US12108685B2

A semiconductor structure comprises a reference layer of a magnetic random-access memory pillar structure, the reference layer having a first diameter, a free layer of the magnetic random-access memory pillar structure disposed over the reference layer, the free layer having a second diameter, and an electrode layer of the magnetic random-access memory pillar structure disposed over the free layer, the electrode layer having a third diameter. At least two of the first diameter, the second diameter and the third diameter are different.
US12108681B2

A semiconductor device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, a top electrode on the MTJ, a trapping layer in the top electrode for trapping hydrogen, a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on the MTJ, and a first metal interconnection in the first IMD layer and on the top electrode. Preferably, a top surface of the trapping layer is lower than a bottom surface of the first IMD layer.
US12108679B2

A metal hard mask layer is deposited on a MTJ stack on a substrate. A hybrid hard mask is formed on the metal hard mask layer, comprising a plurality of spin-on carbon layers alternating with a plurality of spin-on silicon layers wherein a topmost layer of the hybrid hard mask is a silicon layer. A photo resist pattern is formed on the hybrid hard mask. First, the topmost silicon layer of the hybrid hard mask is etched where is it not covered by the photo resist pattern using a first etching chemistry. Second, the hybrid hard mask is etched where it is not covered by the photo resist pattern wherein the photoresist pattern is etched away using a second etch chemistry. Thereafter, the metal hard mask and MTJ stack are etched where they are not covered by the hybrid hard mask to form a MTJ device and overlying top electrode.
US12108671B2

An organic electric element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic material layer includes a plurality of emission-auxiliary layers, and the HOMO energy levels of the plurality of emission-auxiliary layers are limited to specific conditions in relation to the neighboring organic material layers, thereby the driving voltage, the luminous efficiency and the life time of the organic electric element can be improved.
US12108666B2

A compound having a structure represented by the following formulas (a) and (b): wherein, in the formulas (a) and (b), a ring A, a ring B, a ring C and a ring D are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring having 6 to 50 ring carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring having 5 to 50 ring atoms; two or more of the ring A, the ring B, the ring C and the ring D are a heterocyclic ring; and each of sites *a, *b, *c and *d in the formula (a) and the formula (b) represents a position of an atom, and the atoms located in the sites *a, *b,*c and *d form one substituted or unsubstituted and saturated or unsaturated six-membered ring including four atoms thereof.
US12108664B2

The present invention relates to an organic compound of formula (1), suitable for use as a layer material for electronic devices, and it relates to an organic semiconductor layer comprising at least one compound thereof, as well as to an organic electronic device comprising at least one organic semiconductor layer, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US12108662B2

Provided are an organic electronic element and an electronic device therefor, wherein the organic electronic element has a mixture of a compound according to the present invention used as material for an organic layer thereof, thereby enabling the achievement of high light-emitting efficiency and low driving voltage of the organic electronic element, and enabling the life of the element to be greatly extended.
US12108653B2

A display panel includes the following elements: a substrate including a first base layer, wherein the first base layer includes a transparent polyimide resin; a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit over the substrate, spaced from each other with the transmission area between the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit, and each including transistors and a storage capacitor; a first display element electrically connected to the first pixel circuit; and a second display element electrically connected to the second pixel circuit.
US12108645B2

Provided is a display panel including first bypass wirings electrically coupling main pixel circuits in a first direction, and bypassing along one side of a pixel group at an outermost portion of the component area, horizontal wirings electrically coupled to the main pixel circuits and auxiliary pixel circuits and extending in a first direction, and extension wirings between two pixel groups adjacent to each other along the first direction, and extending in the first direction, wherein the extension wirings are electrically coupled to the horizontal wirings included in each of the two pixel groups, and the number of the extension wirings is less than the number of the horizontal wirings.
US12108644B2

A display panel includes: a display area including a main display area, and a component area; a peripheral area; a plurality of main pixel circuits at the main display area; a plurality of main gate lines extending in a first direction, and connected to the main pixel circuits; a plurality of main data lines extending in a second direction, and connected to the main pixel circuits; a plurality of auxiliary display elements at the component area; a plurality of auxiliary pixel circuits at the periphery area, and connected to the auxiliary display elements; a plurality of auxiliary gate lines connected to the auxiliary pixel circuits, and to main gate lines that are adjacent to the component area in the first direction; and a plurality of auxiliary data lines connected to the auxiliary pixel circuits, and to main data lines that are adjacent to the component area in the second direction.
US12108643B2

Provided is a display substrate, the display substrate is provided with a display area and a peripheral area around the display area, and includes: a source/drain layer, a planarization layer and an anode layer which are laminated in sequence, wherein in the peripheral area, the source/drain layer includes at least one pair of first signal lines including a signal line of a gate circuit and the anode layer includes a common power line provided with vent holes; and overlapping areas between two first signal lines in any pair of the first signal lines and a projection pattern of the vent hole are equal, the projection pattern of the vent hole being a pattern of an orthographic projection of the vent hole in the common power line onto the source/drain layer. A display panel and a display device are also provided.
US12108638B2

A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, a thin film transistor arranged on the substrate corresponding to the display area and including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode, a pad electrode arranged on the substrate corresponding to the peripheral area and including a material the same as that of the semiconductor layer, and a first insulating layer arranged on the thin film transistor and the pad electrode and including an opening that partially exposes the pad electrode. Accordingly, failure to perform a normal operation by a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element may be prevented.
US12108635B2

A display device comprises a base substrate, a lower interlayer dielectric layer, an oxide semiconductor layer including a first channel region, a first drain region disposed on one side of the first channel region, and a first source region, a first gate insulating layer, a first upper gate electrode, an upper interlayer dielectric layer, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, wherein the lower interlayer dielectric layer includes a first lower interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the base substrate, and a second lower interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the first lower interlayer dielectric layer, wherein the first lower interlayer dielectric layer includes silicon nitride and the second lower interlayer dielectric layer comprises silicon oxide, and wherein a composition ratio of nitrogen to silicon in the first lower interlayer dielectric layer ranges from 0.8 to 0.89.
US12108634B2

A display device, includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas each having an emission area; and a pixel provided in each of the pixel areas, wherein the pixel comprises: at least one light emitting element on a first surface of the substrate; a first insulating layer on the light emitting element; at least one transistor on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the light emitting element; a second insulating layer on the transistor; a common electrode on the second insulating layer; and a pixel electrode on a third insulating layer of the common electrode and electrically connected to the transistor, wherein the light emitting element comprises a semiconductor structure on the substrate, and first and second electrodes on the semiconductor structure to be spaced apart from each other.
US12108632B2

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk in a display, the pixel definition layer may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The pixel definition layer may have an undercut to disrupt continuity of some but not all of the OLED layers. The undercut may be defined by three discrete portions of the pixel definition layer. The undercut may result in a void that is interposed between different portions of the OLED layers to break a leakage path formed by the OLED layers.
US12108630B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a display device, as arranging a storage capacitor and an active pattern disposed on a subpixel by using an active layer that a semiconductor layer and a conductive layer are laminated, an area of the storage capacitor can be increased efficiently and methods can be provided to use an area overlapped with a contact-hole located on the active pattern as an area of the storage capacitor. Furthermore, as a location of the contact-hole is adjusted easily, by making the contact-hole not to be disposed on an area adjacent to a driving transistor, a size of the driving transistor can be increased and an aperture ratio of the subpixel can be improved.
US12108613B2

A photoelectric conversion device includes a substrate and a wiring layer disposed on the substrate. The wiring layer includes a wiring structure and a wiring insulating layer that surrounds the wiring structure. A reflective layer is disposed on the wiring layer. The reflective layer is electrically connected to the wiring structure. A semi-permeable metal layer is spaced apart from the reflective layer in a thickness direction of the substrate. The semi-permeable metal layer faces the reflective layer to form a microcavity between the reflective layer and the semi-permeable metal layer. A stacked structure is between the reflective layer and the semi-permeable metal layer in the thickness direction of the substrate. The stacked structure includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a transparent electrode layer, and an insulating optical spacer.
US12108598B2

A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a plurality of first conductive layers arranged in a first direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate, a first semiconductor layer that extends in the first direction and faces the plurality of first conductive layers, a first gate insulating film that extends in the first direction and covers an outer peripheral surface of the first semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer that extends in the first direction and has an outer peripheral surface covered with the first semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer that is farther from the substrate than the plurality of first conductive layers and is connected to one end in the first direction of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a first region facing the plurality of first conductive layers and a second region farther from the substrate than the first region. The second conductive layer is connected to an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the second region of the first semiconductor layer and is in contact with one end in the first direction of the first insulating layer.
US12108597B2

A semiconductor structure includes a memory die bonded to a logic die. The memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a semiconductor material layer located on a distal surface of the alternating stack, a dielectric spacer layer located on a distal surface of the semiconductor material layer, memory opening fill structures vertically extending through the alternating stack, through the semiconductor material layer, and at least partly through the dielectric spacer layer, and a source layer located on a distal surface of the dielectric spacer layer and contacting pillar portions of the vertical semiconductor channels that are embedded within the dielectric spacer layer.
US12108596B2

A semiconductor device, comprises a source, and a drain spaced apart from the source in a first direction. A channel layer is disposed on radially outer surfaces of the source and the drain in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A memory layer is disposed on a radially outer surface of the channel layer. A via is disposed at an axial end of the drain and is configured to electrically couple the drain to a global drain line. The via comprises a via base extending in a plane defined by the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and structured to contact the corresponding global drain line, and via sidewalls extending from outer peripheral edges of the base towards the drain. The via defines an internal cavity within which at least a portion of the axial end of the drain is disposed.
US12108594B2

A semiconductor manufacturing method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate, in which the semiconductor substrate includes an array region and a peripheral circuit region, in the array region, multiple capacitor contact holes are on the semiconductor substrate, and a first conductive layer is deposited on a bottom of each of the capacitor contact hole, and in the peripheral circuit region, a device layer is on the semiconductor substrate; treating the first conductive layer to increase its roughness; forming wire contact holes exposing the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral circuit region; forming a transition layer that at least covers a surface of the first conductive layer and a surface of the semiconductor substrate exposed by the wire contact holes; and forming a second conductive layer that covers the transition layer, and fills the capacitor contact holes and the wire contact holes.
US12108577B2

A thermal dissipation device for use with electronic assemblies or devices and that includes a heat conductive plate configured to thermally couple to one or more packaged components on a first side of the heat conductive plate. The thermal dissipation device further includes a heat conductive post coupled to a second side of the heat conductive plate. The heat conductive post includes a fin member rotatably coupled to the heat conductive post, which is configured to rotate about an axis of the heat conductive post to maximize both a flow of air across the fin member and thermal dissipation of heat from the heat conductive plate into the atmosphere.
US12108570B2

The vapor chamber includes a container having a cavity formed of one plate-shaped body to which a heating element is thermally connected and another plate-shaped body facing the one plate-shaped body, a working fluid enclosed in the cavity, and a wick structure that is enclosed in the cavity and separated from the container. The container includes a support part protruding from an inner surface of the other plate-shaped body toward the one plate-shaped body, the support part being formed of a recessed part provided to an outer surface of the other plate-shaped body. At the rising base portion of the support part from the inner surface of the other plate-shaped body, the defined angle between the support part and the inner surface of the other plate-shaped body is an obtuse angle.
US12108569B2

A heat dissipation connection structure of handheld device includes an outer frame main body and a two-phase flow heat exchange unit. The outer frame main body has a hollow receiving space at the center. The outer frame main body surrounds the hollow receiving space. The two-phase flow heat exchange unit is disposed in the hollow receiving space and connected with the outer frame main body by means of an injection molding structure member, whereby the outer frame main body and the two-phase flow heat exchange unit can be quickly and securely connected with each other.
US12108561B2

An electronic apparatus includes a chassis, a heating element in the chassis, and a cooling module in the chassis to cool the heating element. The cooling module includes: a blower fan; a heat sink having a plurality of fins spaced to have a gap therebetween, a first face with a first gap from the first cover member, and a second face with a second gap from the second cover member; a seal member attached to the first face of the heat sink so as to surround the first face; and a cover sheet attached to a surface of the seal member so as to cover the first face of the heat sink, thus defining a duct between the cover sheet and the first face to let air from the blower fan pass through the duct.
US12108555B2

An interconnecting module configured to be mounted in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cabinet in order to interconnect a plurality of computing units located in the HPC cabinet. The interconnecting module comprising a chassis configured to be mounted horizontally within housings defined in the computing units, a plurality of connection units spaced vertically, each connection unit being configured to be connected to a motherboard of a computing unit, the connection units being interconnected, each connection unit comprising at least a fastening member configured to cooperate with a housing of a computing unit, a vertical rack cooperating with all the fastening members and at least a main lever mounted pivotally on the chassis, the main lever being configured to move the vertical rack vertically in order to engage/disengage all the fastening members simultaneously.
US12108553B2

A panel for an electronic equipment enclosure includes a generally planar sheet composed of a metal-based material and at least one panel knockout arranged interiorly of edges of the generally planar sheet. The at least one panel knockout is connected to the generally planar sheet at one or more attachment points and is shaped to include at least one protruding notch along a side thereof. The generally planar sheet is adapted to fit atop an electronic equipment enclosure that defines an interior. Removal of the at least one panel knockout, by severing a connection between the at least one panel knockout and the generally planar sheet at the one or more attachment points, provides an access opening through the generally planar sheet to the interior of the electronic equipment enclosure. The access opening includes an edge having an indentation corresponding to the at least one protruding notch.
US12108546B1

A display assembly, communications box, and related methods are disclosed. A display assembly includes an electronic display subassembly attached to a mounting structure. A communications box attached to the mounting structure has an interior space for electronic equipment which is located above, and spaced apart from, the electronic display subassembly. A gas permeable fabric panel of the communications box occupies at least a majority of a side of the communications box and is gas permeable, such as to allow airflow to electronics contained therein.
US12108539B2

Described herein are ultra-thin nanocellulose flexible electronic device on which SU-8, an epoxy material which can become highly stressed upon UV exposure, is printed on desired areas. Upon UV exposure and then release from the surface it is anchored on, the nanocellulose device will spontaneously self-mold into a desired form due to stress differences between the SU-8 and the nanocellulose sheet. The flexible electronics can be manufactured using standard printed circuit board processing techniques, including electroless metallization and soldering of surface mount components.
US12108528B2

Provided is an insulating circuit board including: an insulating resin layer; and a circuit layer made of metal pieces, each of which is in a circuit pattern and provided on one surface of the insulating resin layer, wherein thickness of each of the metal pieces constituting the circuit layer is 0.5 mm or more, the insulating resin layer is made of a thermosetting resin, and a void ratio in regions between the metal pieces is 0.8% or less.
US12108516B1

An apparatus for treating a growth medium via an electrical discharge, the apparatus includes a treatment chamber, at least a reservoir, a plasma reactor, an injector, an pressure regulation system, and in ignition unit including a voltage source configured to provide an electrical voltage, a converter configured to convert the electrical voltage from a DC voltage input to an AC voltage output, and an electrical connection interface configured to electrically connect the converter to an electrode of a pair of electrodes disposed in the plasma reactor, a feedback mechanism comprising a sensor configured to detect reaction data, and a control module configured to initiate a generation of an electrical discharge in a reaction region as a function of the AC voltage output, wherein the reaction region is configured to enable an interaction between the electrical discharge and a growth medium.
US12108510B2

A smart socket has an off setting, an on setting, and a manual switch to switch manually between the off setting and the on setting. An automatic switch mode provides for switching automatically between the off setting and the on setting, based on time and/or on sensor input. The socket also has a Sabbath mode, wherein the manual switch is disabled and the automatic switching is based on time or on a predetermined set of sensors, wherein the smart socket is configured to enter the Sabbath mode based on Sabbaths and/or festivals using the Hebrew calendar and locally calculated daylight times.
US12108496B2

A portable electronic device includes a baseband integrated circuit configured to generate communication data and control signals. The portable electronic device also includes an optical path configured to be coupled to the baseband integrated circuit to transmit the data signals from the baseband integrated circuit. The portable electronic device additionally includes a radiohead configured to be coupled to the optical path to receive the data signals transmitted along the optical path from the baseband integrated circuit.
US12108482B2

Provided are a method of a base station for controlling transmission and reception of data through a network slice. The method includes: receiving network slice request information from a terminal in which a network slice is configured; controlling so as to deliver the network slice request information to a core network entity; and receiving, from the core network entity, specific network slice information configured on the basis of the network slice request information.
US12108465B2

The present document discloses methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communications, and more specifically, to techniques related to utilizing the multi-link channel assessment mechanism and multi-link channel access to reduce the access delay, improve transmission reliability, and increase transmission throughput. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes identifying, by a radio node, a first priority indicator associated with a data packet. The method also includes, responsive to identifying the first priority indicator associated with the data packet, transmitting, by the radio node, the data packet on a first available link detected via a multi-link clear channel assessment, the transmission of the data packet being prioritized to occur before transmission of another data packet that does not include the first priority indicator.
US12108458B2

A method of random access, a terminal device, and a non-transitory computer-storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. In response to a terminal device failing to achieve access when a value of a counter for recording a number of transmissions of a random access message containing a preamble reaches N during a first random access procedure, the terminal device switches from the first random access procedure to a second random access procedure, where the counter is further configured to count a number of transmissions of a random access message containing a preamble during the second random access procedure, and N is a positive integer.
US12108454B2

An example method is performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving, from a base station, a control message allocating resources in a bandwidth part for a downlink transmission, the bandwidth part including unlicensed spectrum and being divided into a plurality of bandwidth pieces corresponding to bandwidth units over which listen-before-talk (LBT) is performed. The radio resources used for the downlink transmissions exclude (e.g., by puncturing or rate-matching around) one or more guard bands of a bandwidth piece that is sensed as free for transmission.
US12108453B2

The subject disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for reducing access contention in a wireless medium. In some aspects, a method of the technology includes steps for exchanging data packets with multiple client devices in a wireless network, and based on the data exchange, identifying a first device from among the multiple client devices for which one or more higher-layer (e.g., Layer 3 and/or Layer 4) packets are likely to be received. In some aspects, a method of the technology can further include steps for broadcasting a lower-layer (e.g., Layer 2) packet to the plurality of client devices, wherein the lower-layer packet includes an extended duration field to suppress transmission by one or more listening client devices until at least one subsequent higher-layer packet is received from the first device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12108452B2

A method for sharing a channel occupancy time and a communications device are provided. The method is executed by a first device and includes: sending information related to a power detection threshold to a second device. The information related to the power detection threshold includes: a maximum power detection threshold of user equipment, a power detection threshold for Channel Occupancy Time (COT) sharing, or a type of information transmitted by the network device.
US12108445B2

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) may obtain fixed frame period (FFP)-related information, and perform clear channel assessment (CCA) for at least one FFP starting with a UE-initiated channel occupancy time (COT) for transmission of an uplink signal. The FFP-related information may include information about an FFP starting offset and information about an FFP duration or period, and the UE may identify a starting time of the FFP, based on the FFP starting offset having an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol-level granularity.
US12108444B2

The present document discloses methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communications, and more specifically, to techniques related to adjustable clear channel assessment for simultaneous transmission and reception constraint multi-link device. The method of the adjustable multi-link clear channel assessment includes adjustment of signal strength measurement algorithm or adjustment of energy detection threshold for the assessment when the multi-link network allocation vector is set for the transmission. A method for wireless communication includes identifying, by a wireless device, that a first wireless link and a second wireless link of the wireless device are in a detecting state at a first time. The method also includes modifying, by the wireless device, a multi-link channel availability assessment procedure of a second wireless link based on detecting a transmission state of the first wireless link at the first time.
US12108440B2

Provided is a method for controlling the access of a terminal in a communication system. An operation method of a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a two-step random access procedure; transmitting, to the base station, RA MSG-A including an RA preamble and an RA payload, on the basis of the configuration information; and receiving, from the base station, RA MSG-B, which is a response to the RA MSG-A. Therefore, communication system performance can be improved.
US12108432B2

A channel quality reporting method and apparatus for direct links, a storage medium, and a user equipment are provided. The channel quality reporting method includes: receiving report indication information, wherein the report indication information indicates at least one direct link that needs to be reported or a report condition; determining at least one reported direct link at least based on the report indication information; and reporting channel quality of the at least one reported direct link or information of the at least one reported direct link.
US12108430B2

A method for assessing a quality state of a radio link between a user equipment and a base station, comprising: obtaining a signal index that identifies within a reference signal discovery window a plurality of candidate time slots during which a reference signal may be sent by the base station; determining whether the base station was authorized, as a result of a procedure that determines the availability of a radio channel, to access to the radio channel during at least one first frame, wherein the determination is based on the reception or absence of reception during said at least one first frame of a downlink configuration signal from the base station; identifying, among the plurality of candidate time slots, a target time slot; assessing the quality state of the radio link on the basis of a power measurement performed during the target time slot only if the determination is positive.
US12108429B2

Aspects relate to reporting channel state information. A base station may configure a user equipment to measure channel state information reference signals associated with full-duplex communication and channel state information reference signals associated with half-duplex communication. In response, the user equipment may report first channel state information associated with the full-duplex communication and second channel state information associated with the half-duplex communication. In some examples, the user equipment reports the second channel state information as a differential relative to the first channel state information. In some examples, the user equipment reports the first channel state information as a differential relative to the second channel state information.
US12108424B2

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: transmitting a first data flow in resources of a first periodic resource configuration; and transmitting a second data flow in resources of a second periodic resource configuration, determining that there is an at least partial overlap in time between a first allocation of the first periodic resource configuration and a second allocation of the second periodic resource configuration; and in response to determining that there is the at least partial overlap, transmitting data of the first data flow and data of the second data flow in resources of at least one further periodic resource configuration.
US12108420B2

Disclosed is an electronic device including a wireless communication circuit, and a processor operably connected to the wireless communication circuit, wherein the processor is configured to identify a first channel for communication with an access point (AP) based on wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) and a second channel for direct communication with an external electronic device based on Wi-Fi direct, reconfigure a capability of the electronic device related to direct communication with the external electronic device when the first channel and the second channel are different, and transmit information about the reconfigured capability of the electronic device to the external electronic device through the wireless communication circuit.
US12108418B2

In a wireless local area network system, a shared AP may receive an announcement frame and a data frame from a sharing AP for multi-AP transmission. In the present disclosure, the announcement frame may be transmitted in a broadcasting scheme. The data field of the announcement frame may include an identifier (ID) of the shared AP. The shared AP may receive a data frame from the sharing AP. In the present disclosure, a receiver address (RA) field of the data frame may include an address of the sharing AP. The shared AP may decode the data frame based on the address of the sharing AP included in the RA field of the data frame.
US12108417B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a first common frequency resource (CFR) configured for multicast downlink communications and associated with a first bandwidth part, and an indication of a second CFR configured for broadcast downlink communications and associated with a second bandwidth part. The UE may determine whether to switch a bandwidth part for receiving downlink communications based at least in part on the indication of the first CFR and the indication of the second CFR. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12108411B2

A method for configuring a control region, performed by a base station working on an unlicensed spectrum, includes: determining one or more channel detection subbands for configuring the control region; generating control region configuration information corresponding to the one or more channel detection subbands; and transmitting the control region configuration information to a terminal to perform a corresponding control signaling detection based on the control region configuration information.
US12108409B2

This disclosure provides an information transmitting method and a terminal. The information transmitting method includes: transmitting a MAC PDU, where the MAC PDU includes a MAC CE, and the MAC CE is used to indicate that a terminal has received activation or deactivation signaling for a configured grant resource, or is used to indicate that a terminal has activated or deactivated a configured grant resource, or is used to request.
US12108408B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some implementations, a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) is described that includes identifying that the UE is in carrier aggregation communication with a primary and secondary cell. The method may also include monitoring, during one or more time intervals, UE-specific search spaces of the secondary cell for control information scheduling data communications on the primary cell. The method may include switching, during one or more different time intervals, to monitoring UE-specific search spaces of the primary cell. Another method describes wireless communication at a base station that may configure a UE to communicate via carrier aggregation, transmit control information via the secondary cell to the UE during downlink TTIs, and transmit control information via the primary cell to the UE during uplink TTIs.
US12108407B2

A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines, in a case where conditions (1) and (2) below are both satisfied, a quasi-co-location (QCL) assumption of an aperiodic channel state information-reference signal (AP CSI-RS), based on a control resource set (CORESET) having a specific CORESET-ID in a latest slot in which one or more CORESETs are monitored, (1) a scheduling offset between reception of a downlink control channel for communicating downlink control information scheduling the AP-CSI-RS and reception of the AP CSI-RS being less than a value of a period for a reported beam switch, and (2) in a symbol identical to a symbol of the AP-CSI-RS, there being no other downlink signals with indicated transmission configuration indication state (TCI state) or there being other downlink signals without the indicated TCI state; and a receiving section that receives the AP-CSI-RS by using the QCL assumption. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the TCI state (QCL assumption) of the AP-CSI-RS can be appropriately determined.
US12108403B2

A data communication method of a user equipment includes receiving a higher layer signal indicating a change of a determination standard of a start symbol to which a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is assigned, detecting a downlink control information (DCI) format including PDSCH scheduling information from a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and determining the start symbol to which the PDSCH is assigned, based on at least one of information about the DCI format, mapping type information of the PDSCH, or an offset value between a slot in which the PDCCH is located and a slot in which the PDSCH is located.
US12108400B2

In a method for a user equipment to transmit a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system, a first complex-valued modulation symbol associated with a sidelink control signal is mapped to a control resource included in a sidelink resource, at least one second complex-valued modulation symbol associated with a sidelink data signal is mapped to a data resource included in the sidelink resource, a preset value is mapped to a plurality of subcarriers included in the sidelink resource, the at least one first complex-valued modulation symbol, the at least one second complex-valued modulation symbol, and the preset value are orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-modulated to generate the sidelink control signal and the sidelink data signal, and the sidelink control signal and the sidelink data signal are transmitted.
US12108397B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and device. The method comprises: monitoring PSCCHs in each slot within a slot set separately, to detect whether exists a PSCCH transmitted from a second terminal targeting to the first terminal in each slot within a slot set (S202); receiving an associated PSSCH based on each detected PSCCH targeting to the first terminal (S204); and transmitting one PSFCH carrying a HARQ feedback corresponding to each slot within the slot set in a slot corresponding to the slot set; wherein, the slot set comprises one or more slots (S206).
US12108394B2

The present specification proposes a discontinuous reception operation method characterized by: in a wireless communication system, a terminal in which a plurality of cells are configured performing a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring on-duration; receiving bandwidth part (BWP) setting information, wherein the BWP setting information informs a specific BWP; receiving a PDCCH on the basis of the PDCCH monitoring, wherein the PDCCH includes dormant indication information for a specific cell from among the plurality of cells of the terminal; and activating the specific BWP on the basis of the dormant indication information indicating non-dormancy.
US12108386B2

A method includes: triggering, by a terminal device, a scheduling request (SR); in response to determining that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying the SR and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carrying a first data packet overlap in time domain of a first uplink resource and a processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource is processing completed, sending, based on the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, the PUCCH on an overlapping time domain resource. According to the method, when the PUCCH carrying the SR and the PUSCH overlap in time domain of the first uplink resource, the terminal device considers the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, and may determine, based on the processing status of the PUSCH on the first uplink resource, to send the PUCCH or the PUSCH on the overlapping time domain resource.
US12108380B2

The method includes conducting communications with a first group of cells, and receiving a first indicator, the first indicator notifying the user equipment (UE) to enable scheduling with at least one second group of cells. The method further includes starting a first inactivity timer associated with the at least one second group of cells based on the first indicator, and scheduling communications with the at least one second group of cells following the starting of the first inactivity timer. The network node performs the method.
US12108378B2

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein dynamically modify the beam patterns used by an antenna array to communicate with user devices in a sector. A set of metrics are monitored and used to generate time-averaged beam quality values for a default beam pattern and then compared to a time-averaged beam quality of a subset of beams within the default beam pattern. If the time-averaged beam quality for the subset of beams exceeds a percentage of the time-averaged beam quality of the default beam pattern, the antenna array is re-assigned to communicate via a second beam pattern.
US12108376B2

Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame.
US12108373B2

It is an object to provide a sequence allocating method that, while maintaining the number of Zadoff-Chu sequences to compose a sequence group, is configured to make it possible to reduce correlations between different sequential groups. This method comprises the steps of setting a standard sequence with a standard sequence length and a standard sequence number in a step, setting a threshold value in accordance with an RB number in a step, setting a sequence length corresponding to RB number in a step, judging whether ¦r/N−rb/Nb¦=Xth(m) is satisfied in a step, including a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences with a sequence number and a sequence length in a sequence group in a step if the judgment is positive, and allocating the sequence group to the same cell in a step.
US12108369B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit beamforming capability information including a switching gap that indicates an amount of time associated with the UE switching between an analog beamforming mode and a digital beamforming mode. The UE may receive a resource allocation based at least in part on the beamforming capability information. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12108365B2

The present disclosure provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method includes: receiving sidelink configuration information; receiving sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by other user equipment and a corresponding physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); determining a transmission slot S of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) corresponding to the PSSCH; and determining N sidelink slots associated with the slot S, where N is a positive integer.
US12108347B2

There is provided mechanisms for average EIRP control of at least two radio signal paths. A method is performed by a coordinating controller of a site that includes the at least two radio signal paths. The method includes obtaining, from a respective inner controller of each of the at least two radio signal paths, long-term 5 time averaged traffic related information for each of the at least two radio signal paths. The method includes determining control information for each of the at least two radio signal paths based on the long-term time averaged traffic related information, antenna gain information for each of the at least two radio signal paths, and a condition on total average EIRP for the site, and performing 10 individual average EIRP control of each of the at least two radio signal paths by providing the control information to each respective inner controller.
US12108343B2

This disclosure provides a transmitting power determination method and apparatus, and a communication device. The transmitting power determination method includes: determining a comprehensive path loss according to a sidelink path loss of a first device, an uplink path loss of the first device, a first adjustment factor corresponding to the sidelink path loss and a second adjustment factor corresponding to the uplink path loss; determining transmitting power of the first device according to a third adjustment factor and the comprehensive path loss.
US12108342B2

A technique of selectively transmitting a skip signal indicative of skipping a downlink control channel from an access node (100; 600; 712; 820) to a radio device (791; 792; 830) is provided. As to a method aspect, a method (200) of selectively transmitting a skip signal indicative of skipping a downlink control channel comprises or initiates determining (202), for the radio device (791; 792; 830), whether a criterion for at least one of skipping the downlink control channel and transmitting the skip signal indicative of skipping the downlink control channel is fulfilled. The method (200) further comprises or initiates transmitting (204), to the radio device (791; 792; 830), the skip signal indicative of skipping the downlink control channel if the criterion has been determined (202) to be fulfilled for a predefined duration.
US12108333B2

Techniques are described to enable a user equipment (UE) to save power consumption and/or can enable the UE to acquire the channel state in time without reducing the UE's data transmission efficiency. An example technique includes determining, by the communication device, an operating mode based on a first signaling, and operating the communication device in the operating mode, where the operating mode includes any one of a normal mode, a first power saving mode, a second power saving mode, a third power saving mode, or a fourth power saving mode.
US12108332B2

Embodiments of this application relate to a wake-up signal (WUS) detection method and apparatus, to reduce signaling overheads of a network side device. The WUS detection method is as follows: a terminal device detects a terminal device-specific field in a detected WUS. If the terminal device detects the terminal device-specific field in the WUS, and detects that the WUS includes wake-up information for the terminal device, the terminal device determines, by using location information of the terminal device-specific field as a first index, a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource corresponding to the first index, and sends a first PUCCH, where the first PUCCH includes a first message used to feed back that the wake-up information for the terminal device is received.
US12108331B2

This application provides example bandwidth part (BWP) adjustment methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving, in a first BWP, first indication information sent by a network side device, where the first indication information indicates information about a second BWP to be used by a terminal device to receive or send data. The terminal device can then receive or send the data in the second BWP.
US12108327B2

An electronic device able to communicate using both a long-range and a short-range wireless communication technology. A transceiver of the electronic device switches its operation mode based on a power saving mode of the long-range wireless communication technology. In particular, the electronic device switches between a short-range mode and a long-range mode based on the power saving mode of the long-range communication technology.
US12108320B2

Disclosed are a clustering and routing method and system for a wireless sensor network. The method includes: constructing an initial MECPT; constructing cluster trees and updating MECPT; calculating clustering competition coefficients of existing cluster heads relative to nodes other than a base station; determining whether the clustering competition coefficients are all −∞; if yes, enabling non-clustered nodes to communicate with the base station following paths in the initial MECPT, and selecting child nodes of the base station in the initial MECPT as relay nodes; calculating weights about energy consumption of communication between the cluster heads and the relay nodes to get communication paths between nodes and the base station; or if no, clustering nodes based on the clustering competition coefficients, and updating the MECPT and cluster trees to which the nodes are added by an iteration process.
US12108307B2

Embodiments of this application disclose a communications method, apparatus, and system. Specifically, after receiving information about a multicast area from a sender of a multicast service, a first core network device in a first network obtains, based on the information, indication information indicates that the first network cannot support the multicast service in the multicast area, or indicates that the first network supports the multicast service in a portion of areas of the multicast area; and sends the indication information to the sender. In this way, the sender of the multicast service can determine whether the first network supports the multicast service in the multicast area.
US12108304B2

A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that utilizes a distance transformation vector constructed of a probability distribution function (PDF) and a distribution parameter ξ in the estimation process for precise and effective PDF estimation. The system includes a mobile wireless agent, a base station and a computing device interconnected over a wireless communication network. The wireless meter transmits sensory information to the computing device, where the sensory information is processed to estimate characteristics of the wireless communication signal based on the Rayleigh estimator. For the estimation, a distance transformation vector of the PDF and a distribution parameter are constructed. The estimated parameters along with a motion actuation plan are sent to the base station, which uses the estimated parameters in transmitting the motion actuation plan to the mobile wireless agent.
US12108303B2

Methods and systems, including processor-readable storage media, for interacting in a social media environment via a mobile device involving profile information that includes a multicolor profile displayable graphic based on profile questions having answers with different shades of question color associated with an answer. The social media environment may include an augmented reality user interface for displaying real world images obtained via a camera of the mobile device along with a virtual object representing items including, but not limited to, a marketing opportunity, another user of the system, profile information of another user of the system, a content item corresponding to another user of the system.
US12108300B2

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting at a mobile device a communication failure of a data connection between the mobile device and a source core network of a plurality of core networks available to the mobile device, the mobile device communicating with a respective core network of the plurality of core networks through a radio access network, selecting a destination core network of the plurality of core networks, and handing off the data connection from the source core network to the destination core network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12108293B2

In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes operating, by a user equipment (UE), in a network with fixed radio cells. The method also includes determining, by the UE, a plurality of potential satellites for selecting a first cell to camp on, the first cell associated with a first satellite. The method includes performing cell reselection, by the UE, to select a cell associated with a second satellite using a selection condition. The method further includes establishing, by the UE, a connection with the second satellite for paging monitoring or wireless communications. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12108290B2

An apparatus controls a connection state of communications by a first communication circuit and communications by a second communication circuit according to characteristics of data to be transmitted and received by the second communication circuit. In a case where a characteristic of the data to be transmitted and received is a first characteristic, communications with an information processing apparatus by the second communication circuit while maintaining the connection state with the information processing apparatus by the first communication circuit. In a case where a characteristic of the data to be transmitted and received by the second communication circuit is a second characteristic, after disconnecting connection with the information processing apparatus by the first communication circuit, communications with the information processing apparatus by the second communication circuit.
US12108283B2

Hierarchical network operation and resource control system and method for a mega satellite constellation, belonging to the field of spatial information technology, are provided. The hierarchical network operation and resource control system includes a service layer, a global organization layer, a local coordination layer and a resource layer. The service layer is used as an input to drive operation of whole system. The global organization layer is to realize “operation, measurement and control” integrated control and decision of whole network. The local coordination layer is to realize local management decision and management slice generation. The resource layer is to provide physical resource and physical device and realize resource virtualization. By deploying local coordination layer controllers on GSO or MEO satellites, the deployment of local coordination layer controllers is not limited by inability of deploying ground stations globally and therefore the control of large-scale LEO satellite constellation can be achieved.
US12108256B2

A terminal device is configured to transmit communication start notification for starting short-range wireless communication between a terminal device-side communication interface and a communication device-side communication interface. In response to the communication start notification, a communication device transmits authentication information of wireless communication and a printer one-time token to the terminal device via the short-range communication. The terminal device transmits connection information for connecting a router to the communication device via the wireless communication using the authentication information. The communication device performs setting for connecting the router using the connection information.
US12108250B2

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G communication systems such as LTE systems. According to an embodiment, a method for operating a user equipment (UE) for a mutual authentication operation in an access stratum (AS) section comprises transmitting a first message including a first random value to a base station, receiving, from the base station, a second message including a second random value and a base station certificate for the base station, in response to the first message, and identifying information included in the base station certificate and verifying validity of the base station certificate, when the base station certificate is valid according to a result of the verification of the base station certificate.
US12108242B2

There is provided a signal processing device that includes a relative azimuth prediction unit that predicts, on the basis of a delay time in accordance with a distance from a virtual sound source to a listener, a relative azimuth of the virtual sound source when a sound of the virtual sound source reaches the listener, and a binaural-room impulse response (BRIR) generation unit that acquires a head-related transfer function of the relative azimuth for each one of a plurality of the virtual sound sources and generates a BRIR on the basis of a plurality of the acquired head-related transfer functions.
US12108241B1

An audio system determines latency for each client device of users participating in an artificial reality or augmented reality environment. The latency determined for a client device accounts for latency of a communication channel used by the client device to exchange data, as well as time for the client device to perform computational tasks. The audio system determines a distance in the artificial reality environment between a user's avatar and an audio source for audio data and adjusts one or more transfer functions for generating audio content for the user to account for effects of the latency determined for the user's client device on the audio content. In some embodiments, the audio system modifies a distance in the artificial reality environment between the user's avatar and the audio source to compensate for latency of the user's client device.
US12108235B2

A system 3 synchronises a plurality of virtual reality headsets 2 to corresponding multichannel audio. System 3 has a plurality of independently operable virtual reality headsets each having one or more images preloaded thereon and a distribution device 4 in the form of a server is in Wi-Fi communication via a wireless access point 5 with each virtual reality headset where the server 4 triggers the one or more preloaded images on each headset. A sound rack device 6 is in Wi-Fi communication with server 4 and configured to send time codes signals thereto. A sound mixer 7 is in cable communication with the sound rack device 6 and receives audio file data corresponding to virtual reality image content therefrom simultaneously with the server 4. The server 4 is cable connected to the wireless access point 5 and configured to simultaneously message each headset 2. At least one speaker element is provided for each channel of audio being connected to the mixer 7 such that upon receipt of the audio file, the mixer 7 is configured to relay each channel audio signal to respective speakers 8 in synchronisation with the VR headset images.
US12108233B2

A loudspeaker includes: a magnetic circuit assembly with a magnetic flux space; a vibrating diaphragm covering a first end of the magnetic flux space; and a voice coil assembly in the magnetic flux space and coupled to a side of the vibrating diaphragm facing the magnetic flux space. The voice coil assembly includes at least one group of conductive coils and a heat accumulator in thermally conductive contact with the at least one group of conductive coils, and the heat accumulator absorbs and accumulates heat when a temperature of the voice coil assembly reaches a target temperature.
US12108231B2

The present invention provides a multifunctional acoustic device includes a cover enclosing an accommodating cavity and an acoustic member. The cover has a sound hole. The acoustic member includes a housing, a vibration system having a diaphragm, and a magnetic circuit system driving the diaphragm. The diaphragm divides a space of the housing into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity. The multifunctional acoustic device includes a sound channel communicating the front acoustic cavity to an outside of the sound hole and a sealing element located on an outer side of the cover. The sealing element is arranged covering a peripheral side of the sound hole and the sound channel so that the acoustic member communicates with the outside only through the sound channel.
US12108223B2

The application describes a switched driver (401) for outputting a drive signal at an output node (402) to drive a load such as a transducer. The driver receives respective high-side and low-side voltages (VinH, VinL) defining an input voltage at first and second input nodes and has connections for first and second capacitors (403H, 403L). A network of switching paths is configured such that each of the first and second capacitors can be selectively charged to the input voltage, the first input node can be selectively coupled to a first node (N1) by a path that include or bypass the first capacitor, and the second input node can be selectively coupled to a second node (N2) by a path that includes or bypasses the second capacitor. The output node (402) can be switched between two switching voltages at the first or second nodes. The driver is selectively operable in different operating modes, where the switching voltages are different in each of said modes.
US12108209B2

The speaker array includes a first speaker 1, a second speaker 2, and a local sound emission structure 3. The first transmission portion 311 and the second transmission portion 312 are arranged in such a manner that the distance between the center position of the first transmission portion 311 and the center position of the second transmission portion 312 is smaller than the distance between the center position of the first speaker 1 and the center position of the second speaker 2, in order to generate sound sources that are arranged at an interval narrower than the interval between the first speaker 1 and the second speaker 2.
US12108203B2

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for audio signal output. The apparatus may include a bone conduction assembly configured to generate a bone conduction acoustic wave. The apparatus may include an air conduction assembly configured to generate an air conduction acoustic wave, the bone conduction acoustic wave and the air conduction acoustic wave may represent a same audio signal. The apparatus may include a phase difference between bone conduction acoustic wave and the air conduction acoustic wave may be smaller than a threshold. The apparatus may include a housing configured to accommodate at least a portion of the bone conduction assembly and the air conduction assembly.
US12108200B2

A speaker includes a housing having walls that define a cavity and a diaphragm covering the cavity and configured to vibrate under application of a magnetic field. The vibration produces sound waves. The walls are configured to deform under bending stress. The speaker is configured produce the sound waves both in an undeformed state and in a deformed state. Another speaker includes a flexible layer, a sensor configured to detect a curvature of the flexible layer, and a transducer disposed on and configured to vibrate the flexible layer. The vibrations of the flexible layer generate sound waves and output generated by the transducer is based on the curvature of the flexible layer.
US12108195B2

This reflective screen 10 reflects a part of image light beam projected from an image source LS, to display an image. The reflective screen 10 is provided with: a first optical shape layer 12 which has optical transparency and has a plurality of unit optical shapes 121 arranged on a rear surface thereof; and a reflective layer 13 which is formed in at least some of the unit optical shapes 121 and by which a part of incident light is reflected and at least the other part of the incident light is transmitted, wherein a light diffusing action in the direction in which the unit optical shapes 121 are arranged is larger than a light diffusing action in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction.
US12108193B1

Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and processing events that occur at a gaming table in a casino environment. Camera streams associated with the table game are analyzed using lightweight, watchdog processes. When a certain event is detected, extended processes can be executed in order to provide additional information regarding the event. Such as approach can require a relatively limited amount of computing resources, while still providing relevant information to casino operators. The information can be used, for example, to track gameplay and provide player ratings.
US12108189B2

A communication server facilitates a video call between client devices of a plurality of participants. During the video call, the communication server identifies an in-call activity to recommend to the plurality of participants in the video call based on user information. The in-call activity is selected to be relevant to each of the plurality of participants and jointly recommended to the plurality of participants of the video call. To identify the recommended in-call activity, the communication server may determine common interests among the plurality of participants and select an in-call activity that is associated with the common interests. After the recommended in-call activity is selected, an indication of the recommended in-call activity is provided to the client devices to enable the client devices to display a user interface including the in-call activity to the participants during the video call.
US12108184B1

An image processing system enables a user wearing a head-mounted display to experience a virtual environment combined with a representation of a real-world object. The image processing system receives a captured scene of a real-world environment that includes a target object. The image processing system identifies the target object in the captured scene and generates a representation of the target object. In some cases, the image processing system may include a graphical overlay with the representation of the target object. The image processing system can generate a combined scene that includes the target object and the virtual environment. The combined scene is presented to the user, thereby allowing the user to interact with the real-world target object (or a representation thereof) in combination with the virtual environment.
US12108181B2

An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels that receives incident light entering from an object after passing through neither an imaging lens nor a pinhole, and each outputs a detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated in accordance with an incident angle of the incident light. The imaging device is attached to a vehicle so that a light receiving surface faces a side of the vehicle, and the average of the centroids of incident angle directivities indicating directivities of the plurality of pixels with respect to the incident angle of the incident light deviates in one direction from the center of the pixel. The present technology can be applied to an electronic sideview mirror, for example.
US12108180B2

A source follower element is adjacent to a first lateral part of a floating diffusion in a first direction orthogonal to the first lateral part, a reset element is adjacent to a second lateral part of the floating diffusion in the first direction, and the floating diffusion and the source follower element are connected through a wiring. Some of the photoelectric conversion elements are adjacent to each other in a second direction and spaced away from each other with a first spacing therebetween that allows at least the source follower element and the reset element to be formed therein. Some of the photoelectric conversion elements are adjacent to each other in the first direction and spaced away from each other with a second spacing therebetween that is less than the first spacing.
US12108179B2

The photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of signal lines, a pixel control unit that controls readout of signals from the pixels, a column circuit unit that generates pixel data from the signals read out from the pixels, and a signal processing unit configured to perform digital signal processing on the pixel data. The signal lines include first and second signal lines on the same column, and a period of reading out a signal from the first signal line and a period of reading out a signal from the second signal line overlap each other, and the signal processing unit includes a difference acquisition unit that acquires a difference value between a pixel data read out to the first signal line and a pixel data read out to the second signal line, and a correction unit that corrects the pixel data based on the difference value.
US12108174B2

In a case where illuminance is high, an error between the number of photons per frame calculated from time information and the number of photons and the actually expected number of photons per frame is reduced. In a time counter that counts a clock from the start of exposure in one frame, one-count time in the clock is switched depending on the illuminance. In a case where a pixel counter is saturated within a period of one frame, the illuminance is determined to be high, and a high-illuminance clock in which one-count time is set more minutely in the first half of one frame is used to count. In a case where the illuminance is not determined to be high, a normal clock is used to count.
US12108172B2

An imaging device of the present disclosure includes a pixel array part in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are disposed, an image processing unit for imaging that acquires captured image information on the basis of a pixel signal output from each pixel of the pixel array part, and an object recognition processing unit that acquires object recognition information on the basis of the pixel signal output from each pixel of the pixel array part. Further, a vehicle control system of the present disclosure has the imaging device having the aforementioned configuration.
US12108168B1

Techniques are generally described for color filter array interpolation of image data. A first frame of image data representing a plurality of pixels arranged in a grid may be received. A low pass filter may be used to generate a first luminance value for a first non-green pixel of the plurality of pixels. A first chrominance value of the first non-green pixel may be determined based at least in part on a combination of at least a chrominance value of a first green pixel located adjacent to the first non-green pixel and a chrominance value of a second green pixel located adjacent to the first non-green pixel. A second luminance value for the first non-green pixel may be determined based on a combination of the first chrominance value and the first luminance value. Output values for the first non-green pixel may be determined based at least in part on the second luminance value.
US12108162B2

A control apparatus for controlling an imaging apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether at least one subject in an image captured by the imaging apparatus is an authenticated subject, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the at least one subject is not an authenticated subject, control exposure of the image by targeting the at least one subject.
US12108161B2

This application discloses a photographing apparatus and method, and relates to the field of image processing. When a high-quality image in a low illumination environment is obtained, costs are reduced, a size is reduced, and product compatibility is improved. The method includes: controlling a light filtering unit to: transparently transmit visible light in incident light and block infrared light in the incident light in a first image exposure interval, transparently transmit the infrared light in the incident light in a first time period of a second image exposure interval, and block the incident light in a second time period of the second image exposure interval; performing, by using an image sensor to obtain a first image, and performing photoelectric imaging on a light ray to obtain a second image; and synthesizing the first image and the second image, to generate a first target image.
US12108160B2

The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and device for adjusting camera gain and a scanning system. The method includes: collecting a current frame image of a to-be-detected object; selecting a preset region in the current frame image for grayscale calculation to obtain a first calculation result; and adjusting camera gain in a corresponding brightness adjustment period based on the first calculation result.
US12108159B2

Method and device are provided for camera control to acquire an image. The method includes: acquiring a stream of image frames by an image sensor comprising at least one frame; acquiring a target frame by the image sensor; determining scene information in the target frame; selecting a reference frame from the stream of image frames by identifying the scene information of the target frame in the reference frame; determining at least one acquisition parameter of the reference frame; and acquiring a final image from the target frame with the acquisition parameters.
US12108144B2

An image pickup apparatus includes a first control unit communicable with the accessory by a first communication method, and a second control unit communicable with the accessory by a second communication method. The first control unit acquires control information on the second communication method from the accessory. The second control unit determines a control method for communication with the accessory based on the control information acquired by the first control unit.
US12108129B2

An imaging apparatus is mounted on a moving object and configured to capture an image while moving along a moving direction of the moving object. The imaging apparatus includes a sensor unit including a sensor substrate on which an image sensor is mounted, and a main unit including a main substrate on which an electronic component configured to process an output signal from the sensor substrate is mounted. The imaging apparatus further includes a heat dissipation fin configured to dissipate heat generated in at least one of the sensor unit and the main unit. The heat dissipation fin is provided in a direction substantially parallel to the moving direction.
US12108123B2

An electronic device includes a memory, at least one camera module, and a processor operatively connected to the memory and the at least one camera module. The processor is configured to, while acquiring first recording data by using the at least one camera module, detect at least one designated gesture input on the basis of at least a part of the acquired first recording data. The processor executes a function corresponding to the detected gesture input. The processor creates and stores a second recording data in the memory. The second recording data includes data remaining after excluding, from the acquired first recording data, recording data corresponding to a time interval from the detection initiation time point of the detected gesture input to detection termination time point of same.
US12108114B2

A system for managing media content annotations is configured to generate annotations having a format similar to a title and tailored to a user profile. The system identifies a media content item and identifies a user entity. The system selects from among a plurality of annotations linked to the media content item and stored in metadata. For example, the system may generate more than one annotation, generate links between each annotation and user profile information, and then select among the annotations for the most appropriate annotation for a given user. The annotation may include keywords or entities that are included in, linked to, or otherwise associated with the user profile information. The system outputs, or generates for output, a display that includes a representation of the media content item and the selected annotation.
US12108108B2

A relay device or a connection cable for relaying a video signal from a transmission device to a reception device includes a control unit for detecting whether the received video signal is an AC signal output or a DC signal output, and a current pulling unit for pulling a predetermined current from the received video signal. If the received video signal is an AC signal output, the control unit is configured to control the current pulling unit to pull the predetermined current. If the received video signal is a DC signal output, the control unit is configured to control the current pulling unit to stop the pulling of current, and to transfer the video signal from the transmission device to the reception device.
US12108105B2

Techniques of providing motion video content along with audio content are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented system is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving primary audio content; determining that at least one reference audio content satisfies a predetermined similarity threshold based on a comparison of the primary audio content with the at least one reference audio content; for each one of the at least one reference audio content, identifying motion video content based on the motion video content being stored in association with the one of the at least one reference audio content and not stored in association with the primary audio content; and causing the identified motion video content to be displayed on a device concurrently with a presentation of the primary audio content on the device.
US12108104B2

The present disclosure provides a split-screen playback method, apparatus and device for lock screen video and a storage medium. The method includes: monitoring whether a screen enters a screen-locked state; upon monitoring that the screen enters a screen-locked state, obtaining at least two video files; playing the video files on different display areas of the screen, respectively; wherein a number of the display areas is consistent with a number of the video files. The present disclosure can implement split-screen playback for lock screen video without changing hardware of a terminal, thereby effectively improving the playback efficiency of the video, facilitating popularization and application, and providing good user experience.
US12108094B2

A method and system for using steganographically-encoded time information as a basis to control when a client carries out a content-related action. The client processes for presentation one or more linear media streams, each defining a respective time sequence of frames of media content, and at least one of the streams being steganographically encoded with at least one watermark at a respective time-point within the linear media stream, the watermark encoding a timestamp of the respective time-point within the linear media stream according to a server clock. The client extracts the timestamp from the watermark and computes a time offset based on a difference between the extracted timestamp and a current time according to a client clock. And the client uses the computed time offset as a basis to determine when to carry out a content-related action in a given one of the one or more linear media streams.
US12108092B2

A transmitting method stores data making up a coded stream into a predetermined data unit and transmits the stored data in the predetermined data unit. The transmitting method further generates presentation time information indicating a presentation time of the predetermined data unit, based on reference time information received from an external source; and transmits the predetermined data unit, first control information which includes the generated presentation time information, and second control information which includes leap second information indicating whether or not the presentation time information is a time that is before a leap second adjustment. A receiving method receives the predetermined data unit, first control information, and second control information; and reproduces the received predetermined data unit based on the first and second control information that are received.
US12108079B2

A method for intra prediction comprises determining a first MPM candidate corresponding to a left-side candidate block on the basis of a position of the left-side candidate block adjacent to a left side of a current block; determining a second MPM candidate corresponding to an upper-end candidate block on the basis of a position of the upper-end candidate block adjacent to an upper end of the current block; generating an MPM candidate list including a plurality of MPM candidates, on the basis of the first MPM candidate and the second MPM candidate; and determining one MPM candidate of the plurality of the MPM candidates that constitute the MPM candidate list as an intra prediction mode of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block.
US12108071B2

The present specification discloses a method of decoding an image. The method includes obtaining a motion vector of a collocated block included in a reference picture of a current block in a temporal motion buffer; changing a format of the obtained motion vector; and deriving the motion vector, in which the format is changed, into a temporal motion vector of the current block.
US12108063B2

A video processing circuit coupled to an external memory and for generating a video stream is provided. The external memory stores a part of a first frame. The video processing circuit includes a memory, a control circuit, an image processing circuit, and a video encoding circuit. The control circuit is used for reading a first image block from the external memory and storing the first image block in the memory, the first image block being a part of the first frame. The image processing circuit is used for reading the first image block from the memory and processing the first image block to generate a second image block which is a part of the second frame different from the first frame. The video encoding circuit is used for reading the first image block from the memory and encoding the first image block to generate a part of the video stream.
US12108060B2

Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
US12108059B2

The image decoding method includes determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of a left block and an upper block are used, when the signal type is a first type; and the context is determined under a third condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used and a hierarchical depth of a data unit to which the control parameter of the current block belongs is used, when the signal type is a third type, and the third type is one or more of (i) “merge_flag”, (ii) “ref_idx_l0” or “ref_idx_l1”, (iii) “inter_pred_flag”, (iv) “mvd_l0” or “mvd_l1”, (v) “intra_chroma_pred_mode”, (vi) “cbf_luma”, and (vii) “cbf_cb” or “cbf_cr”.
US12108054B2

Approaches to selection of motion vector (“MV”) precision during video encoding are presented. These approaches can facilitate compression that is effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency. For example, a video encoder determines an MV precision for a unit of video from among multiple MV precisions, which include one or more fractional-sample MV precisions and integer-sample MV precision. The video encoder can identify a set of MV values having a fractional-sample MV precision, then select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on prevalence of MV values (within the set) having a fractional part of zero. Or, the video encoder can perform rate-distortion analysis, where the rate-distortion analysis is biased towards the integer-sample MV precision. Or, the video encoder can collect information about the video and select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on the collected information.
US12108052B2

Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for image encoding/decoding using a palette mode. Prediction using a palette mode may be performed for a target block. Various types of predictions may be performed for the target block, and pieces of information to be signaled from an encoding apparatus to a decoding apparatus may be changed depending on the type of prediction to be performed for the target block. Determination of the pieces of information to be signaled may be optimized for the case where a palette mode is to be used for the target block, and thus efficiency of image encoding and decoding may be improved.
US12108051B2

An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. An image decoding method according to the present invention may include: determining a prediction mode of a current block as IBC (Intra Block Copy) mode, deriving a candidate list for deriving a block vector of the current block and deriving a block vector of the current block by using the candidate list, wherein the candidate list is derived based on a size of the current block.
US12108028B2

A method for identifying variations introduced in signals transmitted over a signal path, the method comprising sending, over the signal path, one or more test patterns with functional features to a test pattern analyser, wherein said functional features are for determining aspects of variations introduced in the one or more test patterns during transmission over the signal path; and including a data pattern in at least one of the test patterns prior to said sending, said data pattern comprising meta-data on functional features of the at least one test pattern.
US12108026B2

A method of operating an image sensing device includes applying control voltages to a pixel array in accordance with a test mode and performing an analog-to-digital conversion of a column line voltage to obtain one or more digital codes. The one or more digital codes are evaluated to detect an operating error associated with the column line and/or corresponding analog to digital converter. In response to an operating error, pixel values may be replaced or averaged with nearby pixel outputs not affected by the operating error.
US12108023B2

An external scene image captured by an external scene imaging electronic camera attached to a head mounted display (HMD) is projected and displayed onto an image display screen arranged in front of the eyes of the user as a virtual image with a suitable viewing distance corresponding to the visual acuity of the user. At this time, for each object image presented in the virtual image of the external scene image, the virtual image is processed and formatted to add a predetermined degree of binocular disparity and image blur to the virtual image projected and displayed on the right and the left image display screen on the basis of a predetermined converted distance calculated from the real distance of each object. Thus, the user is given a sense of a realistic perspective for the virtual image of the external scene, free of the discomfort or unease.
US12108020B2

A method includes the steps collecting measurement data of a sample utilizing an adaptable inspection unit or while the sample is in-flight, determining a volume or area of the sample based at least in part on the measurement data, and calculating a weight of the sample based at least in part on the volume or area of the sample. The measurement data includes a captured image that includes a plurality of pixels. The determining of the volume of the sample includes determining the number of pixels in the captured image that display a portion of the sample, or determining the maximum number of consecutive pixels that display a portion of the sample in two or three dimensions.
US12108007B2

Based on one metadata template determined from among a plurality of metadata templates, a screen including a scan image, a plurality of keys defined in the one determined metadata template, and value input fields each corresponding to a different one of the plurality of keys is displayed, and in a case where a user selects any one of the plurality of keys displayed in the screen, character string areas determined to match a data format of a value corresponding to the key are displayed in such a manner that the character string areas are recognizable as value candidates on the scan image.
US12108004B2

An image processing apparatus includes a print setting acquisition unit configured to acquire a print paper size, a threshold setting unit configured to set, based on the print paper size, a threshold for a protruding portion of a print product, the protruding portion protruding from a reading range, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a scanned image of the print product, a detection unit configured to detect the protruding portion from the scanned image, and a conveyance displacement abnormality detection unit configured to detect conveyance displacement abnormality from the threshold and a result of the detection.
US12108002B2

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus including a communication unit communicable with an external apparatus to function as each of a reception unit configured to receive first information concerning a setting item of the external apparatus transmitted from the external apparatus an acquisition unit configured to acquire second information concerning a setting of the information processing apparatus and a transmission unit configured to cause the communication unit to transmit third information concerning the setting item of the external apparatus based on the first information and the second information to external apparatus.
US12107997B1

A printing system includes a printing device. The printing system also includes a preflight system that checks incoming print jobs for possible errors or issues before commencing printing operations. The preflight system implements a generative adversarial network to facilitate the identification of possible problems with printing. The generative adversarial network includes a generative neural network and a discriminatory neural network. The generative neural network introduces errors into input data to train the discriminatory neural network in identifying problems with print jobs. The discriminatory neural network backpropagates its output to train the generative neural network.
US12107989B2

A system and method of a telephony application platform can include receiving a communication session request specifying a destination endpoint, connecting the communication session through a first application module according to the destination endpoint, receiving an instruction to transition communication control to a second application module, transitioning communication control of the communication session to the second application module, independently metering resource usage of the communication session of each application module, and accounting the metered usage of the communication session.
US12107988B2

An information input method, a terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes controlling a bottom modal view to be displayed on a current user interface, in response to receiving a first instruction configured for indicating a state in which first information is to be received, the bottom modal view being a floating layer page displayed on the current user interface, having an area less than that of the current user interface, and comprising a first input widget; and controlling the first information to be input based on an input signal in response to the first input widget being triggered.
US12107983B2

A computing device determines that the computing device is within wireless proximity to a secondary wireless device. Based on the computing device being within wireless proximity to the secondary wireless device, the computing device determines at least one function of the secondary wireless device, and generates an aggregate user interface for display on a display screen of the computing device. The aggregate user interface identifies the secondary wireless device and indicates the at least one function of the secondary wireless device. The computing device receives, via the aggregate user interface, a user input selecting the secondary wireless device. Responsive to the user input, the computing device presents a second user interface including one or more selectable features for operating the secondary wireless device.
US12107979B2

An electronic device includes: a base housing, a sliding housing at least partially overlapping the base housing and slidably coupled to the base housing, a folding housing least partially overlapping the base housing and connected to the sliding housing, a display disposed on the folding housing and the sliding housing, at least part of the display being located inside the base housing, a rolling module comprising a rollable support coupled to a rear surface of the display and having one side connected to the sliding housing and an opposite side extending into an inner space of the base housing, and a hinge module comprising a hinge connected to the folding housing and the sliding housing wherein the sliding housing is configured to rotate about a first axis of rotation and the folding housing is configured to rotate about a second axis of rotation. The electronic device is configured to be capable of performing a sliding motion in which the folding housing and the sliding housing move in a sliding direction to extend or retract a display area of the electronic device and a folding motion in which the folding housing is folded or unfolded relative to the sliding housing to fold or unfold part of the display area.
US12107969B2

Methods, systems, and computer media provide attestation tokens that protect the integrity of communications transmitted from client devices, while at the same time avoiding the use of stable device identifiers that could be used to track client devices or their users. In one approach, client devices can receive batches of N device integrity elements from a device integrity computing system, each corresponding to a different public key. The N device elements can be signed by a device integrity computing system. The signing by the device integrity computing system can be signing with a blind signature scheme. Client devices can include throttlers imposing limits on the quantity of attestation tokens created by the client device.
US12107965B2

A device is arranged for encrypting input data and protecting integrity of the input data and associated data. An encryption processor has a first hash unit arranged to compute an integrity value based on the input data, a second hash unit arranged to compute an initialization vector based on the integrity value and associated data, producing an initialization vector that is different from the integrity value. At least one of the hash units may be a keyed hash unit. An encryption unit is arranged for encrypting the input data to generate encrypted data using the initialization vector and an encryption key. As the initialization vector depends on both the integrity value and the associated data, any change therein will result in failure of the decryption and decrypted data that are substantially different from the original input data.
US12107962B1

An article, for example, an integrated circuit (IC), is manufactured such that the article includes an authentication element that is indicative of an authentication code associated with the article. A block of a blockchain ledger is generated based upon the authentication code. After the article leaves a trusted chain of custody, the article can be authenticated based upon the blockchain. An authentication code can be read from an authentication element included in or on an article under test that is of undetermined authenticity. The authentication code can be evaluated against the blockchain to determine if the authentication code is a genuine code used to generate a block of the blockchain. If the authentication code is genuine, the article under test can be authenticated.
US12107960B2

Disclosed is a zero-knowledge distributed application configured to securely share information among groups of users having various roles, such as doctors and patients. Confidential information may be encrypted client-side, with private keys that reside solely client side. Encrypted collections of data may be uploaded to, and hosted by, a server that does not have access to keys suitable to decrypt the data. Other users may retrieve encrypted data from the server and decrypt some or all of the data with keys suitable to gain access to at least part of the encrypted data. The system includes a key hierarchy with multiple entry points to a top layer by which access is selectively granted to various users and keys may be recovered.
US12107958B2

Presented herein are systems and methods for end-to-end encryption for session-less communications. A first server may receive, from a second server, a request to retrieve keys for a customer device to access a service. The request may include a device identifier and a first token encrypted using a first encryption key. The first server may determine, responsive to validating, that the customer device is to be issued a second token. The first server may identify least a portion of the first token decrypted using the first encryption key. The first server may generate a set of second encryption keys to be used by the customer device. The first server may package the second token to include (i) at least the portion of the first token and (ii) the set of second encryption keys. The first server may transmit, to the second server, a response including the second token.
US12107957B2

An identity verification device for verification of a digital credential includes a user device communication interface for operative communication with a user device associated with a human user. The user device communication interface is operative to receive from the user device the digital credential of the human user stored locally on the user device. The device also includes a relying party communication interface operative to send a request to an intermediary credential service platform for verification of the digital credential presented by the user device, and to receive verification of the digital credential from the platform after application of an issuing authority credentialing standard to the digital credential. The device further includes a verification indicator operative to provide an indication of verification status of the digital credential to the relying party associated with the identity verification device.
US12107953B2

Described herein are systems and methods for a distributed Java Keystore, in accordance with an embodiment. This KeyStore can provide a secure place for a distributed queue to persist credentials, private keys, and other sensitive information. Such a KeyStore can be utilized within other distributed systems that require scaling (in and out) in runtime.
US12107949B2

A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt a temporary private key that corresponds to a set of diversified temporary public keys. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides a diversified temporary public key to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the diversified temporary public key to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted temporary private key and the encrypted location data to a device of the user, and the device can decrypt the encrypted temporary private key using the permanent encryption key pair, and decrypt the encrypted location data using the decrypted temporary private key.
US12107945B2

An electrical signal delay calibration system includes a device under test (DUT) and a digital signal processing chip including a plurality of signal lanes. Each signal lane includes a receive signal path in signal communication with a respective DUT receive path and a transmit signal path in signal communication with a respective DUT transmit path. A processor is configured to determine transmit pulse timestamps assigned to transmit signals transmitted on the transmit signal paths and to determine receive pulse timestamps assigned to receive signals received from the receive signal paths. The processor determines a lane asymmetry associated with each signal lane based on at least one of the transmit pulse timestamps and at least one of the receive pulse timestamps, and removes each of the lane asymmetries to minimize a signal delay in each signal lane among the plurality of signal lanes.
US12107939B2

To attain the object of providing a provider of a service with an environment in which service coordination allowing the provider to easily use user information in another service is carried out, included are: an identification unit that identifies a second service capable of providing user information to a provider of a first service; an inquiry unit that inquires, of a user who utilizes the first service, whether or not to consent to the provider of the first service using user information on the user in the second service at an opportunity of utilizing the first service; and a coordination unit that, in a case where information indicative of a consent of the user has been obtained, coordinates the first service and the second service by associating user information on the user in the first service and the user information on the user in the second service with each other.
US12107937B2

Techniques for operationalizing workloads at edge network nodes, while maintaining centralized intent and policy controls. The techniques may include storing, in a cloud-computing network, a workload image that includes a function capability. The techniques may also include receiving, at the cloud-computing network, a networking policy associated with an enterprise network. Based at least in part on the networking policy, a determination may be made at the cloud-computing network that the function capability is to be operationalized on an edge device of the enterprise network. The techniques may also include sending the workload image to the edge device to be installed on the edge device to operationalize the function capability. In some examples, the function capability may be a security function capability (e.g., proxy, firewall, etc.), a routing function capability (e.g., network address translation, load balancing, etc.), or any other function capability.
US12107933B1

The present specification provides, amongst other things, a computing resource Intermediation engine and method that can select and generate secondary content based on one or more demographic parameters, secondary content options and engagement ratings for those secondary content options.
US12107922B1

Quality communication can be maintained for integrated channels in transaction systems. For example, a system can receive, by a transaction management layer, a transaction request from a transaction channel of a plurality of transaction channels, the transaction request being in a channel-specific format associated with the transaction channel. The system can, in response to a downstream transaction processing system processing the transaction request, receive a status indicator of the processing of the transaction request. The system can transform the status indicator into the channel-specific format associated with the transaction channel. The system can send the status indicator in the channel-specific format to the transaction channel. The transaction channel can be configured to perform an action in response to receiving the status indicator.
US12107921B2

An Internet of Things (IoT) system includes a plurality of terminal devices, a cloud device and a human machine interface (HMI) device. The cloud device is communicatively connected to the terminal devices. The human machine interface (HMI) device is communicatively connected to the terminal devices via a plurality of first communication channels, and communicatively connected to the cloud device via a first dedicated communication channel. The HMI device determines a subscription sequence according to priority information of a plurality of control commands, and schedules and dynamically subscribes to the first communication channels according to the subscription sequence. The HMI device respectively determines whether the terminal devices are adjacent to the HMI device, and transmits switch transmission mode request messages corresponding to the terminal devices adjacent to the HMI device to the cloud device via the first dedicated communication channel.
US12107912B1

Systems and methods for embedding remote applications into HyperText Markup Language (HTML) pages. An example method comprises: identifying, within a HTML page rendered by a browser, a frame referencing a remote application; determining at least one of: a size of a window for rendering output of the remote application on a virtual desktop produced by a virtual execution environment running the remote application or a position of the window on the virtual desktop; causing a remote access session to be established with the virtual execution environment; transmitting a first message specifying at least one of: the size of the window on the virtual desktop or the position of the window on the virtual desktop; and causing the frame to be displayed within the HTML page by the browser for rendering output of the remote application.
US12107908B2

This application provides a media file encapsulating method, a media file decapsulating method, and related devices. The media file encapsulating method includes: acquiring a media stream of a target media content in a corresponding application scenario; encapsulating the media stream to generate an encapsulation file of the media stream, the encapsulation file including a first application scenario type field, the first application scenario type field being used for indicating the application scenario corresponding to the media stream; and transmitting the encapsulation file to a first device for the first device to determine the application scenario corresponding to the media stream according to the first application scenario type field and determine at least one of a decoding method and a rendering method of the media stream according to the application scenario corresponding to the media stream. This method can distinguish different application scenarios in the encapsulation of media files.
US12107898B2

Systems and methods for dynamic, hyper context-based microsegmentation are described. In one aspect, a computing device is detected on a network. A network hyper context is assigned to the computing device based on network properties and computing device properties associated with the computing device. A policy defining a segment identifier identifying a network segment and corresponding to the network hyper context is accessed. The segment identifier is assigned to the computing device. The computing device is segmented onto the network responsive to detecting the computing device.
US12107895B2

A system and method for the privilege assurance of enterprise computer network environments using attack path detection and prediction. The system uses local session monitors to monitor logon sessions within a network, track session details, and log session and network host details. Cyber-physical graphs are produced and used to identify paths within the network based on the logged information, and to apply risk weighting to the identified paths and determine likely attack paths an attacker may use.
US12107889B2

Cloud-based deception systems and methods with zero trust include hosting a decoy cloud environment for a customer that contains a plurality of decoys and that is hosted and separated from a real environment of the customer; receiving traffic from a user associated with the customer; detecting the traffic is related to accessing a fake asset on a user device associated with the user; rerouting the traffic to the decoy cloud environment; and monitoring activity associated with the fake asset in the decoy cloud environment.
US12107882B2

Systems and methods for identifying patterns in blockchain activities based on multi-modal data using artificial intelligence models that compensate for training data featuring a high proportion of missing data points. For example, the system may receive blockchain activity record data for a plurality of blockchain activities involving a plurality of blockchain accounts. The system may input the data into an artificial intelligence model, wherein the artificial intelligence model is trained to identify serial relationships of related blockchain activities corresponding to inputted target blockchain activities based on proportions of digital assets at subsets of blockchain accounts of the plurality of blockchain accounts. The system may receive an output from the artificial intelligence model. The system may generate for display, in a user interface, a visualization of the target blockchain activity based on the output.
US12107880B2

Embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses, systems, methods and computer program products for network resource component tracking and analysis across a distributed network and construction of a dynamic validated network resource library. Specifically, the system is typically structured for constructing an itemized hierarchical network resource structure database having integral granular technology element specific categorical data structures associated with determined plurality of network program resource components, denormalizing for enhancing data retrieval and processing performance, and providing network security by analyzing and validating the security of the composition of plurality of network program resource components, and detecting and remediating vulnerabilities.
US12107875B2

Systems and methods include receiving data associated with monitoring network communication traffic associated with a plurality of network devices; analyzing network communication flows of the plurality of network devices to group similar network devices together; analyzing patterns, frequency, relevance, and origination of words in the network communication traffic to auto-label the plurality of network devices; and assigning one or more words to any of a given network device and a group of similar network devices.
US12107873B2

The invention discloses a blockchain-based intrusion detection system for railway signal, which is built on a blockchain's distributed chain structure, without a central, trusted control center. This design mitigates the vulnerabilities associated with centralized intrusion detection centers. Additionally, by utilizing a blockchain-based distributed structure, it also eliminates the risk of a single point of failure for the intrusion detection center. Moreover, the data within the blockchain-based intrusion detection system is highly resistant to malicious tampering. This is achieved by leveraging the consensus mechanism inherent in the blockchain, which can achieve consensus among intrusion detection nodes. The current invention solves the internal evil attacks and avoid the inability to reach consensus between nodes due to internal evil, thereby affecting the intrusion detection performance; at the same time, the intrusion detection model can resist external network attacks.
US12107872B2

Detection of command and control malware is disclosed. A network traffic session is monitored. Automatic feature identification for real-time malicious command and control traffic detection based on a request header of the monitored network traffic session using a deep learning model is performed.
US12107844B2

A user accesses a remote session, the connection to which is managed by a connection broker, according to a single sign-on (SSO) process. The SSO process includes the user entering his or her credentials and being authenticated to the connection broker. In addition to user authentication, the SSO process includes connection broker authentication to confirm that the connection broker is trustworthy. When the connection broker is authenticated, the user credentials are transmitted to the connection broker in a secure manner and the connection broker forwards them onto a machine hosting the remote session so that the user can be logged into the remote session without entering his or her credentials again.
US12107841B2

A computer-implemented method for activity verification within a network computing environment. The method may include: retrieving a verification requirement defining an activity within the network computing environment, a candidate verifier, and contact information for the candidate verifier; transmitting a request for participation to the candidate verifier; upon confirmation, enrolling the confirmed verifier to the verification requirement; receiving a post-enrollment data record relating to an observed activity within the network computing environment; matching the observed activity to the verification requirement; transmitting a verification request to the enrolled confirmed verifier; receiving a verification response from the enrolled confirmed verifier; based on the verification response, generating a command to restrict or permit the observed activity within the network computing environment.
US12107838B1

Protecting against a tracking parameter in a web link. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving an input URL during a browser navigation session on a user device, the input URL including parameters, determining that the parameters include a tracking parameter, pausing the browser navigation session on the user device, launching the input URL in a headless browser that operates in an isolated environment that simulates one or more features of the user device, landing on a destination web page in the isolated environment, identifying a URL of the destination web page as a destination URL, and resuming the browser navigation session on the user device by replacing the input URL, which includes the tracking parameter, with the destination URL, which does not include the tracking parameter, in order to protect the user device from the tracking parameter.
US12107831B2

Automated fuzzy hash based signature collection is disclosed. A set of candidate fuzzy hashes corresponding to a set of false negative samples is received. A false positive reduction analysis is performed on the received set of candidate fuzzy hashes to generate a reduced set of fuzzy hashes. At least a portion of the reduced set of fuzzy hashes is clustered into a fuzzy hash cluster. A signature for a family of malware is generated based at least in part on the fuzzy hash cluster.
US12107822B1

A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: determining whether a destination for a domain name system (DNS) query corresponds to an existing source network address translation (SNAT) port in response to receiving the DNS query. In response to determining that the destination for the DNS query corresponds to an existing SNAT port, the DNS query is modified to incorporate the existing SNAT port. A map entry corresponding to the existing SNAT port is also updated, and the modified DNS query is satisfied. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional approaches.
US12107821B2

Some embodiments provide a two-tier DNS (Domain Name System) service for processing DNS requests. In some embodiments, the two-tier DNS service deploys first and second tiers of service machines, with the second-tier having several groups of service machines each of which is configured to resolve DNS requests for a different set of domain names than the other second-tier group(s). Each service machine in the first-tier is configured to identify the second-tier group responsible for each particular DNS request that the service machine receives for each particular domain name, and to forward the particular DNS request to the second-tier group that it identifies for the particular DNS request. The first-tier DNS service in some embodiments has only one group of service machines. Each first or second service machine group in some embodiments can have one or more service machines, and can be scaled up or down to add or remove service machines to the group (e.g., through an active/active layer 3 scaleout with BGP). In some embodiments, two different second-tier service groups can process DNS requests for two or more different FQDNs (fully qualified domain names) that are part of the same domain, and/or for two or more different FQDNs that are part of different domains.
US12107816B2

System and methods are directed to displaying interactive content with static content in a user interface of an application. More specifically, it may be determined that an interactive component is to be rendered in a user interface of a first application, where the user interface includes static content. In response to determining that the interactive component is it be rendered, at least one linking parameter may be determined for linking the interactive component with interactive content stored in a shared storage. Based on the at least one linking parameter, the interactive component may be rendered in the user interface of the first application in-line with the static content of the user interface of the first application. Changes to the interactive content made by a second user of a second application may then be updated within the interactive component rendered in the user interface of the first application.
US12107815B2

In order to facilitate automatic message prioritization, systems and methods are described including a processor that receives electronic messages, where each electronic message is associated with a sender and a recipient. The processor utilizes a message prioritization machine learning model to predict a current prioritized ordering of the electronic messages based on parameters associated with each electronic message, where the parameters include a calendar event parameter representing a calendar event associated with each electronic message, a personnel parameter associated with the sender of each electronic message, and a message subject parameter associated with a subject of each electronic message, where the current prioritized ordering includes an order of notification of each electronic message according to priority based on an interaction history of historical electronic messages associated with the sender The processor causes to display the electronic messages according to the current prioritized ordering.
US12107811B2

A method for archiving a particular event in a life of a wearer of a connected watch. The method includes: tracking at least one category of emotional factor of the wearer, diffusing, by the connected watch to the wearer, a notification of detection of the particular event to the wearer based on a change in the tracked at least one category of emotional factor of the wearer occurring; designing, in response to the notification, a multimedia message relating to the particular event; and sending the multimedia message to a database of a server configured to archive messages, including the multimedia message, that relate to particular events of the wearer.
US12107809B2

Disclosed herein are examples of systems and methods for formatting electronic messages using machine learning. An electronic message can be obtained, and a processed message can be generated based at least in part on the electronic message. At least one attribute for the processed message can be determined. A formatting specification can be generated based at least in part on the at least one attribute. A reformatted message can be generated based at least in part on the formatting specification.
US12107808B2

The disclosure relates to the field of computer technology, in particular to an information processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. An information processing method provided by the disclosure includes: determining an association relation between a receiver receiving first information and a source of the first information, wherein the first information is generated based on first original information within the source; determining information of the source to be displayed to the receiver based on the association relation, wherein the information of the source includes first source information if the association relation is a first association relation, and the information of source includes second source information if the association relation is a second association relation.
US12107798B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling a BWP inactivity timer and a terminal device. The method includes: controlling, in a case where there is at least one configured or activated BWP for the terminal device, a BWP inactivity timer of each BWP in the at least one configured or activated BWP according to a preset processing mode or a network configuration mode, the preset processing mode or the network configuration mode being to start the BWP inactivity timer, or restart the BWP inactivity timer, or not start the BWP inactivity timer, or stop the BWP inactivity timer.
US12107796B2

Provided is a co-existing interference reduction method, which includes: a target wireless communication mode link with a co-existing interference is determined, the co-existing interference including harmonic interference and intermodulation interference; interference scanning detection is performed on the link in a coexistence state so as to obtain values corresponding to a co-existing interference effect evaluation parameter of the link in case of different values of a modulation control parameter; a filtering regulation strategy corresponding to the link is determined according to an interference scanning detection result; and a preset filter module matched with the link is controlled to perform a filtering process according to the filtering regulation strategy so as to reduce a co-existing interference effect on the link.
US12107791B2

Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate and the like beyond the 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting same can be provided.
US12107789B2

A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a subset of reference signal (RS) configurations among a set of RS configurations, and transmit a plurality of RSs based on the subset of RS configurations. The RS may be a demodulation RS (DMRS). The plurality of RSs may be configured to span each of the plurality of resource elements (REs) in the active bandwidth part (BWP). The UE may receive the plurality of RSs based on the subset of RS configurations and perform a spur detection based on the plurality of RSs received based on the subset of RS configurations. Each RS configuration of the set of RS configurations may be associated with at least one of the subset of RS configurations that is associated with the plurality of RSs spanning each of the plurality of REs in the active BWP.
US12107788B2

Wireless communications systems and methods related to multiplexing of synchronization blocks (SSBs), control resource sets (CORESETs), and system information blocks (SIBs) are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), a first SSB of a first group of SSBs of an SSB burst set, wherein the first group of SSBs and a second group of SSBs of the SSB burst set are spaced apart in time by a group of CORESETs and SIBs. The group of CORESETs and SIBs comprises one CORESET and at least one SIB for each SSB of the first group of SSBs. The UE receives, in a first CORESET of the group of CORESETs and SIBs based on the first SSB, SIB scheduling information. The UE receives, based on the SIB scheduling information, a first SIB of the group of CORESETs and SIBs.
US12107785B2

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sounding reference signal (SRS) coverage enhancement. A user equipment device (UE) may receive a configuration for SRS time domain bundling from a base station and may transmit, to the base station, at least one SRS transmission in accordance with the configuration. The configuration may include an indication of (and/or indicate) one or more SRS transmission occasions. The configuration may be communicated via higher layer signaling or physical layer signaling. The RRC parameter may be an SRS-ResourceSet parameter or an SRS-Resource parameter and may include a nrofSlots parameter to indicate the number of slots, where a slot may correspond to an SRS transmission occasion. The MAC CE may include at least four bits indicating the number of slots. The DCI may include at least one field indicating the number of slots.
US12107784B2

A terminal includes a receiver, which in operation, receives one or more discovery reference signal (DRS) transmitted by a base station within a channel occupancy time (COT) starting at a possible starting position that is not aligned with half a slot boundary. The terminal includes circuitry, which in operation, determines frame timing in response to receiving the one or more DRS.
US12107783B2

Provided are a signal transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a computer storage medium. A method for sending a measurement reference signal includes: determining parameter information of the measurement reference signal according to received signaling information and/or a pre-negotiated parameter determination rule; and sending the measurement reference signal according to the determined parameter information.
US12107778B2

Disclosed is a method for scheduling transmissions of multiple carriers from a single transmitting network node (10; 100) for multiple Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cells, (50). The multiple carriers comprising a respective cell specific anchor carrier having NB-IoT sub-frames allocated for the transmission of mandatory information related to the functionality of the specific cell. The method comprises scheduling (S1) at least two cell specific anchor carriers using time interleaved transmissions that enables NB-IoT sub-frames belonging to different cell specific anchor carriers, and being allocated for the transmission of the mandatory information, to be transmitted at non-overlapping times. Also disclosed is a network device configured to perform the method and a computer program which when executed schedules at least two cell specific anchor carriers using time interleaved transmissions that enables NB-IoT sub-frames belonging to different cell specific anchor carriers and being allocated for the transmission of the mandatory information to be transmitted at non-overlapping times.
US12107776B2

In an example, a network switch is configured to natively act as a high-speed load balancer. Numerous load-balancing techniques may be used, including one that bases the traffic “bucket” on a source IP address of an incoming packet. This particular technique provides a network administrator a powerful tool for shaping network traffic. For example, by assigning certain classes of computers on the network particular IP addresses, the network administrator can ensure that the traffic is load balanced in a desirable fashion. To further increase flexibility, the network administrator may apply a bit mask to the IP address, and expose only a portion, selected from a desired octet of the address.
US12107772B2

A computer implemented method of allocating a set of communications network resources to resource consumers in a digital communications system can include generating a set of multiple allocation schemes; iteratively applying a genetic algorithm to the set of allocation schemes to generate, at each iteration, a new set of allocation schemes as a generation of allocation schemes based on a preceding generation; and, responsive to a predetermined stopping condition for the iteration, assigning resource consumers to resources in the communications system in accordance with an allocation scheme in a most recent generation determined to satisfy a ranking condition.
US12107764B2

A packet processing method implements a QoS guarantee. The method includes: obtaining a flow identification based on packet attribute information and a flow matching rule, generating a flow policy that includes a correspondence between the flow identification and a flow behavior, determining a forwarding path of a packet including the packet attribute information, sending the flow matching rule to an ingress device of the forwarding path, and sending the flow policy to a first network device on the forwarding path. The ingress device adds the flow identification to the packet including the packet attribute information, and sends the packet. The first network device receives the packet including the flow identification, obtains the flow behavior from the flow policy based on the flow identification, and processes the packet in a packet processing mode corresponding to the flow behavior.
US12107763B2

A networking manager of an extension server of a virtualized computing service detects that a data link layer frame has been obtained at the extension server. The networking manager delivers at least a portion of contents of the frame to a compute instance running at the extension server in response to determining that a destination media access control (MAC) address of the frame matches a MAC address of a local-premise-access virtual network interface attached to the compute instance. The local-premise-access virtual network interface is not assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) address from a range of IP addresses managed by the virtualized computing service.
US12107762B2

A high-performance optical and electronic integrated switch capable of effectively extending the transmission distance includes a network processor that controls the functions of the packet switch, a plurality of optical transceivers provided near the processor and having a photoelectric conversion function, and an optical relay switch. A plurality of optical waveguides are connected to the input and output sides of the optical relay switch. Each optical transceiver has a regeneration function that performs optical-electrical conversion on inputted optical signals, then turns back the converted signals, and performs signal conversion on them, and its input side is connected with a routing optical waveguide included in the optical waveguides on the output side of the switch and its output side is connected with a routing optical waveguide included in the optical waveguides on the input side of the switch. The optical waveguides include ones for connecting to an external communication counterpart.
US12107757B2

Systems, methods, and computer program products for transmitting data between devices are disclosed. A device may utilize a standardized communication system (“SCS”) to transmit data directly between devices including an SCS. The SCS may discover available devices. The SCS may determine available transmission paths between a first device and a second device. The SCS may select a transmission path between the first device and the second device, and the SCS may transmit data from the first device to the second device using a standardized communication protocol (“SCP”).
US12107756B2

Provided are methods and apparatuses for identifying a transport network slice in a data plane of a transport network by a network device. In an embodiment, the method includes generating a transport slice identifier corresponding to the transport network slice. The method further includes transmitting a configuration message requesting rendering of a transport network path assigned to the transport network slice. The method further includes obtaining a prediction, using an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model, of at least one required configuration of the transport network slice, based at least on historical information related to the transport network slice. The method further includes applying the at least one required configuration to the transport network slice.
US12107755B2

A method, a router and a software are provided for routing communication traffic along a path in a communication network, being an IGP shortcut. The method comprises: providing an IGP shortcut prefix to a routing entity and storing the IGP shortcut prefix in a Routing Information Base (RIB); associating a new flag with an LSP associated with the IGP shortcut prefix, wherein the new flag indicates whether that LSP can serve for conveying traffic when implementing MPLS connectivity; storing information that relates to the new flag at the RIB; identifying LSPs associated with respective IGP shortcut prefixes which qualify to operate as next hop routing paths' candidates, wherein the qualified LSPs are each associated with a flag indicating that the respective qualified LSP is MPLS reachable; selecting an LSP to be a next hop routing path, wherein the selection is made from among the qualified LSPs; and forwarding traffic towards its destination via the next hop LSP.
US12107744B2

A system for cycle-based per-flow packet drop counting. The system comprises a communication network which interconnects nodes including receiver/s, supervisor/s, and sender/s. The sender sends flow/s of packets, via link/s, to the receiver/s. Flow/s are divided into cycles whose lengths are known to sender, receiver and supervisor. The sender adds to each packet indications of: a cycle during which the packet was sent, and whether the packet belongs to a given flow for which packet drops are being counted. The sender reports to the supervisor a number of packets sent during the individual cycle. The receiver reports to the supervisor, by counting indications, for the individual flow, how many packets, sent during the individual cycle, were received. The supervisor computes a difference between the number of packets sent and received, and, for certain difference value/s, implements further action/s.
US12107737B2

Described herein are methods and a system for that monitors the performance, and provides reporting including replacement of IoT edge devices in an edge computing network. Data is received by an AI/ML model from multiple IoT edge devices which is process in time series. Analysis services and engines determine the performance of the multiple IoT edge devices. Severity and weightage are applied to the data, and algorithms determine performance and replacement recommendations.
US12107732B2

A system and method for securing a computing environment using graphing of computing interfaces. A method includes traversing a network configuration graph with respect to a first component deployed in a computing environment. Traversing the network configuration graph results in a connections between components in the computing environment represented by nodes including at least one connection to a first node representing the first component. The nodes include at least one computing interface node and at least one other node. Each computing interface node represents a computing interface of computing interfaces deployed in the computing environment. The method also includes determining, based on the connections, a configuration of the first component with respect to service or consumption of at least one of the computing interfaces. The method also includes detecting a misconfiguration of the first component based on the determined configuration of the first component.
US12107726B2

Techniques are disclosed for identifying sets of network devices to which to deploy a software upgrade based on an importance to the network of each network device. For example, a network system obtains information identifying a number of instances of an application associated with network traffic forwarded by each network device of a plurality of network devices. The instances of the application are executed by client devices serviced by each network device in forwarding the network traffic. The network system assigns each network device to different upgrade groups based on the number of instances of the application, each upgrade group associated with a different relative priority. The network system deploys a software upgrade to each network device according to a priority of the respective upgrade group relative to a priority of the other upgrade groups.
US12107722B2

Some embodiments provide a method for one of multiple shared API processing services in a container cluster that implements a network policy manager shared between multiple tenants. The method receives a configuration request from a particular tenant to modify a logical network configuration for the particular tenant. Configuration requests from the plurality of tenants are balanced across the plurality of shared API processing services. Based on the received configuration request, the method posts a logical network configuration change to a configuration queue in the cluster. The configuration queue is dedicated to the logical network of the particular tenant. Services are instantiated separately in the container cluster for each tenant to distribute configuration changes from the respective configuration queues for the tenants to datacenters that implement the tenant logical networks such that configuration changes for one tenant do not slow down processing of configuration changes for other tenants.
US12107712B2

Method and apparatus for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) are provided. The method includes: scheduling traffic channels in multiple transmission time intervals (TTIs) through a single DCI, where a subcarrier spacing of a carrier where the scheduled traffic channel is located is not smaller than a subcarrier spacing of a carrier where the DCI scheduling the traffic channel is located; and transmitting the DCI. A problem of how to use a multi-TTI scheduling for a cross-carrier scheduling in which a subcarrier spacing of a scheduling carrier is smaller than a subcarrier spacing of a scheduled carrier in the related art may be solved, and the effects of scheduling the multiple TTIs through a single DCI and reducing the overhead are achieved.
US12107710B2

A sensor integrated circuit (IC) includes a sensing element configured to sense a parameter associated with a target, a processor coupled to the sensing element and configured to generate a sensed signal indicative of the parameter associated with the target, and an output module coupled to receive the sensed signal. The output module is configured to transmit absolute data on a message line at a first rate and transmit incremental data on one or more index lines at a second rate, wherein the second rate is faster than the first rate, wherein the incremental data comprises data associated with changes in the absolute data and wherein an edge or a pulse is used to indicate an incremental change has occurred in the absolute data.
US12107704B2

A method for sharing an uplink port among network slices, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: creating logical uplink ports of network slices (S201); establishing a one-to-one logical mapping between the logical uplink ports and access AC interfaces of a VXLAN in a shared slice (S202); and enabling the VXLAN in the shared slice, and transmitting, by means of a physical uplink port of the shared slice, service messages for the network slices (S203).
US12107701B2

Improved systems are directed to electronic devices that operate in conjunction with a control mechanism and various sensors. A learning protocol is established to provide a technical solution whereby sensor signal from the various sensors is utilized to implement an incremental approach to using sensed information. The electronic devices can be luminaires, and the control mechanism a lighting control mechanism. The sensing, for example, can include sensory information from at least one remote sensing device and at least one local sensing device to control changes in operation of one or more connected electronic devices.
US12107699B2

A method comprises receiving at least one of a transcript, a video recording, an audio recording, or an audiovisual recording of at least a portion of an interaction, and receiving an audiovisual score for a relevant portion of the interaction, the received audiovisual score being based on data received from at least a subset of participants in the interaction. A reaction metric is calculated based on the received audiovisual score. The at least one transcript, video recording, audio recording, or audiovisual recording is then displayed proximate to the reaction metric.
US12107684B2

Proposed is a method for a first device to perform wireless communication. The method may include a step for: determining whether location information about the first device is valid; and transmitting information, pertaining to whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the distance between terminals is disabled, to a second device through sidelink control information (SCI) on the basis of whether the location information about the first device is valid.
US12107683B2

Transmission repetition may be used in wireless communications. One or more parameters may be communicated and/or used to indicate a single resource set or a plurality of resource sets for transmission repetition. A wireless device and/or a base station may use the one or more parameters for determining a single resource set or a plurality of resource sets for transmission repetition.
US12107682B2

Systems and methods are disclosed herein that provide low latency data communication with improved physical link layer reliability through repeated physical layer retransmission of data over a data connection whenever the connection is idle (i.e., no new data to send). In some embodiments, the transmission of administrative control symbols (e.g. “idles,” “commas”, etc.) can be suppressed or otherwise reduced to allow some of the available connection bandwidth to be used for data redundancy and fault tolerance through the repeated retransmission of data as described in more detail below. Accordingly, instead of executing time-consuming error correcting routines, a receive node can discard the erroneous data frame and process at least one repeat frame that carries the same data payload. Sequence numbers and/or other repeat indicators can be used to distinguish original frames from repeat frames and/or for identifying which frames carry the same data payload.
US12107671B2

Timestamp circuitry of a network device modifies a packet by embedding a future timestamp in the packet to generate a timestamped packet. The future timestamp corresponds to a transmit time that occurs after the timestamp circuitry embeds the future timestamp in the packet. The timing information is added to the packet and the packet is then transferred to transmitter circuitry of the network device via a communication link, internal to the network device, that operates according to a media independent communication interface. Time gating circuitry of the transmitter circuitry i) holds the timestamped packet from proceeding to a network link coupled to the network device prior to a current time reaching the transmit time, and ii) releases the timestamped packet for transmission via the network link in response to the current time reaching the transmit time.
US12107670B2

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for synchronization based on time differentials in an access network. A time domain may be established for a virtual service and a remote node. The virtual service may synchronize to a clock associated with the remote node based on a time differential. Various virtual services may maintain their own time domains with remote nodes.
US12107665B2

A satellite is provided, including an onboard computing device. The onboard computing device may include a processor configured to receive training data while the satellite is in orbit. The processor may be further configured to perform training at a machine learning model based at least in part on the training data. The processor may be further configured to generate model update data that specifies a modification made to the machine learning model during the training. The processor may be further configured to transmit the model update data from the satellite to an additional computing device.
US12107663B2

Systems and method may provide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) connection monitoring and location reporting. A method implemented by at least one processor includes receiving a location report indicating a location of the UAV from a first server; receiving a lost connection report indicating a loss of connection with the UAV; receiving a connection resumption report indicating that the connection with the UAV has been re-established; and based on receiving the connection resumption report, transmitting a location update request to the first server.
US12107662B2

Methods and apparatus for using a first number of antennas at one base station, e.g., at a first CBSD, in combination with a second, e.g., lesser number of antennas at another base station to provide different wireless terminals communications channels with different channel conditions are described. A ‘relay mode’ of operation at the second base station facilitates communication of data from the first base station. In this way the second base station is used to relay data sent from the first base station while the UE perceives the data as having been sent over the air by the first base station. The channels from the first and second base stations operate together providing a composite channel that will have different channel conditions than would be possible using simply the antennas of the first base station. Differences in channels to different UEs facilitates transmission scheduling at the first base station.
US12107660B1

A repeater system includes a first repeater device having a donor radio antenna to capture publicly broadcast synchronization signals from an outdoor 5G RAN node. A controller of the first repeater device decodes the publicly broadcast synchronization signals from the outdoor 5G RAN node and synchronizes with the decoded publicly broadcast synchronization signals to align a frame structure of donor radio antenna to the frame structure of the outdoor 5G RAN node. A relay radio antenna of the first repeater device is configured to communicate synchronized 5G signals from the donor radio antenna to one or more indoor relay devices for indoor distribution of synchronized 5G signals to serve one or more indoor UEs. The capture, decoding, synchronization, and communication of the synchronized 5G signals for indoor distribution of synchronized 5G signals are independent of any additional signaling and explicit coordination from the outdoor 5G RAN node.
US12107649B2

A device is provided, which includes one or more antennas and a circuit. The circuit is configured to receive a packet from a transmitter device through the antennas, and obtain channel-state information from the received packet. The circuit includes one or more filters to filter out or recognize the received packet that complies with one or more preset conditions. The circuit uses the channel-state information of the received packet, which complies with the one or more preset conditions, to estimate a status of a channel between the transmitter device and the device.
US12107639B2

A method and network node for determining a Radio Frequency (RF) propagation model for a coverage area from an image view of the coverage area. The method selects a coverage area for a transmission point of a transmitter and obtains an image view of the selected coverage area. The method further recognizes, from a plurality of morphology types, a morphology type for the selected coverage area from the obtained image view using a machine learning model; and determines a RF propagation model for the selected coverage area based on the recognized morphology type.
US12107633B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for two-dimensional optical transmission, including systems and methods for modulating and detecting two-dimensional short-reach optical communications. Two-dimensional optical transmissions may be generated by mapping a first data set to a first dimension of an optical signal and mapping a second data set to a second dimension of an optical signal. The encoded data for the first data set may be combined with the encoded data for the second data set so as to produce drive signals for a dual-drive modulator using a combination of both a common-mode and differential signal. The disclosed systems and methods also include dual-mode optical receivers that are configured to operate in either a one-dimensional or two-dimensional mode.
US12107629B2

An optical module includes a transmitter assembly; a receiver assembly; and circuitry connected to the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly, wherein the circuity is configured to, responsive to a test of delay in one or more of the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly, store a delay value for one or more of the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly, and, responsive to a query of the delay, provide the stored delay value for each of the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly. The circuitry can be further configured to perform the test of delay via inserting an event that is used for timing detection at a corresponding receiver assembly.
US12107628B2

A full duplex communication network includes an optical transmitter end having a first coherent optics transceiver, an optical receiver end having a second coherent optics transceiver, and an optical transport medium operably coupling the first coherent optics transceiver to the second coherent optics transceiver. The first coherent optics transceiver is configured to (i) transmit a downstream optical signal at a first wavelength, and (ii) simultaneously receive an upstream optical signal at a second wavelength. The second coherent optics transceiver is configured to (i) receive the downstream optical signal, and (ii) simultaneously transmit the upstream optical signal. The first wavelength has a first center frequency separated from a second center frequency of the second wavelength.
US12107625B2

In order to detect a terminal station in which a failure has occurred in a WDM optical transmission system that transmits optical signals transmitted thereto from a plurality of terminal stations after performing wavelength multiplexing of said optical signals, this failure detection device includes: an input unit that receives first optical signals from the plurality of terminal stations, the first optical signals having wavelengths respectively allocated to the plurality of terminal stations on the basis of allocation information, and that joins the received first optical signals; a monitoring unit that outputs monitoring signals, which are signals that are in accordance with the intensities corresponding to the respective wavelengths of the joined first optical signals; and an identifying unit that identifies a first terminal station from the plurality of terminal stations on the basis of the allocation information and the monitoring signals.
US12107623B2

A 10G rate OLT terminal transceiver integrated chip based on XGPON and EML laser includes: a burst mode receiver RX which amplifies an electrical signal originated each ONU client and processed through a burst mode receiver TIA, processes amplitude and frequency double-detection, and outputs the signal whose amplitude and waveform pulse width met the threshold requirements to a host, and comprises a fast recovery module to meet the timing sequence requirement of the XGPON protocol; a continuous mode transmitter TX which receives the electrical signal attenuated by a PCB board, and selects a bypass BYPASS path or a clock data recovery CDR path according to a degree of attenuation to drive the EML laser; a digital control unit DIGIITAL which provides control signals to the burst mode receiver RX and the continuous mode transmitter TX; and a power module POWER to supply working power to the chip.
US12107617B2

An RF filter comprising a resonator element and a polymer composition is provided. The polymer composition contains an aromatic polymer and has a melting temperature of about 240° C. or more. The polymer composition exhibits a dielectric constant of about 5 or less and dissipation factor of about 0.05 or less at a frequency of 10 GHz.
US12107616B2

A power amplifier is capable of operating in a first power mode and a second power mode with a gain lower than a gain of the first power mode. The power amplifier is connected to a first common terminal of the first switch. Two or more filters are connected to two or more first selection terminals other than at least one first selection terminal among three or more first selection terminals of the first switch. The at least one first selection terminal of the first switch and at least one second selection terminal of a second switch are connected. The first switch is capable of switching between a first path passing through at least one of the two or more filters and a second path not passing through any of the two or more filters but passing through the at least one first selection terminal.
US12107611B2

Systems and methods of reducing SNR and increasing bandwidth of received signals are disclosed. LNAs receive signals from an antenna via a common input matching network. The amplified signals are downconverted, filtered and digitized before being coherently combined at a DSP. Depending on the LO frequencies used by mixers in the different receiver paths, the combined signals reduce the SNR when the LO frequencies are the same by reducing the non-correlated noise introduced by the LNAs or increase the bandwidth processed when the LO frequencies are different. The bandwidths are contiguous or non-contiguous.
US12107607B2

A binary data compression/decompression method is disclosed, where any input binary data string (IFDS) is uniquely and reversibly compressed/decompressed without any data loss, by first transforming the IFDS in well defined variable length binary constructs using well defined criteria and procedure, followed by partitioning the IFDS in IFDS slices of optimal sizes based on well defined criteria, where each IFDS slice is individually compressed according to three independent schemes and several extensions that are all based on mathematical description of well defined relationships noted within the content of such an IFDS slice in term of specific binary constructs, leading to unique identifiable binary entities that are used to generate compression gain by reassignment of specific well defined parts of the data constructs within the subject IFDS slice, where such compressed IFDS slices are assembled in the same original slice order as found in the original uncompressed IFDS, creating the full compressed IFDS, where an unlimited but defined number of such compression cycles are executed until the desired final file size is achieved.
US12107606B1

Systems, devices, and methods for encoding information bits for storage, including obtaining an information vector comprising a plurality of information bits, a static frozen vector comprising a plurality of static frozen bits, and a constraints vector which indicates at least one constraint; partitioning the information vector into a first information vector and a second information vector; partitioning the static frozen vector into a first static frozen vector and a second static frozen vector; determining an input vector by applying a plurality of matrix operations to the first information vector, the second information vector, the first static frozen vector, the second static frozen vector, and the constraints vector; computing an output codeword of a polar subcode based on the input vector; and transmitting the output codeword to the storage device.
US12107601B2

A data error correction method, apparatus, device, and readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring target data to be error-corrected; performing error correction on the target data using an error-correcting code to obtain first data; judging whether the performing of the error correction on the target data is successful; responsive to the performing of the error correction on the target data being not successful, correcting the target data using a target neural network to obtain second data, determining the second data as the target data, and continuing to perform the error correction on the target data again; and responsive to the performing of the error correction on the target data being successful, determining the first data as the error-corrected target data.
US12107600B2

A digital-to-analog converter circuit that creates an analog waveform from an input digital waveform. Operating the circuit comprises using the input digital waveform to 1) operate a charge control switch to set a charge time period, 2) operate a discharge control switch to set a discharge time period, 3) set a charge current magnitude using a charge gain, and 4) set a discharge current magnitude using a discharge gain. A charge source electrically charges a load capacitor during the charge time period (i.e., the charge mode). A discharge source electrically discharges the load capacitor during the discharge time period (i.e., the discharge mode). A circuit output transmits the analog waveform defined by the charge mode and the discharge mode. A charge current magnitude greater than the discharge current magnitude produces an upward-sloping analog waveform. A charge current magnitude less than the discharge current magnitude produces a downward-sloping analog waveform.
US12107595B2

A kickback current is suppressed so as not to generate a deviation in a signal that outputs a comparison result. A comparator includes a first input terminal and a second input terminal to which a first differential input signal pair is input, a third input terminal and a fourth input terminal to which a second differential input signal pair is input, a first comparison circuit that outputs a signal corresponding to a difference signal of the first differential input signal pair generated by connecting the first input terminal to a positive side and connecting the second input terminal to a negative side and a difference signal of the second differential input signal pair generated by connecting the third input terminal to a positive side and connecting the fourth input terminal to a negative side, and a second comparison circuit that outputs a signal corresponding to a difference signal of the first differential input signal pair generated by connecting the first input terminal to a negative side and connecting the second input terminal to a positive side, and a difference signal of the second differential input signal pair generated by connecting the third input terminal to a positive side and connecting the fourth input terminal to a negative side.
US12107587B1

The present invention relates to a field programmable gate array system that provides phase control with minimal latency.
US12107583B1

Systems and methods for shutting down a functional circuit in response to a predetermined total ionizing dose of radiation employ at least two redundant sensing circuits operated in integrate and measure phases by one or more sequencer-type hardware or software controllers. NMOS TID sensors having leakage currents increasing monotonically with dose may be biased during integrate phases, with bias voltages or duty cycles adjusted to achieve a calibrated responsivity. TID measurements are compared to a corresponding reference, latched to generate overexpose signals, and tested for agreement. Disagreement triggers remeasurement to prevent erroneous shutdown until a minimum number of overexpose signals agree that TID exceeds the predetermined threshold. A disable circuit accepts the redundant overexpose signals and generates a signal to disable a functional circuit. Redundancy and remeasurement protect against unwarranted shutdowns due to radiation-induced single-event effects or other circuit transients or failures.
US12107580B2

A pulse detection circuit configured to detect peak pulse values from pulses contained in an input analog signal includes a control circuit to generate a peak control signal based on input from a microcontroller and/or a peak detector, and a peak track/hold circuit to produce an output peak analog signal responsive to the input analog signal and peak control signal. The peak track/hold circuit includes a peak-detect operational amplifier having first and second input terminals to receive the input analog signal and the peak control signal respectively, and a peak-hold capacitor connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier. The pulse detection circuit includes an analog to digital converter to produce an output peak digital signal from the output peak analog signal. The peak track/hold circuit switches from a tracking mode to a hold mode upon the arrival of the peak control signal generated from the control circuit.
US12107574B2

A switch control module including a master switch, a clamping element and a diode is provided. The master switch is configured to receive a control signal having a conducting interval and a non-conducting interval. The diode couples the clamping element and the master switch.
US12107570B2

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a gate controller coupled between an input terminal and an intermediate node, the gate controller including a first transistor coupled between the input terminal and a first node; a second transistor coupled between the first node and the intermediate node; a third transistor coupled between the input terminal and the intermediate node; and a charge pump coupled to the intermediate node; a switching network coupled between the intermediate node and an output terminal, the switching network including a high-side drive (HSD) transistor having a HSD gate terminal coupled to the intermediate node, the HSD transistor coupled between an input voltage and a switch node.
US12107562B2

An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric layer on a substrate and an interdigital electrode structure on the piezoelectric layer. The interdigital electrode structure includes a first bus bar, a second bus bar, a first set of electrode fingers, and a second set of electrode fingers. The first bus bar and the second bus bar extend parallel to one another along a length of the interdigital electrode structure. The first set of electrode fingers are coupled to the first bus bar and extend to a first apodization edge. The second set of electrode fingers are coupled to the second bus bar and extend to a second apodization edge. The first set of electrode fingers and the second set of electrode fingers are interleaved. At least one of the first apodization edge and the second apodization edge provides a wave pattern along the length of the interdigital electrode structure.
US12107559B2

A system is provided to analyze distortion in an electronic or electromechanical device, which may include testing with one or more modulated signals and/or with one or more demodulators. In one embodiment a change in pitch (or frequency) is measured at an output of the device. One or more signals from a demodulator output may be measured for an amplitude, noise, phase, aliasing, spurious signal, and/or frequency modulation effect. In another embodiment a musical signal may be used as a test signal. Providing additional test signals to the device can induce a cross-modulation distortion signal (or time varying cross-modulation distortion signal) from an output of the device. Also utilizing at least one additional filter, filter bank, demodulator and or frequency converter and or frequency multiplier provides extra examination of distortion. Also frequency and/or phase response can be measured with the presence of a de-sensing signal and or another signal that induce near slew rate limiting or near overload condition of the device under test. Another system is provided to analyze modulation index differences between input and output signals for a test signal including modulation. Another system includes providing a nested or layered modulated signal and/or a nested or layered demodulation apparatus or method.
US12107558B2

A system having a set of power amplifiers each having a primary inductive structure configured to provide an output signal. A secondary inductive structure is configured to inductively couple to each of the primary inductive structures. A transmission line is provided with a signal trace and a ground trace. The signal trace of the transmission line is connected to a first end of the secondary inductive structure. A return path from a second end of the secondary inductive structure is coupled via a resonant network to the ground trace of the transmission line, in which the return path is spaced away from the secondary inductive structure to minimize inductive coupling to the primary structures.
US12107554B2

Circuits and methods for use in amplifying amplitude and phase modulated signals. A circuit uses a digital controlled multi stage combiner, a signal phase discrete mapper and a combiner digital control circuit with N parallel signal feeding it. The signals resulting from N power amplifiers have phases with belonging to an alphabet with M discrete phases prior to being fed to the multi stage combiner. The phases of the N input signals are converted in an control signal generator into Ns sets of digital control signals to control N·M sets of switches where the signals are selected according the phase and sent to the corresponding combiner in the M possible combiners. Each one combiner from the set of M combiner then combines these signals. A second stage with digital controlled combiner, combines into two sub-sets of signals the signals resulting from first stage and the resulting outputs of the combiner are then combined by a third combining digital controlled stage into the output signal. The signal amplifiers employed before the combining stage may be Class D or Class F amplifiers to provide high efficiency amplification of the signals.
US12107553B2

An amplifier includes a first capacitor connected between an input node and a floating node, a second capacitor connected between the floating node and an output node, an amplifying element connected between a power supply voltage and the output node and operating in response to a voltage level of the floating node, a current bias source connected between the output node and a ground voltage, a first reset switch connected between the floating node and an intermediate node and operating in response to a reset bias, a second reset switch connected between the intermediate node and the output node and operating in response to the reset bias, and a reset bias generator circuit that outputs the reset bias in response to a reset signal. The reset bias is one of a reset voltage of the intermediate node, the power supply voltage, and the ground voltage.
US12107551B2

A mobile device may include a power supply configured to generate a supply voltage, a power converter configured to generate a converted voltage from the supply voltage wherein the converted voltage is significantly different than the supply voltage, and a plurality of power domains. The plurality of power domains may include a first power domain that is global to the mobile device and comprising a first plurality of electronic components powered from the converted voltage and a second power domain that is global to the mobile device and comprising a second plurality of electronic components powered from the supply voltage, wherein power requirements of each of the second plurality of electronic components are significantly higher than power requirements of each of the first plurality of electronic components.
US12107543B2

An oven-controlled crystal oscillator according to one or more embodiments may include a core section hermetically encapsulated in a package for thermal insulation, wherein the core section is supported by the package via a core substrate, and the core section has a layered structure in which at least an oscillation IC, a crystal resonator and a heater IC are laminated in sequence.
US12107539B2

A system, method, and solar photovoltaic (PV) network for solar PV variability reduction with reduced time delays and battery storage optimization are described. The system includes a Moving Regression (MR) filter; a State of Charge (SoC) feedback control; and a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The MR filter, SoC feedback control and BESS are configured to provide smoothing of solar PV variabilities. The MR filter is a non-parametric smoother that utilizes a machine learning concept of linear regression to smooth out solar PV variations at every time step.
US12107538B2

The photovoltaic system includes a first inverter circuit, a second inverter circuit, and a switch circuit. When the switch circuit is in the first state, a first photovoltaic array is connected to the direct current positive bus and the neutral bus through the switch circuit, and a second photovoltaic array is connected to the neutral bus and the direct current negative bus through the switch circuit. When the switch circuit is in the second state, the first photovoltaic array is connected to the neutral bus and the direct current negative bus through the switch circuit, and the second photovoltaic array is connected to the direct current positive bus and the neutral bus through the switch circuit. A potential of the photovoltaic array is changed to prevent a PID effect from occurring when the photovoltaic array is at a negative potential for a long time.
US12107536B2

A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, a first shutoff device, and a second shutoff device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell modules connected in series. The first shutoff device turns OFF, in response to a first control signal from the inverter, a first switching unit and a second switching unit. The first switching unit is connected to an anode side terminal of the string and an anode side terminal of the inverter. The second switching unit is connected to a cathode side terminal of the string and a cathode side terminal of the inverter. The second shutoff device is configured to output a second state signal to the first shutoff device and cut off a solar cell module group and either another solar cell module or the inverter, in response to a second control signal from the first shutoff device.
US12107533B2

A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, and a first shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell modules connected in series. The inverter converts DC power output from the plurality of solar cell modules to AC power. The first shut-off device is connected to electrical paths connecting the plurality of solar cell modules to each other. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups each including the plurality of the solar cell modules. The plurality of solar cell module groups include at least a first group and a second group connected to the first group. The first shut-off device shuts off a first electrical path connecting the first group and the second group and a second electrical path connecting the plurality of solar cell modules belonging to the first group to each other in response to a control signal from the inverter.
US12107532B2

[Problem]To propose a simplified configuration with which a solar power generation device can be easily and quickly assembled and installed and to propose a solar power generation device configuration with which the wind resistance is preferably more reduced. [Solution] The solar power generation device supporting frame integrated with a solar power generation panel is fixed to at least one of a plurality of supporting poles projected upward from an installation base surface, has a rod-like body appearance, and has a solar power generation panel integrally provided at least along the upper side curved surface thereof without being separated from the upper side curved surface. Preferably, the solar power generation device supporting frame integrated with the solar power generation panel is fixed to the supporting poles horizontally.
US12107527B2

A controller detects a rotor magnet temperature based on an actively detected back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the motor. The controller detects the BEMF voltage by commanding the injection of a direct-axis (d-axis) current into the motor while the motor is spinning but otherwise commanding no torque. The controller actively detects the BEMF voltage in that the controller purposely injects a known quantity of d-axis current at a chosen time during which the controller detects or is aware that the motor is commanding no torque. Using a quadrature-axis (q-axis) voltage equation, which describes the relationship between a voltage command, the current, the BEMF voltage, and reactance in the q-axis, the controller solves for the BEMF voltage with the voltage command, the current, and the q-axis reactance being known to the controller. The controller detects the rotor magnet temperature based on the BEMF voltage.
US12107519B2

Disclosed embodiments include electroadhesion devices for securing smartphones and other consumer devices to target surfaces. In various embodiments, the electroadhesion device may include a digital switch for adjusting the output voltage generated by a voltage converter. The digital switch may enable safe operation of the electroadhesion device by ensuring the output voltage generated by the voltage converter is compatible with the target surface. To determine a compatible output voltage, the electroadhesion device may include one or more sensors that may measure one or more characteristics of the target surface including conductivity, porosity, hardness, smoothness, and the like.
US12107517B2

The importance of architectural asymmetry is investigated to improve the output voltage of TENGs with polyester/spandex blend three-dimensional (3D) spacer fabrics. Different types of TENGs are fabricated by stacking the 3D spacer fabrics, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films, and electrodes with different stack configurations. The 3D spacer fabric TENGs fabricated with higher architectural asymmetry show higher output voltages than those fabricated with lower architectural asymmetry. In particular, the TENG with the PDMS/fabric/fabric configuration shows the highest peak-to-peak output voltage among all types. An increase in the TENG output voltage is attributed to the relatively high architectural asymmetry in the device configuration and the relatively high effective density of triboelectric charge.
US12107511B2

A circuit and methods describing a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) rectifier for use in radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting with body biasing by the RF input to control the threshold voltage of each transistor. The CMOS rectifier includes an energy harvesting antenna, and multiple rectifier stages. The antenna receives electromagnetic radiation from the environment and generates a DC current. The oscillating input current is an RF+ positive current during a first half cycle and is an RF− negative current during a second half cycle. A first rectifier stage includes a first capacitor connected to the RF+ positive current, a second capacitor connected to the RF− negative current and a cross coupled CMOS circuit connected to the antenna.
US12107510B2

A power converting apparatus includes: a reactor including a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to an alternating-current power supply; a rectifier circuit connected to the second end of the reactor and including at least one switching element, the rectifier circuit converting an alternating-current voltage output from the alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage; and a detecting unit that detects a physical quantity indicating an operation state of the rectifier circuit, wherein the number of times of switching of the switching element is changed depending on the operation of the rectifier circuit.
US12107503B2

A multi-stage buck converter is provided. The multi-stage buck converter includes a capacitor string, a power switch module and a power conversion module. The capacitor string includes N capacitors connected in series. The power switch module is coupled to the capacitor string and includes N power switch groups. The power conversion module is coupled to the power switch module and includes an energy storage element. Wherein a working frequency of the power conversion module is equal to N times of the switching frequency of each of the N power switch groups, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. Wherein the working frequency is the number of times of the energy storage element that completes charging and discharging in a unit time.
US12107496B2

A converter circuit includes a capacitor module and a balance module. The capacitor module includes at least a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The balance module includes at least a first resonant circuit. The first resonant circuit includes at least two switch groups connected in parallel and a first resonant cavity bridged between the two switch groups. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in series. The first resonant circuit is separately bridged between two ends of the first capacitor and between two ends of the second capacitor. The balance module controls each switch in the first resonant circuit, so that each switch works with the first resonant cavity to affect a current, to balance a voltage between the two ends of the first capacitor and a voltage between the two ends of the second capacitor.
US12107495B2

An apparatus for providing electric power to a load includes a power converter that accepts electric power in a first form and provides electric power in a second form. The power converter comprises a control system, a first stage, and a second stage in series. The first stage accepts electric power in the first form. The control system controls operation of the first and second stage. The first stage is either a switching network or a regulating network. The second stage is a regulating circuit when the first stage is a switching network, and a switching network otherwise.
US12107479B2

A motor housing cover assembly includes a motor housing cover of an electric motor with an upper side and a lower side and a printed circuit board with electronic components. The motor housing cover is penetrated by electrical contacts which each make electrical contact with the printed circuit board with a first end region and are in an electrical plug connector with a second end region, which is arranged on the upper side of the motor housing cover. The motor housing cover, the printed circuit board and the plug connector are at least partially surrounded by a molding compound in a molding process, the molding compound fixing the printed circuit board and the plug connector to the motor housing cover.
US12107477B2

Electric machine, in particular an electric motor for driving at least one compressor or circulator, comprising a stator and a rotor that are disposed in a casing, the machine comprising a cooling device disposed around the stator and comprising a circulation circuit for a cooling fluid, characterized in that the cooling device comprises a circulation pipe for the cooling fluid, comprising a portion embedded in a mass of material with high thermal conductivity such as metal or a metal alloy.
US12107472B2

Aspects of the subject technology relate to a shaker module for an electronic device. The shaker module may include a movable component that is resiliently suspended in relation to a voice coil by one or more gap-separated pairs of the flat springs. The flat springs reduce the z-height of the shaker module for implementation in, for example, compact electronic devices. The gap-separated pairs of flat springs facilitate adjustment of the resonance frequency of the shaker module substantially independently of adjustments to drop performance, while providing stability against unwanted rocking motions of the movable component.
US12107460B2

An electric machine includes a stator having a winding, and at least one temperature sensor arrangement having a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature in the region of the winding. The ends of at least one part of the conductor protrude from the winding. One part of said ends is connected to an axial or radial interconnection ring placed on the winding. The temperature sensor arrangement is arranged on a conductor and the temperature sensor is thermally coupled to at least one conductor.
US12107456B2

A backup power supply system and a control method thereof are provided. The backup power supply system includes a power supply circuit and an uninterruptible power supply. The power supply circuit is configured to receive utility power, and the uninterruptible power supply is connected to the power supply circuit and stores backup power. When the utility power is normal, the power supply circuit supplies power to the uninterruptible power supply, and the uninterruptible power supply outputs a first alternating current voltage that meets a utility power specification to the alternating current load. When the utility power is abnormal, the uninterruptible power supply outputs a second alternating current voltage that meets the utility power specification to the alternating current load.
US12107452B2

A charging circuit includes at least two charging chips for charging a battery of an electronic device. Each of the at least two charging chips is configured to operate in an independent charging mode. Each charging chip includes a first voltage sampling end and a second voltage sampling end for collecting voltage information of the battery, and each charging chip is configured for independent charging according to the collected voltage information. The first voltage sampling end and the second voltage sampling end are respectively connected to two poles of the battery.
US12107448B1

A charging station for providing power connections, charging and/or data connections includes one or more wiring devices mounted to a power module that slides in the housing of the main assembly of the charging station such that each wiring device is recessed from the outer surface of the charging station. A back wall of the power module serves as a barrier between different branch circuits for code compliance. The charging station includes a cover assembly with a sloped upper surface and is constructed so that most of the required electrical connections are made on the power module prior to the assembly of the charging station.
US12107437B2

A host unit in a wireless power transmission system transmits power to a secondary unit during a communication-directivity control period and a power transmission period that are temporally divided from each other. The host unit transmits power such that a transmission output power of a power transmission radio wave during the power transmission period is greater than a transmission output power of a communication signal during the communication-directivity control period.
US12107433B2

A synchronization system for synchronizing phases of alternating currents supplied from a plurality of power supply devices includes a master unit that outputs a synchronization signal having a predetermined period. Each power supply device includes: a power supply circuit that supplies an alternating current to a power feeding line; and a power supply control unit that receives the synchronization signal and controls the power supply circuit. The power supply control unit calculates an adjusted phase by delaying a phase of the received synchronization signal by an amount corresponding to a prescribed delay time and advancing the delayed phase by an amount corresponding to a time required to transmit the synchronization signal from the master unit to the power supply control unit, and controls the power supply circuit in such as manner as to synchronize the phase of the alternating current with the adjusted phase.
US12107429B2

A power and data connectivity micro grid for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure includes power sourcing equipment device configured to deliver a first direct current (DC) power signal to a power port of the power sourcing equipment device, a power boost module having a power input port and a power output port, where the power boost module is configured to add a DC boost power signal to a second DC power signal received at the power boost module, a first splice enclosure, a second splice enclosure, and first, second and third composite power-data cables configured to transmit first, second, and third DC power signals. The third DC power signal from the power output port of the power boost module includes the DC boost power signal added to the second DC power signal that was received at the power input port of the power boost module.
US12107428B2

The present application relates to a method for seamless switching between off-grid and grid-connected including: in a grid-connected state, when a host determines that utility power is abnormal, a grid-connected working mode is closed, a phase-locked source of the host is switched from the utility power to a self-oscillation state, the phase-locked source of the slave is switched to the self-oscillation state of the host, and phase-locking is performed, and an off-grid working mode is started after an input switch is turned off; in an off-grid state, when the host determines that the utility power is normal, the phase-locked source of the host is switched from the self-oscillation state to the utility power, and, the phase-locked source of the slave is switched to the utility power, and phase-locking is performed, and the grid-connected working mode is started after the input switch is turned on.
US12107414B2

Systems and methods are described herein to accommodate different settings associated with an inverter-based electric power generator for electric power generation within an electric power delivery system. The electric power delivery system may provide electric power generated by a bulk electric system to the loads via distributed substations using a first operating frequency. Moreover, the distributed substations may include inverter-based electric power generators to supply the electric power demand of downstream loads in an islanded configuration. That said, the inverter-based electric power generators may supply the electric power using a second frequency that is higher than the first frequency. Protective systems, positioned downstream from the distributed substations, may use different settings associated with the bulk electric system or the inverter-based electric power generators based on detecting the frequency of the supplied electric power.
US12107409B2

Examples described herein provide an electric power distribution system (EPDS) that includes a transformer rectifier unit (TRU) that receives alternating current (AC) electric power from an AC electric power source during a first state of operation. The EPDS further includes a direct current (DC) electric power source that receives the DC electric power from the TRU during the first state of operation. The EPDS further includes a DC essential bus that receives the DC electric power from the DC electric power source during the first state of operation and that receives the DC electric power from another source during a second state of operation. The EPDS further includes a controller to selectively engage a diode bypass contactor to enable a diode during the second state of operation, and selectively engage the diode bypass contactor to enable a diode bypass during the first state of operation.
US12107403B2

A magnetic conduit organizer includes a magnetic base configured to magnetically attach to a ferromagnetic surface on a first side of the magnetic base. A clip extends from a second side of the magnetic base, opposite the first side. The clip includes a post that extend from the second side of the base, a plurality of arms that extend from the post, and a plurality of slots. A first slot of the plurality of slots is defined between two adjacent arms of the plurality of arms. The first slot is configured to receive the portion of a conduit therein.
US12107392B2

Example wavelength tunable lasers are described. One example wavelength tunable laser includes a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier, three couplers, and at least two microring resonators. The reflective semiconductor optical amplifier is connected to one port of the first coupler. Some of the at least two microring resonators are arranged between another port of the first coupler and one port of the second coupler, the others of the at least two microring resonators are arranged between a third port of the first coupler and a second port of the second coupler, and a third port and a fourth port of the second coupler are connected to two ports of the third coupler.
US12107388B2

A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) emits laser light. The VCSEL has an optical resonator and a photodiode. The optical resonator has: a first mirror, an active region configured to generate laser light, and a second mirror. The active region is arranged between the first mirror and the second mirror. The photodiode is integrated in the optical resonator. The photodiode has: an absorption region having a plurality of absorbing layers configured to absorb the generated laser light. The absorbing layers are arranged spaced apart from one another by a distance d which satisfies the condition: d=(2k−1)λ/(4 m). Where λ is the wavelength of the laser light in the absorption region, and k and m are natural numbers ≥1.
US12107387B2

A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array package includes a VCSEL array chip bonded on a substrate, a support structure surrounding the VCSEL array chip, and an optical component mounted on the support structure. The support structure is molded directly on the substrate using a high thermal conductivity molding material. The support structure covers all side surfaces of the VCSEL array chip to facilitate heat transfer through the chip's sides. A transparent layer is deposited on the output surface of the VCSEL array chip, which prevents the support structure from blocking an output beam during molding.
US12107386B2

In various embodiments, laser resonators include enclosed cooling manifolds defining protrusions each configured to conduct heat-exchange fluid to a beam emitter in the resonator. Installation of such cooling manifolds may be facilitated via use of a rigid installation tool functioning as a mechanical reference, prior to installation of the beam emitters and sealing of the beam emitters to the cooling manifold.
US12107379B2

A laser device includes at least one light source; a delivery fiber that is configured to propagate of laser light emitted from the light source; and a first light detection unit and a second light detection unit configured to detect a part of light propagating in a direction opposite to a propagation direction of the laser light through the delivery fiber. The first light detection unit detects first light included in a wavelength band of visible light. The second light detection unit detects second light included in a wavelength band of near-infrared light.
US12107373B2

An assembly comprises a cable and a connector. The cable includes at least four direct current (DC) wires. Each of the DC wires has a first coupling portion at an end thereof. The connector is attached to the cable. The connector comprises a housing and two DC contacts. The housing has two accommodating portions. The two DC contacts are arranged in a horizontal direction. The DC contacts are accommodated in the accommodating portions, respectively. Each of the DC contacts has a contact portion and a second coupling portion. The second coupling portion of each of the DC contacts is connected with the first coupling portions of at least two of the DC wires in the corresponding accommodating portion. The first coupling portions, which are connected with the second coupling portion, are arranged in parallel in the horizontal direction.
US12107371B2

The present disclosure relates to a board connector including a receptacle insulating part, a receptacle transmission contact coupled to the receptacle insulating part and configured to allow electrical connection to a plug connector, and a receptacle radio frequency (RF) contact coupled to the receptacle insulating part so as to be disposed at a position spaced apart from the receptacle transmission contact and configured to allow transmission of a RF signal.
US12107364B2

A connector includes: a terminal fitting connected to an electric wire; a housing including a housing chamber, an electric wire drawing port, a communication hole, and a counterpart fitting chamber where a gap formed between the counterpart fitting chamber and a counterpart terminal fitting is filled with a first sealing member; a lid member; a second sealing member that fills a gap between these and forms a first sealed space part in the housing with the first sealing member; a waterproof member including one end part in close contact with an end part of the housing, the other end part in close contact with the electric wire drawn from the electric wire drawing port, and a tubular part, the tubular part including a second sealed space part communicating with the first sealed space part through the electric wire drawing port; and a ventilation component.
US12107357B2

An edge connector for connecting to a mating connector includes an outer conductor having a main body and plug-in portion, and first and second inner-conductor contacts arranged at least partly inside the outer conductor. The inner-conductor contacts each comprise a coupling end and a contact end. A shortest spacing between the coupling end and the contact end of the first inner-conductor contact is different from a shortest spacing between the coupling end and the second contact of the second inner-conductor contact. The overall electrical lengths of the inner-conductor contacts are the same. The contact ends are arranged in parallel on a main plane and in the plug-in portion. The inner-conductor contacts are arranged at least partly inside a receiving chamber of the main body. The main plane divides the receiving chamber into first and second asymmetric chamber portions. An insulator galvanically isolates the inner-conductor contacts from the outer conductor.
US12107346B2

An antenna module and an electronic device are provided in the present disclosure. The antenna module includes a first antenna radiator and a first parasitic radiator. The first antenna radiator is configured to radiate a first radio frequency (RF) signal and resonate at a first frequency point. The first parasitic radiator and the first antenna radiator are located on a same plane and are spaced apart from each other, or the first parasitic radiator and the first antenna radiator are located on different planes. The first parasitic radiator is coupled with the first antenna radiator to radiate the first RF signal, and the first parasitic radiator is configured to resonate at a second frequency point, where the second frequency point is different from the first frequency point.
US12107342B2

A multiband antenna includes a first radiator, a feed element, a first ground element, a second radiator, a connecting element, and a second ground element, wherein the first radiator is made of a metal plate. The feed element is electrically connected to the first radiator and is adapted to feed a signal. The first ground element is electrically connected to the first radiator. The second radiator is made of a metal plate and surrounds an outer side of the first radiator, wherein the first radiator and the second radiator are spaced by an interval. The connecting element is electrically connected to the first radiator and the second radiator. The second ground element is electrically connected to the second radiator. In this way, the multiband antenna is suitable for transmitting signals in multiple frequency bands.
US12107336B2

A broadband linear polarization antenna structure, including a reference conductive layer, a first patch antenna, a second patch antenna, and a feeding portion, is provided. The reference conductive layer includes through holes. A first short pin is connected between the reference conductive layer and the first patch antenna, and a second short pin is connected between the first patch antenna and the second patch antenna. Each feeding portion penetrates the reference conductive layer through the through hole and is coupled to the first patch antenna.
US12107333B2

This invention provides an antenna assembly equipped with a sub-wavelength structured enhancer, comprising an antenna supporting substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other; a first patch antenna is disposed on the top surface of the antenna supporting substrate or inside of the antenna supporting substrate; a ground layer is disposed under the bottom surface of the antenna supporting substrate; a signal feeding layer for transmitting satellite communicating signals is disposed on one of surfaces of the antenna supporting substrate, or inside of the antenna supporting substrate, or under the first patch antenna, or under a side of the ground layer back to the antenna supporting substrate; and a solid sub-wavelength structured enhancer is disposed above the first patch antenna and spaced with each other by an air gap ranging between 7 mm and 47 mm.
US12107326B2

A compact munition antenna system that includes a curvilinear transmit antenna on a top and bottom of a ring-shaped substrate, and a curvilinear receive antenna on the top and bottom of the substrate. The transmit antenna and receive antenna are positioned opposite one another on the substrate, and are separated by a pair of isolation barriers to reduce coupling of the two antennas. The munition antenna system may be mounted on a metal cylindrical portion of a guidance system in a nose section of the munition, using a vertical convex surface of the cylindrical portion and a horizontal surface of the munition as a reflector for improving antenna performance.
US12107305B2

A power generation control system of a fuel cell includes: the fuel cell generating a power through a chemical reaction between fuel and air; a consuming device connected to an output terminal of the fuel cell and consuming the power output from the fuel cell; a converter connected between the fuel cell and the consuming device in series or parallel and adjusting an output voltage of the fuel cell; a supply device supplying the air to the fuel cell; a voltage controller controlling the converter on the basis of a required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output; and a supply controller controlling the supply device on the basis of the required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output.
US12107298B2

A secondary battery has an electrode body, a sealing plate sealing an opening of a battery case, current collector tabs provided respectively on a positive and a negative electrode plate, current collector terminals disposed inside the sealing plate and connected respectively to the positive and the negative electrode plate with the respective current collector tabs interposed therebetween, and external terminals disposed outside the sealing plate and connected to the respective current collector terminals. The electrode body is accommodated in the battery case with the electrode current collector tabs being bent in a space inside the sealing plate, and each of the current collector tabs has a joined portion ultrasonically joined to the corresponding current collector terminal and a bend portion provided at a position away from the joined portion and on the electrode body side and serving as a starting portion at which the current collector tab is bent.
US12107296B2

Discussed is a separator for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, more specifically, a separator for a lithium secondary battery including a porous substrate and a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a defect-containing molybdenum disulfide. The separator for lithium secondary battery adsorbs lithium polysulfide through the coating layer comprising the defect-containing molybdenum disulfide and suppresses the growth of a lithium dendrite, thereby improving the capacity and lifetime characteristics of the lithium secondary battery.
US12107295B2

A firefighting method and system for energy storage, and a storage medium are provided in implementations of the present disclosure. The method includes the following. The BMS turns on a first exhaust fan corresponding to a first battery cluster where a first battery module is disposed to exhaust a preset gas from the energy-storage container, when a first gas detector disposed in the first battery module detects the preset gas. The BMS determines whether to turn on a first firefighting apparatus corresponding to the first battery cluster based on a concentration of the preset gas at each moment in a preset period and a temperature of the first battery module at each moment in the preset period, to extinguish a fire at a battery module in the energy-storage container.
US12107288B2

This application provides a fireproof component, a battery pack, and a device using the battery pack as a power supply. The fireproof component includes a main body and a frame. The frame includes a body portion, an extension portion, and an opening defined by an inner peripheral face of the body portion. The extension portion is located circumferentially outside the body portion and connected to the body portion. The extension portion extends along a third direction that is perpendicular to a plane defined by the frame and protrudes beyond the body portion. The main body covers the opening of the frame and is connected to the body portion. The main body and the frame of the fireproof component are parts independent of each other, and therefore, can be made of different materials and in different molding processes.
US12107282B2

A gasket for cylindrical batteries includes a supporting portion configured to support a cap assembly and a crimping portion having opposite first and second ends, the crimping portion extending upwards from the first end disposed at a radially outer side of the supporting portion. An extension portion is connected to the second end of the crimping portion and extends along the outer side of the crimping portion towards the first end.
US12107278B2

A solid oxide fuel cell includes an anode that includes a porous layer including an electron conductive ceramics and an oxygen ion conductive ceramics, the porous layer of the anode being impregnated with an anode catalyst, an electrolyte layer that is provided on the anode and includes a solid oxide having oxygen ion conductivity, and a cathode that is provided on the electrolyte layer and has a porous layer including an electron conductive ceramics and an oxygen ion conductive ceramics, the porous layer of the cathode being impregnated with a cathode catalyst.
US12107275B2

The present disclosure or invention is directed to novel or improved separators for a variety of lead acid batteries and/or systems. In addition, exemplary embodiments disclosed herein are directed to novel or improved battery separators, separator profiles, separator and electrode assemblies incorporating the same, battery cells incorporating the same, batteries incorporating the same, systems incorporating the same, and/or methods of manufacturing and/or of using the same, and/or the like, and/or combinations thereof. For example, disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of improved electrode plate and separator assemblies (400) for lead acid batteries, improved lead acid cells or batteries incorporating the improved assemblies, systems or vehicles incorporating the improved assemblies (400) and/or batteries (100), and methods related thereto. The electrode plate (200, 201) may have a grid (202) of a stamped, cast, or expanded metal manufacturing process. The grid (202) may have a non-uniform application of active material (203). The separators (300) provide a support structure for resisting or mitigating any plate warping or plate deflection.
US12107270B2

Provided is a slurry composition for a lithium ion secondary battery that can cause an electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery to display excellent adhesiveness (peel strength) and flexibility (pliability) and that can cause a lithium ion secondary battery to display excellent rate characteristics and cycle characteristics. The slurry composition for a lithium ion secondary battery contains a silicon compound and a binder. The silicon compound includes either or both of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4. The binder includes a water-soluble polymer that includes either or both of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit (A) and an alkali metal salt thereof, and that includes a cross-linkable monomer unit (B). A 1 mass % aqueous solution of the water-soluble polymer has a viscosity of 1,000 mPa·s or less. The slurry composition for a lithium ion secondary battery has a pH of not lower than 9 and not higher than 12.
US12107269B2

A sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material; a coating layer on a surface of the porous carbon material, the coating layer including a compound with electrolyte solution impregnation property; and sulfur, a method for preparing the same, and a positive electrode for a lithium-sulfur battery and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same are disclosed.
US12107268B2

This application relates to a composite positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery. The composite positive electrode active material includes a nickel-based active material and a cobalt-boron compound-containing coating layer formed on a surface of the nickel-based active material. The application also relates to a method of preparation of the composite positive electrode active material. The application further relates to a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode containing the composite positive electrode active material.
US12107267B2

A negative active material composite includes a core and a coating layer around (surrounding) the core. The core includes amorphous carbon and silicon nanoparticles, the coating layer includes amorphous carbon, and an adjacent distance between the silicon nanoparticles is less than or equal to about 100 nm.
US12107266B2

This application provides a composite positive electrode material and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery, a battery group including the secondary battery, and an electric apparatus including the secondary battery. The composite positive electrode material includes a lithium-rich metal oxide and a positive electrode active material covering at least a partial surface of the lithium-rich metal oxide, where the positive electrode active material is formed through in-situ reaction between a positive electrode active material precursor and a free lithium compound on the surface of the lithium-rich metal oxide.
US12107265B2

The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material including silicon-based oxide particles and a metal distributed on a surface, inside, or on the surface of and the inside the silicon-based oxide particles, wherein compressive fracture strength measured at a pressure of 100 mN is 170 MPa to 380 MPa, and the silicon-based oxide particles contain Si crystal grains having a crystal grain size of 3 nm to 20 nm.
US12107261B2

A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including complex particles including silicon oxide particles doped with a metal of lithium, magnesium, calcium or aluminum, a linear conductive material disposed between the doped silicon oxide particles, and a carbon-based binder that hinds the doped silicon oxide particles and the conductive material together. The carbon-based binder is a result of sintering a carbon-based precursor. A method of preparing the negative electrode active material, a negative electrode and a lithium secondary battery are also provided. The negative electrode active material according to the present disclosure is superior at least in initial efficiency and life characteristics.
US12107254B2

A method for preparing a lithium alloy as an anode material includes the following steps: heating lithium metal into a molten state in an environment with a dew point not higher than −50° C. and an oxygen content not higher than 10 ppm; adding a transition metal to the molten lithium metal, maintaining the temperature for 5-15 minutes, and uniformly mixing to form a molten alloy; cooling the molten alloy to room temperature to obtain the lithium alloy as the anode material. The preparation method of the present invention is simple and feasible with less cost. The prepared lithium alloy as the anode material can effectively improve the coulombic efficiency and cycle lifespan of the lithium battery.
US12107250B2

Provided is a method for producing an electrode active material capable of forming a non-aqueous secondary battery with superior durability and output characteristics. The method for producing an electrode active material for a non-aqueous secondary battery includes contacting a dispersion containing graphene and a dispersion medium with alkali-metal-transition-metal composite oxide particles, and the dispersion has a dispersibility index of 0.25 or more.
US12107248B2

An interface system for mechanically decoupling a cooling system includes: a housing having an opening; an inset having opposite first and second sides; an interface body having first and second ends and a bore-hole open to the first and second ends thereof. The inset has a recess in the second side to accommodate the interface body. The interface body is at least partially inserted into the inset, and the inset is at least partially inserted into the opening in the housing such that the first side of the inset is inside the housing. The first side of the inset has an opening open to the bore-hole of the interface body. One end of the bore-hole is configured to slidably receive an inlet of a cooling pipe, and the other end of the bore-hole is configured to be connected, in a fluid-tight manner, with an external coolant supply or coolant discharge.
US12107247B2

A battery pack including a battery pack housing, and a battery module disposed in the battery pack housing, Tire pack housing is sealed and flooded with a dielectric fluid. The battery module includes a module housing that is fluid permeable and includes a fluid passageway, and electrochemical cells disposed in the module housing in such a way that terminals of the cells are exposed to fluid disposed in the fluid passageway. The battery pack includes a thermal management system having an inlet plenum assembly disposed at a first end of the battery module, an outlet plenum assembly disposed at a second end of the battery module, and a fluid pump that directs fluid to the inlet plenum assembly via a fluid delivery line and receives fluid from the outlet plenum assembly via a fluid return line.
US12107243B2

A battery pack includes a battery, a sensor configured to detect a state of the battery. The sensor includes an insulating layer, and a resistor on one side of the insulating layer, the resistor being formed of a Cr composite film. The sensor detects the state of the battery as a change in a resistance value of the resistor.
US12107222B2

Disclosed is a liquid electrolyte for use in lithium-ion, lithium-metal, and lithium-sulfur batteries, in which the liquid electrolyte comprises at least one organic nonlinear carbonate, at least one lithium salt, and at least one cyclic sulfoxide, and in which the liquid electrolyte does not comprise a combination of propylene carbonate, tetrahydrothiophene-1-oxide, and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI). Also disclosed is a lithium secondary battery comprising an anode, a cathode, a separator, and the liquid electrolyte for use in lithium-ion, lithium-metal, and lithium-sulfur batteries.
US12107220B2

An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z, wherein, about 2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 8 wt %, about 0.1≤(X/Y)≤about 6, about 30 wt %≤Z≤about 50 wt %, and about 0.01≤(Y/Z)≤about 0.3; wherein the dinitrile compound is one or more compounds selected from adiponitrile, 1,4-dicyano-2-butene, and ethylene glycol bis(2-cyanoethyl) ether; and the trinitrile compound is one or more compounds selected from 1,3,5-pentanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-propanetrinitrile; 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)propane; 1,2,4-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)butane; 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)ethane; 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)propane; 3-methyl-1,3,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane; 1,2,7-tris(cyanoethoxy)heptane; 1,2,6-tris(cyanoethoxy)hexane; 1,2,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane; and any combination thereof.
US12107219B2

A polymer, a polymer electrolyte and a lithium ion battery are provided. The polymer includes a main chain and side chains of the polymer, the side chains contain conjugated cyclic groups and epoxy multi-element cyclic groups; the conjugated cyclic group is selected from saturated or unsaturated C10-C20 conjugated aromatic groups; the epoxy multi-element cyclic group is selected from saturated or unsaturated C3-C8 epoxy multi-element cyclic groups; the main chain of the polymer is selected from polyalkoxy ether. The polymer, the polymer electrolyte and the lithium ion battery can improve interaction between the polymer electrolyte and an active substance in an electrode plate, increase the adhesion of the polymer electrolyte, avoid detachment occurring at an interface between the plate and the electrolyte, and improve the interface stability of the battery.
US12107216B2

A solid electrolyte is provided. The solid electrolyte may comprise a compound in which cations including thiophenium and anions including fluorohydrogenate are bonded.
US12107211B2

Embodiments described herein relate generally to electrochemical cells including a selectively permeable membrane and systems and methods for manufacturing the same. In some embodiments, the selectively permeable membrane can include a solid-state electrolyte material. In some embodiments, electrochemical cells can include a cathode disposed on a cathode current collector, an anode disposed on an anode current collector, and the selectively permeable membrane disposed therebetween. In some embodiments, the cathode and/or anode can include a slurry of an active material and a conductive material in a liquid electrolyte. In some embodiments, a catholyte can be different from an anolyte. In some embodiments, the catholyte can be optimized to improve the redox electrochemistry of the cathode and the anolyte can be optimized to improve the redox electrochemistry of the anode. In some embodiments, the selectively permeable membrane can be configured to isolate the catholyte from the anolyte.
US12107204B1

A micro-LED device and a method of fabricating the micro-LED device are disclosed. The method includes processing from a first side (e.g., p-side) of epitaxial layers of a micro-LED wafer to form individual mesa structures and a first solid metal bonding layer on the mesa structures, bonding a second solid metal bonding layer on a backplane wafer to the first solid metal bonding layer of the micro-LED wafer, removing the substrate of the micro-LED wafer and processing from a second side (e.g., n-side) of the epitaxial layers to isolate the solid metal bonding layers and form individual electrodes (e.g., anodes) for individual micro-LEDs, forming a dielectric material layer on surfaces in regions between the mesa structures, and depositing one or more metal materials in the regions between the mesa structures to form mesa sidewall reflectors and a common electrode for the micro-LEDs.
US12107193B2

A nanorod type micro-light emitting diode (LED) includes a nanorod stack structure including a multi-quantum well layer and emitting light from a side surface, and a functional material layer covering the side surface of the nanorod stack structure and increasing a total internal reflection angle of the nanorod stack structure. The functional material layer has a refractive index between a refractive index of the nanorod stack structure and a refractive index of air, and includes a plurality of material layers having a refractive index distribution in which a refractive index decreases as a distance from the side surface increases.
US12107188B2

An embodiment provides a semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a bonding layer disposed on the substrate; an electrode layer disposed on the bonding layer; a semiconductor structure disposed on the electrode layer and including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the second conductive semiconductor layer includes a through-hole, and the second electrode is disposed in the through-hole so as to be electrically connected to the electrode layer.
US12107186B2

A semiconductor light emitting diode (LED) and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The LED includes a first semiconductor layer; a plurality of active elements spaced apart on the first semiconductor layer and each having a width less than a width of the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the plurality of active elements.
US12107185B2

A light emitting element includes a substrate and a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part arranged thereon to emit different colored lights. The first light emitting part includes a first laminate structure where a n-type semiconductor film and a first semiconductor film are laminated, a first capping film and a p-type semiconductor film laminated on the first laminate structure. The second light emitting part includes a second laminate structure where the n-type semiconductor film, the first semiconductor film, a first intermediate film, and a second semiconductor film are laminated, a second capping film and the p-type semiconductor film laminated on the second laminate structure, the first capping film being the first intermediate film. A bandgap of the first intermediate film is higher than the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film. The bandgap of the second semiconductor film is lower than the first semiconductor film.
US12107184B2

The present disclosure relates to a patterned substrate, an epitaxial wafer, a manufacturing method, a storage medium and an LED chip. The patterned substrate is applied to a Micro LED, a substrate body of the patterned substrate is provided with at least one receiving groove capable of receiving at least part epitaxial material dropped during an epitaxial process. At least part excess epitaxial material produced during a high-speed rotational molding process of an epitaxial layer in an MOCVD furnace may drop into the receiving groove and not remain on the epitaxial layer.
US12107181B2

A luminescent optical device based on a luminescent solar collector, LSC, is disclosed. In addition to components forming a LSC for generating electrical energy from solar energy, the luminescent optical device also includes a light source, and optionally one or more sensors, both electrically connected to an energy storage device of the LSC. Under the control of a control unit, the light source may emit light of different wavelengths, for example in response to environmental data measured by the sensor, thereby exciting respective domains containing luminescence material to emit light of different colours. The luminescent optical device may function as a standalone and fully integrated device that is capable of harvesting energy, illuminating itself and displaying various content conveniently and flexibly, for various purposes.
US12107174B2

A light detecting device includes first pixel circuitry including a first avalanche photodiode, and second pixel circuitry including a second avalanche photodiode, a first delay circuit including an input coupled to a cathode of the second avalanche photodiode, a first circuit including a first input coupled to the cathode of the second avalanche photodiode, and a second input coupled to an output of the first delay circuit. The light detecting device includes a control circuit coupled to an output of the first circuit and configured to control a potential of an anode of the first avalanche photodiode based on the output of the first circuit. The control circuit is configured to control a potential of an anode of the second avalanche photodiode based on the output of the first circuit.
US12107173B2

A SiC Schottky rectifier with surge current ruggedness is described. The Schottky rectifier includes one or more multi-layer bodies that provide multiple types of surge current protection.
US12107169B2

A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a stack of first channel members, a stack of second channel members disposed directly over the stack of first channel members, a bottom source/drain feature in contact with the stack of the first channel members, a separation layer disposed over the bottom source/drain feature, a top source/drain feature in contact with the stack of second channel members and disposed over the separation layer, and a frontside contact that extends through the top source/drain feature and the separation layer to be electrically coupled to the bottom source/drain feature.
US12107168B2

A stacked FET structure having independently tuned gate lengths is provided to maximize the benefit of each FET within the stacked FET structure. Notably, a vertically stacked FET structure is provided in which a bottom FET has a different gate length than a top FET. In some embodiments, a dielectric spacer can be present laterally adjacent to the bottom FET and the top FET. In such an embodiment, the dielectric spacer can have a first portion that is located laterally adjacent to the bottom FET that has a different thickness than a second portion of the dielectric spacer that is located laterally adjacent the top FET.
US12107161B2

A semiconductor device includes: a chip having a first main surface on one side and a second main surface on the other side; a first region of a first conduction type which is formed on the second main surface side in the chip; a second region of a second conduction type which is formed on the first main surface side of the chip and forms a pn-junction portion with the first region; a device region which is provided on the first main surface; a first groove structure including a first groove, a first insulating film, and a first polysilicon, and partitioning the device region; and a second groove structure including a second groove, a second insulating film, and a second polysilicon, and partitioning the device region on a device region side of the first groove structure.
US12107160B2

A power device includes: a semiconductor layer, a well region, a body region, a gate, a sub-gate, a source, a drain, and an electric field adjustment region. The sub-gate is formed above a top surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein a portion of the well region is located vertically beneath the sub-gate. The sub-gate is not directly connected to the gate. The electric field adjustment region has a conductivity type which is opposite to that of the well region. The electric field adjustment region is formed beneath and not in contact with the top surface of the semiconductor layer. The electric field adjustment region is located in the well region of the semiconductor layer, and at least a portion of the electric field adjustment region is located vertically beneath the sub-gate.
US12107155B2

The invention provides a self-organized quantum dot semiconductor structure. The quantum dot semiconductor structure includes: a conductive ridge on a substrate; an insulative layer covering the substrate and the conductive ridge, wherein the insulative layer includes a top portion and two sidewalls over the conductive ridge; a semiconductor mechanism of etching back and thermal oxidation, implemented on a semiconductor-alloyed layer set on the insulative layer; a plurality of quantum dots respectively embedded within a plurality of silicon dioxide spacer islands based on the semiconductor mechanism, the quantum dots and the silicon dioxide spacer islands adhered to the sidewalls of the insulative layer; and a plurality of conductive ledges adhered to the silicon dioxide spacer islands, wherein each of the conductive ledges is a portion of an electrode self-alignment to the quantum dot.
US12107150B2

Embodiments utilize an electro-chemical process to deposit a metal gate electrode in a gate opening in a gate replacement process for a nanosheet FinFET device. Accelerators and suppressors may be used to achieve a bottom-up deposition for a fill material of the metal gate electrode.
US12107140B2

A thin film structure including ferroelectrics and anti-ferroelectrics and a semiconductor device including the same are provided. The thin film structure includes a first anti-ferroelectric layer comprising anti-ferroelectrics, a second anti-ferroelectric layer disposed apart from the first anti-ferroelectric layer and including anti-ferroelectrics, and a ferroelectric layer between the first anti-ferroelectric layer and the second anti-ferroelectric layer and including ferroelectrics.
US12107120B2

A power semiconductor device includes a substrate, including an active region and edge regions, including a semiconductor layer of a first conductive type including silicon carbide (SiC); an insulating film disposed on the edge regions; a field plate pattern disposed on the insulating film; a first doped region of a second conductive type disposed inside the substrate to extend downward from a top surface of the edge regions; a second doped region of the second conductive type, buried in the edge regions, extends in a direction having a vector component parallel to the top surface of the substrate; and a third doped region of the first conductive type is disposed on the second doped region and at a side portion of the first doped region.
US12107113B2

InxAlyGa1-x-yN semiconductor structures having optoelectronic elements characterized by epitaxial layers having different in-plane a-lattice parameters and different InN mole fractions are disclosed. The active regions are configured to emit radiation in different wavelength ranges and are characterized by strain states within about 1% to 2% of compressive strain. The epitaxial layers are grown on patterned InxAlyGa1-x-yN seed regions on a single substrate, where the relaxed InGaN growth layers provide (0001) InxAlyGa1-x-yN growth surfaces characterized by different in-plane a-lattice parameters and different InN mole fractions. InxAlyGa1-x-yN semiconductor structures can be used in optoelectronic devices such as in light sources for illumination and in display applications.
US12107111B2

An infrared detector with a multi-layer structure based on a CMOS process. A CMOS measuring circuit system and a CMOS infrared sensing structure in the infrared detector are both fabricated by using the CMOS process, and a CMOS manufacturing process comprises a metal interconnection process, a through hole process, an IMD process and an RDL process. In the infrared detector with the multi-layer structure, a first columnar structure comprises at least one layer of solid columnar structure and/or at least one layer of hollow columnar structure, a second columnar structure comprises at least one layer of solid columnar structure and/or at least one layer of hollow columnar structure, at least one hole-shaped structure is formed in an absorption plate, and the hole-shaped structure at least penetrates a dielectric layer in the absorption plate; and/or, at least one hole-shaped structure is formed in a beam structure.
US12107106B2

A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion units has been formed, a groove portion provided on a side of a light-receiving surface of the substrate, and recessed and projecting portions provided on a side wall surface of the groove portion facing a side of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units.
US12107103B2

The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and electronic equipment that make it possible to reduce peeling stresses at angled sections included in the four corners of a lens, and prevent the lens from being peeled off. An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging element that generates a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion according to a light amount of incident light, a glass substrate provided on the solid-state imaging element, and a lens provided on the glass substrate, in which four corners of the lens that is substantially rectangular when seen in a plan view do not have angles equal to or smaller than 90°. The present technology may be applied to an imaging apparatus and the like, for example.
US12107101B2

The present disclosure provides chip package structure, packaging method, camera module and electronic equipment. The package structure includes chip package module, which includes light-transmitting substrate, wiring layer located on side of light-transmitting substrate and including first metal wire, conductor located on side of wiring layer facing away from light-transmitting substrate, photosensitive chip located on side of wiring layer facing away from the light-transmitting substrate, active chip located on side of wiring layer facing away from light-transmitting substrate, and plastic encapsulation layer encapsulating photosensitive chip and active chip. The conductor includes first end electrically connected to first metal wire, and second end. The photosensitive chip includes pin electrically connected to first metal wire and has photosensitive surface facing towards light-transmitting substrate. The photosensitive surface includes photosensitive region that is not overlapping first metal wire. The active chip includes pin electrically connected to first metal wire.
US12107092B2

To suppress fluctuation in the threshold voltage of a transistor, to reduce the number of connections of a display panel and a driver IC, to achieve reduction in power consumption of a display device, and to achieve increase in size and high definition of the display device. A gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates is connected to a wiring to which a high potential is supplied through a first switching transistor and a wiring to which a low potential is supplied through a second switching transistor; a clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the first switching transistor; and an inverted clock signal is input to a gate electrode of the second switching transistor. Thus, the high potential and the low potential are alternately applied to the gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates.
US12107090B2

An object is to prevent an operation defect and to reduce an influence of fluctuation in threshold voltage of a field-effect transistor. A field-effect transistor, a switch, and a capacitor are provided. The field-effect transistor includes a first gate and a second gate which overlap with each other with a channel formation region therebetween, and the threshold voltage of the field-effect transistor varies depending on the potential of the second gate. The switch has a function of determining whether electrical connection between one of a source and a drain of the field-effect transistor and the second gate of the field-effect transistor is established. The capacitor has a function of holding a voltage between the second gate of the field-effect transistor and the other of the source and the drain of the field-effect transistor.
US12107088B2

A display device includes a substrate including a polymer film, a first active pattern above the substrate, and including a first channel region, a gate electrode above the first active pattern, and overlapping the first channel region, a first storage capacitor electrode above the gate electrode, and overlapping the gate electrode, a second active pattern at a layer above the first storage capacitor electrode, and including a second channel region, a first gate line above the second active pattern, and overlapping the second channel region, and a blocking pattern between the first channel region and the first gate line in a plan view.
US12107084B2

A multi-channel transient voltage suppression device includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, at least two bidirectional transient voltage suppression structures, and at least one isolation trench. The semiconductor substrate, having a first conductivity type, is coupled to a grounding terminal. The semiconductor layer, having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The bidirectional transient voltage suppression structures are formed in the semiconductor layer. Each bidirectional transient voltage suppression structure is coupled to an input/output (I/O) pin and the grounding terminal. The isolation trench is formed in the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer and formed between the bidirectional transient voltage suppression structures. The isolation trench has a height larger than the height of the semiconductor layer and surrounds the bidirectional transient voltage suppression structures.
US12107083B2

The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to electrostatic discharge (ESD) devices and methods of manufacture. The structure (ESD device) includes: a bipolar transistor comprising a collector region, an emitter region and a base region; and a lateral ballasting resistance comprising semiconductor material adjacent to the collector region.
US12107080B2

The application discloses a light-emitting device including a carrier which includes an insulating layer, an upper conductive layer formed on the insulating layer, a plurality of conducting vias passing through the insulating layer, and a lower conductive layer formed under the insulating layer; four light-emitting elements arranged in rows and columns flipped on the carrier; and a light-passing unit formed on the carrier and covering the four light-emitting elements; wherein each of the light-emitting elements including a first light-emitting bare die emitting a first dominant wavelength, a second light-emitting bare die emitting a second dominant wavelength, and a third light-emitting bare die emitting a third dominant wavelength; and wherein two adjacent first light-emitting bare die in a row has a first distance W1, two adjacent first light-emitting bare die in a column has a second distance W2, and W1 is the same as W2.
US12107079B2

Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a driving circuit layer disposed on the substrate and including driving circuits, LED chips located on side of the drive circuit layer facing away from the substrate and each electrically connected to a corresponding drive circuit, the drive circuit includes at least one first thin film transistor with a source and a drain located at first metal layer of the drive circuit layer and electrically connected to first electrode of corresponding LED chip, and at least part of edges of the display panel is provided with thermally conductive adhesive. The substrate is also provided with one or more layers of thermally conductive metal, at least one layer of thermally conductive metal extends to the edges of the display panel and is in contact with the thermally conductive adhesive.
US12107075B2

A chip for hybrid bonded interconnect bridging for chiplet integration, the chip comprising: a first chiplet; a second chiplet; an interconnecting die coupled to the first chiplet and the second chiplet through a hybrid bond.
US12107066B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate and another substrate disposed opposite to the substrate. The electronic device includes a first light-emitting element disposed on the substrate and configured to emit blue light under a first current density when the substrate provides a first current to the first light-emitting element. The electronic device includes a second light-emitting element disposed on the substrate and configured to emit green light or red light under a second current density when the substrate provides a second current to the second light-emitting element. The electronic device includes a protective layer disposed between the substrate and the another substrate and covering the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element. The electronic device includes an adhesive layer disposed between the protective layer and the another substrate.
US12107063B2

A semiconductor package device may include a redistribution substrate and a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate may include an under-bump pattern, which includes including a body portion and a protruding portion extended from the body portion to form a single object, an insulating layer covering a side surface of the body portion, and an outer coupling terminal on the protruding portion. The body portion may have a first diameter in a first direction parallel to the top surface of the redistribution substrate, and the protruding portion may have a second diameter in the first direction, which is smaller than the first diameter. A top surface of the protruding portion may be parallel to the first direction, and a side surface of the protruding portion may be inclined at an angle to a top surface of the body portion.
US12107061B2

An integrated circuit device includes; a peripheral circuit structure including a peripheral circuit, a first insulating layer covering the peripheral circuit, extension lines in the first insulating layer, and a first bonding pad in the first insulating layer, and a cell array structure including a conductive plate, a memory cell array below the conductive plate, a second insulating layer covering the memory cell array, a second bonding pad in the second insulating layer, a conductive via on the conductive plate, and a line connected to the conductive via. The first bonding pad contacts the second bonding pad, and the integrated circuit device further includes contact plugs electrically connecting the line to the extension lines.
US12107055B2

An electronic package is provided and includes at least one protective structure positioned between a first electronic element and a second electronic element on a carrier for reducing stresses generated inside the first electronic element and the second electronic element when a filling material is formed on the carrier, encapsulates the protective structure and comes into contact with the first electronic element and the second electronic element, thereby preventing cracking of the first electronic element and the second electronic element and improving the reliability of the electronic package.
US12107053B2

Disclosed is a shielding process for SIP packaging, including: providing a circuit board; cutting the covering layer to form half-cut trenches separating different SIP packaging modules from each other, and to form grooves in each single SIP packaging module; forming a metal overlay, the metal overlay on an outer surface of the SIP packaging module and at positions where the half-cut trenches are located constituting a conformal shielding, the metal overlay at positions where the grooves are located constituting a compartment shielding; and cutting the half-cut trenches to obtain a plurality of SIP packaging modules that are separate from each other.
US12107051B2

A semiconductor device and method for forming the semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit having through vias adjacent to the integrated circuit die, wherein a molding compound is interposed between the integrated circuit die and the through vias. The through vias have a projection extending through a patterned layer, and the through vias may be offset from a surface of the patterned layer. The recess may be formed by selectively removing a seed layer used to form the through vias.
US12107043B2

A multilayer-type on-chip inductor with a conductive structure includes an insulating redistribution layer disposed on an inter-metal dielectric layer, a first spiral trace layer disposed in the insulating redistribution layer, and a second spiral trace layer disposed in the inter-metal dielectric layer correspondingly formed below the first spiral trace layer, wherein the inter-metal dielectric layer has a separating region to divide the second spiral trace layer into a plurality of line segments, and wherein each of a plurality of first slit openings and each of a plurality of second slit openings pass through a corresponding line segment, and extend in an extending direction of a length of the corresponding line segment.
US12107039B2

A power component configured to improve partial discharge performance includes at least one terminal that includes a first planar surface, a second planar surface opposite the first planar surface, and a curved surface extending from the first planar surface to the second planar surface. The power component may include at least one of the following: a power module or a bus bar.
US12107036B2

A redistribution layer structure and the manufacturing method thereof are provided. The redistribution layer structure includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a second metal layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the first metal layer. The second metal layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the second metal layer. A chemical resistance of the first dielectric layer is greater than a chemical resistance of the second dielectric layer.
US12107025B2

A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a dielectric film on the first main surface, the dielectric film having an electrode layer disposing portion and a protective layer covering portion, and a thickness of the protective layer covering portion in a first outer peripheral end of the dielectric film is smaller than a thickness of the electrode layer disposing portion; a first electrode layer on the electrode layer disposing portion; a first protective layer covering a second outer peripheral end of the first electrode layer and at least a part of the protective layer covering portion; and a second protective layer covering the first protective layer, wherein the first protective layer has a relative permittivity lower than that of the second protective layer, and the second protective layer has moisture resistance higher than that of the first protective layer.
US12107015B2

A method includes forming a gate stack of a transistor. The formation of the gate stack includes forming a silicon oxide layer on a semiconductor region, depositing a hafnium oxide layer over the silicon oxide layer, depositing a lanthanum oxide layer over the hafnium oxide layer, and depositing a work-function layer over the lanthanum oxide layer. Source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the gate stack.
US12107014B2

Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include a first device region, a second device region, and an inter-device dielectric spacer between the first device region and the second device region. The first device region includes a first device channel, a first-polarity work function metal layer on the first device channel, and a second-polarity work function metal layer on the first device channel. The second device region include a second device channel, and a second-polarity work function metal layer on the second device channel.
US12107013B2

A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor fin extending along a first direction. The semiconductor device includes a second semiconductor fin also extending along the first direction. The semiconductor device includes a dielectric structure disposed between the first and second semiconductor fins. The semiconductor device includes a gate isolation structure vertically disposed above the dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a metal gate layer extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the metal gate layer includes a first portion straddling the first semiconductor fin and a second portion straddling the second semiconductor fin. The gate isolation structure separates the first and second portions of the metal gate layer from each other and includes a bottom portion extending into the dielectric structure.
US12107008B2

A method of manufacturing a semiconducting device that includes forming first opening for forming bottom electrode hole in a first area of a semiconductor wafer; forming a deeper second opening for overlay/alignment hole in second area; depositing a bottom electrode metal layer filling the first opening to form a bottom electrode and partially filling the second opening. A layer of sacrificial material is then deposited above the bottom electrode layer and completely filling the second opening. A chemical-mechanical planarization process is performed to remove the -bottom electrode metal and -sacrificial layer, the -sacrificial material layer being removed above a surface defined atop the filled remaining portion above the second opening. The sacrificial layer material is removed in the remaining portion of the second opening. The second opening providing an overlay/alignment feature topography detectable for alignment by lithography and for overlay measurement on the overlay metrology tool.
US12107006B2

Semiconductor structures and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and nanostructures formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure also includes a gate structure wrapping around the nanostructures and a first dielectric feature separating the gate structure into a first portion and a second portion. The semiconductor structure also includes a metal layer formed over the gate structure. In addition, top surfaces of the first portion and the second portion of the gate structure and a top surface of the first dielectric feature are covered by the metal layer.
US12107005B2

The current disclosure relates to methods of depositing silicon-containing material on a substrate comprising a gap, wherein the method comprises providing the substrate in a reaction chamber and depositing a carbon-containing inhibition layer on the substrate, and depositing silicon-containing material on the substrate. Depositing the inhibition layer comprises supplying a carbon precursor comprising carbon in the reaction chamber and supplying first plasma in the reaction chamber to form a first reactive species from the carbon precursor for forming the inhibition layer on the substrate. The inhibition layer is deposited preferentially in the vicinity of the top of the gap. The disclosure further relates to methods of forming a structure, methods of manufacturing a device and to a semiconductor processing apparatus.
US12107000B2

A substrate support assembly arranged in a chamber includes: a support plate including a first surface on which a substrate is seated; a driver configured to tilt the support plate such that the first surface is inclined with respect to a reference surface by a lower inclination angle; and a controller configured to control the driver such that the lower inclination angle is adjusted based on an upper inclination angle formed by the inclination of the gas supplier coupled to the upper surface of the chamber with respect to the reference surface.
US12106998B2

There is provided a technique capable of preventing a diffusion of a film-forming gas through a through-hole. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a substrate mounting table; through-holes at the substrate mounting table; lift pins; an elevator capable of elevating or lowering the substrate mounting table or the lift pins or both; and a controller capable of controlling the elevator so as to perform: (a) placing a substrate on the lift pins protruding from a surface of the substrate mounting table through the through-holes; (b) placing the substrate on the surface of the substrate mounting table by moving the substrate mounting table or the lift pins or both; (c) stopping the substrate mounting table at a substrate processing position; and (d) moving the lift pins to positions in the through-holes at which the lift pins are out of contact with the substrate.
US12106994B2

An electrostatic chuck includes: a disk-shaped ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface on a surface thereof; an electrostatic electrode embedded in the ceramic plate; and gas grooves that are divided in a plurality of zones when the ceramic plate is seen from above and each of which is independently provided in the wafer placement surface so as to extend from one to the other of a pair of gas supply/discharge openings for a corresponding one of the zones. A pattern in which a gas is supplied to each of the gas grooves provided for a corresponding one of the zones is selectable between a first pattern in which the gas flows from one to the other of the pair of gas supply/discharge openings and a second pattern in which the gas flows from the other to the one of the pair of gas supply/discharge openings.
US12106992B2

An overhead transport vehicle includes: a winding drum configured to be driven by one driving motor, and to cause a holding unit to be lifted and lowered by winding and paying out a plurality of belts; at least one second idler roller around which the belt paid out from the winding drum is wound; a base provided on a traveling unit, and configured to support the winding drum and the second idler roller; and a linear motion mechanism configured to move a position of the at least one second idler roller so that a connecting portion of the belt to the holding unit moves in a lifting direction.
US12106991B2

Disclosed herein are systems and methods relating to a transfer chamber for an electronic device processing system. The transfer chamber includes a magnetic levitation platform, having a magnetic levitation track disposed along a length of the transfer chamber and configured to generate a magnetic field above the track. The transfer chamber also includes a magnetic levitation track disposed along a width of the transfer chamber such that a plane of this lateral track crosses a plane of the longitudinal track at a junction. The lateral track is configured to generate a magnetic field above or below the track. The platform further includes at least one substrate carrier configured to move along the longitudinal track and the lateral track. The substrate carrier also is configured to rotate at the junction.
US12106990B2

A gripper device includes: a holding portion that is attached to an elevating section capable of lifting and lowering above a transfer section to hold an article, a first positioning section that is attached to the elevating section and that positions the holding portion in a horizontal direction with respect to the article by contacting the article at two first contact positions in an upper portion of the article, and a second positioning section that is attached to the elevating section and that positions the holding portion in a height direction with respect to the article by contacting the article at three second contact positions that are not located on a straight line in the upper portion of the article.
US12106989B2

Proposed is an EFEM configured to perform wafer transfer between a wafer storage device and process equipment. More particularly, proposed is an EFEM that prevents harmful gases inside a transfer chamber in which wafer transfer is performed from escaping out of the EFEM.
US12106982B2

A substrate processing device is a device continuously performing wet processing and dry processing. The substrate processing device includes a plurality of processing modules. Each of the plurality of processing modules includes a single wet processing unit performing wet processing on a substrate; a single dry processing unit performing dry processing on a substrate; and a single transfer unit located between the wet processing unit and the dry processing unit to transfer a substrate between the wet processing unit and the dry processing unit.
US12106966B2

A processing method of a wafer includes trimming the wafer along its outer peripheral edge while causing a cutting blade to cut from a front surface into a chamfered portion to a depth greater than a finish thickness, so that an annular stepped portion is formed in an outer peripheral surplus region. A protective member is bonded to a side of the front surface of the wafer, and the wafer is ground from its back surface to thin the wafer to a finish thickness. Between trimming and grinding, a laser beam is applied to the stepped portion, so that annular modified layers which are to be fractured under a pressing force to be applied by the grinding are formed in the stepped portion, whereby the fractured fragments of the stepped portion are subdivided.
US12106962B2

The embodiments of the disclosure provide a patterning method, which includes the following processes. A target layer is formed on a substrate. A hard mask layer is formed over the target layer. A first patterning process is performed on the hard mask layer by using a photomask having a first pattern with a first pitch. The photomask is shifted along a first direction by a first distance. A second patterning process is performed on the hard mask layer by using the photomask that has been shifted, so as to form a patterned hard mask. The target layer is patterned using the patterned hard mask to form a patterned target layer. The target layer has a second pattern with a second pitch less than the first pitch.
US12106961B2

A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes applying a photoresist composition over a substrate, thereby forming a photoresist layer over the substrate; performing a first baking process to the photoresist layer; exposing the photoresist layer to an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, thereby forming a pattern therein; performing a second baking process to the photoresist layer; and developing the photoresist layer having the pattern therein using a developer, thereby forming a patterned photoresist layer. The first baking process and the second baking process are conducted under an ambient atmosphere having a humidity level ranging from 55% to 100%.
US12106960B2

Electric field management techniques in GaN based semiconductors that utilize patterned regions of differing conductivity under the active GaN device, such as a GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT), are described. As an example, a patterned layer of oxidized silicon can be formed superjacent a layer of silicon dioxide during or prior to the heteroepitaxy of GaN or another semiconductor material. These techniques can be useful for back-side electric field management because a silicon layer, for example, can be made conductive to act as a back-side field plate.
US12106953B2

A wide-range ion source for a mass spectrometer comprises a first portion and a second portion that is positioned downstream of the first portion. The first portion includes an anode and a first filament that is positioned proximate the anode and secured in place relative to the anode. The first filament is exposed to a pressure of a process chamber. A first electron repeller has at least a partially circular shape. The second portion includes a tubular anode, a second filament surrounding the tubular anode, an extraction lens defining an opening and a focus lens to conduct ions into a volume.
US12106949B2

Provided is a sputtering target capable of reducing generation of particles, and a method for producing the same. The sputtering target includes: 10 mol % or more and 85 mol % or less of Co, 0 mol % or more and 47 mol % or less of Pt, and 0 mol % or more and 47 mol % or less of Cr, as metal components; and at least B6O as an oxide component.
US12106937B2

Inductively coupled plasma (ICP) RF power delivery systems are disclosed that include at least two ICP coils. At least one of the ICP coils is directly driven by an RF resonant power amplifier that includes a resonant tank comprising the ICP coil. A controller is configured to control the power into the direct driven ICP coil by varying a corresponding DC voltage source and simultaneously varying operating frequency into the ICP coil by allowing a resonant voltage waveform across a corresponding open switch network to rise and then fall to substantially zero volts before closing the corresponding switch network for a remainder of an RF cycle. Some variations comprise at least one passive ICP coil that is arranged and configured to be inductively coupled to the first ICP coil, and the passive ICP coil is terminated by an independently adjustable impedance.
US12106935B2

Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for forming gratings having a plurality of fins with different slant angles on a substrate and forming fins with different slant angles on successive substrates using angled etch systems and/or an optical device. The methods include positioning portions of substrates retained on a platen in a path of an ion beam. The substrates have a grating material disposed thereon. The ion beam is configured to contact the grating material at an ion beam angle ϑ relative to a surface normal of the substrates and form gratings in the grating material.
US12106926B2

Aspects of the present disclosure describe an atomic oven including a cathode, an anode that comprises a source material, and a power supply that provides a voltage between the cathode and the anode, wherein applying the voltage causes multiple electrons from the cathode to ablate the source material from the anode or locally heat the anode to cause source material to evaporate from the anode and, in both case, to produce a stream of ablated or evaporated particles that passes through an opening in the cathode.
US12106918B2

An electromagnetic relay includes a housing, a movable contact piece, a first fixed terminal, and a drive device. The movable contact piece is disposed in the housing. The first fixed terminal includes a first contact portion and a first terminal portion. The first contact portion faces the movable contact piece in the housing. The first terminal portion protrudes out of the housing. The first terminal portion has a bent shape. The drive device moves the movable contact piece in a contact direction and an opening direction.
US12106917B2

A socket includes a housing including a connection surface to which an electronic device is connected, and a lever attached to the housing to be rotatable. The lever includes an operation portion that is rotatable between a first position and a second position and a contact portion that extends from the operation portion in a direction approaching the connection surface and rotates about the rotation axis together with the operation portion. The housing includes a restriction protrusion that comes into contact with a protruding portion protruding from the side portion of the electronic device toward the operation portion at the second position to restrict a movement of the electronic device in the first direction and in a direction away from the connection surface when the operation portion is rotated from the first position to the second position in a state where the electronic device is connected to the connection surface.
US12106914B2

An induction-controlled switch having a vacuum bulb comprising a vacuum chamber and a switch comprising first and second electrodes. The first switch comprising first and second electrodes and further having a first actuator slidably mounted in a first direction and rigidly attached to the first electrode. The first actuator comprising a first armature. A second actuator comprising a second armature. A first control member comprising a first coil configured to simultaneously generate a switching current in the first armature and a current in the second armature via the first coil, so as to separate or bring into contact the first and second electrodes and so as to move the first and second actuators in opposite ways along the first direction.
US12106912B2

Provided is a button complex structure including: a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a member on the second substrate; a first coupling member coupling the display panel and one surface of the member; a button structure disposed on the other surface that is opposite to the one surface of the member; and a second coupling member coupling the other surface of the member and the button structure, wherein the member includes a third substrate and a touch layer on the third substrate, the touch layer includes the one surface of the member, the touch layer is coupled to the display panel by the first coupling member, the button structure is directly coupled to the third substrate by the second coupling member, and the button structure includes a transparent conductive material.
US12106896B2

Embodiments disclose a vehicle including: a magnet unit disposed under a seat and on which a plurality of magnets are disposed; an electromagnetic unit disposed on a floor of a vehicle compartment and including a plurality of electromagnets; and a control unit configured to control the electromagnetic unit, wherein the control unit moves the seat to a preset position on the electromagnetic unit by controlling current applied to each of the electromagnets. Accordingly, the vehicle can improve the degree of freedom in design in a vehicle compartment while providing a passenger's convenience by implementing a seat movement mechanism suitable for the era of autonomous traveling.
US12106882B2

A magnetic element includes a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core, a first winding and a second winding. The first magnetic core includes a first lateral core part, a second lateral core part and a first middle core part between the first lateral core part and the second lateral core part. The second magnetic core includes a third lateral core part, a fourth lateral core part and a second middle core part between the third lateral core part and the fourth lateral core part. The third lateral core part is located beside the first middle core part. The second middle core part is located beside the second lateral core part. The first winding is wound around the first middle core part and the third lateral core part. The second winding is wound around the second middle core part and the second lateral core part.
US12106872B2

A flat combined wire including at least two wires combined side by side with each other is provided. Each of the wires includes at least three cores and an electrically insulating member. Each of the cores includes multiple yarns and multiple electrically conducting wires twisted and woven with each other, and the electrically conducting wires are wrapped around the yarns. The electrically insulating member covers the cores.
US12106870B2

Provided herein are composite materials and methods of making composite materials including carbon nanoscale fiber networks. The composite materials may include a stretched and doped carbon nanoscale fiber network and a capping layer. The methods of making the composite materials may include stretching a carbon nanoscale fiber network, contacting the nanoscale fiber network with a dopant, and disposing a capping layer on a surface of the carbon nanoscale fiber network.
US12106851B2

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: defining an incident as the occurrence of a plurality of required alarms; defining an event as the occurrence of a plurality of required incidents; monitoring a plurality of devices to detect the occurrence of alarms, thus defining a plurality of detected alarms; and defining the event as having occurred if the plurality of detected alarms includes the plurality of required alarms for each of the plurality of required incidents.
US12106843B1

The invention relates to a system, method and a digital platform revolutionizing health and wellness management through personalized meal planning and fitness tracking. This user-centric system collects vital personal data, encompassing body metrics, fitness goals, dietary preferences, and allergies, through an intuitive interface. Utilizing sophisticated algorithms, including Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), and Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE), the platform precisely calculates tailored dietary requirements for each user. A robust data repository empowers registered dietitians, nutritionists, and professionals to upload meal offerings, categorized by specific dietary goals and preferences, such as weight loss, muscle gain, or dietary restrictions. Users effortlessly explore and subscribe to meal plans, accompanied by detailed recipes and grocery lists. The platform seamlessly integrates a supplier marketplace within its digital health and fitness module, facilitating automatic meal logging and progress tracking.
US12106822B2

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to devices and methods for performing MAC operations using a memory array as a compute-in-memory (CIM) device that can enable higher computational throughput, higher performance and lower energy consumption compared to computation using a processor outside of a memory array. In some embodiments, an activation architecture is provided using a bit cell array arranged in rows and columns to store charges that represent a weight value in a weight matrix. A read word line (RWL) may be repurposed to provide the input activation value to bit cells within a row of bit cells, while a read-bit line (RBL) is configured to receive multiplication products from bit cells arranged in a column. Some embodiments provide multiple sub-arrays or tiles of bit cell arrays.
US12106815B2

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that programs a first plurality of error correction codewords to a first set of pages in a block of non-volatile memory, wherein the first plurality of error correction codewords are programmed at a first density. The technology may also program a second plurality of error correction codewords to a second set of pages in the block, wherein the second plurality of error correction codewords are programmed at a second density. The first density and the second density are different from one another.
US12106811B2

A semiconductor memory device includes a comparator that outputs a signal switched in synchronism with a read enable signal from outside and outputs the signal, and a correction circuit that adjusts the duty cycle of the signal. The correction circuit includes a variable current source connected to a first output portion of the comparator, and a variable current source connected to a second output portion of the comparator, and adjusts the amounts of current output from the current sources to adjust the duty cycles of signals.
US12106808B2

A semiconductor storage device includes a first memory cell electrically connected to a first bit line and a first word line, a second memory cell electrically connected to a second bit line and the first word line, and a first circuit configured to supply voltages to the first word line. During a reading operation to read a page of memory cells including the first memory cell and the second memory cell, the first circuit supplies a first voltage to the first word line while the first memory cell is selected as a read target during a first time period, and supplies a second voltage greater than the first voltage to the first word line while the second memory cell is selected as a read target during a second time period that is different from the first time period, and directly thereafter, supplies the first voltage to the first word line.
US12106804B2

A structure for in-memory serial processing includes a memory bank array. Each bank includes memory elements, each including first and second programmable resistors having inputs connected to an input node and outputs connected to first and second bitlines. In each bank, first and second feedback buffers are connected to the first and second bitlines and first and second output nodes. First and second output nodes of banks in the same column are connected to the same first and second column interconnect lines. The initial bank in each row includes amplifiers connected between the input nodes and memory elements. Outputs of these amplifiers are also connected by row interconnect lines to memory elements in downstream banks in the same row. Optionally, voltage buffers are connected to row interconnect lines and integrated into at least some banks. The amplifiers, feedback buffers, and voltage buffers minimize local IR drops and thereby processing errors.
US12106795B2

A memory device includes a first sub wordline driver including a first active region connected to a first wordline through a first direct contact, and a first transistor connected to a first gate line, the first gate line and the first wordline extending in a first direction, and a second sub wordline driver including a second active region connected to a second wordline through a second direct, the second direct contact and first direct contact extending in parallel in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction. A second transistor is connected to a second gate line. The second gate line extends in the first direction. A third wordline driven by a third sub wordline driver is between the first wordline and the second wordline.
US12106793B2

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques and procedures for reducing memory (e.g., DRAM) access latency (e.g., read latency, write latency) due to memory refreshes. In some aspects, a memory refresh scheduling algorithm can take into account of memory access batching (e.g., read batch, write batch). In some aspects, a refresh scheduling algorithm can schedule more or prioritize refreshes to occur during a write batch to reduce memory read access latency because fewer refreshes are scheduled during memory read access. The techniques can be adapted to reduce write latency.
US12106790B2

A magnetoresistive memory cell includes a magnetoresistive layer stack containing a reference layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer. A ferroelectric material layer having two stable ferroelectric states is coupled to a strain-modulated ferromagnetic layer to alter a sign of magnetic exchange coupling between the strain-modulated ferromagnetic layer and the free layer. The strain-modulated ferromagnetic layer may be the reference layer or a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy layer that is located proximate to the ferroelectric material layer. The magnetoresistive memory cell may be configured as a three-terminal device or as a two-terminal device, and may be configured as a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) device or as a giant magnetoresistance (GMR) device.
US12106783B2

The present disclosure discloses a device with a protective layer, including a substrate, a seed layer formed on the substrate, and a diamond-like carbon layer formed on the seed layer, where the seed layer is a silicon nitride layer, and a content of nitrogen in the silicon nitride layer is 9%-17%. The present disclosure further discloses a microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) head slider, a head gimbal assembly, and a disk drive unit. The device has good thermal stability, oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance, thereby improving reliability and prolonging service life of an MAMR head.
US12106780B2

A first audio timestamp of first audio is corrected based on a first latency corresponding to the first audio, to correct a correspondence between the first audio timestamp, the first audio, and a first image. In this way, a stored correspondence between the first image and the first audio is consistent with a correspondence between a picture corresponding to the first image and a sound corresponding to the first audio, thereby implementing audio and image synchronization.
US12106774B1

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head, a storage unit, and a controller. The storage unit stores a reference table and an adjustment table. The reference table has a plurality of reference counts, which are m reference counts. The adjustment table has a plurality of adjustment values, which are n adjustment values. The controller includes a detector, an adjustment unit that adjusts a reference count corresponding to a case where abnormality information is detected to an ATI rewrite count having a numerical value different from the reference count, a counter, a determination unit, and a refresh processing unit.
US12106772B2

The present disclosure generally relates to increasing storage capacity for magnetic media dual-reel tape devices, and more specifically modifying the writing process to the magnetic media. Rather than having an unused acceleration zone, portions or even the entire acceleration zone on the tape can be used to store data. To achieve the acceleration to a predetermined speed, the tape is wound in the opposite direction from where the writing and/or reading will occur. The winding is of a sufficient distance to create sufficient distance along the tape for the acceleration to the predetermined speed to be completed by the time the writing and/or reading location is reached. Furthermore, when the acceleration zone is completely used for data, writing can occur from the beginning of the tape to the end of the tape rather than writing to/from the acceleration zone and then returning to a corresponding end of the tape.
US12106766B2

A system is disclosed for generating a sound detection score based on comparing a sound-generating apparatus producing incoming spoken audio content to a sound-generating apparatus that produced reference spoken audio content. Related systems, methods and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12106764B2

A processing method of a sound watermark and a sound watermark processing apparatus are provided. In the method, an inserted position of a reference code in an initial watermark sequence is determined according to signal power of a main sound signal to generate an extended watermark sequence. The main sound signal and the extended watermark sequence are synthesized to generate a watermark-embedded sound signal. In this way, noise interference may be overcome.
US12106763B2

An apparatus for encoding directional audio coding parameters comprising diffuseness parameters and direction parameters having a parameter calculator (100) for calculating the diffuseness parameters with a first time or frequency resolution and for calculating the direction parameters with a second time or frequency resolution; and a quantizer and encoder processor (200) for generating a quantized and encoded representation of the diffuseness parameters and the direction parameters.
US12106762B2

The application relates to HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction/Regeneration) of audio signals. In particular, the application relates to a method and system for performing HFR of audio signals having large variations in energy level across the low frequency range which is used to reconstruct the high frequencies of the audio signal. A system configured to generate a plurality of high frequency subband signals covering a high frequency interval from a plurality of low frequency subband signals is described. The system comprises means for receiving the plurality of low frequency subband signals; means for receiving a set of target energies, each target energy covering a different target interval within the high frequency interval and being indicative of the desired energy of one or more high frequency subband signals lying within the target interval; means for generating the plurality of high frequency subband signals from the plurality of low frequency subband signals and from a plurality of spectral gain coefficients associated with the plurality of low frequency subband signals, respectively; and means for adjusting the energy of the plurality of high frequency subband signals using the set of target energies.
US12106761B2

The application relates to HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction/Regeneration) of audio signals. In particular, the application relates to a method and system for performing HFR of audio signals having large variations in energy level across the low frequency range which is used to reconstruct the high frequencies of the audio signal. A system configured to generate a plurality of high frequency subband signals covering a high frequency interval from a plurality of low frequency subband signals is described. The system comprises means for receiving the plurality of low frequency subband signals; means for receiving a set of target energies, each target energy covering a different target interval within the high frequency interval and being indicative of the desired energy of one or more high frequency subband signals lying within the target interval; means for generating the plurality of high frequency subband signals from the plurality of low frequency subband signals and from a plurality of spectral gain coefficients associated with the plurality of low frequency subband signals, respectively; and means for adjusting the energy of the plurality of high frequency subband signals using the set of target energies.
US12106760B2

Systems and methods for identifying irregularities during an automated user interaction are disclosed. The system may receive a communication and extract a perceived irregularity from the communication. The system may generate a first explanatory hypothesis associated with the perceived irregularity having an associated confidence measurement. The system may selectively retrieve user information based on the generated hypothesis and generate an investigational strategy associated with the hypothesis. In response to the investigational strategy, the system may receive a user communication, and the system may update the confidence measurement based on the user communication. When the confidence measurement exceeds the predetermined confidence threshold the system may validate the perceived irregularity as a true irregularity and provide a computer-generated dialogue response indicative of a proposed resolution of the irregularity. When no existing hypothesis has a confidence measurement exceeding the threshold, the system may generate a novel hypothesis to be validated.
US12106759B2

Implementations set forth herein relate to a system that employs an automated assistant to further interactions between a user and another application, which can provide the automated assistant with permission to initialize relevant application actions simultaneous to the user interacting with the other application. Furthermore, the system can allow the automated assistant to initialize actions of different applications, despite being actively operating a particular application. Available actions can be gleaned by the automated assistant using various application-specific schemas, which can be compared with incoming requests from a user to the automated assistant. Additional data, such as context and historical interactions, can also be used to rank and identify a suitable application action to be initialized via the automated assistant.
US12106758B2

Systems and methods described herein relate to determining whether to incorporate recognized text, that corresponds to a spoken utterance of a user of a client device, into a transcription displayed at the client device, or to cause an assistant command, that is associated with the transcription and that is based on the recognized text, to be performed by an automated assistant implemented by the client device. The spoken utterance is received during a dictation session between the user and the automated assistant. Implementations can process, using automatic speech recognition model(s), audio data that captures the spoken utterance to generate the recognized text. Further, implementations can determine whether to incorporate the recognized text into the transcription or cause the assistant command to be performed based on touch input being directed to the transcription, a state of the transcription, and/or audio-based characteristic(s) of the spoken utterance.
US12106756B2

An interaction apparatus 10 includes an acquiring unit 13 for acquiring a system message, a setting unit 14 for setting a wait time for receiving an answer from a user based on the system message, a measuring unit 16 for measuring an elapsed time after the system message is output to the user, a user utterance acquiring unit 15 for acquiring a user utterance, and a controller 17 for controlling an interaction with the user so that an additional action corresponding to the system message is output to the user. The measuring unit 16 determines whether or not to subtract the elapsed time, based on the system message and the user utterance, when the user utterance not corresponding to the answer to the system message is acquired by the user utterance acquiring unit 15 after the system message is output.
US12106733B2

This document describes systems and directed at rejecting display leakage light in under-display sensors. In aspects, an ambient light sensor of an electronic device rejects leakage light originating from pixels in a display using a look-up table and an ambient light calculating formula. In implementations, the look-up table is developed based on a variety of operating conditions that the electronic device may experience, including variable refresh rates and display luminosities. The look-up table includes pre-calculated values of a leakage light ratio, for given operating conditions, that can be used to reject leakage light originating from displays by computing the ambient light calculating formula.
US12106731B2

A driver includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The second driving circuit includes a computation amplifier, an output capacitor, a first feedback capacitor, and a second feedback capacitor. One end of the output capacitor is coupled to an output node of the computation amplifier, and the other end is coupled to the signal supply line. One end of the first feedback capacitor is coupled to an inverting input node of the computation amplifier, and the other end is coupled to the signal supply line. One end of the second feedback capacitor is coupled to the inverting input node of the computation amplifier, and the other end is coupled to a predetermined potential node. At least one of the first feedback capacitor and the second feedback capacitor is a capacitor with a variable capacitance value.
US12106730B2

A ladder resistor circuit includes a ladder resistor including first to k-th resistors connected in series and outputting a plurality of voltages by receiving a first potential and a second potential, a first correction resistor that has a resistance value equal to a series total resistance value of a resistor group constituted of first to r-th resistors among the first to k-th resistors, a second correction resistor that has a resistance value equal to a series total resistance value of a resistor group constituted of (r+1)-th to k-th resistors, and an amplifier that receives a potential of a connection point between the first and second correction resistors at an input terminal thereof, and has an output terminal thereof connected to a connection point between the r-th and (r+1)-th resistors.
US12106727B2

A method for configuring a compensation look-up table. The method includes: acquiring first gray scale data and second gray scale data of a target display panel, wherein the first gray scale data and the second gray scale data include a display gray scale value of a target gray scale of each pixel point of the target display panel at a first brightness and at a second brightness respectively; determining, according to an adjustable threshold range and at least one of the first gray scale data and the second gray scale data, Mura pixel points in the target display panel; calculating, based on the first gray scale data and the second gray scale data corresponding to the Mura pixel points, a target compensation gain coefficient; determining, from a plurality of preset compensation look-up tables corresponding to a plurality of Mura levels, a target compensation look-up table.
US12106719B2

A display device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a data line extending in a first direction. The second conductive layer includes a first scan line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a second scan line spaced apart from the first scan line and extending in the second direction. The third conductive layer includes a first driving voltage line extending in the second direction, a first common voltage line spaced apart from the first driving voltage line and extending in the second direction, and a pixel electrode disposed between the first driving voltage line and the first common voltage line in a plan view.
US12106717B2

A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode that includes first and second terminals. A driving transistor generates a driving current, and includes a first terminal for a first power supply voltage, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the organic light emitting diode, and a gate terminal for an initialization voltage. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal connected to a first node, a second terminal connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor, and a gate terminal for a data initialization gate signal. The second switching transistor includes a first terminal for the initialization voltage, a second terminal connected to the first node, a first gate terminal for the data initialization gate signal, and a second gate terminal for a light emitting element initialization signal. The first terminal of the organic light emitting diode is connected to the first node.
US12106715B2

A light-emitting display device includes a light-emitting element including an anode connected to a first driving voltage line, a first transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode, a second transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to a data line and the gate electrode, a third transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the first driving voltage line and the first electrode of the first transistor, a fourth transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to a sensing line and the second electrode of the first transistor, a fifth transistor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the second electrode of the first transistor, and a second driving voltage line, and a capacitor including first and second electrodes respectively connected to the gate electrode and the second electrode of the first transistor.
US12106709B2

An image display device includes a plurality of driving circuits disposed on a substrate, and a plurality of light emitting elements corresponding to a plurality of pixels respectively. Each of the plurality of driving circuits being configured to provide a driving current to each of the plurality of light emitting elements and to control the driving current by a pulse amplitude modulation and a pulse width modulation. The driving circuit being configured using TFTs.
US12106703B2

According to an aspect, a display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of red, a second sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of green, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit light having a peak in a spectrum of blue. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel are inorganic light-emitting diodes. A light emission intensity of the second sub-pixel is increased at a predetermined ratio with respect to a light emission intensity of the first sub-pixel when the first sub-pixel emits light at a light emission intensity within a low-luminance range equal to or lower than a predetermined level of luminance.
US12106702B2

A display apparatus includes a first pixel including a light emitting device of a first color connected to a first data line and independently driven and a second pixel including a light emitting device of the first color connected to a second data line adjacent to the first data line and independently driven, wherein the first pixel and the second pixel are included in a first unit pixel, and the first pixel and the second pixel are alternately on-driven in a first period and a succeeding second period.
US12106697B2

Image display device and method have a display arranged at a user's preferred position and displaying images with comfortable image quality and arrangement that match a user's viewing position and preference. The image display device includes an external input interface, a memory for storing image data, an arithmetic processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a display, and a setting mode suitable for the user.
US12106695B2

A display device of the present disclosure includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixel rows; a color controller configured to convert input grayscales for each of the pixel rows into output grayscales based on user setting parameters; and a data driver configured to supply data voltages corresponding to the output grayscales to each of the pixel rows, and the color controller includes a plurality of grayscale converters configured to convert the input grayscales for a plurality of target pixels corresponding to a part of a pixel row into the output grayscales in parallel, wherein the plurality of target pixels are most adjacent to each other; and a path determiner configured to match the output grayscales with the plurality of target pixels.
US12106693B2

A display device includes a display panel including pixels, and a display panel driver configured to perform a first sensing operation to receive first sensing data for a driving transistor of each of the pixels from the pixels, to perform a second sensing operation to receive second sensing data for a light emitting element, and to determine a degradation rate of the light emitting element based on the first sensing data and the second sensing data.
US12106683B2

According to the present invention, a tunnel boring machine (TBM) operation simulation equipment includes: a server in which education information a is stored; and an instruction client unit. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the TBM operation capability of TBM drivers and trainees by providing a TBM simulation environment in which the construction environment is realistically simulated.
US12106662B1

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products for machine learning traffic determination. A method includes receiving an image of vehicular traffic taken by an image sensor. A method includes receiving environmental data from a plurality of environmental sensors. A method includes determining a history of vehicular traffic in a geographic area associated with an image sensor. A method includes processing an image of vehicular traffic, environmental data, and a history of vehicular traffic using one or more machine learning models to predict a traffic level and a pollution level for a geographic area. A method includes communicating one or more of a predicted traffic level and a predicted pollution level to a user on an electronic display screen of a hardware computing device.
US12106661B2

Systems and methods are provided for determining cause of atypical traffic events and/or encouraging good driving behavior. The systems and methods may involve a camera sensor and/or inertial sensors to detect traffic events, as well analytical methods that may attribute a cause to the traffic event. The systems and methods include a processor that is configured to determine an occurrence of an atypical traffic event at or near a monitored vehicle; and determine a cause of the atypical traffic event based on data collected at the monitored vehicle, wherein the cause of the atypical traffic event is at least one of: a driver or control system of the monitored vehicle; a second driver or second control system of a second vehicle; and a road condition.
US12106659B2

A haptics signal generator configured to generate a haptics signal for driving a haptics transducer by amplitude modulating and frequency modulating a carrier signal based on an input audio signal.
US12106649B2

There is provided a smoke detector including a first light source, a second light source surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the first light source and the second light source emit light, and generates a first detection signal corresponding to light emission of the first light source and a second detection signal corresponding to light emission of the second light source. The processor distinguishes smoke and floating particles according to a similarity between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
US12106646B2

Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising monitoring, by a control panel, an ambient noise via one or more microphones in the control panel. The implementations further include determining, by the control panel, whether the ambient noise is indicative of a security event. In some non-limiting implementations, the control panel may be configured to detect events based on various noise detection models, such as continued noise level above a threshold, noise associated with multiple short sharp impacts (e.g., an intruder trying to kick down a door), gunshot detection, voice recognition to identify a request for assistance (e.g., a person asking for help), glass break detection, or detection of a particular standardized pattern of beeps such as the temporal-three pattern of a smoke detector going off (according to ISO 8201 and ANSI/ASA S3.41 Temporal Pattern), the temporal-four pattern of a carbon monoxide detector going off, etc.
US12106645B2

This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for batch size adjustment using latency-critical event recognition. The techniques described herein enable an electronic device (e.g., security camera) to determine the likelihood of an event of interest (e.g., latency-critical event) occurring in data (e.g., audio and/or video) captured by the electronic device. To make such a determination, the electronic device may switch upload modes to upload the data, using a different batch size to reduce latency, to another device for user access, based on the likelihood of an event of interest occurring in the data. In this way, the techniques, apparatuses, and systems for batch size adjustment using latency-critical event recognition provide an efficient way to provide all-day security monitoring.
US12106644B2

A system for monitoring shopping baskets (e.g., baskets on human-propelled carts, motorized carts, or hand-carried baskets) can include a computer vision unit that can image a surveillance region (e.g., an exit to a store), determine whether a basket is empty or loaded with merchandise, and assess a potential for theft of the merchandise. The computer vision unit can include a camera and an image processor programmed to execute a computer vision algorithm to identify shopping baskets and determine a load status of the basket. The computer vision algorithm can comprise a neural network. The system can identify an at least partially loaded shopping basket that is exiting the store, without indicia of having paid for the merchandise, and execute an anti-theft action, e.g., actuating an alarm, notifying store personnel, activating a store surveillance system, activating an anti-theft device associated with the basket (e.g., a locking shopping cart wheel), etc.
US12106642B2

Present disclosure describes techniques for monitoring and reporting a security breach of a property. The techniques according to the present disclosure comprise detecting at least one activity by at least one motion sensor of a plurality of motion sensors, monitoring a time period of the at least one activity and determining whether the time period of the at least one activity surpasses a predetermined time period, and if the time period of the at least one activity surpasses the predetermined time period, activating a plurality of laser curtains placed on the property, and transmitting an alert to an owner of the property. The techniques further disclose determining whether at least one laser curtain of the plurality of laser curtains is disrupted, and if the at least one laser curtain of the plurality of laser curtains is disrupted, generating an audio-visual alert to notify about the security breach to one or more people present inside and outside of the property. Accordingly, the techniques of the present disclosure facilitate minimization of false alarms and unwanted alerts.
US12106638B1

A computing system receives a request to create a digital data object from a user device of a user for use in a game. The computing system generates the digital data object based on the request. The computing system causes a physical data object corresponding to the digital data object to be activated. The computing system receives a plurality of scanned images of the physical data object. The computing system receives an indication of an outcome of the game based on the physical data object. Based on the indication and the plurality of scanned images, the computing system generates a set of graphical objects to be displayed to the user via the user device of the user. The computing system causes the user to participate in the game using the set of graphical objects.
US12106633B2

The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a method for operating an add-on game of a gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
US12106630B2

A networked computer system is described herein. The networked computer system includes a casino management system coupled to a plurality of devices located within a casino and a facial recognition system. The facial recognition system is programmed to receive facial image from an imaging device positioned within the casino property, access a biometric database and selecting a face ID matching the received facial image, and transmit the selected face ID and location information associated with the imaging device to the casino management system. The casino management system is programmed to identify a player account record associated with the selected face ID, identify a device located within the casino that is associated with the imaging device, and record activity of the identified device to the identified player account record.
US12106627B2

A system and method are presented that provide visual indicators to allow for multiple rule sets to be used simultaneously on a gaming table. In one embodiment, different players playing a card game against a common dealer hand can elect different rule sets for play. Selection can be based upon the placement of bet tokens on different wagering areas at their gaming position at the table, with different wagering areas representing differing rule sets. Visual indicators are then used to record the rule set selection. In certain games, players can change from one rule set to another during the play of a hand, requiring a change in the visual indicator. Blackjack can be played pursuant to fast or traditional rule sets. Virtual games using fast blackjack rules can be created also using visual indicators that reflect a chosen rule set.
US12106623B2

In one aspect, a portable electronic device is provided for accessing a secured area to deliver a package therein. The portable electronic device includes a sensor configured to detect an indicium of the package and communication circuitry configured to communicate a message to a server computer associated with the package upon the sensor detecting the indicium. The communication circuitry is further configured to receive delivery information from the server computer, the delivery information including at least a location of the secured area. The portable electronic device further includes a processor operatively coupled to the sensor and the communication circuitry. The processor is configured to cause, via the communication circuitry, the movable barrier operator to open a movable barrier associated with the secured area.
US12106619B2

The server device includes an acquisition unit, a user database, an attendee management database, and a processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires biological information for each of a plurality of users using an entry/exit management system. The user database associates the biological information with user IDs respectively identifying the users and stores the same. The attendee management database associates the user ID corresponding to an attendee in a restricted area, into which entry and exit is restricted, with position information for the attendee, and stores the same. The processing unit transmits the position information of a meeting candidate, who a visitor wants to meet, to an authentication terminal. The authentication terminal is a terminal which, if an authentication using the biological information recorded in the user database is successful, permits a successfully authenticated user to enter the restricted area.
US12106611B2

A method for obtaining a sensor data set of a vehicle is provided, wherein sensor data of at least one sensor are received. A plurality of triggers for detecting an object or a situation are defined on a server outside the vehicle, each of which said triggers comprises a trigger computing performance value, a trigger classifier, and a trigger requirement. The plurality of triggers are sent to the vehicle. In the vehicle, a respective priority is assigned to the plurality of triggers based on trigger computing performance values, and the trigger classifier of one or more of the triggers is applied to sensor data according to their priority, if a computing capacity of the vehicle permits, from which a respective classifier score results. The sensor data set is sent to the server only if the respective classifier score satisfies the trigger requirement of the respective trigger.
US12106605B2

A portable electronic device and an operation method are provided. The portable electronic device includes a body, a screen, a camera, an image sensor and a main system. The image sensor continually captures a first image outside the body with a first resolution and a first power consumption. The camera is turned on in the first state of the portable electronic device by the main system to capture a second image outside the body with a second power consumption and a second resolution only when the face image information appeared for over two seconds on the screen is detected by the image sensor from the first image. The second resolution is higher than the first resolution, and the second power consumption is higher than the first power consumption.
US12106603B2

Systems and methods for image processing are described. One or more embodiments of the method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system include identifying an encoding of an image, an attribute to be modified in the image, and a plurality of attributes to be preserved in the image; generating a non-linear interpolation for the encoding by iteratively identifying a sequence of boundary vectors, wherein each boundary vector of the sequence of boundary vectors is based on selecting a plurality of conditional boundary vectors representing a subset of the plurality of attributes to be preserved at each corresponding iteration; and generating a modified image based on the image encoding and the non-linear interpolation, wherein the modified image corresponds to the image with the attribute to be modified.
US12106602B2

A fake finger in which a transparent thin film is attached to a finger surface is discriminated. A fake-finger determination device includes: an imaging unit 10 that captures an authentication object as a fingerprint authentication object; a classifying unit 31 that classifies an image captured by the imaging unit 10 into a plurality of regions including at least a skin region and a background region using colors of pixels included in the image; and a determining unit 32 that determines whether or not a foreign substance is present in the periphery of a finger based on a feature of a region classified as neither the skin region nor the background region out of the regions classified by the classifying unit 31.
US12106599B2

An image sensor for imaging fingerprints has multiple photodiode groups each with field of view through a microlens determined by optical characteristics of the microlens and locations of the microlens and openings of upper and lower mask layers. Many photodiode groups have fields of view outwardly splayed from a center-direct field of view. A diameter of openings of the upper mask layer distant from the group having a center-direct field of view is larger than openings of a photodiode group having a center-direct field of view. A method of matching illumination of a group of photodiodes with center-direct field of view to illumination of photodiode groups having outwardly splayed fields of view includes sizing openings in the upper mask layer of photodiode groups with outwardly splayed fields of view larger than openings in the upper mask layer associated with photodiode groups having center-direct field of view.
US12106597B2

A method for distinguishing a real three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional spoof of the real three-dimensional object, the method comprising: obtaining, by an optical sensor of a mobile device, an image containing an object that is either the two-dimensional spoof or the real three-dimensional object; providing the image to a neural network; processing the image by the neural network by calculating: 1) a distance map representative of the distance of pixels to the optical sensor, the pixels constituting at least a portion of the object within the image, or 2) a reflection pattern representative of light reflection associated with pixels constituting at least a portion of the object within the image; comparing the distance map or the reflection pattern with a learned distance map or a learned reflection pattern; and obtaining as a final output a determination the image contains either the two-dimensional spoof or the real three-dimensional object.
US12106595B2

A computing device may access visually rich documents comprising an image and metadata. A graph, based on the image or metadata, can be generated for a visually rich document. The graph's nodes can correspond to words from the visually rich document. Features for nodes can be determined by the device. The device may generate model labeled graphs by assigning a pseudo-label to nodes using a pretrained model. The device may generate a plurality of graph labeled graphs by assigning a pseudo-label to nodes by matching a first node from a first graph to at least a second node from a second graph. The device may generate a plurality of updated graphs by cross referencing labels from the model labeled graphs and the graph labeled graphs. Until a change in labels is below a threshold, a model can be trained to perform key-value extraction using the updated graphs.
US12106588B2

Automatic substance preparation and evaluation systems and methods are provided for preparing and evaluating a fluidic substance, such as e.g. a sample with bodily fluid, in a container and/or in a dispense tip. The systems and methods can detect volumes, evaluate integrities, and check particle concentrations in the container and/or the dispense tip.
US12106587B2

Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods including acquiring an image including an indication of at least one wine; identifying, by optical character recognition, the at least one wine in the acquired image; correlating each of the identified at least one wines to a visual image representation of each wine; and executing a trained computer vision classification system using the visual image representation of each of the identified wines and labeled visual image representations of at least one wine associated with a user flavor profile including at least one classification as inputs to generate an output including, for each of the identified wines, an indication of whether the identified wine corresponds to the at least one classification associated with the user flavor profile.
US12106584B2

An object recognition device of an embodiment includes a processor configured to execute a program to set a high-resolution region to be subjected to a process on a first image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle at a higher resolution than other regions in the first image based on information on the surroundings of the vehicle, and recognize an object located in the surroundings of the vehicle by processing an image corresponding to the set high-resolution region at a high resolution.
US12106582B2

A vehicle travel control apparatus configured to control a traveling operation of a vehicle including an actuator for traveling, the vehicle travel control apparatus including a sensor mounted on the vehicle to capture an image of a division line in a traveling direction of the vehicle or measure the division line and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling the actuator based on a position information of the division line obtained by the sensor and a reliability with respect to the position information of the division line obtained by the sensor, and setting the reliability based on a shape of a road surface or a road structure in the traveling direction of the vehicle.
US12106581B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for locating a retroreflective object in a digital image and/or identifying a feature of the retroreflective object in the digital image. In certain environmental conditions, e.g. on a sunny day, or when the retroreflective material is damaged or soiled, it may be more challenging to locate the retroreflective object in the digital image and/or to identify a feature of the object in the digital image. The systems and methods disclosed herein may be particularly suited for object location and/or feature identification in situations in which there is a strong source of ambient light (e.g. on a sunny day) and/or when the retroreflective material on the object is damaged or soiled.
US12106577B2

The present application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a device for testing a traffic flow monitoring system, which relates to intelligent traffic, vehicle-road collaboration, and cloud platform technologies in a field of data processing. The specific implementation is: obtaining real obstacle data collected in a real traffic scene; generating simulated obstacle data according to the real obstacle data, where the simulated obstacle data is used to simulate an obstacle in the real traffic scene and a movement state of the obstacle; and sending the simulated obstacle data to a first traffic flow monitoring system to be tested to test the first traffic flow monitoring system.
US12106575B2

A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle is disclosed, wherein sensor data are recorded from the surroundings of the vehicle, the recorded sensor data are verified, the verified sensor data are analyzed by a neural network and analyzed sensor data are generated. Based on the analyzed sensor data, control data are generated for controlling the vehicle. During verification of the sensor data, at least first sensor data, which were recorded at a first, earlier point in time, are compared with second sensor data, which were recorded at a second, later point in time, the result of the comparison is cross-checked with a database in which data on perturbations to input data of a neural network are stored, wherein it is checked whether the second sensor data were generated at least in part by a perturbation to the first sensor data that is stored in the database.
US12106573B2

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a harbor performed by a computing device, the method for monitoring the harbor according to an aspect of the present invention comprising: obtaining a harbor image having a first view attribute; generating a segmentation image having the first view attribute and corresponding to the harbor image by performing an image segmentation using an artificial neural network trained to output information, from an input image, related to an object included in the input image; generating a transformed segmentation image having a second view attribute from the segmentation image having the first view attribute based on a first view transformation information used to transform an image having the first view attribute into an image having the second view attribute different from the first view attribute; and calculating berthing guide information of the ship based on the transformed segmentation image.
US12106571B2

An information processing apparatus (2000) detects a stationary object from video data (12). In addition, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes person detection process of detecting a person in vicinity of an object (target object) detected as the stationary object for each of a plurality of video frames (14) which includes the target object. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes a predetermined process by comparing results of the person detection process for each of the plurality of video frames (14).
US12106569B2

According to some embodiments, a method includes accessing 2D data generated by a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are located within a physical environment. The method further includes identifying, by analyzing the 2D data, a physical object that is physically located within the physical environment. The method further includes displaying, in a graphical user interface, a virtual 3D environment that corresponds to the physical environment. The method further includes displaying a virtual object in the virtual 3D environment. The virtual object is a visual representation of the physical object identified in the 2D data and a location of the virtual object in the virtual 3D environment corresponds to a physical location of the physical object in the physical environment. The method further includes displaying movements of the virtual object in the virtual 3D environment that correspond to movements of the physical object within the physical environment.
US12106564B2

A method for detecting and correcting cycle time includes multiple steps performed by a computing device, and these steps include: obtaining a video from a camera, obtaining a bounding box from an input device, inputting the bounding box and the video to a cycle time detection model to generate a preliminary report, wherein the bounding box is used to set a region of interest in the video, the preliminary report includes a plurality of candidate events, and each candidate event includes a start time and a candidate cycle time, receiving a revision label associated with at least one candidate event from the input device, and tuning a hyper-parameter of the cycle time detection model according to the revision label.
US12106560B2

Disclosed are techniques for detecting and mitigating pest infestations within a grow operation. In some embodiments, such techniques comprise receiving, from a visual observer device, image data associated with a location within a grow operation. The image data is then used to determine at least one pest classification and a count associated with the pest classification. Distribution data is generated based on the at least one pest classification, count, and location. A level of risk can then be determined based on the distribution data. In some embodiments, if the level of risk is greater than a threshold level of risk, a recommendation may be generated based at least in part on the distribution data.
US12106559B2

A method, apparatus, and method for facilitating communications with an underwater platform. A communications system comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle, a radio frequency communications system, a laser communications system, and a controller. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a first section and a second section. The first section is moveably connected to the second section. The radio frequency communications system is connected to the first section of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The radio frequency communications system comprises a first parabolic antenna. The laser communications system is connected to the second section of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The laser communications system comprises a second parabolic antenna. The controller is configured to control the laser communications system to transmit incoming information in a transmit laser beam to the underwater platform submerged in a body of water. The incoming information is from a receive radio frequency signal received by the radio frequency communications system.
US12106545B2

The present disclosure provides a training method and device for an image identifying model, and an image identifying method. The training method comprises: obtaining image samples of a plurality of categories; inputting image samples of each category into a feature extraction layer of the image identifying model to extract a feature vector of each image sample; calculating a statistical characteristic information of an actual distribution function corresponding to each category according to the feature vector of each image sample of the each category; establishing an augmented distribution function corresponding to the each category according to the statistical characteristic information; obtaining augmented sample features of the each category based on the augmented distribution function; and inputting feature vectors of the image samples and the augmented sample features into a classification layer of the image identifying model for supervised learning.
US12106542B2

Described are targets for use in optical tracking, as well as related methods. In some implementations, a target comprises a planar surface with an optically detectable pattern thereon, and at least one protrusion extending from the planar surface. In other implementations, a target comprises a planar surface with an optically detectable pattern thereon, with a specular reflective region. The optically detectable pattern provides accurate position information of the target, and provides accurate orientation information of the target about a first axis, but may not provide accurate orientation information of the target about other axes. The at least one protrusion or the specular reflective region provide accurate information of orientation of the target, particularly orientations about axes other than the first axis.
US12106541B2

Embodiments described herein provide an intelligent method to select instances, by utilizing unsupervised tracking for videos. Using this freely available form of supervision, a temporal constraint is adopted for selecting instances that ensures that different instances contain the same object while sampling the temporal augmentation from the video. In addition, using the information on the spatial extent of the tracked object, spatial constraints are applied to ensure that sampled instances overlap meaningfully with the tracked object. Taken together, these spatiotemporal constraints result in better supervisory signal for contrastive learning from videos.
US12106513B2

A method detects a suspension position of a supporting bar in a pallet, having supporting bars along a longitudinal direction, each with multiple supporting bar tips along a main direction of extent. The supporting bar tips define a supporting plane. A two-dimensional contrast-image dataset of the pallet is created, its pixels being assigned a pixel value and a pixel-area unit of the supporting plane. The contrast-image dataset has regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips as local pixel-value extremes in a uniform pixel-value background. A longitudinal position is determined in the contrast-image dataset of the regions that are assigned to the supporting bar tips a supporting bar using the local pixel-value extremes. The suspension position of the supporting bar in the pallet is deduced based on the longitudinal position in the contrast-image dataset and an extent of the pixel-area unit in the longitudinal direction.
US12106508B2

Systems and methods are provided to mitigate potential collisions between a person and robotic system. In various embodiments, a robotic surgical system includes a robotic linkage including joints, an endoscope coupled to a distal portion of the robotic linkage and configured to capture stereoscopic images, and a controller in communication with the endoscope. The controller executes instructions to analyze the stereoscopic images from the endoscope to identify a human-held tool in the stereoscopic images and to estimate a type and/or pose of the human-held tool, infer a position of a person holding the human-held tool based on the type and/or pose of the human-held tool, determine a spatial relationship between the person and the robotic linkage based on the inferred position of the person, and generate a warning of potential collision between the person and the robotic linkage based on the determined spatial relationship.
US12106506B2

Imaging systems, including radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave arrangements, and related methods are described. According to one aspect, an imaging system includes an antenna array, a position capture system configured to generate position information indicative of locations of one of the antenna array and the target at the first and second moments in time, and wherein the one of the antenna array and the target move between the first and second moments in time, a transceiver configured to control the antenna array to emit electromagnetic energy towards the target and to generate an output that is indicative of the received electromagnetic energy, a data acquisition system configured to generate radar data, processing circuitry configured to process the position information and the radar data to generate image data regarding the target, and an interface configured to use the image data to generate visual images regarding the target.
US12106504B2

A system for executing a three-dimensional (3D) intraoperative scan of a patient is disclosed. A 3D scanner control computing device projects the object points included onto a first image plane and the object points onto a second image plane. The 3D scanner control computing device determines first epipolar lines associated with the first image plane and second epipolar lines associated with the second image plane based on an epipolar plane that triangulates the object points included in the first 2D intraoperative image to the object points included in the second 2D intraoperative image. Each epipolar lines provides a depth of each object as projected onto the first image plane and the second image plane. The 3D scanner control computing device converts the first 2D intraoperative image and the second 2D intraoperative image to the 3D intraoperative scan of the patient based on the depth of each object point provided by each corresponding epipolar line.
US12106501B2

To simulate a 3D image of a subsurface below a surface, the system having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory device configured to execute the instruction, and a subsurface image capture module in communication with the processor, the subsurface image capture module having one or more wave generating device and one or more sensor affixed to a vehicle to capture a series of digital image datasets of the subsurface with a coordinate reference data, wherein the processor executes an instruction to generate a digital model of the series of digital image datasets of the subsurface while maintaining the coordinate reference data, wherein the processor executes an instruction to determine a depth map of the digital model, and wherein the processor executes an instruction to identify a key subject point in the digital model, where subsurface includes an internal biology, below ground, underwater.
US12106499B2

Disclosed are an image depth estimation method and device, a computer-readable storage medium and electronic equipment. The method includes: obtaining a first image frame and second image frame collected in a movement process of an electronic apparatus; determining a first feature map corresponding to the first image frame and a second feature map corresponding to the second image frame; determining a scaled inter-frame geometrical relationship between the first and second image frames; determining a reconstruction error between the first and second feature maps based on the inter-frame geometrical relationship; and determining a depth map corresponding to the first image frame based on the reconstruction error. According to embodiments of the disclosure, the reconstruction error between the first and second feature maps is determined by utilizing the inter-frame geometrical relationship, and explicit geometrical constraints are added for depth estimation, thereby improving the generalization of the depth estimation.
US12106498B2

An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of captured images of a target object imaged under a plurality of different conditions, a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first reflection characteristic of the target object for each pixel position of the captured images using a first spatial resolution based on the captured images, a determination unit configured to determine whether an angular resolution of the calculated first reflection characteristic is lower than a first threshold value, and a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second reflection characteristic of the target object using a second spatial resolution lower than the first spatial resolution based on the calculated first reflection characteristic in a case where the angular resolution is lower than the first threshold value.
US12106490B2

An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to acquire a first evaluation value related to a change in color or luminance from a plurality of images different in focus position, acquire a second evaluation value related to a change in contrast from the plurality of images, and detect a moving object from the plurality of images based on the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value.
US12106487B2

A technique is described herein that interprets some frames in a stream of video content as key frames and other frames as predicted frames. The technique uses an image analysis system to produce feature information for each key frame. The technique uses a prediction model to produce feature information for each predicted frame. The prediction model operates on two inputs: (1) feature information that has been computed for an immediately-preceding frame; and (2) frame-change information. A motion-determining model produces the frame-change information by computing the change in video content between the current frame being predicted and the immediately-preceding frame. The technique reduces the amount of image-processing operations that are used to process the stream of video content compared to a base case of processing all of the frames using the image analysis system. As such, the technique uses less computing resources compared to the base case.
US12106482B2

A learning-based active surface model for medical image segmentation uses a method including: (a) data generation: obtaining medical images and associated ground truths, and splitting the sample images into a training set and a testing set; (b) raw segmentation: constructing a surface initialization network, parameters of the network trained by images and labels in the training set; (c) surface initialization: segmenting the images by the surface initialization network, and generating the point cloud data as the initial surface from the segmentation; (d) fine segmentation: constructing the surface evolution network, the parameters of the network trained by the initial surface obtained in step (c); (e) surface evolution: deforming the initial surface points along the offsets to obtain the predicted surface, the offsets presenting the prediction of the surface evolution network; (f) surface reconstruction: reconstructing the 3D volumes from the set of predicted surface points set to obtain the final segmentation results.
US12106472B2

The disclosure provides an eye state assessment method and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an optic disc image area from a first fundus photography and generating multiple optic cup-to-disc ratio assessment results by multiple first models based on the optic disc image area; obtaining a first assessment result of an eye based on the optic cup-to-disc ratio assessment results; performing multiple data augmentation operations on the first fundus photography to generate multiple second fundus photographies; generating multiple retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) defect assessment results by multiple second models based on the second fundus photographies; obtaining a second assessment result of the eye based on the RNFL defect assessment results; and obtaining an optic nerve assessment result of the eye based on the first assessment result and the second assessment result.
US12106465B2

An image marking method, apparatus and system, which relates to the technical field of image processing. The present disclosure includes, when the working mode of the first client is a first mode, receiving a first marking task assigned by a second client, on the condition that the image marking approach is the first marking approach, according to a neural network model, determining a first marking result corresponding to the first original image; on the condition that the image marking approach is the second marking approach, according to an unsupervised algorithm model, determining a second marking result corresponding to the first original image; on the condition that the image marking approach is the third marking approach, receiving a third marking result inputted by a user into the first original image; and sending a target marking result to the second client.
US12106463B2

An image processing system includes a housing that forms a passage through which paper pieces pass, imaging units that capture images of the paper pieces passing through the housing, and an AI image processing apparatus that restores a restoration target on the basis of the images captured by the imaging unit so that the contents of the restoration target become viewable.
US12106459B2

A system for quantitively determining quality for pavement markings disposed along pavement on a roadway includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a plurality of vehicles. The one or more controllers receive image data represents the pavement markings disposed along the pavement collected by the plurality of vehicles. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine at least one of a color distance measurement between a mean color space value of the pavement markings and an ideal marking color space value and a marking intensity contrast ratio between the pavement markings and the pavement.
US12106458B2

A method and device for image processing, and storage medium are provided. In the method, an initial image I is acquired; a pixel I(i) of the initial image is selected; a transfer function ƒ is applied to the pixel I(i) to acquire a transferred pixel Ĩ(i), and the transfer function ƒ is determined on the basis of at least the pixel information of the selected pixel; a predetermined tone-mapping function is applied to the transferred pixel Ĩ(i) to acquire a tone-mapped transferred pixel Ĩ′(i); an inverse of the transfer function ƒ−1 is applied to the tone-mapped transferred pixel Ĩ′(i) to acquire a tone-mapped final pixel I′(i). Herein, the steps are repeated for a plurality of pixels of the initial image I to generate a final image I′, and for each of the plurality pixels the same tone-mapping function is applied.
US12106439B2

An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a viewpoint image according to a viewpoint of a first user from an image server, on the basis of position information indicating the position of a mobile terminal moving with the first user. The image server stores a plurality of viewpoint images obtained by capturing images from a plurality of orientations in each of a plurality of positions. The generation unit uses the acquired viewpoint image to generate a rendering image rendered from a free viewpoint specified by a second user who is located at a position different from that of the first user, as a display image. The output unit outputs the generated display image.
US12106438B2

Annotation can be easily performed on a three-dimensional point cloud and a working time can be reduced. An interface unit 22 displays a point cloud indicating a three-dimensional point on an object, and receives designation of a three-dimensional point indicating an annotation target object and designation of a three-dimensional point not indicating the annotation target object. A candidate cluster calculation unit 32 calculates a value of a predetermined evaluation function indicating a likelihood of a point cloud cluster being the annotation target object based on the designation of a three-dimensional point for point cloud clusters obtained by clustering the point clouds. A cluster selection and storage designation unit 34 causes the interface unit 22 to display the point cloud clusters in descending order of the value of the evaluation function, and receives a selection of a point cloud cluster to be annotated. An annotation execution unit 36 executes annotation indicating the annotation target object for each three-dimensional point included in the selected point cloud cluster.
US12106436B2

A method and apparatus for transforming an input model according to an example embodiment are disclosed. The method includes receiving an input model including a first mesh with a first topology, generating a template model including a second mesh with a second topology, aligning the template model with the input model, generating correlation information between the second mesh of the aligned template model and the first mesh of the input model, generating, based on a skeleton of the aligned template model, a skeleton of the input model, generating, based on the correlation information, first skinning information indicating a connection relation between the skeleton of the input model and the first mesh, and transforming, based on at least one of the correlation information and the first skinning information, the input model.
US12106433B2

An equirectangular image of a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment is generated in a computer-automated fashion. In one example, a 3D virtual position of a virtual camera in a 3D virtual environment is specified. For each of a plurality of different yaw angles rotated about an axis extending through the 3D virtual position, the virtual camera is used to acquire an image strip of pixels parallel to the axis of rotation. Image strips of pixels of the 3D environment acquired at the different yaw angles are assembled to form an equirectangular image of the 3D virtual environment from the specified 3D virtual position.
US12106432B2

Virtual game worlds for computer games can be provided using machine learning. The use of machine learning enables the virtual game worlds to be generated at run time by standard consumer hardware devices. Machine learning agents are trained in advance to the characteristics of the particular game world. Then, these suitably trained machine learning agents can be used to generate a relevant portion of a virtual game world, such as a portion of the virtual game world that is proximate to a play's position. Advantageously, the virtual game world can be provided in high resolution and is able to cover a substantially larger region than conventional practical.
US12106429B2

An image display system includes an image information acquisition unit and a display control unit. The image information acquisition unit is configured to acquire image information. The display control unit is configured to display a virtual space in which a target image corresponding to the image information is displayed, and to control light to be emitted by a virtual lighting device provided in the virtual space based on state information indicating a state of a target space indicated in the target image.
US12106425B1

The present invention discloses to monitor viewing parameters of users in an immersive environment. Real-time inputs are received from sensors associated with participants in immersive environment. Inputs represent location data, gaze data, field of view (FOV) data, and movement data of the participants. Selection data indicating selected participants and selected viewing parameter is received from user. The inputs are processed to output the viewing parameters of the selected participants which include viewing angle, viewing range, viewing angle deviation, current FOV, relative location, and interaction status of the selected participants. A first set of pictorial representations is generated to represent the selected participants and selected viewing parameters. The first set of pictorial representations is displayed in a predefined region within FOV of the user in the immersive environment, to enable monitoring.
US12106424B2

A ray tracing unit implemented in a graphics rendering system includes processing logic configured to perform ray tracing operations on rays, a dedicated ray memory coupled to the processing logic and configured to store ray data for rays to be processed by the processing logic, an interface to a memory system, and control logic configured to manage allocation of ray data to either the dedicated ray memory or the memory system. Core ray data for rays to be processed by the processing logic is stored in the dedicated ray memory, and at least some non-core ray data for the rays is stored in the memory system. This allows core ray data for many rays to be stored in the dedicated ray memory without the size of the dedicated ray memory becoming too wasteful when the ray tracing unit is not in use.
US12106423B2

Techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure with reduced false positive ray intersections are disclosed. The reduction of false positives may be based upon one or more of selectively performing a secondary higher precision intersection test for a bounding volume, identifying and culling bounding volumes that degenerate to a point, and parametrically clipping rays that exceed certain configured distance thresholds.
US12106419B1

Various implementations set forth a computer-implemented method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, in a first time interval, a first extended reality (XR) stream based on a first set of meshes representing a 3D environment, transmitting, to a remote device, the first XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of a first portion of the 3D environment in a remote XR environment, determining that the 3D environment has changed based on a second set of meshes representing the 3D environment and generated subsequent to the first time interval, generating a second XR stream based on the second set of meshes, and transmitting, to the remote device, the second XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of at least a portion of the changed 3D environment in the remote XR environment.
US12106418B2

Devices, systems, and methods for sampling partially resident texture data. An instruction which includes a residency map descriptor is received. The instruction is executed to retrieve partially resident texture data from a mipmap stored in a memory based on the residency map descriptor. The residency map descriptor includes a residency map.
US12106416B2

The disclosure describes a distributed, pluggable architecture for an artificial reality (AR) system that enables concurrent execution and collaborative scene rendering for multiple artificial reality applications. For example, an AR system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data representative of a physical environment. The AR system also includes a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content. The AR system further includes a plurality of concurrently executing artificial reality client applications. The AR system also includes a concurrent application engine configured to control rendering the artificial reality content as a common scene that include one or more objects from each of the plurality of artificial reality applications.
US12106413B1

Rendering an avatar for a user in a communication session includes obtaining latent variables for expression and identity of a face, applying a concatenation of the latent variables to an expression decoder of a trained asymmetric joint autoencoder for expression and identification to obtain an expression mesh of a face, and rendering an avatar using the expression mesh of the face. The asymmetric joint autoencoder includes two encoders and two decoders, where an expression decoder utilizes the concatenated latents and the identity decoder utilizes the identity latents and not the expression latents.
US12106399B2

A generative system for the creation of digital images for printing on design surfaces comprises a training dataset comprising a plurality of sample images for printing on design surfaces, a generative adversarial network comprising a generator and a discriminator, wherein the generator receives noise at input and is trained to generate at output starting from the noise a new artificially generated image adapted to be used for printing on design surfaces, and wherein the discriminator receives at input the new artificially generated image and is trained to compare and distinguish the new image generated by the sample images of the training dataset.
US12106393B1

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to developing and using collaborative artificial intelligence (AI) systems in policing that are focused on reducing bias and promoting fairness. The collaborative AI systems may be trained using data collected from various sources, including social science research, law enforcement data, and any other publicly available data. The collaborative AI systems may identify patterns and tendencies in human behaviors to generate recommended actions based on ongoing situations.
US12106385B1

A system includes one or more processors; and at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: generate a set of shift candidates based on labor demand data; determine a cost function including a labor cost, wherein the cost function is expressed at least in part in terms of a set of decision variables; determine a set of constraints based at least in part on the set of decision variables, worker data, and scheduling configuration data; and determine simultaneously, using a MIP solver, a subset of the shift candidates selected in a final schedule and a set of shift assignments of which worker is assigned to which selected shift candidate of the subset of the shift candidates.
US12106384B2

A computer-implemented method for detecting and managing duplicate invoices is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes accessing, in a digital storage device, invoices associated with a buyer computer. Candidate invoices having similar attributes are identified from the invoices and nodes representing the candidate invoices are created and stored in computer memory. At least two of the candidate invoices are determined likely to be duplicate invoices and an edge is generated between nodes representing the at least two candidate invoices, indicating that the at least two candidate invoices are likely to be duplicate invoices. A set of filters is programmatically applied using the at least two candidate invoices as inputs. The at least two candidate invoices are determined to be duplicate invoices based on an output of the set of filters and a notification is sent to the buyer computer indicating that the at least two candidate invoices are duplicate invoices.
US12106379B2

A system including one or more processor and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: extracting one or more feature values from at least one image of an insurance card of a user; generating a feature vector associated with the at least one image of the insurance card of the user; reducing, using dimensionality reduction, an amount of data in the feature vector to a reduced set of data; determining, by a machine learning model, a first insurance plan of the user based on machine learning model input data comprising the reduced set of data; identifying at least one alternative insurance plan for the user; and sending instructions to display a recommendation of the at least one alternative insurance plan on a user interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12106372B1

The present disclosure presents a system and methodology for cryptocurrency trading. The system comprises a home-based trading machine, one or more servers and at least one database, each of which communicating via a network. The home-based trading machine is configured to encrypt at least one set of API credentials accessible to at least one currency exchange application in an encrypted packet; receive, from an electronic processing device operable by a vendor of the encrypted packet, the encrypted packet; implement the encryption key to decrypt the API key and the API secret key to unlock the encrypted packet to perform a cryptocurrency trade; and upon completion of the cryptocurrency trade, re-encrypt the API credentials.
US12106370B2

Methods, apparatuses and article of manufactures for receiving a plurality of bids and offers for a binary options transaction. Each bid and offer comprises a quantity and a price. At least one rule is applied to the plurality of received bids and offers. At least one of the plurality of bids and offers is determined to be potentially manipulative. An alert that the at least one bid or offer is potentially manipulative is transmitted.
US12106366B2

Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for an electronic transaction platform that enables the buying and/or selling of securities.
US12106362B2

A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a lending system for use with electronic commerce web sites such as auction sites. A seller may receive a cash loan for items placed for sale but not yet purchased by a buyer. The seller can be required to pay back the loan after a predetermined amount of time or as soon as the item for sale is sold and payment is received from the buyer. The lender would charge interest or commission for the loan. In this manner, sellers can receive cash for items listed on auction sites before those items are actually sold, generating additional cash flow for the seller.
US12106351B1

The technology includes an example method for determining matching items. In some implementations, the method may determine a first set and second set of attributes and attribute types associated with a first and second item, respectively, based on description data associated with the items. The method may determine an attribute-type indicator for a pairing of a first attribute of the first set with a second attribute of the second set based on attribute types of the attributes, compute an attribute value for the pairing based on a similarity between the first and second attribute, and compute a match score for a combination of the first and second items based on the attribute value and attribute-type indicator. The method may also, in response to receiving a data query identifying the first item, provide a graphical user interface including a graphical element representing the second item based on the match score.
US12106350B2

Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types; determining a data relationship between the user search queries and the product items based on a weighting factor, the data relationship including user search query nodes and product item nodes; determining a first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; determining a second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; grouping the first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes and the second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes into a product type group based on a proximity search; and modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on the product type group to mitigate a computing system from displaying non-compliant material to a user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12106347B1

A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform the steps of a method to dynamically ingest and monitor online products. The method may include receiving access to a webpage, determining whether the webpage includes a predetermined template, and in response to receiving the predetermined template, ingesting one or more product images and product metadata from the webpage. If no template is found, the system may request search engine optimization metadata to determine if at least one image is of a product before initializing a machine learning algorithm to determine whether the images correspond to product images. If no associated metadata is found, the system may request manual input of associated metadata before displaying, in real-time and in a standardized format, the ingested photos and metadata, allowing a user to select photos representing products of interest.
US12106346B2

An interactive and customizable food delivery system with a high degree of personalization. The system provides for the personalization of a product and product label thereby delivering a client-specified food product based upon their recipe input through a computer device interface. Through use of a computer interface, such as a mobile computing device or “smart phone,” personal computer, or even through a unique computerized kiosk located at a fixed location, the user can input recipes or order products from existing recipes. The product is prepared either locally or remotely and is then delivered or shipped to the user with a customized label indicating ingredients and other information.
US12106343B2

Systems and methods of assisting in an electronic shopping experience are disclosed. A request may be received, from a user on a device having a user interface, to search for an item listed for sale in a marketplace. A balance amount of an account associated with or available to the user at the marketplace is displayed in the user interface. The search results are limited to at least one item having a sales price less than the displayed balance amount and the at least one item is displayed in the user interface. The account may be a user account at a payment service provider.
US12106340B2

Disclosed examples include systems, methods, and computer products relating to data activity visibility though the use of an identifier. A method includes receiving registration data regarding a customer. The customer is registered in association with a set of customer data. An identifier is generated that encrypts the set of customer data. The identifier is transmitted to a front-end device that sends the identifier as part of a transaction message. An executed transaction report containing the identifier and relating to a transaction is received from an exchange. The set of customer data is determined from the identifier of the executed transaction report. A request is received from an authorized entity device. Dashboard data is provided for rendering at the authorized entity device that includes data regarding the transaction in association with the customer.
US12106336B2

A customer engagement platform assembly includes a base configured to be secured to a terrain, a support column fixedly secured to the base and extending outwardly therefrom. The assembly includes a frame removably secured to the mounting base and having a height extension section, a display mounting section removably secured to the height extension section, and a cover extending over the display mounting section. The display mounting section includes one or more audio video communication devices for communicating information therefrom. The assembly includes a bracket system in fixed relation to the support column and extending through the frame. The audio video communication device is removably secured to the bracket system.
US12106334B2

A system and method for digitally grading collectible trading cards on a predefined standard scale. The collectible trading cards are graded using their images. First, an image is converted to grayscale image. The grayscale image is subjected to a set of algorithms, such as edge detection algorithm, threshold inversion algorithm, wavelet transform algorithm, corner detection algorithm, color filtering algorithm, and an image sharpen algorithm to obtain respective image features as outputs. The output can be processed using a bag of visual words computer vision model to obtain quantitative data. The quantitative data can then be processed using a pre-trained machine learning model to obtain a grade for the collectible trading card.
US12106332B2

A dynamically regulated advertising delivery control system. A campaign is operated by sending bids to an exchange responsive to receiving bid requests from the exchange, each bid request representing an opportunity to expose a browser to content. Won bid notifications are received from the exchange and exposure notifications are received from exposed browsers. Failed exposures are detected by detecting won bid notification identifiers without corresponding exposure notification identifiers. Responsive to the failed exposures exceeding an upper limit, the campaign is operated in a throttled mode. Responsive to detecting successful exposures in the throttled mode, the campaign is operated in a recovered mode.
US12106329B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content based on a user sentiment index. The method may include receiving, over a network and from a user device, one or more user generated inputs and calculating the user sentiment index based on the one or more user generated inputs. The method may also include receiving, over the network, from a content or advertising provider, instructions on publishing content or advertising to a webpage based on the calculated user sentiment index, and publishing content for display on user devices over the network based on a comparison of the calculated user sentiment index and the received instructions.
US12106326B2

Techniques are described for determining locations of interest based on user visits. In some situations, the techniques include obtaining information about actual locations of users at various times, and automatically analyzing the information to determine particular locations in a geographic area that are of interest, such as for frequent destinations visited by users. After determining a particular location of interest, it may be represented by generating a corresponding location model to describe the geographic subarea or other location point(s) covered by the determined location of interest, and one or more points of interest (e.g., businesses, parks, schools, landmarks, etc.) may be identified that are located at or otherwise correspond to the determined location of interest. In addition, a determined location of interest may be further used in various ways, including to identify later user visits to that location (e.g., to a point of interest identified for the location).
US12106318B1

Operations of a prompt management system are disclosed. The operations may include: receiving a prompt for performing a set of tasks, assigning an agent group that includes a plurality of agents to perform a set of roles associated with a dataset in support of the set of tasks, causing the plurality of agents to perform the set of roles using a first machine-learning model, receiving a set of role results from the plurality of agents responsive to performing the set of roles, performing the set of tasks using at least a second machine-learning model, and providing a task result for display on a user interface device. The set of tasks may include executing an operation on the set of role results using the second machine-learning model, and generating a task result that includes a product of the operation executed on the set of role results.
US12106302B1

Systems and methods are described for facilitating payments and transactions using social background checks. Such systems and methods may use social networks with both individual members communicating over a network to a social authentication computing system. The authentication of transactions associated financial institutions are determined through the use of relationship measures based on social media interactions. Transactions and services available to a user are determined based on a measure of social identity through the use of social media platforms. Available contact and interaction data from one or more social media platforms is leveraged to analyze a level of trust that a transaction is not a consequence of fraudulent activity. Transactions that have a low level of risk of being a consequence of fraudulent activity are benefited through faster transaction times and other improvements.
US12106301B2

Systems and methods for secure payment processing are disclosed. An issuer vault generates payment items, which correspond to consumer account information and which replicate the structure of the account information but do not include consumers' actual account number. The payment items, rather than the actual account information, are communicated to on-line and mobile payment services for use by consumers in payment transactions. When a consumer uses a payment item in a payment transaction and the transaction undergoes authorization processing, the payment authorization network uses the payment item to request and receive the actual account information from the issuer vault. The authorization network uses the actual account information for the limited use of authorizing the transaction. Once the transaction has been authorized using the actual account information, the processing of the transaction continues using the payment item information rather than the actual account information.
US12106294B2

Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.
US12106288B2

A method includes a server computer receiving a request from a user to obtain a resource in a transaction using a cryptocurrency. The server computer determines that the transaction is to be made using the cryptocurrency. The server computer initiates an authentication request message to an access control server via a directory server. The access control server authenticates the user and generates an authentication indicator. The server computer receives an authentication response comprising the authentication indicator from the access control server. The server computer evaluates the authentication indicator. Responsive to evaluating the authentication indicator, the server computer can process the transaction using the cryptocurrency.
US12106271B2

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for payment associated with a transaction between a first user and a second user, where the request specifies a payment amount in a fiat currency and identifying an indication that the first user intends to satisfy the request for payment using a non-fiat instrument. The method also includes initiating a first transfer of a value corresponding to the payment amount in the non-fiat instrument from a first balance of the first user to one or more service balances of a payment service and initiating a second transfer of a value corresponding to the payment amount in the fiat currency from the one or more service balances of the payment service to a second balance of the second user.
US12106263B2

The present disclosure discloses a method for liquefied natural gas (LNG) station management and an Internet of Things system. The method includes: acquiring historical gas filling data of a gas station based on a preset acquiring time; determining LNG demand data at at least one future moment and a predicted confidence level of the LNG demand data based on the historical gas filling data through a prediction model; determining a reliable moment based on the predicted confidence level; determining at least one set of candidate delivery plans based on the LNG demand data and LNG storage data; and determining a target delivery plan based on at least one piece of gas filling cost data of the at least one set of candidate delivery plans and the reliable moment.
US12106258B2

In one aspect, a method is provided including receiving, at a server computer, a communication that indicates controllability of an access control device by a client application associated with an e-commerce service. The access control device associated with a property and configured to selectively allow access to the property relative to interaction with the client application. The method further includes determining that the property is constituted by dwellings beyond the access control device and identifying, based on a reconciliation of addresses of the dwellings with information of user accounts of an e-commerce service, at least one of the dwellings associated with the e-commerce service. The method further includes causing relative to the reconciliation an update to at least one of the user accounts associated with the at least one of the dwellings, the update opting-in the at least one of the user accounts to a feature of the e-commerce service.
US12106252B2

Embodiments herein provide a system and a method facilitating a local decision making for disinfectant dosing in water as the water flows through a Water Distribution Networks (WDN). WDN data is collected and the WDN is partitioned into one or more sub-systems by using a data based partitioning methodology over the WDN data. One or more decision variables are mapped to the one or more sub-systems for coordinated decentralized control of water quality in large WDN. The decision variables comprise disinfectant dosing rate to be applied to water at the one or more booster stations.
US12106249B1

A performance indicator score can be determined for a software development process. A set of elements representing performance attributes of a software development process, such as quality and availability, can be determined. Scores for each element of the set of elements can be computed and aggregated into a single overall score. Further, an adjustment can be determined and applied to scores based on time or an expected event. The overall score can then be conveyed for display on a display device. Some thresholds can also be employed to evaluate the scores, including the overall score, and alerts can be triggered based on the thresholds.