US12120967B2
A phase-change memory (PCM) includes a semiconductor body housing a selection transistor; a electrical-insulation body disposed over the semiconductor body; a conductive region, extending through the electrical-insulation body, electrically coupled to the selection transistor; and a plurality of heater elements in the electrical-insulation body. Each of the plurality of heater elements include a first end in electrical contact with a respective portion of the conductive region and a second end that extends away from the conductive region. The PCM further includes a plurality of phase-change elements extending in the electrical-insulation body and including data storage regions, where each of the data storage regions being electrically and thermally coupled to one respective heater element at the second end of the respective heater element.
US12120959B2
The present application relates to stacked piezoelectric energy harvesters that include compliant layers between piezoelectric layers. The energy harvesters are useful in various structures and devices, including tissue-stimulating implants, such as spinal fusion implants. The present application also relates to methods of increasing the power output of a piezoelectric energy harvester through the inclusion of compliant layers.
US12120958B2
A method of manufacturing a ceramic structure, a method of manufacturing a ceramic structure with multiple layers of ceramic material, and a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric ceramic structure. The method of manufacturing a ceramic structure includes the steps of: placing a sheet of ceramic material on a supporting platform, wherein the supporting platform is arranged to elevate the sheet of ceramic material from a base of the supporting platform by supporting only a first portion of the sheet of ceramic material; sintering the sheet of ceramic material; and during the step of sintering of the sheet of ceramic material, facilitating forming a curvature on the sheet of ceramic material at a second portion of the sheet of ceramic material which is not supported by the supporting platform.
US12120955B2
An apparatus for recovering heat in an ablutionary or plumbing system includes first and second pipes for carrying fluids at different temperatures. A first heat transfer element is configured to be thermally coupled to the first pipe and a second heat transfer element configured to be thermally coupled to the second pipe, with each having an elongate portion extending in a direction away from the associated pipe. The elongate portions of the first and second heat transfer elements at least partially overlap. A thermoelectric device is provided that includes one or more thermoelectric elements located between the elongate portions, the thermoelectric element(s) being in thermal communication with the elongate portion of the first heat transfer element and the elongate portion of the second heat transfer element and being arranged to generate electricity from a temperature differential between the elongate portions of the first and second heat transfer elements.
US12120950B2
The present application relates to an organic compound, an electronic element and an electronic apparatus. A structural formula of the organic compound of the present application is represented by Formula I, and when used in an organic electroluminescent device, the organic compound may significantly improve the performance of the device.
US12120942B2
A light emitting element includes a flexible plate-like portion, and a fixation member fixing the flexible plate-like portion. The flexible plate-like portion includes a light extraction film, a sealing layer, an organic functional layer including a light emitting layer, a glass substrate, and a resin layer having a thickness greater than that of the glass substrate. The fixation member fixes the flexible plate-like portion such that the flexible plate-like portion includes a concave surface and a convex surface opposite to the concave surface, and such that the glass substrate is positioned on a side of the concave surface relative to the resin layer. A center of a thickness direction of the glass substrate is closer to the concave surface than a center of a thickness direction of the flexible plate-like portion is.
US12120938B1
Embodiments described herein relate to sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels defined by adjacent pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures with inorganic overhang structures disposed on the PDL structures, each sub-pixel having an anode, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material disposed on the anode, and a cathode disposed on the OLED material. The device is made by a process including the steps of: depositing the OLED material and the cathode by evaporation deposition, and depositing an encapsulation layer disposed over the cathode.
US12120936B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a pixel electrode over the substrate; a pixel-defining layer including an opening that exposes at least a portion of the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer, which is over the portion of the pixel electrode exposed by the opening and includes an organic emission layer; a counter electrode over the intermediate layer; and an encapsulating structure, which is over the counter electrode and includes at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer, and the at least one organic layer includes quantum dots and is in the opening.
US12120935B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a pixel structure, a first optical filter, a first-color filter, a second optical filter, a second-color filter, and a second substrate. The pixel structure is disposed between the first substrate and each of the optical filters. The first-color filter is disposed on the first optical filter and has a first refractive index. The second optical filter is spaced from the first optical filter and includes a second-color pigment. The second-color filter is disposed on the second optical filter and has a second refractive index. The second substrate is disposed on the first color filter and the second color filter and has a third refractive index. A difference between the third refractive index and the second refractive index is less than a difference between the third refractive index and the first refractive index.
US12120927B2
A TFT layer and an organic EL element layer are provided in this order on a resin substrate layer, the TFT layer includes source wiring lines, high-level power source wiring lines, conductive portions including connection wiring lines between TFTs, and a flattening film covering the conductive portions provided on the interlayer insulating film, a frame region is provided with a bending portion including a portion where a slit is formed in an inorganic insulating film including the interlayer insulating film, and a flattening auxiliary film is provided between each adjacent ones of the conductive portions, formed of a material identical to a material of the frame flattening film that fills the slit of the bending portion, in a layer identical to a layer of the frame flattering film, and covered with the flattening film together with the conductive portions.
US12120925B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a device comprising a substrate, a pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures disposed over the substrate and defining sub-pixels of the device, and a plurality overhang structures. Each overhang structure is defined by a top structure extending laterally past a body structure. Each body structure is disposed over an upper surface of each PDL structure. Overhang structures define a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. Each sub-pixel includes an anode, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material, a cathode, and an encapsulation layer. The OLED materials are disposed over the first anode and extends under the overhang structures. The cathodes are disposed over the OLED materials and under the overhang structures. The encapsulation layers are disposed over the first cathode. The first encapsulation layer has a first thickness and the second encapsulation layer has a second thickness different from the first thickness.
US12120922B2
A display apparatus is disclosed, which includes a display panel having a first area and a second area, a main body supporting the display panel, an auxiliary member arranged in the main body and overlapped with the first area of the display panel, and a light absorption portion arranged in the second area of the display panel to surround the first area of the display panel. Therefore, external light reflected from the auxiliary member is prevented from being re-reflected in the auxiliary member, whereby image overlap or noise may be prevented from occurring.
US12120916B2
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and a pixel drive circuit in the sub-pixel includes a drive transistor and a storage capacitor; the display substrate includes a semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer which are sequentially disposed on a substrate; the semiconductor layer at least includes an active layer of a drive transistor; the first conductive layer at least includes a first electrode plate; and the second conductive layer at least includes a second electrode plate and an electrode plate connection line, wherein the electrode plate connection line is connected to a second electrode plate in an adjacent sub-pixel in a first direction.
US12120915B2
A display device includes a drive transistor and a switching transistor formed by layering an inorganic insulating film, an oxide semiconductor layer, an upper gate insulating layer, an upper gate electrode, and an interlayer insulating film. The drive transistor and the switching transistor include an oxide semiconductor film formed of the oxide semiconductor layer and provided in an island shape corresponding to the drive transistor and an island shape corresponding to the switching transistor, and the oxide semiconductor film includes a channel region overlapping with the upper gate electrode corresponding to the oxide semiconductor film, and a source region and a drain region. The drive transistor is provided with a lower gate electrode and a lower gate insulating layer between the inorganic insulating film and the oxide semiconductor layer. The length of lower gate electrode is less than or equal to the length of upper gate electrode.
US12120910B2
A display module and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The display module includes a display panel, a color film layer, and an ultraviolet (UV) blocking film layer disposed on a side of the color film layer away from the display panel. The UV blocking film layer covers the color film layer. A material of the UV blocking film layer includes an optical resin material with a UV blocking function. A transmittance of the UV blocking film layer to UV rays below 400 nm is less than 1%, and a transmittance of the UV blocking film layer to visible light is greater than 92%.
US12120903B2
The display substrate includes a display area, a barrier wall disposing area, and a hole area, the display area surrounds the barrier wall disposing area, the barrier wall disposing area surrounds the hole area, and the method for manufacturing the display substrate includes: after a first electrode of a light emitting device of the display substrate is formed, removing a protective layer of the barrier wall disposing area, and exposing at least one circle of an initial barrier wall covered by the protective layer, the initial barrier wall is disposed around the hole area; and etching the at least one circle of the initial barrier wall, to form at least one circle of a barrier wall, a notch is formed on at least one side surface of the barrier wall.
US12120899B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device including a perovskite charge transport layer and a method of manufacturing the same. Perovskite thin film of the light emitting device is prepared by co-depositing or sequentially depositing perovskite precursors. Perovskite is directly deposited on the substrate, the thickness of the perovskite thin film is easily controlled, and the energy level is easily adjusted. So, a charge transport layer functioning as a hole injection layer or an electron injection layer in the light emitting device may be manufactured to have suitable energy level.
US12120897B2
A solid-state imaging element according to the present disclosure includes one or more photoelectric conversion layers, a penetrating electrode, and a connection pad. The one or more photoelectric conversion layers are provided on one principal surface side serving as a light incidence plane of a semiconductor substrate. The penetrating electrode is provided in a pixel area, connected at one end to the photoelectric conversion layer to penetrate through front and back surfaces of the semiconductor substrate, and transfers an electric charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion layer, to a different principal surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The connection pad is provided on a same layer as gates (Ga, Gr, G1, and g2) of transistors (AMP, RST, TG1, and TG2) provided on the different principal surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and to which a different end of the penetrating electrode is connected.
US12120893B2
The present disclosure is directed to double junction tandem perovskite solar cells having a n+/n interconnection layer comprising an ion-doped fullerene layer and a metal oxide layer. In certain embodiments, the metal oxide is SnO2-x (0
US12120880B1
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a single crystal layer and a memory control circuit including first transistors and at least one power-down control circuit; a first metal layer overlaying the single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a third metal layer overlaying the second metal layer; second transistors disposed atop the third metal layer with at least one including a metal gate; third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a fourth metal layer atop the third transistors; a memory array including word-lines and at least four memory mini arrays, each including at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors; a connection path from the fourth metal to the third metal including a via disposed through the memory array.
US12120872B2
Provided are a 3-dimensional (3D) flash memory with an improved degree of integration and a method of manufacturing the same. The 3D flash memory may include at least one vertical string formed to extend in one direction on a substrate and comprising a channel layer formed to extend in the one direction and a charge storage layer formed to extend in the one direction so as to surround the channel layer; a plurality of electrode layers stacked to be vertically connected to the at least one vertical string; and a source line formed to be buried in the substrate.
US12120865B2
Monolithic two-dimensional (2D) arrays of double-sided DRAM cells including a frontside bit cell over a backside bit cell. Each double-sided cell includes a stacked transistor structure having at least a first transistor over a second transistor. Each double-sided cell further includes a first capacitor on a frontside of the stacked transistor structure and electrically coupled to a source/drain of the first transistor. Each double-sided cell further includes a second capacitor on a backside of the stacked transistor structure and electrically coupled to a source/drain of the second transistor. Frontside cell addressing interconnects are electrically coupled to other terminals of at least the first transistor while one or more backside addressing interconnects are electrically coupled to at least one terminal of the second transistor or second capacitor.
US12120859B2
A curtain for shielding an electromagnetic field may include a plurality of strip elements. A first strip element and a second strip element of the plurality of strip elements may have an electrically conductive layer. In a shielding configuration of the curtain, the electrically conductive layer of the first strip element is electrically connected to the electrically conductive layer of the second strip element and/or to an electrical connecting terminal for a reference potential. The plurality of strip elements can be variably positioned against one another.
US12120855B2
A cooling apparatus includes a housing, a cooling air duct, and an adsorption refrigeration unit. The housing includes a plurality of sidewalls, and the plurality of sidewalls form an inner cavity. The cooling air duct passes through the inner cavity. The adsorption refrigeration unit includes an adsorption bed, a flash evaporator, and an air cooler, the flash evaporator is connected to the air cooler, both the flash evaporator and the air cooler are disposed in the inner cavity, and the air cooler is located on a path of the cooling air duct. At least one of the plurality of sidewalls is a refrigeration sidewall, the refrigeration sidewall includes an internal wall plate and an external wall plate, the internal wall plate and the external wall plate are spaced apart and form sealed space, the sealed space is connected to the flash evaporator.
US12120843B2
A fan management system includes a fan and a server. The fan includes a driving circuit, and the driving circuit is configured for driving the fan. The fan operates in an operation mode. The server is connected to the fan and is configured for controlling the operation of the fan. The driving circuit outputs a digital label signal when the fan operates abnormally, and the server obtains a production history, an operation information and a warning message of the fan through the digital label signal. The server adjusts the operation mode of the fan according to the warning message simultaneously.
US12120830B2
A display apparatus can include a display panel to display an image, a guide holder disposed in rear of the display panel, a printed circuit board mounted on the guide holder and electrically connected to the display panel, a chip on film (COF), and a protective film. The COF can have one side electrically connected to the display panel, and another side electrically connected to the printed circuit board. A portion of the COF can be bent so as to extend across an end of the guide holder, and the protective film can be attached to one face of the guide holder and constructed to cover the COF. The guide holder can be formed at a position corresponding to a position of an end of the protective film, and can include a rib which receives a portion of the protective film.
US12120829B2
An assembly sheet as a wiring circuit board assembly sheet includes a metal substrate, a wiring circuit structure portion, and a dummy structure portion. The metal substrate includes a product region and a frame region adjacent thereto. The wiring circuit structure portion is disposed on one surface in a thickness direction of the metal substrate in the product region, and includes a terminal portion. The dummy structure portion is disposed on one surface in the thickness direction of the metal substrate in the frame region, includes a plurality of conductive layers aligned in the thickness direction, and has a greater height above the metal substrate than the terminal portion.
US12120828B2
A reel mechanism and a winding device for a flexible copper clad laminate includes a rotating roller, a winding belt wound on the rotating roller for winding the flexible copper clad laminate, first and second limit structures arranged one side of the winding belt away from the rotating roller. A space between the first limit structures and the second limit structures accommodates the flexible copper clad laminate. When the winding belt is wound with multiple layers outside the rotating roller, adjacent layers of the winding belt are spaced apart by the first and second limit structures. Since a protruding height of the first limit structures is equal to a protruding height of the second limit structures, and intervals between adjacent layers of a composite coil formed by the winding belt and the flexible copper clad laminate are equal, which avoids adhesion and copper foil surface oxidation.
US12120825B2
A periphery monitoring device includes monitoring areas in at least three directions of moving body. Safety laser scanners are mounted to the moving body for each of the monitoring areas in the directions. A monitoring area in at least one direction is a three-dimensional monitoring area, and a monitoring area in the other direction is a horizontal monitoring area to be monitored in two dimensions in a horizontal direction. The safety laser scanner configured to monitor the three-dimensional monitoring area is mounted to an upper portion of the moving body, and the three-dimensional monitoring area forms an inclined plane-like monitoring area. A safety laser scanner configured to monitor the horizontal monitoring area is mounted to the lower portion of the moving body, and the horizontal monitoring area forms a horizontal plane-like monitoring area from the lower portion of the moving body.
US12120824B2
A placement head for automatically placing electronic components on a component carrier. The placement head has a chassis; a first rotor assembly that is mounted so that it is rotatable relative to the chassis about a first axis of rotation and that has a first quantity of first handling devices; and a second rotor assembly that is mounted so that it is rotatable relative to the chassis about a second axis of rotation and that has a second quantity of second handling devices. Each handling device includes a sleeve to which a component holding device for temporarily picking up a component can be attached, and a drive device with a linear drive for moving the sleeve along its longitudinal axis, and a rotary drive for rotating the sleeve about its longitudinal axis. Furthermore, a placement machine with such a placement head and a method for automatic assembly of a component carrier using such a placement head.
US12120817B2
A resin multilayer substrate that includes a substrate having a plurality of laminated resin layers containing a norbornene-based polymer. A resin layer has an altered portion altered by a surface treatment and formed at an interface with a resin layer adjacent thereto in a lamination direction. An adhesion at an interface having the altered portion is greater than an adhesion at an interface with a non-altered portion.
US12120814B2
A stretchable interconnect structure for electrically connecting electronic devices and a method of fabricating a stretchable interconnect structure for electrically connecting electronic devices. The method comprises the steps of providing an electrically conductive wire having a 3-dimensional helical form; and embedding the electrically conductive wire in a substrate made from an elastic material.
US12120806B2
A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system with at least two different power characteristics. A volumetric model of multiple phases can be reconstructed using dynamic or enhanced reconstruction techniques.
US12120799B2
Disclosed is a remote location directing system. The remote location directing system includes a control console device that generates performance data performed in a performance hall and control data for controlling to-be-controlled devices at a remote location based on performance directing data, a data processing device that provides the performance data to spectators at the remote location and process the control data synchronized with the performance data together with the performance data, and to-be-controlled devices that are controlled to correspond to the performance data based on the control data corresponding to a current playback section of the performance data, wherein the control data is configured by mapping time code information to the control data to be synchronized with the performance data using the time code information, and the to-be-controlled devices are possessed by the spectators at the remote location.
US12120792B2
The invention relates to a surge detector comprising a transformer comprising a primary winding arranged to receive a fraction of a surge current and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding and arranged to output a signal representing the fraction of the surge current. The surge detector further comprises a shunt connection in parallel with the primary winding, wherein the impedance of the shunt connection is lower than the impedance of the primary winding.
US12120773B2
Computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of a terminal device, may cause the terminal device to: repeatedly execute a first-type communication process using first-type communication via Internet, wherein the first-type communication process is for receiving related information which is related to a communication device; and repeatedly execute a second-type communication process using second-type communication not via the Internet, wherein the second-type communication process is for receiving the related information. A first interval for repeatedly executing the first-type communication process may be longer than a second interval for repeatedly executing the second-type communication process.
US12120764B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate dual-connectivity support for a user equipment (UE) in a hybrid cell virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) architecture. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a node of a mobile network via a first cell of a RAN, a request for a UE to connect to the mobile network via the first cell in which the RAN includes at least one shared cell and at least one unique cell; determining that the UE is allowed for dual-connectivity operation; and providing a policy to the UE, wherein the policy identifies, for each of one or more applications, one of a shared cell operating mode or a unique cell operating mode that the UE is to utilize for each of the one or more applications.
US12120752B2
Various arrangements for dynamically adjusting physical resource block (PRB) usage on a cellular network are presented. A primary entity may be determined to be exercising its priority to spectrum overlapping PRBs used by the cellular network. A frequency band being used by the primary entity based on measuring the signal strengths of wireless transmission by the primary entity can be determined. Subcarriers of the PRBs are identified that overlap the frequency band. A predefined Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) format can be selected based at least in part on the identified subcarriers. A predefined Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format can be selected based at least in part on the identified plurality of subcarriers.
US12120748B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive a configuration for a first random access message of a two-step random access channel procedure. The wireless device may select a subcarrier spacing and a number of demodulation reference signal occurrences for transmitting the first random access message based at least in part on the configuration and a speed of the wireless device. The wireless device may transmit the first random access message of the two-step random access channel procedure using the subcarrier spacing and the number of demodulation reference signal occurrences.
US12120746B2
A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure channel occupancy time (COT) sharing in random access procedures involving the unlicensed spectrum. At least some of the messages for the procedures can share a COT by configuring one or more gaps or listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures based on the gap or whether the COT sharing is UE or gNB initiated. Some configurations can depend on a location in the random access procedure that COT sharing is acquired.
US12120741B2
In a wireless local area network system, a reception multi-link device (MLD) may not transmit a CTS frame, even if the reception multi-link device receives an RTS frame via a second link, in the case that an STA operating via a first link is a TXOP responder.
US12120739B2
In 5G and 6G, users at high traffic density can be forced to delay transmissions to avoid collisions, and by convention the delay interval is increased upon each instance. This convention penalizes those who have been delayed the most, resulting in excessive latency, gross unfairness, and the blocked-node problem whereby certain users are denied access indefinitely. Disclosed are improved protocols whereby users can delay by shorter intervals upon each successive backoff, thereby reducing overall delays, greatly reducing message failure rates, and providing enhanced fairness overall. The protocols detailed herein can enable wireless users to communicate with fewer and shorter interference delays, while the base station can clear the waiting list sooner, and network operations can be improved generally. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US12120729B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive scheduling information that schedules an uplink data message over a high priority physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) that overlaps in time with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource over which the UE is scheduled to transmit feedback associated with sidelink communication. The UE may receive signaling from a base station indicating whether the feedback associated with the sidelink communication can be multiplexed with the uplink data message on the high priority PUSCH. As such, the UE may multiplex the feedback associated with the sidelink communication on the high priority PUSCH if the signaling from the base station indicates that the feedback associated with the sidelink communication can be multiplexed with the uplink data message on the high priority PUSCH.
US12120721B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive an indication of a first periodic resource associated with the wireless node, wherein the first periodic resource is associated with one or more parameters for coordinating periodic resources or a priority flag that indicates that the first periodic resource is available to the wireless node irrespective of a resource type associated with the first periodic resource. The wireless node may communicate, with a child node or another wireless node, a message using a modified first periodic resource, wherein the modified first periodic resource includes a modified resource allocation associated with the first periodic resource or a modified resource type associated with first periodic resource. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12120706B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states; receiving a beam indication indicating at least one TCI state from the set of TCI states, wherein the at least one TCI state indicates a group of M beams partitioned into K sets of beams for K entities (E1, E2, . . . EK), where an i-th set of beams is associated with entity Ei and comprises Ni beams, and Σi=1KNi=M; decoding the beam indication; determining a beam for entity Ei based on the i-th set of beams; and transmitting an uplink (UL) transmission or receiving a downlink (DL) transmission based on the determined beam for entity Ei, wherein i is an entity index and takes a value from {1, . . . , K}.
US12120703B2
Disclosed herein are related to a first device to communicate with an access point and a second device. In one aspect, the first device communicates with the access point during the first time interval through a first wireless communication. In one aspect, the first device prevents communication with the access point during the second time interval. In one aspect, the first device communicates, as a soft access point, with a second device during the third time interval within the second time interval through a second wireless communication, the third time interval shorter than the second time interval.
US12120701B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting high data transfer rates beyond the 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to the various embodiments, a method of transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system and apparatus for supporting the same may be provided.
US12120688B2
A method performed by a terminal in a wireless network for determining whether to cancel a scheduling request is provided. The method includes determining that a scheduling request is triggered for requesting an uplink resource for transmission of data to a network node. The method further includes, responsive to an uplink grant from the network node, transmitting the scheduling request to the network node without a cancellation of the scheduling request occurring due to a buffer status report indicator included in a protocol data unit of the terminal.
US12120683B2
A user equipment including: a reception unit configured to receive sidelink data from a transmission side user equipment; and a transmission unit configured to transmit feedback information for the sidelink data, wherein the transmission unit transmits the feedback information using a resource determined based on a transmission ID that is an ID on the transmission side user equipment, or a reception ID that is an ID on the user equipment, or both of the transmission ID and the reception ID.
US12120682B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a resource reservation that indicates a reservation for one or more resources; and transmit an indication that at least one resource of the one or more resources is in conflict with an additional resource reservation, the indication including one or more of an identification of the at least one resource, an identification of the resource reservation, or an identification of the second UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12120681B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising: receiving at least one PDSCH, wherein each PDSCH belongs to one of two PDSCH groups; receiving DCI for scheduling a PUSCH, wherein the DCI includes a single DAI related to only one of the two PDSCH groups; and transmitting the control information including an A/N codebook for at least one of the two PDSCH groups.
US12120680B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to schedule retransmissions of semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) that were not successfully received. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a downlink control information (DCI) that schedules retransmission of at least two semi-persistently scheduled (SPS) physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) that have hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARD) identifier (IDs); and receiving the retransmissions of the at least two PDSCHs.
US12120679B2
Disclosed in the present application are an information counting method, an information counting apparatus, a base station, and a computer storage medium. The information counting method includes: determining multiple PDCCHs which are transmitted within one MO of a serving cell and used for scheduling multiple PDSCHs, where HARQ-ACKs of the multiple PDSCHs are transmitted in one HARQ-ACK codebook; and determining, according to an order of indexes of serving cells to which the multiple PDSCHs belong, an order of values assigned to DAI counter fields in the multiple PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple PDSCHs.
US12120668B2
Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device and a device for supporting same. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station, information related to a configured grant (CG) resource, wherein the CG resource includes at least one of a first resource related to CG type 1 or a second resource related to CG type 2; receiving, from the base station, information related to a dynamic grant (DG) resource; and performing a first sidelink (SL) transmission based on one of the CG resource or the DG resource.
US12120661B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for accessing a communication frequency channel by a first communication system during a first time interval, and accessing the communication frequency channel by a second communication system during a second time interval adjacent to the first time interval. The first communication system communicates using cellular communication techniques, and the second communication system communicates using IEEE 802.11 based communication techniques.
US12120654B2
Methods and apparatus for managing spectrum in a wireless communications system. In an exemplary method embodiment, a wireless base station: (i) receives user equipment capability information from a first user equipment device; (ii) determines whether to allocate licensed or unlicensed spectrum to the first user equipment device based on the received user equipment capability information; and (iii) communicates a first spectrum allocation grant to the first user equipment device identifying the allocated spectrum for use by the first user equipment device. In various embodiments, the licensed and unlicensed spectrum are divided into bandwidth parts that are scored or ranked based on the quality and/or quantity of the spectrum bandwidth part.
US12120651B2
A method and system for operating an ad hoc communication network under suboptimal commercial global navigation satellite system (GNSS) conditions and a loss of a base station communication link is disclosed. The method includes configuring the ad hoc communication network to operation in in-band or out-of-band mode, allowing device-to-device D2D communication. The method further includes configuring the ad hoc communication system to operate in overlay mode, sharing communication resources between network-controlled resources and D2D resources. The method further includes configuring the D2D resources with a base station precedent to the loss of the base station communication link and enabling the ad hoc communication network to operate in frequency hopping mode. The method further includes disabling physical sidelink control channel synchronization and/or resource management within the ad hoc communication network. In some embodiments of the method, and configuring the ad hoc communication network to include at least one nonstandard-GNSS time-synchronization method.
US12120649B2
A terminal device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set at least one first RAT and at least one second RAT by signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a transmission signal in the first RAT and a transmission signal in the second RAT. The transmission signal in the first RAT is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one physical parameter for each sub frame. The transmission signal in the second RAT is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one or more physical parameters for each sub frame and is mapped to a resource element configured on a basis of one physical parameter in a predetermined resource included in each of the sub frames.
US12120641B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device for use in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node receives first information and second information, and transmits a first signal; wherein the first information and the second information are used for determining a first time-frequency resource pool and a second time-frequency resource pool respectively, the first signal occupies a target time-frequency resource block; a number of resources occupied in time domain by any one first-type time-frequency resource block in the first time-frequency resource pool is not equal to a number of resources occupied in time domain by any one second-type time-frequency resource block in the second time-frequency resource pool; the target time-frequency resource block belongs to the first time-frequency resource pool or the second time-frequency resource pool. The disclosure improves random access performances.
US12120639B2
One disclosure in the present specification presents a method for a wireless device to receive a paging message. The method may comprise: a step of deciding a wake up signal occasion (WUSO) window for attempting to receive a wake up signal (WUS); and a step of monitoring a downlink control channel during a paging window so as to attempt to receive a paging message, if the WUS is received within the decided WUSO window. Here, the WUSO window may be decided according to a duration size and offset.
US12120632B2
A computer-implemented method for grouping devices in a massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-based cellular network, in accordance with one embodiment, includes determining movement states of end devices in a cell of the massive MIMO-based cellular network, estimating payload requirements of the end devices, and grouping the end devices in a group based on the determined movement states and the estimated payload requirements.
US12120624B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive broadcast information from a public land mobile network (PLMN) including at least a PLMN identifier (ID), attempt a registration with the PLMN by sending a registration request to the PLMN, wherein the UE attempts the registration via a base station operated by the PLMN deployed in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) arrangement including a non-terrestrial component configured to provide services to the UE via a service link, receive a message including a cause code indicating the PLMN is not allowed to operate at a current UE location and further including a set of attributes indicating further conditions wherein the registration with the PLMN is not allowed and avoid further registration attempts with the PLMN when the further conditions are met.
US12120617B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for CCA power signaling during COT sharing. A UE may report a maximum EIRP for COT sharing as a UE capability, e.g., for a frequency range between 52.6 and 71 gigahertz. The UE may receive a Pout value for CCA based on the UE capability and may report an actual EIRP used for CCA to acquire the COT. For configured grant COT sharing, the UE may perform a directional LBT with a specific EIRP and beam detection for a transmission burst and report a Pout value for COT sharing based on the directional LBT, e.g., via a configured grant uplink control indication. For dynamic grant COT sharing, the UE may detect that an EIRP exceeds a threshold and report a Pout value for COT sharing via a medium access control (MAC) control element. The threshold may be based on a closed loop power control setting.
US12120594B2
A technique for establishing a device network using a wireless communication protocol is described. The technique may include determining peer devices within a communication range of a communication device, and determining whether any of the peer devices is part of a device cluster having less than a maximum number of device members. When a peer device within the communication range is determined to be part of an existing device cluster having less than the maximum number of device members, that existing device cluster can be updated to include the communication device. When each peer device within the communication range of the communication device is determined to be part of a full device cluster having the maximum number of device members, a new device cluster can be created to include the communication device and a plurality of peer devices meeting a signal strength criteria.
US12120586B2
Techniques for distributed charging in digital telecommunications networks are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method that includes provisioning a data path that carries a plurality of network flows, receiving a shared usage quota associated with the plurality of network flows, and allocating the shared usage quota among the plurality of network flows. For each network flow among the plurality of network flows, the method includes providing the data path with data indicative of an amount of the shared usage quota allocated to the network flow, configuring the data path to collect metering data associated with the network flow, and configuring the data path to enforce the shared usage quota based on the metering data associated with the network flow and the amount of the shared usage quota allocated to the network flow.
US12120585B2
A messaging system includes a first messaging app on a first device and a second messaging app, on a second device, that can exchange messages (e.g. text messages, etc.), and the second messaging on can transmit content from a second extension app that operates with the second messaging app to the first messaging app that operates with a first extension app. The content can be opaque to the messaging app, but can be processed by the extension apps to display live, dynamic content in message bubbles in a message transcript of a conversation.
US12120584B2
Systems and methods for sending a voice clip as a short message service (SMS) message in place of a voicemail providing include a provider device including an options screen, a cell site, and message management circuitry communicatively coupled to the cell site and a contact center. The provider device is structured to call a receiving device. If the provider device fails to receive an answer, the user of the provider device is presented with multiple options: leave a video recording in a text message, leave the voice clip in a text message, transcribe voice clip to text message, or leave a voicemail. The user of the provider device then selects one of the multiple options on the provider device. The provider device then transitions from a dialer to a message application and delivers the message to the receiving device.
US12120575B2
An apparatus for use by a mobile edge control element or function, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry, and memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the memory and the instructions are configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to: receive and process an event report indicating that location information of a communication element communicating in a communication network are provided, check location related application information for determining whether or not a relationship of at least one application to a location corresponding to the location information indicated in the event report is present, prepare, in case the check is affirmative, an application identification indication for indicating at least one location area where location information of the communication element is of relevance for a processing conducted by at least one application, and ensure that the communication element is informed about the application identification indication.
US12120574B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a remote user equipment (UE) may receive a measurement reference channel configuration from a source relay. The UE may transmit a reference channel based at least in part on the measurement reference channel configuration. The UE may receive, from the source relay, a command for the remote UE to switch from the source relay to a target relay based at least in part on a measurement of the reference channel transmitted from the remote UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12120563B2
A method and apparatus for secondary base station change in a mobile communication system with multiple are provided. Method for secondary node change includes transmitting to a target SN a control message requesting conditional secondary node change, receiving from the target SN a Xn message including conditional secondary node change information, transmitting to a terminal LTE DL message for conditional secondary node change, receiving from the terminal a 1st LTE UL message including a transaction identifier, receiving from the terminal a conditional reconfiguration identifier and transmitting to a source SN a control message for data forwarding.
US12120556B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for handover are provided. An example method may include receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission from a network entity, the PDSCH transmission comprising a set of radio resource control (RRC) messages, each RRC message in the set of RRC messages comprises a respective group handover configuration in a set of group handover configurations associated with a respective UE in a set of UEs including the UE, the set of RRC messages being included in a set of medium access control (MAC) service data units (SDUs) (MAC SDUs) in a MAC protocol data unit (PDU). The example method may further include processing a first subset of the MAC SDUs that are associated with the UE and discard a second subset the MAC SDUs that are not applicable to the UE.
US12120554B2
Techniques for dynamic time duplex division (TDD) with reservation signal and contention may include a first network node configured to select a first resource to reserve for use of a downlink (DL) transmission or an uplink (UL) transmission. The first network node may also be configured to transmit, to a second network node, a reservation signal on a reservation signal resource to announce that the first resource is reserved for use of the DL transmission or the UL transmission by the first network node. The reservation signal resource may be associated with the first resource.
US12120551B2
Secure architectures and methods for improving the security of mobile devices are disclosed. Also disclosed are apparatuses and methods to detect and mitigate fraud in device-assisted services implementations.
US12120548B2
An information transmission method and a network device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a quality of service QoS parameter sent by a PCF entity, where the quality of service QoS parameter includes a QoS identifier; a packet delivery latency budget over an infrastructure network corresponding to the QoS identifier is greater than or equal to a real packet delivery latency over the infrastructure network, and the real packet delivery latency over the infrastructure network is an actual data transmission latency between a base station and a user plane anchor UPF.
US12120545B2
Technologies and techniques associated with cross-layer quality of service (QOS) indication for sidelink communications are provided. In particular, mechanisms to handle priority and/or communication range requirements for medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) with multiple logical channels (LCHs) are described. Other technologies and techniques may be described and/or claimed.
US12120539B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a tune-away period is available. The UE may perform one or more neighbor cell measurements during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12120537B2
The method comprises sampling transport data received on the transport link to determine properties of the transport link. The method comprises detecting the disturbance of the transport link based on the determined properties of the transport link. The method comprises, responsive to the detecting the disturbance, determining, based on the sampled received transport data, the cause of the disturbance. The method further comprises, responsive to detecting the disturbance, refraining from transmitting an indication of the disturbance or transmitting the indication of the disturbance with an instruction for resolving the disturbance.
US12120534B1
Technologies directed to interactive physical placement of devices for optimal motion sensing using channel state information (CSI) are described. A method includes determining that a size of received CSI data exceeds a first threshold or is received in a specified time interval, the CSI data representing channel properties in a wireless network of devices. The method further includes validating a physical placement of the wireless devices by i) determining that a parameter value associated with the CSI data is less than a second threshold representing a no-motion condition and the first CSI data matches ground truth data associated with the no-motion condition; or ii) determining that the parameter value is greater than a third threshold representing a motion condition and the first CSI data matches ground truth data associated with the motion condition. The method sends to a user device an indication that the physical placement is validated.
US12120520B2
Applications for creating, managing, and distributing digital contact data over large networks. Applications configured for implementation with electronic devices having touch-sensitive surfaces with displays, particularly mobile devices. Applications implemented with predictive keyboards for efficient, error-free searching of digital contact data and profiles. Applications for quickly sharing and distributing digital contact data over large networks via simple gestures over touch-sensitive surfaces.
US12120518B2
Methods and systems for detecting false base stations are provided. A computing device transmits a request for a verification message to a base station. An encrypted verification message comprising a base station identifier and a signature encrypted using an encryption key associated with the base station is received by the computing device. The computing device decrypts the signature included in the encrypted verification message utilizing a decryption key associated with the computer system. Based on the decrypted signature, the computing device determines that the encryption key does not correspond to the decryption key. Based on determining that the encryption key does not correspond to the decryption key, the computing device stores the base station identifier in a data store in association with a false base station indicator.
US12120515B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless sensing. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may receive a first wireless transmission including a transmit (TX) parameter information element (IE). The first wireless communication device may verify the integrity of the TX parameter IE using a message integrity code (MIC) in the first wireless transmission, discarding the first wireless transmission when the MIC does not verify the integrity of the TX parameter IE. The first wireless device may obtain one or more transmission parameters for one or more second wireless communication devices associated with the TX parameter IE. The first wireless communication device may receive a second wireless transmission from one of the second wireless communication devices and obtain one or more wireless sensing measurements associated with the second wireless transmission and the one or more transmission parameters.
US12120512B2
An external Secure Intelligent Secondary Router is connected to a Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem via wire cable, and whereby said external Secure Intelligent Secondary Router communicably coupled to said Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem creates one or more secure secondary Wi-Fi networks that can only be accessed by a computing device that has been registered by the rightful account owner and whose identity has been validated by an online validation service.
US12120511B2
According to an embodiment, a communication system includes a plurality of first communication control devices and a second communication control device. The first communication control devices each includes a wireless communication unit and a controller. When receiving data to be transmitted from the first device to the second device, the controller determines a communication path in the mesh network for transmission of the data to the network communication network from the first communication control device that receives the data, performs mutual authentication with the second communication control device communicating via the communication path and the network communication network, and thereafter transmits encrypted data obtained by encrypting the data to the second communication control device.
US12120504B2
The present application discloses a conditional handover (CHO) processing method and apparatus, a related device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: a first network device determining that CHO configuration information is invalid and indicating to a terminal that the CHO configuration information is invalid.
US12120500B2
An acoustic reproduction method includes: localizing a first sound image at a first position in a target space in which a user is present; and localizing, at a second position in the target space, a second sound image that represents an anchor sound for indicating a reference position.
US12120496B2
An audio transducer includes a frame, a magnet coupled to the frame, and a voice coil axially aligned with the magnet. The voice coil can be configured to receive a flow of electric signals from an amplifier, and, in response to the received flow of electric signals, correspondingly move a diaphragm toward or away from the magnet. The audio transducer can further include a collar coupled to the voice coil. The collar can have a flange extending radially outwardly from the voice coil. The audio transducer can further include a spider having a radially outer portion coupled to the frame and a radially inner portion coupled to the flange of the collar.
US12120494B2
A loudspeaker system (200) includes an overhead sound image generating (e.g., ATMOS™) elevation sound projecting loudspeaker transducer or array (210) for reproducing an elevation signal and a second cancellation loudspeaker or transducer array (250) for generating and projecting a direct signal cancellation. The cancellation speaker or array (250) is driven with a filtered, polarity reversed version of the elevation signal to cancel undesired direct sound (160) from elevation speaker (210) which would otherwise diminish the quality of elevation signal reproduction for a listener L.
US12120493B2
In one implementation, a method of transforming a sound into a virtual sound for a synthesized reality (SR) setting is performed by a head-mounted device (HMD) including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a microphone, a speaker, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image representation of a synthesized reality (SR) setting including a plurality of surfaces associated with an acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method includes recording, via the microphone, a real sound produced in a physical setting. The method further includes generating, using the one or more processors, a virtual sound by transforming the real sound based on the acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method further includes playing, via the speaker, the virtual sound.
US12120491B1
An augmented reality headset is provided that includes a first microphone mounted on a headset and configured to receive a first audio signal from a speaker, and a second microphone remotely located from the headset and configured to receive a second audio signal from the speaker. The augmented reality headset also includes a memory storing multiple instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. When the one or more processors execute the instructions, they cause the augmented reality headset to: synchronize the first audio signal and the second audio signal, form an enhanced audio signal with the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and provide the enhanced audio signal to a user of the augmented reality headset.
US12120486B2
A cantilever microphone includes: a substrate; a cantilever including a rotor frame and a plate covering the rotor frame, where the cantilever includes a first edge fixed to the substrate and a second end opposite to the first edge, a plurality of rotor comb fingers is attached to the plate at an edge of the plate adjacent to the second edge; and a stator fixed to the substrate or attached to a sub structure to allow some displacement from the substrate, where the stator includes a plurality of stator comb fingers, and the stator comb fingers are interdigitated with the rotor comb fingers. For the cantilever microphone, high mechanical sensitivity of the cantilever and high electrostatic sensitivity of the comb structure can be implemented, so as to increase the performance or signal-to-noise ratio of the cantilever microphone.
US12120483B2
An audio device includes a vibration member, and a first piezoelectric vibrator and a second piezoelectric vibrator that are provided on the vibration member. A natural frequency of the first piezoelectric vibrator is larger than a natural frequency of the second piezoelectric vibrator.
US12120476B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a sound output module. The sound output module includes a sound output housing and a motor unit positioned in an inner space and communicating with an inner space of the speaker unit to generate a vibration force. The motor unit may include a motor body forming a volume space communicating with the inner space of the speaker unit and a vibration body positioned in the motor body to generate a vibration force. A communication hole may be formed in an outer wall of the motor body for the inner space of the speaker unit and the volume space to communicate with each other.
US12120450B2
A photographing method includes: starting a camera in response to a first operation; entering a first video recording mode in response to a second operation; capturing first video frames in response to a third operation; and stopping capturing the first video frames in response to a fourth operation, to obtain a target video. The ith second video frame in the target video is obtained by fusing a foreground image of the kth first video frame captured by the camera and a background image of the jth first video frame captured by the camera, and the (i+1)th second video frame in the target video is obtained by fusing a foreground image of the (k+m)th first video frame captured by the camera and a background image of the (j+n)th first video frame captured by the camera, where m≠n. In this way, the electronic device can record a video with a special effect.
US12120448B2
An imaging device includes: a solid-state imaging element having a plurality of pixel cells arranged in a matrix; and a signal processing part configured to process a detection signal outputted from each of the pixel cells. The pixel cells each include an avalanche photodiode and output a voltage corresponding to a count number of photons received by the avalanche photodiode as the detection signal. The signal processing part includes a variation calculation part configured to calculate a variation between the pixel cells in the detection signal outputted from each of the pixel cells, and a correction calculation part configured to correct the detection signal outputted from each of the pixel cells, on the basis of the variation calculated by the variation calculation part.
US12120438B2
A method of performing better controlled switching between day mode and night mode imaging in a camera, where those illuminants contributing to the ambient light in day mode are considered when determining the visible light during night mode. Characteristic values of those illuminants are mixed with several levels of IR light to simulate the presence of an IR illuminator, and these characteristic values are compared to corresponding values derived from the color components of the ambient light in night mode in order to determine the IR proportion, and from that the amount of visible light.
US12120429B2
A computing system and methods are provided for georeferencing stabilization. An exemplary method includes: obtaining a video stream capturing an area from a camera of a drone, where the video stream includes a plurality of frames, each including a field of view of the image capturing device and metadata of the image capturing device when the frame is captured; constructing a geographic (geo) lattice for the field of view in each of the plurality of frames, the geo lattice comprises a plurality of points, each being associated with raw coordinates determined based on the corresponding metadata; and building a lattice map with stabilized geo coordinates by (1) aligning the frames, (2) averaging the raw geo coordinates for given intersection points, and (3) building the lattice map based on the averaged geo coordinates of the intersection points.
US12120428B2
An image processing method includes a step for converting current posture information of a camera into target posture information, where the current posture information includes current angular velocity information. The method also includes a step for acquiring first depth information of each pixel point in an image to be processed under a current posture. The method also includes a step for determining second depth information of each pixel point under a target posture according to the first depth information. The method also includes a step for obtaining a target image according to the current posture information, the first depth information, the target posture information, the second depth information, and first internal parameter information of the camera.
US12120425B2
A processor measures a first distance to an object in a distance measurement target region on the basis of an irradiation timing when a light irradiator performs surface irradiation on the distance measurement target region with light and a light receiving timing when a light receiver receives reflected light of the light from distance measurement target region. In a case in which a specific pixel included in the light receiver generates a plurality of signals at different timings within a light receiving period corresponding to the surface irradiation by the light irradiator, the processor measures the first distance on the basis of a relationship between the plurality of signals.
US12120424B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for image shooting are provided. The method comprises presenting a first shooting page in an asynchronous shooting mode. The first shooting page includes a first shooting window for presenting a first scene captured by a first camera of a terminal device. The method further comprises in response to the first camera completing shooting of a first image, presenting a second shooting page comprising a second shooting window and a first image window. The second shooting window presents a second scene captured by a second camera different from the first camera. The first image window presents the first image. The method further comprises capturing a second image by the second camera while the second shooting page being presented. In this way, flexible and interesting image shooting experience is provided.
US12120419B2
An image processing method that may be applied to a selfie preview scenario. In some examples, a selfie preview image is generated when a user takes a selfie through a terminal, so as to facilitate the user to preview through the selfie preview image, for example, the terminal may be a terminal with foldable screen.
US12120407B2
The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatus and methods of improving the accuracy of an image-based assay. One aspect of the present invention is to sandwich a sample between two plates and add reference marks in the sample areas of the plates, with at least one of the geometric and/optical properties of the reference marks being predetermined and known, and taking images of the sample with the reference marks, and applying a machine learning model in the analysis of the image-based assay.
US12120404B2
A method (900) and system (150) for delivering media content to users is disclosed. A request for a playback URL in relation to a content title is received from an electronic device (104) associated with a user (102). At least a network Autonomous System Number (ASN), an IP address and a content ID are extracted from the request. A location of the user (102) is determined based on the network ASN and the IP address. Relevant Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are identified based on the location and the content ID. An optimal CDN is selected based on at least one performance statistic and at least one predefined routing policy. The playback URL is provided to the electronic device (104) in response to the request for the playback URL. The playback URL is configured to facilitate display of content associated with the content title on the electronic device (104).
US12120400B2
A server system hosts one or more virtual machines. The server system receives a first media stream that includes first content corresponding to a plurality of frames of video data and generates a first digest segment that corresponds to the first media stream, wherein the first digest segment includes a representation of the plurality of frames but does not include the video data. The server system stores the first digest segment in a cache at the server system; and receives a playback position of the first media stream at a first client device. The server system uses the playback position from the first client device and the first digest segment stored in the cache to perform processing to recreate a representation of the playback of the first media stream on the first client device.
US12120398B1
An illustrative audience-influenced livestreaming system may provide, to an audience, livestream content depicting a live event and a feedback forum associated with the livestream content and by way of which feedback is submitted by the audience during the live event. The audience-influenced livestreaming system may also identify and track instances of a predesignated feedback token within the feedback submitted by the audience, and may generate a graphical representation of the instances of the predesignated feedback token. The audience-influenced livestreaming system may generate the livestream content by integrating video content depicting the live event with the graphical representation of the instances of the predesignated feedback token. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US12120394B2
The present invention allows users to interact with people, who have interacted with other people, and obtain media files and recommendations from those having common interests, thereby creating interactive media communities and spawning electronic social networks based on media and other types of electronic entertainment.
US12120390B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to rectify false set top box tuning data. Disclosed examples methods include identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, in the return path data, first tuning data corresponding to a first group of set top boxes, the first group of set top boxes classified as associated with machine events, determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, a ratio between first tuning events in the return path data and second tuning events in the return path data, the first tuning events attributed to the first group of the set top boxes, the second tuning events attributed to a second group of the set top boxes classified at not associated with machine events, and in response to the ratio satisfying a threshold during a time interval, removing second tuning data associated with the time interval from the first tuning data.
US12120387B2
Systems and methods for determining, based on recommendations provided by users that have consumed a media asset, which consumption options may be configured on a media device such that when configured enhance the user viewing experience for a specific media asset. The method includes accessing comments posted by other users that have consumed the media asset. The comments are analyzed to determine a consumption option recommendation. If the number of comments meet a threshold value, then the system either automatically configures the media device or configures the media device upon user approval with the recommended consumption option. The recommendation to configure a consumption option on the media device is made only if the recommendation is supported by the media device. The system also detects through audio and image analysis which users are consuming the media asset and accordingly configures the consumption options to their preferences.
US12120380B2
A transmission apparatus includes a transmission unit. The transmission unit transmits a packet including divided image data as payload data, the divided image data being obtained by dividing image data having a predetermined frame frequency into a predetermined number of frames, the image data having the predetermined frame frequency being subjected to mixing processing for each frame, image data of a previous frame and/or a subsequent frame being selectively used in the mixing processing, and further transmits metadata including information regarding the mixing processing in association with image data of each frame.
US12120361B2
This multimedia multimedia server for installation on board an aircraft comprises at least one network switch card configured to manage communications with at least one network of an on-board local-area network and an external communication network; and at least one other electronic card selected from the group consisting of: a data storage card and a compute card. At least one network switch card also includes a software configuration module suited to obtain a list of software function(s) to be installed on at least one other electronic card; to download, from electronic equipment external to the multimedia server the one or more software functions from the list obtained; and to provide the corresponding downloaded software functions to each other respective electronic card.
US12120360B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream including image data divided into one or more slices. The one or more slices are further divided into one or more tiles. The mechanism further includes determining that a first slice contains a single tile based on a first flag. The mechanism further includes decoding the first slice to generate a reconstructed image.
US12120359B2
A system processing hardware executes a machine learning (ML) model-based video compression encoder to receive uncompressed video content and corresponding motion compensated video content, compare the uncompressed and motion compensated video content to identify an image space residual, transform the image space residual to a latent space representation of the uncompressed video content, and transform, using a trained image compression ML model, the motion compensated video content to a latent space representation of the motion compensated video content. The ML model-based video compression encoder further encodes the latent space representation of the image space residual to produce an encoded latent residual, encodes, using the trained image compression ML model, the latent space representation of the motion compensated video content to produce an encoded latent video content, and generates, using the encoded latent residual and the encoded latent video content, a compressed video content corresponding to the uncompressed video content.
US12120354B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes encoding a bitstream comprising one or more layers. A scalable nesting supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message is encoded into the bitstream in a current SEI network abstraction layer (NAL) unit. The scalable nesting SEI message contains one or more scalable-nested SEI messages and one or more scalable nesting layer identifiers (Ids) that specify layer Id values of the layers to which the scalable-nested SEI messages apply except a layer Id value of the current SEI NAL unit. A set of bitstream conformance tests are performed on the layers based on the scalable-nested SEI messages. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.
US12120353B2
An image decoding device includes: a decoding unit configured to decode a first flag which is included in a slice header and controls enabling/disabling of PROF processing from encoded data; and an affine prediction signal generation unit configured to perform the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is enabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header, and generate a prediction signal without performing the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is disabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header.
US12120352B2
The present invention relates to a method for decoding a video signal, comprising the steps of: acquiring a transform size flag of the current macroblock from a video signal; checking the number of non-zero transform coefficients at each pixel position in a first transform block which corresponds to the transform size flag; changing a scan order of the first transform block by prioritizing the position of the pixel having the greatest number of the non-zero transform coefficients in the first transform block; determining the number of the non-zero transform coefficients at each pixel position in a second transform block, and setting the changed scan order of the first transform block as an initialized scan order of the second transform block; adding the number of the non-zero transform coefficients at each pixel position in the first transform block and the number of the non-zero transform coefficients at each pixel position in the second transform block, and changing the scan order of the second transform block by prioritizing the position of the pixel having the greatest number of the non-zero transform coefficients; and decoding the transform coefficients arranged in the scan order changed in the previous step, wherein the first transform block and the second transform block have sizes corresponding to the transform size flag, and are contained in the current macroblock.
US12120349B2
An encoder which transforms a current block to be encoded in an image to encode the current block includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: determines a plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms the current block using a transform basis included in the plurality of first transform basis candidates determined, when the current block has a first size; and determines one or more second transform basis candidates different from the plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms the current block using a transform basis included in the one or more second transform basis candidates determined, when the current block has a second size larger than the first size.
US12120333B2
A method and apparatus for parallel context processing for example for high coding efficient entropy coding in HEVC. The method comprising retrieving syntax element relating to a block of an image, grouping at least two bins belonging to similar context based on the syntax element, and coding the grouped bins in parallel.
US12120331B2
A system and a method for compressing an image based on a FLASH in-memory computing array are provided. The system includes: a convolutional neural network for encoding of the FLASH in-memory computing array, a convolutional neural network for decoding based on the FLASH in-memory computing array, and a quantization module; the convolutional neural network for encoding based on the FLASH in-memory computing array is configured to encode an original image to obtain a feature image; the quantization module is configured to quantize the feature image to obtain a quantized image; the convolutional neural network for decoding based on the FLASH in-memory computing array is configured to decode the quantized image to obtain a compressed image.
US12120314B2
A visual media processing method includes determining, for a conversion between a first video block of a visual media data and a bitstream representation of the visual media data, an availability of a second video block of the visual media data using a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the rule is at least based on a coding mode used for coding the first video block into the bitstream representation, wherein the rule specifies disallowing motion information of the second video block from being used in a merge list construction of the first block by treating the second video block as unavailable.
US12120310B2
A motion vector prediction method includes parsing a bitstream to obtain an index value of a candidate motion vector list and constructing the candidate motion vector list that includes. candidate motion vectors of K control points of a current block. The candidate motion vectors of K control points are obtained based on a 2N-parameter affine transform model used for a neighboring block of the current block, where N and K are integers greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4 with N not being equal to K. The method further includes determining, in the candidate motion vector list, target candidate motion vectors of the K control points based on the index value and obtaining a predicted motion vector of each subblock of the current block based on the target candidate motion vectors of the K control points.
US12120309B2
A method of video decoding is provided. In the method, a coded video bitstream of a current picture is received. The current picture is divided into a plurality of rows of coding tree units (CTUs). Coding blocks in a first CTU row of the plurality of rows of CTUs are decoded based on motion vector information stored in a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) buffer. The motion vector information stored in the HMVP buffer is updated as the coding blocks in the first CTU row are decoded. The HMVP buffer is updated to include the motion vector information of the coding blocks in a first CTU of the first CTU row after the coding block at an end of the first CTU row is decoded.
US12120307B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for signaling intra prediction for large blocks for video encoders and decoders. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding picture data for at least one large block in a picture by signaling intra prediction for the at least one large block. The intra prediction is signaled by selecting a basic coding unit size and assigning a single spatial intra partition type for the basic coding unit size. The single spatial intra partition type is selectable from among a plurality of spatial intra partition types. The at least one large block has a large block size greater than a block size of the basic coding unit. The intra prediction is hierarchical layer intra prediction and is performed for the at least one large block by splitting from the large block size to the basic coding unit size.
US12120306B2
An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: obtain a three-dimensional model comprising at least one patch, at least one geometry component, at least one occupancy component, and zero or more texture components; subsample the at least one geometry component of the at least one patch of a three-dimensional object at occupied positions using a subsampling criterion; define respective search windows around the respective occupied positions; select respective salient points relative to the respective occupied positions within the respective search windows; triangulate the salient points to approximate a shape of the three-dimensional object; detect zero or more triangles that overlap with at least one unoccupied pixel; split the zero or more triangles that overlap with at least one unoccupied pixel until no triangle overlaps with the unoccupied pixels; and add zero or more additional triangles close to a border of the three-dimensional object to generate a resulting mesh signaled to a decoder.
US12120303B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a coded picture from the encoded video bitstream; decoding the coded picture to generate a decoded picture; obtaining a first flag indicating whether reference picture resampling is enabled; obtaining a second flag indicating whether reference pictures have a constant reference picture size; obtaining a third flag indicating whether output pictures have a constant output picture size indicated in the encoded video bitstream; generating a reference picture by resampling the decoded picture to have the constant reference picture size, and storing the reference picture in a decoded picture buffer; and generating an output picture by resampling the decoded picture to have the constant output picture size, and outputting the output picture.
US12120296B2
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block that is a part of a current picture in a video bitstream. The prediction information indicates a reference block for the current block. The processing circuitry generates filter coefficients of a filter operation based on neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block and neighboring reconstructed samples of the reference block that are co-located with the neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block. The filter operation compensates local changes to the current picture, such as illumination change or motion blur. The processing circuitry determines a prediction block for the current block based on the filter operation being performed on the reference block of the current block. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the prediction block of the current block.
US12120276B2
A management method for managing one or more image forming apparatuses includes: acquiring first information indicating a target region and second information indicating a situation of the target region; specifying a target image forming apparatus installed in the target region in the one or more image forming apparatuses; and outputting, to the target image forming apparatus, a change instruction for changing a setting content of a setting item of the target image forming apparatus to a setting content corresponding to the second information. The second information includes at least one of information regarding a situation of spread of an infectious disease and information regarding electric power supply.
US12120273B2
A method and apparatus for capturing audio including a ceiling mountable second-order differential microphone module. The module including a solid planar baffle having a generally centered aperture, at least one mounting foot to suspend the solid planar baffle approximately parallel with a rear reflecting plane and to space the solid planar baffle at a predetermined distance below the rear reflecting plane, a differential microphone sealably coupled to the planar baffle with a first side of the differential microphone acoustically exposed to an area above the planar baffle and a second side of the differential microphone acoustically exposed to an area below the planar baffle, and a mounting means for mounting the solid rear reflecting panel to the room ceiling.
US12120263B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a toll-free telecommunications validation system determines a confidence value that an incoming phone call to an enterprises' toll-free number is originating from the station it purports to be, i.e., is not a spoofed call by incorporating one or more layers of signals and data in determining said confidence value, the data and signals including, but not limited to, toll-free call routing logs, service control point (SCP) signals and data, service data point (SDP) signals and data, dialed number information service (DNIS) signals and data, automatic number identification (ANI) signals and data, session initiation protocol (SIP) signals and data, carrier identification code (CIC) signals and data, location routing number (LRN) signals and data, jurisdiction information parameter (JIP) signals and data, charge number (CN) signals and data, billing number (BN) signals and data, and originating carrier information (such as information derived from the ANI, including, but not limited to, alternative service provider ID (ALTSPID), service provider ID (SPID), or operating company number (OCN)). In certain configurations said enterprise provides an ANI and DNIS associated with said incoming toll-free call, which is used to query a commercial toll-free telecommunications routing platform for any corresponding log entries. The existence of any such log entries, along with the originating carrier information in the event log entries do exist, is used to determine a confidence value that said incoming toll-free call is originating from the station it purports to be. As a result, said entities or enterprises operating a toll-free number may be provided a confidence value regarding an incoming telephone call, and using that confidence value, further determine whether or not to accept the authenticity of the incoming telephone call and/or based on said confidence value, service the incoming call differently.
US12120253B2
A system and a method are provided for facilitating an account protection check through blockchain. The system and the method allow a service provider to utilize blockchain technology to validate the access request to various accounts. A public key and a private key are generated and recorded by a blockchain ledger that are used to access the accounts. A third-party server of a service provider requests a token from the system before the authentication process. If the credential set is in a locked status or unlocked status, at least one remote server of the system respectively relays an invalidation token or a validation token to the third-party server. If the invalidation token is relayed to the third-party server, the service provider does not go through the authentication process. If the validation token is relayed to the third-party server, the service provider proceeds with the authentication process as standard procedure.
US12120252B2
Devices can be configured to implement distributed ledgers capable of immutably recording ledger entries that have validated version identifiers. The devices can include network interfaces, memory and processors. Processors can be configured to obtain ledger entries including version identifiers and version authenticator values, determine software versions that correspond to version identifiers, determine that version identifiers are valid based on version authenticator values, obtain challenges using cryptographic systems, wherein challenges are based on ledger entries, and/or broadcast blocks that incorporate ledger entries to securely add blocks to distributed ledgers. Blocks can be capable of being validated by using cryptographic systems to obtain proofs based on challenges.
US12120251B2
A system, a method and a device for developing a smart contract are provided. A particular embodiment of the system comprises a specification acquisition module configured to acquire specification of a target smart contract interface, a client development module configured to generate, on the basis of the specification of the target smart contract interface, a smart contract client side interface and a smart contract client side agent, the smart contract client side interface and the smart contract client side agent being used to construct a client smart contract application, and a server development module configured to generate, on the basis of the interface specification of the target smart contract, a smart contract server interface and a smart contract server skeleton, the smart contract server interface and the smart contract server skeleton being used to construct a server smart contract.
US12120246B1
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for cross-chain communication in a blockchain platform. Various aspects may include accepting, at a first blockchain, a first transaction including a message and a message payload. Aspects may also include validating, at the first blockchain, the message by signing the message using signature keys of one or more validators in a first set of validators of the first blockchain. Aspects may also include generating an aggregate signature based on the signature keys of the one or more validators in a first set of validators. Aspects may also include submitting a second transaction on to a second blockchain, the second transaction including the message and the aggregate signature. Aspects may include validating, at the second blockchain, the second transaction based on a shared registry.
US12120240B2
An apparatus is described that comprises: communication circuitry configured to receive from a submitter, over a network, a data item being of a first data type and processing circuitry configured to: transform the first data type to a second, different, data type; remove non-significant content from the data item in the second data type; generate a hash of the data item having non-significant content removed to be signed; and provide the hash for signing.
US12120238B2
An authentication and encryption computer system is disclosed including processing devices, a network interface, and a data store. The authentication and encryption system is configured to maintain in the data store content common to a plurality of entities and content independently specified by each of the plurality of entities. The system is configured to receive a content request from an application executing on a mobile device, the content request comprising a secure access code corresponding to an entity, and the content request encrypted by the mobile device. An interface, comprising the content common to the plurality of entities, is customized to include content independently specified by the entity, wherein the content independently specified by the entity comprises a token value. A user request for an item presented via the interface is received and the token value is transferred to the entity.
US12120235B2
An apparatus and method for automated credential generation, the apparatus includes at least a processor, and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a data collection, wherein the data collection comprises a plurality of data objects, and wherein the plurality of data objects comprises at least an attribute datum, parse the data collection using a credential validation module to identify and extract the at least an attribute datum associated with the user, classify the data collection to at least a credential datum as a function of the at least an attribute datum using the credential validation module, and generate a verifiable credential as a function of the at least a credential datum.
US12120233B2
Disclosed methods include receiving, by a system, a request from a computing device for an information exchange between a first entity and a second entity, and then generating a first token request for a cryptographic token to be authorized to enable the exchange. In response to receiving an indication that authorization was declined, the system may cause the computing device to identify a different cryptographic token of a connected application. The different cryptographic token may be usable by the connected application to authenticate the first entity to a computer service associated with the connected application. The system may communicate with the computer service to approve use of the different cryptographic token by the system, and then generate a second token request for a substitute cryptographic token using information from the different cryptographic token. The system may complete, using the substitute cryptographic token, the exchange between the first and entities.
US12120222B2
A computer-implemented method for providing a system-specific secret to a computing system having a plurality of computing components is disclosed. The method includes storing permanently a component-specific import key as part of a computing component and storing the component-specific import key in a manufacturing-side storage system. Upon a request for the system-specific secret for a computing system, the method includes identifying the computing component comprised in the computing system, retrieving a record relating to the identified computing component, determining the system-specific secret protected by a hardware security module and determining a system-specific auxiliary key. Furthermore, the method includes encrypting the system-specific auxiliary key with the retrieved component-specific import key, thereby creating a auxiliary key bundle, encrypting the system-specific secret and storing the auxiliary key bundle and a system record in a storage medium of the computing system.
US12120219B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided for encrypting and decrypting data in which the solution itself creates unique symbols, reducing or eliminating the possibility that a hacker or other malicious actor can understand what the symbols mean, let alone decrypt them. More particularly, for encryption, the characters of an original text is split into individual vector-based characters, and each of these vector-based characters are split into subcharacters at intersection points. Each of the split characters are then rotated, and the rotated characters are organized one on top of each other. The characters are then connected to each other, and the intersection points of the subcharacters within the characters that were used to split the characters into subcharacters are passed into a machine learning model that is trained to add lines between intersection points that have no lines, as noise to further obfuscate the original text.
US12120214B2
The present invention provides an encryption determining method. The method includes the following steps: receiving a side channel signal; generating a filtered side channel signal by filtering noise within the side channel signal; generating a phasor signal by utilizing a filter to covert the filtered side channel signal; locating the encrypted segment by calculating a periodicity of the phasor signal utilizing a standard deviation window; extracting at least one encrypted characteristic from the encrypted segment; and generating an encryption analytic result by recognizing the at least one encrypted characteristic according to a characteristic recognition model; wherein the encryption analytic result includes a position of the encrypted segment within the side channel signal, and an encryption type corresponding to the side channel signal. The present invention is able to automatically and efficiently locate the encryption segment and analyze the encryption type corresponding to the side channel signal.
US12120210B2
An input signal is sampled at a current sampling phase by a sampler device of a receiver device. The sampled input signal is equalized by an adaptive equalizer of the receiver device. One or more parameters of the adaptive equalizer are adapted, based on the equalized input signal, under one or more adaptation constraints. Phase gradient information indicative of an offset of the current sampling phase from an optimal sampling phase is determined, and the one or more adaptation constraints of the adaptive equalizer are updated based on the phase gradient information to move the current sampling phase towards the optimal sampling phase.
US12120191B2
A communication device may have a set of web cookies designated for a specific location. When the communication device enters the specific location, the set of web cookies, which are designated for the specific location, may be used to customize a web page displayed at the communication device. When the communication device exits the specific location, the set of web cookies, which are designated for the specific location, may be inactivated. Different sets of web cookies may be designated for different locations. For example, a set of web cookies may be designated for home and another set of web cookies may be designated for work. The communication device may activate an appropriate set of web cookies based on the location of the communication device.
US12120189B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a streamlined process for performing operations, such as data sharing and data replication, using multiple accounts. A global identity (also referred to as an organization user) may be employed, where the global identity may have access to multiple accounts across the same or different deployments. The global identity may switch between accounts from its login session and perform various tasks in the context of different accounts without undergoing further authentication.
US12120173B2
Example methods and apparatus for managing user information of an application are described. One example method is applied to a user management device of a cloud platform, where the cloud platform is configured to hear an application registered by a user with the cloud platform. The method includes receiving a user management registration request of a first application, where the first application is one of applications registered with the cloud platform, and the user management registration request of the first application carries an identifier of the first application. A user management instance is created for the first application according to the user management registration request and the identifier of the first application, where the user management instance is used to manage user information of the first application. The user management instance is invoked to process a service that is in the first application and related to the user information.
US12120167B2
An apparatus for transmitting real-time video using wavelength division multiplexing. The apparatus may include an input, a transceiver, and processing circuitry. The input may receive at least native video data. The transceiver may transmit transport blocks via an optical transport link defining a plurality of optical channels using wavelength division multiplexing. The processing circuitry may be operatively coupled to the input and transceiver. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a video frame of native video data from the encoder input and generate a transport block including a video segment of the video frame. The processing circuitry may further be configured to transmit the transport block including the video segment on an optical channel assigned to the apparatus using the transceiver.
US12120165B2
The present disclosure relates to an adaptive audio processing method, device, computer program, and recording medium thereof in a wireless communication system. A method of transmitting audio data from a first device to a second device in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may comprise: encoding first audio data in the first device, on the basis of a first codec parameter, to transmit same to the second device; transmitting, from the first device to the second device, information related to a change time point or a change position from the first codec parameter to second codec parameter; and encoding second audio data, on the basis of a second codec parameter, in the first device and transmitting same to the second device.
US12120157B2
Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a service orchestration layer is configured in a telecommunications network. Personalized pending user actions are transmitted to a user equipment, in response to a hold being performed over a first communications channel to the user equipment.
US12120156B2
A method for communication by an electronic device is provided. The method comprises determining establishment of a data channel during an ongoing call with another electronic device; determining at least one application displayed on the electronic device and the another electronic device over the data channel during the ongoing call; determining a disconnection of the ongoing call between the electronic device and the another electronic device; and storing (508) a state of the at least one application in a memory of the electronic device based on determining the disconnection of the ongoing call, wherein the stored state of the at least one application is used for execution of the at least one application during another call.
US12120153B2
A device includes a memory and a hardware processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The hardware processor determines that a computing device communicatively coupled to an access point performed an action with respect to the access point and in response to determining that the action causes a deviation from a multi-user uplink policy of the access point, transmits a disciplinary message to the computing device.
US12120152B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of processing of authorization requests by a cloud service. The techniques include obtaining, from an access server, a snapshot associated with processing an authorization request to evaluate an access to a resource of the cloud service and generating, using the snapshot, preemptive authorization requests by modifying the authorization request with a new user identity or a new resource identity. The techniques further include receiving, from the cloud service, a subsequent authorization request to evaluate an authorization of a user to access a particular resource of the cloud service, determining that the subsequent authorization request corresponds to one of preemptive authorization requests, and providing, to the cloud service, an authorization response for the user to access the resource, based on evaluation of this preemptive authorization request.
US12120149B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for containing compromised credentials using deception systems. A request to authenticate a credential is received at a honeypot and a determination is made that the request includes context information that correlates the credential with network components that are part of the network. A protected host in the network associated with the credential is identified and the credential is authenticated by validating the credential with the protected host. A determination is made that the credential is compromised and the credential is deactivated.
US12120142B2
An analysis apparatus includes an analysis target selection unit configured to select entities to be analyzed, an attack graph generation unit configured to generate an attack graph for a set of the selected entities, and a countermeasure implementation assumption unit configured to assume that a countermeasure for invalidating an attack condition is implemented in the generated attack graph. The attack graph generation unit generates the attack graph on a precondition that the countermeasure for invalidating the attack condition assumed by the countermeasure implementation assumption unit has been implemented. The analysis target selection unit selects at least one of all the entities to be analyzed and adds the selected entity in the analysis targets in each of the plurality of cycles.
US12120141B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system, method, and storage medium to identify and score security vulnerabilities is disclosed. A memory and a processor receive security-related data from a plurality of client computing devices, create a security score for each the client computing devices. The processor identifies a subset of the client computing devices with security scores surpassing a threshold and remediates a security vulnerability on each of the subset.
US12120124B1
Techniques are described for providing a built-in “app” editor for an information technology (IT) and security operations application that enables users to create, modify, and test operation of apps under development within the editor. Some IT and security operations applications enable users to extend the applications by adding connectivity to third party technologies to run custom actions. For example, a user might create a custom app to enable an IT and security operations application to connect to an external service providing information about malicious Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, to connect to a relevant cloud provider service, or to interact with a firewall or other type of computing device used in a user's computing environment. Given the broad set of technologies that can be orchestrated by an IT and security operations application, apps broadly enable users to add custom functionality to interface with virtually any technology of interest.
US12120119B2
A method for managing an Evolved Packet System is provided. The Evolved Packet System comprises a core network including a database configured to store User Identifying Information of user devices attached to the Evolved Packet System, and at least one external server. The method comprises having a user device attached to the Evolved Packet System request IP services to the external server; in response to said requesting IP services, having the external server request the User Identifying Information of said user device to the core network; in response to said requesting the User Identifying Information, having the core network access the database and retrieve the User Identifying Information of said user device; having the core network send the retrieved User Identifying Information to the external server; having the external server provide the requested IP services to the user device by exploiting said retrieved User Identifying Information.
US12120116B2
A system and a method are provided for facilitating an account protection check for the security of sets of credentials. The system and method enable the use of an access control mechanism to regulate the changes to the lock status of the sets of credentials. A third-party server of a service provider requests a token from the system before the authentication process. The access control mechanism also approves or denies the request before the authentication process. If the credential set is in a locked status or unlocked status, at least one remote server of the system respectively relays an invalidation token or a validation token to the third-party server. If the invalidation token is relayed to the third-party server, the service provider does not go through the authentication process. If the validation token is relayed to the third-party server, the service provider proceeds with the authentication process as standard procedure.
US12120115B2
Methods and apparatus for provisioning and providing services to devices on a local network are described. The methods and apparatus allow for the provisioning of services to customer owned and managed devices on a local network on which another device, e.g., a first device, has already been authenticated and authorized to receive services corresponding to a customer account. After a first device on a local network is authenticated and associated with a customer account it detects the addition of new devices on the local network and assists in the registration of the new device by acting as an intermediary with a service provider device during the registration process. The security and registration established by the first device is leveraged allowing other devices on the network to be registered and authenticated for services corresponding to the same account as the first device without requiring user input of authentication and/or other information.
US12120102B2
An agent computer system uses a session-less login process to log in two users in a same application session. The system establishes an application session with an application server and a user session with the application server by authenticating a first user using an identity provider system (IdP). The system detects a request to perform an action by the first user within the application session that requires a second user's authentication. While maintaining the user session, the system requests a session-less authentication of the second user by transmitting an authentication request, which includes a flag indicating that the requested authentication is a session-less authentication. The system receives a confirmation of the authentication of the second user without establishing a second user session and performs the requested action in response to receiving the confirmation of the authentication of the second user.
US12120101B2
One example described herein includes a system that can perform an inflight encryption of data from a server to a network attached storage (NAS) device. The system can include a first network adapter card that can receive data from the server via a network file system (NFS) protocol. The first network adapter card can determine that the data is unencrypted based at least in part on receiving the data via an NFS port of the server. The first network adapter card can encrypt the data based at least in part on the data being received via the NFS port. The system can transmit the encrypted data to the NAS device via a second network adapter card, where the second network adapter card is configured to decrypt the encrypted data.
US12120092B2
Techniques for providing a securing platform for service provider network environments are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing a securing platform for service provider network environments includes communicating with an orchestrator and/or another network element on a service provider network to identify a subscriber with a new IP flow using a security platform; associating the subscriber with the new IP flow at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new IP flow based on the subscriber.
US12120090B2
A residential gateway to facilitate network access to a network, comprises at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the residential gateway to: communicate packet data for IP services being provided to an end user device and the network, the end user device having been assigned an IP address based on a first IP prefix assigned to the residential gateway; receive a second IP prefix assigned to the residential gateway; and notify the end user device that the IP address assigned to the end user device is no longer valid based on receipt of the second IP prefix.
US12120082B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing messages. Receiving a message and displaying the message based on a categorization of the message sender or, if the message sender is not categorized, displaying a prompt to categorize the message sender.
US12120080B1
A processing system may identify a plurality of message contents within a plurality of reported messages, where each is reported as an unwanted message, determine, for each message content, a respective count comprising a number of occurrences the message content within the plurality of reported messages, identify a set of message contents within the plurality of message contents for which associated counts of the plurality of counts exceeds a first threshold, identify a source phone number that is a source of a first set of messages within the plurality of reported messages containing one or more message contents of the set of message contents, and where a number of reporting entities associated with the first set of messages exceeds at least a second threshold, and perform at least one remedial action in a communication network in response to the identifying of the source phone number.
US12120078B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface as a computerized tool, among other things, and, more specifically, to a computing and data platform that implements logic to facilitate moderation of electronic messages, postings, content, etc., via implementation of a moderator application configured to, for example, perform one or more actions automatically, including disposition of an non-compliant electronic message. In some examples, a method may include activating at least a portion of a moderator application, decomposing an electronic message, accessing data representing disposition metrics, correlating data, and detecting that an electronic message is a non-compliant electronic message.
US12120075B2
This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.
US12120072B2
A method is provided for operating a multi-channel messaging system. The method may provide automated conversation across multiple communication channels associated with a user by: selecting a first communication channel from the multiple communication channels, wherein the first communication channel is hosted by a first communication server; receiving, via an existing user interface of the first communication channel, a first user input via as part of a conversation with a chatbot, wherein the chatbot comprises a communication data structure comprising a plurality of communication paths; selecting a communication path based on the first user input; and generating a first feedback in response to the first user input according to the selected communication path.
US12120071B2
An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus transmits to a first terminal, an answer to a question transmitted from the first terminal based on question and answer information, and receives editing of the question and answer information, in a case the question and answer information belongs to a category with editing authority, the editing authority being assigned to an account logged in from a second terminal.
US12120070B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing information in automated chatting. A message is received in a chat flow. At least one of location information, time information and service intention information is identified from the message. A response to the message is generated based on at least one of the location information, the time information and the service intention information. The response is provided in the chat flow.
US12120069B2
This application provides a full-duplex self-interference weakening method and a full-duplex self-interference weakening system. The full-duplex self-interference weakening method includes: separately receiving, by a first port of a dual-polarized receive antenna and a second port of the dual-polarized receive antenna, a signal sent by a transmit antenna; and adjusting and combining the signal received by the first port of the dual-polarized receive antenna and/or the signal received by the second port of the dual-polarized receive antenna, to weaken interference caused by the transmit antenna to the dual-polarized receive antenna. The full-duplex self-interference weakening method and the full-duplex self-interference weakening system provided in this application resolve a problem that a quantity of antennas and an antenna location are limited in an existing antenna interference cancelation method.
US12120057B2
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for providing a user equipment (UE) with on-demand reference signals for location related measurements of the UE. The UE can receive location assistance data from a network server, where the location assistance data includes information about a plurality of downlink reference signals that can be used to perform location related measurements by the UE. The UE can send a request to a base station for a reference signal. The reference signal is selected from the plurality of downlink reference signals of the location assistance data. Furthermore, the UE can receive the reference signal from the base station, and perform a location related measurement based on the received reference signal.
US12120054B2
A method for transmitting reference signal, a method for receiving reference signal, base station and user equipment are provided. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of possible transmission positions of the reference signal according to a position where a setting signal is located, wherein the setting signal is located in the reference signal and is used to determine an index of the reference signal, and the plurality of possible transmission positions comprise an initial possible transmission position of the reference signal; performing channel detection before transmitting the reference signal at each of the possible transmission positions; and transmitting, in response to detecting that a channel is idle, the reference signal at a corresponding possible transmission position; wherein the reference signal includes a SSB, and the setting signal comprises PBCH in the SSB; the indexes of the reference signal corresponding to the plurality of possible transmission positions are the same.
US12120049B2
Aspects relate to sounding reference signal (SRS) time-domain bundling. Phase continuity may be maintained across SRS transmissions over multiple SRS occasions to enable a receiver to jointly process these SRS transmissions. In some examples, a user equipment may expect to be configured with SRS transmissions over multiple SRS occasions where SRS configurations for different SRS transmissions over different SRS occasions specify the same parameters. For example, a first SRS configuration for a first SRS transmission over a first SRS occasion may specify a first set of spatial relation information. In addition, a second SRS configuration for a second SRS transmission over a second SRS occasion may specify that same first set of spatial relation information. In this way, phase continuity may be maintained between the first SRS transmission over the first SRS occasion and the second SRS transmission over the second SRS occasion.
US12120043B2
System and method for supporting scalable bitmap based P_Key table in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide, at least one subnet comprising one or more switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, and a plurality of end nodes. The method can associate the plurality of end nodes with at least one of a plurality of partitions, wherein each of the plurality of partitions are associated with a P_Key value. The method can associate each of the one or more switches with a bitmap based P_Key table of a plurality of bitmap based P_Key tables. The method can associate each of the host channel adapters with a bitmap based P_Key table of the plurality of bitmap based P_Key tables.
US12120036B2
A multi-link device includes a first link queue, a second link queue, a control circuit, a first transmitter and a second transmitter. The control circuit includes a common queue for buffering a plurality of packets, each packet having a sequence number. The control circuit obtains a minimum sequence number of all packets in the first link queue and the second link queue, computes a maximum sequence number according to the minimum sequence number and a block acknowledgment window size, determines whether to allocate a set of packets from the common queue according to the maximum sequence number, and if so, allocates the set of packets to the first link queue and/or the second link queue. The first transmitter transmits a packet from the first link queue to a first receiving device, and the second transmitter transmits a packet from the second link queue to a second receiving device.
US12120032B2
Some embodiments provide, for a gateway datapath that executes on a gateway device to implement tenant logical routers for multiple different tenant logical networks and process traffic between the tenant logical networks and an external network, a method for managing QoS for the plurality of tenant logical networks. The method receives a data message for a particular tenant logical network. The method executes a set of processing stages to process the data message. The set of processing stages includes a processing stage for a particular tenant logical router of the particular tenant logical network. As part of the processing stage for the particular tenant logical router, the method uses a QoS data structure specific to the particular tenant logical router to determine whether to allow the data message. The gateway device stores at least one separate QoS data structure for each of a set of the tenant logical routers.
US12120031B2
A method for balancing a cross-domain broadcast network load of a blockchain includes is provided. By evenly distributing the load of cross-domain broadcasting to multiple cross-domain nodes, a utilization rate of a blockchain system can be increased, and ability of processing transactions in the blockchain can be improved. A computer device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are further provided.
US12120021B2
A server fabric adapter (SFA) communication system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the SFA communication system comprises an SFA communicatively coupled to a plurality of controlling hosts, a plurality of endpoints, and a plurality of network ports. The SFA is configured to receive a network packet from a network port of the plurality of network ports; separate the network packet into different portions, each portion including a header or a payload; map each portion of the network packet to: (i) a controlling host of the plurality controlling hosts, the controlling host being designated as a destination controlling host, or (ii) an endpoint of the plurality of endpoints, the endpoint being designated as a destination endpoint; and forward a respective portion of the network packet to the destination controlling host or the destination endpoint.
US12120018B2
This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing a transmission path fault. In this application, after a first network device receives a packet, and when the first network device determines that a third network device is faulty, a difference between an initial value of a segment routing global block SRGB of the first network device and an initial value of an SRGB of the third network device is determined, and a backup path is determined based on the difference and a backup forwarding table. The first network device sends a first packet based on the backup forwarding table.
US12120015B2
A method performed by a controller configured to implement Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in a communications system, comprising establishing a controller BGP (cBGP) peer session with a network element (NE), receiving a message for communication through the cBGP session from the NE, determining whether the message is permitted to be communicated through the cBGP session based on whether the message carries routing information; transmitting the message to the NE through the cBGP session when the message is permitted to be communicated through the cBGP session, and receiving a response message of the first type from the NE through the cBGP session.
US12120013B2
Embodiments of this specification provide a test frame generation method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: determining version information of a to-be-tested wireless communication protocol and type information of a to-be-generated test frame; determining a to-be-processed target field according to the version information and the type information; obtaining distortion data corresponding to the target field based on a predetermined distortion policy; and generating a test frame according to the obtained distortion data, where the test frame is used to test whether the wireless communication protocol is at risk.
US12120009B2
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine (902) that at least one state of a network slice is to be adjusted in a limited geographical area of at least one network resource; and adjust (904, 906, 908) the at least one state of the network slice in the limited geographical area of the at least one network resource.
US12120003B1
A system for performing flow analysis across a NAT device comprising a first and second monitoring agent; one or more processors; one or more network interfaces for communicating with the first and second monitoring agents; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive one or more packets from the first and second monitoring agents for an active TCP connection; generate a set of summary information for the packets received from the first and second monitoring agents; create flow records for each set of summary information; identify one or more flow records that correspond to the active TCP connection using IP address and port number information; annotate each identified one or more flow record with a same flow identifier tag; store the annotated one or more flow records in a database; and perform flow analysis for one or more flows using one or more annotated flow records that correspond to the one or more flows.
US12120002B2
Method and apparatus for detecting anomaly of traffic of internet of things device based on automata
A method for detecting a traffic anomaly of Internet of Things (IoT) device based on automata. The method includes: collecting normal traffic of an IoT device to be monitored in each working state, and deriving normal traffic traces; generating flow trees by assembling each flow in the normal traffic traces, and generating joint flow trees by merging the flow trees; and converting a data structure representing the flow in the joint flow trees into automata models after performing reduction processing on the flow in the joint flow trees.
US12119990B2
An apparatus can have a processor configured to determine a length of time that a vehicle is in a region and to determine whether the vehicle needs to be configured for the region based on the determined length of time.
US12119986B2
A network slice creation method and apparatus, and a packet forwarding method and apparatus are provided. The network slice creation method includes: respectively configuring Traffic Engineering (TE) affinity attributes for layer-2 member links in a layer-3 bundled link, and flooding the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links by using Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP); and then creating, according to the TE affinity attributes of the layer-2 member links and by using a Flex Algorithm (FA), network slices containing the layer-2 member links.
US12119981B2
A method of managing a controller of a software defined networking (SDN) network is implemented by a computing device in the SDN network. The method includes receiving status information for the controller, receiving usage information for the operating environment, generating at least one failure prediction for the controller based on the received status information, and outputting prediction information for the at least one failure prediction.
US12119979B2
An apparatus for wireless communication includes: a receiving unit, for receiving a first orthogonal time-frequency space symbol including multiple delay Doppler regions corresponding to multiple transmitting terminals; a processing unit, for executing the following steps: A1: dividing the multiple delay Doppler regions into multiple first-type sets according to different displacement intervals occupied in a first dimension, and performing iterative serial de-interference decoding on the multiple time-delay Doppler regions in a same first-class set; A2: dividing the multiple delay Doppler regions into multiple second-type sets according to different displacement intervals occupied in a second dimension, and performing iterative serial de-interference decoding on the multiple time-delay Doppler regions in a same second-class set. The first dimension is one of a delay dimension and a Doppler dimension, and the second dimension is the other dimension of the two dimensions.
US12119972B2
Example signal transmission methods based on satellite communication and apparatus are described. One example method includes: obtaining, by a communication device, carrier attribute information corresponding to a target carrier used to transmit an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. The carrier attribute information of the target carrier includes subcarrier spacing. The communications device determines a cyclic prefix (CP) length of the OFDM symbol based on the carrier attribute information of the target carrier and a preset correspondence between carrier attribute information and the OFDM symbol. The CP is used to carry first data. The first data is data in the OFDM symbol.
US12119969B2
Methods and apparatuses for indicating a frequency offset of a non-anchor carrier are disclosed. A method comprising: transmitting a broadcast signal on an anchor carrier and transmitting system information on a non-anchor carrier, wherein the broadcast signal includes a frequency offset of the non-anchor carrier to the anchor carrier.
US12119965B2
The present invention relates to a circuit structure for realizing real-time pre-distortion calibration of broadband IQ modulation, comprises a baseband generation module, for the calibration signal generator to generate two orthogonal sine cosine calibration signals respectively according to the calibration bandwidth and the order of the pre-distortion filter, and the data switch is switched to the relevant data channel; a digital-to-analog conversion module, for converting the signals into analog I and Q baseband signals; a frequency synthesis module, for generating signals in a certain frequency range; a IQ modulation module, for mixing the analog baseband signal with the local oscillator signal; an amplitude control module, for continuous adjustment of the RF signal power. The present invention also relates to a method for realizing real-time pre-distortion calibration processing of broadband IQ modulation. With the circuit structure and method of the present invention for realizing real-time pre-distortion calibration of broadband IQ modulation, the calibration process is completed locally in real time, solving the problem of frequency response error correction caused by hardware circuit performance change, so that automatic pre-distortion calibration of frequency response can be completed on site in real time.
US12119963B2
A feed forward equalizer includes a plurality of delay circuits connected to each other in series and configured to delay input signals. A plurality of filters respectively correspond to outputs of the plurality of delay circuits, except for a reference output which is an output of a first delay circuit among the plurality of delay circuits, and the input signals. A calculator configured to sum the reference output and outputs of the plurality of filters. Each of the plurality of filters is configured to receive an output of a delay circuit corresponding thereto, among the plurality of filters, and the reference output.
US12119957B2
An example server may include at least one communication module (e.g., including communication circuitry), and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive movement information and first occupant information related to a vehicle device, using the at least one communication module, select at least one first external device from among a plurality of external devices related to a local network, based on the movement information and the first occupant information, calculate a first display time to display a first confirmation message asking whether to control the at least one first external device, based on an arrival time included in the movement information and at least one first operation time of the at least one first external device, and transmit a first request signal causing display of the first confirmation message on a display of the vehicle device at the first display time, using the at least one communication module.
US12119955B2
In a method for operating a household appliance, a communications connection is established between an external operating facility and the household appliance. An application is executed on the external operating facility and configured so as to receive data from and/or to transmit data to the household appliance via the communications connection. An interaction of a user with the application of the external operating facility is detected and the communications connection between the external operating facility and the household appliance is terminated in dependence upon an expiration of a predetermined time interval since a last detected interaction of the user with the application of the external operating facility.
US12119951B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for configuring multicast communication, are disclosed. One method includes generating, by a system platform, a multicast scheduling control packet based upon a distribution of a plurality of hubs, communicating, by the system platform, to a wireless communication base station the multicast scheduling control packet, generating, by the wireless communication base station, a plurality of multicast channel configurations based upon the multicast scheduling control packet, communicating, by the system platform, the multicast scheduling control packet to a wireless communication hub, wherein the wireless communication hub is one of the plurality of hubs, selecting, by the wireless communication hub, specific multicast channels from the plurality of multicast channel configurations, to receive specific multicast data based upon a condition of the hub and the multicast scheduling control packet, and receiving, by the wireless communication hub, multicast data through the selected specific multicast channel configurations.
US12119949B2
Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users within the overarching group to enable the users within the individual subsets to use the collaboration work management platform differently users within the other subsets, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment.
US12119943B2
A method and apparatus for HARQ feedback includes, after receiving a first random access message Msg.A sent by each of at least one terminal, a base station returning a second random access message Msg.B to the at least one terminal. The Msg.B is configured to indicate respective feedback parameters of HARQ feedback terminals in the at least one terminal, and respective HARQ feedback resources of the HARQ feedback terminals are different. The base station receives, on the respective HARQ feedback resources of retransmission terminals, HARQ feedback sent for the Msg.B by the retransmission terminals respectively.
US12119937B2
A WTRU may be configured to perform logical channel prioritization. A WTRU may receive an indication (e.g., a mapping) that indicates an association between a first HARQ process ID and a first HARQ processing type and between a second HARQ process ID and a second HARQ processing type. The WTRU may receive an indication (e.g., a mapping) that indicates an association between a first logical channel and the first HARQ processing type and between a second logical channel and the second HARQ processing type. The WTRU may receive an a HARQ process ID indication. The WTRU may determine a HARQ processing type associated with the HARQ process ID. The WTRU may determine a logical channel available for a transmission. The logical channel available to be used may be determined based on the HARQ processing type associated with the HARQ process ID. The WTRU may send the transmission.
US12119931B2
A method of operating a network node of a communication network includes receiving, by a first decoder of the network node, a first upstream-processed signal associated with an original signal. The method further includes receiving, by a second decoder of the network node, a second upstream-processed signal associated with the original signal. The method further includes determining, by the first decoder, a first downstream-processed signal based on the first upstream-processed signal and outputting, by the first decoder, the first downstream-processed signal. The method further includes responsive to the first decoder outputting the first downstream-processed signal, determining, by the second decoder, a second downstream-processed signal based on the second upstream-processed signal and the first downstream-processed signal and outputting, by the second decoder, the second downstream-processed signal. The method further includes determining a decoded received signal based on outputs from the first decoder and the second decoder.
US12119922B2
A satellite communication system leverages the carrier offset detection capability of the demodulator contained in an on-board modem of M&C channel. The modem detects the frequency error Δf introduced in the signal path from the output of the base station at ground to the output of baseband conversion on the satellite, by analyzing the baseband signal at the baseband conversion to estimate the received carrier f′c and subtracting it the from the expected frequency (fc).
US12119920B2
Disclosed is method for controlling satellite communication of satellite (202) flying on trajectory over the earth (206). The method comprises providing first target location on surface of the earth; determining trajectory of satellite over the earth; identifying first interference restrictive area (214), which satellite trajectory passes; determining elevation angle (δ1, δ2) in respect to satellite and first target location, wherein elevation angle is angle between horizontal plane of the earth and vector pointing from first target location to satellite along trajectory at given moment of time; and activating first communication beam (208) from satellite towards first target location when elevation angle is between activation angle (δ1) and deactivation angle (δ2). Activation angle is less than deactivation angle if first interference restrictive area is located in forward direction in respect to satellite motion along trajectory, and activation angle is more than deactivation angle if first interference restrictive area is located in backward direction in respect to satellite motion along trajectory.
US12119913B2
A method of wireless communication by a first sidelink UE measures multiple reference signals periodically transmitted by a second sidelink UE using multiple receive beams corresponding to reference signals in response to a beam failure declared by the first UE. The method also selects one of the reference signals that satisfies a condition. The method further includes notifying the second sidelink UE of the selected reference signal using a beam corresponding to the selected reference signal. Another method of wireless communications by a first sidelink UE includes periodically transmitting, to a second sidelink UE, multiple beam failure recovery (BFR) reference signals across multiple transmit beams. The method also includes receiving, from the second sidelink UE, an indication of a selected beam for communications between the first sidelink UE and the second sidelink UE. The method notifies the second sidelink UE of successful beam failure recovery.
US12119908B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Methods and systems for adapting beamwidth of beams on NR physical channels are provided. Alignment between beams of a UE and a gNB is created by refining beam codebooks. Phase shifters and PAs/LNAs of antenna elements are tuned for refining the beam codebooks. Strength of a signal, received through different RX beams, is determined based on RSRP/SINR associated with the different RX beams. A direction is determined, along which RSRPs/SINRs associated with consecutive RX beams is increasing. A pair of RX beams is determined, the RSRP/SINR associated with a first beam being greater than e RSRP/SINR associated with a second beam, and the RSRP/SINR associated with the first beam is the greatest along the determined direction.
US12119906B2
A communication device includes a level one (L1) processing element configured to measure downlink (DL) reference signals from multiple beams received via a transceiver to generate L1 data describing the multiple beams. The device also includes a level two (L2) processing element configured to consolidate, select, or filter the multiple beams responsive to the L1 data to produce L2 data corresponding to one or more of the multiple beams in a first cell that are consistent with preconfigured parameters. Furthermore, the device includes a level three (L3) processing element coupled to the L1 and L2 processing elements and configured to generate L3 data corresponding to one or more of the multiple beams in each of the first cell and a second cell. The device also includes a report generator coupled to the L1, L2 and L3 processing elements and configured to generate a report for a mobility event.
US12119896B2
By a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a broadcasting system that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal by performing multi-antenna encoding on program data, and wirelessly transmits a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal, a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal, the first transmit station and the second transmit station transmit the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal to an overlapping area at an identical time using an overlapping frequency band, polarized wave transmitted from the first transmit station differs from polarized wave transmitted from the second transmit station, and arrangement of the first transmit station differs from arrangement of the second transmit station.
US12119895B2
Methods and apparatus provide for a wireless network to enable multiple-transmission reception point (multi-TRP) uplink (UL) time division multiplexed (TDMed) repetition transmission. The network may receive, from a user equipment (UE), beam measurements of downlink reference signals associated with a plurality of UL transmission beams from the UE to the multi-TRP. Based on criteria associated with the beam measurements received from the UE, the network enables the UE for the multi-TRP UL TDMed repetition transmission using the plurality of UL transmission beams. In addition, or in other scenarios, coordination is provided between the network and the UE to improve UL TDMed repetition transmissions when a UE switches between antenna panels.
US12119887B2
The present disclosure provides intelligent radio frequency interference mitigation in a computing platform. The computing platform includes a processor, a memory, a system clock and a wireless network interface. The system clock can be controlled so that the processor and/or the memory may operate at a slow frequency or a fast frequency. The wireless network may operate on a radio channel that experiences radio frequency interference at the fast frequency. The system clock may be intelligently controlled to select the slow frequency to reduce radio frequency interference to prioritize execution of a network application, or to select the fast frequency to increase processor speed and prioritize execution of a local application.
US12119880B2
An optical receiver, e.g., for an Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC), whose optical front end comprises a polarization-diversity coherent optical receiver configured to receive a conventional intensity-modulated (e.g., OSC) signal. Four quadrature components of the received OSC signal detected by the polarization-diversity coherent optical receiver are sampled at a relatively high sampling rate and are used to calculate the Stokes parameters of the OSC signal. As a result, the Stokes parameters can be updated at the high sampling rate, which can be suitably selected to enable polarization tracking with a relatively high time resolution and/or at relatively high SOP-rotation speeds. The four detected quadrature components are appropriately combined in the receiver DSP to determine the intensity of the received OSC signal, which is then used in a conventional manner to recover the OSC data encoded therein.
US12119873B2
A method of determining one or more actions of a vehicle approaching an intersection having traffic lights is provided. Traffic information can be received from the traffic lights. A speed of the vehicle can be detected by a sensor. A distance between the vehicle and an intersection can be determined by processing circuitry. An amount of time for the vehicle to reach the intersection can be calculated. The traffic information with the amount of time can be compared. The one or more actions of the vehicle based on the comparison can be determined.
US12119871B1
In some embodiments, an optical communication system may include an optical source, a modulator, and a photoreceiver. The optical source may be configured to generate a beam comprising a series of light pulses each having a duration of less than 100 picoseconds. The photoreceiver may have a detection window duration of less than 1 nanosecond. When a first pulse travels through a variably refractive medium, photons in the first pulse may be refracted to travel along different ray paths to arrive at the photoreceiver according to a temporal distribution curve. A full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of the temporal distribution curve may be at least three times as large as a coherence time value of the first pulse, and the detection window of the photoreceiver may be at least six times as large as the FWHM value of the temporal distribution curve.
US12119866B2
A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein CoMP communication can normally be performed without increasing the overhead of an upstream line control channel. In this apparatus, a spreading unit (214) primarily spreads a response signal by use of a ZAC sequence established by a control unit (209). A spreading unit (217) secondarily spreads the response signal, to which CP has been added, by use of a block-wise spread code sequence established by the control unit (209). The control unit (209) controls, in accordance with sequence numbers and a hopping pattern established therein, the circular shift amount of the ZAC sequence to be used for the primary spread in the spreading unit (214) and the block-wise spread code sequence to be used for the secondary spread in the spreading unit (217). The hopping pattern established in the control unit (209) is a hopping pattern common to a plurality of base stations that CoMP-receive the response signal.
US12119861B2
The present disclosure provides a magnetic housing for mobile device and a manufacturing process of the magnetic housing. The magnetic housing includes a housing body, an outer sleeve, a magnetic coil, and an inner lining. The housing body comprises a bearing part and a surrounding part. The surrounding part is connected to and intersecting with an outer periphery of the bearing part to form an accommodating space. The accommodating space accommodates a mobile device. The bearing part comprises a groove. The outer sleeve is disposed on a surface of the housing body away from the accommodating space. The magnetic coil is disposed in the groove. The inner lining is disposed on a surface of the housing body close to the accommodating space. The overall thickness of the housing for mobile device would not be increased when magnetic coils are disposed.
US12119858B2
A data transmission device and a data transmission method are provided. The data transmission device includes: a plurality of front-end modules associated with a plurality of antennas, respectively; and a controller configured to select a front-end module to be used for data communication from among the plurality of front-end modules, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a temperature of each of the plurality of front-end modules; and select, from among the plurality of front-end modules, a front-end module having a temperature lower than or equal to a threshold temperature and corresponding to a maximum received power of a receiving device, among received powers of the receiving device corresponding to the plurality of front-end modules, and wherein each of the received powers of the receiving device is obtained based on a specific absorption rate (SAR) requirement or a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) requirement of a corresponding front-end module.
US12119850B2
This disclosure provides wireless communication methods, components, devices and systems for applying spectral masks and spectral flatness parameters in conjunction with transmission of millimeter wave (mmWave) signals in wireless communication networks. In some examples, in conjunction with transmission of an mmWave signal, a wireless communication device can apply a derivative spectral mask featuring transitional offset ranges that correspond to transitional frequency offset ranges of a spectral mask for a nominal carrier signal, scaled according to a ratio between a bandwidth of the mmWave signal and a bandwidth of the nominal carrier signal. In some examples, the derivative spectral mask can feature an in-band frequency offset range that is wider than a scaled width of an in-band frequency offset range of the spectral mask for the nominal carrier signal.
US12119839B2
A digital-to-analog converter includes an amplifier, a voltage relaxation circuit, a base current source, a first weighting current source, and at least one second weighting current source. The amplifier receives a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, and generates an output voltage according to the reference voltage and the feedback voltage. The base current source is coupled to an output end of the amplifier through the voltage relaxation circuit, and is configured to generate an adjustable base current. The first weighting current source generates an adjustable first weighting current between a reference ground end and one of a current load and the voltage relaxation circuit according to a first bit of input data. The second weighting current source generates at least one second weighting current according to at least one second bit of the input data.
US12119838B2
An electronic device may include digital circuitry to operate via digital signals and analog circuitry to operate via analog signals. The electronic device may also include a fractal digital to analog converter (DAC) to convert a digital signal into an analog signal. The fractal DAC may include a unit cell array having a branching data path and multiple unit cells disposed in a fractal pattern. The fractal DAC may also include multiple decision units disposed within the unit cell array on the branching data path. Each decision unit may receive an incoming signal representative of at least a portion of the digital signal and direct each decision unit output to different branches of the unit cell array. The unit cells may be enabled based at least in part on the decision unit outputs to generate the analog signal.
US12119835B2
A system includes a first circuit configured to provide a digitally pre-distorted input signal, a digital-to-analog converter including a number of unit elements, a digital input, and a digital output. Each unit element is configured to receive a reference voltage and to be controllable by a control signal provided in response to the digitally pre-distorted input signal. The digital-to-analog converter provides an analog output. The first circuit is configured to reduce distortion due to signal dependent changes to the reference voltage. The signal dependent changes can be due at least in part to current through the supply network that supplies the reference voltage. The digital to analog converter can be a voltage mode converter.
US12119831B2
Systems and methods reduce a locking time of a type-II all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) circuit by performing steps that comprise receiving a reference signal having a reference frequency and setting a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to a target frequency greater than the reference frequency. The DCO generates an output signal that is used to generate a feedback signal. A time-to-digital converter is used to determine an initial phase difference between the reference signal and the feedback signal, and a digital initial phase compensation circuit adjusts the initial phase difference to a substantially zero phase difference to reduce the locking time of the ADPLL circuit such that the ADPLL circuit reaches a steady-state condition in ten or fewer cycles of the reference signal.
US12119824B2
A time delay circuit comprising a plurality of differential delay cells each having a respective time delay and being arranged in series. Each delay cell comprises first and second inverter sub-cells, each comprising a respective PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor arranged in series such that their respective drain terminals are connected at a drain node. Each of the transistors has a back-gate terminal and is arranged such that a respective voltage applied to said back-gate terminal linearly controls its respective threshold voltage. The back-gate terminal of the PMOS transistor in each inverter sub-cell is connected to the drain node of the other sub-cell and/or the back-gate terminal of the NMOS transistor in each inverter sub-cell is connected to the drain node of the other sub-cell. A control signal varies the time delay of the delay cell by adjusting a voltage supplied to a back-gate terminal of a transistor.
US12119822B2
A signal generation circuit includes a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, and a duty control circuit. The first delay circuit delays a first input signal to generate a first output signal. The second delay circuit delays a second input signal to generate a second output signal. The duty control circuit compares phases of the first and second output signals and changes the value of the second delay control signal, and then decreases the times, by which the first and second input signals are delayed, by the same value.
US12119819B1
In an integrated circuit component having a switch interconnect network and a configuration memory, a constituent multiplexer of the switch interconnect network includes a plurality of pass-gates having respective outputs coupled in common to a pass-gate output node, respective inputs that constitute respective signal inputs of the multiplexer, and control inputs coupled to receive respective pass-gate control signals having logic states according to configuration data stored within the configuration memory. Power-up control circuitry within the switch interconnect network drives the pass-gate output node of the multiplexer to a predetermined voltage level following power-up of the integrated circuit component and prior to execution of a programming operation in which one or more word-lines within the configuration memory are activated to store the configuration data within the configuration memory.
US12119809B1
A driver circuit is disclosed. The driver circuit is configured to generate a drive voltage for driving a bootstrap transistor. The driver circuit includes an input node and an output node, a first circuit including a plurality of switches, a first capacitor and a second capacitor, and a pass gate switch coupled between the output node and the first capacitor. In one aspect, the first circuit, the first and second capacitors and the pass gate switch are arranged to cause an output voltage at the output node to change from a first output voltage to a second output voltage. In another aspect, a resistor is connected between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and a feedback switch is connected in parallel to the resistor. The feedback switch is turned on in response to a feedback signal, thereby reducing an impedance value of the resistor.
US12119798B2
Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. A piezoelectric plate is attached to a substrate, a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. A first conductor pattern is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric plate. The first conductor pattern includes interleaved fingers of an interdigital transducer disposed on the diaphragm, and a first plurality of contact pads. A second conductor pattern is formed on a surface of a base, the second conductor pattern including a second plurality of contact pads. Each pad of the first plurality of contact pads is connected to a respective pad of the second plurality of contact pads. A seal is formed between a perimeter of the piezoelectric plate and a perimeter of the base.
US12119794B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first power amplifier, a balun, a second power amplifier, and a third power amplifier. The second and third power amplifiers each include unit bipolar transistors each including a first terminal electrically connected to a reference potential, a second terminal, and a third terminal that outputs an amplified signal; a common input terminal electrically connected to the second terminals of the transistors and receives an RF signal; a common bias terminal electrically connected to the second terminals of the transistors and receives a bias current; a common output terminal electrically connected to the third terminals of the transistors and outputs the amplified signal; and resistance elements each of which is electrically connected between the common input terminal and the second terminal of a corresponding one of the transistors and cuts a DC component of the bias current.
US12119780B1
A mounting bracket system for solar panels, includes a sealing profile configured to be attached to side of solar panel, wherein a cross-section of the sealing profile includes a sealing profile base having first end and second end, upper part having third end and fourth end, and first dividing wall having first side and second side; and fixing profile arranged to accommodate corner of solar panel, wherein the cross-section of the fixing profile includes a U-shaped upper part having bottom part, first arm and second arm, reinforcement wall connected to second arm, second dividing wall connected to second arm, and fixing profile base having fifth end and sixth end, wherein gap is formed between reinforcement wall, second dividing wall and fixing profile base.
US12119778B2
The present invention discloses a FPR system of DFIG, comprising a DC chopper circuit made up of a fully-controlled power switching device and a dump resistor first connected in series and then connected to the positive and negative poles of the DC-link; the fully-controlled power switching device is driven by a power switching device driver; the power switching device driver comprises a first inverting adder, a first PI controller and a PWM modem; the positive and negative input ends of the first inverting adder receive the real-time DC-link voltage signal and its threshold value respectively, and the output end of the first inverting adder is connected to the input end of the first PI controller; the output end of the first PI controller is connected to the input end of the PWM modem; the PWM modem outputs the pulse signal to the control end of the fully-controlled power switching device.
US12119771B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus using a novel PWM switching technique that requires only one PWM carrier signal and benefits from two logic functions to provide switching signals and provides the flying capacitor (FC) voltage as well as dc-link capacitors voltages regulated to their desired values without external control. It may also, eliminate the odd multiples of the switching harmonic clusters from the output voltage is possible; double the frequency of first switching harmonic; reduce filtering efforts may be required since the values of the output LC filter inductor and capacitor can be very much reduced. Furthermore, notable reduction in control complexity is possible using the novel PWM method.
US12119766B2
An object of the present invention is to control driving force and braking force of a motor while considering an SOC of a battery. A control device controlling a rotating electric machine including windings of a plurality of independent system. The rotating electric machine is controlled in: a first mode in which an AC current is energized to the windings of the plurality of systems to generate torque such that a combined magnetic field generated in the windings is greater than or equal to a predetermined value; and a second mode in which the AC current having a phase difference different from that in the first mode is energized to the windings of the plurality of systems, the combined magnetic field generated in the windings is made smaller than the predetermined value, and current greater than or equal to that in the first mode flows.
US12119755B2
A primary-side-controlled fly-back converter is provided to eliminate cross-conduction between a power-switch (PS) on a primary side and a synchronous-rectifier (SR) on a secondary side when operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM). Generally, the converter includes a transformer having a primary coupled to a rectified AC input through the PS, and a secondary coupled to a DC output through the SR, the SR having a drain coupled to the secondary winding. A fly-back-controller includes a primary-controller operable to control a duty cycle of the PS, and a secondary-controller operable to turn OFF the SR when the PS turns ON in CCM. The secondary-controller includes a CCM zero-crossing-detector comparator having a first input coupled to the drain of the SR through a capacitor, and is operable to detect a sharp change in a drain voltage when the PS turns ON during CCM, and to output a signal to turn OFF the SR.
US12119747B2
A power convertor configured to output power to an electrofusion welding coupler for performing electrofusion welding. The power convertor comprises an array of connected DC to DC power convertor circuits. In use, the array of connected DC to DC power convertor circuits is configured to receive, at a first interface, power at a first voltage level from a battery and output power, at a second interface, at a second voltage level to provide power to electrofusion welding cable means. The DC to DC power convertors are arranged in a buck-boost configuration which can operate in a boost mode in which the first voltage level is less than the second voltage level and in a buck mode in which the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level.
US12119745B2
A short-circuit protection circuit, chip and system for a switched-mode power supply are disclosed. The short-circuit protection circuit includes: a sampling module for sampling an input voltage and producing a first voltage from the input voltage; a generation module for generating a second voltage from a reference voltage; a comparison module for comparing the first voltage and the second voltage; and an output module for producing, from a result of the comparison performed by the comparison module, and outputting a control signal for controlling an external power transistor in the event of a short circuit in the switched-mode power supply. According to the present invention, when an output short circuit is detected, a hiccup-mode duty cycle is adjusted according to the input voltage, thus avoiding great energy loss when the input voltage is high and enabling loaded startup or automatic output recovery after the short circuit condition is removed when the input voltage is low.
US12119733B2
A motor, comprising casing, rotating shaft, magnetic ring, three-phase hollow cup coil winding and insulating end cover, is provided. The casing comprises sleeve and inner core arranged coaxially with sleeve and air guide plates connected to sleeve and inner core, the sleeve, inner core and two adjacent air guide plates are surrounded to form air guide channel, inner core is provided with mounting hole, bearing is installed in mounting hole, and rotating shaft passes through bearing, magnetic ring is sleeved outside one end of rotating shaft, three-phase hollow cup coil winding is sleeved outside the magnetic ring. Rotating gap is set between three-phase hollow cup coil winding and magnetic ring, and insulating end cover is installed on the outlet of sleeve. Wind end fixes the three-phase hollow cup coil winding in sleeve, inner core is provided with heat dissipation holes that are all connected with mounting holes.
US12119724B2
The invention relates to a stator (IO) in an electric machine (I) with a laminated core (II) formed in an annular fashion about a central axis (A), on which core stator coils (16) with coil ends (16a, b) are arranged by means of formers (12a, 12b). The stator (IO) comprises wiring device (20), on which a plurality of mutually isolated connecting conductors (22-26) with coil connection areas (22a-26a) are present for connecting the stator coils (16). The wiring device (20) is joined on the stator in an axial joining direction to the stator coils (16) and is secured by axial connection means (30a, b) to the formers (12a), thus forming a plurality of axial connections (32a, b). According to the invention, to increase the stiffness of the stator (IO), radial supporting means (40, 41) are additionally formed on the wiring device (20) to interact with the formers (12a), said means being designed to be functionally independent of the axial connection means (30a, b).
US12119713B2
A first shaft member of a shaft included in this rotor includes: a first large-diameter portion disposed radially inward of a rotor core; and a first small-diameter portion disposed on a first axial side relative to the rotor core. The first small-diameter portion is provided with a driving force transmitter to transmit a driving force, which is transmitted thereto from the rotor core, to a driving force transmission member. A portion of the first shaft member located on a second axial side is connected to a second shaft member of the shaft.
US12119708B2
An electric machine, which may operate as an electric motor or generator, that address performance and manufacturing shortcomings in various motor design approaches particularly transverse flux, axial and radial flux motors with higher torque, higher RPM, and lower core losses and lower cogging. An exemplary electric machine incorporates shape monolithic components such as the armature teeth or connector ring, armature ring, concentrator teeth or concentrator ring formed by Soft metal Composite (SMC). Magnets may be configured between the concentrator teeth to form a magnet ring having a plurality of magnetic poles. The armature flux paths may be shared between phases. The air gaps may be axial and extend between armature teeth and concentrator teeth and the magnetic poles configured between the concentrator teeth. The armature, concentrator teeth and magnetic poles may extend radially and alternate along the axial axis of the electric machine, producing axial and/or radial airgaps.
US12119704B2
An uninterruptible power supply device includes a rectifier module coupled to an electrical power grid, an inverter module coupled to the rectifier module, and a battery converter module. The rectifier module can process a higher amount of electric power as the designed electrical power provided by the inverter module to enable the uninterruptible power supply device to provide stabilization support to the electrical power grid, wherein the rectifier module comprises at least two rectifier submodules, each dimensioned to process an amount of electrical power according to a capability of the inverter module to process power. The rectifier module is configured to electrically couple the rectifier submodules selectable to process a higher amount of electric power as the inverter module to provide stabilization support to the electrical power grid.
US12119698B2
A battery indicator estimates a remaining battery capacity when a controller instructs a driving power source to start the power supply based on a battery voltage detected at a timing when the controller instructs the driving power source to start the power supply. The controller instructs the driving power source to stop the power supply after the discharge of a secondary battery by a charge-discharge circuit is ended and at a timing when a battery voltage being measured by a voltage measurer is stabilized.
US12119689B2
An adapter for a portable barcode reader includes a body having a base for selective placement on an external surface, adapter electrical contacts contained within the body and positioned to be in continuous electrical contact with reader electrical contacts of the portable barcode reader in a fastened state, a wireless charging receiver conductor coupled to the adapter electrical contacts, and a wireless controller configured to control charging of the portable barcode reader. The adapter maintains the portable barcode reader in a stationary position when placed on a surface such that the field of view of the portable barcode reader extends from horizontal to as much as 45 degrees below horizontal. The adapter may further include a near-field communication conductor and a microcontroller to wirelessly communicate indicia data captured by the portable barcode reader to an external receiver.
US12119685B2
A control device including a first shell; a battery pack mounting part; a first control unit, which is provided in the first shell and is used for cutting off power transmission from a battery pack to an electric power tool when the battery pack is abnormal; a first user operation unit, which is arranged on the first shell and is operated by a user to control the electric power tool; and a first interface, electrically connected to the first user operation unit. An electric power tool system comprises the control device and the electric power tool. The control device can be adapted to different types of electric power tools, and the control device is not provided with a control portion used for adjusting working parameter of the electric power tool, such that the control device can more flexibly match an upgraded new electric power tool.
US12119679B1
A wireless charging device with a stable connection and a charging method thereof. The wireless charging device has a wireless charging device; the wireless charging device has a wireless charger and a magnetic attraction device, wherein the wireless charger has a charging end face, and the magnetic attraction device has a magnetic attraction part and an adsorption disk, the magnetic attraction part is arranged on the charging end face, and the adsorption disk is adsorbed by the magnetic attraction part to form a detachable connection; wherein, the adsorption disk is fixedly connected to an electronic product, and the electronic product has a protective sleeve; the charging steps are as follows: putting the electronic product to be charged into the protective sleeve; fixing the adsorption disk on the protective sleeve; adsorbing the electronic product to the wireless charger.
US12119668B2
A safety supervision system for wireless power transmission, comprising a transmitter having an optical beam generator with safe states for transmitting power to receivers that convert the beam into electrical power. The system control unit stores previously known signatures categorized by predetermined parameters associated with one or more unwanted situations, stores data from sensors, compares this stored data to the signatures, and executes one or more responses based on this comparison. The system may comprise transmitter and/or receiver malfunction detection systems adapted to monitor the transmitter and receiver control units and to cause the optical beam generator to switch to a safe state upon detection of a transmitter or receiver control unit malfunction, and may further comprise a hazard detection system preventing human exposure to beam intensity above a predefined safe level.
US12119658B2
A method for determining when a connection of a power system to a grid has been disconnected. The method includes the power system supplying a first amount of reactive power to the grid to which the power system is connected, and the power system determining if there is a frequency change within the grid. This includes if the frequency change does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the power system supplying a second amount of reactive power to the grid, and if the frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold, the power system supplying a first amount of reactive power to the grid.
US12119655B2
An energy supporting device for a high voltage direct current, HVDC, transmission system is provided. The HVDC transmission system includes a first HVDC converter and a second HVDC converter connected to each other via an HVDC link. The energy supporting device comprises a plurality of cells configured to be connected in series to the HVDC link, a resistor electrically connected between the plurality of cells and an electrical reference potential, and a bypass switch configured to allow the resistor to be bypassed. A cell includes a full-bridge arrangement of power switches and an energy storage device electrically connected to the full-bridge arrangement. The energy supporting device is configured to be operated in: a charging mode, in which the bypass switch is in a closed state for allowing the resistor to be bypassed, and in which the energy storage device of at least one cell of the plurality of cells is receiving electrical energy from the HVDC link, and in a dissipation mode, in which the bypass switch is in an open state for allowing the resistor to dissipate electrical energy from the HVDC link, and in which the energy storage devices of the plurality of cells are bypassed, and in an energy release mode, in which the energy storage device of at least one cell of the plurality of cells is discharging electrical energy to the HVDC link.
US12119640B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided to minimize ESD damage to an internal circuit in a CDM model. The ESD protection circuit includes two stages of discharging circuits that are coupled to an IO pin and the internal circuit, a first power clamp circuit, and a second power clamp circuit. The first power clamp circuit is electrically connected to a power rail and a ground rail to discharge a part of a current to the ground, and the second power clamp circuit is electrically connected to a second-stage discharging circuit and the ground rail, so that the other part of the current is discharged to the ground through the second power clamp circuit.
US12119637B2
A monitoring system for monitoring a supply voltage for an electronic component is described, comprising a voltage monitoring unit, which is configured to monitor a voltage level assigned to a supply voltage applied to the electronic component, and a switching unit which is configured to switch the electronic component on and/or off. The switching unit is coupled with the voltage monitoring unit. The switching unit is furthermore configured to switch off the electronic component if the voltage monitoring unit determines that the voltage level is below a predetermined threshold value. A mains monitoring circuit is furthermore described.
US12119636B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a test-boost electric power recloser that limits the duration of the test current imposed on the power line to less than two electric power cycles, and preferably less than one electric power cycle, when attempting to reclose into a fault. The test-boost recloser sends a test pulse causing a non-latching close followed by a boost pulse causing a latching close if waveform analysis based on the test close indicates that the fault has likely cleared. The test-boost approach can typically be implemented through a software and calibration upgrade to a conventional single-coil recloser, accomplishing results comparable to a dual-actuator recloser at a much lower cost. The recloser may perform iterative and feedback learning feedback processes to automatically improve its operation over time in response to measured fault and non-fault conditions and its success in predicting whether faults have cleared.
US12119631B2
A portion that covers a connection portion between a relay and a bus bar is prevented from coming off. An electrical connection box includes a relay, a bus bar connected to the relay, and a case including an attachment portion for the relay, and includes a cover covering a connection portion between the relay and the bus bar. The cover includes a wall portion and an engaging portion that is provided on a part of the wall portion and prevents the cover from coming off by engaging with a part of the attachment portion. The attachment portion includes a stopper portion that suppresses displacement of the part of the wall portion in a direction in which the engaging portion is disengaged.
US12119627B2
This publication describes techniques and apparatuses for releasably attaching an object (e.g., a wire tray) to a substrate. Current apparatuses generally do not enable the removal of an attached wire tray from a substrate without first removing an insert from a mounting stud extending from the substrate. The disclosed techniques and apparatuses are configured to permit the removal of an attached wire tray from a substrate without first removing an insert from a mounting stud extending from the substrate.
US12119614B2
The invention relates to a device (2) for injecting spin-polarized electrons and for reflecting light, comprising at least one lattice structure (3) having a plurality of recesses (4), wherein the lattice structure (3) is designed to reflect the light, and wherein a respective injection contact (5, 6) for injecting spin-polarized electrons is arranged in at least some of the recesses (4).
US12119605B2
A wire processing system comprises a terminal shear having an opening receiving a terminal strip including a plurality of terminals and defining a terminal strip feed path. A crimping tool or die of the system is arranged on a first side of the terminal strip feed path. A terminal gripping device is arranged on a second side of the terminal strip feed path, opposite the first side, and is adapted to grip a terminal of the terminal strip.
US12119603B2
A grounding clamp for connecting a cable to an electrical ground includes first and second clamping elements, which tightly abut against one another in an assembled state so that the cable is clampable therebetween. A contact is arranged on the first clamping element to contact a conductive section of the cable in the assembled state. An opening extending through the clamping elements is configured such that a fastener is guidable therethrough and the grounding clamp is connectable to the ground using the fastener. Mutually complementary first and second locking means are also provided. The first locking means are arranged on two opposite sides of the first clamping element and the second locking means are arranged on two opposite sides of the second clamping element. In the assembled state, the locking means are engaged with one another and are arranged on both sides along the cable.
US12119600B2
A rubber plug holding structure for a terminal. The structure includes an electric wire that has a core wire and an insulating coating which coats the core wire; a rubber plug through which the electric wire is inserted and which seals a gap with the electric wire; and a terminal that has a first press-fastening piece which press-fastens an outer periphery of the rubber plug. The terminal also has a second press-fastening piece that is formed from a portion of the terminal which remains after cutting a connecting piece serving as a connecting portion of a carrier when the terminal is formed from a chain terminal. The second press fastening piece is press-fastened against a part of the outer periphery of the rubber plug.
US12119598B1
A universal DC power adaptor for a PRC-148 radio, a PRC-152 radio, a Handheld ISR Transceiver, and similar devices and a method of using the same, is disclosed. The universal DC power adaptor includes mounting and locking features that are common to both the PRC-148 radio and the PRC-152 radio. The universal DC power adaptor further includes certain mounting and locking features that are unique to the PRC-148 radio and other mounting and locking features that are unique to the PRC-152 radio. The universal DC power adaptor also provides an output voltage suitable for both the PRC-148 and PRC-152 radios. Such features also are compatible with the Handheld ISR Transceiver, making the universal DC power adaptor compatible with the ISR Transceiver as well. Additionally, the universal DC power adaptor includes programmable control electronics.
US12119594B1
In one embodiment, a power plug assembly includes a plug housing, a set of electrical terminals configured to be inserted into a first set of electrical apertures of a first receptacle of an electrical outlet, a first ground terminal configured to be inserted into a first ground aperture of the first receptacle of the electrical outlet, a second ground terminal configured to be inserted into a second ground aperture of a second receptacle of the electrical outlet, a non-protruding portion configured to abut a second set of electrical apertures of the second receptacle of the electrical outlet, and a cord enveloping wires that extend from the plug housing via a side surface of the plug housing, and wherein the wires are coupled to the set of electrical terminals and the first and second ground terminals.
US12119566B2
A communication device includes a first ground element, a second ground element, a third ground element, a first signaling conductor, a second signaling conductor, a resonant circuit, and a dielectric substrate. The first signaling conductor is disposed between the first ground element and the second ground element. The second signaling conductor is disposed between the second ground element and the third ground element. The first signaling conductor is coupled through the resonant circuit to the first ground element. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first ground element, the second ground element, the third ground element, the first signaling conductor, and the second signaling conductor are disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The resonant circuit is configured to increase the isolation between the first signaling conductor and the second signaling conductor in a target frequency band.
US12119558B2
An integrated millimeter wave antenna module may include at least one antenna array connected to a wiring board with a flexible printed circuit without any additional connectors. The integrated module may include an antenna, a flexible printed circuit attached to the antenna on one end and a wiring board on the other end.
US12119554B2
Antenna arrays comprising planar combiner networks. An apparatus includes a first antenna component comprising a first waveguide combiner and a first radiating element. The apparatus includes a second antenna component comprising a second waveguide combiner and a second radiating element. The second radiating element supports a polarization that is orthogonal to a polarization of the first radiating element, and the first antenna component is located next to the second antenna component within an antenna array. The first antenna component and the second antenna component are disposed within a lattice spacing of the antenna array.
US12119548B2
A slot array antenna that includes radiation, base, and grating plates is disclosed. The radiation plate has a first surface having multiple slots to radiate radio waves, second and third surfaces forming a horn shape, and proximal and distal connecting members. The base plate has first, second, and third surfaces forming a U-shape, and notches. The connecting members of the radiation are removably insertable into the notches to assemble the slot array antenna for the radiation of the radio waves and to suppress noise signals.
US12119547B2
The present invention provides a high reliability portable device, including a cover board, a touch module layered with the cover board, a display module layered with the touch module, and an antenna module layered with the cover board; the antenna module includes an antenna layer with an antenna frame, a first conductive layer with a first conductive frame conductive with the antenna frame, and a protection layer with a protection frame covering the antenna frame and the first conductive frame; the first conductive frame is tougher than the antenna frame, therefore even if the antenna frame is broken, the first conductive layer would still be intact to transmit and receive wireless signals.
US12119546B2
A satellite platform is disclosed having a plurality of radiating elements configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic radiation and including at least one transmitter radiating element, and at least one block of material that absorbs electromagnetic radiation in a frequency band of interest in order to decrease electromagnetic coupling between the radiating elements. The block of material is implemented in at least one region of interest in the satellite platform to decrease electromagnetic coupling, the region of interest intersecting at least one predominant coupling path between at least two of the radiating elements.
US12119544B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may use transmissions causing power density exposure (PDE) to nearby users. To reduce the PDE of an antenna module (e.g., below a maximum PDE threshold), the UE may implement a shielding strip around the antenna module. For example, the antenna module may include a substrate having a first surface and a set of antenna elements on the first surface. The shielding strip may enclose the set of antenna elements of the antenna module and extend away from the first surface above the antenna elements. The shielding strip may reduce PDE outside a field of view of the antenna module. Additionally, in some cases, the placement of the antenna module in the UE and the materials used for constructing the UE may further reduce PDE.
US12119535B2
A mechanical means for deploying one of two or more feed sources within a test range is presented. The feed source selected for testing is properly positioned for use within the range by rotating one of two or more arms to an upright and locked position. An arm may further include a rotatable antenna wheel with two or more feed sources thereon whereby a selected feed source is rotated into position via the antenna wheel. The antenna wheel includes a center body, feed sources attached to the center body and aligned along a rotational plane, and a shroud disposed about the center body and feed sources. The antenna wheel may include a cooling system for managing heat generated by the feed sources and electronics therefore. In preferred embodiments, the feed source changer is mounted within the range so that a selected feed source communicates an emitted beam onto a reflector which is redirected as a reflected beam toward a device under test. Concealment panel(s) may be positioned adjacent to the feed source changer to minimize electromagnetic reflections therefrom.
US12119529B2
The disclosure provides a phase shifter, a manufacturing method thereof and an antenna, and belongs to the field of communication technology. The phase shifter includes a first substrate; a signal line and reference lines on the first substrate; a first insulating layer on the signal line; a plurality of electrode film bridges on a side of the first insulating layer distal to the signal line; and a first transmission structure on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the signal line; and an orthographic projection of the first transmission structure on the first substrate is not overlapped with an orthographic projection of the plurality of electrode film bridges on the first substrate.
US12119524B2
A method of operating a fuel cell assembly comprising a plurality of fuel cells connected together for collectively providing power to a load, each fuel cell including an anode and a cathode, the method comprising selectively providing an electrical connection between the anode and the cathode of at least one of the fuel cells of the assembly for lowering the voltage across the fuel cell independent of the load.
US12119523B2
A fuel cell system and a method for controlling the same may adjust generation of condensate water in a fuel cell by setting relative humidities and temperature and pressure conditions of the fuel cell so as to maintain a constant current density, and may alleviate performance deterioration of the fuel cell during operation by removing an excessive amount of the generated condensate water by injecting a cathode pressure impulse into the fuel cell.
US12119520B2
A membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane stacked between different electrodes, wherein an ionomer layer of the electrolyte membrane comprises an adjacent electrode, a first layer having at least a same cross-sectional area as that of the adjacent electrode, a reinforcing layer and a second layer stacked at a side of the first layer, the second layer having at least the same cross-sectional area as that of the reinforcing layer.
US12119518B2
A protection assembly of a battery module and a battery module are provided, which include a base disposed with a supporting portion, an accommodating portion, and a separating portion. The supporting portion is configured to dispose a positive lead and/or a negative lead of a busbar. The accommodating portion is configured to accommodate a low-voltage connector for transmitting a signal of the battery module to a battery management system. The supporting portion and the accommodating portion are located on the same side of the battery module. The separating portion is located between the supporting portion and the accommodating portion, and is configured to separate the low-voltage connector from the positive lead and/or the negative lead. In the protection assembly of the battery module, the positive lead and/or the negative lead and the low-voltage connector are respectively disposed on the supporting portion and the accommodating portion.
US12119510B2
A battery connection module includes a plurality of bus bars provided on a battery stack in which a plurality of battery packs are assembled, and attached to electrodes of the battery packs, a flexible printed wiring board provided on the battery stack, and a first electronic component electrically connected to the flexible printed wiring board. The flexible printed wiring board includes a side surface portion which extends outward from above the battery stack and is bent so as to be fixed to a side surface of the battery stack, and the first electronic component is provided on the side surface portion.
US12119507B2
A battery pack including battery cells; a potting resin on the battery cells at positions corresponding to central portions of upper end portions or lower end portions of the battery cells in a height direction of the battery cells; and an adhesive resin on the battery cells at positions corresponding to edge portions surrounding the central portions of the upper end portions or the lower end portions of the battery cells.
US12119500B2
A lithium ion secondary battery according to the present disclosure includes: an electrode assembly; and a case having a structure in which upper stamped portions and lower stamped portions are repeatedly stamped to cover the outside of the electrode assembly, and the upper stamped portions and the lower stamped portions form a corrugated pattern, and the electrode assembly includes: one or more unit cells each equipped with a pair of electrodes having different polarities with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrode mixture coated on one or both surfaces of the pair of electrodes; and electrode tabs protruded from the respective electrodes and not coated with the electrode mixture, and the electrode tabs include an electrode parallel connection tab and an electrode lead connection tab, and any one or more of the electrode parallel connection tab and the electrode lead connection tab is formed on the electrodes, and an elastic polymer film is overlapped on a local portion in the case.
US12119497B2
A non-woven fiber mat for lead-acid batteries is provided. The non-woven fiber pasting mat includes glass fibers coated with a sizing composition; a binder composition; and one or more additives. The additives reduce water loss in lead-acid batteries.
US12119496B2
Present invention is related to a composite modified layer attached on a current collector comprising a lithiophilic particle being covered or coated by a polymer layer. The composite modified layer further could be coated with an additional carbon layer or artificial protective film as several suitable embodiments presented in this invention. The lithiophilic particle, such as sliver nano-particle, will firstly form a lithium-silver alloys to reduce a thermodynamic instability during the growth of lithium nuclei. The sliver nano-particle is able to be attached securely on the current collector by the polymer with high adhesion ability. The fuel cell including the composite modified layer in the present invention has higher average Coulombic efficiency and higher capacity retention.
US12119487B2
A positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material, a cover layer that covers at least part of a surface of the positive electrode active material and that contains a first solid electrolyte material, and a second solid electrolyte material that is a material different from the first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material contains Li, M, and X and does not contain sulfur. M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal elements other than Li and semi-metal elements, and X represents halogen elements including Cl.
US12119485B2
A cathode includes a disordered rocksalt phase material and a coating layer disposed on a surface of the disordered rocksalt phase material. The coating layer may include one or more of an oxide, a phosphate, a phosphide, or a fluoride.
US12119480B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a secondary battery with improved resistance. According to the present invention, since the electrode assembly with succinonitrile interposed at the interface between the electrode and the separator is manufactured and then laminated, a high-pressure process is not required during lamination compared to the prior art, thereby improving processability, and since succinonitrile is dissolved in the electrolyte solution, it exhibits an effect of improving the resistance of the battery.
US12119476B2
The present invention relates to an electrode of a double-layer structure including a different type of particulate active material having a different average particle diameter, and a secondary battery including the same, and according to the present invention, the mechanical strength and stability of the electrode increases, and the secondary battery to which they are applied exhibits excellent discharge capacity.
US12119462B2
A sensing device configured to monitor a battery pack is disclosed. The sensing device may include a plurality of carbon-based sensors enclosed within the battery pack. Each sensor coupled may be between a corresponding pair of electrodes, and may include a plurality of 3D graphene-based sensing materials. In some instances, the 3D graphene-based sensing materials of a first sensor may be functionalized with a first material configured to detect a presence of each analyte of a first group of analytes, and the 3D graphene-based sensing materials of a second sensor may be functionalized with a second material configured to detect a presence of each analyte of a second group of analytes.
US12119458B2
Embodiments described herein relate to electrochemical cells with dendrite prevention mechanisms. In some aspects, an electrochemical cell can include an anode disposed on an anode current collector, a cathode disposed on a cathode current collector, the cathode having a first thickness at a proximal end of the cathode and a second thickness at a distal end of the cathode, the second thickness greater than the first thickness, a first separator disposed on the anode, a second separator disposed on the cathode, an interlayer disposed between the first separator and the second separator, the interlayer including electroactive material and having a proximal end and a distal end, and a power source electrically connected to the proximal end of the cathode and the proximal end of the interlayer, the power source configured to maintain a voltage difference between the cathode and the interlayer below a threshold value.
US12119455B2
The present disclosure provides an electrode assembly and a related battery, battery module, wherein, the electrode assembly includes: a plurality of first type of electrode plates and at least one second type of electrode plate which are arranged in a superimposing manner, the polarity of the first type of electrode plate is opposite to the polarity of the second type of electrode plate, the plurality of first type of electrode plates comprise a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate, wherein the first electrode plate comprises a first current collector, the second electrode plate comprises a second current collector, and the first current collector is different from the second current collector.
US12119448B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, and particularly, to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, a first additive, and a second additive, wherein the first additive is a compound represented by Formula 1 and the second additive is a compound represented by Formula 2.
US12119443B2
A solid-state ion conductor includes a compound of Formula 1: Li16+(5−n)*a−(2+m)*bM2−aXnaN8O1−bAmb Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M is Ta, Nb, V, or a combination thereof, X is an element having an oxidation state of n, wherein n is +1, +2, +3, +4, or a combination thereof, A is an element having an oxidation state of m, wherein m is −1, −2, or a combination thereof, and 0
US12119431B2
A light emitting device includes a first light emitter including a first light emitting chip emitting first blue light and at least one among a first phosphor and a second phosphor, the first light emitter being configured to emit second blue light, and a second light emitter including a second light emitting chip emitting third blue light and at least one among a third phosphor and a fourth phosphor, the second light emitter being configured to emit fourth blue light, wherein a ratio of an intensity of a peak wavelength of the fourth blue light to an intensity of a peak wavelength of the second blue light is greater than or equal to 0.6.
US12119427B2
The light emitting device includes a growth substrate, a light-emitting semiconductor structure, conductive pillars, an insulating layer, and first and second electrodes. The light-emitting semiconductor structure includes a first-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer and a second-type semiconductor layer disposed on the growth substrate from top to bottom. The conductive pillars are disposed in the light-emitting semiconductor structure. The conductive pillars penetrates is in contact with the second-type semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the substrate. A first portion of the insulating layer is disposed between the first-type semiconductor layer and the substrate, and a second portion of the insulating layer electrically insulates the first-type semiconductor layer and the light emitting-layer from the conductive pillars. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer and electrically insulated from the conductive pillars. The second electrode is electrically connected to the conductive pillar.
US12119423B2
The solar cell includes a silicon substrate, multiple first electrodes, and multiple second electrodes. The solar cell further includes a tunneling oxide layer, multiple doped polysilicon layers, and at least one barrier layer. The at least one barrier layer is arranged between every adjacent two doped polysilicon layers in the multiple doped polysilicon layers, and the multiple first electrodes are electrically connected to different doped polysilicon layers. The solar cell provided according to the present application can reduce the total thickness of the polycrystalline silicon layer, so that a thinner polycrystalline silicon layer can reduce parasitic absorption, thereby increasing short-circuit current. Moreover, the risk of slurry burning through the tunneling oxide layer is reduced by the barrier layer, while reducing metal recombination, which increases the open circuit voltage of the solar cell, thereby improving the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cell.
US12119418B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of processing a solar cell device. The method comprises detecting at least one inconsistency at a surface of a semiconductor substrate having a solar cell active region formed therein. A deposition pattern is determined based on the location of the at least one inconsistency. A material is selectively deposited on the substrate according to the deposition pattern.
US12119416B2
According to the embodiments provided herein, a photovoltaic device can include a buffer layer adjacent to an absorber layer doped p-type with a group V dopant. The buffer layer can have a plurality of layers compatible with group V dopants.
US12119414B2
A semiconductor trench capacitor structure is provided. The semiconductor trench capacitor comprises a semiconductor substrate; a trench capacitor overlying the semiconductor substrate, wherein the trench capacitor comprises a plurality of trench electrodes and a plurality of capacitor dielectric layers that are alternatingly stacked over the semiconductor substrate and defines a plurality of trench segments and a plurality of pillar segments, wherein the trench electrodes and the capacitor dielectric layers are recessed into the semiconductor substrate at the trench segments, and wherein the trench segments are separated from each other by the pillar segments; and a protection dielectric layer disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the trench capacitor, wherein the protection dielectric layer has a thickness greater than thicknesses of the trench electrodes.
US12119412B2
A semiconductor vertical Schottky diode device, having: a substrate of semiconductor material, with a front surface and a back surface; a lightly doped region formed in a surface portion of the substrate facing the front surface, having a first conductivity type; a first electrode formed on the lightly doped region on the front surface of the substrate, to establish a Schottky contact; a highly doped region at the back surface of the substrate, in contact with the lightly doped region and having the first conductivity type; and a second electrode electrically in contact with the highly doped region, on the back surface of the substrate, to establish an Ohmic contact.
US12119411B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing flash memory with a vertical cell stack structure. The method includes forming source lines in a cell area of a substrate having an ion-implanted well and forming an alignment mark relative to the source lines. The alignment mark is formed in the substrate outside the cell area of the substrate. After formation of the source lines, cell stacking layers are formed. After forming the cell stacking layers, cell pillars in the cell stacking layers are formed at locations relative to the previously formed source lines using the alignment mark to correctly locate the cell pillars.
US12119400B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor transistor device includes etching a vertical gate trench into a silicon region, depositing a silicon gate material on an interlayer dielectric formed in the vertical gate trench so that an upper side of the interlayer dielectric is covered, etching through the silicon gate material in the vertical gate trench to partly uncover the upper side of the interlayer dielectric and so that a silicon gate region of a gate electrode of the semiconductor transistor device remains in the vertical gate trench, and depositing a metal material into the vertical gate trench so that the partly uncovered upper side of the interlayer dielectric is covered by the metal material.
US12119396B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a first nitride semiconductor layer on a substrate and a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer. The second nitride semiconductor layer has a larger bandgap than the first nitride semiconductor layer. Source and drain electrodes are on the second nitride semiconductor layer. A gate electrode is between the source electrode and the drain electrode. A third nitride semiconductor layer of p-type conductivity is on the second nitride semiconductor layer between the drain electrode and the gate electrode and spaced from the drain electrode.
US12119395B2
An insulated gate bipolar transistor, comprising an anode second conductivity-type region and an anode first conductivity-type region provided on a drift region; the anode first conductivity-type region comprises a first region and a second region, and the anode second conductivity-type region comprises a third region and a fourth region, the dopant concentration of the first region being less than that of the second region, the dopant concentration of the third region being less than that of the fourth region, the third region being provided between the fourth region and a body region, the first region being provided below the fourth region, and the second region being provided below the third region and located between the first region and the body region.
US12119394B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure, in which first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers are alternately stacked, is formed. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over the fin structure. A source/drain region of the fin structure, which is not covered by the sacrificial gate structure, is etched, thereby forming a source/drain space. The first semiconductor layers are laterally etched through the source/drain space. An inner spacer made of a dielectric material is formed on an end of each of the etched first semiconductor layers. A source/drain epitaxial layer is formed in the source/drain space to cover the inner spacer. At least one of the first semiconductor layers has a composition which changes along a stacked direction of the first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers.
US12119389B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate comprising a surface; forming fins on the substrate; depositing a dummy gate electrode over the fins; forming a gate spacer surrounding the dummy gate electrode; forming lightly-doped source/drain (LDD) regions in the substrate on two sides of the gate spacer; performing a first treatment at a first temperature to repair defects in at least one of the dummy gate electrode, the gate spacer and the LDD region; forming source/drain regions in the respective LDD regions; removing the dummy gate electrode to form a replacement gate; depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer over the replacement gate and the source/drain regions; and subsequent to the forming of the replacement gate, performing a second treatment at a second temperature, lower than the first temperature, to repair defects of the semiconductor device.
US12119388B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a graphene transistor 101, the method comprising: (a) providing a substrate having a substantially flat surface, wherein the surface comprises an insulating region 110 and an adjacent semiconducting region 105; (b) forming a graphene layer structure 115 on the surface, wherein the graphene layer structure is disposed on and across a portion of both the insulating region and the adjacent semiconducting region; (c) forming a layer of dielectric material 120 on a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the semiconducting region 105; and (d) providing: a source contact 125 on a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the insulating region 110; a gate contact 130 on the layer of dielectric material 120 and above a portion of the graphene layer structure which is itself disposed on the semiconducting region 105; and a drain contact 135 on the semiconducting region 105 of the substrate surface.
US12119384B2
A semiconductor device includes an isolation structure in a substrate; and a gate structure over an active region of the substrate. The isolation structure surrounds the active region. The gate structure includes a first section parallel to a second section. The semiconductor device further includes a conductive field plate extending between the first section and the second section and overlapping an edge of the active region. A portion of the conductive field plate extends beyond the edge of the active region, The conductive field plate includes a dielectric layer having a first portion and a second portion, and the first portion is thicker than the second portion. The semiconductor device includes a first well overlapping the edge of the active region. The first well extends underneath the isolation structure. The conductive field plate extends beyond an outer-most edge of the first well.
US12119382B2
A heterostructure, includes: a substrate; and a buffer layer that includes a plurality of layers having a composition AlxInyGa1-x-yN, where x≤1 and y≥0; wherein the buffer layer has a first region that includes at least two layers, a second region that includes at least two layers, and a third region that includes at least two layers.
US12119376B2
A switched-mode power supply includes a power semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor body comprising transistor cells and a drift zone between a drain layer and the transistor cells, the transistor cells comprising source zones, wherein the device exhibits a first output charge gradient when a voltage between the drain layer and the source zones of the transistor cells increases from a depletion voltage of the semiconductor device to a maximum drain/source voltage of the semiconductor device, wherein the device exhibits a second output charge gradient when a voltage between the drain layer and the source zones of the semiconductor device decreases from the maximum drain/source voltage to the depletion voltage of the semiconductor device, and wherein the semiconductor device is configured such that the first output charge gradient deviates by less than 5% from the second output charge gradient.
US12119371B2
The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.
US12119369B2
A display device includes a light emitting area, a non-light emitting area surrounding the light emitting area, and a separation area spaced apart from the light emitting area, the non-light emitting area disposed between the light emitting area and the separation area; a bank disposed in the non-light emitting area; a first alignment electrode and a second alignment electrode that extend from the light emitting area through the non-light emitting area to the separation area; light emitting elements electrically connected to at least one of the first alignment electrode and the second alignment electrode; a first contact electrode disposed in the separation area and electrically connected to the first alignment electrode; and a second contact electrode disposed in the separation area and electrically connected to the second alignment electrode.
US12119363B2
A sensor package structure is provided and includes a substrate, a sensor chip, a ring-shaped supporting layer, and a light-permeable sheet. The sensor chip is disposed on and electrically coupled to the substrate. The ring-shaped supporting layer is disposed on the sensor chip and surrounds a sensing region of the sensor chip. The light-permeable sheet has a ring-shaped notch recessed in a peripheral edge of an inner surface of the light-permeable sheet, and a depth of the ring-shaped notch with respect to the inner surface is at least 10 μm. The light-permeable sheet is disposed on the ring-shaped supporting layer through the ring-shaped notch, and the inner surface is not in contact with the ring-shaped supporting layer, so that the inner surface of the light-permeable sheet, an inner side of the ring-shaped supporting layer, and the top surface of the sensor chip jointly define an enclosed space.
US12119358B2
A detection device includes: a substrate; photoelectric conversion elements provided to the substrate; transistors; and signal lines each of which is between adjacent photoelectric conversion elements. Each detection element includes one of the photoelectric conversion element and the transistors adjacent to the photoelectric conversion element. A first signal line among the signal lines is between the photoelectric conversion element of a first detection element and the photoelectric conversion element of a second detection element adjacent to one side of the first detection element and is coupled to the first detection element and the second detection element. A second signal line among the signal lines is between the photoelectric conversion element of the first detection element and the photoelectric conversion element of a third detection element adjacent to another side of the first detection element and is coupled to the first detection element and the third detection element.
US12119353B2
A novel semiconductor device formed with single-polarity circuits using OS transistors is provided. Thus, connection between different layers in a memory circuit is unnecessary. This can reduce the number of connection portions and improve the flexibility of circuit layout and the reliability of the OS transistors. In particular, many memory cells are provided; thus, the memory cells are formed with single-polarity circuits, whereby the number of connection portions can be significantly reduced. Further, by providing a driver circuit in the same layer as the cell array, many wirings for connecting the driver circuit and the cell array can be prevented from being provided between layers, and the number of connection portions can be further reduced. An interposer provided with a plurality of integrated circuits can function as one electronic component.
US12119344B2
Multi-layer etch stop layers are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a conductive line in a first interlayer dielectric material above a substrate. A first dielectric etch stop layer, a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer are on the conductive line and the first interlayer dielectric material. A second interlayer dielectric material is on the third dielectric etch stop layer. An opening is in the second interlayer dielectric material, in the third dielectric etch stop layer, and in the second dielectric etch stop layer, in the first dielectric etch stop layer. A conductive structure is in the opening, the conductive structure in direct contact with the conductive line.
US12119341B2
In one embodiment a semiconductor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, a trench dielectric layer disposed in a trench of the semiconductor substrate, a first source/drain region disposed in contact with the semiconductor substrate, a gate and a second source/drain region. The gate is disposed between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region. The semiconductor structure further comprises a dielectric isolation layer disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the second source/drain region.
US12119339B2
A layout structure of a standard cell using a complementary FET (CFET) is provided. The standard cell includes a first three-dimensional transistor and a second three-dimensional transistor formed above the first transistor in the depth direction, between buried first and second power supply lines. A first contact connects a local interconnect connected to the first transistor and the first power supply line. A second contact connects a local interconnect connected to the second transistor and the second power supply line. The second contact is longer in the depth direction and greater in size in planar view than the first contact.
US12119336B2
Disclosed are fusion memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The fusion memory device comprises a first memory device including a first substrate having active and inactive surfaces opposite to each other and a first memory cell circuit on the active surface of the first substrate, a non-memory device including a second substrate having active and inactive surfaces opposite to each other and a non-memory circuit on the active surface of the second substrate, the non-memory device being provided on the first memory device, and a second memory device on the inactive surface of the second substrate and including a second memory cell circuit different from the first memory cell circuit. The non-memory device lies between the first and second memory cell circuits and controls an electrical operation of each of the first and second memory cell circuits.
US12119335B2
Embodiments of one or more high bandwidth chips (HB chips), e.g., high bandwidth memories (HBMs), are mounted on a module substrate. The HB chips/HBMs each have one or more HBM parallel communication interfaces (HB chip PHYs or HBM PHYs, respectively) that are connected to a companion PHY through a compatible companion PHY parallel connection that enable communication between the HBM PHY and the companion PHY. A companion PHY parallel link connection connects to a SERDES parallel connection of a SERDES. The SERDES converts parallel data/information at the SERDES parallel connection to serial data/information at a SERDES serial connection, and visa-versa, that enables efficient high bandwidth data transfer over longer distances. Alternative embodiments are disclosed.
US12119329B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes stacking semiconductor chips using a thermo-compression bonding (TCB) method, where defects are minimized for increased reliability. The semiconductor package includes an interface chip including a first test pad, a bump pad provided inside the first test pad, and a first through silicon via (TSV) provided between the first test pad and the bump pad; at least one memory chip, which is stacked on the interface chip and includes a second test pad, a dummy pad provided inside the second test pad, and a second TSV provided between the second test pad and the dummy pad; and an adhesive layer provided between the interface chip and the at least one memory chip. wherein no bump is provided on the first test pad and the second test pad.
US12119324B2
A package structure including an interposer, at least one semiconductor die and an insulating encapsulation is provided. The interposer includes a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate, the interconnect structure includes interlayer dielectric films and interconnect wirings embedded in the interlayer dielectric films, the semiconductor substrate includes a first portion and a second portion disposed on the first portion, the first interconnect structure is disposed on the second portion, and a first maximum lateral dimension of the first portion is greater than a second maximum lateral dimension of the second portion. The at least one semiconductor die is disposed over and electrically connected to the interconnect structure. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the first portion, wherein the insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the least one semiconductor die and the second portion.
US12119320B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a redistribution structure and a first chip structure over the redistribution structure. The chip package structure also includes a first solder bump between the redistribution structure and the first chip structure and a first molding layer surrounding the first chip structure. The chip package structure further includes a second chip structure over the first chip structure and a second molding layer surrounding the second chip structure. In addition, the chip package structure includes a third molding layer surrounding the first molding layer, the second molding layer, and the first solder bump. A portion of the third molding layer is between the first molding layer and the redistribution structure.
US12119317B2
Disclosed herein are structures and techniques related to singulation of microelectronic components with direct bonding interfaces. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic component may include: a surface, wherein conductive contacts are at the surface; a trench at a perimeter of the surface; and a burr in the trench.
US12119315B2
A chip bonding method includes the following operations. A first chip is provided, which includes a first contact pad including a first portion lower than a first surface of a first substrate and a second portion higher than the first surface of the first substrate to form the stepped first contact pad. A second chip is provided, which includes a second contact pad including a third portion lower than a third surface of a second substrate and a fourth portion higher than the third surface of the second substrate to form the stepped second contact pad. The first chip and the second chip are bonded. The first portion of the first chip contacts with the fourth portion of the second chip, and the second portion of the first chip contacts with the third portion of the second chip.
US12119314B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode provided on the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer including a first part provided on an upper surface of the first electrode, a second electrode including a main portion and an eaves portion, the main portion being provided on the upper surface of the first electrode, the eaves portion extending over the first part and solder covering an upper surface of the main portion and a part of an upper surface of the eaves portion wherein the insulating layer includes a second part covering a part of the upper surface of the eaves portion, the part being closer to an end portion of the eaves portion than the part covered by the solder and a third part connecting the first part and the second part and covering the end portion of the eaves portion.
US12119310B2
A semiconductor wafer includes first zones containing integrated circuits, each first zone including a substrate and a sealing ring at a periphery of the substrate. The first zones are separated from each other by second zones defining cutting lines or paths. The integrated circuit includes an electrically conductive fuse that extends between a first location inside the integrated circuit and a second location situated outside the integrated circuit beyond one of the cutting lines. This electrically conductive fuse includes a portion that passes through the sealing ring and another portion that straddles the adjacent cutting line. The portion of the fuse that passes through is electrically isolated from the sealing ring and from the substrate. The straddling portion is configured to be sliced, when cutting the wafer along the cutting line, so as to cause the fuse to change from an electrical on state to an electrical off state.
US12119309B2
When III-V semiconductor material is bonded to an oxide material, water molecules can degrade the bonding if they become trapped at the interface between the III-V material and the oxide material. Because water molecules can diffuse readily through oxide material, and may not diffuse as readily through III-V material or through silicon, forcing the III-V material against the oxide material can force water molecules at the interface into the oxide material and away from the interface. Water molecules present at the interface can be forced during manufacturing through vertical channels in a silicon layer into a buried oxide layer thereby to enhance bonding between the III-V material and the oxide material. Water molecules can be also forced through lateral channels in the oxide material, past a periphery of the III-V material, and, through diffusion, out of the oxide material into the atmosphere.
US12119307B2
An assembly. In some embodiments, the assembly includes a first semiconductor chip, a substrate, and a first alignment element. The alignment of the first semiconductor chip and the substrate may be determined at least in part by engagement of the first alignment element with a first recessed alignment feature, in a surface of the first semiconductor chip.
US12119304B2
Structures and methods of forming fine die-to-die interconnect routing are described. In an embodiment, a package includes a package-level RDL than spans across a die set and includes a plurality of die-to-die interconnects connecting contact pads between each die. In an embodiment, the plurality of die-to-die interconnects is embedded within one or more photoimageable organic dielectric layers.
US12119300B2
A device having a reference transistor fabricated within the same semiconductor substrate as a primary transistor (e.g., configured for use in a radiofrequency amplifier or other active circuit) has a shared metallization area coupled to a current terminal of both transistors configured to shield a control terminal of the reference transistor from coupling of alternating current interference from alternating currents within the primary transistor.
US12119297B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an inter-dielectric layer on a substrate; a conductive pad in the inter-dielectric layer; and a multi-stacking carrier structure including a first tier on the inter-dielectric layer, a second tier on the first tier, and a third tier on the second tier.
US12119290B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, first switching elements, second switching elements, a first supply terminal and a second supply terminal. The first and second conductive plates are spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The first switching elements are bonded to the first conductive plate, and are electrically connected to the second conductive plate. The second switching elements are bonded to the second conductive plate. The first supply terminal is bonded to the first conductive plate. The second supply terminal has a region that overlaps with the first supply terminal as viewed in a plan view. The second supply terminal is spaced apart from the first conductive plate and the first supply terminal in a thickness direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second supply terminal is electrically connected to the second switching elements.
US12119288B2
A semiconductor package includes: a lead frame that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, where the lead frame includes a first lead that extends in a first direction, and a plurality of second leads that are spaced apart from the first lead on both sides of the first lead; at least one semiconductor chip mounted on the first surface of the lead frame by a plurality of bumps; and an encapsulant that encapsulates the lead frame and the at least one semiconductor chip, wherein the first lead has a groove in the first surface that partitions the plurality of bumps in contact with the first lead.
US12119286B2
A die, a memory and a method of manufacturing the die are provided. The die includes a substrate and a conductive structure, where the substrate has an interconnection structure layer, the conductive structure includes a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure connected with the first conductive structure, the first conductive structure is connected with the interconnection structure layer, and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the first conductive structure is smaller than that of copper.
US12119284B2
A DBC substrate for power semiconductor devices includes a ceramic workpiece of a non-oxide ceramic having first and second opposing main sides, the ceramic workpiece having a thickness of 10 μm or more measured between the first and second main sides, a copper-containing layer disposed over the first main side, the copper-containing layer having a thickness of 5 μm or more, and an intermediate layer comprising Al2O3 disposed between the ceramic workpiece and the copper-containing layer.
US12119277B2
A method for producing a package substrate for mounting a semiconductor device includes: forming a first substrate by forming a laminate in which a first metal layer that has a thickness of 1 μm to 70 μm and that is peelable from a core resin layer, a first insulating resin layer, and a second metal layer are arranged on both sides of the core resin layer having a thickness of 1 μm to 80 μm, and heating and pressurizing the laminate simultaneously; forming a pattern on the second metal layer; forming a second substrate by heating and pressurizing a laminate formed by arranging a second insulating resin layer and a third metal layer on a surface of the second metal layer; and peeling, from the core resin layer, a third substrate including the first metal and insulating resin layers, the second metal and insulating layers, and the third metal layer.
US12119273B2
In a method of inspection of a semiconductor substrate a first beam of light is split into two or more second beams of light. The two or more second beams of light are respectively transmitted onto a first set of two or more first locations on top of the semiconductor substrate. In response to the transmitted two or more second beams of light, two or more reflected beams of light from the first set of two or more first locations are received. The received two or more reflected beams of light are detected to generate two or more detected signals. The two or more detected signals are analyzed to determine whether a defect exists at the set of the two or more first locations.
US12119272B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-shaped structure on a substrate, a single diffusion break (SDB) structure in the fin-shaped structure to divide the first fin-shaped structure into a first portion and a second portion, and more than two gate structures on the SDB structure. Preferably, the more than two gate structures include a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a third gate structure, and a fourth gate structure disposed on the SDB structure.
US12119270B2
A method includes forming an epitaxy semiconductor layer over a semiconductor substrate, and etching the epitaxy semiconductor layer and the semiconductor substrate to form a semiconductor strip, which includes an upper portion acting as a mandrel, and a lower portion under the mandrel. The upper portion is a remaining portion of the epitaxy semiconductor layer, and the lower portion is a remaining portion of the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes growing a first semiconductor fin starting from a first sidewall of the mandrel, growing a second semiconductor fin starting from a second sidewall of the mandrel. The first sidewall and the second sidewall are opposite sidewalls of the mandrel. A first transistor is formed based on the first semiconductor fin. A second transistor is formed based on the second semiconductor fin.
US12119269B2
An array of vertical transistors comprises spaced pillars individually comprising a channel region of individual vertical transistors. A horizontally-elongated conductor line directly electrically couples together individual of the channel regions of the pillars of a plurality of the vertical transistors. An upper source/drain region is above the individual channel regions of the pillars, a lower source/drain region is below the individual channel regions of the pillars, and a conductive gate line is operatively aside the individual channel regions of the pillars and that interconnects multiple of the vertical transistors. Methods are disclosed.
US12119263B2
In a described example, an integrated circuit (IC) package includes an IC die disposed on a die attach pad; a plurality of leads electrically connected to terminals on the IC die, the leads including a base metal; and molding compound material encapsulating portions of the IC die, the die attach pads, and the plurality of leads; the plurality of leads having a solder joint reinforcement tab. The solder joint reinforcement tabs include a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, a third side, a fourth side opposite to and in parallel to the third side, a fifth side forming an end portion of the solder joint reinforcement tab, the solder joint reinforcement tabs including a solderable metal layer on the second, third and fourth sides and on portions of the fifth side.
US12119256B2
A method of replacing an end effector for wafer handling in a semiconductor processing system includes fixing a first end effector jig to a first stage and a second end effector jig to a second stage of the load lock module; positioning a first end effector at the first end effector jig and a second end effector at the second end effector jig, the second end effector fixed relative to the first end effector; and fixing the second end effector to the second end effector jig. The first end effector is replaced with a replacement end effector and the semiconductor processing system returned to production without re-teaching placement of the replacement end effector in a processing module connected to a wafer handling module mounting the end effectors. Semiconductor processing systems and end effector jigs for replacing end effectors in semiconductor processing systems are also described.
US12119248B2
A module tray for a semiconductor device includes a case and an insert block. The case includes a base plate, first and second sidewalls extending from opposite sides of the base plate in a vertical direction to define an accommodation space, and first and second fastening grooves respectively formed in inner surfaces of the first and second sidewalls. The first and second fastening grooves have upper ends opened to upper surfaces of the first and second sidewalls, respectively. The insert block has a substrate accommodating space for accommodating a semiconductor substrate. The insert block is detachably inserted into the first and second fastening grooves of the case. The insert block has first and second fastening joints extending in the vertical direction such that the first and second fastening joint are respectively inserted through the upper ends of the first and second fastening grooves.
US12119247B2
Method for monitoring a state of a pin lifter device (10), wherein the pin lifter device (10) is designed for moving and positioning a substrate in a process atmosphere region (P). The pin lifter device (10) has a coupling (18) and a drive unit (12) having an electric motor, which is designed and interacts with the coupling (18) in such a way that the coupling (18) is adjustable from a lowered normal position into an individual active position and back. The method for monitoring includes progressively receiving a present item of motor current information with respect to a motor current applied to the electric motor, comparing the present motor current information to an item of target current information, and deriving an item of state information based on the comparison.
US12119242B2
A nozzle is stored in a nozzle storage hole of a waiting pod. In this state, a cleaning liquid is discharged to an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle from a plurality of discharge ports. Thus, a coating liquid and its solidified matter adhering to the nozzle are dissolved and removed from the nozzle. Subsequently, a metal removal liquid is discharged from a plurality of discharge ports to the outer peripheral surface of the nozzle. Thus, a metallic component remaining on the nozzle is dissolved and removed from the nozzle. Further, pure water is discharged to the outer peripheral surface of the nozzle from the plurality of discharge ports, and the metal removal liquid adhering to the nozzle is cleaned away.
US12119225B2
An oxide semiconductor sputtering target used in a sputtering process to deposit an active layer of a TFT. The oxide semiconductor sputtering target is formed from a material based on a composition of In, Sn, Ga, Zn, and O. The material contains gallium oxide, tin oxide, zinc oxide, and indium oxide. The In, Sn, Ga, and Zn contents are in ranges of 60% to 80%, 0.5% to 8%, 5% to 15%, and 10% to 30% by weight with respect to the weight of In+Sn+Ga+Zn, respectively. A method of fabricating a TFT includes depositing an active layer using the oxide semiconductor sputtering target. Such a TFT is used in a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting display, an electroluminescence display, and the like.
US12119221B2
A method of depositing nitride films is disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a PEALD process for depositing nitride films which utilizes separate reaction and nitridation plasmas. In some embodiments, the nitride films have improved growth per cycle (GPC) relative to films deposited by thermal processes or plasma processes with only a single plasma exposure. In some embodiments, the nitride films have improved film quality relative to films deposited by thermal processes or plasma processes with only a single plasma exposure.
US12119216B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for processing workpieces are provided. An arc lamp can include a tube. The arc lamp can include one or more inlets configured to receive water to be circulated through the arc lamp during operation as a water wall, the water wall configured to cool the arc lamp. The arc lamp can include a plurality of electrodes configured to generate a plasma in a forming gas introduced into the arc lamp via the one or more inlets. The forming gas can be or can include a mixture of a hydrogen gas and an inert gas, the hydrogen gas in the mixture having a concentration less than 4% by volume. The hydrogen gas can be introduced into the arc lamp prior to generating the plasma. The arc lamp may be used for processing workpieces.
US12119213B2
Disclosed is a power supply device for a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, including a power input module, a sequence generator, and an output control module. The power supply input module is connected to a power supply. A positive output terminal of the power supply input module is connected to the sequence generator, so that the sequence generator converts a positive output voltage of the power supply into an auxiliary voltage and a relay control signal. The sequence generator is connected to the power input module to transmit the auxiliary voltage and the relay control signal to the output control module, thereby controlling on and off of the output control module, and sequentially powering on the output control module. The power supply input module is connected to the output control module to transmit an input voltage from the power supply to the output control module.
US12119202B2
Provided is a charged particle beam device capable of stably obtaining an effect of improving the depth of focus or the effect of correcting spherical aberration. The charged particle beam device includes an aperture having an annular slit or an electrode having an annular slit and is provided with means for adjusting the incident angle at which the charged particle beam is incident on the aperture or the electrode. Since the incident angle at which the charged particle beam is incident on the aperture or electrode having an annular slit can be made closer to perpendicular, the effect of improving the depth of focus or the effect of correcting spherical aberration can be stably obtained.
US12119199B2
The present disclosure discloses a power device including at least one vacuum packaged unit structure. The unit structure comprises a silicon substrate (100) and an emitter (200), a light modulator (300) and a collector (400) formed on the silicon substrate (100). On the one hand, the unified silicon-based process is compatible with the existing commercial process, so that it is easy for integration, simple for manufacture, and low in cost; on the other hand, the light modulator (300) is introduced and formed on the silicon substrate by a silicon-based process, which enhances field emission efficiency of the emitter (200), offsets the inconsistency of distances between the tips of the emitters (200) and the collector (400) caused by unevenness of the emitters, and increases the process redundancy of the cold cathode emitter.
US12119198B2
In embodiments, systems and apparatus comprise a bracket having a through hole configured to receive a first connector connected to a panel spaced from the bracket, the bracket movable between first and second positions; a switch mountable on the panel, the switch having first and second switch positions; and at least one compression spring extending from the bracket to bias the bracket into the first position spaced away from the switch. When the bracket is in the first position, the switch is in the first switch position, and when the bracket is in the second position, the bracket engages and actuates the switch into the second switch position. The bracket is movable into the second position to engage and actuate the switch by coupling a second connector to the first connector. The switch is configured to trigger a signal indicating that the first connector is connected to the second connector.
US12119195B2
The present disclosure relates to an arc extinguishing assembly including a sealing member and a circuit breaker including same. The sealing member is pressed and elastically deformed between coupling surfaces of the arc extinguishing assembly and the circuit breaker, and accordingly, a gap between the coupling surfaces of the arc extinguishing assembly and the circuit breaker is sealed. Accordingly, when an arc is generated, a temporary pressure increase in the circuit breaker increases and the arc can be smoothly extended.
US12119191B2
A system may include a relay device. The relay device may include an armature that moves between a first position that electrically couples a first contact to a second contact and a second position that electrically uncouples the first contact from the second contact. The relay device may also include a relay coil that receives a voltage configured to magnetize a relay coil, thereby causing the armature to move from the first position to the second position. The system also includes a control system that receives an indication that the armature is in the second position and sends a signal to an actuator in response to receiving the indication. The signal causes an arm associated with the actuator to move the armature to achieve a gap distance between the first contact and the second contact.
US12119190B2
A direct current relay is disclosed. A movable contact part provided on a direct current relay, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises a movable contact and a pin member that is through-coupled to the movable contact. The movable contact can be supported by the pin member and simultaneously move on a straight line along the pin member. Therefore, even when a physical force is applied to the movable contact, the movable contact does not arbitrarily separate therefrom. The pin member is coupled to a support member insertion-coupled to a housing and an upper yoke. The pin member is formed to have a diameter larger than that of a hollow formed in the support member. The pin member can be insertion-coupled to the support member. Therefore, arbitrary separation of the movable contact can be prevented even without a separate fastening member.
US12119182B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including stacked ceramic layers, internal conductive layers stacked on the ceramic layers, and external electrodes each connected to the internal conductive layers. The internal conductive layers each include holes each having a different area equivalent diameter. The holes include first holes including ceramic pillars therein and second holes not including ceramic pillars therein. The ceramic pillars connect ceramic layers on sides of the internal conductive layers. When an area equivalent diameter in which a cumulative value in a cumulative distribution of area equivalent diameters of the holes existing in each of the internal conductive layers is 90% is defined as an area equivalent diameter D90, an abundance ratio of the first holes in a first population including holes each having the area equivalent diameter D90 or more is about 14% or more.
US12119176B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a supercapacitor supported by a semiconductor substrate. The supercapacitor includes first and second electrode bases. The first electrode base includes first laterally-projecting regions, and the second electrode base includes second laterally-projecting regions which are interdigitated with the first laterally-projecting regions. A distance between the first and second laterally-projecting regions is less than or equal to about 500 nm. Carbon nanotubes extend upwardly from the first and second electrode bases. The carbon nanotubes are configured as a first membrane structure associated with the first electrode base and as a second membrane structure associated with the second electrode base. Pseudocapacitive material is dispersed throughout the first and second membrane structures. Electrolyte material is within and between the first and second membrane structures. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12119173B2
A magnetic levitation system for transporting a carrier is described. The magnetic levitation system includes a base defining a transportation track, a carrier movable relative to the base along the transportation track, and a plurality of active magnetic bearings provided at the base and configured to face a guided structure of the carrier. The guided structure includes a first guided zone and a second guided zone configured to interact with the plurality of active magnetic bearings and a recessed zone. The recessed zone is arranged between the first guided zone and the second guided zone in a transport direction of the carrier and is recessed with respect to the first guided zone and the second guided zone.
US12119160B2
A coil component includes an insulating base body and a coil conductor arranged in the base body and having a winding portion extending around a coil axis. The insulating base body includes a magnetic body portion made of a magnetic material and a magnetic gap portion made of a low-permeability material having a lower relative permeability than the magnetic material. The magnetic gap portion is shaped like a ring when seen in a direction along the coil axis and arranged within the winding portion. The magnetic body portion includes a first region positioned within the winding portion, a second region positioned opposite the first region with respect to the magnetic gap portion in the direction along the coil axis, and a third region arranged within a through hole defined by an inner peripheral surface of the magnetic gap portion, where the third region connects together the first and second regions.
US12119152B2
A laminate of a laminated coil includes first and second sections in a stacking direction from a first surface toward a second surface. The number of windings of each of coil conductor patterns on insulation resin layers, respectively, in the first region is equal to or more than the number of windings of a coil conductor pattern on an insulation resin layer in the second section, and is more than the number of windings of the coil conductor pattern closest to the second surface in the second section. The number of main conductor portions per unit distance in the first section is more than the number of main conductor portions per unit distance in the second section. The outermost main conductor portion of the coil conductor pattern in the second section has a width more than a width of the main conductor portion of the coil conductor pattern in the first section.
US12119151B2
Provided are a ferrite powder capable of maintaining a high withstand voltage even when used in a resin composition having high magnetic properties and electrical resistivity and a high filling ratio, and a method for producing the same. A ferrite powder composed of spherical ferrite particles, wherein the ferrite powder contains iron (Fe): 55.0-70.0 mass % and manganese (Mn): 3.5-18.5 mass %, the ferrite powder containing more than 0.0 mass % to 7.5 mass % α-Fe2O3, and the ferrite powder has a volume average particle size (D50) of 15.0 μm or less.
US12119145B2
The present invention concerns a power cable, comprising a tension member (1), placed in the centre of said power cable; a first insulation layer (3), the tension member (1) being embedded in the first insulation layer (3); and an outer protective sheath (9); wherein said power cable further comprises one or more first aluminum conductors (4), embedded within the first insulation layer (3). The present invention also concerns a process for producing the inventive power cable, the process comprising the step of extruding a first polymeric insulation layer (3) onto the tension member (1) and the one or more conductors (4) in one single step. Finally, the present invention concerns the use of the inventive power cable, in medium-voltage to high-voltage subsea applications, such as an offshore windmill cable infrastructure or driving of subsea pumps.
US12119131B2
A method for synthesizing a copper-silver alloy includes an ink preparation step, a coating step, a crystal nucleus formation step and a crystal nucleus synthesis step. In the ink preparation step, a copper salt particle, an amine-based solvent, and a silver salt particle are mixed, thereby preparing a copper-silver ink. In the coating step, a member to be coated is coated with the copper-silver ink. In the crystal nucleus formation step, at least one of a crystal nucleus of copper having a crystal grain diameter of 0.2 μm or less and a crystal nucleus of silver having a crystal grain diameter of 0.2 μm or less is formed from the copper-silver ink. In the crystal nucleus synthesis step, the crystal nucleus of copper and the crystal nucleus of silver are synthesized.
US12119124B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for holistically and dynamically managing metabolomics, leading to improvement of users' overall health. A metabolomics enhancement (“ME”) system recommends a metabolomic regiment harmonizing macronutritional and micronutritional consumption for a metabolomics beneficiary. The ME system receives characteristics and palate preferences of the beneficiary. Using the personalized data, the ME system generates a customized dynamic combination of macronutrients and micronutrients for enhancing beneficiary metabolomics, and then transposes the macronutrients and micronutrients combination into a recommended pabulum combination for the metabolomic beneficiary.
US12119123B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods using blockchain for in-vehicle health and wellness tracking. An example method may include receiving a request for a vehicle from a mobile device of a user. The example method may also include receiving, from a pathogen detector device within a first vehicle, an indication that a number of pathogens within the first vehicle is less than a threshold amount. The example method may also include assigning the first vehicle to the user based on the indication that the number of pathogens within the first vehicle is less than a threshold amount.
US12119119B2
Medical devices and related systems and methods are provided. A method of estimating a physiological condition using a first sensing arrangement involves obtaining a sensor translation model associated with a relationship between the first sensing arrangement and a second sensing arrangement, wherein the second sensing arrangement is different from the first sensing arrangement, obtaining one or more measurements from a sensing element coupled to the processing system of the first sensing arrangement, determining simulated measurement data for the second sensing arrangement by applying the sensor translation model to the one or more measurements from the sensing element of the first sensing arrangement, and determining an estimated value for the physiological condition by applying an estimation model associated with the second sensing arrangement to the simulated measurement data.
US12119114B2
The present disclosure discloses a missing medical diagnosis data imputation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a medium. The method includes the following steps: acquiring a medical diagnosis data set with data missing; randomly dividing original data into initial sample point data and candidate sample point data, and constructing and training a generative adversarial network initial imputation model by utilizing the initial sample point data; estimating an influence of sample points on a parameter of the generative adversarial network initial imputation model and a prediction result of the generative adversarial network initial imputation model by utilizing an influence function; and sampling a sample point with highest influence among the candidate sample point data by utilizing a binary search algorithm, and further iteratively optimizing the generative adversarial network initial imputation model so as to impute missing data for the medical diagnosis data.
US12119113B2
An apparatus, method, system, and program product are disclosed for remote dentistry. One apparatus includes an information reception module of a diagnostic processing device that receives digital dental information. The apparatus includes an issue determination module that determines a dental related issue based on the digital dental information. The apparatus includes a treatment module that transmits treatment information for the dental related issue from the diagnostic processing device. At least a portion of the information reception module, the issue determination module, and the treatment module includes one or more of hardware and executable code. The executable code may be stored on one or more computer readable storage media.
US12119112B1
A medical services kiosk supporting private and secure telemedicine sessions between a patient and a remote network terminal utilized by a remote health care professional. The medical services kiosk comprising at least one privacy chamber having at least one door and at least one window, Each privacy chamber may include a user interactive display terminal that includes a display device, an input device, and a centralized processor, wherein the centralized processor is electronically communicable with the remote network terminal and a cloud based system, Each patient station may each include at least one documentation receiving device, at least one biometric device for obtaining biometric health measurements of the patient utilizing the at least one patient station, an arm mechanism, a seating mechanism, a camera, a retractable diagnostic camera device, a lighting mechanism that lights the privacy chamber, and a purification system.
US12119100B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device in communication with a mobile communication device having a software application to determine a recommended dose based on prior dose data, analyte data, and nutrient data and to generate a report illustrative of a relationship between the medicine data, the health data, and the contextual data.
US12119095B2
Methods of identifying a person attempting to access a computer file, where identifying information for each of a plurality of registered human individuals is stored in a database, calls for capturing local images of an individual and determining whether this individual is the same as one of the registered individuals whose identifying information is stored in the database. The identifying information stored in the database includes at least one image of a unique, visually observable biologic identifier of a body portion of each registered individual. The accuracy of user identification is enhanced by allowing the sender of information to supply visual content which modulates the appearance of a biologic identifier of the user. Utilization of the system for the document of critical encounters such as medical events is provided.
US12119094B2
A method for connecting devices to a health record configured to have a single connection thereto. The method includes creating a virtual device and configuring the virtual device such that two or more of the devices are connectable thereto. The virtual device receives data from each of the two or more of the devices and aggregates the data from each of the two or more of the devices into aggregate data. The aggregate data is associated with the virtual device as originating therefrom. The method further includes connecting the virtual device to the electronic medical record as the single connection thereto and providing the aggregate data from the virtual device to the health record.
US12119090B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for training and utilizing generative machine learning models to generate embeddings from phenomic images (or other microscopy representations). For example, the disclosed systems can train a generative machine learning model (e.g., a masked autoencoder generative model) to generate predicted (or reconstructed) phenomic images from masked version of ground truth training phenomic images. In some cases, the disclosed systems utilize a momentum-tracking optimizer while reducing a loss of the generative machine learning model to enable efficient training on large scale training image batches. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can utilize Fourier transformation losses with multi-stage weighting to improve the accuracy of the generative machine learning model on the phenomic images during training. Indeed, the disclosed systems can utilize the trained generative machine learning model to generate phenomic embeddings from input phenomic images (for various phenomic comparisons).
US12119088B2
A system, a method and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for base calling are described. The base calling method includes processing through a neural network first image data comprising images of clusters and their surrounding background captured by a sequencing system for one or more sequencing cycles of a sequencing run. The base calling method further includes producing a base call for one or more of the clusters of the one or more sequencing cycles of the sequencing run.
US12119084B2
A memory device includes a first substrate, a first memory array, a second substrate, and at least one first vertical transistor. The first memory array is disposed on the first substrate. The first memory array includes at least one first word line structure. The first memory array is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate in a vertical direction. The first vertical transistor is electrically connected with the first word line structure. At least a part of the at least one first vertical transistor is disposed in the second substrate.
US12119083B2
A drive circuit, a method for driving the drive circuit and a memory are provided. The drive circuit includes a word line drive circuit and a first control circuit. The word line drive circuit includes an input terminal, an output terminal and at least one N-type transistor. The word line drive circuit is configured to provide an output signal to the output terminal according to an input signal received by the input terminal. The first control circuit is configured to pull down, in response to the input signal being a first control signal, a voltage of a substrate terminal of the at least one N-type transistor in the word line drive circuit, to reduce a leakage current of the at least one N-type transistor.
US12119075B2
Aspects of this technical solution can include selecting a plurality of memory locations at a memory device, the memory locations corresponding to a first page including a first plurality of bits and a second page including a second plurality of bits, modifying, based on the first plurality of bits and the second plurality of bits, a first voltage threshold corresponding to an estimated read voltage for the first plurality of bits, allocating, to a voltage range bounded by the first voltage threshold, a log-likelihood ratio (LLR), and decoding, based on the LLR corresponding to the voltage range, the first plurality of bits.
US12119071B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving, from a host, an error check functionality request for a memory device that stores encoded data. The encoded data is written to a verification portion of memory with at least one intentional error. A read command of the verification portion is initiated in response to the request. An error check functionality indicator is determined based on a result of the read command and a number of intentional errors in the encoded data. The error check functionality indicator corresponding to the number intentional errors in the encoded data is sent to the host.
US12119070B2
A system, method and apparatus of memory failure prediction through image analyses using an artificial neural network. A sequence of images indicative of progress of memory failures in a region of an integrated circuit die can be generated according to a physical layout of memory cells in the region. The artificial neural network can be trained to recognize graphical features in early images in the sequence and to predict, based on the recognized graphical features, memory failures shown in subsequent images in the sequence. A computing apparatus can use the artificial neural network to analyze an input image shown current memory failures in the region and to identify one or more memory cells in the region that are likely to have subsequent memory failures.
US12119069B2
In an anti-fuse memory reading circuit with controllable reading time, a reading time control circuit generates a control signal corresponding to reading time. Based on a clock signal, a programmable reading pulse generation circuit generates a reading pulse with a pulse width corresponding to the control signal. Based on the reading pulse and the control signal, the reading amplification circuit selects a pull-up current source corresponding to the reading time, pulls up a voltage on a bit line (BL) of an anti-fuse memory cell, reads data stored in the anti-fuse memory cell starting from a rising edge of the reading pulse, and latches the read data at a falling edge of the reading pulse. The anti-fuse memory reading circuit can generate a reading pulse with a corresponding pulse width and a pull-up current source with a corresponding size based on the required reading time.
US12119054B2
A controller for managing at least one MLC non-volatile memory space including at least one MLC non-volatile memory element and at least one SLC non-volatile memory space including at least one SLC non-volatile memory element. The controller is adapted to determine if a range of addresses listed by an entry and mapped to the at least one MLC non-volatile memory element fails a data integrity test performed at the controller based upon received data retained at the controller and which received data is stored in the at least one MLC memory element as stored data. In the event of such a failure, the controller remaps said entry to an the at least one SLC non-volatile memory element.
US12119053B2
When programming an MLC memory device, the disturb characteristics of a program block having multiple memory cells are measured, and the threshold voltage variations of the multiple memory cells are then acquired based on the disturb characteristics of the program block. Next, multiple initial program voltage pulses are provided according to a predetermined signal level, and multiple compensated program voltage pulses are provided by adjusting the multiple initial program voltage pulses. Last, the multiple compensated program voltage pulses are outputted to the program block for programming the multiple memory cells to the predetermined signal level.
US12119044B2
Memory devices and methods for controlling a row hammer are provided. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a word line and a plurality of counter memory cells storing an access count value of the word line, and a control logic circuit configured to monitor a row address accessing the word line during a row hammer monitoring time frame and to determine the row address to be a row hammer address when the number of times the word line is accessed is greater than or equal to a threshold value, wherein the row hammer address is to be stored in an address storage. The control logic circuit is further configured to hold up a determination operation for a next row hammer address, based on activation of a latch full signal indicating that there is no free space to store the row hammer address in the address storage.
US12119036B2
A magnetic memory device may include a magnetic track, which is extended in a first direction, and a first electrode, which is provided at a biasing point of the magnetic track and is configured to apply a voltage to the magnetic track. The magnetic track includes a first region between a first end of the magnetic track and the biasing point and a second region between the biasing point and a second end of the magnetic track. The first electrode may be configured to cause a difference between a current density in the first region and a current density in the second region.
US12119034B2
There is provided a method of producing a multilayer optical recording medium through which the occurrence of burrs is reduced. The method of producing a multilayer optical recording medium includes, when a UV curable adhesive is interposed between a first disk and a second disk, the first disk and the second disk are rotated, and when at least one of the vicinities of inner circumferential edges and the vicinities of outer circumferential edges of the first disk and the second disk is masked with a mask member, emitting ultraviolet rays for preliminarily curing the UV curable adhesive from the side of a light emission surface of the first disk during rotation.
US12119031B2
A method for creating a Full Data Set Directory (FDSD) entry, in accordance with one embodiment, includes acquiring a record count and file mark count of a data set written to and/or to be written to a magnetic recording tape. A writing position on the tape where the data set will be written is determined. The data set is written on the tape. An FDSD entry is generated for the data set. The FDSD entry includes information about each of the following: a tape write pass in which the data set is written, a position of the data set on the tape, the record count, and the file mark count.
US12119029B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video editing method, apparatus, a device and a medium. The method includes: acquiring a video editing template, wherein the video editing template is generated based on first multimedia data; displaying a video editing interface based on the video editing template, a video editing track based on a timeline is presented on the video editing interface, a first video track clip is presented on the video editing track, the first video track clip corresponds to a second video track clip formed by a first multimedia material in the first multimedia data; and in response to a material import operation for the first video track clip, replacing the first video track clip with a third video track clip to obtain second multimedia data, wherein the first multimedia material in the first multimedia data is replaced with a second multimedia material in the second multimedia data.
US12119024B2
A back electromotive force (BEMF) of a spindle motor in a hard disk drive is rectified and exploited to drive a voice coil motor (VCM) in the hard disk drive to retract the heads of the hard disk drive to a park position. The VCM is driven in a discontinuous mode comprising an alternation of VCM on-times and VCM off-times. Rectifying the BEMF of the spindle motor is discontinued before the end of the VCM off-times, Toff with the spindle motor brought into a brake condition wherein the spindle motor is short-circuited and the spindle BEMF forces currents through the windings of the spindle motor. The spindle current is thus pre-charged and made ready to cope with a VCM current request at the next VCM on-time.
US12119021B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for providing situational awareness for HMD users. Some implementations involve providing a CGR experience to a first user wearing an HMD in a physical environment. Audio data or image data is obtained from a sensor at the physical environment during the CGR experience and an emotional state or direction of attention of a second person other than the first user is detected based on the audio data or image data. A notification or other change is provided in the CGR experience based on detecting the emotional state or direction of attention of the second person.
US12119018B2
In one implementation, a method of changing an audio property of an object is performed at a device including one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The method includes displaying, using a display, a representation of a scene including a representation of an object associated with an audio property. The method includes displaying, using the display, in association with the representation of the object, a manipulator indicating a value of the audio property. The method includes receiving, using one or more input devices, a user input interacting with the manipulator. The method includes, in response to receiving the user input, changing the value of the audio property based on the user input and displaying, using the display, the manipulator indicating the changed value of the audio property.
US12119009B2
A sound signal downmix method includes an inter-channel relationship information obtaining step of obtaining an inter-channel correlation value and an inter-channel time difference in an approximate manner, and a downmix step of obtaining a downmix signal based on the obtained information. In the inter-channel relationship information obtaining step, multiple channel signals are sorted such that signals of adjacent channels are similar to each other, the inter-channel correlation value and the inter-channel time difference are determined only between adjacent channels after the sorting, the inter-channel correlation value between non-adjacent channels is obtained by determining a value that has a monotonically non-decreasing relationship with the inter-channel correlation between the adjacent channels, and the inter-channel time difference between non-adjacent channels is obtained by adding up the inter-channel time differences of adjacent channels.
US12119006B2
Implementations described herein relate to various techniques for biasing interpretations of spoken utterances that are received in a vehicular environment. For example, implementations can receive a spoken utterance that includes a query from a user of a vehicle and obtain a corresponding vehicle sensor data instance generated by vehicle sensor(s) of the vehicle. Some implementations can determine to execute a search over only a first corpus of data, but not a second corpus of data, to obtain a given response to the query based on various criteria, including at least the query, the corresponding vehicle sensor data instance, a corresponding timestamp associated with the corresponding vehicle sensor data instance, and/or a corresponding duration of time the user has been associated with the vehicle. Additional, or alternative, implementations can execute a search over both the first and second corpora of data, and obtain the given response based on the criteria.
US12119005B2
An audio data processing method is provided. The method includes: obtaining multi-path audio data in an environmental space, obtaining a speech data set based on the multi-path audio data, and separately generating, in a plurality of enhancement directions, enhanced speech information corresponding to the speech data set; matching a speech hidden feature in the enhanced speech information with a target matching word, and determining an enhancement direction corresponding to the enhanced speech information having a highest degree of matching with the target matching word as a target audio direction; obtaining speech spectrum features in the enhanced speech information, and obtaining, from the speech spectrum features, a speech spectrum feature in the target audio direction; and performing speech authentication on the speech hidden feature and the speech spectrum feature that are in the target audio direction based on the target matching word, to obtain a target authentication result.
US12119004B2
The present disclosure may provide a voice audio data processing system. The voice audio data processing system may obtain voice audio data, which includes one or more voices, each being respectively associated with one of one or more subjects. For one of the one or more voices and the subject associated with the voice, the voice audio processing system may generate a text based on the voice audio data. The text may have one or more sizes, each size corresponding to one of one or more volumes of the voice. The text may have one or more colors, each color corresponding to one of one or more emotion types of the voice.
US12118998B2
Implementations are set forth herein for creating an order of execution for actions that were requested by a user, via a spoken utterance to an automated assistant. The order of execution for the requested actions can be based on how each requested action can, or is predicted to, affect other requested actions. In some implementations, an order of execution for a series of actions can be determined based on an output of a machine learning model, such as a model that has been trained according to supervised learning. A particular order of execution can be selected to mitigate waste of processing, memory, and network resources—at least relative to other possible orders of execution. Using interaction data that characterizes past performances of automated assistants, certain orders of execution can be adapted over time, thereby allowing the automated assistant to learn from past interactions with one or more users.
US12118997B1
A method and system for controlling response to a voice-command utterance. An example method includes a computing system that is associated with the first device carrying out operations upon the first device receiving the voice-command utterance. The operations include (a) making a determination of whether any of one or more second devices received the voice-command utterance before the first device received the voice-command utterance and (b) controlling whether the computing system will trigger an action in response to the first device receiving the voice-command utterance, with the controlling being based on the determination of whether any of the one or more second devices received the voice-command utterance before the first device received the voice-command utterance. In an example implementation, the action could be controlling operation of a control target such as one or more lights.
US12118972B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of manufacturing an acoustic absorption system. The acoustic absorption system can include a curtain that includes one or more insulating or acoustic absorption sheets. The manufacturing method uses press welding to seal the insulating sheets between a first layer of material and a second layer of material. Each insulating sheets is disposed within a corresponding compartment of the acoustic absorption system and an entire perimeter of each compartment can be sealed simultaneously, wherein the seals form a plurality of panels.
US12118970B2
An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least two audio signals; determine, with respect to the at least two audio signals, an audio object part and an ambience audio part; determine a level parameter based on the ambience audio part; apply a noise suppression to the audio object part, wherein the noise suppression is configured to be controlled based on the determined level parameter; and generate a noise suppressed audio object part based on the applied noise suppression.
US12118963B2
A display controller reads, from frame buffers, data on a first image and a second image, and converts, with a conversion formula depending on the characteristics in terms of luminance of the data, the data to data in a blend space having common characteristics. Then, the display controller performs alpha blending on the converted data in the blend space, further converts the data to a space having characteristics suitable for a display, and outputs the resultant to the display.
US12118961B2
A display device comprising: a display panel to display a frame having a resolution up to a first frame rate; a plurality of image processing units; and a processor. The processor configured to, based on change from a first mode of displaying a content, among a plurality of modes of the display device, to a second mode of displaying plural contents, change frame rates of a plurality of contents output from the plurality of image processing units to a same frame rate, mix the plurality of contents with the frame rates changed to the same frame rate, and change a vertical resolution of the mixed content. The display panel is enabled to output the mixed content, at a second frame rate greater than the first frame rate.
US12118957B2
The present disclosure relates to a data driving device, a method, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, it relates to a data driving device, a method, and a system to provide an internal operation state of the data driving device in response to a request of the data processing device when the display device is driven.
US12118956B2
The present application provides a display panel control method and a display module. A display voltage corresponding to corresponding pixel unit can be compensated for based on a difference between a first feed-through voltage generated by a pixel electrode when a first transistor is turned from on to off and a second feed-through voltage generated by a common electrode when a second transistor is turned from on to off, so as to improve the problem such as the flicker or the image sticking in the display picture due to the unevenness of the feed-through voltages.
US12118946B2
A scan circuit is provided, including first, second and third control signal driving circuits; wherein, in a first region, the first control signal driving circuit includes L stages, L being an integer ≥1; in a second region, the second control signal driving circuit includes M1 stages and the third control signal driving circuit includes M2 stages, M1, M2 each being an integer ≥1; in a third region, the first control signal driving circuit includes N1 stages, the second control signal driving circuit includes N2 stages, and the third control signal driving circuit includes N3 stages, N1, N2, N3 each being an integer ≥2; and the first region, the second region, and the third region surround a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion of a perimeter of a display region, respectively, the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion being at least partially non-overlapping.
US12118942B2
A display panel including a pixel driving circuit including a driving transistor, a first transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first gate line and a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and a second transistor having a gate electrode connected to a second gate line, a first electrode connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor, and a second electrode connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor, the driving transistor is a P type transistor, and the first transistor and the second transistor are N type transistors, wherein the display panel further includes: a base substrate, a first conductive layer, a third conductive layer, and a first conducting part.
US12118931B1
A method and a device for removing afterimage, and a display panel. The method includes the image displayed on the display panel is first monitored to determine a target area of the image, and the target area is an area where a color does not change in the image; the background color in the target area is determined; the pixel data in the target area is traversed to determine a block in an image displayed in the target area; and finally, the target pixel in the block based on the background color is determined, and the color of the target pixel is switched according to a preset time interval.
US12118922B2
A display apparatus according to embodiments may comprise: a PCB comprising a plurality of layers having a circuit printed thereon; a plurality of driver ICs which transmit at least one signal and are attached to the inside of the PCB; a driver circuit connecting the driver ICs in a first direction; scan ICs included in the driver ICs, respectively; a scan circuit connecting the scan ICs in the first direction and not crossing the driver circuit; and a controller that controls at least one of the driver ICs, the driver circuit, and the scan circuit.
US12118912B2
A pixel structure and a display panel are provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are located on the same side of the third sub-pixel along the first direction. Each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel is arranged opposite to the third sub-pixel, and the first sub-pixel is arranged opposite to the second sub-pixel along the second direction. The areas of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel increase sequentially. The third sub-pixel includes a body portion and an extension portion. The body portion extends in the second direction, the extension portion is connected to the body portion and extends in the first direction towards the first sub-pixel and is arranged opposite to the first sub-pixel.
US12118901B1
The luggage tag is an identification device. The luggage tag comprises a tag panel, an anchor panel, and a luggage item. The luggage item further comprises an anchor point. The tag panel attaches to the anchor panel to form a lateral disk structure. The lateral disk structure formed by the tag panel and the anchor panel attaches to the anchor point of the luggage item. The lateral disk structure is a flexible structure. The lateral disk structure displays a tag panel image that: a) uniquely identifies the luggage item; and, b) associated the luggage item with its owner.
US12118895B2
An apparatus has a device representing an endoscope, the device being either an endoscope or a dummy endoscope having shape and feel resembling an endoscope, and includes a tracker adapted to operate with a three-dimensional tracking system to track location and orientation of the device in three dimensions in a simulated operating-room environment. The apparatus also has a physical head model comprising hard and soft components, the device representing an endoscope configured to be inserted into the physical head model to provide a haptic feedback of endoscopic surgery.
US12118891B2
A flight path configuration method includes: acquiring flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is in an idle state; determining a tracking area where the unmanned aerial vehicle is located, wherein at least one base station is located in the tracking area; and sending first paging signaling to the base station, wherein the first paging signaling includes the flight path information, and the first paging signaling is used to instruct the base station to send the flight path information to the unmanned aerial vehicle by means of preset signaling. The configuration of a flight path can be completed on the basis of an operator's network without establishing a proprietary link, thereby simplifying the configuration process.
US12118887B2
Disclosed is a collision warning unit configured to emit a detection signal into a surrounding area and to receive at least one signal component reflected at an object in the surrounding area, and, depending on the received signal component, to output a collision warning signal. The collision warning unit has a UWB (ultra-wideband) radar for transmitting the detection signal and receiving the reflected signal component.
US12118886B2
A communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes: a camera that captures a still image used for generating a map; a positioning circuit that positions a captured position of the still image; a control circuit that associates position information indicating the captured position with image data of the still image; and a communication circuit that establishes a radio communication with a roadside unit and transmits the image data by radio to the roadside unit, in which the control circuit rearranges an transmission order of the image data to be transmitted by radio to the roadside unit, based on the position information.
US12118883B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for analyzing a traffic infrastructure element, determining reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element based on the analyzing of the traffic infrastructure element, comparing the reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element with semantic map information of the traffic infrastructure element, and providing instructions to an autonomous vehicle based on the comparing of the reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element with the semantic map information of the traffic infrastructure element.
US12118871B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining when one or more golf clubs are in use or in a golf bag. Alerts can be provided if it is determined that the golfer has misplaced one or more golf clubs. The disclosed systems and methods can also be used to determine whether other objects have been misplaced from a typical storage container.
US12118865B2
Delivery parcel detection systems can include a doorbell having a first wireless communication system and a parcel holding system configured for placement in an entryway. The doorbell can be communicatively coupled to the parcel holding system. The parcel holding system can comprise a sensor configured to detect a delivery parcel located on the parcel holding system. Systems can include a first communication sent from the parcel holding system to the doorbell in response to the parcel holding system detecting an arrival, a movement, or a removal of the delivery parcel. Systems can also include a second communication sent from the doorbell to a remote computing device in response to the doorbell receiving the first communication.
US12118861B2
A virtual payment facilitator is disclosed that includes a VPN server for establishing a VPN with a point-of-sale device over a public network, a second VPN server for establishing a VPN between with a remote payment authorizer, and a virtual controller interposed between the first and second VPN servers configured to issue control commands to the point-of-sale device. The virtual payment facilitator may also include a database configured to store data relating to the point-of-sale device.
US12118852B2
An electronic gaming system includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least receive a wager amount and a bingo card parameter from an electronic gaming machine (EGM) that is communicatively coupled to the electronic gaming system. The instructions may also cause the processor to determine, based upon the wager amount, a subset of a plurality of bingo card parameters and compare the received bingo card parameter to the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters to determine whether the received bingo card parameter matches any bingo card parameter of the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters, where each bingo card parameter of the plurality of bingo card parameters is associated with a progressive jackpot. In addition, the instructions may cause the processor to award the progressive jackpot to a player of the EGM in response to determining that the received bingo card parameter matches a bingo card parameter of the subset of the plurality of bingo card parameters.
US12118851B2
A gaming system includes an EGM having a horizontally mounted display device, a reader device configured to wirelessly detect tagged items. The EGM is configured to detect, using the reader device, the presence of a first tagged item and determine a tag identifier (ID) of the first tagged item. The EGM is also configured to transmit a tag detection message to a gaming support server and receive, from the gaming support server, a response message including an amount of play credits to be added to a credit meter of the EGM. The EGM is further configured to increment a first credit meter on the EGM by the amount of play credits identified in the response message and to conduct instances of game play of an electronic game on the display device, each instance of game play decrementing the first credit meter to enable play.
US12118846B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided. A device may include a gesture input device to detect gesture inputs performed by a user, a processor circuit, and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to receive a first gesture input value from the first gesture input device and that corresponds to a user-specific gesture that the user performs, associate the first gesture input value with a first gaming device operation to be performed by the gaming device, receive the first gesture input value that is associated with the first gaming device operation, and responsive to receiving the first gesture input value that is associated with the first gaming device operation, cause the gaming device to perform the first gaming device operation.
US12118840B2
Systems and methods for processing telematics data streams for event detection are provided. The methods involve operating at least one processor to: receive a telematics data stream; define a plurality of sliding windows for the telematics data stream, each sliding window containing a portion of the telematics data stream, each sliding window overlapping with one or more neighboring sliding windows, each sliding window including: a logical window; a first buffer preceding the logical window; and a second buffer following the logical window; the logical window being adjacent with one or more neighboring logical windows of the one or more neighboring sliding windows without overlapping the one or more neighboring logical windows; identify a vehicle event based on the portion of the telematics data stream contained within one of the sliding windows; and store an indication of the vehicle event.
US12118838B2
A method for diagnosing an abnormality of a vehicle cooling system using circulation of cooling water stored in a reservoir tank includes generating a diagnostic mode operation command based on state information of a vehicle including a disturbance factor, calculating an RPM of a water pump in response to the diagnostic mode operation command, and determining an abnormal state of the cooling system based on the RPM of the water pump being equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US12118824B2
A face detection method to be implemented by a camera and a server that are communicably connected to each other includes the steps of: acquiring a captured video captured by the camera; detecting a face of one or more persons based on the captured video; generating one or more face cut-out images by cutting out a region of the detected face; counting a number of detection times that a person who is the same as or similar to a person in the face cut-out image is detected in a predetermined detection period; determining a category of the person based on the number of detection times; and outputting the face cut-out image corresponding to the person, the number of detection times corresponding to the person, and the category corresponding to the person in association with each other.
US12118822B2
Systems and methods for operating a messaging system are provided. An example method includes receiving an authorization from a user to enable use of a self-image of a further user in a personalized video, sending, in response to the authorization, the personalized video including at least part of the self-image of the further user and at least part of a stock video to a further computing device associated with the further user, and receiving, from the further computing device, an indication of whether the further user has authorized using the self-image in the personalized video. The method includes receiving a text typed by the user, synthesizing a voice reading or singing the text, and adding the voice to the personalized video. The method includes, prior to sending the personalized video, modifying a voice present in the personalized video to match the voice of the user.
US12118815B2
An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to register a set of item names corresponding to an item name field associated with an item value field in a predetermined business form, and identify an association of an item name field with an item value field included in a business form to be processed based on the set of item names registered.
US12118811B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the display and the memory. The memory stores instructions that are configured to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to display first stroke data of a first stroke trajectory, based on an input of a first touch-move after a first touch-down on the display, perform shape recognition on the first stroke trajectory, based on a size of the first stroke trajectory and a distance between a stroke start point of the first stroke trajectory and another point on the first stroke trajectory, convert the first stroke data into second stroke data corresponding to a recognized shape form, based on the shape recognition, and display the second stroke data on the display. Various other embodiments may be possible.
US12118809B1
Image-filter generation system, image-filter generation device, learning device, and learning method
A training data acquirer acquires training data including article image data, image-filter-related data indicating a combination of a plurality of image filters used for image processing of the article image data and a value of a parameter for each of the plurality of image filters, and optical character recognition (OCR) score data indicating a score of character recognition output through OCR when image processing is performed on the article image data using the image filters based on the image-filter-related data. A trained model generator generates a trained model indicating a relationship between the article image data, the image-filter-related data, and the OCR score data through machine learning using the training data.
US12118797B2
A method is provided for semantic segmentation of an environment of a vehicle. Via a processing device, a grid of cells is defined dividing the environment of the vehicle. A radar point cloud is received from a plurality of radar sensors, and at least one feature of the radar point cloud is assigned to each grid cell. By using a neural network including deterministic weights, high-level features are extracted for each grid cell. Several classes are defined for the grid cells. For layers of a Bayesian neural network, various sets of weights are determined probabilistically. Via the Bayesian neural network, confidence values are determined for each class and for each grid cell based on the high-level features and based on the various sets of weights in order to determine a predicted class and an extent of uncertainty for the predicted class for each grid cell.
US12118794B1
According to some embodiments a system is provided. The system comprises a remote monitoring computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises where the alarm signal is associated with an alarm event at the premises, in response to the alarm signal, obtain, from a content storage computing system, metadata corresponding to video provided by a camera at the premises, in response to the metadata, store the video in a data store of the remote monitoring computing system, and enforce an access control policy on the video in the data store where the access control policy restricts access to the video in the data store based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the remote monitoring computing system.
US12118791B2
Security systems and methods for a building upon occurrence of a possible event impacting safety of occupants of the building, such as a possible active shooter event.
US12118789B2
Objects are tracked in real time in a composed video acquired by joining a plurality of videos. A grouping candidate determining unit extracts objects present within an overlapping area, in which pieces of frame data are overlapped, among objects that have been detected and tracked in each of a plurality of pieces of frame data that were captured at the same time as candidate objects. A grouping unit arranges a plurality of candidate objects of which a degree of overlapping is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold as a group, and an integration unit assigns integration object IDs to groups and objects that have not been grouped.
US12118788B2
Performing semantic segmentation in an absence of labels for one or more semantic classes is provided. One or more weak predictors are utilized to obtain label proposals of novel classes for an original dataset for which at least a subset of sematic classes are unlabeled classes. The label proposals are merged with ground truth of the original dataset to generate a merged dataset, the ground truth defining labeled classes of portions of the original dataset. A machine learning model is trained using the merged dataset. The machine learning model is utilized for performing semantic segmentation on image data.
US12118785B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing a chronologically-based search engine. Example methods includes presenting, on a display of an end-user device, live image data being captured by a camera of the end-user device, determining a pose of the end-user device, and sending the pose of the device to a server. The method also includes receiving location specific data from the server, the location specific data based on the pose of the end-user device, the location specific data including a first topic, and superimposing, on the live image data, based on the location specific data, (i) at least one highlighted area of an object associated with the first topic, and (ii) a query panel associated with the first topic superimposed proximate the object, the at least one highlighted area and the query panel being interactive elements associated with the first topic.
US12118784B2
Methods and systems for image processing for detection of devices are disclosed. Image data can be received. The image data can be filtered to provide output image data. The output image data can be classified. A pallet can be applied for displaying the classified image data
US12118783B2
One variation of a method includes: in a feed of images recorded at a set frequency by an aerial sensor, detecting a signal generated by a sensor plant configured to generate optical signals indicating presence of a set of stressors; identifying a location of the sensor plant; identifying a user associated with a crop located proximal the location; and flagging the user for recruiting to join a sensor plant platform. The method further includes, during a trial period for the user: in response to detecting a pressure of a first stressor exceeding a threshold pressure at the sensor plant, notifying the user of the first pressure and a first action predicted to reduce pressures of the first stressor; and, in response to detecting a second pressure of a second stressor at the sensor plant, prompting the user to join the sensor plant platform to access information regarding the second stressor.
US12118773B2
This disclosure describes machine learning techniques for capturing human knowledge for performing a task. In one example, a video device obtains video data of a first user performing the task and one or more sensors generate sensor data during performance of the task. An audio device obtains audio data describing performance of the task. A computation engine applies a machine learning system to correlate the video data to the audio data and sensor data to identify portions of the video, sensor, and audio data that depict a same step of a plurality of steps for performing the task. The machine learning system further processes the correlated data to update a domain model defining performance of the task. A training unit applies the domain model to generate training information for performing the task. An output device outputs the training information for use in training a second user to perform the task.
US12118765B2
A method and system for performing a deep learning based product search obtain an input image including a target product to be searched; transform a model pose included in the input image; obtain a standard input image having the transformed pose of the model; obtain a main product image having an area including the target product by performing deep learning based on the standard input image; extract a feature vector from the main product image; perform a product search for a product similar to the target product based on the feature vector; and output a result of the product search.
US12118760B2
The present subject matter relates to point cloud encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses. A point cloud file transmitted by a data source is received. The point cloud file comprises point cloud media tracks having the same point cloud content and point cloud media tracks having different frame rates. File encapsulation information of the point cloud media tracks are parsed to obtain frame rate indication information carried in the file encapsulation information. The frame rate indication information indicates frame rates of the point cloud media tracks. A point cloud media track with a designated frame rate is selected and decoded from the point cloud file according to the frame rate indication information carried in the file encapsulation information.
US12118758B2
A device for encoding point cloud data, the device comprising: a memory to store the point cloud data; and one or more processors coupled to the memory and implemented in circuitry, the one or more processors configured to: determine a horizontal plane position of a node, wherein the horizontal plane position indicates a position of a single plane that is perpendicular to a first axis of a coordinate system, wherein the first axis is a horizontal axis; determine, from a plurality of contexts consisting of 8 contexts, a context for the horizontal plane position of the node; and perform arithmetic encoding on a syntax element indicating the horizontal plane position using the determined context.
US12118755B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for stochastic compression of raster data are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining at least one compression ratio and at least one error value for a given set of raster data; compressing at least a portion of the given set of raster data based at least in part on the at least one compression ratio and the at least one error value; transmitting the compressed raster data, to at least one given destination, based at least in part on a given transmission speed variable; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the transmitted compressed raster data.
US12118748B2
A unified calibration method between a DVS and a camera, in which a special calibration board is set up which consists of a calibration grid pattern and LEDs attached to the corners of the calibration grids. The camera finds the corners of calibration grid by capturing the image, and the DVS finds the same corners by detecting the intensity changes of the LEDs at the corners, to establish a unified world coordinate system as a reference coordinate system. After performing the calibration and coordinate system transformations, an extrinsic matrix between the DVS and the camera can be obtained.
US12118743B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and an object detection method. The electronic apparatus includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores an estimation module. The processor is coupled to the storage device and configured to execute the estimation module. The processor acquires a sensed image provided by an image sensor, and inputs the sensed image to the estimation module so that the estimation module outputs a plurality of estimated parameters. The processor calculates two-dimensional image center coordinates of an object image in the sensed image based on the plurality of estimated parameters, and calculates three-dimensional center coordinates corresponding to the object image based on the two-dimensional image center coordinates and an offset parameter in the plurality of estimated parameters. Thus, the location of the object image in the sensed image can be determined accurately.
US12118736B2
A viewing distance estimation method includes: acquiring a first image captured by an image capturing device and including a face of a person who watches a target; detecting a size of an iris of the person from the first image; calculating a first value indicating a pixel number for the detected size of the iris; acquiring a resolution of the first image; calculating, based on the first value and a second value indicating a predetermined inherent dimension for the size of the iris, a third value indicating an actual dimension of one pixel; estimating a viewing distance corresponding to the acquired resolution and the calculated third value, based on relational information representing a relation among the resolution, the third value, and the viewing distance; and outputting estimative information including the estimated viewing distance.
US12118732B2
Systems/methods for operating an autonomous vehicle. The methods comprise: obtaining LiDAR data generated by a LiDAR system of the autonomous vehicle and image data generated by a camera of the autonomous vehicle; performing a first object detection algorithm to generate first object detection information using the LiDAR data, and a second object detection algorithm to generate second object detection information using both the LiDAR data and the image data; and processing the first and second object detection information to determine whether a given object was detected by both the first and second object detection algorithms. When a determination is made that the given object was detected by both the first and second object detection algorithms, the first object detection information is selectively modified based on contents of the second object detection information. The modified first object detection information is used to facilitate at least one autonomous driving operation.
US12118725B2
An analyzing platform may obtain a first image of a liquid in a receptacle. The analyzing platform may analyze the first image to determine a first set of visual characteristics concerning the liquid. The analyzing platform may obtain a second image of a rectal sample in the liquid in the receptacle, wherein the rectal sample originated from a bowel of a subject. The analyzing platform may analyze the second image to determine a second set of visual characteristics concerning the rectal sample. The analyzing platform may determine, based on the first set of visual characteristics and the second set of visual characteristics, rectal sample information. The analyzing platform may cause one or more actions to be performed based on the rectal sample information.
US12118721B2
A method and apparatus of a device that classifies an image is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device segments the image into a region of interest that includes information useful for classification and a background region by applying a first convolutional neural network. In addition, the device tiles the region of interest into a set of tiles. For each tile, the device extracts a feature vector of that tile by applying a second convolutional neural network, where the features of the feature vectors represent local descriptors of the tile. Furthermore, the device processes the extracted feature vectors of the set of tiles to classify the image.
US12118720B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) image processing system is provided. The system includes an MR image processing computing device that includes at least one processor. The processor is programmed to execute a neural network model configured to receive crude MR data as an input and output processed MR images associated with the crude MR data, the crude MR data and the processed MR images having the first number of dimensions. The processor is also programmed to receive a pair of pristine data and corrupted data both having a second number of dimensions lower than the first number of dimensions. The corrupted data are the pristine data added with primitive features. The processor is further programmed to train the neural network model using the pair of the pristine data and the corrupted data. The trained neural network model is configured to change primitive features associated with the crude MR data.
US12118719B2
A method for training a machine learning algorithm that classifies predictive regions-of interest (“ROI”) of progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The method includes acquiring a set of computed tomography (CT) images of a plurality of patients and selecting a plurality of ROIs within the set of images. Each of the ROIs designates a label that indicates progression of pulmonary fibrosis and training a machine learning algorithm by inputting the plurality of ROIs and the associated labels into the algorithm. The algorithm identifies the ROIs in the set of images as indicating regions of pulmonary fibrosis within the set of images based on the features.
US12118711B2
A measurement system includes an imaging device, a memory device, an interface and circuitry. The imaging device is configured to obtain a device image a conveyor belt system. The image device is configured to obtain a reference image of a reference point or reference measurement. The reference image can also be the device image. The memory device is configured to store the device image. The interface is configured to facilitate selection of points for a device/part to be measured. The circuitry comprises one or more processors configured to determine a reference measurement for the reference dimension based on the reference image via the interface; determine one or more device measurements based on the device image and the reference measurement; and calculate a plurality of device parameters based on the determined one or more device measurements. User input via a touch sensitive screen comprising a glass insulator coated with indium tin oxide (ITO) and the one or more processors can be configured to select the one or more device points based on change in capacitance at one or more locations of the touch sensitive screen.
US12118709B2
A method for identifying a cause of manufacturing defects is provided. The method includes capturing, by an image capture unit, a number N of images from a semiconductor wafer, wherein each of the s umber N of images comprises a number M of geometric features, calculating, by a processing unit, a geometric center for each of the geometric features of the number N of images, calculating, based on the number N of images, a number M of average geometric centers associated with the number M of geometric features, and calculating a shift amount for each geometric feature of the number N of images.
US12118704B2
A model input size determination method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, the method includes acquiring a plurality of test images and a defect result; and encoding each test image to obtain an encoding vector. The encoding vector is decoded to obtain a reconstructed image, then a reconstruction error and a plurality of sub-vectors are calculated; the plurality of sub-vectors is inputted into a Gaussian mixture model, then a plurality of sub-probabilities, an estimated probability and a test error are determined; a detection result in the test image according to the test error and the corresponding error threshold are obtained; an accuracy according to the detection result and the defect result are determined, and an input size is selected from the plurality of preset sizes according to the accuracy. An accuracy of defect detection in manufacturing can be improved.
US12118703B2
One aspect provides a modular inspection robot for inspecting vertical shafts, chambers or tunnels. An embodiment provides related methods and products. One method includes: capturing, using a plurality of video cameras associated with an infrastructure inspection unit, two or more videos of infrastructure; accessing, using one or more processors, image metadata indicating a mesh of connected vertices based on the two or more videos; selecting, using the one or more processors, image data of frames of the two or more videos for inclusion in an output based on the mesh; and outputting, using the one or more processors, a photo-realistic image of the infrastructure comprising the image data selected. Other examples are described and claimed.
US12118701B2
The invention is related to a method for automatic selection and pre-processing of digital images that comprise the necessary amount of Transfer function modulated quantum-noise to apply a mathematical sharpness calculation method for calculation of a sharpness parameter of the digital imaging system. Suitable images for the method are selected from the pool of available images acquired by the digital imaging system during daily operation.
US12118694B2
Systems and methods for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotype, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multiple energy or contrast excitation and evaluation are provided. The systems and methods can include single and multi-phase acquisitions and broad and local spectrum imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissues in the vessel wall and perivascular space.
US12118691B2
An image transmission/reception system, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, an image transmission/reception method, and a program, generate, from image data representing a downscaled image, a higher resolution image than the downscaled image and is more similar to an original image. An encoding process section generates image data representing a downscaled image obtained by downscaling the original image. An additional data generation section generates additional data on the basis of the original image, the additional data being unidentifiable by the image data alone. A data transmission section transmits the image data and the additional data. A data reception section receives the image data and the additional data. An upscaling section generates an upscaled image on the basis of the image data and the additional data, the upscaled image being higher in resolution than the downscaled image. A display control section causes the upscaled image to be displayed.
US12118687B2
A method for placing content in an augmented reality system. A notification is received regarding availability of new content to display in the augmented reality system. A confirmation is received that indicates acceptance of the new content. Three dimensional information that describes the physical environment is provided, to an external computing device, to enable the external computing device to be used for selecting an assigned location in the physical environment for the new content. Location information is received, from the external computing device, that indicates the assigned location. A display location on a display system of the augmented reality system at which to display the new content so that the new content appears to the user to be displayed as an overlay at the assigned location in the physical environment is determined, based on the location information. The new content is displayed on the display system at the display location.
US12118685B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide XR in which virtual objects are positioned based on the accuracy of localizing an electronic device in a physical environment. In some implementations, the technique assesses the accuracy of localization (e.g., centimeter-level accuracy, room-level accuracy, and building-level accuracy) and dynamically adjusts a display strategy. In some implementations, the technique determines a condition causing inaccuracy (e.g., a semantic condition such as “too fast”, “too far”, “too dark”), and provides a notification (e.g., “too fast-slow down”, “too far-move closer”, “too dark-turn on a light”) at the electronic device based on the condition causing the inaccuracy in the localization.
US12118683B2
Systems and methods for creating content in augmented reality (AR) environment. The content is created by a combination of at least a handheld device and an AR device, and involves initiation and establishment of a session between the handheld device and the AR device, command and data generation at the handheld device, transmission of the command and data from the handheld device to the AR device, processing of the command and data at the AR device to build context from the command and/or data and to create content from the context, saving and sharing of the created content, retrieval of the created content, and optionally modification of the retrieved content.
US12118674B2
A configuration tool adapted to configure a quality control system to monitor and/or guide an operator in a working environment through recognition of objects, events or an operational process, comprises: a volumetric sensor adapted to capture volumetric image frames of the working environment while an object, event or operational process is demonstrated; a display, coupled to the volumetric sensor and configured to live display the volumetric image frames; and a processor configured to: generate a user interface in overlay of the volumetric image frames to enable a user to define a layout zone; and automatically generate a virtual box in the layout zone when an object, event or operational process is detected during demonstration of the object, event or operational process.
US12118673B2
A method for positioning of cameras on an object that enables accurate rendering of the scene around the object on a dome accurately in real time. The method involves providing a 3D model of the object having a surface, and selecting locations on the surface where the cameras are to be placed to provide a camera rig. The choice of locations is such that every camera has a field of view that overlaps with at least one other camera. The cameras are designated as Direct View Camera (DVC) or a Secondary View Camera (SVC). The method to render a virtual scene includes providing a projection rig that includes a plurality of projectors within a hollow half-sphere, wherein the hollow half-sphere includes an inner surface and an outer surface. Each of the plurality of projectors is designated as a Direct View Projector (DVP) or a Secondary View Projector (SVP).
US12118672B1
A three dimensional representation of sports data from multiple sources, which has A) a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, B) a server operatively associated with the non-transitory computer readable medium, C) a computer vision model using feature detection algorithms, D) a database associated to the computer vision model, E) data to upload to the database, F) a graphical user interface to show data, and G) a computer device, whereby users access to the graphical user interface to upload and visualize the data. The data is visually shown through two-dimension and three-dimension images, text, numbers, animations, and custom visuals to allow the users to analyze the data.
US12118671B2
A computer-implemented method of modelling a common structure component, the method comprising, in a modelling computer system: receiving a plurality of captured frames, each frame comprising a set of 3D structure points, in which at least a portion of a common structure component is captured; computing a first reference position within at least one first frame of the plurality of frames; selectively extracting first 3D structure points of the first frame based on the first reference position computed for the first frame; computing a second reference position within a second frame of the plurality of frames; selectively extracting second 3D structure points of the second frame based on the second reference position computed for the second frame; and aggregating the first 3D structure points and the second 3D structure points, thereby generating an aggregate 3D model of the common structure component based on the first and second reference positions.
US12118668B2
An image processing system configured to obtain a mesh representation of a scene, wherein the mesh representation comprises a plurality of polygons defined by respective vertices associated with an in-plane position, the in-plane position being in a plane comprising a first dimension and a second dimension, and the vertices having an associated vertex depth value in a third dimension different from the first dimension and the second dimension. The image processing system comprises an in-plane position estimation network configured to process image data representative of an image of the scene to estimate the in-plane positions associated with respective vertices of the mesh representation. The image processing system further comprises a depth estimation engine configured to process the in-plane positions and the image data to estimate the associated vertex depth values for the respective vertices of the mesh representation.
US12118667B2
An illustrative audiovisual content rendering system generates a light dataset configured to model light energy at a particular location within a simulated 3D environment for a video frame time. The audiovisual content rendering system also generates an audio dataset configured to model acoustic energy at the particular location within the simulated 3D environment for an audio frame time concurrent with the video frame time. The audiovisual content rendering system stores the light dataset and the audio dataset together within a voxel-based data structure. More particularly, the light dataset and the audio dataset are stored together within a particular voxel of the voxel-based data structure that corresponds to the particular location within the simulated 3D environment. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US12118665B2
A damage identification (DI) system for identifying property damage may include a drone fleet including several autonomous or semi-autonomous drones communicatively coupled together and a DI computing device. Each drone may collect drone-collected damage data, including image data. The DI computing may assign a geographical region to the drone fleet. The drone fleet may automatically navigate to, and then within, the geographical region to detect potential damage to properties. The DI computing device may further receive drone-collected damage data associated with a property within the geographical region from the drone fleet when the drone fleet determines the property is actually or potentially damaged, generate aggregated damage data associated with the property based at least partially upon the drone-collected damage data, and/or store the aggregated damage data in a blockchain structure associated with the property for damage assessment of the property.
US12118662B2
In an approach to improve the generation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional virtual environment, embodiments of the present invention identify a virtual object to be generated in a three-dimensional virtual environment based on a natural language utterance. Additionally, embodiments generate the virtual object based on a CLIP-guided Generative Latent Space (CLIP-GLS) analysis, and monitor usage of the generated virtual object in the three-dimensional virtual space. Moreover, embodiments infer human perception data from the monitoring, and generate a utility score for the virtual object based on the human perception data.
US12118659B2
In implementations of systems for efficient rendering of clipping objects, a computing device implements a clipping system to generate a clipping tree that includes a root node and a node for each clipping group included in a layer of an input render tree. The clipping system generates a segment buffer having rows that each represent coverage of a branch of the clipping tree and columns that each represent coverage of a level of the clipping tree. The segment buffer is mapped to two-dimensional array, and the clipping system computes coverage for a clipping object of a clipping group included in the layer of the input render tree based on an identifier of a row of the two-dimensional array.
US12118658B1
A method comprises receiving a value corresponding to a height of a subject, and then determining, using processing circuitry, an eye height of the subject based on the height of the subject and on anthropometric data. In some embodiments, the subject may be using a virtual reality application that includes a displayed virtual environment. Based on the determined eye height of the subject, the processing circuitry may cause at least one environmental parameter of the virtual environment to be modified.
US12118657B2
A computer-implemented method is for visualization of a three-dimensional object represented by volume data for a user in the form of a two-dimensional visualization image including a plurality of visualization pixels. In an embodiment, the method includes: providing an image synthesis algorithm designed for visualization of the three-dimensional object by mapping the volume data onto the visualization pixels; detecting an instantaneous viewing direction of the user; determining a focus area defined as a region of the visualization image, upon which the user focuses based upon the instantaneous viewing direction; adjusting the image synthesis algorithm such that the computing effort required for the mapping for visualization pixels outside of the focus area is lower than for visualization pixels inside of the focus area; and mapping volume data onto the visualization pixels with the adjusted image synthesis algorithm.
US12118651B2
A graphical chart indicating values for different types of shares of an entity are described. A server can provide data representing price per share and equity values for a graphical chart. A selected equity value for the business enterprise can be received and values of different types of shares at that selected equity value can be determined. Data indicating the values of the different shares can then be provided for display upon the graphical chart.
US12118641B2
A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including using the plurality of GPUs in collaboration to render an image frame including a plurality of pieces of geometry. The method including during a pre-pass phase of rendering, generating information at the GPUs regarding the plurality of pieces of geometry and their relation to a plurality of screen regions. The method including assigning the plurality of screen regions to the plurality of GPUs based on the information for purposes of rendering the plurality of pieces of geometry in a subsequent phase of rendering.
US12118634B2
A method and system for detecting relevant potential participating entities across different databases. A method includes retrieving transaction data related to potential participating entities by resolving each of the plurality of potential participating entities between a dataset including transaction data and a dataset indicating the plurality of potential participating entities, wherein resolving the plurality of potential participating entities further includes applying resolution rules requiring matching a plurality of features between respective instances of the potential participating entity in the transaction data and in the dataset indicating the plurality of potential participating entities; determining a plurality of relevance scores based on the retrieved transaction data and entity characteristics of a subject entity, wherein each relevance score represents a relevance of the subject entity with respect to a respective potential participating entity; and identifying, based on the plurality of relevance scores, at least one relevant potential participating entity.
US12118632B2
A method includes: acquiring a plurality of historical routes of movement of a plurality of historical users in a geographic area, wherein each historical route includes at least a portion of a plurality of locations; determining, based on the plurality of historical routes and a plurality of current positions of a plurality of users in the geographic area, a set of predicted locations among the plurality of locations that the plurality of users will visit in the future, respectively, wherein the plurality of users use a tour guiding service associated with the plurality of locations that is provided by a mobile network; selecting a set of popular locations from the set of predicted locations based on the number of users among the plurality of users who will visit each predicted location in the set of predicted locations; and scheduling tour guiding resources associated with the set of popular locations.
US12118622B2
A method and system assist users of an electronic bookkeeping system to sort financial transactions into accounts representing bookkeeping categories. The method and system generate vectors representing the accounts and the merchants known to the bookkeeping system. The method and system generate compressed versions of the vectors by compressing the vectors. The method and system assist users to sort the financial transactions by analyzing the compressed vectors.
US12118617B2
A computer-implemented method of dividend stock tracking and administering advancement of dividend income that includes registering the first user to create a first user account, receiving an identifiable dividend-based investment product account information of the first user and associating the identifiable dividend-based investment product and the first user monetary account information to first user account. The method also includes ascertaining a projected user-non-selectable dividend distribution frequency schedule and a projected dividend monetary amount associated with the identifiable dividend-based investment product and autonomously calculating an advanced dividend distribution schedule having a plurality of independent advanced dividend distribution dates selectable by the first user, an administrative fee associated with the advanced dividend distribution schedule, and an advanced dividend monetary amount associated with each of the plurality of independent advanced dividend distribution dates. The first user will select the advanced dividend distribution dates and receive advanced dividend income associated therewith.
US12118601B2
The subject technology receives image data including a representation of a face of a user. The subject technology analyzes the image data to determine a set of characteristics of the representation of the face. The subject technology, based at least in part on the determined set of characteristics, selects a particular product and a set of media content associated with the particular product. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, at least one recommendation corresponding to the set of media content associated with the particular product.
US12118595B2
Systems and methods for providing an autonomous vehicle fitting room. In particular, systems and methods are provided for users to try ordered products in an autonomous vehicle at the time of delivery. Users can then take selected products from the autonomous vehicle and/or leave other products in the autonomous vehicle to be returned automatically. The autonomous vehicle can be configured to determine which products were taken and automatically charge a user account for these products.
US12118573B2
Messaging services for providing updates for multimedia content delivered over the Internet for a live event. In one embodiment, a messaging server provides real-time updates for multimedia content of a live event delivered over the Internet to multiple media players that request the multimedia content over the Internet. In one embodiment, the real-time updates indicate when the multimedia content is available for delivery over the Internet. In another embodiment, the real-time updates can be used to dynamically insert advertisement markers for advertisement breaks in the multimedia content.
US12118567B2
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. As the transactions are received, the transactions may be analyzed to detect duplicate transactions and/or errors in the transactions. The transaction exchange platform may take steps to remediate transactions that are recognized as duplicates or predicted to generate one or more errors. Similarly, the transaction exchange platform may take steps to remediate transactions that are rejected by a clearinghouse.
US12118563B1
Techniques are described for a distributed ledger based interchange system for transferring value between entities. A decentralized and distributed ledger system, such as a blockchain network, may include treasury accounts each associated with an institution that participates in the system. A particular transaction may be submitted for approval based on the votes of the peers in the distributed ledger based interchange system. If at least a threshold number of votes indicate approval, the transaction is approved. A signal may be sent to the institutional systems indicating that accounts of the sending and receiving entities may respectively be debited and credited the value of the transaction. Settlement may occur between the treasury accounts of the sending and receiving institutions on the distributed ledger system, and settlement may be performed in real time with respect to the transaction.
US12118562B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system associated with a first user identity and a user interface for configuring an account for use by one or more devices associated with a second user identity. The user interface includes a control for selecting between a first account option that enables transfers between the account and only a first set of user accounts and a second account option that enables transfers between the account and a second set of user accounts, the second set of user accounts including the first set of user accounts and one or more additional user accounts associated with additional users. In response to receiving a request to configure the account, the account is configured with the first account option when the first account option is selected and the account is configured with the second account option when the second account option is selected.
US12118559B2
A method of training a supervised machine learning system to detect anomalies within transaction data is described. The method includes obtaining a training set of data samples; assigning a label indicating an absence of an anomaly to unlabelled data samples in the training set; partitioning the data of the data samples in the training set into two feature sets, a first feature set representing observable features and a second feature set representing context features; generating synthetic data samples by combining features from the two feature sets that respectively relate to two different uniquely identifiable entities; assigning a label indicating a presence of an anomaly to the synthetic data samples; augmenting the training set with the synthetic data samples; and training a supervised machine learning system with the augmented training set and the assigned labels.
US12118554B2
According to an aspect there is provided an ambient commerce system. The ambient commerce system may include a sensor at an ambient commerce premises. The ambient commerce system may include a processor coupled to the one or more sensors. The ambient commerce system may include a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may store processor-executable instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: detect, based on an output of one or more of the sensors, engagement of an entity with a restricted item; identify the entity; obtain at least a portion of a profile for the entity; determine, based on the at least a portion of the profile for the identified entity, eligibility for the entity to acquire the restricted item; and selectively generate, based on the determined eligibility for the entity, a notification on an electronic device associated with the entity.
US12118551B2
A computer-implemented method for processing single message transactions with batch settlement may include receiving a dual-message transaction from a merchant, converting the received dual-message transaction to a single-message transaction, setting a flag on the converted single-message transaction indicating the conversion to a single-message transaction, receiving a batch settlement file from the merchant, for each transaction in the batch settlement file, determining whether the single-message transaction conversion flag is set, upon determining that the single-message transaction conversion flag is not set, storing the transaction for later processing, and upon determining that the single-message transaction conversion flag is set, sending the transaction to a payment network.
US12118549B2
A control method according to the present disclosure is a control method for controlling a first node that holds a first distributed ledger in a system utilized to use a service object and including the first node and a plurality of second nodes that each hold a second distributed ledger. The control method includes: executing transmission processing for transmitting first transaction data to each of the plurality of second nodes; counting a total number of the second nodes that successfully communicate with the first node in the transmission processing; and storing the first transaction data in the first distributed ledger when the total number counted is greater than a predetermined number, and skipping storing the first distributed ledger in the first transaction data when the total number counted is not greater than the predetermined number.
US12118547B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for authorizing a payment card transaction using dynamic codes. The system can issue a payment card to a user. The payment card can be associated with a verification application accessible by a device associated with the user. The verification application can include a dynamic code associated with the payment card. The system can receive a request for authorization for a transaction using the payment card from a remote computing device, and the request can include an identifier of the payment card and a verification code. The system can identify the payment card using the identifier of the payment card and can compare the verification code with a value of the dynamic code at the time of the transaction. The system can authorize the transaction when the verification code matches the value of the dynamic code at the time of the transaction.
US12118545B2
A method includes a validation computer receiving an authorization request message comprising a user state and a user proof from a user device. The user state comprises first and second user state elements. The user proof comprises first, second, and third user proof elements. The validation computer computes a first verification value by multiplying the first user proof element raised to the power of the second user state element, and the second user proof element raised to the power of the first user state element. The computer computes a second verification value by raising the second user proof element to the power of the second user state element. The computer compares the first verification value to a first accumulated state element of an accumulated state. The compares the second verification value to a second accumulated state element. The validation computer authorizes the authorization request message based on the comparison steps.
US12118543B2
A device may obtain access to an email account associated with a user. The device may scan a set of emails in the email account associated with the user for one or more indicators related to an expiration status of an automatic payment method. The device may detect one or more emails in the scanned set of emails that contain the one or more indicators related to the expiration status of the automatic payment method. The device may perform one or more actions to maintain continuous service for one or more recurring payment accounts associated with the automatic payment method. The device may communicate with one or more merchant devices associated with the one or more recurring payment accounts to automatically replace the automatic payment method with an updated payment method.
US12118541B2
A personal blockchain is generated as a cloud-based software service in a blockchain environment. The personal blockchain immutably archives usage of any device, perhaps as requested by a user. However, some of the usage may be authorized for public disclosure, while other usage may be designated as private and restricted from public disclosure. The public disclosure may permit public ledgering by still other blockchains, thus providing two-way public/private ledgering for improved record keeping. Private usage, though, may only be documented by the personal blockchain.
US12118535B2
Disclosed is a contactless card, and a system in which the contactless card may be used. The contactless card may include a chip component, a communication interface, processing circuitry, and electromagnetic field sensing circuitry. The electromagnetic field sensing circuitry of the contactless card may be operable to provide orientation signals to the processing circuitry when the contactless card is in proximity to an oscillating electromagnetic field output by a card reader device. The processing circuitry of the contactless card may be operable to receive the orientation signals. An orientation of the contactless card with respect to the mobile device may be determined. An orientation indication signal may be generated based on the determined orientation, and a haptic indication, an audio indication, a visual indication or a combination directing movement of the contactless card in a particular direction may be output.
US12118532B2
A mobile payment system includes a web browsing capable device in communication with a world wide web to make purchases online at an online store. A mobile payment device having securely stored payment information is connectable to the web browsing capable device through a server to provide payment for the online purchase. The mobile payment device is associated with the web browsing capable device by a mobile identity. The online store is connectable to a payment network to exchange payment messages upon receiving an authorization request from the mobile device through the web browsing capable device.
US12118530B2
A method and system are provided for registering, in a database, a transaction between two parties, and for allowing a third party to cause an action to be performed in relation to the transaction. The method comprise a step of creating (s2) a transaction record, steps of electronically signing (s4, s12, s18, s26) the transaction record, steps of registering (s6, s14, s20, s28) the transaction record in the database, steps of issuing a notification (s8, s16, s22) that the transaction record has been registered in the database, steps of verifying (s10, s24) the transaction record by the third party, and a step of causing (s30), by the third party, an action to be performed based on transaction content information.
US12118510B2
An intelligent marketing and advertising platform which provides an innovative merchandising solution for retailers by effectively transforming the glass surface of retail product containers (such as cooler doors) into a non-transparent display of planograms. The merchandising solution provides for digital planograms and pricing management, real time promotional updates and sales data, etc. This is accomplished by converting/transforming the simple glass surface of a retail product container (such as cooler/freezer doors) into digital “smart” screens that provide for innovative advertising solutions. The cooler/freezer doors are configured to use at least one camera to capture images when the doors are opened, in order to effectively take inventory of what is inside the cooler/freezer.
US12118496B1
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for utilizing specially configured machine learning models to generate incremental currency value(s) associated with one or more target merchant data objects. Some embodiments, based on one or more market record sets, identify an actual electronic currency value for a total merchant data object set, and include a counterfactual model configured to generate a counterfactual electronic currency value for use in determining a counterfactual incremental electronic currency impact, and in some embodiments for ranking other models. Embodiments, additionally or alternatively, include an incrementality-trained ensemble model for generating a predictive incremental electronic currency impact. The incrementality-trained ensemble model may be trained to predict based on the rankings of the outputs of the counterfactual model. Embodiments may further rank target merchant data objects and perform one or more additional actions, including assigning the target merchant data objects to sales account data structures for management.
US12118494B1
A system and a method for mitigating risk associated with a machine-generated forecast. The system may receive data comprising at least one of product attributes, historical demand for a set of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), a machine-generated forecast for the set of SKUs, and historical forecast adjustment for the set of SKUs. Further, the system may determine one or more metrics based on the received data. The one or more metrics are fed to a risk analyzer model. A Demand Planning Risk Index (DPRI) score for an SKU from the set of SKUs may be generated using the risk analyzer model. The DPRI score indicates a risk quotient for the SKU. Further, a forecast adjustment for the SKU with a high risk quotient may be recommended to mitigate the risk associated with the machine-generated forecast of the SKU.
US12118478B2
Systems and methods for deriving classification rules from documents and a database using rule-based machine learning. The method includes extracting first variables from documents corresponding to an organization. The method further includes extracting second variables from a database corresponding to the organization. The method also includes filtering the extracted second variables based on at least one of null values, repeat variables, location variables, ID variables, or data variables. The method further includes deriving first classification rules based on the first variables using a rule-based machine learning algorithm. The method also includes calculating an accuracy of the derived first classification rules. The method also includes deriving second classification rules based on the first variables and the filtered second variables. The method further includes determining a suggested additional variable based on the derived second classification rules and the calculated accuracy.
US12118476B2
Based on a normal model, it is detected whether or not an event signal of a computer system is anomalous. In parallel with the normal-model-based anomaly detection, it is detected based on a rule whether or not the event signal is anomalous. Then, a final anomaly detection result is generated by performing comprehensive determination based on detection results of the normal-model-based anomaly detection and the rule-based anomaly detection.
US12118470B2
A system for predicting aggressive driving behavior for a driver of a vehicle includes a first edge computing device that can acquire spatial-temporal data for the vehicle from one or more sensors that are part of traffic infrastructure. The first edge computing device includes a processor and instructions executable by the processor that execute deep learning methods on the data from the sensors to cluster the data as a driving score. A trained model is applied to the driving score to determine an aggressive driving behavior risk level, and the first edge computing device is configured to predict the aggressive driving behavior based on the aggressive driving behavior risk level.
US12118466B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a neural network to generate a network output for the network input. One of the methods includes maintaining, for each of the plurality of neural network layers, a respective look-up table that maps each possible combination of a quantized input index and a quantized weight index to a multiplication result; and generating a network output from a network input, comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving data specifying a quantized input to the neural network layer, the quantized input comprising a plurality of quantized input values; and generating a layer output for the neural network layer from the quantized input to the neural network layer using the respective look-up table for the neural network layer.
US12118463B1
Some embodiments provide a method for a neural network inference circuit that executes a neural network including multiple computation nodes at multiple layers. Each computation node of a set of the computation nodes includes a dot product of input values and weight values. The method reads a set of encoded weight data for a set of weight values from a memory of the neural network inference circuit. The method decodes the encoded weight data to generate decoded weight data for the set of weight values. The method stores the decoded weight data in a buffer. The method uses the decoded weight data to execute a set of computation nodes. Each computation node of the set of computation nodes includes a dot product between the set of weight values and a different set of input values.
US12118453B2
A neural processing unit includes a mode selector configured to select a first mode or a second mode; and processing element (PE) array operating in one of the first mode and the second mode and including a plurality of processing elements arranged in PE rows and PE columns, the PE array configured to receive an input of first input data and an input of second input data, respectively. In the second mode, the first input data is inputted in a PE column direction of the PE array and is transmitted along the PE column direction while being delayed by a specific number of clock cycles, and the second input data is broadcast to the plurality of processing elements of the PE array to which the first input data is delayed by the specific number of clock cycles.
US12118449B2
A system includes a housing, sensors, actuators, and a processing device. The housing is formed of material that is soft, flexible, stretchable, deformable, or any combination of thereof. Each sensor is disposed on a surface of the housing, disposed at least partially inside the housing, or positioned spaced apart from the housing, and are configured to generate data associated with physical properties of the housing an environment external to the housing. The processing device is configured to implement a neural network having one or more inputs and one or more outputs. The inputs include the data associated with the physical properties of the housing and the data associated with the environment external to the housing. The outputs are based on the data associated the physical properties of the housing and the data associated with the environment external to the housing.
US12118448B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for multi-domain ensemble learning based on multivariate time sequence data are provided. A method may include receiving multivariate sequence data. At least a portion of the multivariate sequence data may be inputted into a plurality of anomaly detection models to generate a plurality of scores. The multivariate sequence data may be combined with the plurality of scores to generate combined intermediate data. The combined intermediate data may be inputted into a combined ensemble model to generate an output score. In response to determining that the output score satisfies a threshold, at least one of an alert may be communicated to a user device, the multivariate sequence data may be inputted into the feature-domain ensemble model to generate a feature importance vector, or at least one of a model-domain, a time-domain, a feature-domain, or the combined ensemble model may be updated.
US12118436B2
A system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to track interactions with a user application during use of the user application, generate, based on tracking the interactions, interaction data identifying multiple interaction events during the use, and perform a validity assessment of the interaction data. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to identify, based on the validity assessment, one or more anomalies in the interaction data, and output, based on identifying the one or more anomalies in the interaction data, one or more of the interaction events corresponding respectively to the one or more anomalies.
US12118427B2
An article having an invisible infrared pattern is disclosed. The article includes at least one infrared pattern printed onto a surface. The infrared pattern includes regions of high absorption and high reflection for a plurality of wavelengths of infrared radiation ranging between 700 and 2000 nm. A coating is overlaid over the infrared pattern. The coating is made of a material and has a thickness that is penetrable by infrared radiation and that has an average opacity of at least 20 for light in the visible range.
US12118422B2
A personal identification medium is provided that includes a decorative layer provided with an antenna, and a laser marking layer in which a personal information marking portion is marked on the decorative layer, where the antenna includes a non-decorative portion and a decorative portion connected to the non-decorative portion, and the personal information marking portion formed on the laser marking layer overlaps at least a portion of the decorative portion formed on the decorative layer.
US12118411B2
A processor includes a plurality of execution pipes and a distributed scheduler coupled to the plurality of execution pipes. The distributed scheduler includes a first queue to buffer instruction operations from a front end of an instruction pipeline of the processor and a plurality of second queues, wherein each second queue is to buffer instruction operations allocated from the first queue for a corresponding separate subset of execution pipes of the plurality of execution pipes. The distributed scheduler further includes a queue controller to select an allocation mode from a plurality of allocation modes based on whether at least one indicator of an imbalance at the distributed scheduler is detected, and further to control the distributed scheduler to allocate instruction operations from the first queue among the plurality of second queues in accordance with the selected allocation mode.
US12118405B2
Edge function-guided artificial intelligence (AI) request routing is provided by applying a machine learning model to predictors of cloud endpoint hydration to determine hydration levels of cloud endpoints, of a hybrid cloud environment, that provide AI processing, determining, for each edge component of a plurality of edge components of the hybrid cloud environment and each cloud endpoint of the cloud endpoints, alternative flow paths between the edge component and the cloud endpoint, the alternative flow paths being differing routes for routing data between the edge component and the cloud endpoint, and the alternative flow paths being of varying flow rates determined based on the hydration levels of the cloud endpoints, and dynamically deploying edge functions on edge component(s), the edge functions configuring the edge component(s) to alternate among the alternative flow paths available in routing AI processing requests from the edge component(s) to target cloud endpoints of the cloud endpoints.
US12118402B2
A record processing and storage system is operable to receive a set of records for storage. The set of records are included in a plurality of pages stored by a page storage system, and each page of the plurality of pages includes a plurality of records in the set of records. Key value-based record distribution data is generated for the set of records based on a plurality of cluster key values of the set of records. A cluster key domain spanned by the plurality of cluster key values is divided into a plurality of key space sub-intervals based on the key value-based record distribution data. The set of records are segregated into a plurality of row subsets corresponding to the plurality of key space sub-intervals. A plurality sets of segments are generated by processing the plurality of row subsets in parallel.
US12118401B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products allow usage of shared software resources. A first application to be run as a first image includes first code and first metadata information including a first set of functionalities, and first specific settings for a first set of functionalities. A mapping of the first set of functionalities to a first list of shared software resources enables the first application to accomplish the first set of functionalities. A second application to be run as a second image includes a second code and second metadata information including a second set of functionalities and second specific settings for a second set of functionalities. A mapping of the second set of functionalities to a second list of shared software resources enables the second application to accomplish the second set of functionalities. The first and second lists of shared software resources have at least one shared resource in common.
US12118399B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for resource allocation and an audiovisual playback terminal. The resource allocation method is applicable to a resource allocation system in an audiovisual playback terminal. The audiovisual playback terminal includes multiple device entities. The resource allocation system includes a resource configurator and several service instances. The method includes: causing the resource configurator to respond to a path requesting request from at least one target service instance, each of the path requesting requests containing a device entity list required by the target service instance in implementation of a service function; allocating device entities according to a preset resource allocation rule according to the instance attribute and the device entity list of each target service instance to create a path for each target service instance, so that the target service instance can invoke the device entities in the corresponding path to achieve the corresponding service function.
US12118391B2
A system for allocation of resources and processing jobs within a distributed system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes at least one process and at least one resource allocator. The process is adapted for processing jobs within a distributed system which receives jobs to be processed. The resource allocator is communicably coupled with at least one process, and is adapted to generate one or more sub-processes within a limit of one or more resources allocated to the process for processing jobs.
US12118390B2
A system for secure recovery of an application group in a container deployment environment is presented. The system includes a backup controller configured to access an application group token and generate a corresponding backup token. The system further includes a backup module configured to initiate a backup based on the backup token and create a corresponding recovery point on a backup server. The system further includes a recovery access token module configured to access a recovery access token for a determined recovery point. The system further includes a recovery controller configured to generate a recovery token corresponding to the determined recovery point based on the recovery access token, and a recovery module configured to initiate a recovery of the application group from the backup server in a destination cluster based on the recovery token. A related method is also presented.
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An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for assigning a plurality of tasks to a plurality of computing nodes can include, for example, receiving first information related to the computing nodes, where the first information can include a number of cores in each of the computing nodes, generating second information by separating the number of cores in each of the computing nodes, and assigning the tasks to the computing nodes based on the second information. The first information can further include (i) a distance of a network connection between each of the computer nodes, and (ii) a bandwidth of the network connection. The second information can be generated based on the tasks. The second information can be generated based on a number of dimensions of the tasks. The tasks can be assigned based on a minimization of a number of communications between the nodes.
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Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a thread sensor generation system to generate thread sensors for extracting side channel information about other executing threads on a multithreading CPU. In embodiments, the system generates a set of sensors for evaluation. Each sensor may include a sequence of arithmetic or logic operations between variables or constants, which will cause a particular resource usage pattern by the CPU. The sensors are executed on the CPU in parallel with instances of a victim thread to measure an execution slowdown profile of the sensor thread caused by CPU resource conflicts with the victim thread. Based on the execution slowdown profiles, a sensitivity metric is calculated for each sensor, which is used to select the best sensor(s) for the victim thread. Sensors generated using the disclosed techniques can be used to extract secret information via side-channel attacks on currently available multithreaded processors.
