems, methods, and computer-readable media that utilize computing devices to model multi-outcome transportation-value metrics that account for spatio-temporal trajectories across locations, times and other contextual features, and then utilize computer networks to dispatch provider devices to locations based on the multi-outcome transportation-value metrics. Moreover, the disclosed systems can utilize these multi-outcome transportation-value metrics and/or other models to manage and utilize dynamic transportation dispatch modes to more efficiently align provider devices and requestor devices across computer networks. For instance, the disclosed system can dispatch a provider device based on a discounted multi-outcome transportation-value metric. Furthermore, the disclosed system can dynamically determine prioritized dispatch mode provider device slots, fill provider device slots based on performance metrics, and then select provider device from between a prioritized transportation dispatch mode and another transportation dispatch mode based on prioritization metrics corresponding to a transportation request.
US12062288B2
This disclosure describes a pickup location determination system that determines a pickup location for a received transportation request by filtering out door points based on various factors and by utilizing a pickup location model to select a pickup location from the filtered door points. For example, the disclosed systems generate door points relative to intersection points within a request radius of a request location associated with a received transportation request. The disclosed systems generate potential pickup locations by filtering out door points that are impractical and/or inefficient based on proximity to other door points, locations relative to venues, locations relative to side streets, and/or locations between parallel road segments (e.g., medians). The disclosed systems further utilize a pickup location model to select a pickup location from the potential pickup locations.
US12062285B2
A control device for an automated valet parking lot includes: a travel route determining unit configured to determine a travel route to a parking space; a travel route transmission unit configured to transmit the travel route to a vehicle; a position acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the vehicle, a position of the vehicle that is estimated by the vehicle; and a positional accuracy calculation unit configured to calculate a positional estimation accuracy, which is an accuracy of the position of the vehicle acquired by the position acquiring unit, prior to performing automated driving of the vehicle in accordance with the travel route.
US12062283B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring a dedicated roadway the runs in parallel to a railroad. In some implementations, a system includes a central server, an interface, and sensors. The interface receives data from a railroad system that manages the railroad parallel to the dedicated roadway. The sensors are positioned in a fixed location relative to the dedicated roadway. Each sensor can detect vehicles in a first field of view on the dedicated roadway. For each detected vehicle, each sensor can generate sensor data based on the detected vehicle in the dedicated roadway and the data received at the interface. Each sensor can generate observational data and instruct the detected vehicle to switch to an enhanced processing mode. Each sensor can determine an action for the detected vehicle to take based on the generated observational data.
US12062273B2
A “smart-faucet” is provided that provides instructions and feedback to a user that improves the efficacy of a handwashing event. The faucet includes a supply of sanitizer that includes a visualization component, such as a fluorescent component, that assists the user in determining sanitizing coverage of the hands. The visualization component may require the presence of an energy source radiating a specific frequency, such as UV, in order to become visible. The faucet may further be able to communicate information to a remote location regarding supply data necessary to insure just in time delivery of a replacement supply of sanitizer.
US12062271B2
Unauthorized tracking devices, including those that change their identification information periodically, are detected to protect an individual's privacy. A privacy system can implement a number of anti-stalking features to protect against such unauthorized tracking devices. The privacy system, upon determining that an unauthorized tracking device is mirroring a user's movements, can enable the user to “ring” the tracking device in order to allow the user to locate the unauthorized device. The privacy system, in response to determining that the tracking device or the owner of the tracking device satisfy one or more stalking conditions, can notify a user that the tracking device satisfies the stalking conditions. Finally, the privacy system enables users to disable access to location information from the tracking device to owners of the tracking device in the event that the tracking device is deemed unauthorized by the user.
US12062264B2
Systems and methods that utilize connecting symbols accumulated in association with one or more game outcomes to activate one or more features.
US12062259B2
The disclosure relates to a banknote handling machine comprising: a banknote transport arrangement configured to transport banknotes along transport paths within the machine, wherein the banknote transport arrangement comprises a diverter assembly comprising: a diverter rotatably attached to a structure of the machine, and an electric motor configured to transfer kinetic energy to the diverter so as to rotate the diverter between a first position and a second position, wherein the diverter, when in the first position, is configured to control banknotes to be transported along a first transport path, and wherein the diverter, when in the second position, is configured to control banknotes to be transported along a second transport path.
US12062254B2
Systems and methods for reconfigurable on-vehicle data routing are provided. In one embodiment, a data link communication system comprises: a router to communicate with at least one communication bus and at least one data bus, and monitor data communicated over the communication data buses, wherein the communication bus communicates data link messages with an off-vehicle service provider system, wherein the data bus transports data between the router and a plurality of on-vehicle systems; a routing control logic; and a conditional logic database, wherein the database comprises definitions of one or more datatypes and definitions for at least one data forwarding command; wherein, in response to receiving a first set of data associated with a datatype defined by the database, the logic executes the at least one data forwarding command to control the router to output a second set of data to one or more of the plurality of on-vehicle systems.
US12062249B2
A system, neural network, and corresponding method generate 3D landmarks associated with an object in a 2D image. An embodiment is a system comprising a neural network detector configured to produce planar coordinates of landmarks at points of the object in the 2D image and a depth coordinate estimator. The planar coordinates include planar coordinate pairs. The depth coordinate estimator is configured to receive the 2D image and the planar coordinates and to estimate a depth coordinate for each planar coordinate pair of each landmark to generate the 3D landmarks. The system reduces network parameters from MB to KB and has better performance relative to state-of-the-art methods. The system may be configured to apply the 3D landmarks for face alignment, virtual face makeup, face recognition, eye gaze tracking, face synthesis, or other face related application.
US12062244B2
The present invention is an AI motorcycle comprising a motorcycle, an AI device, a first plate image acquisition device, a second plate image acquisition device, a display device, and an alert device. Thereby, there are a smart movable investigation and crime prevention system, a multi-lane plate number and smart street lamp recognition system, a portable face recognition system, a portable drunk driving detection system, a mobile recognition integrated radar speedometer system, a mobile image recognition integrated RFID receiver, and equipped with multiple application functions, including a 360° panoramic camera for road condition recording and image analysis, a cloud database police network system implementation, a roadside parking billing plate recognition function, and a multi-lane plate number recognition functions are accomplished when riding the motorcycle on patrol.
US12062241B2
A lane recognition device based on a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for a vehicle and a method thereof may include a pre-processor that detects a lane point candidate group based on information detected from the LiDAR, a deep learning device that generates lane recognition information by learning the lane point candidate group, and a post-processor that converts the lane recognition information into lane information by use of a lane curve fitting algorithm.
US12062234B1
A client device that includes a camera and an extended reality client application program is employed by a user in a physical space, such as an industrial or campus environment. The user aims the camera within the mobile device at a real-world asset, such as a computer system, classroom, or vehicle. The client device acquires a digital image via the camera and detects textual and/or pictorial content included in the acquired image that corresponds to one or more anchors. The client device queries a data intake and query system for asset content associated with the detected anchors. Upon receiving the asset content from the data intake and query system, the client device generates visualizations of the asset content and presents the visualizations via a display device.
US12062232B2
Digital content can be viewed in a vehicle without suffering from motion sickness by use of a system which includes a vehicle and data glasses. The vehicle includes a control unit and a plurality of sensors connected to the control unit. The data glasses can be wirelessly connected to the control unit and are intended to display a virtual 3-D integrating the digital content.
US12062226B2
A method for providing training images including receiving information about objects which is at least valid at a specific recording time. The method includes receiving an image of an area imaged at the specific recording time. The method includes estimating respective positions of the objects at the specific recording time based on the information and selecting estimated positions of respective objects from the estimated respective positions which fulfill a predefined selection criterion. The method includes generating training images by separating the imaged area into first and second pluralities of image tiles. Each of the first plurality of image tiles differs from each of the second plurality of image tiles. Each of the first plurality of image tiles images (depicts) a respective one or several of the selected positions. The method includes providing the training images. Further, a training image product and a device for providing training images are provided.
US12062224B2
Described herein is a system and computer implemented method for finding similars for a selected clothing image amongst a set of clothing images in an electronic catalog in an online store serving online customers. An object detection model is applied to extract the clothing section within the clothing images to create a preprocessed image. A first machine learning model is applied on the preprocessed image(s) to convert the colors and textures of said preprocessed image into a first set of vector representations. A second machine learning model is applied on the preprocessed image(s) to convert the shapes of said preprocessed image into a second set of vector representations. Operations of mapping nearest vectors, matching attributes, sorting and ranking are performed, and thereafter similar images are displayed to the online customer.
US12062213B2
An image processing method includes: performing content analysis upon an input frame to generate at least one content analysis result of the input frame; determining, by a processing circuit, an anti-blue light strength level for the input frame according to content analysis result(s) of the input frame; and in response to the anti-blue light strength level determined for the input frame, performing color correction upon the input frame to generate an output frame.
US12062212B2
The present inventive concept relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based intraoral scanner calibration device including: a light source; an optical coupler for splitting the path of light irradiated from the light source in first light and second light; a reference part for generating reference light from the first light split by the optical coupler; a sample part for generating measurement light from the second light split by the optical coupler; and a signal generator for generating an OCT image from the reference light and the measurement light.
US12062206B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for 3D pose graph reconstruction. 3D reconstruction of indoor buildings for VR/AR applications, such as virtual touring, digital museum, and virtual home sale, may be performed based on estimating pose graph and transformation matrix between cameras by recognizing markers on the ground in panorama images. Image data corresponding to one or more views of a first camera is received. One or more markers corresponding to a second camera are identified within the received image data. A pose graph corresponding to the one or more views of the first camera is constructed based on the identified one or more markers, the pose graph comprising at least an edge.
US12062205B2
Disclosed are camera pose determination methods and apparatuses. The method includes determining first pixels in a current image and second pixels in a previous image, determining second pixel points with the preconfigured semantics in a previous image frame before the current image frame, the first pixel points corresponding to at least a portion of the second pixel points, determining an error between the first pixel points and the second pixel points, and a camera pose change value of the current image frame relative to the previous image frame based on the error, and determining a camera pose of the current image based on a camera pose of the previous image and the camera pose change. Related devices and storage media are also disclosed.
US12062199B2
A method for determining a distance Dsensor between an image sensor and a target area of a driver of a vehicle, comprising arranging a light source at a known geometric relationship with respect to the image sensor, such that a structure in the vehicle at least occasionally casts a shadow in the target area, determining a distance Dlight source between the light source and the target area based on an image acquired be the image sensor of the target area including the shadow and a geometric relationship (e.g. distance) between the light source and the structure, and determining the distance Dsensor based on the distance Dlight source and the geometric relationship between the light source and the image sensor. With this approach, a reliable determination of the distance to the target area may be provided using only one single image sensor.
US12062190B2
The disclosed embodiment provides an apparatus and method for measuring eye movement, that can accurately measure eye movement by determining the eye position at high speed and high resolution even with a low-cost camera by using a phase mask and rolling shutter method instead of a lens, and can perform early diagnosis of neurological diseases, etc. based on the measured eye movement.
US12062187B2
A phase correlation method (PCM) can be used for translational and/or rotational alignment of 3D medical images even in the presence of non-rigid deformations between first and second images of a registered volume of a patient.
US12062183B2
Techniques are described for closed surface fitting (CSF). Processing circuitry may determine a plurality of points on a shape, determine a contour, used to determine a shape of an anatomical object, from image information of one or more images of a patient, and determine corresponding points on the contour that correspond to the plurality of points on the shape based on at least one of respective normal vectors projected from points on the shape and normal vectors projected from points on the contour. The processing circuitry may generate a plurality of intermediate points between the points on the shape and the corresponding points on the contour, generate an intermediate shape based on plurality of intermediate points, and generate a mask used to determine the shape of the anatomical object based on the intermediate shape.
US12062178B2
Embodiments discussed herein facilitate automated and/or semi-automated segmentation of endothelial cells via a trained deep learning model. One example embodiment is a method, comprising: accessing an optical microscopy image comprising a set of corneal endothelial cells of a patient of a keratoplasty; pre-processing the optical microscopy image to generate a pre-processed optical microscopy image via correcting for at least one of shading or illumination artifacts in the optical microscopy image; segmenting, based at least in part on a trained deep learning (DL) model, a plurality of corneal endothelial cells of the set of corneal endothelial cells in the pre-processed optical microscopy image; and displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), at least the segmented plurality of corneal endothelial cells.
US12062177B2
Imaging systems comprising x-ray image reconstruction systems combined with optical imaging and/or tracking systems. In some embodiments, the imaging system may comprise an x-ray image reconstruction system configured to generate three-dimensional image data of at least an internal portion of a target object under a surface of the target object and a three-dimensional optical imaging system configured to reconstruct an image of at least a portion of the surface of the target object by generating surface three-dimensional image data. The three-dimensional optical imaging system may be registered to the x-ray tomosynthesis image reconstruction system such that three-dimensional image data from the x-ray tomosynthesis image reconstruction system and three-dimensional image data from the three-dimensional optical imaging system may be used as a constraint to improve image quality of an image of the target object.
US12062169B2
A multi-functional, computer-aided gastroscopy system optimized with integrated AI solutions is disclosed. The system makes use of multiple deep-learning neural models to achieve low latency and high-performance requirements for multiple tasks. The optimization is made at three levels: architectural, modular and functional level. At architectural level, the models are designed in such a way that it is able to accomplish HP infection classification and detection of some lesions for one inference in order to reduce computation costs. At modular level, as a sub-model of HP infection classification, the site recognition model is optimized with temporal information. It not only improves the performance of HP infection classification, but also plays important roles for lesion detection and procedure status determination. At functional level, the inference latency is minimized by configuration and resource aware optimization. Also at functional level, the preprocessing is speeded up by image resizing parallelization and unified preprocessing.
US12062160B2
A system for image completion is disclosed. The system comprises a coordinate generation module configured to receive past frames and a present frame having a first field-of-view and to generate a set of coordinate maps, one for each of the received past frames; and a frame aggregation module configured to receive as input the past frames, the present frame, and the coordinate maps and to synthesize, based on said input, a present frame having a second field-of-view.
US12062154B2
An image correcting method of the present invention includes: a step of performing a preprocessing process on an original image to generate a mask image including only an erased area of the original image; a step of predicting, by using generative adversarial networks, an image which is to be synthesized with the erased area in the mask image; and a step of synthesizing the predicted image with the erased area of the original image to generate a new image.
US12062151B2
An image processing circuit performs super-resolution (SR) operations. The image processing circuit includes memory to store multiple parameter sets of multiple artificial intelligence (AI) models. The image processing circuit further includes an image guidance module, a parameter decision module, and an SR engine. The image guidance module operates to detect a representative feature in an image sequence including a current frame and past frames within a time window. The parameter decision module operates to adjust parameters of one or more AI models based on a measurement of the representative feature. The SR engine operates to process the current frame using the one or more AI models with the adjusted parameters to thereby generate a high-resolution image for display.
US12062143B2
A mobile device includes a display, a camera to capture an image of a space in which an image device can be installed, a user interface, and a controller. The controller can identify a plane from the image captured by the camera, control the display so as to display a grid on a virtual plane corresponding to the plane, adjust the grid based on an input of a user received via the user interface, and control the display so as to display, on the grid, the virtual image of the image device.
US12062142B2
Methods for parameterizing virtual spaces by matching virtual objects to physical objects, creating shared virtual spaces for users to meet, loading in virtual media objects from personal computing devices, selecting and interacting with virtual objects in virtual spaces, and activating virtual media representations for consumption are described herein.
US12062134B2
A location-based augmented-reality system to generate and cause display of augmented-reality content that includes three-dimensional typography, based on a perspective, and location of a client device.
US12062129B2
Synthesis of an image of a view from data of a multi-view video. The synthesis includes an image processing phase as follows: generating image synthesis data from texture data of at least one image of a view of the multi-view video; calculating an image of a synthesised view from the generated synthesis data and at least one image of a view of the multi-view video; analysing the image of the synthesised view relative to a synthesis performance criterion; if the criterion is met, delivering the image of the synthesised view; and if not, iterating the processing phase. The calculation of an image of a synthesised view at a current iteration includes modifying, based on synthesis data generated in the current iteration, an image of the synthesised view calculated during a processing phase preceding the current iteration.
US12062120B2
A method for automatically arranging and matching a graph onto a figure, and a computer-readable medium, according to one embodiment of the present invention, include the steps of: (a) receiving data to be used for graph generation; (b) generating a graph including first meta information; (c) generating an arrangement layout including second meta information and including at least one arrangement region in which the generated graph may be arranged; and (d) optimally arranging the generated graph in the at least one arrangement region by using the first meta information and the second meta information.
US12062107B2
The embodiments disclose a method including providing an aerial drone coupled wirelessly to a social distancing application on a user digital device, wherein the drone is coupled to solar cell panels for recharging its batteries, providing a strobe light coupled to the drone for signaling an S.O.S. automatically in emergency situations, cellular communication device coupled to the drone for transmitting and receiving messages from the social distancing application, wherein the drone includes a cellular signal strength sensor to automatically move to a location to boost cellular signal strength, and providing at least one camera for capturing images and videos during user directed reconnaissance, drone sensors to detect and measure aerosols including biologics and DNA in an area, electromagnetic fields, barometric pressure, humidity, ambient temperature, wind speed and direction, detection and identification devices to detect unnatural sounds, to analyze and identify manmade, animal and environmental objects and conditions using computer vision.
US12062106B1
A micro-hazard monitoring system detects and addresses micro-hazards in a user's environment. The system directs the user to traverse the environment, gathering mapping data for the space and objects found there. The system maps the user's environment, noting the locations and types of objects. Movement and wear simulations are performed on the mapped space advancing time to estimate the likelihood of damaging user/object interactions and the extents of any resulting damage, based on information in that map, the system notes potential problems and computes one or more micro-hazard scores reflecting the nature and severity of the potential problems. If a score so warrants, the system takes remedial action to address the micro-hazard, such as warning the user about the existence of the micro-hazard and potentially what to do about it and/or taking a direct action such as shutting off an electronic device.
US12062102B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to using secure authentication tokens to grant power of attorney. A computing platform may receive user input indicating a task and requesting that a power of attorney be granted to an individual. The computing platform may generate an authority token granting the individual the power of attorney to perform the task, and may send the authority token, along with task information indicating the task, to the individual. The computing platform may receive a validation request including the authority token and the task information. Based on successful validation, the computing platform may send validation information to an event processing system. After receiving confirmation that the task has been performed by the individual, the computing platform may update dashboard information to indicate that the task has been completed, which may cause the user device to display a dashboard indicating completion of the task.
US12062098B2
A method for protecting computing assets includes detecting a set of events in a networked computing environment using a set of event sensors distributed in the networked computing environment, determining a risk factor by applying the set of events to a detection model using an inference server in communication with the set of event sensors, and communicating the risk factor to an insurance server from the inference server.
US12062087B2
A system and method for dynamically discounting trade debt through the use of a forward auction is provided. In one example, a system that allows a seller to auction inventory to a plurality of bidders. According to this embodiment, the system may determine eligibility for acceptance of bids submitted by the bidders and a plurality of bids may be determined to be eligible for acceptance. Further, a margin by which the bids are acceptable may be determined and a representation of the margin may be communicated. In another example, a method is provided for discounting debt using an auction system. According to this embodiment, a seller may configure an auction event with auction parameters, such as hurdle rates, that will best serve the goals of the auction. The seller may alter event parameters while the event is ongoing, thus further enhancing the ability of the seller to meet auction objectives.
US12062084B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing programs and methods for performing operations comprising: receiving a request from a client device of a first user to engage in a shared virtual reality shopping experience with a second user; generating, for display on respective client devices of the first and second users, the shared virtual reality shopping experience comprising a plurality of virtual reality items that represent real-world products; receiving, from the client device of the second user, data indicating a selection of a first virtual reality item of the plurality of virtual reality items made by the second user; and modifying a display attribute of the first virtual item in the display of the shared virtual reality shopping experience on the client device of the first user to indicate the selection of the first virtual reality item made by the second user.
US12062082B2
A seller provides customers with the ability to order items using shipping benefits associated with a separate fulfillment entity, such as an online store, by providing inventory to a designated fulfilment location. When a customer accesses the webpage, identifiers for the customer device and item are used to determine an estimated delivery time the separate fulfillment entity may provide, which may be presented in a widget or other type of element within the webpage. In response to input to the element, the customer may be presented with a prompt for authentication data, and after a successful authentication, the estimated delivery time may be updated based on a location of the authenticated customer. In response to input confirming the transaction, an order for the item is generated by the separate fulfillment entity and the customer may continue navigating the seller website.
US12062077B2
A method and a system for providing a search result for similar products based on deep learning receive a search image including a product to be searched; search similar product images by performing deep learning based on the search image; when a plurality of the similar product images are searched, performing a first arrangement based on a target similarity for each of the plurality of similar product images; performing deep learning on the plurality of the similar product images, arranged based on the target similarity, based on one or more predetermined parameters; obtaining a mutual similarity representing a similarity between at least two of the plurality of similar product images by performing the deep learning based on the predetermined parameter; obtaining an integrated similarity for each of the plurality of similar product images based on the mutual similarity and the target similarity; performing a second arrangement by arranging the plurality of similar product images based on the integrated similarity; and providing the plurality of the similar product images arranged by the second arrangement.
US12062075B1
Systems and methods are provided for user interfaces and other improvements related to asset management. Asset and transaction data can be analyzed, including information about current assets and transaction arrangements. An alert can be generated when a replacement asset can be provided in transaction arrangements with improved transaction features. The replacement asset may be selected from an asset owner's actual or virtual inventory.
US12062073B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and an associated method to retrieve information related to marketplace items within an electronic environment are disclosed. A network architecture comprises a listing module to store the information related to the marketplace items. The related information includes one or more user-created items such as an image of a model with one or more tagged items worn by the model. Each of the one or more tagged items has associated descriptive metadata. A communications module is arranged to receive a query including search terms related to social fashion items from an end-user. A query engine is coupled to the communications module to match the search terms contained within the query to the associated descriptive metadata of the tagged items in the listing module. A processing module then displays to the end-user the model and the one or more tagged items.
US12062071B1
A method and system of inventorying and developing value for real property. An aerial photograph of a property to be inventoried and valued is obtained, an outline or outlines of the structure and its location on the property are identified, outlines of the structural sections of the property are mapped, a partial sketch of the outline of the structure is created, wherein the outline includes square footage estimates for each section, and is oriented with the front of the structure to the bottom of the page, and the information is integrated across multiple images and the structural type of each section of the structure is identified. The method and system rely on machine learning in order to increase the accuracy of the method and system.
US12062058B2
Analytical methods and systems applied to sequential event data are disclosed. An exemplary system and method analyzes datasets containing events in a plurality of journeys. The methods and systems described analyze and quantify the relative importance of events and sequences leading to outcomes where the data is complex and interconnected. In some embodiments, a graphical user interface illustrates the quantification of these datasets. In some embodiments, the graphical user interface maps the journey paths to show the relative importance of each journey path. In some embodiments, the maps of journey paths are interactive, allowing selection of paths of interest for detailed analysis. In some embodiments, the methods and systems calculate paths similar to a journey path of interest. An exemplary method and system also provides detailed recommendations for changing events within a sequence to either increase or decrease the likelihood of achieving a selected outcome.
US12062051B2
Methods and systems are presented for predicting a likelihood of an occurrence of an event, such as a dispute or a chargeback, associated with an electronic transaction based on monitoring user interactions of a user with one or more computing systems after the electronic transaction has been conducted. The electronic transaction may involve a purchase of a product and/or service from a merchant. After the transaction is conducted, user interactions of the user with the one or more computer systems, such as a website of the merchant involved in the transaction, a website of another merchant, and a website of a payment service provider may be monitored. A machine learning model may then be used to predict whether the event associated with the transaction will occur in the future based on the monitored user interactions.
US12062049B2
A method for sending a notification indicating fraud using a transaction authorization channel is described. Upon performing a fraud analysis on a first transaction previously authorized by an issuer of an account via the transaction authorization channel, a determination that the first transaction has indications of fraud is performed. In response to determining that the first transaction has indications of fraud, a transaction authorization request message for a second transaction is generated to include a billing descriptor field with data representing a notification of fraud on the account. The transaction authorization request message for the second transaction is sent, via the transaction authorization channel, to an electronic device associated with the issuer of the account so that it will modify the account to include a transaction entry for the second transaction that will be recognized as a fraud notification when an account holder of the account views pending transactions.
US12062045B2
Systems and methods for establishing trust between a conventional mobile application and a micro application are disclosed. In accordance with aspects, a method may include authenticating user credentials with a backend processing infrastructure of a provider of a mobile application, wherein the authenticating generates session information; receiving, at the mobile application, a uniform resource identifier (URI), wherein the URI includes the session information as a parameter of the URI; receiving, at the mobile application, a user-activation of the URI; receiving, at the backend processing infrastructure of the provider of the mobile application and from a backend processing infrastructure of a third party, the session information; verifying, by the backend processing infrastructure of the provider of the mobile application the session information; and sending, by the backend processing infrastructure of the provider of the mobile application and to the backend processing infrastructure of the third party, requested user information.
US12062038B2
Technology is disclosed for transferring money anonymously between a sender and a recipient by use of a one-time use token. The method includes generating a one-time use token account for association with a one-time use token. The method includes generating the token and providing the token to the sender device in a machine-readable and transferable format. The method includes receiving a request to charge the one-time use token account after the token has been provided to the recipient device as a form of payment for a transaction. The method includes determining that an amount of the transaction is less than an amount of funds associated with the token and that the time of the transaction is within a time period for the use of the token. The method includes facilitating a transfer to the recipient account and deducting the amount of the transaction from a sender account.
US12062030B2
A self-service point-of-sale (POS) terminal for a customer to register a commodity to be purchased in a store, includes an input device, a reading device configured to read a symbol on a commodity, a network interface configured to receive, from an external device operated by a store clerk or the like, instruction information that instructs output of caution information, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire commodity information about a commodity based on the symbol read by the reading device and register the commodity using the commodity information. Upon receipt of an input of completion of registration via the input device, the processor determines whether to proceed to payment processing for the registered commodity based on whether the instruction information has been received from the external device.
US12062016B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information; and processing the encounter information to generate an encounter transcript.
US12062015B2
A refrigerating or food storage appliance for receiving containers within the appliance for storing a substance, the appliance including a cabinet at least partially defining an interior with an access opening, a door movably mounted to the cabinet to selectively open/close the access opening and at least partially defining the interior when the door selectively closes the access opening, at least one thermal imaging device for obtaining thermal image data of at least one container within the interior, and a control unit receiving the thermal image data.
US12062010B2
A check-in system for an dispensing items includes a computing device having an application installed thereon. The computing device is configured to check in a customer to notify the kiosk of a time range during which an order of the customer is picked up. The kiosk is configured to receive a check-in message from the computing device, receive the location of the computing device, receive a message indicative of the arrival of the customer at the automated tower, retrieve information of the order from an order database stored on a remote server, assemble the order based on the check-in message and the information of the order, and move the assembled order close to a pick-up location of the automated tower to facilitate pick-up of the assembled order.
US12062009B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: generating a feasible dock-out plan designed to deliver one or more orders to one or more physical stores based on a feasible route plan by: generating a preliminary dock-out time boundary based on one or more delivery time windows; determining an earliest dock-out time based at least in part on the preliminary dock-out time boundary and a backward search; and determining a latest dock-out time based at least in part on the preliminary dock-out time boundary and a forward search; and transmitting a range of dock-out times comprising (i) the earliest dock-out time and (ii) the latest dock-out time to a user. Other embodiments are described.
US12062005B2
The present invention discloses a disruptive low capital and operational cost logistics system and method that provides for fast and massive delivery of e-commerce merchandise, including same day delivery, of thousands of items and packages, in extensive geographical areas, such as whole states, countries and continents, reducing the need for building, operating, or using multiple fulfillment warehouses located near the consumers as in traditional e-commerce logistics, creating a revolution in the e-commerce industry worldwide.
In a disruptive manner, the systems and methods of the present invention facilitate the logistics for e-commerce delivery processes, and also may allow at the same time reducing the use of massive quantities of cardboard packages that are used for protection and containment for e-commerce orders, being sustainably beneficial for the e-commerce market, the environment, and the consumer. This is achieved by the use of multibox packages that are configured to contain a set of products including orders from different consumers and not necessarily having individual packages for individual consumers, where such multibox packages are sorted at the origin in a Central Fulfillment Center.
US12062000B2
An information providing apparatus includes: a use status information acquirer that acquires information indicating use status of each of multiple toilet devices; a use status information provider that provides information indicating use status of each of the multiple toilet devices, acquired by the use status information acquirer; and a cleaning order provider that determines and provides order in which the multiple toilet devices are to be cleaned by a cleaning person, based on the use status of each of the multiple toilet devices.
US12061994B2
An inference process visualization system is configured to generate inference process visualization data for a medical scan indicating an inference process flow of plurality of sub-models applied to the medical scan and further indicating a plurality of inference data for the medical scan generated by applying the plurality of sub-models in accordance with the inference process flow. The inference process visualization system is further configured to facilitate display of the inference process visualization data via an interactive interface.
US12061992B2
A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system. The computer processes include receiving a set of items of information from a computing device operated on behalf of the specific user; for each item of information in the received set of items, obtaining, as a result of parsing the received set of items, new information; using the new information, and other user information stored in association with an internal account of the specific user, to produce derived information; and storing the new information and the derived information, in a storage system in communication with the server system, and associating such stored item of information with an internal account of the specific user.
US12061990B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for static scheduling a neural network implemented in a massively parallel hardware system. The neural network may be scheduled using three different scheduling levels referred to herein as an upper level, an intermediate level, and a lower level. In one embodiment, the upper level includes a hardware or software model of the layers in the neural network that establishes a sequential order of functions that operate concurrently in the hardware system. In the intermediate level, identical processes in the functions defined in the upper level are connected to form a systolic array or mesh and balanced data flow channels are used to minimize latency. In the lower level, a compiler can assign the operations performed by the processing elements in the systolic array to different portions of the hardware system to provide a static schedule for the neural network.
US12061978B2
An artificial neuron unit and neural network for processing of input light are described. The artificial neuron unit comprises a modal mixing unit, such as multimode optical fiber, configured for receiving input light and applying selected mixing to light components of two or more modes within the input light and for providing exit light, and a filtering unit configured for applying preselected filter onto said exit light for selecting one or more modes of the exit light thereby providing output light of the artificial neuron unit.
US12061972B2
A hardware implementation of a neural network and a method of processing data in such a hardware implementation are disclosed. Input data for a plurality of layers of the network is processed in blocks, to generate respective blocks of output data. The processing proceeds depth-wise through the plurality of layers, evaluating all layers of the plurality of layers for a given block, before proceeding to the next block.
US12061971B2
Systems, methods and apparatus of predictive maintenance of automotive engines. For example, a vehicle has an engine, at least one microphone directed to the engine to sense audio signals including sound emitting from the engine, an artificial neural network configured to analyze the audio signals to generate a result, and at least one processor configured to generate a suggestion for a maintenance service of the engine based on the result from the artificial neural network analyzing the audio signals.
US12061964B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an agent. One of the methods includes sampling a behavior modulation in accordance with a current probability distribution; for each of one or more time steps: processing an input comprising an observation characterizing a current state of the environment at the time step using an action selection neural network to generate a respective action score for each action in a set of possible actions that can be performed by the agent; modifying the action scores using the sampled behavior modulation; and selecting the action to be performed by the agent at the time step based on the modified action scores; determining a fitness measure corresponding to the sampled behavior modulation; and updating the current probability distribution over the set of possible behavior modulations using the fitness measure corresponding to the behavior modulation.
US12061963B1
Techniques for automated machine learning (ML) pipeline exploration and deployment are described. An automated ML pipeline generation system allows users to easily construct optimized ML pipelines by providing a dataset, identifying a target column in the dataset, and providing an exploration budget. Multiple candidate ML pipelines can be identified and evaluated through an exploration process, and a best ML pipeline can be provided to the requesting user or deployed for production inference. Users can configure, monitor, and adapt the exploration at multiple points in time throughout.
US12061957B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for distributed machine learning (ML) training using heterogeneous compute nodes in a heterogeneous computing environment, where the heterogeneous compute nodes are connected to a master node via respective wireless links. ML computations are performed by individual heterogeneous compute nodes on respective training datasets, and a master combines the outputs of the ML computations obtained from individual heterogeneous compute nodes. The ML computations are balanced across the heterogeneous compute nodes based on knowledge of network conditions and operational constraints experienced by the heterogeneous compute nodes. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12061952B2
Using a model executing on a classical processor, a set of classical features is scored. The scored set of classical features is divided into a set of feature groups, a number of classical features in a group determined according to a qubit capability of a quantum processor. Using a model executing on the quantum processor and a group of the scored set of classical features, a set of quantum features is scored. The score of a quantum feature is adjusted according to an accuracy of the quantum data model. The scored set of classical features and the scored set of quantum features are combined according to a measure of differences between the scored set of classical features and the scored set of quantum features. Using the combined set of scored features and a first set of input data of a resource, a valuation of a resource is calculated.
US12061946B2
A low-cost, multi-function adhesive tape platform with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates one or more transducers and one or more wireless communication devices in an adhesive product system. In an aspect, the adhesive product system integrates transducer and wireless communication components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the constituent components but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various applications and workflows, including sensing, notification, security, and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.
US12061945B1
An illuminable metal card includes a metal member, an electrically non-conductive surround member having an opening, the metal member is disposed in the opening, and the metal member and surround member define at least a portion of an inlay. The card further includes electrically conductive first and second contact rails, spaced apart from one another on a side of and in non-contact relation to the metal member, for receiving an electrical signal, and an illuminable patch, located on the first side of and in non-contact relation to the metal member, for electrical coupling with the first and second contact pads to illuminate upon receipt of an electrical signal at the first and second contact rails. The card may include at least one antenna to receive a contactless signal.
US12061944B1
De-duplicating redundant data for data aggregation is described herein. In an example, a computing device receives first data identifying first items. The computing device determines that a first data portion and a second data portion indicate that a same item is detected to be within a location. The computing device generates second data by removing the second data portion from the first data. The computing device determines, based on a query to a data store storing previously stored data identifying second items, that (i) a no match exists between the first data portion and the previously stored data, (ii) a match exists between a third data portion of the second data and the previously stored data. The computing device generates a count of items detected within the location by incrementing a previous count based on the no match and by foregoing a count increment based on the match.
US12061934B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for adaptively allocating processing operations according to an edge-only processing mode, a hybrid edge-cloud processing mode, and/or cloud-only processing mode, but are not so limited. In one aspect, the disclosure describes adaptively managing processing of applications or application modules by using machine learning in part to direct how the processing operations are to be performed whether using edge-only resources, hybrid edge-cloud resources, and/or cloud-only resources. Other aspects are described in detail herein.
US12061931B2
Performance of a computing device can be optimized in a mixed workload environment. A management service can be configured to capture telemetry data from web applications or containerized applications and use such telemetry data to detect a scenario. Based on the detected scenario, the management service can select optimized performance settings and cause the optimized performance settings to be applied within the browser or container in which the application is deployed. Machine learning techniques can be employed to detect and define optimized performance settings for a particular scenario.
US12061930B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement software defined silicon feature licensing are disclosed. Example licensor systems disclosed herein includes a third party verifier to verify one or more credentials included in a request to become an authorized delegated licensor, the request received from a third party. Disclosed example licensor systems also include a feature identifier to identify a feature of a silicon structure which the third party is to be granted the authority to license. Disclosed example licensor systems further include a configuration installation code generator to generate feature configuration installation code, the feature configuration installation code to be used by the third party to generate at least a portion of the license, the portion of the license to be used by a licensee to configure the silicon structure to access the licensed feature, and contents of the feature configuration installation code encrypted to prevent access by the authorized delegated licensor.
US12061928B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for cloud-based job scheduling and management. A method may include receiving, by at least one serverless processor of a cloud-based network, data from a first interface. The method may include determining, based on the data, a first activity and a second activity, the first activity associated with a first service of the cloud-based network, and the second activity associated with a second service of the cloud-based network. The method may include determining, based on the data, a precondition associated with causing execution of the first activity and the second activity. The method may include determining that an event associated with the cloud-based network has occurred, and generating an instance associated with causing performance of the first activity and the second activity. The method may include discarding the instance after performance of the first activity and the second activity.
US12061914B2
In examples, a system for using interchangeable non-compute resources is provided. The system includes at least one processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to: receive a first key corresponding to a first non-compute resource, define a first connection with the first non-compute resource based on the first key, receive a second key corresponding to a second non-compute resource, define a second connection with the second non-compute resource based on the second key, receive an indication corresponding to a selection of the first non-compute resource, and configure the system to interface with the first non-compute resource at a deployment of a generated application.
US12061903B2
Static analysis of a code base is expanded beyond finding faults to also find code instances where a particular fault could have occurred but did not. A conformance count reflects code portions that satisfy a specified coding rule per static analysis, and a nonconformance count reflects code portions that do not satisfy the coding rule. Various metrics computed from the conformance count and nonconformance count drive software development quality assessments. For example, bugs or bug categories may be prioritized for developer attention, static analysis tools are evaluated based on the metrics, to reduce noise by eliminating low-value bug alerts. Particular areas of expertise of developers and developer groups are objectively identified. Source code editors are enhanced to provide specific recommendations in context. Other quality enhancements are also provided.
US12061902B1
A text editor or a plugin thereto automatically generates authorship tokens to identify content authored by a human author or an artificial author. The authorship tokens are applied to the work while the work is being produced. Thus, subsequent review of the work can identify regions produced by a human author and other regions produced by an artificial intelligence.
US12061898B2
A method of adaptably allowing an upgrade to firmware or a configuration of target endpoint hardware to be at least one of replaced or modified by way of instructions generated by a patch generator and executed by target endpoint hardware to generate an upgrade file, install the upgrade file, and audit the installation of the upgrade file is disclosed.
US12061886B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for transliterating reasoning graphs and using the same to determine insights.
US12061883B2
A system and method of user interface modification, and more particularly a system and method of automatically modifying a user interface to improve the quantitative evaluation of the user interface.
US12061881B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing object-oriented infrastructure-as-code platform (“OOIACP”) and its functionalities. In various embodiments, an OOIACP may receive a request to perform a function from a requesting device. The OOIACP includes a declarative configuration language (“DCL”)-based infrastructure-as-code (“IAC”) software tool that provides structure and data functionalities and a wrapper tool that provides algorithm and sequence functionalities to the IAC software tool to convert the IAC software tool into an object-oriented programming (“OOP”)-based IAC system. The OOIACP uses a run command to perform the requested function, by identifying classes within a class hierarchy associated with the requested function, and initiating a set of procedures in each identified class. Each class and subclass within the class hierarchy has one or more predefined class behaviors, and each subclass inherits class behaviors of classes to which it belongs and of any intermediate subclasses.
US12061870B2
This disclosure enables various technologies that can (1) learn new synonyms for a given concept without manual curation techniques, (2) relate (e.g., map) some, many, most, or all raw named entity recognition outputs (e.g., “United States”, “United States of America”) to ontological concepts (e.g., ISO-3166 country code: “USA”), (3) account for false positives from a prior named entity recognition process, or (4) aggregate some, many, most, or all named entity recognition results from machine learning or rules based approaches to provide a best of breed hybrid approach (e.g., synergistic effect).
US12061869B2
A text correction method and apparatus can take advantage of a greatly reduced number of error-ground truth pairs to train a deep learning model. To generate these error-ground truth pairs, different characters in a ground truth word are replaced with a symbol, not appearing in any ground truth words, to generate error words which are paired with that ground truth word to provide error-ground truth word pairs. This process may be repeated for all ground truth words for which training is to be performed. In embodiments, pairs of characters in a ground truth word may be replaced with a symbol to generate the error words which are paired with that ground truth word to provide error-ground truth word pairs. Again, this process may be repeated for all ground truth words for which training is to be performed.
US12061868B2
Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for automatically calculating predicted values using deep learning models. One or more input forms having a plurality of input form field values are received. The input form field values are automatically parsed into a set of computer-generated candidate standard field values. The set of candidate standard field values are automatically normalized into a data frame having a set of normalized field values. In response to determining which portions of the data frame to apply to a line calculation neural network, a corresponding line calculation neural network is applied. At least one output form line calculation is performed. A natural language explanation regarding the at least one output form line calculation is generated. Additional user provided inputs are received in response to the natural language explanation, and at least one remaining calculation is carried out based on the one or more additional user provided inputs.
US12061861B2
Solutions for custom display post processing (DPP) in speech recognition (SR) use a customized multi-stage DPP pipeline that transforms a stream of SR tokens from lexical form to display form. A first transformation stage of the DPP pipeline receives the stream of tokens, in turn, by an upstream filter, a base model stage, and a downstream filter, and transforms a first aspect of the stream of tokens (e.g., disfluency, inverse text normalization (ITN), capitalization, etc.) from lexical form into display form. The upstream filter and/or the downstream filter alter the stream of tokens to change the default behavior of the DPP pipeline into custom behavior. Additional transformation stages of the DPP pipeline perform further transforms, allowing for outputting final text in a display format that is customized for a specific user. This permits each user to efficiently leverage a common baseline DPP pipeline to produce a custom output.
US12061859B2
Various embodiments support or provide for binding markdown data content to an action. In particular, some embodiments provide a document editor for binding an action to content of a document, such as a markdown document. Such embodiments can enable a user to edit or generate a document using markdown syntax that links and binds the document to metadata, which enables some embodiments to enhance the content the document beyond what standard markdown permits, such as a user invokable action.
US12061852B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for environment mapping is provided. The present invention may include generating a digital twin, wherein the digital twin is a digital representation of a smart building. The present invention may include applying the digital twin to a second building. The present invention may include providing an implementation assessment, wherein the implementation assessment includes at least the environmental impact of preferences of a user in the second building.
US12061848B2
A system for simulating and implementing lighting scenarios for driving a horticultural light source in accordance with illumination instructions. The system comprises: an input module receiving simulation parameters; a graphical user interface for selecting, creating, editing, re-ordering, duplicating and/or replicating a virtual lighting scenario; a lamp profile acquisition module acquiring a reference profile of the light source and generating virtual illumination instructions for the virtual lighting scenario; a scenario simulation module simulating the execution of the virtual lighting scenario, for the horticultural light source, in accordance with the simulation parameters and for a specific time period and generating therefrom simulation results including integral indicators displayable on the graphical user interface; and an output module receiving a designated lighting scenario selected based on the simulation results and outputting the illumination instructions representative of the designated scenario. A method for simulating and implementing lighting scenarios is also provided.
US12061847B2
Techniques are discussed herein for executing log-based driving simulations to evaluate the performance and functionalities of vehicle control systems. A simulation system may execute a log-based driving simulation including playback agents whose behavior is based on the log data captured by a vehicle operating in an environment. The simulation system may determine interactions associated with the playback agents, and may convert the playback agents to smart agents during the driving simulation. During a driving simulation, playback agents that have been converted to smart agents may interact with additional playback agents, causing a cascading effect of additional conversions. Converting playback agents to smart agents may include initiating a planning component to control the smart agent, which may be based on determinations of a destination and/or driving attributes based on the playback agent.
US12061846B2
Performing a test simulation for an autonomous vehicle may include receiving a system under test (SUT) from a user, the system under test comprising a sensor, sensor control, vehicle control logic, or other aspect of an autonomous vehicle, and providing options for the remaining aspects of the simulation from which the user may choose. The user may indicate a variable parameter, and respective simulations may be performed for a plurality of values of the variable parameter to determine values of the parameter for which the SUT functions as desired, and values of the variable parameter for which the SUT does not function as desired. Separate container instances of the simulation engine and separate respective container instances of the SUT may be created for each simulation, with each engine container instance calling to a respective SUT container.
US12061845B2
An industrial CAD system is supplemented with features that allow a developer to easily convert a mechanical CAD model of an automation system to a dynamic digital twin capable of simulation within a simulation platform. The features allow the user to label selected elements of a mechanical CAD drawing with “aspects” within the CAD environment. These aspect markups label the selected mechanical elements as being specific types of industrial assets or control elements. Based on these markups, the CAD platform associates mechatronic metadata with the selected elements based on the type of aspect with which each element is labeled. This mechatronic metadata defines the behavior (e.g., movements, speeds, forces, etc.) of the selected element within the context of a virtual simulation, transforming the mechanical CAD model into a dynamic digital twin that can be exported to a simulation and testing platform.
US12061840B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic volume adjustment via audio classification. Example apparatus include at least one memory; instructions; and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: analyze, with a neural network, a parameter of an audio signal associated with a first volume level to determine a classification group associated with the audio signal; determine an input volume of the audio signal; determine a classification gain value based on the classification group; determine an intermediate gain value as an intermediate between the input volume and the classification gain value by applying a first weight to the input volume and a second weight to the classification gain value; apply the intermediate gain value to the audio signal, the intermediate gain value to modify the first volume level to a second volume level; and apply a compression value to the audio signal, the compression value to modify the second volume level to a third volume level that satisfies a target volume threshold.
US12061831B2
In accordance with some embodiments, the render rate is varied across and/or up and down the display screen. This may be done based on where the user is looking in order to reduce power consumption and/or increase performance. Specifically the screen display is separated into regions, such as quadrants. Each of these regions is rendered at a rate determined by at least one of what the user is currently looking at, what the user has looked at in the past and/or what it is predicted that the user will look at next. Areas of less focus may be rendered at a lower rate, reducing power consumption in some embodiments.
US12061830B1
The invention disclosed provides a novel solution to the problems of the prior art. The device provides a low-cost active display system capable of use in many free-standing configurations. The device incorporates a modular design that has both reusable and non-reusable elements. The modular design further accommodates specially designed display screens which are electronically modified to match different battery configurations to maximize battery life. The device incorporates various sensors to recognize certain ambient conditions, customer proximity and customer approach direction. In one embodiment, the display largely remains dormant until a first long range trigger signal is detected, at which time the device reactivates the modified display and a second short range trigger signal is detected which then retrieves content from the memory to display it. The result is drastically extended battery life and reduced maintenance cost.
US12061828B2
An information processing apparatus includes a saving process unit configured to save, in a storage area, a first print job generated with a first printing apparatus specified and a second print job generated with a second printing apparatus different from the first printing apparatus specified, and a display control unit configured to display, in a case where a third print job including identification information corresponding to the first printing apparatus is received in a state where the first and second print jobs are saved in the storage area, a screen that includes a job name of the received third print job and a job name of the first print job and does not include a job name of the second print job.
US12061826B2
A printer may include a print executing unit. The printer may, in a case where a predetermined operation is accepted from a user of the printer, cause the print executing unit to execute a print preparation action; and in a case where the print preparation action is executed by the print executing unit, display on a display unit a promotion message for prompting subscription to a service related to the printer.
US12061823B2
A method for enabling a customer service representative (CSR) to review a print job including a digital graphics file for printing. The CSR receives an incoming electronic communication containing job instructions with the file attached, selects a job instruction preset from the user interface, and initiates preflighting of the file based upon the presets and the printing system. The user interface includes a display screen having a plurality of areas displaying information about the graphics file and annotations relating to results of the preflighting operation, a page of the job, selectable thumbnail images for the job pages, and selectable presets. If preflighting identifies problems, a prepopulated outgoing electronic communication communicating the problems is created and sent to the customer. If no problems are identified, the job instructions and digital graphics file are saved, and an automatic notification is sent to a prepress operation address indicating the job is ready.
US12061822B1
Utilizing volume-level policies in a storage system, including: identifying, for each of a plurality of volumes, one or more characteristics associated with usage of the volume; associating, using the one or more characteristics associated with the usage of the volume, one or more storage system policies with the volume; and configuring, using the one or more storage system policies that are associated with the volume, the storage system.
US12061818B2
A storage device set includes a storage device configured to communicate with a host, the storage device including a controller configured to generate encrypted input data by encrypting data; and a reconfigurable logic chip configured to receive the encrypted input data from the storage device, generate processed data by processing the encrypted input data according to a configuration, and generate encrypted output data by encrypting the processed data.
US12061816B2
A storage system performing an overwrite, a host system controlling the storage system, and an operating method of the storage system, wherein the storage system includes a memory device; and a controller that receives new data and an overwrite request from the host system, wherein the overwrite request includes a first logical address for old data and a second logical address for the new data, and performs an overwrite operation by writing the new data corresponding to the second logical address to the memory device and invalidating the old data corresponding to the first logical address according to the overwrite request.
US12061815B2
A method for locating a hard disk applied in a server which governs many hard disks including some making use of one HD slot by an expander customizes the SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) custom page of an expander of a JBOD device, and obtains and stores information of the JBOD device through the expander. The server further obtains information of a hard disk to be located, and obtains information of the JBOD device hosting the hard disk to be located according to the information of the hard disk to be located.
US12061814B2
A storage system performs garbage collection, with data compression, in storage memory. The system obtains hash results from data segments. The system determines similarity of content of data segments, based on the hash results. The system performs data compression of live data of two or more data segments that have similarity of content meeting a similarity threshold. The system writes the compressed live data of the two or more data segments into the storage memory.
US12061806B2
A second read command to read second data from an array of memory cells is detected. An initial voltage to be applied to at least one wordline coupled to at least a subset of the array of memory cells is caused prior to releasing a first data associated with a first read command stored in a page buffer. The initial voltage to increase to a target value is caused. The page buffer to sense the second data from a bitline coupled to a page of the subset of the array of memory cells is caused. The sensed second data out of the bitline into the page buffer is read responsive to determining that the first data has been released from the page buffer.
US12061801B2
The present invention provides a method for accessing a secure digital (SD) card, which includes a voltage supply pin for receiving voltage supply from a host, at least one ground pin, a clock pin for receiving a clock signal from a host, a command pin for receiving a command from a host, and four data pins for writing data into the SD card or reading data from the SD card. The method includes receiving, via the command pin, an address extension command including a first address from a host, receiving, via the command pin, an access command including a second address from a host, and accessing, via the data pins, at least a memory location of the SD card indicated by a third address, which is a combination of the first address and the second address. The access command indicates an access operation to be performed on the SD card selected from: a single read operation, a single write operation, a multiple read operation, a multiple write operation and an erase operation.
US12061799B1
The present disclosure provides a memory device, comprising a memory array having memory cells, a page buffer coupled to the memory array through bit lines. The page buffer comprises a latch, and a control logic coupled to the page buffer and configured to: perform a first read operation on the memory cells; select, from the memory cells, a first plurality of memory cells in a first state and a second plurality of memory cells in a second state, based on the first read operation; perform a second read operation on the first plurality of memory cells; select, from the first plurality of memory cells, a third plurality of memory cells based on the second read operation; perform a third read operation on the third plurality of memory cells; and determine a read develop time based on the third read operation.
US12061797B1
A method includes rebuilding an appended encoded data slice of a set of appended encoded data slices stored in a set of storage units of a storage network to produce a rebuilt appended encoded data slice, where the appended encoded data slice includes an encoded data slice of a set of encoded data slices and slice integrity check value information, where the slice integrity check value information includes a slice integrity check value for the encoded data slice, and where the encoded data slice is hashed to produce the slice integrity check value. The method further includes generating current slice integrity check value information for the rebuilt appended encoded data slice. The method further includes verifying the current slice integrity check value information corresponds to the slice integrity check value information. When verified, the method includes storing the rebuilt appended encoded data slice.
US12061774B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing contextual data for candidate recipients. The program and method provide for receiving, from a device of a user, an indication of first user input to select recipients for a message generated by the user; in response to receiving the indication of first user input, determining a first set of candidate recipients, from among plural candidate recipients, having a respective active content collection associated therewith, and determining a second set of candidate recipients having available location data associated therewith; and causing the device to display a recipient selection interface with a respective cell for each candidate recipient. The recipient selection interface differentiates display of the respective cells for the first set of candidate recipients, and further differentiates display of the respective cells for the second set of candidate recipients.
US12061757B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus with integrated touch screen and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus, which prevent short circuit between touch electrodes. The display apparatus with integrated touch screen including a light emitting layer disposed on a substrate, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting layer, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation and spaced apart from each other, and an upper PAC layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes. The upper PAC layer is patterned to be disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes.
US12061752B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes initiating a virtual assistant session responsive to receiving user input. In accordance with initiating the virtual assistant session, the process includes determining, based on data obtained using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied prior to a first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session prior to the first time. The first time is defined by a setting of the electronic device. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are not satisfied prior to the first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session at the first time.
US12061751B2
An example of an information processing system determines a shear parameter including shear direction components in at least two directions and a moment parameter including moment direction components with respect to at least two axes, the shear parameter and the moment parameter relating to a user operation on an operation handler. Then, the example of the information processing system, based on a first input that is one of the shear parameter and the moment parameter, executes first control, and based on a second input that is the other of the shear parameter and the moment parameter, executes second control.
US12061744B2
A gesture-based device activation system is provided. The system may include a user computing device and a gesture application operable on the user computing device. The system may operate to allow the user computing device to capture gestures performed by a user, wherein the gestures are associated with user selected device functionality. The gestures performed by the user result in operation of the user computing device in accordance with the gestures and functions previously entered and stored by the user.
US12061743B2
Techniques for fusing hand pose data associated with a user's hand with handheld device pose data associated with a handheld device. In some embodiments, both of a user's hands are utilized in embodiments described herein. The hand pose data including a position of the hand within a reference frame is captured using a hand pose sensor. The handheld device pose data including a position of the handheld device within the reference frame is captured using a handheld device pose sensor. A pose discrepancy between the hand pose data and the handheld device pose data is determined, the pose discrepancy including at least a position discrepancy between the position of the hand and the position of the handheld device. A fusion operation is performed based on the pose discrepancy.
US12061742B2
A display device includes: a first display unit that displays a first image at a remote position; a second display unit that displays a second image and a third image at a position different from a position of the first image, the third image having luminance different from luminance of the second image; a detection unit that detects an operation performed by a user with respect to the first image; and a display control unit that adjusts a display mode for at least either one of the first image displayed by the first display unit and the second image displayed by the second display unit, based upon the operation detected by the detection unit.
US12061740B2
A tactile stimulation presentation device 1 includes a measurement unit 11 configured to measure a first physical quantity with respect to a tactile sensation applied to a first region of a human body, a control unit 12 configured to convert the first physical quantity into a second physical quantity of a different type from the first physical quantity, and a presentation unit 13 configured to apply the second physical quantity to a second region different from the first region.
US12061735B2
A head-mountable device and/or another electronic device can provide guidance for optimal placement of the head-mountable device. The head-mountable device and/or another electronic device can be operated to guide a user to position the head-mountable device in a manner that will achieve proper alignment of components with respect to the user and maximize user comfort. For example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can include sensors for detecting features of the user's face, forces distributed on the face when worn, and/or alignment with the face (e.g., eyes). By further example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can detect changes in adjustment and infer user discomfort based on the frequency and/or magnitude of such changes. By further example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can detect changes in features of the user's face before, during, and/or after use of the head-mountable device.
US12061734B2
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display control unit that causes a display device to display a mark for a virtual object at an instruction position that is a position determined on the basis of a plurality of directions indicated by a user.
US12061725B2
An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus; and a server, in which the server acquires data to be processed from the information processing apparatus and executes processing on the data, and the information processing apparatus transmits the data to be processed to the server as a first job, and acquires data of a processing result for the data to be processed, which is transmitted to the server in the first job, as a second job different from the first job.
US12061720B2
Provided is a closed-loop, referral-based, information-exchange in which end-users control, and in some cases can be rewarded for divulging, their personal information.
US12061718B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods of identifying and managing sensitive information. The method can include detecting data entered into a form on a user interface, and generating, by a natural language understanding model, comprehension data based on the data entered into the form. The method can include determining, by a machine learning model, a risk score of the data and determining whether the risk score is greater than or equal to a threshold risk score. In response to determining that the risk score is greater than or equal to the threshold risk score, the method can include outputting a message to the user interface to alert a user that the data likely comprises sensitive information. The method can include receiving an input from the user interface indicative of whether the data comprises sensitive information and storing the data, the risk score, and the input in a database.
US12061711B2
A method at a computing system is described. The method comprises receiving on behalf of a user a request for information, determining access credentials of the user, and based at least on the access credentials, identifying a first portion of the information that the user has permission to access, and a second portion of the information that the user does not have permission to access. The method further comprises obtaining synthesized data configured to replace at least part of the second portion of the information, the synthesized data being different than the second portion of information, relevant to the request, and not including any information that the user does not have permission to access, and providing a data set for access by the user, the data set including the first portion of the information and the synthesized data.
US12061705B2
A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions readable and executable by a first computer (14) to perform an image processing method (100, 200, 400). The method includes: encrypting image data portions to generate encrypted image data portions; transmitting the encrypted image data portions from the first computer to a second server (16) different from the first computer; decrypting encrypted processed image data portions received at the first computer from the second server to produce processed image data portions and generating a processed image from the processed image data portions; and controlling a display device (24) to display the processed image or storing the processed image in a database (30).
US12061704B2
A vulnerability management method acquires, during an OS runtime of an information handling system, vulnerability information indicating potentially vulnerable resources of the system. Disclosed methods calculate a vulnerability determination code (VDC) based on the vulnerability information. The VDC may indicate a scan zone that includes one or more scan zone components. Each component may correspond to a region of a potentially vulnerable resource. After a system reset, disclosed methods may perform a vulnerability aware (VA) boot sequence. The VA boot sequence may include, prior to booting a runtime operating system, determining, in accordance with the vulnerability information, whether to perform a comprehensive vulnerability detection (CVD) boot. A CVD boot refers to a boot sequence configured to boot a distinct operating system dedicated to performing a targeted vulnerability assessment that includes scanning the scan zone components indicated by the VDC. This dedicated OS may be implemented as an embedded OS (EOS).
US12061702B2
This document describes systems and techniques for deriving identity and root keys for embedded systems. In aspects, a boot process and key manager of an embedded system may implement a secure or trusted boot process for embedded systems in which code of next-level boot loader or software image is verified using root keys or other protected information before execution of the boot process is passed to the next stage in the boot process. Alternatively or additionally, the key manager may enable sealing and attestation of various levels of root and identity keys to enable respective verification of software or hardware throughout a life cycle of a device to prevent unauthorized access to protected or private code of an embedded system. By so doing, the described aspects may enable an embedded system with a secure boot process and robust identity and root key management system.
US12061699B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that reduce vulnerability of software systems (e.g., machine-learned models) to adversarial attacks by increasing variety within the software system. In particular, a software system can include a number of subcomponents that interoperate using predefined interfaces. To increase variety within the software system, multiple, different versions of one or more of the subcomponents of the software system can be generated. In particular, the different versions of the subcomponent(s) can be different from each other in some way, while still remaining functionally equivalent (e.g., able to perform the same functions with comparable accuracy/success). A plurality of different variants of the software system can be constructed by mixing and matching different versions of the subcomponents. A large amount of variety can be exhibited by the variants of the software system deployed at a given time, thereby leading to increased robustness against adversarial attacks.
US12061698B2
This application discloses a method and device for determining a malicious file. The method includes: whether a plurality of received file blocks meet a preset condition is judged. Herein, the plurality of file blocks are file blocks of a file to be detected, and the preset condition at least includes: a size condition of each of the plurality of file blocks and a sorting condition of each of the plurality of file blocks. When the plurality of file blocks do not meet the preset condition, a Hash eigenvalue of at least one header file block is calculated, wherein the at least one header file block is at least one file block cached in a device cache area according to the order of the file blocks. The plurality of file blocks are divided into subfiles with a preset quantity, and the Hash eigenvalue unrelated to the order of each subfile is calculated. Whether or not the file to be detected is the malicious file is judged based on the Hash eigenvalue of the at least one header file block and the Hash eigenvalue unrelated to the order of each subfile. Through this application, the problem that the file to be detected is difficult to be detected as the malicious file when the device has no enough space to cache all file blocks of the file to be detected in the related art is solved.
US12061692B2
Methods and systems for fingerprinting a malicious behavior. In a first stage of training, a coarse machine learning one-class classifier is trained to detect a first dataset of events, the first dataset of events including a dataset of events representing a malicious behavior and a dataset of events representing non-malicious behavior and a benign machine learning one-class classifier is trained to detect a second dataset of events, the second dataset of events excluding the dataset of events representing malicious activity. An ensemble of models including the benign and coarse machine learning one-class classifiers is applied to the first dataset of events to create a third training set representing the malicious behavior for a second stage of training. A final machine learning one-class classifier is trained in the second stage of training using the third training set. The final machine learning one-class classifier represents a fingerprint of the malicious behavior.
US12061686B2
A system is disclosed for pre-registering authentication devices. A security key provider system may receive a request to pre-register a security key with identified applications from an enterprise. Responsive to receiving the request, the security key provider system instructs the security key to generate a unique authentication code for each of the applications. The security key provider system may generate pre-registration information based on the authentication codes and pre-register the authentication codes of the security key to the applications by providing the pre-registration information to the applications on behalf of the enterprise. The security key provider system may instead provide the pre-registration information to the enterprise to allow the enterprise to pre-register the authentication codes.
US12061684B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a computing device in a locked state, input of a first PIN; determining that the first PIN is associated with a first cryptographic key that is stored in a memory; responsive to determining that the first PIN is associated with the first cryptographic key, retrieving, from the memory, an encrypted form of a first credential that is associated with the first cryptographic key; recovering the first credential from the encrypted form using the first cryptographic key; and causing the computing device to be unlocked using the recovered first credential.
US12061679B2
This invention of Smart LOTO solves frequent safety violation of “Lock Out Tag Out” practice. While the violations often caused by poor human behavior of forgetting or ignoring the LOTO practice during maintenance, the Smart LOTO equipped with the following method and system to eliminate the human error: S1: Smart LOTO monitors the off signal from the energy source switch; S2: when Smart LOTO confirmed the energy source switch is in off position, the biometric data such as fingerprint or face recognition will be compared between the personnel who triggered and the data in the system, once authenticated, the self-locking mechanism will be activated to lock up the switch. S3: Smart LOTO will then upload Information such as Who, When, where, How Long wirelessly to the cloud platform for analysis purpose. This invention can enhance the overall safety aspect of the LOTO practice.
US12061677B2
A secure processor, comprising a logic execution unit configured to process data based on instructions; a communication interface unit, configured to transfer of the instructions and the data, and metadata tags accompanying respective instructions and data; a metadata processing unit, configured to enforce specific restrictions with respect to at least execution of instructions, access to resources, and manipulation of data, selectively dependent on the received metadata tags; and a control transfer processing unit, configured to validate a branch instruction execution and an entry point instruction of each control transfer, selectively dependent on the respective metadata tags.
US12061674B2
Examples relate to an evaluation device for re-identification and to a corresponding method, system and computer program. The evaluation device comprises processing circuitry being configured to obtain a plurality of transformed re-identification codes, each transformed re-identification code being associated with a timestamp and location information. Each transformed re-identification code is based on a similarity-preserving transformation of a re-identification code that represents at least a portion of a sample of media data, the media data originating from two or more different sources located in two or more different locations. The processing circuitry is configured to match transformed re-identification codes among the plurality of transformed re-identification codes using a similarity metric to generate one or more tuples of transformed re-identification codes that are similar according to the similarity metric. The processing circuitry is configured to determine one or more sequences of locations associated with the transformed re-identification codes of the one or more tuples of transformed re-identification codes based on the timestamps and location information associated with the transformed re-identification codes of the respective tuple. The processing circuitry is configured to provide information on the one or more sequences of locations.
US12061673B1
Described is a system for controlling multiple autonomous platforms. A training process is performed to produce a trained learning agent in a simulation environment. In each episode, each controlled platform is assigned to one target platform that produces an observation. A learning agent processes the observation using a deep learning network and produces an action corresponding to each controlled platform until an action has been produced for each controlled platform. A reward value is obtained corresponding to the episode. The trained learning agent is executed to control each autonomous platform, where the trained agent receives one or more observations from one or more platform sensors and produces an action based on the one or more observations. The action is then used to control one or more platform actuators.
US12061671B2
In some aspects, techniques for creating representative and informative training datasets for the training of machine-learning models are provided. For example, a risk assessment system can receive a risk assessment query for a target entity. The risk assessment system can compute an output risk indicator for the target entity by applying a machine learning model to values of informative attributes associated with the target entity. The machine learning model may be trained using training samples selected from a representative and informative (RAI) dataset. The RAI dataset can be created by determining the informative attributes based on attributes used by a set of models and further extracting representative data records from an initial training dataset based on the determined informative attributes. The risk assessment system can transmit a responsive message including the output risk indicator for use in controlling access of the target entity to an interactive computing environment.
US12061660B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for recovering a hyperlink. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining an invoked hyperlink from a user. The hyperlink is received by the user to highlight a content. A browser is used to invoke the hyperlink so as to collect associated metadata and other information required to retrieve and open the originating application at any time. This associated metadata and other information is then stored and obtained at a later time by invoking the browser. In addition, responsive to the user searching for the hyperlink, the content can then be opened by the browser using the stored associated metadata and other information.
US12061649B2
The invention relates to a graph clustering method based on perception application algorithm semantics and a computer readable medium. The graph clustering method includes: acquiring original graph data G and a graph's application algorithm A; initializing a subgraph Gi; randomly selecting a vertex v and a corresponding connecting edge thereof from the graph G, and deleting the v and the corresponding edge thereof from the graph G; computing a semantic serial degree after adding the vertex v into the subgraph Gi; determining a clustering block with the maximum semantic serial degree, and adding the vertex v and the corresponding connecting edge into the subgraph; repeating the steps until the graph G is empty; and completing graph clustering, and outputting a clustering result. Compared with the prior art, the method provided by the invention has the advantages of being able to greatly accelerate application analysis and mining of big graph data.
US12061648B2
Interaction output over a local computer-readable medium (CRM) generated based on user interaction with rendered content input representing a virtualized asset being is received at a virtualized asset local provisioning server. A manner to exploit the virtualized asset is determined from interaction output. The virtualized asset is exploited based on the determined manner to exploit the virtualized asset. A request for a portion of the virtualized asset generated in response to the exploiting the virtualized asset is intercepted. If it is determined that the portion of the virtualized asset is absent from the local storage, a request for the portion of the virtualized asset is sent to a virtualized asset delivery system over a non-local CRM; the portion of the virtualized asset retrieved by the virtualized asset delivery system is received over the non-local CRM; and the received portion of the virtualized asset is used in exploiting the virtualized asset.
US12061646B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media that has been pitch shifted, time shifted, and/or resampled. An example apparatus includes: memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: transmit a fingerprint of an audio signal and adjusting instructions to a central facility to facilitate a query, the adjusting instructions identifying at least one of a pitch shift, a time shift, or a resample ratio; obtain a response including an identifier for the audio signal and information corresponding to how the audio signal was adjusted; and change the adjusting instructions based on the information.
US12061644B2
An image retrieval system with high retrieval accuracy is provided. The image retrieval system includes a database and a processing portion. The database has a function of storing a plurality of pieces of database image data, and a database tag is linked to each of the plurality of pieces of database image data. The processing portion has a function of obtaining database image feature value data representing a feature value of the database image data for each piece of the database image data. The processing portion has a function of obtaining query image feature value data representing a feature value of the query image data. The processing portion has a function of calculating first similarity of the database image data to the query image data for each piece of the database image data. The processing portion has a function of obtaining a query tag linked to the query image data using some of the database tags.
US12061639B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis operations. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis operations by generating a hybrid class for a multi-party communication transcript data object associated with a predictive entity utilizing a hybrid space classification machine learning model, generating a machine learning-based risk score utilizing a hybrid-class-based risk scoring machine learning model, and generating a hierarchical-workflow risk score using a hierarchical risk score adjustment workflow.
US12061638B1
Embodiments are directed towards real time display of event records and extracted values based on at least one extraction rule, such as a regular expression. A user interface may be employed to enable a user to have an extraction rule automatically generate and/or to manually enter an extraction rule. The user may be enabled to manually edit a previously provided extraction rule, which may result in real time display of updated extracted values. The extraction rule may be utilized to extract values from each of a plurality of records, including event records of unstructured machine data. Statistics may be determined for each unique extracted value, and may be displayed to the user in real time. The user interface may also enable the user to select at least one unique extracted value to display those event records that include an extracted value that matches the selected value.
US12061629B2
Methods, systems and computer program products implementing hierarchical classification techniques are disclosed. A hierarchical classification system receives training data including labeled transaction records. The system determines tag sequences from the training data. The system clusters the tag sequences into clusters. The system determines a cluster-level classifier that is trained to predict a cluster for an input transaction record. The system determines a respective cluster-specific classifier for each cluster. The system trains the cluster-specific classifier to predict a label of entity of interest for an input transaction record, given a particular cluster. Upon receiving a test transaction record, the system first applies the cluster-level classifier to determine a particular cluster for the test transaction record, and then determines a label of entity of interest of the test transaction record by applying a cluster-specific classifier of that particular cluster.
US12061628B1
Measurement data may be collected for a computing system, where the measurement data may correspond to leaf nodes in a tree that organizes the measurement data into a hierarchy of categories. A score associated with a first node in the tree may be calculated based on the measurement data and a set of weights, where each node in the tree may be associated with a weight in the set of weights, and where a score associated with a node in the tree may be based on scores associated with child nodes of the node. A first score corresponding to the computing system may be reported relative to other scores corresponding to other computing systems, where the other scores are computed based on other measurement data collected from other computing systems and the set of weights.
US12061619B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for configuring service consoles based on service feature templates using a database system. In some implementations, a database of a database system storing service feature templates can be maintained. A request for a service console comprising a console component can be processed. A service feature template comprising a template console component corresponding to the console component can be identified. A set of CRM records can be identified. It can be determined that a user has access to the console component. A graphical representation of the service console can be displayed in a user interface on a display of a device of the user.
US12061617B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a system may include data ingestion controller configured to format datasets to form a first and a second atomized dataset, the second atomized dataset including the first atomized dataset and one or more other atomized datasets. The system may include a dataset query engine configured to identify a portion of a dataset relevant to a query, and to retrieve query results from at least one of different data repositories.
US12061601B2
Tracking errors in data set lineage including receiving, from a user, a change to a model data set, wherein the model data set is a reusable modeling layer comprising at least a portion of a data source retrieved from a data warehouse; accessing a list of dependent worksheets utilizing the model data set as a data source wherein each dependent worksheet is configured to perform analysis on the portion of the first data source within the model data set without changing the model data set; generating an error report for the dependent worksheets utilizing the model data set; and providing, to the user, the error report for the dependent worksheets utilizing the model data set.
US12061594B2
Systems and methods enable an entity to certify a web page address as being linked to the entity. The web page address includes semantic web mark-up identified attributes for the entity. A system may extract the attributes from the web page for the entity and use the attributes to generate an information card for the entity. The certification process ensures that the attributes are accurate, so that information cards generated for the entity are of high quality and reliable. Implementations may also simplify maintenance and quality assurances processes for an entity repository.
US12061585B2
A temporal graph model is provided that can handle all six graph updates cases: vertex created; vertex deleted; vertex property updated; edge created; edge deleted; and edge property updated. A memory efficient temporal graph storage solution stores the delta change of graph evolution at each update (e.g., instead of storing the whole graph snapshot at each time). Temporal graph querying techniques are described that can determine what the graph looks like at a given time in the past and can perform any graph query on that graph's snapshot at that time as if time traveling back to that time. Also provided are event sourcing techniques of recording and tracing temporal graph updates that make the evolution of the temporal graph explainable. Further provided is a seamless integration with a massive parallel graph processing and storage engine that fully leverages the multicore and multinode cluster computation and storage resources.
US12061581B2
Example implementations relate to metadata operations in a storage system. An example includes generating, by a storage controller of a deduplication storage system, a candidate list of container indexes for matching operations of a received data segment, each container index in the candidate list having an associated match cost; identifying, by the storage controller, a journal group associated with a first container index listed in the candidate list; reducing, by the storage controller, a match cost associated with the first container index in response to a determination that the identified journal group is in a modified state; and performing, by the storage controller, the matching operations of the received data segment based at least on the reduced match cost of the first container index.
US12061579B2
A method comprises reading data from a source database, identifying one or more data types corresponding to the source database, identifying a destination database for the data, and identifying one or more data types corresponding to the destination database. In the method, a destination database model to use in connection with writing the data in the destination database is generated. The generation of the destination database model is based at least in part on the one or more data types corresponding to the destination database, and is performed using one or more machine learning algorithms.
US12061578B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data schema mapping operation. The data schema mapping operation includes receiving product information comprising a first document corresponding to a first data schema, the first data schema comprising an unspecified JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schema; identifying a plurality of components within the first document corresponding to the first data schema, the plurality of components comprising JSON data elements; identifying a second plurality of components corresponding to a second data schema, the second data schema being associated with a data center services provider, at least some of the second plurality of components being associated with a relational database; mapping a component of the document corresponding to the first data schema to a component corresponding to the second data schema, the mapping providing a second document; and, accessing the second document via a data access application program interface.
US12061577B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises receiving, from a user device, a selected workflow message identifying a selected workflow; accessing the selected workflow from a workflow data store; evaluating, using runtime context information received from the user device, one or more secondary triggers associated with the selected workflow to determine an applicable branch of the selected triggered workflow; communicating, to the user device, branch information in respect of the applicable branch, the branch information including information in respect of one or more operations that would be performed if the selected workflow was executed.
US12061574B2
Edge nodes in distributed computing environments can be updated according to some aspects described herein. For example, a first node in the distributed computing environment can receive an update request from a management node. The update request can include an update file for updating a second node. In response to receiving the update request, the first node can generate a first partition and a second partition, containing the update file, within the first node. Additionally, the first node can generate a network tunnel between the first node and the second node. The first node can mount a file system for the second node onto the first partition and a copy of the file system onto the second partition of the first node via the network tunnel. The first node also can update the file system in the second partition using the update file to generate an updated file system.
US12061571B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure may read source data corresponding to a source variable and apply a transformation to the source variable to generate an output variable. Accordingly, one such method comprises receiving a request to access an output variable by applying one or more data transformations to input data; before applying an actual data transformation to the input data, identifying that a match exists with a database of prior data transformations that have been applied to source variables to generate derived variables; identifying that a source variable in the matching one or more data transformations is flagged as sensitive data; and processing the request to access the output variable subject to an access restriction in response to the identification of the source variable that is flagged as sensitive data.
US12061569B2
This application provides methods, apparatus, electronic devices, and computer-readable storage medium for archiving blockchain data. One method includes synchronizing, by a first committing node, blockchain data with a consensus node, and determining a synchronization block height of the synchronized blockchain data, the synchronized blockchain data comprising state data; determining target state data required by a current transaction in the state data, and backing up the target state data; generating a state data snapshot of the synchronization block height according to the backed-up target state data, and transmitting the state data snapshot, the synchronization block height, and signature information of the first committing node to a second committing node as archiving point information; receiving endorsement information of the second committing node for the archiving point information; and archiving the synchronized blockchain data according to the endorsement information and the archiving point information.
US12061565B2
A method for reading information from multiple riser cards is implemented by a BMC module that includes an SMBus controller, where the riser cards are electrically connected to the SMBus controller. The method includes steps of: accessing a lookup table and a plurality of bus addresses; scanning a target address for communicating with a target card; determining whether a slave address has been received from the target card; when the BMC module determines that the slave address has been received from the target card, reading a memory of the target card according to a target reading spec to obtain identification information; determining whether the identification information conforms to an FRU header format; and when the BMC module determines that the identification information conforms to the FRU header format, reading the memory of the target card to obtain FRU information.
US12061564B2
The present application relates to a network-on-chip data processing method. The method is applied to a network-on-chip processing system, the network-on-chip processing system is used for executing machine learning calculation, and the network-on-chip processing system comprises a storage device and a calculation device. The method comprises: accessing the storage device in the network-on-chip processing system by means of a first calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system and obtaining first operation data; performing an operation on the first operation data by means of the first calculation device to obtain a first operation result; and sending the first operation result to a second calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system. According to the method, operation overhead can be reduced and data read/write efficiency can be improved.
US12061562B2
A memory expansion device operable with a host computer system (host) comprises a non-volatile memory (NVM) subsystem, cache memory, and control logic configurable to receive a submission from the host including a read command and specifying a payload in the NVM subsystem and demand data in the payload. The control logic is configured to request ownership of a set of cache lines corresponding to the payload, to indicate completion of the submission after acquiring ownership of the cache lines, and to load the payload to the cache memory. The set of cache lines correspond to a set of cache lines in a coherent destination memory space accessible by the host. The control logic is further configured to, after indicating completion of the submission and in response to a request from the host to read demand data in the payload, return the demand data after determining that the demand data is in the cache memory.
US12061560B2
A method of a pointing device which is used to be coupled to a host system through a universal serial bus (USB) communication interface includes: providing a USB driver device to communicate with the host system via the USB communication interface; monitoring a specific voltage change or a specific data transmission state of the USB communication interface to generate a monitoring result; and correcting a USB state of the USB driver device when the monitoring result indicates that a undefined or abnormal behavior of the host system occurs.
US12061553B1
Systems and methods for microservices prefetching are disclosed. The systems and methods include generating an artificial intelligence model using received user data; prefetching data using the artificial intelligence model, storing the prefetched data in a cache; and using the cache to respond to an information request.
US12061551B2
An access counter associated with a segment of a memory device is maintained. An access notification for a first line of the segment is received. An access type associated with the access notification is identified. A first value of the access counter is changed by a second value based on the access type. Based on the first value of the access counter, a memory management scheme is implemented.
US12061545B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to managing page pools for sets of processing work. In some embodiments, a processor assigns sets of processing work to respective primary slots. Page manager circuitry may maintain, in a memory, page pool descriptor information for memory pages allocated to multiple different page pools, maintain a mapping of multiple primary slots of the processor circuitry to a first page pool of the page pools, and cache page pool descriptor entries in the page pool descriptor cache. The page manager circuitry may provide pages to requesting client circuitry from the first page pool for the multiple mapped primary slots. In some embodiments, the page manager circuitry pre-fetches virtual pages. The page manager circuitry may include primary and distribute components.
US12061544B2
A computing system having a power loss detector and memory components to store data associated with write commands received from a host system. The write commands are flushed from a protected write queue of the host system responsive to detecting an impending loss of power. The computing system further includes a processing device to receive the write commands over a memory interface. The processing device is further to, responsive to detecting the loss of power by the detector: disable the memory interface, and store the data associated with write commands that are received prior to disabling the memory interface. The data is stored in one or more of the memory components using power supplied by one or more capacitors.
US12061542B2
Latch-based methods and apparatus for performing neural network weight parity detection on the die of a non-volatile memory (NVM) array to detect bit flip errors within neural network weight data are described, particularly for use with floating point number values. Upon detection of a parity error in a neural network weight, the erroneous weight is set to zero to trim the corresponding neuron from the network, thus preventing the erroneous value from significantly affecting the network, particularly in situations where the bit flip would otherwise affect the magnitude of a floating-point weight value. The exemplary latch-based procedures described herein are linear procedures that do not require logic decisions. Procedures are also described that assess an amount of degradation in the NVM array based on parity bit data collected in the latches. Multiple plane and multiple die NVM array implementations are also described for massive parallel processing.
US12061532B2
A method includes receiving, via a graphical user interface, data characterizing user input specifying a cost of error of a prediction, a model type requirement, and a computational resource allocation for model development; determining, based on the received data and using a model, a prediction of model performance; and rendering, within the graphical user interface, a plot including a first axis, a second axis, and a region characterizing the determined prediction of model performance, the first axis including a characterization of a first performance metric and the second axis including a characterization of a second performance metric. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12061529B1
The present disclosure discloses an automatic learning method and system for a digital test vector. The system includes an upper computer, a pattern generator PG, a driver DRIVER, a comparator COMPARE and a history random access memory HRAM. The method includes: writing a pattern file, the pattern file including an input pin timing and an output pin timing, wherein the input pin timing is provided by a device under test, and the output pin timing is configured to be in a learning state; running the pattern file, and recording a running state; reading recorded running state data, and acquiring an output pin state, recorded within certain time, in the running state data; and correcting the output pin timing in the running pattern file according to the acquired output pin state to obtain a corrected output timing, thus obtaining a corrected pattern file. The present disclosure greatly improves the development efficiency, reduces writing of the characteristic of an output pin of a chip, and lowers the writing difficulty.
US12061528B2
A storage system includes one or more storage units, and a calculator. Each of the one or more storage units has plural physical storage devices, and a processor. The calculator has a controller that processes data inputted to and outputted from the storage unit by the processor. The storage system subjects the data to redundancy and stores the redundant data, and when a failure in which the data related to a read request cannot be read from one of the physical storage devices has occurred, reads the data from the readable physical storage device, recovers the data related to the read request, and transmits the recovered data to a request source of the read request. A process for recovering the data related to the read request from the read data can be selectively executed by the controller of the calculator and the processor of the storage unit.
US12061527B2
A method for managing data. The method includes obtaining, by a universal connector, a backup request for a file, in response to the backup request: determining a number of read buffers required by a network attached storage (NAS) server to read data associated with the file, generating a set of file read requests based on the number of read buffers, sending, to the NAS server, a data request for the file that includes the set of file read requests, obtaining a data response from the NAS server, wherein the data response comprises a portion of data associated with the file, populating a data array using the data associated with the file, and initiating a backup of the file using the data array.
US12061521B1
Managing hardware function requests incurring variable response latencies is provided. A request for a hardware function is received from a requesting program. The requested hardware function is expected to incur a variable response latency and is implemented as a main hardware function and a retry hardware function. The main hardware function is executed. It is determined whether a fixed response latency of the main hardware function has been exceeded. A response is returned with a retry flag to the requesting program. The retry flag directs the requesting program to issue a request for the retry hardware function after an interval of time. A unique identifier corresponding to the main hardware function is provided to the requesting program.
US12061520B2
One or more systems, devices, computer program products, and/or computer-implemented methods provided herein to use a redundant array of disks. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise a control component that directs, for n physical drives of a redundant array of disks (RAID) storing data for at least n logical volumes, log-structured writing of data of each logical volume of the at least n logical volumes vertically across chunks of only a single physical drive of the n physical drives, wherein the control component further directs writing of parity data at each of the physical drives, which parity data at each physical drive of the subset respectively corresponds to other ones of the physical drives of the n physical drives.
US12061519B2
A processor in a storage network operates by: receiving an access request for a data segment, wherein the data segment is encoded utilizing an error correcting information dispersal algorithm as a set of encoded data slices that are stored in a plurality of storage units of the storage network and wherein each encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices includes a corresponding checksum of a plurality of checksums; retrieving, from the storage network, a subset of encoded data slices that includes a threshold number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices; determining, based on ones of the plurality of checksums corresponding to the subset of encoded data slices, when the subset of encoded data slices includes at least one corrupted encoded data slice; retrieving from at least one of the plurality of storage units an addition number of encoded data slices required to generate a reconstructed data segment based on the subset of encoded data slices; generating the reconstructed data segment in accordance with the error correcting information dispersal algorithm, using the additional number of encoded data slices and at least some of the subset of encoded data slices; providing the reconstructed data segment in response to the access request; forming a reconstructed set of encoded data slices utilizing the error correcting information dispersal algorithm on the reconstructed data segment; and replacing the at least one corrupted encoded data slice with at least one reconstructed encoded data slice of the reconstructed set of encoded data slices.
US12061517B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using user equipment data clusters and spatial temporal graphs of abnormalities for root cause analysis. User equipment data can be obtained from a cellular network. A filter having a threshold can be applied to the user equipment data to obtain records. A determination is made whether the threshold is to be adaptively adjusted. If a determination is made that the threshold is not to be adjusted, the records can be added to a record set. The records in the subset of records can be correlated based on a key to obtain a filtered and correlated version of the record set, a spatial temporal graph of abnormalities associated with the cellular network can be generated based on the filtered and correlated version of the record set, and a root cause of a failure can be determined based on the spatial temporal graph of abnormalities.
US12061511B2
A communication device includes an interface connector for connecting to a computing circuit to receive a media data and an external power supply, a transmission circuit, wherein the circuit transmits the media data to a network, a battery power supply, a controller circuit powered by the battery power supply, a sensor, communicatively coupled to the controller circuit, for detecting a movement of the communication device, a switch circuit for switchably connecting the battery power supply to the transmission circuit responsive to a first switch control signal, and a test circuit, communicatively coupled to the controller circuit, for generating the first switch control signal based on an external power control signal indicating whether the interface connector is connected to the computing circuit and a motion detection signal indicating whether the sensor detects the movement of the communication device.
US12061495B2
An electronic device includes: a display panel including a display area and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area; and an electro-optical module adjacent to the display panel, wherein the display area includes a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and wherein the electro-optical module includes a plurality of camera modules, and each of the plurality of camera modules receives an optical signal passing through the first area.
US12061479B2
A watercraft maneuvering control apparatus for controlling a propulsion device of a watercraft in watercraft maneuvering modes includes a position detector to detect a position of the watercraft, a watercraft maneuvering mode selector operable by a user to select one of the watercraft maneuvering modes, a propulsion device controller configured or programmed to control the propulsion device in the selected watercraft maneuvering mode, a track display controller to generate track display data to display a track of the watercraft, and a display to display the watercraft track. The track display controller is configured or programmed to record track data, record watercraft maneuvering mode division information to divide the track data based on a watercraft maneuvering mode, and generate the track display data to display the watercraft track divided according to classification of the watercraft maneuvering modes.
US12061470B2
A method is disclosed. The method is implemented by a robot engine that is stored as program code on a memory of a system. The program code is executed by a processor of the system, which enables robotic process automations of the robot engine. The processor is communicatively coupled to the memory within the system. The method includes initiating a guided operation of a platform presented by the system and monitoring the guided operation to observe an interaction with the platform or to receive a direct input by the robot engine. The method also includes executing a backend operation with respect to the interaction or the direct input.
US12061464B2
A Multi-Purpose Dynamic Simulation and run-time Control platform includes a virtual process environment coupled to a physical process environment, where components/nodes of the virtual and physical process environments cooperate to dynamically perform run-time process control of an industrial process plant and/or simulations thereof. Virtual components may include virtual run-time nodes and/or simulated nodes. The MPDSC includes an I/O Switch which delivers I/O data between virtual and/or physical nodes, e.g., by using publish/subscribe mechanisms, thereby virtualizing physical I/O process data delivery. Nodes serviced by the I/O Switch may include respective component behavior modules that are unaware as to whether or not they are being utilized on a virtual or physical node. Simulations may be performed in real-time and even in conjunction with run-time operations of the plant, and/or simulations may be manipulated as desired (speed, values, administration, etc.). The platform simultaneously supports simulation and run-time operations and interactions/intersections therebetween.
US12061457B2
An optoelectronic safety sensor (10) for safeguarding a machine (34), the sensor (10) comprising a light receiver (24) for optical detection of object data and a control and evaluation unit (26) configured to use the object data to decide whether a safety-critical object (36) is detected in a vicinity of the machine (34) and in this case to trigger a safety-related reaction, and wherein the control and evaluation unit (26) is further configured to adapt the sensitivity of a criterion for deciding whether a safety-critical object (36) is detected as a function of at least one of previously detected objects and simultaneously detected objects.
US12061446B2
A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.
US12061444B2
A watch assembly method includes: processing a first bonding surface on a first connecting member, bonding a first laser adhesive layer on the first bonding surface and activating the first laser adhesive layer; processing a second bonding surface on a second connecting member, bonding a second laser adhesive layer on the second bonding surface and activating the second laser adhesive layer; fixing the second connecting member with the first connecting member preliminarily in such a manner that the first laser adhesive layer and the second laser adhesive layer face each other, and pressing the first connecting member and the second connecting member against each other until the first laser adhesive layer and the second laser adhesive layer are completely bonded and infiltrated.
US12061438B2
A drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a developing unit, a toner cartridge, a connector and a relay board. The photosensitive drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in an axial direction. The developing unit includes a magnetic roller, a developer container, a conveyer member and a toner sensor. The developer container accommodates therein carrier, and has an inlet. The conveyer member is positioned in the developer container, and configured to convey toner and the carrier from the inlet toward the magnetic roller. The toner cartridge accommodates therein toner and is attachable to the developer container to replenish toner in the developer container through the inlet. The connector is electrically connected to an image forming apparatus. The relay board electrically connects the toner sensor to the connector. The relay board is configured to transmit a detection signal from the toner sensor to the image forming apparatus.
US12061423B2
Microwave heating of debris collecting vanes within the source vessel of a lithography apparatus is used to accomplish uniform temperature distribution in order to reduce fall-on contamination and formation of clogs on the inner and outer surfaces of the vanes.
US12061422B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a method and apparatus for loading, processing, and unloading substrates. A processing system comprises a load/unload system coupled to a photolithography system. The load/unload system comprises a first set of tracks having a first height and a first width, and a second set of tracks having a second height and a second width different than the first height and first width. An unprocessed substrate is transferred from a lift pin loader to a chuck along the first set of tracks on a first tray while a processed substrate is transferred from the chuck to the lift pin loader along the second set of tracks on a second tray. While a first tray remains with a substrate on the chuck during processing, the load/unload system is configured to unload a processed substrate and load an unprocessed substrate on a second tray.
US12061420B2
A sensor fabricated from a plurality of layers on a semiconductor wafer. The sensor comprises a plurality of sensor elements arranged in stitching blocks and having a plurality of vertically arranged read-out lines, a plurality of vertically arranged select/reset lines, and a plurality of horizontally arranged select/reset lines, running from a right-hand edge to an oppositely disposed left hand edge and being connected to ones of the plurality of vertically arranged select/reset lines, plurality of read-out circuits connected to the plurality of vertically arranged read-out lines, and ones of the plurality of vertically arranged read-out lines swerve at one of the bottom or top edges of the stitching blocks, such that ones of the plurality of vertically arranged read-out lines in a first one of the plurality of stitching blocks connect to a displaced one of the vertical lines in a second abutting one of the plurality of stitching blocks.
US12061404B2
Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage.
US12061403B2
An electrochromic apparatus includes a first glass, a first adhesive layer disposed on the first glass, a second glass, a second adhesive layer disposed on the second glass, a solid-state electrochromic device (ECD) interposed between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer, and a sealant disposed at edges of the first glass and the second glass to seal the ECD. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are disposed between the first glass and the second glass. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are optically transparent. Edges of the adhesive layers are flush with or beyond edges of the ECD. The sealant is adhesive and waterproof.
US12061399B2
A display device includes an electronic component comprising a bump, which includes a first bump portion and a second bump portion that has a surface area less than that of the first bump portion on a plane to surround the first bump portion, a display panel facing the electronic component and including a signal pad that is in contact with the bump, and an adhesive member which is disposed between the display panel and the electronic component and in which an opening overlapping the first bump portion on the plane is defined, wherein the bump is in contact with the signal pad through the opening.
US12061396B2
A display device may have a reduced thickness while having enhanced color reproducibility by having an improved structure. The display device may include: a liquid crystal panel; a light source plate which is arranged at the rear of the liquid crystal panel to provide light to the liquid crystal panel, and which includes a printed circuit board and an LED chip mounted on the printed circuit board; and a chip cover which is provided to cover a light-emitting surface of the LED chip, and which changes the wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, wherein the chip cover includes: a cover layer having a first surface arranged to face the light-emitting surface of the LED chip, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an accommodating groove provided on the second surface; a light conversion member which changes the wavelength of the light emitted from the LED chip, and which is accommodated in the accommodating groove; and a barrier layer for covering the second surface to cover the light conversion member from the outside.
US12061384B2
The instant disclosure is directed toward integrated-optics-based composite phase controllers that include at least one thermo-optic (TO) phase controller and at least one stress-optic (SO) phase controller, each of which is configured to affect the phase, or other propagation characteristic, of a light signal travelling through a surface waveguide. The SO phase controller can induce a small phase change quickly, while the TO phase controller can slowly induce a larger phase change. Embodiments are particularly well suited for use in waveguide-based resonant elements, such as ring resonators, spectral filters, and the like. Furthermore, photonic systems comprising one or more composite phase controllers can be developed, such as wavelength-tunable lasers for applications such as LiDAR, chemical/biological sensing, medical diagnostics, and optical communications.
US12061383B2
The present disclosure is directed generally to a lens that provides a stop signal to a myopic eye, over a substantial portion of the spectacle lens that the viewer is using. The present disclosure is directed to devices, methods and/or systems of imposing a stop signal to eye growth, using a spectacle lens in conjunction with a micro lenslet array. The present disclosure is also directed to devices, methods and/or systems of modifying incoming light through spectacle lenses that utilizes chromatic cues to decelerate the rate of myopia progression. The present disclosure is directed to devices, methods and/or systems of imposing a stop signal to eye growth, using a spectacle lens in conjunction with a refractive optical element and/or diffractive optical element that offer conflicting or contradictory optical signals at a wavelength between 510 nm and 610 nm.
US12061380B2
A method for applying a surface pattern on a surface of a spectacle lens substrate includes the following steps: providing a spectacle lens substrate having a polymeric lens material, providing a composition containing a swelling agent, applying a pattern of the composition on the surface of the spectacle lens substrate, and allowing for diffusion of the swelling agent from the composition into the lens material. Moreover, a spectacle lens substrate has a polymeric lens material and exhibits a surface pattern on a surface of the spectacle lens substrate. The polymeric lens material includes a swelling agent at positions forming the surface pattern, and a spectacle lens substrate contains a polymeric lens material, wherein the spectacle lens substrate exhibits a pattern of a composition containing a swelling agent applied on a surface of the spectacle lens substrate.
US12061377B2
An imaging apparatus is an imaging apparatus in which a focus lens is moved while avoiding a period of main exposure by an image sensor and the main exposure is continuously performed to perform continuous imaging, and a processor calculates a first focus position of the focus lens with respect to a specific subject based on image data obtained by imaging the specific subject with the main exposure by the image sensor in a specific frame in which the main exposure is performed in a continuous imaging period, predicts a second focus position of the focus lens with respect to the specific subject in a frame ahead of the specific frame by a plurality of frames with reference to the first focus position in the continuous imaging period, and moves the focus lens toward the second focus position.
US12061376B2
An imaging optical system includes: a front group having positive power; an aperture stop; a single lens Fn arranged adjacent to the aperture stop and having negative power; and a rear group having power. The front group includes: a first lens having positive power; a second lens having negative power; and a lens LG1R having positive power. The rear group includes a lens LGnR having negative power and located closest to the image. While focusing to make a transition from an infinity in-focus state to a close-object in-focus state, neither the front group nor the rear group moves but the single lens Fn moves along an optical axis toward the image. The imaging optical system satisfies the inequality: 0.38
US12061374B2
A camera assembly and a mobile terminal comprise an optical image stabilization motor with relatively large electromagnetic radiation, for example, a SMA motor. The SMA motor could be disposed on a lighting side of the lens assembly. Because an image sensor is located on an imaging side of the lens assembly, this can achieve a relatively long physical distance between the SMA motor and the image sensor, thereby reducing electromagnetic interference caused by the SMA motor to the image sensor.
US12061370B2
A pluggable optical module configured to operate in a host device includes transmit optics; receive optics; an interface configured to connect to the host device, and communicatively coupled to the transmit optics and the receive optics; and circuitry communicatively coupled to the interface, wherein the circuitry is configured to, subsequent to insertion into the host device where the pluggable optical module initiates a boot process, provide an indication related to one or more of a status of the boot process and a time for the boot process to complete.
US12061369B2
This application provides a heat dissipation structure for an optical module and a communications device, and relates to the field of optical communications technologies. The heat dissipation structure for the optical module includes: a panel with a jack; a PCB board, disposed on one side of the panel, where the PCB board is configured to install the optical module; and a heat conduction module, configured to conduct, to the panel, heat emitted from the optical module, where one end of the heat conduction module is in contact with the optical module, and the other end of the heat conduction module is in contact with the panel. In the heat dissipation structure for the optical module and the communications device, the panel is mainly used to dissipate heat from the optical module.
US12061368B2
A system for passive alignment of fibers to an interface of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) includes an input frame, an actuator, and an output frame. The actuator arranged to apply force along a force axis to the input frame. The output frame including a tip for picking up a plate and transferring the force thereto, the output frame being connected to the input frame such that the output frame may tilt relative to the input frame and the output frame is elastically biased relative to the input frame into a position wherein the tip is aligned on the force axis.
US12061361B2
An optical fiber connection structure according to the present invention includes a fiber support member configured to support an optical fiber to be optically connected to an optical waveguide device, a stopper configured to restrict movement in an axial direction of the optical fiber supported by the fiber support member, and a lens disposed on an optical axis between an end surface of the optical waveguide device and the optical fiber.
US12061352B2
A backlight unit may include: a light source providing coherent light; a light guide plate having a light entrance surface on which light from the light source is incident and a light exit surface through which the light is output; a plurality of diffraction gratings (for example, a first input grating, a second input grating, and a third input grating) that are arranged in different regions of the light guide plate to sequentially diffract the light from the light source such that that the beam width of the light may increase as the light propagates in the light guide plate; and a diffraction grating (for example, an output grating) that diffracts and outputs the light having an increased beam width in a direction toward the outside of the light guide plate.
US12061351B2
An interactive object system includes an interactive object and a source of electromagnetic radiation, e.g., an external source. A power harvesting device of the interactive object receives and harvests power from the electromagnetic radiation to power a special effect system of the interactive object. In an embodiment, the interactive object includes a retroreflective material that reflects electromagnetic radiation, which may be of a same or different wavelength as the electromagnetic radiation from which power is harvested. The interactive object system detects the reflected electromagnetic radiation, which may be used to trigger one or more additional actions related to the interactive object.
US12061349B2
The present invention provides systems, and methods for manufacturing polarized light emitting semiconductor packages, comprising the disposition of a first bonding solution about (a) a first light emitting element and (b) a first polarizing element, wherein the first polarizing element transmits linearly polarized light in a first directionality. A first energy is applied to polymerize the first bonding solution, thereby encapsulating the first polarizing element and a first light emitting element in a first semiconductor package. A second bonding solution is disposed about (a) a second light emitting element and (b) a second polarizing element, wherein the second polarizing element transmits polarized light in a second directionality different from the first directionality, and a second energy is applied to polymerize the second bonding solution, thereby encapsulating the second polarizing element and the second light emitting element in a second semiconductor package.
US12061347B2
Metasurfaces and systems including metasurfaces for imaging and methods of imaging are described. Such metasurfaces may be formed on a substrate from a plurality of posts. The metasurfaces are configured to be optically active over a wavelength range and in certain embodiments are configured to form lenses. In particular, the metasurfaces described herein may be configured to focus light passed through the metasurface in an extended depth of focus. Accordingly, the disclosed metasurfaces are generally suitable for generating color without or with minimal chromatic aberrations, for example, in conjunction with computational reconstruction.
US12061345B2
A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
US12061343B2
A near-eye display has an image projector coupled to a lightguide for receiving and propagating image light provided by the image projector, the image light carrying an image to be displayed to a viewer. Field of view of the near-eye display may be expanded by providing a beam redirector downstream of the lightguide for controllably redirecting the image light in coordination with displaying different field of view portions by the image projector. To compensate the redirection of external light by the beam redirector, a second beam redirector may be provided upstream of the first redirector and the lightguide.
US12061325B2
A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a first intermediate lens group having positive refractive power, a second intermediate lens group having negative refractive power and a rear lens group; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the first intermediate lens group being varied, a distance between the first intermediate lens group and the second intermediate lens group being varied, and a distance between the second intermediate lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the rear lens group comprising at least one focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expressions being satisfied, thereby the focusing lens group(s) being reduced in weight.
US12061322B2
The present invention includes a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.18≤d1/TTL≤0.40, 0.60≤ET1/d1≤1.00, −7.00≤f2/f≤−2.00, and 3.00≤R6/R5≤12.00. The camera optical lens according to the present invention has excellent optical characteristics, such as large aperture, wide angle, and ultra-thin.
US12061320B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.00≤f1/f≤5.00; and 2.00≤d11/d12≤9.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d11 denotes an on-axis thickness of the sixth lens, and d12 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the sixth lens to an object side surface of the seventh lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure satisfies design requirements for large-aperture and ultra-thin lenses while achieving good optical performance.
US12061313B2
A system and method for diamond based multilayer antireflective coating for optical windows are provided. An antireflective coatings for optical windows may include an optical grade silicon substrate, a first polycrystalline diamond film on the silicon substrate, a germanium film on the first polycrystalline diamond film, a fused silica film on the germanium film; and a second polycrystalline diamond film on the fused silica film. A method of fabricating a diamond based multilayer antireflective coating may include the steps of cleaning and seeding an optical substrate, forming a first diamond layer on the optical substrate, forming a germanium layer on the first diamond layer, forming a fused silica layer on the germanium layer, cleaning and seeding the germanium layer, and forming a second diamond layer on the germanium layer.
US12061303B2
A method of analysing seismic data from a geological structure. The method includes determining a set of tiles from a data cube of seismic data and determining which tiles of the set of tiles can be grouped into one or more patches of tiles.
US12061292B2
In one example, a light receiving apparatus includes a light receiving section with pixels arranged in a two-dimensional shape. A signal line is connected to each of the pixels. A time measuring section connected to the signal line measures a time from a light emission instruction timing to a light reception timing, a histogram creating section creates a histogram of the measured value, a storage section stores correction values corresponding to positions of the pixels, a correction processing section executes correction processing on the histogram on the basis of the stored correction values, and an output section outputs a signal subjected to the correction processing. The light receiving apparatus may, for example, be used in a distance measuring apparatus.
US12061289B2
A rotatable optical reflector device of a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanning system used in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The rotatable optical reflector device comprises a glass-based optical reflector including a plurality of reflective surfaces and a flange. The rotatable optical reflector device further comprises a metal-based motor rotor body at least partially disposed in an inner opening of the glass-based optical reflector. The rotatable optical reflector device further comprises an elastomer piece having a first surface and a second surface. The first surface of the elastomer piece is in contact with a second mounting surface of the flange. The rotatable optical reflector device further comprises a clamping mechanism compressing the elastomer piece at the second surface of the elastomer piece, wherein movement of the metal-based motor rotor body causes the glass-based optical reflector to optically scan light in a field-of-view of the LiDAR scanning system.
US12061275B2
Examples for enhancing sensitivity to reflected GNSS signals are presented herein. An example may involve identifying, by a receiver, a particular positioning signal that reflected off a reflecting plane prior to reaching the receiver. The receiver may be in motion. The example may also involve determining a reflected satellite position for a satellite that transmitted the particular positioning signal based on identifying the particular positioning signal. The reflected satellite position may be determined by reflecting a position of the satellite about the reflecting plane. The example may also involve determining a direction vector to the reflected satellite position for the satellite and performing coherent integration over a threshold duration of time to increase a signal to noise ratio for the particular positioning signal based on the direction vector to the reflected satellite position.
US12061266B2
Among other things, we describe techniques for detecting objects in the environment surrounding a vehicle. A computer system is configured to receive a set of measurements from a sensor of a vehicle. The set of measurements includes a plurality of data points that represent a plurality of objects in a 3D space surrounding the vehicle. The system divides the 3D space into a plurality of pillars. The system then assigns each data point of the plurality of data points to a pillar in the plurality of pillars. The system generates a pseudo-image based on the plurality of pillars. The pseudo-image includes, for each pillar of the plurality of pillars, a corresponding feature representation of data points assigned to the pillar. The system detects the plurality of objects based on an analysis of the pseudo-image. The system then operates the vehicle based upon the detecting of the objects.
US12061261B2
Methods and systems can augment 360 degree panoramic LIDAR results (e.g., from a spinning LIDAR system) with color obtained from color cameras. A color-pixel-lookup table can specify the correspondence between LIDAR pixels (depth/ranging pixels) and color pixels, which may be done at different viewing object distances. The operation of the color cameras can be triggered by the angular positions of the LIDAR system. For example, a color image of a particular camera can be captured when the LIDAR system is at a particular angular position, which can be predetermined based on properties of the cameras (e.g., shutter speed). Alternatively or in addition, a common internal clock can be used to assign timestamps to LIDAR and color pixels as they are captured. The corresponding color pixel(s), e.g., as determined using a color-pixel-lookup table, with the closest timestamp can be used for colorization.
US12061258B2
An object detecting apparatus is configured to detect a surrounding object. The object detecting apparatus is provided with a driving signal generation unit provided to generate a driving signal that drives a transmitter unit including a transmitter emitting transmission waves externally; and a control unit provided to control an output of the driving signal transmitted to the transmitter unit from the driving signal generation unit. The driving signal generation unit is configured to generate the driving signal of which the frequency changes stepwise.
US12061249B1
Various technologies pertaining to forming a very high instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) radar signal based upon several radio frequency (RF) signals that have sub-bands of the frequency band of the radar signal are described herein. A radar system is configured to address local oscillator leakage across multiple transmit channels of the radar system, such that the radar signal has a relatively constant or other desired amplitude and phase across frequencies of the radar signal. In addition, the radar system is configured to compute a correction signal that pre-distorts each of the sub-frequency channels such that upon combining enables the generation of desired amplitude and phase response across a transmitted pulse.
US12061244B2
A system and a method of in-vehicle electromagnetic (EM) radiation detection to be executed by at least one processor, are disclosed. The method may include: receiving one or more indications related to emission vectors of EM fields generated by one or more radiating components; receiving an area of interest in the vehicle; calculating the EM field for at least one location within the area of interest by vector addition of the emission vectors of the EM fields at the at the at least one location; and identifying at least one location having an intensity of the calculated EM field, higher than one or more threshold values.
US12061231B2
A method for compliance testing of a Digital Interface Board attached to Automatic Test Equipment in the testing of integrated circuit semiconductor devices using Impedance Response Profiling. The includes launching alternating voltage digital clock signals from the Pin Electronics to one or more circuit paths in the Digital Interface Board, and sampling a mix of the launched alternating voltage digital clock signals and reflected signals. The method also includes compositing time domain waveforms originating at the Pin Electronics, and generating an initial reflection response profile baseline. The method is repeated at a later predetermined time, generating a later reflection response profile. The method further includes comparing the initial reflection response profile baseline with the later reflection response profile, and determining whether the one or more circuit paths of the Digital Interface Board are in compliance with predetermined operating standards.
US12061230B2
Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques related to active optical plugs used to cover optical connectors of a photonics package to protect the connectors. The active optical plugs may also be used to perform testing of the photonics package, including generating light to be sent to the photonics package and to detect light received from the photonics package as part of the test protocol. This allows testing the optical connection and the photonics package, without exposing the optical connections of the package to damage from dust or physical contact. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12061227B1
Disclosed herein is an integrated heater and measurement (IHM) device comprising heating-sensing element(s) and heating-sensing circuit(s). A heating-sensing element generates heat and determines the temperature of the IHM device. In some embodiments, the heating-sensing element may operate in a plurality of modes: heating mode, sensing mode, and/or off mode. A controller may dynamically adjust the properties of the operation mode and/or time periods based on the determined temperature. The adjusted properties may include the duration of the heating mode, the ON time for a heating-sensing element, etc. The controller may adjust the duration of heating mode based on the temperature difference between the determined temperature and a set point temperature, such as decreasing the duration of the heating mode when there is a low temperature difference, and increasing the duration of the heating mode when there is a high temperature difference.
US12061221B2
An electric field gradient sensor is presented, having a sensor body having an outer surface; and a plurality of electrodes distributed over the outer surface, each electrode having an electrode surface facing outward from the surface. The plurality of electrodes are arranged forming a plurality of electrode pairs, each electrode pair formed by a first electrode and a second electrode located on opposite sides of the sensor body. This sensor enables three-dimensional measurements of the electric field gradient along structures located in an electrically conductive medium, such as subsea structures, for example for monitoring the cathodic protection of such structure.
US12061220B2
The disclosure relates to a method for determination of an operating state of a compressor and/or a rotational speed of a compressor drive of the compressor comprising; measuring, over a time range, a magnetic field associated with one or more phases of an electrical power supply conductor supplying the compressor with electrical power; wherein the magnetic field is measured by a detection element to provide a representation of the magnetic field; determining a frequency spectrum of the representation of the magnetic field over the time range; and analyzing the frequency spectrum of the representation of the magnetic field over the time range to determine an operating state of the compressor and/or to determine a rotational speed of the compressor drive. The disclosure further relates to a device for carrying out the method, a compressor measuring system, and a computer-readable storage medium.
US12061217B2
Circuit test devices and methods are provided. The method includes measuring a voltage between first and second conductor points (CPs) of a circuit under test (CUT), and determining if the measured voltage is less than a low voltage threshold value (LVTV) indicative of electrical continuity (EC) between the first and second CPs. In response to determining that the measured voltage is less than the LVTV, the method includes: transmitting a test signal (TS) to the first or second CP, and determining if the test signal is received after being transmitted. In response to determining that the TS is received, a presence of EC between the first and second conductor points is reported, and in response to determining that the TS is not received, absence of EC between the first and second CPs, or a lack of electrical contact between the VMC and the first and/or second CP(s), is reported.
US12061215B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a sensor. In an embodiment, the sensor comprises a board, wherein an aperture is formed through the board, a current loop winding through the board around the aperture, and a voltage ring around the aperture and within an inner perimeter of the current loop, wherein the voltage ring comprises an interior ring, an insulator ring around the interior ring, and an exterior ring around the insulator ring.
US12061212B2
The present disclosure relates to a socket having a thin structure and to a spring contact suitable thereto. The socket includes: a plurality of spring contacts (100) each of which includes an upper contact pin (110), a lower contact pin (120) assembled to the upper contact pin such that the upper and lower contact pins cross each other to mutually linearly operate, and a coil spring (130) supporting the upper and lower contact pins (110 and 120); a lower film plate (310) including a plurality of first through-holes (311) through which the respective spring contacts (100) are positioned; an intermediate plate (320) provided on the lower film plate (310) and including second through-holes formed at positions corresponding to the first through-holes (311); and an upper film plate (330) provided on the intermediate plate (320) and including third through-holes formed at positions corresponding to the second through-holes.
US12061210B2
A wheel-speed sensor (WSS), including: an active pulse-sensor (PS) having a detection-direction (DD), and a housing for the PS; a movement of a pulse-generator in the DD is detectable by the PS; the WSS has an axis and axis direction (AD) defined to be aligned perpendicularly to the DD; the housing has first/second-components, the first-component (FC) being enclose-able and to which the FC is connectable; the PS is on the FC; the WSS has a radial-cable-outlet (RCO), aligned radially to the axis to lead a cable out; the RCO integrally formed with the second-component (SC) so that the cable is led in a different direction; the FC has a first-region (FR), and the SC has a second-region (SR), the FR-contour-circumference having a shape-feature in predetermined-angle (PA) steps around the axis, so that an FC orientation is definable in the PA steps to provide a PA around the axis.
US12061199B2
A method for diagnosing cancer in an expanded biological tissue sample of a patient comprising providing at least one sample image of the expanded biological tissue sample; providing a computer configured to analyze the sample; analyzing, with the computer, the sample detect and segment nuclei; calculating, with the computer, molecular characteristics of those nuclei; and determining, with the computer, a diagnosis of cancer of the sample by comparing the sample with a benign normal tissue reference.
US12061184B2
A gas constituent measuring apparatus includes a cell that draws in a first gas to be measured, gas sensors that respond to one or more types of constituent gases in the cell, a regulator that controls humidity in the cell, a pump, a humidity sensor that detects the humidity in the cell, and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit controls the regulator and pump on the basis of a detection result of the humidity sensor so that the humidity is within a predetermined range before the first gas is drawn into the cell or after the first gas is discharged from the cell, acquires first response values from the gas sensors with humidity being controlled, acquires second response values from the gas sensors with the first gas being in the cell, and determines concentrations of the one or more types of constituent gases from the first and second response values.
US12061183B2
The present invention provides methods of assessing suitability of a pharmaceutical composition for medical use. The pharmaceutical composition comprises nanoparticles comprising rapamycin coated with albumin and a non-nanoparticle portion comprising albumin and rapamycin.
US12061176B2
A testing apparatus for a flexible screen includes a slide rail, a reel, and a clamping member. The reel is disposed at an end of the slide rail in the extension direction of the slide rail which the axial direction of the reel is perpendicular to. The reel has a hollow structure and is connected to a evacuating device through a gas path formed in the hollow structure to enable the evacuating device to vacuumize inside of the reel to fit the flexible screen and coil around the reel. The reel is configured to affix first end of flexible screen and rotate to coil the flexible screen. The clamping member is configured to clamp a second end of the flexible screen opposite to the first end. The reel is further configured to rotate to drive, through the flexible screen, the reel and the clamping member to slide towards each other along the slide rail.
US12061169B2
A system and method are provided for inspecting challenging material locations such as holes. The system may include a sensor cartridge (“mandrel”) for hole inspection that has a helical portion to which a sensor array is attached. The radius of the helical portion can be increased or decreased by applying a torque to the helical portion thereby allowing the sensor to be inserted into a hole or pressed against the wall of the hole. A scanner is described to which mandrels can be quickly connected and changed enabling an inspector to quickly switch between different mandrels (e.g., for different holes sizes and sensor configurations). Also disclosed is an inspection procedure and data processing algorithm for performing an inspection. The data processing algorithm utilizes a signature library for enhancing the detection or sizing of features of interest such as cracks. The algorithm and library can account for material edges, various material types.
US12061166B2
A dual-mode ion detector for a mass and/or ion mobility spectrometer comprising a first conversion electrode (20) that is maintained, in use, at a negative potential and arranged for converting incident positive ions (32) into secondary electrons (34), and a second conversion electrode (22) that is maintained, in use, at a positive potential and arranged for converting incident negative ions (42) into secondary positive ions (44) and/or secondary electrons (74). The detector also comprises an electron detecting surface (26) and an entrance electrode (24) for drawing ions into the ion detector. The ion detector is switchable between a first mode for detecting positive ions and a second mode for detecting negative ions.
US12061161B2
A gas sensor device includes a sensing element including a heating element and electronic circuitry in connection with the heating element. The sensing element forms a resistive element in a circuit of the electronic circuitry. The electronic circuity operates the sensing element in a trigger mode via a pulsed energy input to the heating element at a first duty cycle and in a primary mode via a pulsed energy input to the heating element at a second duty cycle, which is greater than the first duty cycle. The electronic circuitry is further configured to measure a response of the sensing element over time during each pulse of a plurality of pulses of the pulsed energy input. The primary mode is entered upon measurement of a value of a response at or above a threshold value in the trigger mode of operation.
US12061160B2
A method of using the transverse relaxation rate (R2) of solvent NMR signal to noninvasively assess if an alum-containing product, such as a vaccine, has been acceptably resuspended for use following transport and/or storage. This technique allows for the manufacturer and/or distributor and/or end user to monitor for unexpected stressors associated with transport and/or storage including, but not limited to, temperature fluctuations, pH changes, vigorous shaking during transportation, exposure to sunlight, and freezing.
US12061153B2
Method and apparatus for capturing an image of a lateral face of a wooden board, where the lateral face (2) is parallel to a main axis of development of the wooden board (3), with the method comprising a step for feeding the wooden board (3) with the lateral face (2) transverse to a feeding direction (4), a step for illuminating the lateral face (2), a step for capturing, using a plurality of area scan cameras (9), a plurality of first digital images at different times, where each first digital image comprises a portion (10) of the lateral face (2) extending for an entire height of the lateral face (2) transverse to the main axis of development and for part of a length of the lateral face (2) along the main axis of development, where the set of all such portions (10) corresponds to the entire lateral face (2), and a merging step for merging the first digital images using an electronic processing unit to obtain a second digital image showing the entire lateral face (2).
US12061151B2
A method for detecting Raman scattered light using at least one interference filter and a detection unit, the Raman scattered light to be detected including an incoming scattered light signal, wherein the method includes the following steps: * a first filtered scattered light signal is generated by the application of a first transmission function to the incoming scattered light signal, the first transmission function being assigned to a first optical path length L1 through a first interference filter, and the first transmission function defining a first spectral band δλ1; * a second filtered scattered light signal is generated by the application of a second transmission function to the incoming scattered light signal, the second transmission function being assigned to a second optical path length L2≠L1 through the first interference filter or through a second interference filter, and second transmission function defining a second spectral band δλ2; and * the first and the second filtered scattered light signals are detected by the detection unit.
US12061149B2
A swept frequency fluorometer having a signal processor or processing module configured to:
receive signaling containing information about reflected light off one or more fluorescence species-of-interest in a liquid sample that is swept with light having a variable frequency range, the information including a characteristic optical frequency corresponding to a fluorescence species-of-interest in the liquid, and a characteristic/lifetime optical frequency corresponding to a distinct fluorescence lifetime in which the fluorescence species-of-interest remains in an excited state; and
provide corresponding signaling containing information about an identity of the fluorescence species-of-interest detected and distinguished from overlapping fluorescence species in the liquid using the characteristic/lifetime optical frequency, based upon the signaling received.
US12061148B2
A multimodal signal acquisition device and method, and a laser image system are provided. The multimodal signal acquisition device is configured to acquire a multimodal signal generated by a laser pulse that irradiates a sample and includes an independent-channel acquisition module and a spectral signal processing device. The independent-channel acquisition module is provided with multiple independent spectral signal acquisition channels, each of which corresponds to a spectral signal of a specific spectral range in the multimodal signal. Each of the spectral signal acquisition channels acquires the multimodal signal, filters the corresponding spectral signal of the specific spectral range from the multimodal signal, and sends the spectral signal to the spectral signal processing device. The spectral signal processing device is configured to receive the spectral signal acquired by each of the spectral signal acquisition channels and perform imaging and superposed output of each spectral signal.
US12061142B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the physicochemical properties of a nanoscale system (NSS) using analytical ultracentrifugation), comprising the steps of generating a multi-dimensional sedimentation analysis map associated with the NSS of interest; selecting sample-dependent parameters; determining sedimentation coefficient value/parameter in the sample; inserting sample sedimentation coefficient values onto the multi-dimensional sedimentation analysis map to obtain a NSS sample map value; and inferring from the NSS sample map value the physicochemical properties of the NSS sample. Furthermore, the invention relates to a system for performing the method, a computer program product and a computer readable storage medium.
US12061126B2
A pressure sensing device (1000) comprises first and second electrodes (10, 20) spaced from each other by a distance. At least one of the electrodes is formed of/comprises a unitary piece of non-metallic conductive material. The distance is changeable in response to a pressure/force applied to the first and/or second electrode. The device comprises a measurement module (500) connected to the first/second electrode at a plurality of sensing points (S1 . . . ). The measurement module is configured to measure a change in capacitance between the first and second electrodes, in response to a change in the distance when a pressure/force is applied to the first and/or second electrode, at each sensing point individually and/or at all sensing points simultaneously. The measurement module is configured to determine the location, area and amount of applied pressure on the first and/or second electrode from the individual measurements, and/or the amount of the applied pressure from the simultaneous measurement.
US12061124B2
A current control module is employed to protect a conductive feature of a printed circuit board (PCB) from an overcurrent event by comparing a reference voltage output from a compensation circuit connected to a reference power supply to a voltage output from a conductive feature connected to a power supply which is different from the reference power supply. The reference output voltage is representative of an anticipated voltage output from the conductive feature. The current control module is configured to initiate regulation of power to the conductive feature when the voltage output from the conductive feature exceeds the reference voltage output.
US12061123B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a temperature sensor is formed, a plurality of insulating films formed above the semiconductor substrate, a temperature measurement wiring pattern formed on a first insulating film which is one of the plurality of the insulating films, a detection electrode which is formed on the uppermost insulating film of the plurality of the insulating films to be arranged at a position corresponding to the first temperature measurement wiring pattern and is provided for contact a temperature measurement needle, and one or more via electrodes formed in one or more insulating film between the temperature measurement electrode and the detection electrode to couple between the temperature measurement electrode and the detection electrode.
US12061120B2
A floating bridge structure includes a substrate, a floating bridge layer, and at least one support. The floating bridge layer is on the substrate and substantially parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. The support extends on a vertical surface from the substrate to the floating bridge layer, in which the vertical surface is substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate.
US12061112B2
A device, and corresponding method, for determining a presence of lead in a material composition of a pipe includes a probe, a resonant frequency measurement circuit, and a material analyzer. The probe includes an oscillator circuit and can be inserted into an interior cavity of the pipe and emit electromagnetic radiation. The frequency measurement circuit operatively communicates with the oscillator circuit and outputs resonant electromagnetic frequency measurement data indicating a resonant electromagnetic frequency of the oscillator circuit. The material analyzer receives the resonant electromagnetic frequency measurement data, and an additional measurement selected from the group consisting of (i) a measurement of power dissipation of the oscillator circuit and (ii) an interior diameter of the pipe, and outputs a positive or negative indication of whether lead is present in the material composition based on the resonant electromagnetic frequency measurement data and the additional measurement.
US12061110B2
A displacement and weight association apparatus includes a setting unit, a detecting unit, a measuring unit, and an associating unit. The setting unit sets a processing target period. The detecting unit detects weights of a plurality of vehicles having passed a structure during the processing target period. The measuring unit measures a plurality of peak values of displacement of the structure during the processing target period. The associating unit associates the peak values with the weights of the vehicles based on a magnitude relation of the measured peak values and a magnitude relation of the detected weights of the vehicles.
US12061108B2
A water softener salt monitoring system includes a brine tank configured for retaining a quantity of salt, a quantity of water and having a bottom, a sensor secured to the brine tank and constructed and arranged for sending a signal to the bottom, the sensor including a receiver configured for receiving a reflected signal off of at least one of the quantity of salt, the quantity of water and the bottom, and a controller connected to the sensor and programmed to compare the reflected signals with preset values, and for generating an alarm signal upon receipt of deviations from the preset values.
US12061104B2
A flowmeter includes a control and evaluation unit, a sensor unit for capturing a primary variable, and a memory for storing data sets. The control and evaluation unit has a computing unit for determining the flow rate and/or for operating the sensor unit. The sensor unit is connected to the computing unit. During operation, the computing unit determines the flow rate from the primary variable, and determines the flow rate based on a data set and/or controls the sensor unit based on a data set. The data set includes a set of calibration values and/or a parameter for the operation of the sensor unit, and/or a parameter for determining the flow rate. The data set is assigned to a value of a state variable. The state variable is a medium parameter and/or a process parameter. The computing unit exchanges the data set depending on a change in the state variable.
US12061103B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a sensor assembly, methods of manufacturing the same, and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, a sensor assembly comprises a substrate comprising an outer region, an inner region, and a middle region positioned between the outer region and the inner region, the substrate further comprising electrical contact pads on at least the inner region. The sensor assembly further comprises a housing coupled to the substrate at the outer region or at the middle region to form a hermetic seal. The sensor assembly further comprises a sensor device coupled to the substrate, via the electrical contact pads, at the inner region. In certain embodiments, the sensor assembly further comprises a conformal coating deposited on at least a portion of the sensor assembly.
US12061091B2
Example implementations may relate to sun-aware vehicle routing. In particular, a computing system of a vehicle may determine an expected position of the sun relative to a geographic area. Based on the expected position, the computing system may make a determination that travel of the vehicle through certain location(s) within the geographic area is expected to result in the sun being proximate to an object within a field of view of the vehicle's image capture device. Responsively, the computing system may generate a route for the vehicle in the geographic area based at least on the route avoiding travel of the vehicle through these certain location(s), and may then operate the vehicle to travel in accordance with the generated route. Ultimately, this may help reduce or prevent situations where quality of image(s) degrades due to sunlight, which may allow for use of these image(s) as basis for operating the vehicle.
US12061085B2
A method for determining a rotational orientation change using an NMR gyroscope includes making use of a measure of determining, in a vapor cell, which is filled at least with a gaseous first element and a gaseous second element having non-vanishing nuclear spin, a nuclear spin component of the second element in the second direction and a nuclear spin component of the second element in a third direction. The second direction and the third direction are perpendicular to a first direction, which corresponds to the direction of the static magnetic field and to the polarization direction of the nuclear spin of the second element. Moreover, the second direction corresponds to the direction of an applied alternating magnetic field, the frequency of which corresponds to the Larmor frequency of the Larmor precession of the nuclear spin of the second element about the static magnetic field.
US12061082B2
Electromagnetic tracking systems and methods for automatically providing the required additional information needed to identify the orientation of a sensor are disclosed. The tracking systems are configured to carry out a digital modulation process to determine one or more parameters needed for calibration and to determine if the carrier wave and the modulated signal are in-phase or 180° out-of-phase at time T=0, thereby determining the operational sign of the carrier wave and thus the orientation of the one or more sensors. In some embodiments, at least one offset coil is arranged to generate an additional magnetic field, and the tracking system may be calibrated on the basis of the additional magnetic field.
US12061078B2
The present application provides an on-machine point cloud detection and compensation method for processing complex surfaces, which comprises: step S1, installing a detecting and scanning actuator on an ultrasonic rolling machine tool; step S2, installing a processed workpiece on the chuck which is scanned by the detecting and scanning actuator to obtain the point cloud data of the workpiece in a coordinate system of detecting and scanning actuator, which is converted into the point cloud data of the workpiece in a coordinate system of machine tool; step S3, processing the point cloud data of the workpiece in the coordinate system of machine tool; step S4, obtaining and compensating the shape error feature of the workpiece according to theoretical design data of the processed workpiece and processed point cloud data of the workpiece in the coordinate system of machine tool. The accuracy and efficiency of complex surface strengthening is improved in the present application.
US12061074B2
A warhead includes a gas generator, a plurality of barrels, and a plurality of projectiles. The warhead is configured to selectively actuate the gas generator to generate a pressurized gas that energetically propels the projectiles through and out from the barrels to strike a target.
US12061072B2
A self-contained and collapsible target stand includes a main body and at least one stand leg insertable into the main body. The target stand is capable of transitioning between an assembled state where the at least one stand leg is inserted into side surface apertures, and a collapsed state where the at least one stand leg is inserted into a cavity defined within the main body. The main body has a top surface with at least one support member aperture. The at least one support member aperture is capable of receiving a support member for a shooting target.
US12061068B2
A bumper for preventing a forward portion of an electrode from penetrating a target comprises a rearward portion and an expandable portion. The rearward portion is configured to couple the bumper to a forward portion of an electrode. The expandable portion may comprise a plurality of members. The expandable portion is configured to transition from a collapsed state to an expanded state after being launched toward a target. The expanded state comprises a greater contact area than the contact area of the collapsed state. The greater contact area of the expanded state is configured to distribute a force of impact on the target to prevent penetration into the target. The transition from the collapsed state to the expanded state may be configured to increase a duration of impact with the target, thereby reducing a force of impact on the target to prevent penetration into the target.
US12061067B2
A target adjustment apparatus may be provided. The target adjustment apparatus may include an optical targeting device having a first zero. The target adjustment apparatus may further include an optical adjustment lens removably disposed in a line of sight between a target and the optical targeting device. The optical adjustment lens may shift a target image before it reaches the optical targeting device, creating a second zero.
US12061062B2
A rifle includes a magazine well, a barrel detachably coupled to the magazine well, and a suppressor detachably coupled to the barrel. The barrel includes a forward barrel portion on an end of the barrel opposite the magazine well. The forward barrel portion includes a muzzle locking mechanism. The suppressor is configured to be retractable.
US12061061B2
A firearm magazine adapter to be affixed to a non-native magazine to allow the adapted magazine to fit and function in a firearm that normally cannot accept the non-native magazine. Embodiments comprise two or three primary elements: two clamshell halves for the body or a one-piece body, and an ejector which is captive, for use with a non-native magazine, in the body. In one embodiment the magazine adapter is free of moving parts. In one embodiment, two screws hold the clamshell halves together and secure the ejector via a partial cylindrical negative volume. In use, the assembly is permanently and removably affixed to a non-native magazine. A single, unmodified release on the firearm releases the adapted magazine from the firearm.
US12061056B2
Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling apparatuses and methods for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling apparatus includes an arrangement of a plurality of different material located at different depths along a depth dimension relative to the object. The plurality of different material includes a solar spectrum reflecting portion configured and arranged to suppress light modes, thereby inhibiting coupling of the incoming electromagnetic radiation, of at least some wavelengths in the solar spectrum, to the object at a range of angles of incidence relative to the depth dimension. Further, the plurality of material includes a thermally-emissive arrangement configured and arranged to facilitate, simultaneously with the inhibiting coupling of the incoming electromagnetic radiation, the thermally-generated electromagnetic emissions from the object at the range of angles of incidence and in mid-IR wavelengths.
US12061051B2
A system and method of providing power to at least one component within a gas furnace, the method including operating a gas furnace to produce thermal energy; operating a waste heat assembly to extract the thermal energy from the gas furnace; operating the waste heat assembly to convert the extracted thermal energy to electrical energy; operating the waste heat assembly to transmit the electrical energy to at least one component of the gas furnace.
US12061050B2
A heat recovery wheel for a heat exchanger includes a wheel rim defining an outer perimeter of the heat recovery wheel, and a plurality of wheel passages located between the wheel rim and the wheel axis. The plurality of wheel passages are arranged in a plurality of radial layers relative to a wheel central axis. Each layer is defined by a first shaped material having a first cross-sectional shape and a second shaped material assembled to the first shaped material, the second shaped material having a second cross-sectional shape. Radially adjacent layers of the plurality of layers are secured directly to one another, and the plurality of wheel passages are configured for flow of a first airflow and a second airflow therethrough for thermal energy exchange between the first airflow and the second airflow.
US12061041B2
A display case door includes a sealed glass unit assembly, a door frame, and an electronic display. The sealed glass unit assembly includes a sealed glass unit and a subframe extending about and coupled to the sealed glass unit. The subframe includes a set of two or more subframe rails configured to hold the sealed glass unit. The door frame is coupled to the subframe and configured to support the sealed glass unit assembly in the door frame. The electronic display is coupled to the door frame in front of the sealed glass unit. The door frame is configured to couple with a display case enclosure in an opening of the display case enclosure.
US12061028B2
A system generates alerts based on sensor data obtained from equipment, for example, refrigeration equipment. Examples of equipment instances include refrigeration equipment, heating equipment, air conditioning equipment, and so on. The system accesses a model, for example, a machine learning model trained to predict an alert threshold for generation of alerts. The system modifies the alert threshold value for an equipment instance based on the output of the machine learning model. The system uses the modified alert threshold value for generating alerts. The system may track the number of times the alert threshold was adjusted. If the number of times the alert threshold value is modified exceeds a predetermined fault threshold value, the system determines that the equipment is faulty.
US12061026B2
A method for managing and controlling a heat pump based on a compression/expansion thermodynamic cycle of an operating fluid including at least: first and second heat exchangers; an expansion valve; and a compressor. The compressor is able to suck and compress a wet operating fluid. A plurality of temperature sensors detects the delivery temperatures Tm of the compressor, an evaporation temperature SST in the first exchanger, and a condensation temperature SDT in the second exchanger. The temperature difference between the lubricating oil in the compressor and the operating fluid at the compressor delivery is kept equal to or greater than a safety threshold OIL_SH such that there is no condensation of the operating fluid in the lubricating oil.
US12061025B2
Provided are a power element and an expansion valve using same that are capable of suppressing local deformation of a diaphragm or the like while ensuring the transfer efficiency of a refrigerant. A power element includes a diaphragm; an upper lid member that is overlapped on one surface in the vicinity of the outer circumference of the diaphragm and forms a pressure working chamber PO with the diaphragm; a receiving member that is overlapped on another surface in the vicinity of the outer circumference of the diaphragm and forms a refrigerant inflow chamber LS with the diaphragm; and a stopper member housed in the refrigerant inflow chamber LS and in contact with the diaphragm, wherein a plate thickness near a support point of the diaphragm is thicker than a plate thickness at a central portion of the diaphragm.
US12061022B2
A magnetic refrigeration apparatus includes a main channel, a magnetic refrigerator, a fluid transfer mechanism connected to the main channel, and at least one control valve. A heating medium flows through the main channel. The magnetic refrigerator includes a magnetic working substance, a casing having a channel connected to the main channel, and a magnetic field modulator that applies a magnetic field variation to the magnetic working substance. The fluid transfer mechanism alternately performs a first operation of transferring the heating medium in the main channel in a first direction, and a second operation of transferring the heating medium in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The main channel includes at least one branch channel branching from a portion of the main channel between the magnetic refrigerator and the fluid transfer mechanism. The at least one control valve is connected to the at least one branch channel.
US12061018B2
A method for full spectrum solar thermal energy harvesting and collection includes storing a first heat in a phase change material in the presence of solar radiation based on absorbing full spectrum solar radiation, harvesting a second heat from the phase change material in the presence of solar radiation, storing molecular energy in a molecular storage material in the presence of solar radiation based on absorbing full spectrum solar radiation, transferring the second heat from the phase change material to the molecular storage material in the absence of solar radiation, and harvesting the molecular energy released by the molecular storage material.
US12061013B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an anti-splash structure and a humidification apparatus. The anti-splash structure is provided between a mist outlet (111) and a water storage reservoir (101) of the humidification apparatus, and includes a mist-guiding passage (1) configured to connect the mist outlet (111) and the water storage reservoir (101); a water blocking structure is provided in the mist-guiding passage (1); and the water blocking structure is located at a position opposite to the mist outlet (111) and an opening of the water storage reservoir (101).
US12061009B2
A vent cover for an air duct having (a) a top surface with an aperture, (b) an actuating member extending through the aperture and operably connected to a magnet selectively engageable with the air duct, and (c) a bias means for urging the magnet towards the air duct, the actuating member movable between a securing position and a releasing position, wherein in the securing position the bias means urges the magnet towards the air duct, and in the releasing position the actuating member moves the magnet away from the air duct to allow the vent cover to be removed from the air duct.
US12061006B2
An air flow control apparatus controls a fan. The air flow control apparatus includes an acquisition section, a detection section, and a control section. The acquisition section acquires image data obtained by an image capturing device installed in a target space. The detection section detects a specific object movable by an air flow sent from the fan, based on the image data acquired by the acquisition section. The control section executes first processing. The first processing includes controlling at least one of a direction and a volume of an air flow sent from the fan, based on a result of detection by the detection section.
US12061003B2
Systems and methods are provided and include a variable frequency drive configured to drive a fan motor of an HVAC system to ventilate an indoor space, the HVAC system having a cooling assembly that includes at least one of an economizer and a compressor. A controller is configured to communicate with the variable frequency drive, receive at least one signal from an occupancy sensing device, determine whether the indoor space is less than fully occupied based on the at least one signal, and control the variable frequency drive to reduce a speed of the fan motor in response to determining that the indoor space is less than fully occupied.
US12060998B1
A fire pit has a combustion chamber with a perforated floor, a chute below the perforated floor directing ash and debris from the floor to an area below the chute, and a removable ash pan occupying the area below the chute and having a handle affixed thereto.
US12060995B1
A combustor comprising a dome wall, a combustor liner extending from the dome wall, and a combustion chamber at least partially defined by the dome wall and the combustor liner. A set of fuel cups are arranged along the dome wall. A set of dilution passages extend through the dome wall or the combustor liner to direct air into the combustion chamber, wherein a dilution passage of the set of dilution passages includes an inlet, an outlet, and a passageway.
US12060994B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of controls including circuit assemblies configured for determining igniter, inducer relay, and igniter relay faults. In exemplary embodiments, a control for a system includes an input configured to receive a control signal, an inducer relay, an igniter relay, and a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly is configured to be coupled to the inducer relay, the igniter relay, and an igniter of the system. The circuit assembly comprises a plurality of diodes and is configured to enable detection of and distinguishing between a failure of the igniter, a failure of the inducer relay, and a failure of the igniter relay as determined by a waveform of the control signal at the input of the control for a given one of a plurality of operational states of the control.
US12060990B2
Example embodiments relate to light emitting devices with adaptable glare classes. One example light emitting device includes a carrier. The light emitting device also includes a plurality of light sources disposed on the carrier. Additionally, the light emitting device includes a plurality of lenses disposed on the carrier and covering the plurality of light sources. Each lens of the plurality of lenses includes a lens portion and a base portion surrounding said lens portion. Further, the light emitting device includes a light shielding structure including a plurality of reflective barriers, each having an outer surface and a first reflective inner surface. The outer surface is oriented such that a portion of the light rays emitted by a first light source of the plurality of light sources is transmitted through a first lens of the plurality of lenses and through a first portion of the outer surface.
US12060984B2
A linear light having clamper includes a lamp body and a clamper. The lamp body has an installation groove and a protrusion portion disposed adjacent to the installation groove. The clamper has a top portion and a plurality of lateral arms disposed at the two sides of the top portion respectively. The first end portion of each of the lateral arms is provided with a load-bearing bending plate and the load-bearing bending plates are movably disposed in the installation groove and engaged with the protrusion portion. Via the above structure, the clamper can be easily installed on the lamp body and the position thereof can be freely adjusted. Besides, the linear light with the structure can further provide the self-locking function.
US12060977B1
Apparatuses and systems are illustrated relating to solid-state light sources with enhanced designs. The configuration of the light sources may point the tips of the light sources in a single direction, in opposite directions, in a radial (e.g., a spoked-wheel configuration where all tips face outwards from center), or any other feasible configuration. The enhanced design is implemented in an electronic window candle product.
US12060976B2
A fuel supply device includes a fuel tank having an internal space configured to store fuel, a tube member having a flow path therein and having one side connected to the fuel tank and the other side connectable to an external component, and an opening/closing control unit coupled to the tube member and configured to control an operation of opening or closing the flow path of the tube member. The opening/closing control unit is configured to close the flow path of the tube member based on a rate (dP/dt) of pressure change over time of the fluid being greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
US12060969B2
A mounting bracket for a junction box includes a face plate having left and right edge margins and a central opening. The face plate includes a first set of indicia adjacent a top edge of the central opening and a second set of indicia adjacent a bottom edge of the central opening. Each set of indicia includes ruler graduations indicating a distance from the left edge margin of the face plate to the respective ruler graduation.
US12060966B2
The present invention concerns a universal targeting stand for an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), comprising a central support structure, a target plate selectively connected to the central support structure and a target image attached to the target plate. Selective connection of the target plate allows a common calibration stand for different vehicles even where different targets are required. Additionally provided is a method of using a universal targeting stand, a target sheet for use with the universal targeting stand and use of a calibrating mat with the universal targeting stand.
US12060965B2
A connection assembly between two portions of a supply line for a cryogenic fluid, the assembly including a male nozzle arranged to be at least partially inserted into a female nozzle together forming a tight mechanical link, over a distance of a few centimeters, a thermal insulation chamber for each of the two line portions and an additional thermal insulation chamber to thermally insulate the connection zone of the two line portions, and an expansion chamber for the cryogenic fluid that is configured to be linked to a cryogenic fluid sensor, arranged about the connection zone of the two line portions. This enables two cryogenic fluid line portions to be connected without requiring one portion to be inserted into the other portion over a significant length, thereby enhancing mechanical flexibility and obviating the need for significant free space about the connection assembly to assemble and disassemble the assembly.
US12060963B1
A process and system is provided to allow rehabilitation of asbestos concrete (AC) pipe to remain in place while rendering the AC pipe harmless, in a manner that protects the ecosystem and saves huge amounts of money lost to bypass, digging, remediation and disposal. The method and system provide for encapsulation of the old AC pipe in place without any digging or disruption to the surrounding area. No dewatering is required, saving the costs required with dewatering. There is minimal disruption to the community's use of the piping system while completing the repair, as such repairs can be done on a manhole-to-manhole basis. Finally, there are no hazardous material disposal requirements, or the costs associated therewith.
US12060958B2
A pure electric modular subsea test tree is provided, which includes a connect-disconnect device, wherein the first channel is formed in the connect-disconnect device; the connect-disconnect device is provided with a locking assembly and a connection drive mechanism for driving the locking assembly, and the first electrical connection plug is embedded in the connect-disconnect device, and the connection drive mechanism is electrically connected with the first electrical connection plug; a shear-seal assembly, wherein a second channel communicated with the first channel is formed in the shear-seal assembly; the shear-seal assembly includes at least one shear-seal device capable of plugging the second channel; a connection part is formed on the shear-seal assembly; a heating device is arranged at one end of the shear-seal device far from the connection part. The disclosure relates to a pure electric modular subsea test tree, which has fast response speed and high operation safety.
US12060953B2
A system for sensing a physical property of a fluid flowing inside a composite hose includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader arranged to transmit radio frequency signals. An RFID tag receives the radio frequency signals and exchanges the received radio frequency to electrical energy powering the RFID tag. An included sensor electrically connected to the RFID tag receives the electrical energy from the RFID tag and powers the sensor to obtain measurement data of at least one physical property of the fluid and transmit the measurement data to the RFID tag. The RFID tag transmits the measurement data to the RFID reader using the radio frequency.
US12060935B2
A power transferring gearset includes a gear synchronization controller disposed in communication with a drive gear, a driven gear and a shifting mechanism. In response to detecting a gear engagement command, the gear synchronization controller is configured to determine a rotational speed delta between a rotational speed of the drive gear and a rotational speed of the driven gear and compare the rotational speed delta to a pre-determined speed delta. In response to determining that the rotational speed delta is less than the predetermined speed delta, the gear synchronization controller applies a rotational shutter function to the drive gear to apply a series of clockwise and counterclockwise rotational cycles to the drive gear simultaneously during the axial movement of the shifting mechanism for preventing a blocked condition of the power transferring gearset while establishing the meshed relationship between the shifting and gear teeth.
US12060926B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a ball screw having a structure in which a screw shaft and a nut satisfy required performance and having improved durability, a method for manufacturing the ball screw, a power steering device, and a method for manufacturing the power steering device.
A ball screw according to the present invention includes: a nut made of a steel substrate having an inner peripheral surface on which a female screw is formed; a screw shaft that is combined with the nut and is made of a steel substrate having an outer peripheral surface on which a male screw facing the female screw is formed; and a plurality of balls arranged between the female screw and the male screw. A surface of the nut in contact with the ball and a surface of the screw shaft in contact with the ball each have carburized layers. A carbon concentration in the carburized layer of the nut is higher than a carbon concentration in the carburized layer of the screw shaft.
US12060921B2
A railing system is provided that illustratively includes a first rail and a second rail where the first rail is spaced-apart from the second rail. At least one cable that extends between the spaced-apart first and second rails. The at least one cable includes a stop sleeve disposed about the cable and positioned adjacent an end of the at least one cable. A cable tensioner having a body, a bore disposed through the body, and a stop surface is located adjacent an opening in the cable tensioner. An adapter that includes a body and a bore that extends into the body. The body of the adapter forms a surface located in contact with an underside surface of the top panel of the second rail between the first and second sidewalls of the second rail.
US12060915B2
A brake drum system (100) for a wheel of a vehicle, comprising a brake drum (110) rotatable with the wheel, the brake drum having an inner surface (124) adapted to receive a friction-generating lining when a driver applies the brakes of the vehicle; a wheel end hub (112) adapted to be located radially between a drive axle of the vehicle and the brake drum (110); and a substantially circular spring element (102) for concentrically aligning the brake drum (110) with the wheel end hub (112), the spring element being adapted to be clamped between the brake drum and the wheel end hub for providing a radially directed spring force, wherein the spring element has an outer surface adapted to be pressed against the brake drum and an inner surface adapted to be pressed against the wheel end hub.
US12060914B2
A tool for retracting pistons into cylinder bores is disclosed, with a narrow gap between facing pressure plates allowing use of the tool in tight places, and ratcheting spreading of the facing pressure plates causing outward moving of the pistons, enabling work to be performed, wherein movement of a threaded stud through a coupler moves a first pressure plate.
US12060912B2
Disclosed is a protective bellows (1) in the form of a tubular body (2) open at each of its ends, the body (2) having two zones (3, 4) of differentiated cross-section, one (3) of the zones (3, 4) of smaller cross-section called the small base (3) of the body (2) and the other zone (4) of larger cross-section called the large base (4) of the body, the zones (3, 4) being separated from each other by a wall referred to as the deformable outer radial wall of the body (2), this wall (6) extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the body (2). The outer radial wall (6) of the body (2) is provided, at its zone (12) connecting to the large base (4) of the body (2), with an outer peripheral groove (7) with an outer radial opening (8), this groove (7) having one of its sides (9, 10) and the bottom (11) of the groove (7) projecting from the face (61) of the deformable outer radial wall (6) turned towards the small base (3) of the body (2).
US12060911B2
A meshing clutch comprises a rotor with a first meshing clutch, a sleeve with a second meshing clutch and a first cam being supported by a clutch hub and urged so as to release meshing, a cam ring configured to convert movement in a rotational direction into movement in an axial direction to lock the meshing according to cooperation of the first and the second cams, and a cam actuator, a sun gear that receives rotation input, an internal gear meshing with the sun gear through a planet pinion, a planet carrier being provided with a drive pinion for output, a fiction clutch mechanism to adjust connection between the internal gear and the planet carrier according to fastening, and a clutch actuator performing fastening control of the friction clutch mechanism.
US12060909B2
An annular sliding component has a sliding surface relatively sliding with eccentric rotation. The sliding surface is provided with a plurality of grooves each of which is open to a fluid space on at least one of an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side of the sliding surface and arranged in a circumferential direction. The groove is partially defined by a first side wall surface formed along the circumferential direction of the sliding surface and a second side wall surface connected to the first side wall surface and formed along a radial direction of the sliding surface.
US12060904B2
An interlocking thread with a tooth-cross-section that is wider at its crest than at its root and with “V” angles located both along the crest and the root which tightens into a tapped hole that has a similar thread cross-section.
US12060903B2
A device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another may have a hollow cylindrical base element. The base may also have a hollow cylindrical compensating element which is in thread engagement with the base element and which can be moved out of an initial position into a compensating position by rotation relative to the base element. The device may also have a connecting element extending at least through a first cavity of the device for connecting the two components. The first cavity may have an inner contour in cross section and the connecting element may have an outer contour in cross section. The inner contour may differ from the outer contour in such a way that when the inner contour and the outer contour are oriented concentrically at least one radial overhang is present.
US12060899B2
A reusable blind fastener including a bushing, a nut, a tail, a receiver, an expansion device, and a screw. The expansion device having an exterior surface that is discontinuous and configured for selective elastic deformation when engaging a portion of the screw.
US12060892B2
A supercharger is provided with: a housing; a rotary shaft that is supported inside the housing to be freely rotatable; a compressor wheel that is provided at one end in an axial direction of the rotary shaft; a cooling water supplying pipe and a cooling water discharging pipe that have a flange part at an end and are connected to the housing; and a lubricant supplying pipe that has a flange part at an end and is connected to the housing. The ends of the cooling water supplying pipe and the cooling water discharging pipe are inserted into a cooling water supplying flow path and a cooling water discharging flow path of the housing, respectively. The end of the lubricant supplying pipe is inserted into a first supplying flow path of the housing. The flange part presses the flange parts in an insertion direction and is fixed to the housing.
US12060890B1
Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a fan blade assembly and a fan apparatus. The fan blade assembly includes: a primary fan blade, where multiple first blades circumferentially provided are arranged on the primary fan blade; an auxiliary fan blade arranged coaxial and adjacent to the primary fan blade, where multiple second blades circumferentially provided are arranged on the auxiliary fan blade, an air inlet direction of the auxiliary fan blade is an axial direction, an air outlet direction of the auxiliary fan blade is a radial direction, and the first blades and the second blades have different torsion directions; and an motor arranged on one side of the auxiliary fan blade away from the primary fan blade, where the primary fan blade has a maximum outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the auxiliary fan blade. According to the embodiment of the present disclosure.
US12060886B2
A power source for inflation systems. Specific embodiments relate to inflation systems that use an electrically-powered inflation system, wherein the power source of the inflation system is a solid state battery. Particular embodiments may find use in connection with inflating evacuation slides or life rafts on board a passenger transportation vehicle, such as an aircraft or marine vessel. Other embodiments may be used for inflating shelters, life vests, or any other inflatable safety device that requires a rapid inflation.
US12060880B2
A method for manufacturing a bushing of a self-lubricating plunger includes: S1. uniformly mixing a base metal powder with a reinforcing metal powder to obtain a mixture, putting the mixture into a mold for pressing by a hydraulic press machine to form a blank, then sintering the blank to form a tubular metal foundation having a plurality of micropores; S2. melting a metal matrix lubricant by heating up, wherein the metal matrix lubricant includes a metal substance of low melting point and a basic lubricating powder dispersed in the metal substance, and the metal substance has a melting point higher than a storage temperature of the bushing and lower than a working temperature of the plunger; and S3. immersing the tubular metal foundation in the molten metal matrix lubricant to fill the micropores of the tubular metal foundation with the metal matrix lubricant, then cooling down the temperature.
US12060879B2
The present invention is directed to a dispensing system, device, and method for the dispensing of a fluid supplement such as in the form of a concentrated fluid containing flavoring, nutrients, medication, and/or other supplements. Certain embodiments of the invention as disclosed herein comprise a handheld apparatus which allows the dispensing of predetermined amount of a fluid with single-handed use. Certain embodiments include self-contained pods which is controlled by a removable dispenser to allow for multiple types of fluids, and preventing cross-contamination within the dispenser.
US12060873B2
A cryopump includes a cryopump container, a pressure sensor that measures a pressure in the cryopump container and generates time-series pressure data indicating the measured pressure, a vent valve that is provided on the cryopump container, is electrically operable to open and close, and is capable of being mechanically opened by a differential pressure between inside and outside the cryopump container, and a controller that, during cryopump regeneration, detects stabilization of the measured pressure based on the time-series pressure data from the pressure sensor and controls the vent valve to open upon detection of the stabilization of the measured pressure.
US12060871B2
A water pump, including: a first housing, including a first cavity and further including a one-way water inlet and a one-way water outlet respectively in fluid communication with the first cavity; a flexible pumping part, having magnetism and elasticity, and being flexibly deformable, covering an outside of the first housing, and a second cavity is between the flexible pumping part and the first housing, a water permeable port configured to enable the first cavity and the second cavity to be in fluid communication is formed on the first housing; and a magnetic driving part, having magnetism, being configured to magnetically cooperate with the flexible pumping part to supply power to the flexible pumping part, the flexible pumping part deforms under the power to enable a fluid to conduct a pumping stroke and a suction stroke.
US12060869B2
A semicircular rotation prevention part for preventing rotation of a piston of a hydraulic unit of an externally-powered hydraulic vehicle brake system. The rotation prevention part is positioned in a congruent widened section at a mouth of a cylinder bore of a hydraulic block of the hydraulic unit and includes axially parallel rotation prevention grooves on its inner circumference, with which shoulders projecting outwards from the piston engage.