US12114761B2
An apparatus capable of transforming between a sleep aid and a tote bag is an apparatus that can be used to help the user to carry various personal objects while travelling. The apparatus can also be used for comfort while the user rests during the travel. To do so, the apparatus includes a tote bag, a plurality of heating devices, and a controller. The tote bag is a transformable structure that can be configured to be used as a storage structure or as a pillow-blanket combination. The tote bag also facilitates the transformation of the apparatus between the two configurations by the user on-the-go. The plurality of heating devices provides warm and comfort to the user when the user utilizes the apparatus as a pillow-blanket combination. The controller enables the user to control the operation of the plurality of heating devices while utilizing the apparatus as a pillow-blanket combination.
US12114752B2
A container includes a lid, a frame, and a mirror. The lid includes two external ridges and at least one intermediate ridge formed on a face thereof. The intermediate ridge is located between and in parallel to the external ridges. A height of the intermediate ridge is smaller than a height of the external ridges. The frame includes fins extending from a face thereof. The fins are in parallel to one another. During attachment of the frame to the lid, the fins are slidable on the intermediate and external ridges to render movement of the frame on the lid smooth like swinging of a pendulum. The mirror is attached to an opposite face of the frame.
US12114751B2
The present invention relates to a nail filing machine, an ultraviolet (UV) light sterilization container, and a nail filing system including the nail filing machine. The nail filing machine of the present invention comprises a pen-shaped nail filing device, a master device and a rotation speed-adjustable motor. The nail filing machine of the present invention is convenient for a user (i.e., a manicurist) to use for a long time, is easy to carry in use, has a UV light sterilization function, and can record the working mode of the user, thereby effectively improving the operability of the nail filing machine.
US12114746B2
The invention discloses a protective sleeve for a terminal device, The protective casing comprises a fixing structure and a support structure. The kickstand assembly comprises a pull kickstand and an abutting kickstand, a first slot and a second slot are formed in one end of the match groove, a tail end of the first slot is communicated with the second slot, a rotating slot is formed in the other end of the match groove, the pull kickstand has an end disposed in the rotating slot and an end hinged to the middle of the abutting kickstand, one end of the pull kickstand is slidably disposed in the first slot or the second slot. In use, the pull kickstand is pulled to drive the abutting kickstand to slide in the first slot and the second slot alternately to realize a support and storage effect.
US12114745B2
A food container has a container bottom and a container lid. The container bottom has a base and walls upstanding from the base to define a container bottom interior. The container lid has a top cover and side edges, and the top cover overlies the base when the lid is in closed connection with the bottom. The top cover includes an elastically deformable portion and an inelastic portion. Each of the elastically deformable portion and the inelastic portion overlies different portions of the base when the lid is in closed connection with the bottom. The elastically deformable portion facilitates accommodation of an item within the container bottom interior that rests on the base that underlies the elastically deformable portion and that extends into contact with the elastically deformable portion as the lid is shifted into closed connection with the bottom by deforming elastically outwardly away from the base.
US12114739B2
A webbing adjusting buckle is provided. The webbing adjusting buckle includes a shell, a roller, and at least one limit locking member. The roller is arranged in the shell and is capable of rotating around an axis of the roller, as well as moving back and forth relative to the shell. The at least one limit locking member is movably assembled in the shell, and the limit locking member includes a limit column and an elastic member. The elastic member is arranged in a length direction of the limit column. A rotation limit structure is formed between the outer wall of the roller and the limit column, to allow the roller to rotate in one direction and prevent the roller from rotating reversely. The elastic member is used to provide the limit column with an elastic force towards the roller.
US12114737B2
Concepts provided are directed to a flexible button that is bendable when exposed to a force. The flexible button in accordance herein has a tapered perimeter portion such that a thickness of a peripheral edge of the perimeter portion is less than a thickness of remaining portions of the flexible button. The low-profile of the flexible button allows the flexible button to easily slip through a respective button hole and to be more easily gripped by a user. Further, the flexible button in accordance with aspects herein provides higher breathability than conventional buttons of the same size by having voided portions on its perimeter portion.
US12114734B2
A shoe sole includes a first sole layer including a first region having a first rigidity, and a second region extending in a longitudinal direction of the shoe sole. The second region is spaced from a toe edge of the first sole layer and is spaced from a heel edge of the first sole layer. The first sole layer has a cleat engagement part. The second region is located between the cleat engagement part and a side edge of the first sole layer.
US12114728B2
A sockliner for a shoe may be formed to include an integral fabric skirt. The fabric skirt may remain loose from the sockliner along at least a portion of the periphery of the sockliner. The loose periphery of the fabric skirt may be used to join the sockliner to other shoe components, as in a strobel-type seam.
US12114727B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear comprises a midsole body having a proximal surface and a distal surface. The sole structure includes an outsole having a proximal surface and a distal surface, wherein the proximal surface of the outsole is secured to the distal surface of the midsole body. The outsole includes external flex grooves at the distal surface of the outsole, and the midsole body includes internal flex grooves at the proximal surface of the midsole body. The internal flex grooves overlie and are aligned with the external flex grooves such that the sole structure articulates at the external flex grooves both in dorsiflexion and in plantarflexion.
US12114719B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for integration of hair extensions or other integrations into a user's natural hair. According to the present disclosure, an adhesive means, such as a magnet, Velcro, or snaps, is used to integrate hair extensions seamlessly with user hair. The magnetic nature of the adhesion allows for simple hair decorations, such as flowers, to be attached with minimal effort.
US12114718B2
A human hair implant procedure involves inserting a length of barbed surgical thread through a cannula so that a first portion including a distal end of the barbed surgical thread is near a distal end of the cannula and a second portion is outside the proximal end of the cannula, then inserting the distal end of the cannula through an entry point of the skin of the human and advancing the cannula under the skin until the proximal end of the cannula is near the entry point of the skin. Then, removing the cannula from under the skin, leaving in position under the skin the first portion of barbed surgical thread which secures a hold to tissue under the skin, and finally, attaching hair to the second portion of barbed surgical thread.
US12114716B2
A glasses mounted face shield for mounting on a nose bridge of a pair of eyeglasses may include a shield bib fabricated from a flexible, translucent material and having a lock slot cut into the shield bib proximate a bib top edge from a shield front surface to a shield rear surface. A glasses engagement portion with a lock finger may extend upward from the the bib top edge. The lock finger is inserted through the lock slot and engages the shield bib proximate the lock slot to retain the lock finger within the lock slot. The glasses engagement portion may be wrapped around the nose bridge of the eyeglasses and the lock finger inserted through the lock slot to hang the glasses mounted face shield from the eyeglasses and in front of a face of a person wearing the eyeglasses.
US12114710B2
An aerosol delivery device includes a heating element powerable to heat components of an aerosol precursor composition to produce an aerosol therefrom, and processing circuitry configured to control a voltage directed to and powering the heating element. An infrared sensor is coupled to the processing circuitry, and configured to measure infrared energy emitted by the aerosol precursor composition in response to the heating thereof, the emitted infrared energy being variable and proportional to a temperature of the heated aerosol precursor composition, the processing circuitry or the infrared sensor being configured to determine the temperature from the infrared energy emitted by the heated aerosol precursor composition and measured by the infrared sensor, and the processing circuitry being configured to adjust the voltage directed to the heating element in response to the temperature of the aerosol precursor composition deviating from a predetermined temperature target. An associated aerosol delivery device is also provided.
US12114705B2
An isolation member for an atomizer includes a main body and a pull rod connected to the main body to drag the main body to move. The main body includes a hollow channel.
US12114700B2
A system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device including a heating chamber to receive an aerosol-generating article of a first type, the article including an aerosol-forming substrate; and an adapter element to be inserted into the heating chamber and configured to have an outer shape to be at least partly inserted into the chamber, the adapter element having a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis of the adapter element, the cavity being configured so that an aerosol-generating article of a second type having a diameter that is smaller than a diameter of the article of the first type is insertable into the cavity and thereby into the heating chamber, and the adapter element including a detection element configured to enable identification, by the device, of a type of the adapter element inserted into the heating chamber. A set of adapter elements, a kit, and a method are also provided.
US12114697B2
An aerosol generation device has a body and a closure. The body has an aperture through which an aerosol substrate is receivable into the aerosol generation device. The closure is moveable relative to the aperture between a closed position in which the closure covers the aperture and an open position in which the aperture is substantially unobstructed by the closure; the closure is stable in each of the closed position and the open position. The closure is further moveable from the open position to an activation position. At the activation position, the aerosol generation device is operable to initiate an activation signal.
US12114694B2
An aerosol provision device for generating aerosol for user inhalation can include a first aerosol generating area and a second aerosol generating area each for receiving an aerosol precursor material; a mouthpiece from which a user inhales generated aerosol during use, wherein the mouthpiece comprises first and second mouthpiece openings; a first pathway extending from the first aerosol generating area to the first mouthpiece opening for transporting a first aerosol generated from the aerosol precursor material in the first aerosol generating area; and a second pathway extending from the second aerosol generating area chamber to the second mouthpiece opening for transporting a second aerosol generated from the aerosol precursor material in the second aerosol generating area, wherein the first and second pathways are physically isolated from one another to prevent mixing of the first and second aerosols as the first and second aerosols are transported along the respective pathways.
US12114672B2
The present invention relates to an improved method and a device for mechanically filleting and removing pin-bones from gutted fish using conventional filleting devices, where the fish rests on a saddle on a conveyor using pairs of circular knives to separate the fillet from the backbone. The apparatus and method are designed to facilitate mechanical filleting and pin-bone removal of gutted fish with the head intact. The present invention provides a more accurate method of positioning the pin-bones in the gutted fish.
US12114671B2
A filter for removing particulate matter from a contaminated fluid. The filter includes a housing with an inlet for receiving the contaminated fluid and an outlet for releasing the filtered fluid. A sieve is mounted within the housing and includes perforations to allow both the passage of the contaminated fluid and collection of particulate matter from the filtered fluid. The filter further includes a turbine for rotating the sieve about a central axis and a spray bar mounted within the sieve. The rotation and spray removes particulate matter from the sieve for disposal.
US12114666B2
A cooking appliance includes a body having a first cavity. A sensor is operably coupled with the first cavity to obtain a first data. A humidifier is in fluid communication with the first cavity to control a relative humidity within the first cavity. A controller is in electric communication with the sensor to receive the first data. The controller detects at least one of a surface condition and a growth condition of a food substrate using the first data.
US12114654B2
Compositions and Methods for Stabilizing Circulating Tumor Cells Methods and compositions for stabilizing a biological sample for analysis, comprising the steps of obtaining in a sample collection device a biological sample from a subject, especially blood, the biological sample including at least one circulating tumor cell from the subject. The methods may include a step of contacting the biological sample with a protective agent composition that includes a preservative agent, an optional anticoagulant, and a quenching agent to form a mixture that includes the protective agent composition and the sample.
US12114646B2
In general, an enclosure is disclosed that includes a basin for storing water and an insert configured to be removably disposed within the basin and provide dry and wet sections that define a habitat for one or more amphibians and/or reptiles. Preferably, the insert includes an integrated filter arrangement that can be removed together, e.g., as a single unit, from the basin when cleaning is desired. More preferably, the insert includes a plurality of openings to allow water to drain via gravity into the basin as a user “pulls” the insert from the same. Accordingly, a user may then remove the insert from the basin without necessarily removing creatures from within the insert, and more importantly, from the habitat provided by the same.
US12114644B2
A feed consumption monitoring system for monitoring and controlling the quantity of feed introduced to an aquaculture environment. The system includes utilization of a high contrast surface, which receives a supply of running water containing a quantity of feed particles, a camera assembly to capture images of the high contrast surface upon its contact with the supply of running water, and a mount assembly to support the foregoing components, and the system may also include a lighting assembly to illuminate the high contrast surface as well as a software component to analyze such images to determine whether the quantity of feed in the supply of running water is suboptimal.
US12114639B1
A system for collecting and processing animal waste includes a plurality of wheels, a scoop, an impeller, at least one motor, and a chute, each of which is coupled to a chassis. The scoop is configured to shovel animal waste that is received by the impeller, which is configured to fragmentize the animal waste with at least one spinning blade and deliver the fragmentized animal waste to the chute, which in turn facilitates delivery of the fragmentized animal waste to a receptacle.
US12114630B1
A novel sorghum variety designated PH2738MR and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety PH2738MR with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety PH2738MR with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2738MR include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety PH2738MR or a locus conversion of PH2738MR with another sorghum variety are disclosed.
US12114628B2
The inbred rice line designated DG263L is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of inbred rice line designated DG263L, the plants of inbred rice line designated DG263L, plant parts of inbred rice line designated DG263L, and methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing rice DG263L with itself or with another rice variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to rice cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, and the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing DG263L with another rice cultivar.
US12114624B2
A utility work device includes a main body section supported by a support and a working section supported by the main body section to perform a work on an object. The main body section is movable in a horizontal direction and a perpendicular direction.
US12114623B2
A plant pot support assembly comprises a saucer and a grate. The saucer, in turn, comprises a flat bottom and a peripheral wall at an elevation such that a cavity is formed. The grate is configured to be placed over the peripheral wall to enable the grate to support a plant pot, wherein water or dirt from the plant pot is accumulated in the cavity below.
US12114619B2
Vertical farming/gardening systems and methods of using. The systems include a track defining a path in which a change in elevation occurs, buckets pivotally secured to the track to travel along the path, and a moving mechanism for moving the buckets along the path. A first bucket has a cavity containing either a growing medium capable of supporting plants growing within the cavity or a solar collector for dehydrating plants within the cavity. One or more service stations located along the path of the track perform actions on the growing medium or the plants within the cavity of the first bucket as the first bucket travels along the path. One or more sensors analyze the growing medium or plants within the cavity of the first bucket. A master control unit controls the system including travel of the buckets along the path of the track.
US12114616B2
A watering schedule control system (200) includes a power source (106), a power status sensor (108) to generate a signal indicative of remaining power with the power source (106), and a controller (204) communicably coupled to the power source (106), and the power status sensor (108). The controller (204) has access to a watering schedule. The controller (204) is configured to receive the signal from the power status sensor (108) and modify the watering schedule based on the received signal.
US12114615B2
Compositions suitable for use as biodegradable coatings, comprising mixtures of naturally sourced waxes and naturally sourced crosslinkable agents. Compositions may be used to impart water resistance to a substrate, to control the release time of soil nutrients, to reduce environmental damage, and to protect seed or crop damage from high local concentrations of salts. Compositions are preferably prepared as aliphatic alcohol and thereafter may be disposed about an agronomically important substrate core or a fibrous substrate, at temperatures below about 90° C. to impart water resistance or extend the storage time.
US12114613B2
A felling unit and a method of harvesting small-dimensioned wood in a forest. A felling unit comprises a cutting device with two disc blades and a cutting gap between them for cutting small-dimensioned trees. The cut small-dimensioned trunks are transferred from the cutting gap to a temporary storage space by means of a transfer device comprising two transfer shafts with a transfer gap between them. The disc blades and the transfer shafts are both rotated in opposite directions relative to each other, i.e. towards the cutting gap and the feeding gap.
US12114609B2
A residue handling system for an agricultural harvester includes a chopper that is positionable within a straw hood of the combine harvester and a seed mill that is mounted directly to the chopper. The chopper has projecting elements for chopping straw within the straw hood as the chopper rotates. The seed mill includes a rotatable rotor that is at least partially positioned within a concave. The rotor and the chopper are connected or unitized so as to rotate together.
US12114602B2
A corn head includes a first wing segment; a center segment; and a corn head adjustment system. The corn head adjustment system includes a first fold actuator and corn head hydraulics fluidly coupled to receive a fluid from a source and to selectively direct the fluid to the first fold actuator. During a fold process, the corn head hydraulics is configured to actuate the first fold actuator in order to lift and fold the first wing segment frame relative to the center frame. During an unfold process, the corn head hydraulics is configured to actuate the first fold actuator in order to lift and unfold the first wing segment frame relative to the center frame. The corn head hydraulics includes a force relief arrangement configured such that, at a predetermined position during the fold process and the unfold process, fluid pressure to the first fold actuator is reduced.
US12114597B2
A latching assembly (100′, 100″) for operably coupling a cutting deck (50) to an equipment frame (60) of a riding lawn care vehicle (10) may include a pivot arm (300, 400), and a latch member (310, 410). The pivot arm (300, 400) and the latch member (310, 410) may each be pivotally coupled to each other. The pivot arm (300, 400) and the latch member (310, 410) may also cooperate with each other to affix the cutting deck (50) to the equipment frame (60) in each of a service position and a working position.
US12114587B2
Work machines, control systems for work machines, and methods of operating work machines are envisioned. A work machine includes a frame structure, a work implement, and a control system. The work implement is coupled to the frame structure and includes at least one ground engagement tool that is configured for movement in response to interaction with an underlying surface in use of the use work machine. The control system is coupled to the frame structure and includes a sensor mounted to the at least one ground engagement tool and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor.
US12120964B2
There is a superconducting article that includes a superconducting film comprising a substrate, one or more buffer layers, and a high temperature superconducting (HTS) layer. The superconducting layer may be comprised of the chemical composition REBa2Cu3O7−x, where RE is one or more rare earth elements, for example: Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu. The superconductor layer is produced using Photo-Assisted Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (PAMOCVD) and contains non-superconducting nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are substantially provided in the a-b plane and naturally oriented. The non-superconducting nanoparticles provide flux pinning centers that improve the critical current properties of the superconducting film.
US12120962B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a MRAM region and a logic region; forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MRAM region; forming a top electrode on the MTJ; and then performing a flowable chemical vapor deposition (FCVD) process to form a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the top electrode and the MTJ.
US12120952B2
Using a compound represented by a general formula (A)m-L-(D)n, a light-emitting device having a high emission efficiency can be provided. L is an (m+n)-valent aromatic linking group; A is a group having a positive Hammett's σp value; D is a group having a negative Hammett's σp value; m is an integer of 1 or more; n is an integer of 2 or more. Two of plural D's differ in point of the substituent condition at specific aromatic rings.
US12120943B2
A display device includes a supporting substrate including a polymeric material, base substrate disposed on an upper surface of the supporting substrate, a pixel array disposed in a display area of the base substrate, a transfer wiring disposed in a bending area of the base substrate and electrically connected to the pixel array, and an organic filling portion disposed under the transfer wiring in the bending area. The base substrate includes an organic film including a polymeric material, and an inorganic barrier film overlapping the organic film and extending outwardly from an edge of the organic film. The organic filling portion contacts the organic film of the base substrate.
US12120940B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel and a mobile terminal. The display panel includes an edge display area located on a periphery of a central display area. A substrate, a light-emitting function layer located on the substrate, and an optical adjustment member disposed on the light-emitting function layer are disposed in the edge display area. A refractive index of a side of the optical adjustment member that is close to the light-emitting function layer is less than a refractive index of a side of the optical adjustment member that is away from the light-emitting function layer.
US12120939B2
A cover plate and a display device is provided. The cover plate includes a first cover plate layer and a second cover plate layer. The first cover plate layer is located on a light entry side of the cover plate. The second cover plate layer is located on a light exit side of the cover plate and attached to a first surface of the first cover plate layer. A plurality of protrusions are disposed on the first surface of the first cover plate layer. A refractive index of the first cover plate layer is less than a refractive index of the second cover plate layer.
US12120920B2
A display device includes a substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixels are defined, each of the plurality of sub-pixels including an emission area and a circuit area; a driving transistor disposed in the circuit area and including a first gate electrode and a first source electrode disposed on the same layer; a storage capacitor disposed in the circuit area and including a first capacitor electrode electrically connected to the first gate electrode and disposed below the first gate electrode; an insulating layer planarizing upper portions of the driving transistor and the storage capacitor; and a light emitting element disposed on the insulating layer.
US12120912B2
The present disclosure relates a display panel. The display device includes a plurality of first pixels disposed in a first area, a plurality of second pixels disposed in a second area surrounded by the first area, and a plurality of third pixels disposed in a third area between the first area and the second area.
US12120908B2
A display apparatus having a light-emitting device and a bank insulating layer, the light-emitting device disposed on an emission area defined by the bank insulating layer, and a first capping layer, an insulation pattern and a second capping layer sequentially stacked on the bank insulating layer, and the insulation pattern has a refractive index greater than that of the first capping layer and the second capping layer, thereby minimizing unintended area in emitting light.
US12120901B2
Provided is a light-emitting element to highly efficiently emit light in different colors. The light-emitting element includes: a cathode; an anode; a light-emitting layer formed between the cathode and the anode, and including a plurality of light-emitting regions respectively emitting light of different wavelengths; and an electron-transport layer formed between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, and including a plurality of regions each corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions. The electron-transport layer includes a Zn1-XMgXO film (where X is 0≤X<1). Of the plurality of regions included in the electron-transport layer, a region, corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions that emits light of a shorter wavelength, is higher in composition ratio X of Mg and/or less in thickness of the Zn1-XMgXO film.
US12120892B2
The application relates to organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites of formula (I): [(A)1−2.48p−b(B)3.48p+b](1+2p−y)/1+p)(Pb)1−p−m(M)m(X1)3−y−q(X2)q(I), and perovskite photovoltaic cells comprising the same.
US12120891B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer that are laminated in this order. The first layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component. The second layer is provided on a surface of each of the particles or the aggregate and is formed of a plurality of particles including a perovskite structure as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including a perovskite structure as a main component. The third layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an organic metal complex as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an organic metal complex as a main component.
US12120885B2
A ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) memory device includes a bottom electrode located over a substrate, a top electrode overlying the bottom electrode, and a ferroelectric tunnel junction memory element located between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The ferroelectric tunnel junction memory element includes at least one ferroelectric material layer and at least one tunneling dielectric layer.
US12120884B2
A method of manufacturing a memory cell includes the following steps. A channel material is formed to contact a source line and a bit line. A ferroelectric (FE) material is formed to contact the channel material. A word line is formed to contact the FE material. The FE material is disposed between the channel material and the word line. The word line includes a bulk layer. The bulk layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The second metal layer is sandwiched between the first metal layer and the FE material.
US12120878B2
An integrated circuit memory includes a first memory block and an adjacent second memory block. The first memory block comprises a first memory pillar around which a first memory cell is formed. The second memory block comprises a second memory pillar around which a second memory cell is formed. An isolation or slit area between the first and second memory blocks electrically isolates the first and second memory blocks. In an example, the slit area comprising a slit pillar around which no memory cells are formed. The slit pillar is a dummy pillar, and insulator material electrically isolates the slit pillar from a Word Line (WL) through which it passes. The isolation layer electrically can also isolate a (WL) of the first memory block from a corresponding WL of the second memory block. In an example, the slit pillar and the memory pillars have at least in part similar structures.
US12120875B2
A storage unit, a method of manufacturing the storage unit, and a three-dimensional memory. The storage unit includes: a first conductivity-type substrate; a channel layer stacked on the first conductivity-type substrate in a first direction; a second conductivity-type conduction layer including a first part and a second part that are connected, the first part being located between the first conductivity-type substrate and the channel layer, and the second part being formed in a via hole passing through the channel layer; a channel passage layer penetrating the channel layer and the first part in a negative direction of the first direction, and extending into an interior of the first conductivity-type substrate; and an insulating layer located in the channel layer and surrounding a periphery of the channel passage layer. The first conductivity-type substrate and the second conductivity-type conduction layer provide carriers required for reading and erasing operations, respectively.
US12120867B2
The present application provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; and forming multiple spaced first isolation sidewall structures on the substrate, where first opening regions are formed between adjacent first isolation sidewall structures, and each of the first opening regions is used to expose at least two columns of active regions.
US12120864B2
A memory device includes pages containing memory cells arranged in an array on a substrate. In each memory cell, a voltage applied to a first gate conductor layer, second gate conductor layer, third gate conductor layer, first impurity layer, and second impurity layer is controlled to form a hole group by impact ionization inside a channel semiconductor layer, and a page write operation of holding the hole group and a page erase operation of removing the hole group are performed. The first impurity layer is connected to a source line, the second impurity layer to a bit line, the first gate conductor layer to a first plate line, the second gate conductor layer to a second plate line, and the third gate conductor layer to a word line. A page erase operation is performed without inputting a positive or negative bias pulse to the bit line and the source line.
US12120860B2
The present disclosure is directed to achieve greater space efficiency. A wiring module (A) includes a first transmission line (20), and a noise shielding member (40) that has a sheet shape and is arranged along the first transmission line (20). The noise shielding member (40) has a thickness of 100 μm to 600 μm. Since the noise shielding member (40) has a sheet shape, and thus the space for arranging the noise shielding member (40) can be made smaller, it is possible to achieve greater space efficiency. Since the noise shielding member (40) has a thickness of 100 μm to 600 μm, it is possible to obtain a high noise shielding effect.
US12120850B2
Provided is a mode control method that includes obtaining a PWM signal; obtaining a duty cycle of the PWM signal; obtaining a target rotational speed of an electric pump based on the duty cycle of the PWM signal; in response to determining that the target rotational speed of the electric pump is equal to 0 and the target rotational speed of the electric pump remains equal to 0 for the set duration, entering the sleep mode by the microcontroller; and in response to determining that the target rotational speed of the electric pump is not equal to 0 or the target rotational speed of the electric pump does not remain equal to 0 for the set duration, entering the working mode by the microcontroller. Further provided are a mode control system, an electronic device and a storage medium.
US12120844B2
An environmental control unit (ECU) such as a heat pump includes a housing having a divider panel. The divider panel is surrounded by a sidewall and segregates an interior space of the housing into an air-handling portion and a condensing portion. The ECU includes a blower disposed in the air-handling portion, a heat exchanger disposed in the air-handling portion, a compressor disposed in the condensing portion and a fluid circuit including a refrigerant line that connects the heat exchanger to the compressor. In addition, the ECU includes an electronics box that is mounted on the divider panel and houses a control board, the electronics box being provided with two independent modes of cooling. The first mode includes convective cooling via air flow generated by the blower, and the second mode includes conductive cooling via a cooling plate that is cooled by the refrigerant line.
US12120840B2
An information handling system may include a backplane configured to couple at a first side thereof to a plurality of physical storage resources, an air mover configured to provide cooling to the information handling system, and a shelf coupled to the backplane at a second, opposite side thereof, wherein the shelf is disposed between the first side of the backplane and the air mover. The shelf may include an acoustically absorbent material.
US12120835B2
Discussed is a display apparatus capable of reducing a non-active area recognized by a user by applying a curvature portion to the entire portions of an edge area of a display panel. The display apparatus can include a display panel configured to display an image, and a cover member on the display panel and configured to protect the display panel, wherein the display panel and the cover member each includes a first curvature portion in which a side surface area is bent, and a second curvature portion in which a corner area is bent, and wherein a thickness of the corner area of the cover member is different than a thickness of the side surface area of the cover member.
US12120834B2
A locking assembly for a fuse box of a vehicle includes a base and a cover configured to be removably connected to the base. The base includes a projection extending outwardly from the base. An opening is disposed in the projection. The cover includes a locking member configured to be received by the opening in the projection when the cover is connected to the base. The cover is configured to rotate about a pivot axis of the locking member to disengage the locking member from the opening in the projection to remove the cover from the base.
US12120805B2
A high-frequency heating apparatus includes heating chamber (1), generator (2), radiator (3), and controller (30). Heating chamber (1) has a wall surface including metal, and accommodates object (4) to be heated. Generator (2) generates high-frequency power at any frequency in a band of 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Radiator (3) includes loop antenna (3) including a plurality of loop portions (3A, 3B), and radiates the high-frequency power generated by generator (2) to heating chamber (1). Controller (30) controls a frequency of the high-frequency power generated by generator (2). According to this aspect, a heating target can be uniformly heated or partially heated without a waveguide for transmitting high-frequency power.
US12120797B2
In one aspect, a device is adapted to transmitting power to, or receive power from, a remote device over first and second communication lines (DALI+, DALI−) and to communicate with the remote device over the first and second communication lines. A first driver implements a first communications protocol which comprises coupling the first and second communication lines together to encode a first signal level and isolating the first and second communication lines from each other to encode a second signal level. This may be a DALI protocol. A second driver implements a second communications protocol which comprises modulating the first communication line with a signal having a low modulation depth. The second communications protocol means there is always a voltage difference between the two communication lines to enable continuous power harvesting. A second aspect relates to efficient power transfer by disabling a current limiter function, when possible.
US12120796B2
A method for controlling lighting in an interior of an aircraft, a lighting control system, and computer program product. The method includes: determining a departure time adjusted for an offset from GMT at a departure location and an arrival time adjusted for an offset from GMT at an arrival location as epoch times; generating a flight time with GMT offsets based on subtracting the departure time from the arrival time; determining an FMS flight time representing the expected time that the aircraft will be in flight between the departure location and the arrival location; generating a simulation ratio modifier based on dividing the FMS flight time by the flight time with GMT offsets; applying the simulation ratio modifier to periods of a day to generate scaled durations for periods of the day in a lighting program; and applying the program to control the cabin lighting on the aircraft.
US12120795B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronous communication and control of LED lights and sensors in an LED light array containing two or more LED lights. Through the use of a master clock within a gateway and/or a master controller that is in communication with LED lights in an array that is in a facility, such as in a greenhouse, hot house, poultry egg production facility, a hospital, dairy production or other lighting facilities, the gateway and/or master controller is capable of synchronizing the emission of light or photons from an LED light array by generating a master signal that contains commands and time from a master clock within the signal that is transmitted to each of the LED lights within an array.
US12120793B2
An intelligent emergency power supply system including a power line, a signal communication module, an emergency power module and at least one luminaire, the luminaire is powered by the emergency power module in a state when the live line and the null line are not regularly powered, and the luminaire is capable of extracting the digital signals loaded on the live line and/or the null line and adjusting its own working mode according to control commands corresponding to the digital signals.
US12120789B2
If there is an interruption of power to an electrical load while the electrical load is operating at low end, the electrical load may not turn back on when power is restored. This undesired operation may be avoided by detecting the application of power to the electrical load, and automatically increasing the magnitude of a control signal being applied to the electrical load by a sufficient amount for a short period of time after power has been applied. This way, the electrical load may be turned back on to low end, instead of erroneously operating in an electronic off condition.
US12120777B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that comprises a control body and an aerosol source member. The aerosol delivery device includes a resonant transformer comprising a resonant transmitter and a resonant receiver. The aerosol source member includes an inhalable substance medium at least a portion of which is positioned proximate the resonant transmitter. The resonant transmitter is configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the resonant receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, such that the alternating voltage causes the resonant receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the inhalable substance medium to produce an aerosol. In some implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the control body. In other implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the aerosol source member.
US12120772B2
A network access card switching method is performed by an electronic device on which a first network access card and a second network access card are installed. The first network access card is a default network access card of the electronic device. The network access card switching method includes determining that a user enables an intelligent network access card switching function, activating, by the electronic device, the first network access card, transmitting the data service using the first network access card, monitoring a network state of the first network access card in real time, and when determining that the network state of the first network access card meets a first preset condition, disconnecting the data service transmitted using the first network access card, activating the second network access card, and transmitting the data service by using the second network access card.
US12120770B2
A communication apparatus includes a first transmission unit configured to transmit a first signal for a search in a predetermined first range, a second transmission unit configured to transmit a second signal for a search in a second range narrower than the predetermined first range, a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an external apparatus, a control unit configured to, upon receipt of a first response to the first signal transmitted by the first transmission unit, control the second transmission unit to transmit the second signal for the search in the second range narrower than the predetermined first range, based on a direction of the first response, and an informing unit configured to, upon receipt of a second response to the second signal transmitted by the second transmission unit, inform a user of a direction of the external apparatus.
US12120760B2
One example discloses a multi-link device (MLD) within a wireless local area network (WLAN), including: a controller configured to generate a management frame having a set of multi-link information elements (ML IEs); wherein the MLD is configured to be coupled to a set of PHY-layer links; and wherein the controller is configured to perform a multi-link setup with a second MLD using the set of ML IEs over the PHY-layer links.
US12120758B2
A method and device are disclosed for a remote User Equipment (UE) to support UE-to-Network relay communication. In one embodiment, the method includes the remote UE connecting with a relay UE. The method also includes the remote UE connecting with a first network node via the relay UE. The method further includes the remote UE receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message from the first network node via the relay UE, wherein the first RRC message includes a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) of the remote UE used for constructing authentication information.
US12120755B2
Provided is an aerosol generating device for heating a cigarette to generate aerosol, the aerosol generating device includes an inner wall configured to form an accommodating space for accommodating at least a portion of the cigarette; a coil provided outside the inner wall, surrounding at least a portion of the accommodating space, and configured to generate an induced magnetic field; a heating body provided in the accommodating space and comprising a ferromagnetic substance that generates heat by the induced magnetic field; and a supporting portion configured to support the heating body and integrally molded with the heating body, wherein the inner wall supports the supporting portion and is integrally molded with the supporting portion.
US12120751B2
A random access method and a related apparatus are provided in implementations of the present disclosure and are applicable to a user equipment (UE). The method includes the following. A first bandwidth part (BWP) is selected from multiple BWPs, where the multiple BWPs are configured by a network device. A first physical random access channel (PRACH) resource corresponding to a first synchronization signal block (SSB) is determined. A random access preamble is transmitted on the first BWP based on the first PRACH resource.
US12120747B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple synchronization signal resources, each synchronization signal resource associated with a beam of a set of beams and may determine that multiple candidate beams of the set of beams satisfy a channel quality threshold. The UE may transmit an indication that the multiple candidate beams satisfy the channel quality threshold. For example, the UE may transmit a single random access message on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with multiple candidate beams, or may transmit multiple random access messages, each one on a different PRACH resource associated with a different candidate beam. The UE may receive an indication of one of the candidate beams from the base station and may establish a connection with the base station using the indicated candidate beam.
US12120742B2
Methods, systems, and devices for channel access and listen-before-talk approaches for new radio operation in unlicensed bands and/or licensed bands. A gNB and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may operate in unlicensed spectrum. The gNB may perform listen-before-talk operation, and when successful, may send a downlink control channel with a slot format indication (SFI) to the WTRU. There may also be a handshaking procedure with an exchange of a request to transmit (RTT) and a request to receive (RTR). Prior to receiving the downlink channel, the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a first level, and once the downlink channel is received the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a second level. At the end of transmission, the WTRU may revert back to monitoring search spaces at the first level. In one example, the first level may be a mini-slot level and the second level may be a slot level.
US12120734B2
A method for access to a communication network, implemented by a terminal. The method includes: receiving system information broadcast by the network, the system information including an identification of at least one time-frequency resource capable of carrying a piece of information relative to a unique terminal identifier; transmitting to the network an access request, the access request carrying a first piece of information representative of a unique identifier of the terminal, transmitted on one of the time-frequency resources identified on the basis of the system information, called specific resource; and authorizing access to the network in the case of reception of a response to the access request carrying a second piece of information representative of the unique identifier of the terminal.
US12120732B2
This disclosure provides a random access method and apparatus, and user equipment, and belongs to the field of wireless communications technologies. The random access method is applied to user equipment and includes: in a case that a time domain resource for a random access message conflicts with a time domain resource indicated by a network-side message, performing any one of the following: transmitting the random access message on the time domain resource for the random access message; canceling transmission of the random access message; delaying transmission of the random access message; and ignoring the network-side message.
US12120730B2
Features, methods, and functions for beam failure recovery and scheduling requests are provided, including methods for triggering, canceling, and transmitting beam recovery requests. The scheduling request may be designed to accommodate new criteria for transmission on a grant-free uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and for putting the schedule request on hold.
US12120728B2
A system and method for optimizing power consumption of energy harvesting nodes in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, a system includes a network coordinator. The network coordinator includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver is configured to provide access to the wireless sensor network. The controller is configured to determine whether a wireless device that is wirelessly communicating with the network coordinator is powered via energy harvesting. The controller is also configured to schedule, based on a determination that the wireless device is powered via energy harvesting, the wireless device to communicate via the wireless sensor network using a priority timeslot of a superframe of the wireless sensor network. The priority timeslot is a timeslot occurring in an initial portion of the superframe.
US12120725B2
A communications system, method and apparatus, the apparatus configured for determining configuration information of a default data radio bearer (DRB) of a first link, the first link being a direct wireless communications link between a first terminal device and another terminal device, and the first terminal device being a transmit end of a first vehicle-to-everything (V2X) data packet, and sending the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link to the first terminal device, where the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link has first indication information, and the first indication information indicating that the configuration information is the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link.
US12120716B1
A protocol for initiating communications between STAR devices in a network includes communicating via a communication device having a transmit signal path and a receive signal path where the transmit signal path and receive signal path are operable to transmit and receive simultaneously at the same frequency over an interference-suppressed band. A communication sub-band and an initiation sub-band are generated within the interference-suppressed band. The initiation sub-band has a lower bandwidth than the communication sub-band. Signals may be transmitted and received signals over the initiation sub-band the communication sub-band.
US12120715B2
There is provided a method of transmitting and receiving user equipment management information and electronic device for performing the same. The electronic device includes a communication interface including a plurality of phase array antennas, a storage configured to store user equipment (UE) management information including information about at least one frequency band covered by each of the phase array antennas, and a controller configured to control to transmit the UE management information to a base station.
US12120713B2
The disclosure provides a method, performed by a base station, of transmitting or receiving data, the method including: determining whether to respectively allocate a plurality of transport blocks to different resource regions, based on channel information; determining, based on a result of the determining, a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated and a modulation and coding scheme of the plurality of transport blocks; and transmitting, to a terminal, first downlink control information including an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether the plurality of transport blocks are allocated to different resource regions and resource allocation information of a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated.
US12120710B2
An apparatus and a method for transmitting or receiving a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) are provided. The method for transmitting a PSBCH of a first user equipment includes transmitting, to one or more second user equipments, a PSBCH carrying information, and the information carried in the PSBCH is used to determine a periodicity and a number of slots. This can reduce a payload size of the information carried in the PSBCH.
US12120699B2
Base station-side and user equipment-side apparatuses and methods, and wireless communication system
Base station-side and user equipment-side apparatuses and methods, and a wireless communication system, for use in wireless communication. The base station-side apparatus for use in wireless communication includes: a setting unit, configured to set different priority levels for using uplink transmission resources on unauthorized band with respect to a plurality of user equipment; and a generating unit, configured to generate an uplink scheduling authorization for using one same uplink transmission resource on the unauthorized band with respect to each user equipment, wherein each uplink scheduling authorization includes information about a priority level of the corresponding user equipment.
US12120689B2
Methods and devices for a UE to multiplex uplink control information (UCI). The UE establishes a connection with a base station. The UE determines whether to multiplex first UCI by first identifying whether intra-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a PUSCH with the same priority. Subsequently, the UE identifies whether inter-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a second PUCCH with a different priority from the first PUCCH. Finally, the UE identifies whether the timing resources of the first UCI overlap with a second PUSCH with a different priority than the first PUCCH. The UE multiplexes the first UCI based on the determination whether to multiplex the first UCI, and transmits the multiplexed first UCI to the base station.
US12120677B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a group communication method and an apparatus. A base station is provided, including: a processor, configured to determine to start scheduling PTM transmission in a first cell, where the scheduling PTM transmission is used to enable UE in the first cell to receive data on a scheduling PTM transmission resource; and a transmitter, configured to: send configuration information of the scheduling PTM transmission to the UE in the first cell, where the configuration information is used to enable the UE in the first cell to receive data according to an indication of the configuration information; and send, on the scheduling PTM transmission resource, data according to the indication of the configuration information.
US12120674B2
Dynamic scheduling can be performed by 5G new radio in the licensed or unlicensed band. A base station can poll user equipment (UE) by transmitting a downlink control information (DCI) or other downlink communication that indicates resources that a UE can use to send a scheduling request. The resources are dynamic, e.g., they can be updated and allocated to UEs based on network conditions. Other aspects are described.
US12120671B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station used for wireless communications. A UE receives first information, the first information is used to determine a first time-frequency resource and a first parameter group; receives a first signaling, the first signaling is used to determine a second time-frequency resource and a second parameter group; operates a first radio signal in the first time-frequency resource; and operates a second radio signal in the second time-frequency resource. A start time for transmitting the first signaling is later than a start time for transmitting the first information; the second parameter group is used to generate the second radio signal, a target parameter group is used to generate the first radio signal, and the target parameter group is the first parameter group or the second parameter group.
US12120660B2
A wireless device receives RRC messages comprising configuration parameters of multicast transmissions, wherein the configuration parameters indicate CFRs comprising a number of resource blocks within a bandwidth part of a cell, a RNTI, and a value of a maximum MIMO layer indication for transmission via the CFRs. The wireless device receives, via the CFRs and based on the RNTI, a group common DCI indicating a multicast transmission of a TB, and the multicast transmission of the TB with a number of MIMO layers equal to or less than the value.
US12120658B2
For example, a Bluetooth (BT) device may include a first BT radio; a second BT radio; and a BT controller configured to control BT activities of the first and second BT radios, the BT controller configured to process a Host Controller Interface (HCI) command from a host processor of the BT device to setup a BT activity, the BT controller configured to identify one or more scheduling requirements of the BT activity based on the HCI command, and, based on the scheduling requirements of the BT activity, to dynamically schedule the BT activity to a selected BT radio from the first and second BT radios.
US12120652B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method performed by a transmission terminal comprises the steps of: generating at least one bit into a complex symbol by using a modulation scheme; mapping the complex symbol to subcarriers each having an even index or subcarriers each having an odd index among subcarriers of at least one configured resource block; performing IFFT on the subcarriers to which the complex symbol is mapped, in order to generate a time-continuous signal; performing a DC bias on the time-continuous signal; and transmitting the DC biased signal.
US12120650B2
The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods and related apparatus. In one example method, a first node sends a to-be-sent frame whose classification attribute value belongs to the first frequency block classification range to a second node by using a first frequency block. The classification attribute value of the to-be-sent frame includes at least one of a frame type, a transmission rate, quality of service, a quality of service access category, a spatial stream, sending duration, a data packet format, or a data packet bandwidth.
US12120644B2
A method performed by a user equipment is provided, which includes identifying information for a resource pool; identifying a resource allocation mode; identifying physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) information, wherein the PSFCH information includes information for a PSFCH period; and selecting, by the UE, a resource for transmission based on the information for the PSFCH period, and a time required for a PSFCH reception and decoding, in case that the resource allocation mode is resource allocation mode 2.
US12120640B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a communication device, a control component, a mobile station, a vehicle, a system, and computer programs for configuring local wireless communication between the communication device and a mobile device close to a vehicle or between mobile devices of a mobile radio system that are close to a vehicle. The communication device comprises a transceiver, which is designed for communication with a control component of the mobile radio system; a control module, which is coupled to the transceiver and is designed to control the transceiver, wherein the control module is also designed to communicate in a first frequency band in the mobile radio system in order to obtain a configuration of a second frequency band of the mobile radio system for the local wireless communication. The control module is also designed to continue to communicate the configuration for the local wireless communication in the second frequency band to at least one mobile device of the mobile radio system that is close to a vehicle.
US12120637B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) includes transmitting (5001), to a first communication network (100-1), a request (4002) for one or more communication gaps (551) in a communication along a data connection (189) associated with a first identity (451) of the wireless communication device (101) and monitoring (5004), in accordance with a timing of the one or more communication gaps (551), for one or more paging signals (4004, 4005) from a second communication network (100-2), the one or more paging signals (4004, 4005) being associated with a second identity (452) of the wireless communication device (101).
US12120633B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing paging forwarding for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A relay wireless device and a remote wireless device may establish a relay link. The relay wireless device may provide an indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device to a cellular base station. The relay wireless device may receive paging information for the remote wireless device from the cellular base station. The relay wireless device may provide the paging information to the remote wireless device via the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.
US12120625B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method includes performing a registration procedure on a first standalone non-public network (SNPN), selecting a second SNPN based on a predetermined condition, and transmitting, to a network entity, a registration request message on the second SNPN for an initial registration, in case that the second SNPN differs from the first SNPN.
US12120623B2
Embodiments of methods for providing timing advance change detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for determining a validity of a timing advance configuration of the wireless device for an idle mode transmission includes obtaining, while the wireless device is operating in a connected mode, a timing advance value for the wireless device. The method further includes transitioning from the connected mode to an idle mode, and performing a measurement on one or more serving cells of the wireless device while the wireless device is in the idle mode. The method also includes determining whether the timing advance is valid for an idle mode transmission based on the measurement. In some embodiments, the measurement may be a signal strength measurement, such as a Reference Signal Received Power measurement and/or a signal quality measurement such as, a Reference Signal Received Quality measurement.
US12120618B2
A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells for communication with a base station. The message(s) comprise a first information element (IE) indicating a new extended power headroom report is configured. The first IE is configured as setup when: a secondary cell is configured with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a second IE indicates that a power headroom report is configured as setup. The wireless device transmits a media-access-control (MAC) packet comprising one or more power headroom reports.
US12120611B2
Examples described herein provide wake-up of a network device. Examples include receiving, by a network interface of a first network device having a first Media Access Control (MAC) address, a request to wake-up a second network device having a second MAC address that is assigned to a same subnet as the first MAC address, and in response to the request, generating, by the first network device, a first wake-up frame having a destination address of the second MAC address and configured to cause the second network device to transition from operating in the first power mode to operating in the second power mode. Examples include transmitting, by the network interface of the first network device, the first wake-up frame to the second MAC address of the second network device.
US12120610B2
A system can comprise a radio unit. The system can further comprise a power detector that is configured to determine characteristics of incident signal data traffic of the radio unit. The system can further comprise an actuator that is configured to modify an operational parameter of the radio unit, wherein modifying the operational parameter of the radio unit alters performance of the radio unit. The system can further comprise a hardware component that is configured to cause the actuator to modify the operational parameter of the radio unit based on analyzing the incident signal data traffic.
US12120605B2
A wireless communication method of a wireless communication device is disclosed, wherein the wireless communication method includes the steps of: establishing a link with a first access point, and obtaining a BSSID list of a plurality of access points of a self-organizing network from the first access point of the SON during a link process; determining at least one candidate access point from the plurality of access point according to the BSSID list; and selecting one of the at least one candidate access point to establish a link.
US12120603B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless device across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a wireless device, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics. The router operates to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the wireless device through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.
US12120601B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment, a method and apparatus for selecting a serving network by a provisioning server in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a user equipment (UE), first stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) information including an identifier (ID) of at least one SNPN received by the UE and second SNPN information including an ID of an SNPN with which the UE is in onboarding process, receiving contractual relationship information related to the UE from a default credential server, and selecting a serving SNPN for the UE based on the first SNPN information, the second SNPN information, and the contractual relationship information.
US12120596B2
A method for controlling a network connection includes receiving a reset operation of a user, determining, in response to the reset operation, whether a smart household device is disconnected from a network. Creating a WI-FI hotspot based on a first WI-FI name and a first WI-FI password in response to the smart household device being disconnected from the network, where the smart household device has accessed the network based on the first WI-FI name and the first WI-FI password using a wireless access point (AP) before being disconnected from the network. Obtaining a second WI-FI name or a second WI-FI password, and sending the second WI-FI name or the second WI-FI password to the smart household device based on the WI-FI hotspot to enable the smart household device to re-access the network based on the second WI-FI name or the second WI-FI password using the wireless AP.
US12120590B2
Techniques for providing mobile device content delivery acceleration for mobile applications are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a mobile accelerator system including a plurality of point-of-presences (POPs) and a control tower system. The control tower system may be configured to control mobile data transfer acceleration between a mobile device and the content server via the plurality of POPs of the mobile accelerator system. Each mobile application executing on the mobile device may be registered, validated, and then associated with a device POP that forms a dedicated connection with an entry POP of the plurality of POPs. Mobile data transfer acceleration for each mobile application may be selectively activated or deactivated, such as based on user configurations at the application level, domain name level, and/or country level.
US12120588B2
Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for providing data including vehicle map service data. The disclosed technology can perform operations including receiving vehicle map service data from a plurality of service systems that include a plurality of client systems associated with a vehicle. The vehicle map service data can include information associated with a geographic area. A local map of the geographic area within a predetermined distance of the vehicle can be generated based on the vehicle map service data. Portions of the local map to which each client system is subscribed can be determined for each client system of the plurality of client systems. Additionally, the portions of the local map to which each client system is subscribed can be sent to a respective client system of the plurality of client systems.
US12120581B1
A method performed by an asset tracking device is disclosed to track an asset. The method comprises receiving, while operating in an extended discontinuous reception mode, a carrier messaging service message from a carrier network, transmitting a connection request to a management server to establish a connection with the management server in response to receiving the carrier messaging service message, receiving, from the management server over the connection, an instruction to use a specified backend check-in schedule until a specified condition is met, and responsive to receiving the instruction, using the specified backend check-in schedule to check in with the management server until the specified condition is met. The method further comprises reverting back to using a default backend check-in schedule to check in with the management server after the specified condition has been met.
US12120567B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for redirecting a user equipment (UE) to an evolved universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) absolute radio frequency number (EARFCN) of an evolved universal mobile telecommunications service terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) band with a band number greater than sixty four. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a channel release message and transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the channel release message to the UE. The channel release message is configured to redirect the UE to the EARFCN of the EUTRAN band with the band number greater than sixty four.
US12120564B2
Devices, systems, and methods for Random Access Channel (RACH) configuration in Layer 1 (L1)/Layer 2 (L2) mobility. A user equipment (UE) may obtain a downlink (DL) Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) list from a first Transmission and Reception Point (TRP). The DL TCI list may include DL beam information, RACH Occasion (RO) information, and initial Bandwidth Part (BWP) information associated with each DL TCI of a plurality of DL TCIs related to the first TRP and multiple TRPs adjacent to the first TRP. The UE may receive a handover command from the first TRP via Downlink Control Information (DCI) in Li or Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) in L2. The handover command indicates a handover from the first TRP to a second TRP of the multiple TRPs for the UE, and includes a specified DL TCI related to the second TRP. The UE may determine RACH information related to the second TRP, based at least partly on the specified DL TCI related to the second TRP included in the handover command and the DL TCI list. The UE may then perform random access to the second TRP based on the RACH information related to the second TRP. The RACH information may include uplink (UL) beam information, RO information and Bandwidth Part (BWP) information for the UE to perform random access to the second TRP.
US12120562B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a determining method and device, to resolve a problem in the related art that user equipment (UE) fails to process a UE connection failure in a dual-connectivity moving process. The method includes determining, when a first timer expires, that a dual-connectivity moving process of a terminal device fails.
US12120553B2
Systems and methods provide for controlling the derivation of QoS rules in the UE by flexibly defining the scope of packet header fields over which packet filter derivation is performed. The scope of packet header fields for derivation of QoS rules may be provided by the network to the UE upon PDU Session establishment or modification. For PDU Session of IP type, the network indicates to the UE whether the scope of RQoS includes both the Source/Destination IP address pair and the Source/Destination Port numbers, or only the former. For PDU Session of Ethernet type, the network indicates to the UE whether the scope of RQoS includes both the Source/Destination MAC address pair and the IEEE 802.1Q tag, or only the former. The UE may indicate to the network whether it supports the flexible scope of packet filters for RQoS for a PDU session.
US12120552B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including filtering packets for transmission between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. Techniques for filtering packets, at a lower layer and/or baseband processor, using higher layer information, such as a flow identifier, are disclosed. A device may generate various tables and may use the tables to filter packets efficiently.
US12120544B2
Disclosed are techniques for reducing the overhead of low layer positioning reports. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs at least one positioning measurement of at least one downlink positioning reference signal (DL-PRS) received from at least one transmission-reception point (TRP) during a positioning session, and reports, to a positioning entity via low layer signaling, a relative value of the at least one positioning measurement relative to an expected value of the at least one positioning measurement, wherein the relative value of the at least one positioning measurement is a difference between the expected value of the at least one positioning measurement and a measured value of the at least one positioning measurement.
US12120543B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for multiple measurement gaps (MGs) configurations with user equipment (UE) capability of supporting the multiple MGs in New Radio (NR) involved networks. Various embodiments describe how to communicate a UE capability of supporting multiple MGs between the UE and an access node (AN) so that multiple MGs may be configured to the UE effectively and efficiently. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12120542B2
Provided are a method, device and apparatus for acquiring information, and a computer storage medium. In the method for acquiring information, a first node receives a message transmitted by a second node, where the message is related to a cell group of the second node, each cell group includes one or more cells, and each cell belongs to a same wideband carrier. The first node acquires information on a cell under the second node from the message, that is, information on a cell in the each cell group. A device and an apparatus for acquiring information, and a storage medium are further provided.
US12120541B2
A method for processing communication range information and a terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving the communication range information of a service data unit from an application layer; determining target information according to the communication range information; and transmitting the target information to a base station.
US12120538B2
Failure prediction signaling and cognitive user migration may be provided. A client device may receive at least a portion of failure prediction data. The client device may then analyze the at least the portion of the failure prediction data. The client device may then roam from a first computing device to a second computing device in response to analyzing the at least the portion of the failure prediction data.
US12120536B2
One example Land Mobile Radio (LMR) base station includes a network interface and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive profile information of a plurality of fifth generation (5G)/Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication devices. The profile information of the plurality of 5G/LTE communication devices may be transmitted (i) over a background gateway communication channel to an LMR communication network that includes the LMR base station and (ii) in response to the 5G/LTE software defined network detecting a fault condition of the first 5G/LTE communication network. The electronic processor is further configured to broadcast a capture beacon based on the profile information and compliant with at least some characteristics of a 5G/LTE communication protocol. The capture beacon is configured to be received by the 5G/LTE communication device to reconfigure the 5G/LTE communication device for communication compliant with an LMR communication protocol.
US12120506B2
Devices, methods, and a computer program for releasing transportation vehicle components and a vehicle-to-vehicle communication module. The device for releasing a vehicle component of a transportation vehicle includes at least one interface for communication with further vehicle components of the transportation vehicle and a control module for controlling the at least one interface to receive messages from the further vehicle components of the transportation vehicle and to verify the identity of the further vehicle components based on the received messages and the stored identification data of the further vehicle components. The messages on which the verification of the identity of the further vehicle components is based are messages used in regular operation of the vehicle component. The control module also releases the vehicle component in response to the identity of the further transportation vehicle components being consistent with the stored identification data of the further vehicle components.
US12120499B2
An audio system and method of spatially rendering audio signals that uses modified virtual speaker panning is disclosed. The audio system may include a fixed number F of virtual speakers, and the modified virtual speaker panning may dynamically select and use a subset P of the fixed virtual speakers. The subset P of virtual speakers may be selected using a low energy speaker detection and culling method, a source geometry-based culling method, or both. One or more processing blocks in the decoder/virtualizer may be bypassed based on the energy level of the associated audio signal or the location of the sound source relative to the user/listener, respectively. In some embodiments, a virtual speaker that is designated as an active virtual speaker at a first time, may also be designated as an active virtual speaker at a second time to ensure the processing completes.
US12120490B2
Provided is a filter coefficient optimization technology that makes it possible to design a stable beamformer having a good quality by considering the relationship of a filter coefficient between adjacent frequency bins. A filter coefficient optimization apparatus includes an optimization unit that calculates an optimum value of a filter coefficient w={w1, . . . , wF} (wf is a filter coefficient of a frequency bin f) of a beamformer that emphasizes sound (target sound) from D sound source, af,d being an array manifold vector in the frequency bin f corresponding to a sound wave that comes from an angular direction θd in which a sound source d exists, the sound wave being a plane wave, the optimization unit calculating the optimum value based on an optimization problem of a cost function defined using a sum of a sum of a cost function LMV_f(wf) and a predetermined regularization term, under a predetermined constraint condition, the predetermined regularization term being defined using a difference in phase between adjacent frequency bins relevant to a response wfHaf,d of the beamformer in the frequency bin f for the angular direction θd.
US12120488B2
A Personal Sound Amplification System is provided includes a Personal Sound Amplification Device (PSAD) which includes a PSAD module body which defines a PSAD module body cavity for containing PSAD electronics, wherein the PSAD electronics include at least one PSAD microphone configured to receive a sound input and generate a microphone signal, a PSAD amplifier configured generate a processed microphone signal and a PSAD speaker configured to receive the processed microphone signal and generate a sound output; an external sound tube, wherein the external sound tube is associated with the PSAD module body; and a jewelry attachment device, wherein the jewelry attachment device is removably associated with the PSAD module body front and configured to magnetically associate with a decorative jewelry cover.
US12120477B2
Head-worn computers include a front frame mechanically adapted to secure a see-through computer display and an arm, secured to the front frame, mechanically adapted to secure the front frame to a head of a user. The arm includes an internal speaker system, enclosed by the arm, wherein the internal speaker system comprises a speaker having a first side and an opposing second side and a first cavity positioned along the first side of the speaker, the arm further comprising a vent positioned to vent the first cavity and a second cavity positioned along the second side of the speaker.
US12120474B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an activation method, an activation device, a control device, a network device and an optical network system. A new-system ONU is activated on a first OLT in an existing system, and then activation information of the new-system ONU is sent to a second OLT in a new system by the first OLT or by an activation agent ONU which has been activated on the second OLT, thereby enabling activation of the new-system ONU on the second OLT.
US12120466B1
A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.
US12120465B2
The method comprising determining a set of coordinates each for two or more appearances of a target subject within a sequence of images, the set of coordinates of the two or more appearances of the target subject defining a first path; determining a set of coordinates each for two or more appearances of a related subject within a sequence of images, the related subject relating to the target subject, the set of coordinates of the two or more appearances of the related subject defining a second path; determining one or more minimum distances between the first path and the second path so as to determine at least a region of interest; determining a timestamp of a first appearance and a timestamp of a last appearance of the target subject; and determining a timestamp of a first appearance and a timestamp of a last appearance of the related subject.
US12120458B2
A process includes receiving, from a user identity, instructions for output characteristics including one or more of audio characteristics for rendering or capturing audio data or visual characteristics for rendering or capturing visual data. The process also includes determining, in response to the received instructions, output controls which effect the one or more of audio characteristics or visual characteristics, and associating the output controls with an online identity or resource. The process further includes storing the associated output controls and detecting an interaction with the online identity or resource. Moreover, the process includes accessing, in response to the detection of the interaction, the stored output controls, and enabling an effect, based on the output controls, of one or more of the audio characteristics or the visual characteristics with respect to interaction with the online identity or resource.
US12120457B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of communications. Disclosed are a conference creation method, a server end, a terminal, and a storage medium. In the present disclosure, the conference creation method is applied to a video conference terminal. The method includes: establishing a point-to-point video conference with an opposite-end device, and obtaining an identity identifier of the opposite-end device; generating a data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference, wherein the two parties of the conference include the video conference terminal and the opposite-end device; and transmitting the data conference creation request to a data conference server end, so that the data conference server end creates a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference.
US12120447B2
A unit circuit includes a photoelectric conversion element, an output transistor including an input node and configured to output a signal based on a charge from the photoelectric conversion element, a reset transistor, and a first transistor connected to the input node and configured to change a capacitance of the input node. A first control signal supplied to a gate electrode of the first transistor has at least three types of voltages.
US12120445B2
An imaging device 100 includes a pixel array PA. A first period, a third period, and a second period appear in this order in a first frame. During the first period, pixel signal readout is performed on a first row in the pixel array PA. During the second period, pixel signal readout is performed on a second row in the pixel array PA. Each of the first period and the second period is a high-sensitivity exposure period. The third period is a low-sensitivity exposure period.
US12120443B2
A semiconductor device that has low power consumption and is capable of performing a product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second cells, a first circuit, and first to third wirings. Each of the first and second cells includes a capacitor, and a first terminal of each of the capacitors is electrically connected to the third wiring. Each of the first and second cells has a function of feeding a current based on a potential held at a second terminal of the capacitor, to a corresponding one of the first and second wirings. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first and second wirings and stores currents I1 and I2 flowing through the first and second wirings. When the potential of the third wiring changes and accordingly the amount of current of the first wiring changes from I1 to I3 and the amount of current of the second wiring changes from I2 to I4, the first circuit generates a current with an amount I1−I2−I3+I4. Note that the potential of the third wiring is changed by firstly inputting a reference potential to the third wiring and then inputting a potential based on internal data or a potential based on information obtained by a sensor.
US12120442B2
To reduce power consumption of a driver circuit used in a vertical drive circuit of an image processing device. In the driver circuit, a drive signal output circuit outputs a drive signal in accordance with a predetermined trigger signal. Furthermore, at a time of rising of the drive signal, a step-up switch sequentially selects a plurality of voltages in ascending order, and supplies the selected voltage to the drive signal output circuit. Moreover, at a time of falling of the drive signal, a step-down switch sequentially selects a plurality of voltages in descending order, and supplies the selected voltage to the drive signal output circuit.
US12120440B2
Disclosed is an image sensor including a first comparison circuit suitable for comparing an active pixel signal with a ramp signal to generate a first comparison signal through a first comparison output terminal, and a first compensation circuit coupled to the first comparison output terminal, and suitable for selectively applying a first compensation noise, which corresponds to a power noise generated by the first comparison circuit, to the first comparison output terminal on the basis of a first control signal.
US12120439B2
Disclosed is an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixel circuits arranged in a grid structure, and a plurality of switch circuits suitable for selectively coupling floating diffusion nodes included in the respective unit pixel circuits arranged in a vertical direction among the plurality of unit pixel circuits, wherein an arrangement pattern of pixels included in each of the plurality of unit pixel circuits is different from an arrangement pattern of color filters of the pixel array.
US12120435B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described for reducing a flicker effect of multiple light sources in an image captured with an imaging device. A lighting frequency associated with each of the multiple light sources is detected and prioritized relative to a flicker effect upon the image to identify at least a first-prioritized lighting frequency and a second-prioritized lighting frequency. A first exposure-time factorization set is determined for the first-prioritized lighting frequency, and a second exposure-time factorization set is determined for the second-prioritized lighting frequency. An exposure time of the imaging device is adjusted to an exposure time identified in the first exposure-time factorization set that matches, or aligns near-to-matching, an exposure time identified in the second exposure-time factorization set.
US12120431B2
A computing device includes digital imaging functionality that captures images digitally using any of a variety of different technologies. The computing device receives an indication of, or determines, a physical location of a tag within a field of view of an image capture module and associates that physical location with a region of interest in the field of view. The tag is a device that transmits and receives signals allowing one or more other devices to determine the physical location of the tag, such as an ultra-wideband tag. The computing device also includes a parameter generation system that automatically generates, based at least in part on the region of interest associated with the physical location of the tag, one or more parameters for capturing a digital image. These parameters include, for example, an exposure setting, a white balance setting, and a focus setting.
US12120426B2
An image sensor has diffractive microlenses over pixels with central structures and ring(s) of material having index of refraction different from that of background material. Disposed beneath the diffractive microlenses are photodiodes that permit determining ratios of illumination of peripheral photodiodes to illumination of central photodiodes of the pixels, and, in embodiments, circuitry for determining said ratio. In embodiments, the ratio is used to find illumination wavelengths; and in other embodiments the ratio is used to determine focus of an imaging lens providing illumination. A method determines color by passing light through a diffractive lens disposed above photodiodes of the diffractive pixel and determining color from illumination peripheral and central photodiodes. An autofocus method of determining focus includes passing light through a diffractive lens and determining focus from illumination of peripheral photodiodes and central photodiodes of the pixel. In embodiments, the central structures are disks and rings are round.
US12120415B2
In an operation by line-of-sight input, a position (designated position) designated by a gaze point is easier to view after a determination operation is performed by a user than before the determination operation is performed. An electric device includes a detection unit configured to detect a gaze point, which is based on line-of-sight of a user viewing, on a display unit, and a control unit configured to display an indicator on the display unit indicating the gaze point, wherein in a case where an operation is performed on an operation unit by the user, the control unit performs control to display a display item at the gaze point and to display the indicator and the display item in a changed display order.
US12120405B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for collecting multispectral images with a mobile device having a camera with an image sensor, such as a mobile phone. The systems and methods of the present disclosure control, support and power one or more light sources to emit single or multiple wavelengths of light onto an object. The system further supports and controls the camera within the mobile device to capture a series of images or video in the different or same light wavelengths and geometries. The resulting series of images may be used individually or collectively to detect and compare features in an object. This system may be used for the capture of multispectral images or video that could individually or collectively reveal features in the object that may not be visible in a single image.
US12120385B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for displaying video inputs. One apparatus includes a display, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive, by use of the processor, multiple video inputs. The code is executable by the processor to determine display criteria of each video input of the multiple video inputs based on user selection. The code is executable by the processor to display, by use of the display, each video input of the multiple video inputs based on the display criteria of the respective video input.
US12120376B2
The present disclosure includes techniques for providing timing for outputting audio from two or more devices. An example method includes determining, at a first device, timing for outputting audio from a second device and a third device in an attempt to have the audio from the second and third devices play in a synchronized manner. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the second device, using a first wireless communication technology (e.g., Wi-Fi), the timing for outputting the audio. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the third device, using a second wireless communication technology (e.g., Bluetooth) that is different from the first wireless communication technology, the timing for outputting the audio.
US12120375B2
A controller device programming system and method directed at identifying a connected display device 30 connected to a content management device 20 via at least one connected intermediary device 40. The system and method evaluate the details included within a sink data amalgamation that includes sink identification data from both the connected display device 30 and at least one of the connected intermediary devices 40. Keywords, whitelists, and blacklists can be employed to evaluate the content of the sink data amalgamation and determine one or more priority display device matches to, in turn, improve selection of a set of function codes for control of the connected display device 30 using a controller device 50 paired with the content management device 20.
US12120363B2
A time associated with last selection of a content item at a user device may be determined. A time associated with a last user interaction with the user device may be determined. During presentation of the content item at the user device, it may be determined that a supplemental content insertion opportunity is available. A request for a supplemental content item may be sent to a server, wherein the request comprises data indicating the time associated with the last selection of the content item at the user device and data indicating the time associated with the last user interaction with the user device.
US12120348B2
Systems and techniques are described herein for processing media data using a neural network system. For instance, a process can include obtaining a latent representation of a frame of encoded image data and generating, by a plurality of decoder transformer layers of a decoder sub-network using the latent representation of the frame of encoded image data as input, a frame of decoded image data. At least one decoder transformer layer of the plurality of decoder transformer layers includes: one or more transformer blocks for generating one or more patches of features and determine self-attention locally within one or more window partitions and shifted window partitions applied over the one or more patches; and a patch un-merging engine for decreasing a respective size of each patch of the one or more patches.
US12120346B2
A method performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes a current picture with at least one block located at a boundary of the current picture. The method includes determining whether boundary filtering is enabled for the at least one block based on a syntax element in the received coded video stream. The method further includes, based on a determination that the boundary filtering is enabled: filtering one or more boundary samples corresponding to the at least one block to generate one or more filtered samples, and decoding the at least one block based on the generated one or more filtered samples. The method further includes based on a determination that the boundary filtering is not enabled, decoding the at least one block without filtering the one or more boundary samples.
US12120344B2
High frame rate moving image data is satisfactorily transmitted. Mixing processing is performed in units of two temporally consecutive pictures in predetermined frame rate image data, and base frame rate image data is obtained. Image data of one picture in units of the two temporally consecutive pictures is extracted, and high frame rate enhanced frame image data is obtained. Prediction encoding processing of base frame rate image data is performed to the base frame rate image data, and a base stream is obtained. Prediction encoding processing with respect to the base frame rate image data is performed to the high frame rate enhanced frame image data, and an enhanced stream is obtained. A predetermined format container is transmitted including the base stream and the enhanced stream.
US12120342B2
The disclosure discloses a method for processing video signals and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing video signals based on inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge candidate list based on a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block to a current block; adding a history-based merge candidate of the current block to the merge candidate list; obtaining a merge index indicating a merge candidate used for an inter prediction of the current block within the merge candidate list; generating a prediction sample of the current block based on motion information of the merge candidate indicated by the merge index; and updating a history-based merge candidate list based on the motion information.
US12120341B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a video bitstream including a current block, and determines a candidate list that includes a plurality of motion vector (MV) candidates for predicting the current block. The processing circuitry modifies the plurality of MV candidates in the candidate list according to a motion information based diversity assessment of the plurality of MV candidates. The modifying the plurality of MV candidates prioritizes a subset of MV candidates with a larger difference in motion information. The processing circuitry decodes, from the video bitstream, an index indicating a selected MV candidate from the modified candidate list, and reconstructs the current block based on the selected MV candidate.
US12120336B2
Techniques are described for efficiently embedding frame masks in a video stream. In some solutions, a computer implemented method includes operations for encoding a frame of video data comprising an array of pixels to generate an encoded video frame, and transmitting the encoded video frame to a video decoder. The array of pixels include foreground pixels and background pixels. The foreground pixels have respective first chroma component values which are bounded within a first chroma component range. Encoding the frame of video data can include converting the first chroma component values of the foreground pixels to second chroma component values by applying a mapping function. The second chroma component values are bounded within a second chroma component range. The second chroma component range is shifted or compressed from the first chroma component range.
US12120335B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for intra prediction mode coding in video decoding. The method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; constructing a list of intra modes for a block in the coded video bitstream according to a pre-defined rule based on a size of the block; dividing the list of intra modes into a plurality of intra mode sets for the block; extracting, from the coded video bitstream, a set index indicating an intra mode set from the plurality of intra mode sets; extracting, from the coded video bitstream, a mode index indicating an intra prediction mode from the intra mode set; determining the intra prediction mode for the block based on the set index and the mode index; and decoding the coded video bitstream based on the intra prediction mode.
US12120329B2
According to embodiment(s) of the present document, multilayer-based coding can be performed. The multilayer-based coding can include a sub-bitstream extraction process. Inputs of the sub-bitstream extraction process can include a value related to a target OLS index and a value related to a highest temporal identifier.
US12120328B2
A transmission device of point cloud data and method performed by the transmission device, and a reception device and a method performed by the reception device are provided. A method performed by a reception device of point cloud data comprises acquiring geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) file including the point cloud data, wherein the G-PCC file includes information on a sample group in which samples in the G-PCC file are grouped based on one or more temporal levels and wherein the G-PCC file further includes information on the temporal levels, and extracting one or more samples belonging to a target temporal level from the samples in the G-PCC file based on the information on the sample group and the information on the temporal levels.
US12120321B2
The refinement of block-based predictive coding and decoding of pictures as applicable in, e.g., hybrid video codecs, using additional reconstructed samples or residuals is described. An apparatus for block-based predictive decoding of a picture is described. The apparatus includes a combiner configured to combine a residual signal a predetermined block of the picture and a reference signal for the predetermined block so as to obtain a first spectrum, the residual signal correcting a prediction error of a prediction of the predetermined block of the picture; a reducer configured to perform thresholding on the first spectrum to obtain a second spectrum so that coefficients below a threshold value are set to a predefined value; an extractor configured to obtain from the second spectrum a modified version of the residual signal; and a reconstructor block configured to decode the predetermined block of the picture from the data stream on the basis of the modified version of the residual signal.
US12120320B2
A video decoding apparatus and a method for adaptively setting a resolution are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for adaptively setting a resolution on a per-picture basis comprises the steps of: decoding maximum resolution information from a bitstream; decoding, from the bitstream, resolution information about a current picture; and setting the resolution of the current picture on the basis of the maximum resolution information or the resolution information, wherein the resolution information has a size less than or equal to that of the maximum resolution information.
US12120312B2
Techniques related to quantization parameter estimation for coding intra and scene change frames are discussed. Such techniques include generating features based on an intra or scene change frame including a proportion of smooth blocks and one or both of a measure of block variance and a prediction distortion, and applying a machine learning model to generate an estimated quantization parameter for encoding the intra or scene change frame.
US12120311B2
The present invention provides an encoder including a quantization circuit, an encoding circuit, an energy parameter calculation circuit and a quantization parameter determination circuit. The quantization circuit is configured to perform quantization operations on a plurality of CTUs in image data in sequence to generate quantized data respectively corresponding to the plurality of CTUs. The encoding circuit is configured to perform encoding operations on the quantized data of the plurality of CTUs in sequence to generate encoded data. The energy parameter calculation circuit is configured to receive the image data, and calculate a plurality of energy parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of CTUs in the image data. The quantization parameter determination circuit is configured to determine a plurality of quantization parameters of the plurality of CTUs according to at least a portion of the plurality of energy parameters, for the quantization circuit to perform the quantization operations.
US12120302B2
A method of video processing is described. The method of video processing includes: constructing, for a conversion between a current video block of a current picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, a history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) table according to a rule, and performing the conversion using the HMVP table, wherein the current video block is coded in the coded representation using a block vector that represents a displacement between the current video block and a region in the current picture used for predicting the current video block; wherein the rule specifies that the constructing uses block vector information of previously processed video blocks in the HMVP table.
US12120298B2
A video decoder for decoding an encoded video signal including encoded picture data and indication data of a picture of a video to reconstruct the picture of the video is provided. The video decoder includes an interface configured for receiving the encoded video signal, and a data decoder configured for reconstructing the picture of the video by decoding the encoded picture data using the indication data. The picture is partitioned into a plurality of coding areas. One or more coding areas of the plurality of coding areas include two or more coding tree units of the plurality of coding tree units, wherein each coding area of the one or more coding areas which includes two or more coding tree units exhibits a coding order for the two or more coding tree units of the coding area.
US12120291B2
An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, stores a first parameter into a bitstream, the first parameter indicating, as a prediction mode, one of (i) a multiple prediction mode in which a prediction image is generated by overlapping an inter prediction image of a current block and an intra prediction image of the current block and (ii) one of a plurality of prediction modes including a non-rectangular mode in which a prediction image is generated for each non-rectangular partition in the current block, and encodes the current block according to the prediction mode.
US12120286B2
Methods and devices for manipulating an image are described. The method comprises receiving image data, the image data including a first image obtained from a first camera and a second image obtained from a second camera, the first camera and the second camera being oriented in a common direction; identifying one or more boundaries of an object in the image data by analyzing the first image and the second image; and displaying a manipulated image based on the image data, wherein the manipulated image includes manipulation of at least a portion of the first image based on boundaries of the object.
US12120283B2
In a threshold matrix generation method, after periodic areas are set in a matrix space and elements existing every other one in a row direction and a column direction in each periodic area is set as target elements, performed is a step of assigning threshold values ranging from one on the most highlight side to a predetermined switching threshold value sequentially to target elements in the periodic areas. Assuming that elements to which threshold values are assigned are regarded as determined elements, in the step, under a condition that the number of determined elements is almost same in the periodic areas and each determined element is positioned in a vicinity of any one determined element in each periodic area, a target element whose distance to all determined elements is largest is specified within the periodic areas and a threshold value is assigned to the target element.
US12120282B1
A trusted media device for use with a digital camera to create trusted media files that provide assurance that the media file captures a real-world scene and is not synthetic (for example, AI-generated) media. The trusted media device includes a digital camera and provides for generation of a trusted media file after authentication of fingerprints associated with the digital camera and the trusted media device and authentication of perceptual hashes for captured images. Embodiments of the disclosure further include processes for pairing the trusted media device and viewing and editing the trusted media file.
US12120279B2
In some examples, a computing device can include a processor resource and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: identify a plurality of regions within a captured document, determine a quantity of vertical transitions and horizontal transitions within the plurality of regions, and select an output resolution for the plurality of regions based on the quantity of vertical transitions and horizontal transitions within the plurality of regions.
US12120269B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for customer chatbots that detect a customer handoff condition and in response, transferring the customer to a communication session with a live agent. The handoff condition may comprise an inability to understand the customer, an inability to answer the customer's question, expressions of frustration or anger on the part of the customer, a customer's express request to be transferred, or the like. The live agent may receive a complete history of the conversation with the chatbot so that the customer does not have to repeat him or herself to the live agent. The chatbot chat session may be linked to a social networking account of the customer and may take place in association with a social networking profile page of the company.
US12120268B2
Techniques for benchmarking performance in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking contact center system performance comprising cycling, by at least one computer processor configured to perform contact center operations, between a first contact-agent pairing strategy and a second contact-agent pairing strategy for pairing contacts with agents in the contact center system; determining an agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy comprising a difference between a first agent utilization of the first contact-agent pairing strategy and a balanced agent utilization; and determining a relative performance of the second contact-agent pairing strategy compared to the first contact-agent pairing strategy based on the agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy.
US12120267B2
Customers often call a contact center to resolve an issue only to find the contact center cannot resolve the customer's issue and instead requires a third party to perform some action. By monitoring a customer's communication with an agent, an automated process may generate a workflow to address the issue comprising at least one action to be performed by a third party. The third party is then contacted, in real-time or offline, and provided with their actions to be performed. Records are written to a blockchain describing authentications, actions to take and by whom, and the completion of such actions. The resulting success, or lack thereof, is provided as feedback to further refine the accuracy of the automatic determinations of the workflow and/or the identity of the particular third parties.
US12120265B2
A wireless telecommunications system provides location-specific call forwarding. The system can receive a request to connect a voice call to the wireless device, which can invoke a call forwarding procedure depending on a status of a subscriber associated with the wireless device. When the system determines that a current location of the wireless device is different from a default location, location-specific call forwarding information is used to forward the voice call to a terminating node associated with the location-specific forwarding information rather than a default terminating node for the default location. The terminating node can include a voicemail server that plays back a location-specific voicemail greeting to the caller.
US12120247B2
The owner sameness confirmation system determines whether or not the owners of two terminals (200A, 200B) are the same. Authentication station servers (100A, 100B) store electronic certificates issued to the terminals and identity confirmation information of the owners of the terminals in association with each other. The authentication station server (100A) transmits information obtained by encrypting the identity confirmation information of the owner of the terminal (200A) through homomorphic encryption and the electronic certificate of the partner terminal (200B) to the authentication station server (100B). The authentication station server 100B transmits response encrypted information including information obtained by encrypting the identity confirmation information of the owner of the terminal (200B) as a response. The authentication station server (100A) decrypts the response encrypted information and determines the sameness of the owners based on whether or not the decryption result matches a predetermined value.
US12120227B2
A method comprises receiving an image of an update for a software module, a rate parameter, an index parameter, and a public key, generating a 32-byte aligned string, computing a state parameter using the 32-byte aligned string, generating a modified message representative, computing a Merkle Tree root node, and in response to a determination that the Merkle Tree root node matches the public key, forwarding, to a remote device, the image of the update for a software module, the state parameter; and the modified message representative.
US12120223B2
The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
US12120213B2
A 100BASE-TX transceiver includes a receive (RX) circuit, a transmit (TX) circuit, a clock generator circuit, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit, and a clock multiplexer circuit. The RX circuit receives an input data to generate an RX data. The TX circuit transmits a TX data according to a TX clock, to generate an output data. The clock generator circuit generates an output clock. The CDR circuit generates an RX recovered clock according to the RX data. The clock multiplexer circuit receives the output clock and the RX recovered clock, and outputs the TX clock that is selected from the output clock and the RX recovered clock.
US12120211B2
A controller includes circuitry configured to: receive global time data indicating a global time associated with an external global clock; synchronize an internal controller clock of the controller with the global clock based on the global time; set a controller time based on the synchronized controller clock; and transmit controller time data indicating the controller time to at least one local device through periodic communication.
US12120206B2
In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, information bits to be included in the PHY data unit are received. A number of padding bits are added to the information bits. The number of padding bits is determined based on respective virtual values of each of one or more encoding parameters. The information bits are parsed to a number of encoders and are encoded, using the number of encoders, to generate coded bits. The coded bits are padded such that padded coded bits correspond to respective true values of each of the one or more encoding parameters. The PHY data unit is generated to include the padded coded bits.
US12120205B2
Systems and methods are described for passing event messages between components of a computing cluster. An example method includes identifying, by an event sender, a receiving component to receive a record, determining, by a processing device, whether the receiving component is a protocol aware component, and upon determining that the receiving component is the protocol aware component, sending the record to the receiving component using a first protocol. Sending the record to the receiving component using the first protocol bypasses a dispatch service of the event sender.
US12120203B2
In response to there being multiple process groups for one application service concurrently, each of the multiple process groups has an independent EBPF resource, and the EBPF resource is used to store information of an FD of each process in each of the multiple process groups. After a UDP message is received, a server is configured to determine a target process group from multiple process groups of a reuseport group according to a quadruple of the UDP message, select a target FD from the FD of each process of the target process group, and receive and transmit data by using the target FD. In this way, since each of the multiple process groups has an independent EBPF resource, the processes belong to different process groups do not preempt the same FD, which ensures that the UDP message is not distributed in disorder.
US12120202B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for optimizing telemetry schemes with a constant insensible group delay. Systems and methods are provided for receiving an acquisition including compressed data and dummy data from a downhole logging system, determining a prior decompressor queue size based on the acquisition for a plurality of time intervals, determining a decompressor data size based on the acquisition for the plurality of time intervals, and determining a delay where the prior decompressor queue size is continuously greater than or equal to the decompressor data size for the plurality of time intervals.
US12120192B2
Described processes include: detecting a surge in load or value added to a network based on a threshold number (e.g., 3, 5, or another number) mints are triggered in a row at above a threshold block value target (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×, or other multiple). In response to detecting a surge, a determination to mint may be timed, like paused, for a desired mint duration, like 24 hours. Thus, in response to detecting a surge, the next mint may be forcefully delayed until the desired minting period transpires after the last mint.
US12120185B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method performed by a wireless device for performing Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, entity re-establishment. The wireless device is acting as a Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, receiving entity. The method comprises receiving (101) a request to perform PDCP entity re-establishment; responsive to the request, resetting (103) a header compression protocol by discarding any contexts associated with the header compression protocol, and refraining (105) from transmitting feedback associated with the header compression protocol to a PDCP transmitting entity.
US12120182B2
Systems and methods for modulating content to effect state change are described. A state control system initiates a process for modulating output objects to effect one or more changes in a state profile associated with a user device. The system queries for historical data associated with the user device; determines whether any historical data is identified for user device and in response to determining that historical data is found predicts a current state profile associated with the user device. The system further collects real-time sensor data associated with user device; filters and normalizes the sensor data; and delivers a plurality of output objects to the user device or secondary device(s) based on real-time sensor data.
US12120176B2
A control method includes: receiving transaction data that includes (i) peer information used for connecting a first peer among peers in a P2P system to another peer among the peers and (ii) a signature added to the peer information by the first peer; verifying the received transaction data using the signature included in the transaction data; and storing the transaction data into the distributed ledger when the verifying is successful.
US12120174B1
Methods and systems for managing pods and containers that provide computer implemented services are disclosed. The pods and containers may be managed to improve efficiency of resource use and reduce exposure to threats to operation of systems that host the pods and containers. To ascertain how to manage the pods and containers, the pods and containers may be monitored and analyzed. The results of the monitoring and analyzation may be used to select how to change the pods and containers over time.
US12120171B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for network communication. A computing device may store status information. The status information may be communicated using a first protocol. The status information may indicate data is available. The data may be communicated using a second protocol.
US12120166B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media are directed in various embodiments for providing multiuser sessions for coordinated electronic transactions. A technical solution is directed to coordinating the electronic transactions across a plurality of instances, where the underlying users of the instances can include at least two users. Access to sensitive information can be restricted using a trusted execution environment and access can be given in accordance with the coordinated electronic transactions.
US12120163B2
A method for managing time hops when playing back a multimedia content item received by a playback device via a communication network. The method includes obtaining a plurality of broadcast channels for the same content item, the respective broadcast times being spaced in time, wherein, during rendering of the content item via a channel, called first channel, receipt of a time hop command for a time hop in the content item brings about: a step of selecting a second broadcast channel, different from the first broadcast channel; and during a hop, a step of rendering images broadcast on broadcast channels belonging to the plurality of broadcast channels.
US12120150B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for probabilistically identifying anomalous levels of honeypot activity. A honeypot dataset associated with a honeypot network is received and a representative usage value is determined from the honeypot dataset. The representative usage value is identified as being associated with anomalous behavior if the representative usage value deviates from an expected probability distribution. A remediation operation is initiated in the honeypot network in response to the identification of the representative usage value as being associated with the anomalous behavior by virtue of the representative usage value deviating from the expected probability distribution.
US12120137B2
A generation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to aggregate a plurality of traffic data for every predetermined target, sample target traffic data in which a number of traffic data aggregated exceeds a threshold, and generate a feature vector representing a feature of aggregated traffic data for a target that is not sampled, and generate a feature vector representing a feature of sampled traffic data for the target sampled.
US12120135B2
An automated method for detecting anomalous activity in a private computer network comprises: collecting, over a current time period at an ingesting network device of the computer network, non-routable network packets routed to the ingesting network device from other network devices of the computer network; parsing the current collected network packets into corresponding current network flow records each including a source field and a destination field representing a non-routable network address; and for each distinct source identified in the source fields of the current network flow records: aggregating the current network flow records of that source into a current aggregated flow record; analyzing the current aggregated flow record using an anomaly detection module trained through machine learning on previous aggregated flow records of that source from previous time periods in order to detect anomalous activity in that source; and acting in response to detecting the anomalous activity in that source.
US12120125B2
Secure sharing of a document on a co-browse session is implemented by causing a JavaScript implemented document viewer to create HTML5 description of a rendered view of a document's content, and transmitting the HTML5 description of the rendered view of the document content as a DOM elements on the co-browse session. The rendered view of the document is overlayed on the web page being co-browsed, which enables the participants to the co-browse session to collaboratively view the rendered view of the document. However, since the document itself only resides in the visitor's browser, the document itself is not transmitted on the co-browse session. Media URLs can also be shared, and the participants' views of the audio/video media is synchronized by causing the video to play locally at each participant but synchronized with the visitor. Live video of the participants to the co-browse session is also implemented.
US12120123B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods that generate and utilize digital visual codes. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate digital visual codes comprising a plurality of digital visual code points arranged in concentric circles, a plurality of anchor points, and an orientation anchor surrounding a digital media item. In addition, the disclosed systems and methods embed information in the digital visual code points regarding an account of a first user of a networking system. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods display the digital visual codes via a computing device of the first user, scan the digital visual codes via a second computing device, and provide privileges to the second computing device in relation to the account of the first user in the networking system based on the scanned digital visual code.
US12120118B1
A webview associated with a third-party system is provided in an application context associated with an entity. It is determined that a user has been authenticated by the third-party system based on data comprising a page displayed via the provided webview. In response to a determination that the user has been authenticated by the third-party system, one or more tasks to perform a function with the third-party system on behalf of the entity are automated.
US12120114B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using e-mail processing. A request for access to an account may be received from a user device. A plurality of organizations may be identified. One or more e-mail associated with the account may be identified. The e-mails may be processed to identify one or more organizations that correspond to transactions conducted by a user. A modified plurality of organizations may be generated by removing, from the plurality of organizations, the one or more organizations. An authentication question may be generated and provided to the user device. A response to the authentication question may be received, and the user device may be provided access based on the response.
US12120107B2
A method and system may allow for authenticating a computing device. A computing device may send an authentication request over a network to an authentication computing device. The authentication request may include a user name and a password. The user name may include a credential and the password may be a digitally signed version of the user name. The authentication computing device may authenticate the requesting computing device by decrypting the password and comparing the received user name to the decrypted password.
US12120106B1
An indication of a first selection of one or more authentication code elements from a first authentication code elements is received from a first user device corresponding to a first user account associated with a collaboration platform. An indication of a second selection of one or more authentication code elements from a second authentication code elements is received from a second user device corresponding to a second user account associated with the collaboration platform. A determination is made that the first selection of authentication code elements matches the second selection of authentication code elements. Responsive to determining that the first selection of authentication code elements matches the second selection of authentication code elements, a trusted relationship between the first user account and the second user account is established via the collaboration platform.
US12120105B2
Provided is a method, performed by an electronic device, of managing keys for accessing a plurality of services. The method includes transmitting, by a secure domain (SD) in a secure area of the electronic device, a certificate of the SD to a plurality of service providers (SPs); receiving, by an application installed in the electronic device, a certificate of each of the plurality of SPs from the plurality of SPs; receiving, by the application, first signed data from a first SP among the plurality of SPs; authenticating, by the application, the first signed data by using a certificate of the first SP received from the first SP and obtaining an encrypted key of the first SP from the first signed data; decrypting, by the SD, the encrypted key of the first SP by using a private key of the SD; and storing the decrypted key of the first SP in a first instance corresponding to the first SP among a plurality of instances of the SD.
US12120096B2
A steganographic communication system and method are provided. A covert packet generator can embed a stream of covert data as covert data symbols within primary I/Q symbols of a primary data stream in a covert packet. The covert packet has a data structure having a header, a payload, and a payload error detecting code. The header includes information on how to demodulate the covert packet by a receiver. The covert packet generator can also determine if a number of primary I/Q symbols is large enough to generate the header and can generate displacements in the primary I/Q symbols in a constellation diagram randomly in a plurality of transmissions to mimic channel noise. A transmitter and receiver can provide mutual authentication for covert transmissions.
US12120095B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to deploying and utilizing a dynamic data stenciling system with a smart linking engine. A computing platform may receive source data from one or more data source systems. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify a target application hosted by an enterprise application host platform as being an intended recipient of a portion of the source data. Then, the computing platform may select a dynamic data stencil from a plurality of available data stencils. Thereafter, the computing platform may overlay the portion of the source data onto the target application using the dynamic data stencil. In addition, by overlaying the portion of the source data onto the target application using the dynamic data stencil, the computing platform may cause the target application to execute one or more data processing functions using the portion of the source data received from the one or more data source systems.
US12120088B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying network elements for a set of machines in a set of one or more datacenters. The datacenter set is part of one availability zone in some embodiments. The method receives intent-based API (Application Programming Interface) requests, and parses these API requests to identify a set of network elements to connect and/or perform services for the set of machines. In some embodiments, the API is a hierarchical document that can specify multiple different compute and/or network elements at different levels of compute and/or network element hierarchy. The method performs automated processes to define a virtual private cloud (VPC) to connect the set of machines to a logical network that segregates the set of machines from other machines in the datacenter set. In some embodiments, the set of machines include virtual machines and containers, the VPC is defined with a supervisor cluster namespace, and the API requests are provided as YAML files.
US12120086B2
A provider network implements service discovery and renaming. A provider network includes a domain name service (DNS) and a renaming tool. The DNS receives queries for service names and sends query logs to a data store. Each query log indicates the queried name and a network address (e.g., IP address). A user may request that the service be renamed to a new name. In response, the renaming tool adds a new entry to for the new name to the DNS. The renaming tool retrieves data from the query logs and identifies clients of the service. The renaming tool sends a notification to the identified clients that the name has changed to the new name. The renaming manger retrieves additional data from the query logs to identify how many of the clients have switched to using the new name. After enough clients have switched, the old name may be decommissioned.
US12120085B1
Systems and methods provide quality analysis related to member service representatives and interactions communicating with users over social media networks. The systems and methods can generate an interaction quality score between a member services representative and a user of a social media network by aggregating a tone score and an execution score based on the interaction data.
US12120081B2
Provided is a method performed in a terminal for processing an interest message. The method includes receiving a message from a message server after a login event for a user of the terminal occurs, wherein the login event is related to a message service provided by the message server; storing, in response to determining that the received message corresponds to an interest message of the user, the received message in a local storage of the terminal; receiving a search request for the interest message of the user; and searching and providing the interest message of the user through the local storage of the terminal in response to the search request.
US12120077B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to proxying at least one email resource from at least one email service to at least one client device, determining whether the email resources are accessible to the client devices via at least one unauthorized application on the client devices, and modifying the email resources to be inaccessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices in response to a determination that the email resources are accessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices.
US12120076B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosure provides a novel, computerized framework for automatically identifying and recommending socially-engaging photos to their creators for sharing. Execution of the disclosed systems and methods turns a tedious manual chore into an automated, software-driven process. The disclosed systems and methods utilizes a novel, computerized learn-to-rank (LTR) algorithm for identifying the most engaging, socially driven photos by: (a) grouping near-duplicate photos; (b) selecting a representative photo for sharing per group; and (c) ranking of the groups by their likelihood to contain a “shareable” photo.
US12120068B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication and IoT-related technologies. The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for supporting a full duplex operation in a wireless communication system.
US12120059B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a Radio Access Network, the method including communicating utilizing frequency resources based on allocation information received in a message, the message having an allocation information structure containing the allocation information.
US12120056B2
A method for a primary wireless transmitter is disclosed. The primary wireless transmitter is configured to participate in transmission to a wireless receiver using spatial multiplexing in coordination with one or more secondary wireless transmitters. The method comprises assigning—from a collection of available channel sounding resources—respective channel sounding resources to the primary wireless transmitter and to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters, wherein each available channel sounding resource is assigned to at most one of the wireless transmitters. Each assigned respective channel sounding resource is for transmission of a respective non-spatial-multiplexed first channel sounding signal, and the first channel sounding signals are for phase tracking of signals transmitted by the primary wireless transmitter and/or for phase tracking of signals transmitted by the one or more secondary wireless transmitters. The method also comprises transmitting, to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters, information indicative of the respective channel sounding resources assigned to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters. Methods for the secondary wireless transmitters and the wireless receiver are also disclosed, as well as corresponding apparatuses, transmitter, receiver, access point, user station, control node, and computer program product.
US12120055B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a network node (100) in a radio access network, the method comprising transmitting signaling in a transmission timing structure, the signaling comprising demodulation reference signaling (DMRS), wherein the DMRS is transmitted on symbols of the transmission timing structure based on a DMRS pattern, the DMRS pattern being based on a pattern configuration indication set. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12120041B2
A network management system may allocate different amounts of bandwidth to different types of data traffic. The traffic types may be distinguished by their source device address, and whether the source device is part of, or external to, a first network. Packets may also be marked by their sender with information to identify a traffic type, and the marking may be used to determine the packet's treatment. The allocations given to the various types of traffic may be dynamically modified with changing traffic demands and conditions.
US12120026B2
In an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network, a third network node sends quality of service (QOS) mapping information to a first network node to configure an internet protocol (IP) header for a packet based on a traffic type and to transmit the packet. The third network node sends a mapping configuration to a second network node to map information in the IP header for the packet received in a first routing path from the first network node to a second routing path. The first network node receives the QoS mapping information and generates a packet associated with the traffic type and including an IP header, which is configured based on the received QoS mapping information. The first network node transmits the packet for routing to the second network node.
US12120024B2
A method for a virtual network of a mobile device includes, for the mobile device executing a user application and simultaneously connected to a first wireless network and a second wireless network, selecting a remote server from a plurality of remote servers. The method also includes establishing the virtual network between the mobile device and the selected remote server. The virtual network includes at least one tunnel between the mobile device and the selected remote server over the first wireless network and the second wireless network. The method also includes transmitting data from the user application to the selected remote server over the virtual network. The data, when received by the selected remote server, causes the selected remote server to route the data to a destination server.
US12120023B2
A bit index explicit replication (BIER) operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) detection method includes a bit forwarding ingress router (BFIR) obtaining a detection request packet based on a first BIER OAM packet, and sending the detection request packet to at least one bit forwarding egress router BFER. The detection request packet includes a first packet and a first packet header. The first packet is a packet obtained by encapsulating the first BIER OAM packet. The first packet header includes a bit string, and the bit string indicates the at least one bit forwarding egress router BFER that is to be measured.
US12120020B2
A network device may receive RSVP path request messages from an upstream ingress network device, and may generate an RSVP path error message, with an overload error code and a timeout period, after the network device is online within the configured timeout period. The network device may provide the RSVP path error message to the ingress network devices to cause the ingress network devices to wait for expiration of the timeout period, after the network device is fully online, until resending the RSVP path request messages. The network device may receive new RSVP path request messages from the ingress network devices after expiration of the timeout period after the network device is fully online, and may establish, based on the new RSVP path request messages, label-switched paths from the ingress network devices.
US12120006B2
A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NB (gNB), or other network component or network management component) as a service provider or a service consumer can process or generate performance data streaming in response to a request to create a performance data stream. Information overhead related to the performance data stream can be provided that enables use of the performance data stream in and through data stream units to support performance measurement collection activities.
US12120004B2
Methods and apparatus to determine main pages from network traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed, cause at least one processor to determine patterns of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) with corresponding main pages, parse data from network traffic, identify at least one of the main pages from the data based on the patterns, and provide the identified at least one of the main pages for crediting thereof.
US12119999B2
A routing protocol method for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) based on layering and source location privacy (SLP) is provided. (1) A proxy area is selected randomly by a source node. (2) A packet is delivered from the source node to the proxy area through a forwarding probability-based multipath routing algorithm, and a layer-based priority is given to candidate neighbor nodes to alleviate a long detour problem. (3) A proxy node in the proxy area is selected randomly. (4) The packet is delivered from the proxy node to a sink node through the forwarding probability-based multipath routing algorithm. (5) Steps (1) to (4) are repeated until the source node is changed or an adversary finds a position of the source node.
US12119996B2
An example system including a vehicle having a multi-zone network comprising a plurality of network zones, each one of the network zones comprising at least one zone manager; a network monitoring controller, including a network layout circuit structured to interpret a zoned architecture communication scheme and a network layout for the vehicle; a network characterization circuit structured to interpret network activity for the vehicle, and to determine a network performance event in response to the network activity; and a network reaction circuit structured to perform a network event action in response to the network performance event.
US12119995B2
A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a path selection processing unit configured to perform path selection processing of selecting a path of a physical layer between a start point and an end point of a network based on a first entity stored in a first storage device configured to store the first entity, the first entity representing an entity of an information object of the network; and an entity generation processing unit configured to perform entity generation processing of generating a second entity of a logical layer corresponding to the path of the physical layer selected by the path selection processing unit based on a specification of the information object stored in a second storage device configured to store the specification.
US12119993B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for implementation and management of a network of computing clusters and interfaces. In various embodiment, a dynamic supercomputing resource marketplace system can include a cluster network having one or more interconnected computing clusters. The dynamic supercomputing resource marketplace system also can include a user interface system or an application program interface system for enabling a user to access the computing clusters. Advantageously, the dynamic supercomputing resource marketplace system can be used to facilitate increased utilization of computing clusters.
US12119989B2
A method of configuring network elements in a design network topology includes receiving an image of the design network topology; attempting to retrieve design data from the received image corresponding to the design network topology; when the design data is retrieved, querying a topologies database using the design data to find a previously determined network topology that substantially matches the design network topology; when the design data is not retrieved, predicting a network topology using an unsupervised machine learning algorithm; identifying configurations for network elements in the matching network topology or in the predicted network topology in a configurations database; determining design configurations for the network elements of the design network topology from the identified configurations; translating the design configurations of the network elements to a standard format; and pushing the translated design configurations to actual network elements and/or virtual network elements corresponding to the network elements.
US12119988B2
There are provided measures for conflict resolution in a network virtualization scenario, wherein a virtualized network function is utilized by a first virtualized network service managed by a first network component and a second virtualized network service managed by a second network component. The measures comprise requesting, by the first network component, an alteration of the virtualized network function, transmitting information indicative of the alteration of the virtualized network function to the second network component, and determining when the alteration of the virtualized network function impacts the second virtualized network service.
US12119987B1
Layer-specific modifications may be applied to a network communication received at a proxy according to configurable rules at the proxy. A modification configuration may be received at the proxy that corresponds to a layer of a communication stack supported by the proxy. When a communication is received, data from the layer of the communication stack of the network communication may be evaluated to determine whether a modification is applicable to the communication according to the modification configuration. An applicable modification may be applied by proxy as part of processing the communication at the proxy.
US12119983B2
A system and method for data filtering and transmission management are provided. In particular, disclosed is a method of transmission management for data acquired by a remote monitor having a sensor. The method comprises the steps of: defining an initial trend envelope having a window around a forecast trend gradient, the window defined by an initial upper bound and an initial lower bound; and processing a set of data points acquired by the sensor, to identify any data points outside the initial trend envelope. When a point is identified outside the initial trend envelope, the method: (i) transmits an event data packet to a central server; and (ii) identifies a subsequent trend envelope based on a trend gradient derived from a preceding set of data points, said preceding set of points including an identified point from the event data packet.
US12119974B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a first set of thresholds corresponding to a first set of reference signal densities and a second set of thresholds corresponding to a second set of reference signal densities. The first set of thresholds may be associated with enabled uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling, and the second set of thresholds may be associated with disabled uplink DMRS bundling. The UE may select a reference signal density from the first set or the second set based on a DMRS bundling status and map reference signaling (e.g., a DMRS, a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), or both) to a set of resources based on the reference signal density. Uplink channel repetitions may occur in disjoint symbols and in such cases, DMRS bundling may be activated when PTRSs between repetitions meet a threshold.
US12119973B2
Sounding reference signals (SRS) transmitted by a UE, e.g., for positioning or channel estimation, may be configured for one or both of frequency tone level cyclic shift and symbol level code, which, for example, enables multiplexing a greater number of UEs. The frequency tone level cyclic shift is produced by jointly processing a number of symbols with an extended cyclic shift structure. The SRS may be configured using a symbol group level that indicates the number of symbols associated with a cyclic shift structure, and an outer code that indicates a multiplier applied to the SRS at the symbol level, which increases the multiplexing opportunities. The symbol level code may further indicate an extended cyclic shift indicating a linear increase in phase rotation across tones in symbols associated with the symbol group level.
US12119967B2
Techniques for constant envelope phase modulation and demodulation of a wireless signal such as BLE are described. The method comprises: dividing a binary data stream to be transmitted into a plurality of groups of binary data according to a predetermined phase modulation mode, each group of binary data comprising a plurality of bits; mapping the binary data stream into a plurality of phase symbols, wherein each group of binary data is mapped into one phase symbol; modulating a phase sequence composed of the phase symbols into a phase signal using a phase waveform obtained by integrating a predetermined pulse function; and converting the phase signal into two baseband signals by means of a cosine function and a sine function respectively.
US12119961B2
A user apparatus in a communication system includes: a plurality of user apparatuses each of which is configured to transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS); and a base station configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of the user apparatuses. The user apparatus receives, from the base station, configuration information related to a wireless resource of the sounding reference signal allocated to another user apparatus.
US12119950B2
This disclosure describes techniques for providing early acknowledgments to a source device performing a data write operation within a data center or across a geographically-distributed data center. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a gateway device and from a source device within a local data center, data to be stored at a remote destination device that is located within a remote data center; storing, by the gateway device, the data to high-speed memory included within the gateway device; transmitting, by the gateway device, the data over a connection to the remote data center; after transmitting the data and before the data is stored at the remote destination device, outputting, by the gateway device to the source device, a local acknowledgment, wherein the local acknowledgment indicates to the source device that the data can be assumed to have been stored at the remote destination device.
US12119947B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to an Archiving Engine that detects a regulated user account(s) joining a virtual meeting and instantiating a virtual meeting participant instance to capturing one or more communication channels of the virtual meeting hosted by a communication system. The Archiving Engine generates an archival file(s) based on the captured communication channel data. The Archiving Engine generates one or more translated files by applying a compliance policy associated with at least one of the regulated user accounts to the one or more archival files.
US12119942B2
Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a wireless communication device determines that first feedback information indicated to transmit on a first uplink (UL) resource is canceled. The wireless communication device combines the first feedback information with second feedback information indicated to transmit on a second UL resource to generate combined feedback information. The wireless communication device transmits the combined feedback information using the second UL resource.
US12119932B2
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention enable communicating using nested Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. A nested LDPC code is an LDPC code having a full blocklength, where shorter blocklengths of the nested LDPC code can be utilized as shorter blocklength LDPC codes. In certain embodiments, a transmitter utilizes a nested LDPC code to communicate via a point-to-point connection. In several embodiments, multiple transmitters utilize nested LDPC codes to communicate simultaneously via a Random Access Channel. One embodiment includes a transmitter capable of encoding a message as symbols using a nested LDPC code until a feedback message indicating an end of epoch message is received. A receiver can determine whether a decoding rule is satisfied at predetermined decode times and transmit an end of epoch message when the decoder can decode a message based upon the nested LDPC code.
US12119930B2
The disclosure relates to bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding. In some implementations, a receiver comprises: a first memory including multiple first sub-memories; a decoder configured to perform first operations comprising: calculating, first extrinsic information of multiple code bits associated with multiple received symbols; and a demapper configured to perform second operations comprising: calculating soft decision information of the code bits; calculating, based on the soft decision information and the first extrinsic information, second extrinsic information of the code bits; and writing the second extrinsic information of the code bits into the first memory such that, for each received symbol, each sub-memory of the first sub-memories respectively stores the second extrinsic information associated with a respective one of the code bits corresponding to the received symbol.
US12119927B2
Methods and systems for dynamically selecting a link adaptation policy, LAP. In some embodiments, the method includes using channel quality information, additional information, and a machine learning, ML, model to select a LAP from a set of predefined LAPs, the set of predefined LAPs comprising a first LAP and a second LAP. In some embodiments, the additional information comprises: neighbor cell information about a second cell served by a second TRP, distance information indicating a distance between a UE and a first TRP, and/or gain information indicating a radio propagation gain between the UE and the serving node. The method further includes the first TRP transmitting data to the UE using the selected LAP.
US12119914B2
A method is provided. The method includes receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), a plurality of transmit (Tx) beams from a Base Station (BS), on a plurality of receive (Rx) beams. The method includes determining the beam parameters associated with a plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs changing at a frequency above a first threshold. The method includes deriving a beam selection metric for the plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs using the associated beam parameters. The method includes identifying a subset of Tx and Rx beam pairs from the plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs with the beam selection metric above a second threshold. The method includes prioritizing scanning of the identified subset of Tx and Rx beam pairs to select a Tx and Rx beam pair for communication.
US12119910B2
Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communication device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method is applied to a first device. The first device is provided with a first antenna, a second antenna, and a third antenna. The method includes: receiving, at a first moment, first data from a second device through the first antenna and second data from the second device through the second antenna, where a distance between the first antenna and the second antenna is a first distance, a distance between the first antenna and the third antenna is a second distance, the first distance and the second distance are greater than a first threshold, a distance between the second antenna and the third antenna is a third distance, the third distance is less than a second threshold, and the first threshold is greater than or equal to the second threshold.
US12119907B2
A method comprising transmitting beam cluster information to a user equipment, the beam cluster information defining a plurality of beam clusters and beam identification information for each of a plurality of beams in a respective beam cluster of the plurality of beam clusters; and transmitting, to the user equipment, at least one beam based on the beam cluster information.
US12119905B2
A wireless audio system including a transmitter using multiple antenna diversity techniques for different signal types is provided. Multipath performance may be optimized, along with improved spectral efficiency of the system.
US12119898B2
Disclosed is a method for a communication device comprising a plurality of antenna elements arranged in an antenna array structure and configured to perform dynamic calibration of the antenna elements for beamforming. The method comprises performing interference level measurements and antenna calibration measurements during an antenna calibration opportunity, and adapting the antenna calibration measurements for one or more of the antenna elements based on the measured interference level. Corresponding apparatus, communication device and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12119891B2
A contactless integrated circuit (IC) card reader configured to communicate with a contactless IC card includes an antenna circuit, a variable amplifier that amplifies a carrier signal at an amplification gain and outputs the amplified carrier signal to the antenna circuit as a transmit signal, a variable attenuator that attenuates a receive signal received through the antenna circuit at an attenuation ratio, and a controller that controls the amplification gain and the attenuation ratio based on the attenuated receive signal.
US12119889B2
A calibration circuit includes a selection unit, a power detector, an analog-to-digital converter and a calibrator. The selection unit is connected to the plurality of channels, selects two channels from among the plurality of channels, provides a test signal to the selected two channels, and receives a test result signal from the selected two channels. The power detector detects power of the selected two channels. The analog-to-digital converter performs an A/D conversion on an output of the power detector. The calibrator calibrates the phases and the gains between the plurality of channels based on an output of the analog-to-digital converter. One of the plurality of channels is set as a reference channel, phases and gains of remaining channels other than the reference channel among the plurality of channels are sequentially optimized based on the reference channel, and a phase and a gain of the reference channel is optimized.
US12119885B2
A signal processing method includes: receiving, by a first reception unit, an acoustic signal transmitted via a first transmission path, the acoustic signal received by the first reception unit being a first acoustic signal; receiving, by a second reception unit, the acoustic signal transmitted via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path, the second transmission path having a longer delay time for transmission than the first transmission path, and the acoustic signal received by the second reception unit being a second acoustic signal; calculating, by a delay amount calculation unit, a transmission delay amount that is a relative delay amount between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal; and delaying, by a delay amount addition unit, the first acoustic signal based on the calculated transmission delay amount and outputting the delayed first acoustic signal.
US12119881B2
An optical multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) receiver includes an input port configured to receive input light; a Stokes measurement apparatus configured to generate measurements of Stokes parameters; an optical MIMO demultiplexer configured to generate a plurality of demultiplexed output light signals based on (i) the input light and (ii) the measurements of the Stokes parameters generated by the Stokes measurement apparatus; and a plurality of output ports configured to output the plurality of demultiplexed output light signals generated by the optical MIMO demultiplexer. In particular, the Stokes measurement apparatus is connected to the optical MIMO demultiplexer in a parallel arrangement.
US12119879B2
The present invention addresses the problem of improving data transmission/reception equipment and transmission efficiency per hour. A light output unit 111 of a light transmitting/receiving device outputs n optical signals (where n is an integer value of 2 or more), each with a different wavelength, based on n respective pieces of data to be transmitted. From the n optical signals, a multiplexer 112 produces an optical signal multiplexed with respect to wavelength. From the multiplexed optical signal, an encryption unit 113 produces an encrypted signal by performing multi-level modulation on the basis of a Y-00 protocol. The problem is solved thereby.
US12119876B2
A network control device for generating a slice by dividing a network and allocating communication resources to the slice, the slice being a virtual network, the network control device including: a processor; and a memory to store a program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: obtaining and holding resource information from a network device included in the network, the resource information including information on a maximum usage rate of communication resources allocated to a previously generated slice in at least one predetermined period; and determining, upon receiving a request for generating a new slice, whether or not the requested slice can be generated on the basis of the resource information held, wherein the resource information includes information on a maximum usage rate of communication resources, which are allocated to the previously generated slice, depending on a request delay concerning the slice in the predetermined period.
US12119874B2
Useful data is transmitted to a terminal existing in a transportation vehicle. A communication apparatus installed in the transportation vehicle and configured to transmit the data to the terminal existing in the transportation vehicle includes a data selection unit and an illumination unit. The data selection unit acquires location information indicating a location of the transportation vehicle in which the terminal exists and which is traveling. Based on the acquired location information, the data selection unit selects approaching-location data related to a location ahead of a current location of the transportation vehicle in a traveling direction from a plurality of pieces of data related to the location. The illumination unit transmits, as a modulated light signal, a signal comprising the approaching-location data.
US12119869B2
An optical amplification estimation method includes by an excitation light output unit connected to a first end of a first optical transmission line, making excitation light incident on the first optical transmission line, by a monitoring unit connected to the same side as the first end of the first optical transmission line, making monitoring light incident on the first optical transmission line, the monitoring light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the excitation light, by the monitoring unit, measuring intensity of light incident on the monitoring unit when the excitation light is incident, and intensity of light incident on the monitoring unit when the excitation light is not incident, and by an amplification estimation unit, estimating a gain of an optical signal in the first optical transmission line based on the light intensity measured in the measuring. The first optical transmission line shares a partial optical transmission line with a second optical transmission line used for an optical network unit and an optical line terminal to transmit and receive an optical signal to and from each other.
US12119859B2
A cover window, a manufacturing method of a cover window, and a display device including a cover window are provided. A cover window includes a folding portion and a non-folding portion, and the folding portion includes an inside surface that is compressed when folded and an outside surface that is stretched when folded, the folding portion includes a first layer adjacent to the outside surface, a second layer adjacent to the inside surface, and a third layer between the first layer and the second layer, the folding portion and the non-folding portion include at least one metal ion, a concentration of the metal ion included in the second layer is higher than a concentration of the metal ion included in the first layer, and the first layer includes a plurality of depletion regions.
US12119857B2
A multilayer substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, and a conductor portion. The first dielectric layer has a first region. The first conductive layer is laminated on the first dielectric layer, excluding the first region. The conductor portion has one or more auxiliary conductors disposed at a distance from the first conductive layer, and one or more connecting conductors that connect said one or more auxiliary conductors to the first conductive layer.
US12119851B2
A feed forward echo cancellation device includes a first impedance circuit, a second impedance circuit, and an echo cancellation current generator circuit. The first impedance circuit is configured to output a first current to a node in response to a transmission current. The second impedance circuit is configured to output a second current to a node in response to the transmission current. The echo cancellation current generator circuit is configured to drain an echo cancellation current from the node. The node is connected to an input terminal of a programmable gain amplifier circuit via a gain control circuit, and the gain control circuit is configured to set a gain of the programmable gain amplifier circuit.
US12119849B2
According to certain embodiments, a method and apparatus may include transmitting, by a first network entity, at least one time-based measurement configuration to a user equipment. The method may further include receiving, by the first network entity, at least one measurement result from the user equipment. The method may further include determining, by the first network entity, whether at least one handover should be performed.
US12119842B2
An oversampling filter oversamples a digital audio signal. A ΔΣ modulator delta-sigma modulates a signal output from the oversampling filter. A D/A converter converts a signal output from the ΔΣ modulator into an analog audio signal. The oversampling filter includes a processor configured to run firmware and a computational algorithm is configurable based on the firmware.
US12119837B2
Methods are provided for supervising a motor control unit with at least two separate channels, each of the two channels including at least: means for executing a given application task AS, the application task AS including a plurality of successively executed computations between which latency periods elapse; a first component capable of performing the computations; a second component capable of storing data; the application tasks AS of the channels being capable of communicating. The method includes the following steps: a) detecting a latency period; b) performing, during this latency period, an operating state test of at least one of the components; and c) determining a state of the component corresponding to a failure state or a healthy state.
US12119836B2
Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure including data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks including block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block including a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory.
US12119830B2
This disclosure is directed to enhancing PLL performance via gain calibration and duty cycle calibration. It may be desirable to perform loop gain and duty cycle calibration simultaneously. However, doing so may result in prohibitive complexity and/or area/power penalty. To enable loop gain calibration and duty cycle calibration simultaneously, the duty cycle error and the gain error may be detected in the time domain, which may enable duty cycle calibration and loop gain calibration circuitries to share a phase detector. Detecting the duty cycle error and the loop gain error in the time domain may be accomplished by implementing an analog or digital PLL system, wherein the loop gain of the PLL system is a function of the input phase offset time.
US12119828B1
The present disclosure describes circuits (e.g., clock synthesizers) and methods for producing alternating signals. A clock synthesizer includes an oscillator, a voltage control circuit, and a frequency control circuit. The oscillator produces an output signal with a frequency. The voltage control circuit produces a control voltage for the oscillator based on the frequency of the output signal. The frequency control circuit produces a control signal for the oscillator based on (i) an input voltage to the frequency control circuit and (ii) the control voltage. The control signal causes the oscillator to adjust the frequency of the output signal such that the voltage control circuit adjusts the control voltage to be closer to the input voltage.
US12119827B2
An electric circuit and a method for filtering glitches are described. The electric circuit includes a filter, an inverter circuit, and a reset circuit. The inverter circuit is electrically coupled to an output of the filter. The reset circuit is electrically coupled to the output of the filter. The reset circuit pulls the output of the filter high when an input signal to the electric circuit and the output of the inverter circuit are both low, pulls the output of the filter low when the input signal to the electric circuit and the output of the inverter circuit are both high, and passes the output of the filter when (i) the input signal to the electric circuit is high and the output of the inverter circuit is low or (ii) the input signal to the electric circuit is low and the output of the inverter circuit is high.
US12119821B2
Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to output an oscillation signal, a heater configured to heat the oscillation circuit, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the oscillation circuit, and a nonvolatile memory configured to store temperature correction data. The oscillation circuit controls a frequency of the oscillation signal based on an output signal of the temperature sensor and the temperature correction data.
US12119817B2
A gate driver circuit is provided that includes a turn-on path, a turn-off path, and a fast discharge path. The turn-on path is couplable between a gate of a solid-state switch and a voltage turn-on signal (VGON) from a gate driver, where the turn-on path defines a turn-on time for the solid-state switch. The turn-off path is couplable between the gate and a voltage turn-off signal (VGOFF) from the gate driver, where the turn-off path defines a turn-off time for the solid-state switch. The fast discharge path is selectively couplable in parallel with the turn-off path during a portion of a gate-to-source voltage (VGS) transition for the solid-state switch, where the turn-off path in parallel with the fast discharge path defines a turn-off delay for the solid-state switch and each of the turn-on time, the turn-off time, and the turn-off delay are independently configurable.
US12119815B2
A device including an inverter circuit, a hysteresis control circuit, and a high-side input level shifter. The inverter circuit having an output and including at least two series connected PMOS transistors connected, at the output, in series to at least two series connected NMOS transistors. The hysteresis control circuit coupled to the output to provide feedback to the at least two series connected PMOS transistors and to the at least two series connected NMOS transistors. The high-side input level shifter connected to gates of the at least two PMOS transistors and configured to shift a low level of an input signal to a higher level and provide the higher level to one or more of the gates of the at least two PMOS transistors.
US12119814B2
A FET switch stack has a stacked arrangement of FET switches, a gate resistor network with ladder resistors and common gate resistors, and a gate resistor bypass arrangement. The bypass arrangement has a first set of bypass switches connected across the gate resistors and a second set of bypass switches connected across the ladder resistors. Bypass occurs during at least a portion of the transition state of the stacked arrangement of FET switches.
US12119802B2
A radio frequency transceiver device includes an antenna unit, a first matching circuit, a receiver circuit, a second matching circuit, a transmitter circuit, and an auxiliary circuit. The receiver circuit includes a mixer unit. The auxiliary circuit includes a first transformer coil and a second transformer coil. The first matching circuit and the receiver circuit are configured to form a first signal reception channel to receive, process, and transmit the first radio frequency signal to the mixer unit when the first radio frequency signal is a high gain radio frequency signal. The second matching circuit and the auxiliary circuit are configured to form a second signal reception channel to receive, process, and transmit the first radio frequency signal to the mixer unit when the first radio frequency signal is a middle-low gain radio frequency signal. Another radio frequency signal transceiver device further includes a third matching circuit.
US12119801B2
A multilayer LC filter includes a multilayer body in which insulator layers, a ground electrode, capacitor electrodes, a planar electrode, and via electrodes includes open-side via electrodes connecting the capacitor electrodes and the planar electrode and short-circuit side via electrodes connecting the planar electrode and the ground electrode, an inductor is provided by a conductive path extending from the capacitor electrodes to the ground electrode through the open-side via electrodes, the planar electrode, and the short-circuit side via electrodes, a capacitor is provided by capacitance generated between the ground electrode and the capacitor electrodes, the inductor and the capacitor are connected in parallel to define LC resonators, and it is assumed that the short-circuit side via electrodes of all of the LC resonators in the multilayer body are made common.
US12119799B1
A filter comprising a linear array of a plurality of TL-inspired T-networks connected in series by capacitors, each TL-inspired T-network typically comprising a pair of conventional transmission lines connected in series with a circuit comprising pair of inductors and a single capacitor, the conventional transmission lines associated with each TL-inspired T-network being optionally combinable together or with conventional transmission lines in neighboring TL-inspired T-networks, wherein the circuit comprising a pair of inductors and a single capacitor is an artificial transmission line providing target characteristic impedance, which is same as that of the conventional transmission lines, and phase delay.
US12119796B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. Radio-frequency power amplifier circuitry may include an amplifier, an input transformer for coupling radio-frequency input signals to the amplifier, an active inductor load coupled to the input transformer, and a second order intermodulation generation circuit configured to generate and inject a second order intermodulation product into the input transformer. The injected second order intermodulation product can be used to cancel out unwanted third order intermodulation products generated by the amplifier, which reduces intermodulation distortion experienced by the amplifier circuitry.
US12119793B2
A power amplifier module includes a substrate, an amplifier circuit including a plurality of transistors to be mounted on the substrate and a bump connected to the plurality of transistors, a harmonic termination circuit and an output matching circuit that are disposed in or on the substrate and configured to be electrically connected to the amplifier circuit, a connection pad disposed on the substrate and configured to be connected to the bump, and a plurality of connection wiring lines branching from the connection pad. The plurality of connection wiring lines include at least a first connection wiring line that connects the connection pad and the harmonic termination circuit to each other, a second connection wiring line that connects the connection pad and the output matching circuit to each other, and a third connection wiring line that connects the connection pad and an external power supply to each other.
US12119792B2
A variable gain amplifier circuit includes first and second input terminals, first and second output terminals, first and second transistors respectively having bases electrically connected to the first and second input terminals and having collectors electrically connected to the first and second output terminals, and a degeneration circuit connected between emitters of the first and second transistors. The degeneration circuit has first and second MOS transistors each having two current terminals connected in series between the emitters of the first and second transistors, series resistor circuits, first and second current sources, two resistive elements connected between the first and second current sources and gates of the first and second MOS transistors, and two resistive elements connected between the first and second current sources and two nodes of the series resistor circuits.
US12119791B2
A low noise amplifier comprising a first transconductance amplifier arranged to receive an input voltage at its input terminal and to generate an output current at its output terminal. A second transconductance amplifier is arranged such that its input terminal is connected to the input terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, and such that the output terminal of the second transconductance amplifier is connected to the input terminal of the second transconductance amplifier via a capacitive feedback network (C1).
US12119787B2
A wireless, non-invasive equipment for the monitoring of current flow directly in the wiring of the photovoltaic installations without having to cut the wire, that aims to remotely monitor and send the current readings of the wiring coming out of the photovoltaic solar panels, without having to disconnect the wires is disclosed. It consists in a portable housing, including inside a control circuit with its corresponding microprocessor and its DC/DC. The microprocessor is connected to different Hall effect sensors in order to measure the current flow through the wires of the installation and a RIFD reader for the identification of the installation. The equipment has a wireless communications module that sends the measured values together with the identification code of the installation.
US12119786B2
A deterioration diagnosis device for a solar cell string and a photovoltaic power generation system includes an impedance measuring instrument to measure a frequency characteristic of a first impedance between solar power generation units connected in the solar cell string and to measure a frequency characteristic of a second impedance, an analysis unit to calculate a first increment from an initial value of a series resistance component, and to calculate a second increment from an initial value of a resistance component between the first end of the plurality of solar power generation units connected in series and the frames in the solar cell string based on the frequency characteristic of the second impedance, and a deterioration determining unit to determine a position of a solar cell module having an increased resistance in the solar cell string based on the first increment and the second increment calculated by the analysis unit.
US12119785B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for supplying power to at least one power consuming device using a solar panel. The solar panel includes at least two solar modules, an output connector, and a cable. The at least two solar modules are connected via a first electrical harness in a first combination of parallel and/or series to provide a first output voltage and via a second electrical harness in a second combination of parallel and/or series to provide a second output voltage. The at least one power consuming device is preferably a rechargeable battery.
US12119782B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure describes a system for constructing a solar module array. The system can comprise one or more mobile platforms; one or more carriers operatively coupled to the one or more mobile platforms, wherein the one or more carriers support a plurality of posts and/or a plurality of solar modules; one or more robotic components for retrieving one or more posts from the plurality of posts and one or more solar modules from the plurality of solar modules from the one or more carriers; and at least one controller in operative communication with the one or more mobile platforms and the one or more robotic components, wherein the at least one controller (i) directs the one or more mobile platforms to transport the one or more carriers over a terrain and (ii) controls the one or more robotic components to (1) autonomously position and install the one or more posts on the terrain, and (2) autonomously position and assemble the one or more solar module to the one or more posts installed on the terrain to thereby construct the solar module array on the terrain.
US12119775B2
A motor controller to control rotational speed of an output shaft of an electric motor. The motor controller includes a proportional controller and a time-optimal controller. The proportional controller controls the rotational speed when a present rotational position of the shaft is between a target rotational position and a switching point, inclusively. The time-optimal controller controls the rotational speed when the present rotational position is not between the target rotational position and the switching point. Also introduced herein are aspects pertaining to determining the switching point in a manner that minimizes overshooting the target rotational position while maximizing expediency at which the target rotational position is reached.
US12119767B2
A system includes a first power conversion device connected to a first power source, a first isolated power conversion device connected to the first power source, and a second power conversion device connected to the first isolated power conversion device, wherein outputs of the first power conversion device and outputs of the second power conversion device are connected in series, and series-connected outputs of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device are configured to drive a motor.
US12119764B2
Systems and methods for estimating input current are provided, particularly when input currents are applied to an electric motor of a motor system. An Electric Control Unit (ECU), according to one implementation, is configured to control the motor system. The ECU is configured to store computer logic having instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processing devices to obtain a duty cycle parameter at an output of the ECU. The duty cycle parameter, for example, relates to control actions enforced on one or more switches of a power electronics circuit of the motor system. Based on the duty cycle parameter, the instructions further cause the one or more processing devices to estimate an input current provided to the electric motor of the motor system. A more accurate input current estimation may thereby be used to better estimate torque.
US12119761B2
Provided is an injector in which adhesion between a stator and a rotor of an ultrasonic motor can be released efficiently. An injector (1) which injects a chemical liquid includes: an ultrasonic motor unit (3) including an ultrasonic motor (31); a drive mechanism (4) to be driven by the ultrasonic motor unit (3) so as to feed the chemical liquid when the ultrasonic motor (31) rotates forwardly; and a control device (5) which controls the ultrasonic motor (31) of the ultrasonic motor unit (3). The ultrasonic motor (31) includes a stator (32) and a rotor (33), and the control device (5) controls the ultrasonic motor (31) to alternately repeat forward rotation and reverse rotation so that adhesion between the stator (32) and the rotor (33) is released.
US12119759B2
This application describes a variety of approaches for generating high voltage sinusoidal signals whose output voltage can be adjusted rapidly, without introducing high-frequency artifacts on the output. When these approaches are used, stronger electric fields can be applied to the tumor for a higher percentage of time, which can increase the efficacy of TTFields therapy. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by preventing adjustments to a DC power source during times when the output of that DC power source is powering the output signal. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by synchronizing the operation of an AC voltage generator and an electronic switch that is connected to the output of the AC voltage generator.
US12119757B2
A power supply system includes a plurality of power conversion devices connected in parallel with each other, a load state detector to detect an operating state of a load connected to the DC system, and a command generator to generate a distribution voltage command Vref. Each of the power conversion devices includes a DC voltage controller to generate an output power command Pdc_ref based on a voltage of the DC system and the distribution voltage command Vref, and an AC/DC converter to convert AC power received from the main power source based on the output power command Pdc_ref and output the converted power to the DC system. The command generator generates the distribution voltage command Vref such that loss of the load connected to the DC system is reduced, based on a detection result of the load state detector.
US12119748B2
A circuit portion comprises a DCDC converter that provides current from an output to a plurality of loads. Channel logic circuitry is configured to provide current from the output of the converter to each load according to a cyclical sequence, wherein each cycle has a duration that is divided equally into a plurality of time slots. The channel logic circuitry is configured to provide current to each load for one or more discrete time slots. The number of time slots is greater than the number of loads so that at least two output loads receive current for different numbers of time slots in a cycle.
US12119746B2
In an embodiment a circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit having a first node configured to receive a reference voltage, a second node configured to receive a feedback signal, which is a comparison signal, indicative of a variation of a regulated output voltage of an electronic voltage regulator with respect to the reference voltage and a third node configured to provide a clock signal having a clock period based on the reference voltage and the feedback signal, and a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal generator circuit having a first node coupled to the VCO circuit and configured to receive the clock signal, a second node configured to receive an input signal proportional to an input voltage signal at an input node of the electronic voltage regulator and a third node configured to provide at least one PWM drive signal to one or more electronic switches of a switching stage based on the clock signal.
US12119744B2
A circuit assembly for connection to a current source, preferably a 4-20 mA current loop and/or a high-impedance voltage source, preferably a high-impedance voltage source comprising an internal resistance greater than or equal to 100 ohms, includes at least one boost converter with a coil, a diode, in particular a flyback diode, which is connected in series with the coil, an output-side storage capacitor for summing an output voltage, and a switching element for connecting the coil to ground; a circuit part for dynamically controlling the switching element of the boost converter, wherein the circuit part is at least designed to control the switching element of the boost converter in a start-up phase such that the current source directly charges the storage capacitor via the coil until a predefinable reference value is reached.
US12119742B2
An integrated circuit for digitally controlling a critical mode power factor correction (PFC) circuit according to one or more embodiments may include: an output voltage detector and a switching current detector; an A/D converter and a sample and hold circuit that perform analog-to-digital conversion of an output signal of the output voltage detector and the switching current detector; an arithmetic unit that performs calculation based on the output signal of the A/D converter and generates a pulse signal to turn on/off a switching device of the PFC circuit; a correction value calculator that calculates, based on a switching frequency of the PFC circuit, a correction value for linearly correcting the output signal of the A/D converter; and an adder that adds the correction value to the output signal of the A/D converter to correct the output signal of the A/D converter and inputs the corrected output signal to the arithmetic unit.
US12119741B2
A modular multilevel converter system, and a voltage detection method and an open-circuit fault diagnosis method thereof are disclosed. The modular multilevel converter system includes: N sub-modules sequentially cascaded, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, each of the sub-modules comprising at least one bridge arm and a capacitor connected in parallel to the bridge arm, the capacitor having a positive terminal and a negative terminal; and a voltage detection unit for detecting a voltage between at least two adjacent sub-modules in the N sub-modules, the voltage detection unit being connected between the positive terminal of the capacitor of the first sub-module and the negative terminal of the capacitor of the last sub-module in the at least two sub-modules.
US12119739B2
An electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit includes a transistor having a gate terminal, a source terminal and a drain terminal, and a gate driver circuit including a pull-down transistor coupled to the gate terminal, and an input terminal arranged to receive an input signal and generate a corresponding output signal at an output terminal coupled to the gate terminal, where the gate driver circuit is arranged to store energy harvested from the input signal and use the stored energy to change a conductive state of the pull-down transistor. In one aspect, the transistor includes gallium nitride (GaN). In another aspect, the pull-down transistor includes GaN.
US12119736B2
A power supply unit includes a power supply and a converter. The converter performs operation selected from the group consisting of boosting and stepping down of an output voltage of the power supply; and includes a reactor in which n-phase coils are magnetically coupled to each other, n-phase switches, and a control unit. The control unit controls duty cycles of the n-phase switches; monitors a current value flowing through the n-phase coils; and performs phase switching control when the control unit determines that an operation condition described below is satisfied, the phase switching control being control in which the control unit performs phase switching from in phase to out of phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven in phase and performs phase switching from out of phase to in phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven out of phase.
US12119723B2
A bus bar guide is provided to fix bus bars that connect a plurality of coils disposed in a motor. The bus bar includes a conductor that has a plate shape and has a first surface and a second surface continuous with the first surface. The bus bar guide is configured by annularly arranging a plurality of bus bar guide pieces each including an insulator. Each of the plurality of bus bar guide pieces is provided with a groove that holds the first surface of the bus bar and positions the bus bar.
US12119722B2
A drive motor for a suction tool (400) or a machine tool in the form of a hand-held power tool (200, 300) or a semi-stationary machine tool. The drive motor (20, 120) has a stator (80) with an excitation coil assembly (86) and a rotor (40, 140) with a motor shaft (30, 130) which is rotatably mounted on the stator or relative to the stator (80) about a rotational axis (D) by means of a bearing assembly (24A), and the drive motor (20, 120) has a connection device (100) for electrically connecting the drive motor to an energizing device (206, 306) for energizing the excitation coil assembly (86). The connection device (100) has a main part (103) for securing to the stator (80) and a receiving arm (108) which protrudes from the main part (103), a conductor receiving area (107) being formed between the main part and the receiving arm for at least one electric coil conductor (88) of an excitation coil (87) of the excitation coil assembly (86). The connection device (100) has a connection contact region (101) for electrically connecting a connection line (15) for connecting to the energizing device (206, 306).
US12119718B2
Provided are a motor for an electric toothbrush and an electric toothbrush having the same. The motor includes a housing and at least one pair of rotor iron core groups fixed within the housing, wherein each rotor iron core group is formed by stacking a plurality of rotor iron cores, each of the plurality of rotor iron cores includes an iron core main body portion and an iron core convex portion protruding outwards from the periphery of the iron core main body portion; and at least one pair of rotor iron core groups are inserted into two axially extending iron core brackets, and the two iron core brackets are each provided with a clamping groove, with the clamping grooves having openings opposite to each other.
US12119710B2
The motor comprises: a stator around which coils are wound and which forms a rotating magnetic field rotating a rotor; and a first motor case housing the stator. The stator has: a core body portion forming an annular magnetic path; and a fastening portion projecting outside in the radial direction from the outer circumferential surface of the core body portion. The fastening portion has an attachment hole which is formed in a penetrating manner along the rotating axis line direction of the rotor and into which a fastening screw for fixing the stator to the first motor case is inserted. The first motor case has: first to third core receiving portions receiving an end portion of the core body portion in the rotating axis line direction; and first and second fastener receiving portions receiving an end portion of the fastening portion in the rotating axis line direction.
US12119694B2
A battery capacity tracking method and apparatus, and a device are provided. For two batteries connected in series, a first remaining capacity change value corresponding to a first battery when the first battery is switched between a fully charged state and a fully discharged state is obtained; a second remaining capacity change value corresponding to the second battery when the second battery is switched between a fully charged state and a fully discharged state is obtained; and after a remaining capacity change value corresponding to a battery when the battery is switched from one state to another state is obtained, a full charge capacity of the first battery is determined based on the first remaining capacity change value, the second remaining capacity change value, and a full charge capacity of the second battery.
US12119686B2
Provided is a power source system including: a storage battery; a control unit operating by being supplied with power from the storage battery and monitoring the storage battery; a first switch configured as a latch type switch disposed on a first electrical path between the storage battery and the control unit; and a second switch configured as a latch type switch disposed on a second electrical path between the storage battery and an electrical equipment as an object to which the storage battery supplies power. The first switch and the second switch are connected in parallel to the control unit; current is supplied to the control unit from the storage battery; and the control unit includes a switch control unit configured to stop a current supply to the control unit from the storage battery.
US12119682B2
An embodiment of this application provides an energy storage system, and a method and an apparatus for controlling the energy storage system. The method includes: selecting a plurality of target modules from all modules contained in an electric cabinet, where a voltage of each of the plurality of target modules is greater than or equal to a voltage of a remaining module; and controlling a DC-DC circuit of the plurality of target modules to increase an output voltage. The technical solution provided in the embodiment of this application can solve the problem that state-of-charge (SOC) imbalance between different modules affects performance of the energy storage system.
US12119681B2
A circuit includes power reception circuitry to convert an RF signal to a direct current signal for transmission to an energy storage device and/or an electronic device associated with the circuit. The circuit includes voltage regulator circuitry to regulate an output voltage of the circuit based on an internal state thereof. A method incudes receiving, by at least one antenna, the RF signal. The method includes converting, by the circuit coupled to the antenna, the RF signal to a direct current signal. The method includes transmitting the DC signal to the energy storage device and/or the electronic device. The method includes determining the internal state of the circuit. The method includes regulating the output voltage of the circuit based on the internal state. Embodiments enable the addition of wireless charging functionality to existing electronic devices without extensive internal and/or external redesign.
US12119676B2
Foreign substance detection can be performed with a simple configuration in a power transmission system. A power transmitting apparatus that wirelessly transmits power to a power receiving apparatus, the power transmitting apparatus comprises: determination means for, in a case where an initial impedance value and the detected output impedance value do not match and there is no change in the output impedance value between before and after the transmission of a predetermined detection signal, determining that a foreign substance is present within a predetermined power transmission range, and, in a case where the initial impedance value and the detected output impedance value do not match and there is a change in the output impedance value between before and after the transmission of the predetermined detection signal, determining that a power receiving apparatus is present within the predetermined power transmission range.
US12119671B2
A method of transmitting power of a wireless power transmitter, including a receiving phase of receiving a signal including an FOD status packet from a wireless power receiver; a first determination phase of determining whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter based on the FOD status packet; a power control phase of controlling power transmission in a first power transfer mode upon determining that the foreign object is present in the charging area in the first determination phase, or controlling power transmission in a second power transfer mode upon determining that the foreign object is not present in the charging area in the first determination phase; and a second determination phase of determining whether the foreign object is present in the charging area based on information other than information included in the FOD status packet, while controlling power transmission in one of the first power transfer mode and the second power transfer mode by the power control phase.
US12119667B2
The present invention relates to an electrical resonator (10), and an array (30) comprising a plurality of the electrical resonators (10). The electrical resonator (10) comprises an inductor coil comprising at least one turn. The at least one turn comprises an outer turn defining an outer coil perimeter (14). The electrical resonator comprises at least one capacitor connected to the inductor coil. The outer coil perimeter (14) comprises four major edges (141). Each of the major edge (141) is substantially linear and arranged on a different edge of a quadrilateral. The outer coil perimeter (14) comprises four minor edges (142) connecting the major edges (141). The array (30) comprises a first plurality of the electrical resonators (10a) arranged in a first layer, and a second plurality of the electrical resonators (10b) arranged in a second layer on top of the first layer. The minor edge (142a) of each electrical resonator substantially abuts the minor edge (142b) of an adjacent electrical resonator in the same layer, and the first and second layer together define a quadrilateral array of the electrical resonators (30), with a centre of each inductor coil in the first layer coincident with the centre of a gap region between inductor coils in the second layer. A method of arranging a plurality of electrical resonators in an array is also disclosed.
US12119664B2
A system for providing electrical power to an element coupled to a tool storage unit, the system comprising a transmitting unit coupled to the tool storage unit and a receiving unit coupled to the tool storage unit. The transmitting unit including a data processing and communication module and a transmitting antenna configured to be coupled to an electrical power supply and transmit energy. The receiving unit including a receiving antenna, and the element.
US12119663B2
A method for energy harvesting and charging energy storage devices is provided. The method uses a voltage converter system and includes the steps of monitoring a parameter VBatt1 indicative of a charging level of a first rechargeable storage device and of maintaining this parameter VBatt1 between a lower and an upper threshold value. The method further includes steps of charging a second rechargeable storage device and operating the voltage converter system for transferring charges from the second to the first rechargeable storage device. An integrated circuit for energy harvesting is provided in which a terminal connectable with a second rechargeable storage device is switchably coupled to both the input and the output of the voltage converter system.
US12119660B2
The present disclosure is directed to self-synchronizing devices that can connect and self-synchronizes voltage, frequency and phase of two or more power sources. The disclosed embodiments enable a modular power system to serve as the primary or secondary source of power for applications requiring loads from a few kilowatts (KW) to the scale of megawatts (MW). The modular system is generalized to use either a single or multiple power generation sources at once, with the ability to connect and self-synchronize voltage, frequency, and phase of a variety of different types of power sources. Power control systems designed to function with self-synchronizing technology enable a modular power system to satisfy a wide variety of needs, simplifying the existing method of achieving synchronization and enabling new features of resiliency and expandability. The self-synchronization can be implemented into a wide variety of electronics including but not limited to inverters and generator controllers.
US12119659B2
A system and a method for controlling a hybrid microgrid system (HMS) is disclosed. The HMS includes a WTG, an RSC, a GSC, a DC-link connecting the RSC and the GSC, a PV system that outputs a DC current to the DC-link, a rechargeable battery, a bidirectional BBC connected between the DC-link and the rechargeable battery, and a controller. The method for controlling the HMS includes: preparing a definition set including a characteristic element ci and equations defining desired value ci*, a fractional order sliding mode surface ζi, and a control law element uicnt; monitoring ci(t) and the HMS status; calculating the equations based on monitored information; and controlling the HMS based on the uicnt(t) calculated and in accordance with a global sliding mode control with fractional order terms. The ζi comprises a fractional time integral and fractional time derivative of ei(t), where ei(t)=ci(t)−ci*(t). The uicnt(t) satisfies ζ i ( t ) d ζ i ( t ) dt < 0 , when ζi(t)≠0.
US12119651B2
A resilience enhancement-oriented energy storage control method and system for a distributed generator (DG) in a distribution network. The method includes: determining an objective function including a first sub-objective function and a second sub-objective function; determining an outer-level constraint based on a quantity of configured energy storage systems (ESSs), a quantity of hardened lines, and a rated power and capacity configuration of an ESS; determining a middle-level constraint based on a line failure; determining an inner-level constraint based on node power of a distribution network, a line load capacity, a line power flow, a power output of a unit, a node voltage, climbing of the unit, operation of the ESS, and LS; determining parameters based on the outer-level constraint, the first sub-objective function, the middle-level constraint, the inner-level constraint, and the second sub-objective function; and controlling energy storage of a DG in the distribution network.
US12119644B2
A method for controlling a photovoltaic rapid shutdown system, an inverting system, and a photovoltaic rapid shutdown system. In the photovoltaic rapid shutdown system, the inverting system determines whether the photovoltaic rapid shutdown system is to enter a safe mode, introduces fluctuations onto a direct-current bus in the photovoltaic rapid shutdown system in response to the photovoltaic rapid shutdown system being not to enter the safe mode, and otherwise does not introduce the fluctuations onto the direct-current bus. A shutdown device for a photovoltaic module determines according to an output parameter thereof whether an electrical parameter on the direct-current bus connected to the shutdown device meets a preset condition, controls itself to be turned on or maintains itself being on in response to the electrical parameter meeting the preset condition, and otherwise controls itself to be turned off or maintains itself being off.
US12119643B2
The present specification relates to a data collection apparatus of a power system, the data collection apparatus comprising: a communication unit that communicates with a plurality of sites using different communication protocols to receive, from the plurality of sites, data about energy use information; a storage unit that stores a plurality of data models respectively corresponding to the communication protocols to store the data in each of the plurality of data models; and a processing unit that generates a basic data model by performing data modeling according to any one of the communication protocols, generates one or more extended data models by performing data modeling according to the rest of the communication protocols, includes the extended data models in the basic data model, and stores the included extended data models in the storage unit.
US12119642B2
A distributed power network includes a power bus infrastructure distributed over a region with node points provided to interface with controllable power nodes. Each power node can be connected to an external power device such as a DC power sources, a DC power load, or a rechargeable DC battery. The power nodes form a communication network and cooperate with each other to receive input power from DC power sources and or rechargeable DC batteries connected to the power bus infrastructure and distribute the power received therefrom to the power bus infrastructure for distribution to the DC power loads and to rechargeable DC batteries.
US12119641B2
An integrated circuit device having insulated gate field effect transistors (IGFETs) having a plurality of horizontally disposed channels that can be vertically aligned above a substrate with each channel being surrounded by a gate structure has been disclosed. The integrated circuit device may include electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit structures. The ESD protection circuit structures may be formed in regions other than the region that the IGFETs are formed as well as in the region that the IGFETs having a plurality of horizontally disposed channels that can be vertically aligned above a substrate with each channel being surrounded by a gate structure are formed. By forming ESD protection circuit structures in regions below the IGFETs, an older process technology may be used and device size may be decreased. Furthermore, planar IGFETs of FinFETs may be formed in other regions to decrease device size and improve costs.
US12119629B2
A junction box and an electronic device assembly system relate to the field of infrastructure technologies. The junction box includes an accommodation chamber configured to accommodate a wire and a sealing cap configured to seal the wire. An upper cover of the accommodation chamber is provided with a first through-hole for wiring, a base of the accommodation chamber is provided with a second through-hole for wiring, and a side wall of the accommodation chamber is provided with one or more operation windows. The upper cover of the accommodation chamber is provided with a first installation position for installing to a pole, and the base of the accommodation chamber is provided with a second installation position for installing to an electronic device. The sealing cap includes a third through-hole for wiring and a fourth through-hole for wiring.
US12119623B2
A wearable pouch operable to hold at least one portable battery pack and other power or communications equipment. The wearable pouch includes a main body with a front side, a back side opposite the front side, at least one sealable opening, and at least one opening for at least one lead from the at least one portable battery pack secured within the wearable pouch.
US12119622B2
The power distribution module includes a power busbar, a primary load output module, a secondary load output module, a battery module, and a signal-driven collection module, where each of the primary load output module, the secondary load output module, and the battery module includes a circuit breaker, the power busbar is connected to the circuit breaker, the signal-driven collection module is connected to the circuit breaker to collect a circuit breaker signal, the signal-driven collection module includes a plurality of first signal units sequentially arranged in a first direction, an integer quantity of first signal units are disposed in a connection area in which the signal-driven collection module is connected to each circuit breaker, and each circuit breaker is provided with a second signal unit.
US12119621B1
A magnetic induction device is provided for triggering an electric spark discharge in response to a variable voltage. The device includes an inductor; a resistor series having first and second resistors; and a discharge device. These are arranged in a receiver circuit in which the inductor, the resistor series and the spark gap are disposed in parallel. The inductor connects between the first and second resistors to a gate electrode of the discharge device. Magnetic flux induces a current into the electrode responsive to the receiver circuit temporarily overlapping the inductor, thereby inducing the spark.
US12119612B2
The light-emitting element of an embodiment outputs a clear optical image while suppressing light output efficiency reduction, and includes a substrate, a light-emitting unit, and a bonding layer. The light-emitting unit has a semiconductor stack, including a phase modulation layer, between first and second electrodes. The phase modulation layer has a base layer and modified refractive index regions, and includes a first region having a size including the second electrode, and a second region. Each gravity center of the second region's modified refractive index region is arranged by an array condition. The light from the stack is a single beam, and regarding a first distance from the substrate to the stack's front surface and a second distance from the substrate to the stack's back surface, a variation amount of the first distance along a direction on the substrate is smaller than a variation amount of the second distance.
US12119611B2
A semiconductor laser apparatus includes: a semiconductor laser device for junction down mounting that includes a first light-emitting device region and a second light-emitting device region formed separately on a substrate. The first light-emitting device region and the second light-emitting device region in the semiconductor laser device each have a stack structure in which an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer are stacked in stated order. The first light-emitting device region includes a first electrode film located on the n-type semiconductor layer. The second light-emitting device region includes a second electrode film located on the p-type semiconductor layer. The first electrode film and the second electrode film are electrically connected to each other.
US12119609B2
In an example, the present invention provides a high intensity pulse laser generation system. The system has a variety of elements. The system has an optical cavity maintained in a vacuum, e.g., 300 Torr and less. In an example, the optical cavity is configured to increase an intensity of a laser beam comprising a pulse from a first energy power intensity to a second higher energy power intensity propagating on a first optical path configured within the optical cavity by circulating or reciprocating at least a portion of the laser beam.
US12119607B2
A wavelength tunable laser includes a filter region having a wavelength selection function on light from a gain region, wherein the filter region is a Sagnac interferometer and includes two ring resonators. The ring resonator has two optical couplers, and first and second curved waveguides connecting the two optical couplers, each of the two optical couplers is configured to receive input of the light from the gain region through an input-output port, to couple light of a resonant peak to a bar port of the input-output port, and to couple light except light at a resonant peak wavelength to a cross port of the input-output port, and the first curved waveguide connects the bar ports of the input-output ports of the two optical couplers, and the second curved waveguide connects the cross ports of ports, of two optical couplers, that the first curved waveguide is connected to.
US12119597B2
An electrical junction box assembly includes a junction box that has a power input, a hot terminal block, a ground terminal block and neutral terminal block. A plurality of electrical couplers is each in electrical communication with the hot terminal block and the ground terminal block and the neutral terminal block. A plurality of extension cables is each attachable to a respective one of the electrical couplers such that each of the extension cables is in electrical communication with the power input. Each of the extension cables is electrically coupled to a respective electronic device thereby facilitating the respective electronic device to be in electrical communication with the power input. In this way the extension cables supply the respective electronic device with electrical power without requiring permanent electrical wiring to be installed.
US12119593B2
A power plug with LCDI includes a shell, multiple input insertion prongs partially exposed to an exterior of the shell, a movement assembly disposed in the shell and coupled to the multiple input insertion prongs, a male end assembly and a female end assembly both disposed in the shell, and multiple output conductors. A first end of the male end assembly is connected to the movement assembly and electrically coupled to the multiple input insertion prongs via the movement assembly; a second end of the male end assembly is inserted into a first end of the female end assembly; a second end of the female end assembly is electrically coupled to the multiple output conductors; and the movement assembly is configured to establish or cut off an electrical connection between the multiple input insertion prongs and the multiple output conductors. This power plug improves efficiency of assembly.
US12119591B2
A shielded flat cable includes a first differential signal line pair including mutually parallel first and second signal lines, first and second ground lines parallel to the first differential signal line pair arranged between the first and second ground lines, an insulating layer covering the first differential signal line pair, the first and second ground lines, a first shielding layer covering a first surface of the insulating layer, and a second shielding layer covering a second surface of the insulating layer, opposite to the first surface. The insulating layer includes an opening exposing the first ground line at the first surface of the insulating layer, and the first shielding layer is electrically connected to the first ground line through the opening. A width of the first ground line is greater than a width of each of the first and second signal lines.
US12119583B2
A connector includes a plurality of terminals, a first member made from a first resin to cover a part of a surface of each of the plural terminals, and a second member made from a second resin to cover a part of the surface of each of the plural terminals and a surface of the first member on the side opposite to the respective terminals. The plural terminals each project to be exposed from the surface of the second member. The first resin has breaking energy of 2 J or greater in a transverse direction. The second resin has a comparative tracking index of 400 V or greater.
US12119580B2
The present disclosure relates to an external device-to-external device connector for wireless communication devices, which is configured to electrically connect two spaced external devices together, and comprises two interface members and a coupling member. The inner conductor part and the insulation part of the coupling member are held together by the concave-convex fitting parts opposite to each other, and there is a first gap between the concave-convex fitting part of the inner conductor part and that of the insulation part, which allows the inner conductor part to have radial displacement relative to the insulation part; or, the outer conductor part and the insulating part of the coupling member are held together by the concave-convex fitting parts opposite to each other, and there is a second gap between the concave-convex fitting part of the outer conductor part and that of the insulating part, which allows radial displacement of the insulating part relative to the outer conductor part. The external device-to-external device connector can achieve satisfactory RL and PIM performance.
US12119576B2
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: one or more die electrically coupled to a lead frame. The lead frame may be included within a housing. The semiconductor package may also include a set of signal leads extending from the housing, a set of power leads extending from the housing, and a plurality of press fit pins each fixedly coupled to the set of signal leads and the set of power leads. The set of signal leads and the set of power leads may be configured to couple with a substrate.
US12119572B2
Disclosed is a base station antenna, which includes a substrate and an antenna sub-array. The antenna sub-array includes a feeding plate, a plurality of radiation units, and two metal baffles. The feeding plate is disposed on the substrate. The plurality of radiation units are disposed on the feeding plate along a first direction and electrically connected to the feeding plate. The two metal baffles are respectively disposed on two sides of the feeding plate along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and each metal baffle extends along the first direction. Each metal baffle is provided with an opening slot, and the length of the opening slot along the first direction corresponds to a wavelength of a center frequency of the base station antenna. Therefore, the base station antenna can achieve the technical effects of converging the horizontal beam width and optimizing the cross polarization ratio.
US12119568B2
Provided is an electric device including a display panel, and a first antenna disposed on the display panel and including a first patch part, a first transmission part, and a first additional transmission part, wherein the first transmission part faces a first side of the first patch part extending along a first cross direction, is spaced apart from the first patch part, and is capacitively coupled to the first patch part, and wherein the first additional transmission part faces a second side of the patch part extending in a second cross direction crossing the first cross direction, is symmetrical about a line of symmetry with the first transmission part, and is spaced apart from the first patch part.
US12119563B2
Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US12119557B2
A method for radiating a co-located antenna including radiating the co-located antenna using a dual mode, where the co-located antenna has an inter-element spacing of about 1λ and the dual mode includes a TM11 mode and a TM21 mode. The TM11 mode is radiated to generate a TM11 far field pattern, where the TM11 mode has a broadside pattern characterized with a beam peak at broadside and the TM11 mode produces grating lobes in addition to the beam peak at broadside. The TM21 mode is radiated to generate a TM21 far field pattern orthogonal to the TM11 far field pattern, thereby causing the TM21 mode to produce a null at broadside to suppress the grating lobes produced by the TM11 mode.
US12119550B2
A composite antenna mount includes a polymer matrix, a plurality of particles dispersed through the polymer matrix, at least some of the particles including a ferromagnetic coating, and a plurality of electrically conductive filaments electrically connecting the ferromagnetic coatings of the particles. The ferromagnetic coating each coated particle is configured to absorb electromagnetic radiation in a specified frequency range.
US12119543B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may comprise: a housing forming at least a portion of an exterior of the electronic device, a printed circuit board disposed in an inner space of the housing, and an antenna structure including at least one antenna positioned in the inner space and electrically connected with the printed circuit board. The antenna structure may include a conductive plate having an opening, the opening including a first opening and a second opening extending from the first opening toward an edge of the conductive plate, a first conductive strip at least partially disposed in the second opening to form a first feed, and a second conductive strip forming a second feed different from the first feed. The electronic device may further comprise a wireless communication circuit electrically connected with the first conductive strip and/or the second conductive strip and configured to transmit and/or receive an RF signal having a frequency in a range of about 3 GHz to 300 GHz.
US12119540B2
The TIC environmental event sensor is a nickel-sized, ultra-thin circuit assembly, containing an extremely compact array of both environmental sensors and physical sensors, along with local and wireless access to all the sensor data, including BTLE & LoRa, as well as an electronic ink display for limited field access to sensor events in real time. The TIC is designed to capture changes in the sensor data in real time, and then log it for future examination. The most recent change will remain on the device's display. The changes can then be transmitted to a smart phone or tablet via BTLE, networked as an asset via LoRa, or locally scrolled at the device. The TIC is Ideal for tracking any variations in the surrounding conditions of an asset's travel, storage, or use.
US12119526B2
A metal support for an electrochemical element has a plate shape as a whole, and is provided with a plurality of penetration spaces 1c that pass through the metal support from a front face 1a to a back face. The front face 1a is a face to be provided with an electrode layer. A region of the front face 1a provided with the penetration spaces is a hole region, and openings of the penetration spaces formed in the front face are front-side openings. An aperture ratio that is a ratio of the front-side openings to the hole region is 0.1% or more and 7.0% or less.
US12119522B2
A fuel cell vehicle and a method for controlling power generation for the same are provided. The fuel cell includes a motor supplying driving power for driving the fuel cell vehicle, a fuel cell and a battery supplying electrical power for driving the motor, and a vehicle controller for operating the fuel cell in advance by predicting a shortage of discharge power of the battery by monitoring the discharge power of the battery.
US12119514B2
Provided is a slurry composition for a functional layer that can form a functional layer capable of closely adhering strongly to a separator substrate and that can enhance rate characteristics of a secondary battery including a separator that includes the functional layer. The slurry composition for a functional layer contains a binder and a melamine compound. The binder is a polymer including at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an epoxy group, an oxazoline group, a sulfo group, a nitrile group, and an amide group. The melamine compound has a volume-average particle diameter of not less than 20 nm and not more than 300 nm and constitutes a proportion of not less than 0.5 mass % and not more than 85 mass % among the total of the binder and the melamine compound.
US12119513B2
Problem: The invention provides a separator for a lithium-ion secondary battery exhibiting excellent strength, wettability with nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, voltage endurance and cycle characteristics in lithium-ion secondary batteries, and a method of increasing the puncture depth of the separator. Solution: A separator for a lithium-ion secondary battery is formed of a microporous film comprising a polyolefin resin (A) as a major component, and a resin (B), at least portions of the surfaces of the micropores in the microporous film being coated with resin (B).
US12119512B2
A method of preparing a composite separator for a lithium battery includes: coating a binder composition on one side or both sides of a porous substrate; hot-air drying the porous substrate coated with the binder composition; and supplying a non-solvent during the hot-air drying, such that a porous layer is on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, wherein the binder composition includes a good-solvent, a binder, and inorganic particles, an amount of the non-solvent supplied during the hot-air drying is from 12 g/m3 to 17 g/m3, and a ratio (e) of the hot-air supply speed to the moving speed of the porous substrate per unit transit time in the hot-air dryer is from 2.2 to 5.0.
US12119511B2
Embodiments of this application provide an explosion-proof valve, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The explosion-proof valve includes a flame arresting member and an air permeable membrane. The flame arresting member is configured to connect to a housing of a battery pack, the air permeable membrane is fastened to the flame arresting member, and the battery pack is capable of exchanging gas with the outside through the flame arresting member and the air permeable membrane in sequence. During use of the explosion-proof valve of this application in the battery pack of this application, when thermal runaway occurs inside the housing of the battery pack, pressure inside the housing is suddenly increased, and as a result, the battery pack releases the pressure through the explosion-proof valve, and high-temperature runaway gas impacts and melts the air permeable membrane, forming a smooth air flow channel.
US12119506B2
A lithium-ion battery device comprises a housing, a battery cell stored inside the housing, and an adjacent member provided adjacently to and on a rearward side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, of the battery cell. The battery cell comprises a cell case, an electrode body stored inside the cell case, and a pair of terminals. The cell case includes a first main face and a second main face which face to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction. At least two gap-forming portions which respectively have a smaller area than the second main face and have a specified thickness of the vehicle longitudinal direction are arranged between the second main face and the adjacent member. The two gap-forming portions are provided to be spaced apart from each other in an inter-terminal direction of the battery cell.
US12119503B2
The present disclosure relates to a cap assembly and a secondary battery. The cap assembly includes a cap plate provided with an electrode lead-out hole; an electrode terminal, covering the electrode lead-out hole and including a main body, wherein the main body is provided with a recess on a side wall; an isolating member including a receiving portion, wherein the main body is received in the receiving portion; and a protrusion, connected to an inner wall of the isolating member and extending towards an axis of the electrode lead-out hole, wherein the protrusion is received in the recess so as to prevent the main body from rotating relative to the isolating member. The cap assembly according to the embodiments of the present application can improve an overcurrent capacity and stability of the electrode terminal.
US12119498B2
The present invention provides a one-sided electrode for a secondary battery comprising a current collector, an electrode mixture layer applied to one surface of the current collector, and an electrode distortion-preventing layer formed on the other surface of the current collector to which no electrode mixture is applied. The one-sided electrode according to the present invention exhibits significantly reduced warping or curling after a rolling process and has the advantages of facilitating subsequent processes and enabling enhanced productivity.
US12119495B2
Electric batteries are provided wherein the positively charged electrode contacts an aqueous layer containing material which is reduced during electric discharge and/or metal ions are transported through special electrolyte that inhibits dendritic deposition on the negatively charged electrode. Methods described include electrolyte compositions including organoborate anions and cations with low charge density, and aqueous solutions containing bromate and/or bromide anions and high concentrations of dissolved salts.
US12119478B2
The invention discloses an active material ball electrode layer structure, which mainly includes the active material balls made of the active material particles, a first mixed electrolyte located inside the active material balls, and a second mixed electrolyte located outside the active material balls. The first mixed electrolyte is mainly made of the deformable electrolyte. The second mixed electrolyte is mainly made of the electrolyte with relatively lesser deformation than the deformable electrolyte of the first mixed electrolyte. The invention utilizes the first mixed electrolyte to effectively active material ball reduce the derived problems of the volume change of the active materials. Moreover, the different configuration of the first mixed electrolyte and the second mixed electrolyte inside and outside the active material balls is utilized to reduce the charge transfer resistance. Also, the expansion resistance is provided for the active material balls.
US12119477B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrode for an all solid-state battery and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, wherein the gaps between the electrode active material particles forming the electrode active material layer are filled with a mixture of a polymeric solid electrolyte and a conductive material. The method for manufacturing the electrode comprises a solvent annealing process, and the contact between the electrode active material particles and the conductive material is improved through the solvent annealing process, thereby improving ion conductivity of the electrode and capacity realization in the battery.
US12119475B2
Process for making an at least partially coated electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) Providing an electrode active material according to general formula Li1−xTM1−xO2, wherein TM is Ni and, optionally, at least one of Co and Mn, and, optionally, at least one element selected from Al, Mg, Ba and B, transition metals other than Ni, Co, and Mn, and x is in the range of from zero to 0.2, wherein at least 50 mole-% of the transition metal of TM is Ni, (b) treating said electrode active material with an aqueous formulation containing a compound of Me wherein Me is selected from Sb, Mg, Zn, Sn, and Te, (c) separating off the water, (d) treating the residue thermally.
US12119472B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for active thermal control of energy storage units are described. In some embodiments, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a battery pack. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells and an enclosure coupled with the plurality of battery cells to physically retain the plurality of battery cells in an arrangement. The arrangement defines a void space between the plurality of battery cells. The UAV also includes a cooling system configured to cool the battery cells. The cooling system includes a source of forced convection fluidically coupled with the battery pack to drive a cooling fluid through the void space. The cooling system also includes a cooling controller electrically coupled with the source of forced convection to controllably activate the source of forced convection.
US12119469B2
A heat management assembly includes a valve component and a heat exchange core body. The heat exchange core body and the valve component are fixedly connected by welding. The valve component further includes a sensor. The sensor is electrically connected to a circuit board. The sensor at least partially extends into a third flow channel. The sensor can measure the temperature and/or pressure of a working medium in the third flow channel. The heat exchange core body at least includes a positioning portion. A valve at least includes a matching portion. The positioning portion and the matching portion are provided to correspondingly match each other. The sensor, the valve component, and the heat exchange core body are integrally assembled to facilitate relative reduction of connections of pipelines and sensor lines, thereby facilitating structure simplification and facilitating mounting.
US12119468B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state battery includes a battery element including alternating positive electrode layers and negative electrode layers each separated by a respective solid electrolyte layer interposed in between; a positive electrode terminal that is attached to the battery element to be electrically connected to the positive electrode layers and electrically separated from the negative electrode layers; a negative electrode terminal that is attached to the battery element to be electrically connected to the negative electrode layers and electrically separated from the positive electrode layers; an insulating coating that covers the battery element, wherein a respective portion of each of the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal lead out of the covered battery element; and a heat receiving member that is attached to the insulating coating so as to be electrically separated from both the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal.
US12119465B2
A cooling system includes a plurality of heat exchanger assemblies corresponding to a plurality of battery packs and a fluid conveyance assembly. Each heat exchanger assembly includes a first heat exchanger inlet-outlet and a second heat exchanger inlet-outlet configured to receive a heat transfer fluid or discharge the heat transfer fluid. The fluid conveyance assembly is coupled to the heat exchanger assemblies and configured to circulate the heat transfer fluid in parallel to the heat exchanger assemblies in a U-flow scheme with an inlet and an outlet of the heat transfer fluid arranged at the same location. The fluid conveyance assembly includes a plurality of flow restrictors configured to balance the heat transfer fluid flowing into the heat exchanger assemblies. The heat transfer fluid flows through the corresponding flow restrictor before flowing into the corresponding heat exchanger assembly of the battery pack.
US12119464B2
The present invention provides a method for preferentially recovering manganese from waste lithium-rich manganese-based cathode material, the method comprising: step 1) calcination and leaching: mixing the waste lithium-rich manganese-based cathode material with ammonium sulfate and then performing low-temperature calcination, leaching the calcination product with water, and then performing solid-solution separation to obtain a leaching solution; step 2) complexing and manganese separating: adding ammonium sulfite to the leaching solution obtained in step 1) for a complex reaction to obtain manganese-rich residue; step 3) oxidation leaching: adding an oxidant to the manganese-rich residue obtained in step 2) to perform oxidation leaching, and adjusting the pH of the solution to obtain a manganese-rich solution; and step 4) extracting and stripping. The method realizes the preferential and productive recovering of manganese from waste lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials, avoids the negative impact of polymetals in the conventional recovery process, and has economic and environmental benefits.
US12119461B2
A system for supplying power to a portable battery pack including a battery enclosed by a wearable and replaceable pouch or skin using at least one solar panel is disclosed, wherein the pouch or skin can be provided in different colors and/or patterns. Further, the pouch or skin can be MOLLE-compatible. The battery comprises a battery element housed between a battery cover and a back plate, wherein the battery element, battery cover, and back plate have a slight curvature or contour. Further, the battery comprises flexible leads.
US12119456B2
This disclosure relates to compositions and methods for improving the performance of batteries, such as lead-acid batteries, including reviving or rejuvenating a partially or totally dead battery, by adding an amount of nonionic, ground state metal nanoparticles to the electrolyte of the battery, and optionally recharging the battery by applying a voltage. The metal nanoparticles may be gold and coral-shaped and are added to provide a concentration within the electrolyte of 100 ppb to 2 ppm or more (e.g., up to 5 ppm, 10 ppm, 25 ppm, 50 ppm, or 100 ppm). The metal nanoparticles may be added to battery electrode paste applied to the electrodes to enhance newly manufactured or remanufactured batteries.
US12119440B2
A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet for batteries, which includes a base material and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on one surface side of the base material. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer contains inorganic fine particles having a water content of 0.4% or less in a single body.
US12119433B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing a light emitting element comprising: a semiconductor laminate having a first surface, a second surface, and a lateral surface between the first and second surfaces, and an electrode disposed at the second surface; disposing a resin layer in an A-stage state on a support; placing the light emitting element on an upper surface of the resin layer while the upper surface of the resin layer and the first surface of the semiconductor laminate face each other; heating the resin layer at a first temperature to reduce a viscosity of the resin layer and causing the light emitting element to sink due to its own weight such that the second surface of the semiconductor laminate is exposed; and curing the resin layer by heating the resin layer at a second temperature higher than the first temperature, thereby forming a resin member.
US12119421B2
A photodetector including: an amplification region that includes a PN junction provided in a depth direction in a semiconductor layer and that is to be electrically coupled to a cathode; a separation region that defines a pixel region including the amplification region; a hole accumulation region that is provided along a side surface of the separation region and that is to be electrically coupled to an anode; and a gate electrode provided in a region between the amplification region and the hole accumulation region and stacked over the semiconductor layer with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween.
US12119410B2
A display device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in an array is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a current path that includes a light emitting element and a first transistor, and a second transistor for transmitting a luminance signal. The first transistor comprises diffusion regions arranged in the current path, and a gate electrode to which the luminance signal is transmitted from the second transistor. The diffusion regions are of a first conductivity type, and the gate electrode is of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
US12119401B2
In an embodiment, a device includes a first fin extending from a substrate. The device also includes a first gate stack over and along sidewalls of the first fin. The device also includes a first gate spacer disposed along a sidewall of the first gate stack. The device also includes and a first source/drain region in the first fin and adjacent the first gate spacer, the first source/drain region including a first epitaxial layer on the first fin, the first epitaxial layer having a first dopant concentration of boron. The device also includes and a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, the second epitaxial layer having a second dopant concentration of boron, the second dopant concentration being greater than the first dopant concentration.
US12119390B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device including a substrate having a top surface and a gate stack. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer on the substrate and a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a multi-spacer structure. The multi-spacer includes a first spacer formed on a sidewall of the gate stack, a second spacer, and a third spacer. The second spacer includes a first portion formed on a sidewall of the first spacer and a second portion formed on the top surface of the substrate. The second portion of the second spacer has a thickness in a first direction that gradually decreases. The third spacer is formed on the second portion of the second spacer and on the top surface of the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a source/drain region formed in the substrate, and a portion of the third spacer abuts the source/drain region and the second portion of the second spacer.
US12119387B2
Low resistance approaches for fabricating contacts, and semiconductor structures having low resistance metal contacts, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor structure above a substrate. A gate electrode is over the semiconductor structure, the gate electrode defining a channel region in the semiconductor structure. A first semiconductor source or drain structure is at a first end of the channel region at a first side of the gate electrode. A second semiconductor source or drain structure is at a second end of the channel region at a second side of the gate electrode, the second end opposite the first end. A source or drain contact is directly on the first or second semiconductor source or drain structure, the source or drain contact including a barrier layer and an inner conductive structure.
US12119380B2
A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a superlattice adjacent a semiconductor layer. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The at least one non-semiconductor monolayer in a first group of layers of the superlattice may comprise oxygen and be devoid of carbon, and the at least one non-semiconductor monolayer in a second group of layers of the superlattice may comprise carbon.
US12119379B2
Semiconductor devices and methods are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first gate-all-around (GAA) transistor having a first plurality of channel members, and a second GAA transistor having a second plurality of channel members. A pitch of the first plurality of channel members is substantially identical to a pitch of the second plurality of channel members. The first plurality of channel members has a first channel member thickness (MT1) and the second plurality of channel members has a second channel member thickness (MT2) greater than the first channel member thickness (MT1).
US12119378B2
A semiconductor structure includes semiconductor fins disposed over a substrate, an epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature disposed over the semiconductor fins, where a top surface portion of the epitaxial S/D feature includes two surfaces slanted downward toward each other at an angle, a silicide layer disposed conformally over the top portion of the epitaxial S/D feature, and an S/D contact disposed over the silicide layer, where a bottom portion of the S/D contact extends into the epitaxial S/D feature.
US12119377B2
A semiconductor device includes: a SiC substrate; a device structure in or on the SiC substrate and subject to an electric field during operation of the semiconductor device; a current-conduction region of a first conductivity type in the SiC substrate adjoining the device structure; and a shielding region of a second conductivity type laterally adjacent to the current-conduction region and configured to at least partly shield the device structure from the electric field. The shielding region has a higher net doping concentration than the current-conduction region, and has a length (L) measured from a first position which corresponds to a bottom of the device structure to a second position which corresponds to a bottom of the shielding region. The current-conduction region has a width (d) measured between opposing lateral sides of the current-conduction region, and L/d is in a range of 1 to 10.
US12119368B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element comprises providing a semiconductor structure on a substrate, the semiconductor structure emitting light having different wavelength bands from each other, measuring the light having the different wavelength bands from each other and defining wavelength regions, forming nanopatterns spaced apart from each other on the semiconductor structure, the nanopatterns having different diameters from each other, and etching the semiconductor structure to form element rods.
US12119367B2
A method for forming a composite substrate containing layers of dissimilar materials is provided. The method includes a step of disposing a release layer over a base substrate where the base substrate is composed of a first material. A template layer is attached to the release layer. Characteristically, the template layer is composed of a second material and adapted to form a compound semiconductor device thereon.
US12119366B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging device capable of further decreasing a chip size, a solid state imaging device manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus. A solid state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate with a pixel region on which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a planar manner; a wiring layer that is laminated on the semiconductor substrate and is provided with wiring connected to the plurality of pixels; and a support substrate that is bonded to the wiring layer. A plurality of electrode pads used to be electrically connected to an outside is arranged at positions overlapping the pixel region in the wiring layer, and through-holes are provided at positions corresponding to the plurality of electrode pads in the support substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back side irradiation type CMOS image sensor of a wafer level CSP.
US12119365B2
The present application discloses an optical semiconductor device. The optical semiconductor device includes a logic die including a core circuit area and a logic peripheral circuit area; a memory die positioned on the logic die and including a memory cell area and a memory peripheral area, and a first inter-die via positioned in the memory peripheral area and electrically connected to the logic peripheral circuit area; and a sensor die positioned on the memory die and including a sensor pixel area and a sensor peripheral area, a first intra-die via positioned in the sensor peripheral area and electrically coupled to the logic peripheral circuit area through the first inter-die via, and a second intra-die via positioned in the sensor peripheral area. A height of the first intra-die via is greater than a height of the second intra-die via.
US12119362B2
A light sensor includes a photoelectric conversion layer and a long-pass filter that is disposed above the photoelectric conversion layer. The photoelectric conversion layer has a spectral sensitivity characteristic having a first peak at a first wavelength that is longer than a cut-on wavelength of the long-pass filter, and a spectral sensitivity of the photoelectric conversion layer at the cut-on wavelength is greater than or equal to 0% and less than or equal to 50% of a spectral sensitivity of the photoelectric conversion layer at the first wavelength.
US12119361B2
A camera module is provided, including a circuit board, a photosensitive element, an optical lens, and a filter element. The circuit board includes a substrate having a substrate front surface, a substrate back surface, and a substrate channel. The substrate front surface and the substrate back surface correspond to each other, and the substrate channel extends from the substrate front surface to the substrate back surface. The photosensitive element has a photosensitive area and a non-photosensitive area surrounding the photosensitive area. A first part of the non-photosensitive area is mounted on the back surface substrate. The photosensitive element and the substrate are conductively connected. The photosensitive area and a second part of the non-photosensitive area correspond to the substrate channel. The optical lens is held in a photosensitive path of the photosensitive element. The filter element is directly mounted on the substrate front surface of the substrate.
US12119359B2
An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate including, in a first semiconductor substrate, a sensor pixel that performs photoelectric conversion; a second substrate including, in a second semiconductor substrate, a readout circuit that outputs a pixel signal based on charges outputted from the sensor pixel, in which the second substrate is stacked on the first substrate; and a first hydrogen diffusion prevention layer provided between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate.
US12119351B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure on a substrate. A sacrificial layer pattern is formed on the fin structure. An active layer pattern is formed on the sacrificial layer pattern. A dummy gate pattern is formed on the active layer pattern. A spacer is formed on the dummy gate pattern. A source/drain structure is formed on the active layer pattern using an epitaxial growth process. An interlayer dielectric layer is formed on the dummy gate pattern and the active layer pattern. The interlayer dielectric layer is planarized to expose the dummy gate pattern. The dummy gate pattern is removed to expose the active layer pattern and the sacrificial layer pattern. The exposed sacrificial layer pattern is removed to form a through-hole between the exposed active layer pattern and the fin structure, the second portion of the sacrificial layer pattern is not removed.
US12119349B2
A cell row includes an inverter cell having a logic function and a termination cell having no logic function. The termination cell is arranged at one of two ends of the cell row. A gate line and dummy gate lines are arranged in the same layer in a Z direction. Local interconnects are arranged in the same layer in the Z direction. Local interconnects are arranged in the same layer in the Z direction.
US12119343B2
A semiconductor structure can include: a semiconductor substrate having a first region, a second region, and an isolation region disposed between the first region and the second region; an isolation component located in the isolation region; and where the isolation component is configured to recombine first carriers flowing from the first region toward the second region, and to extract second carriers flowing from the second region toward the first region.
US12119340B2
A circuit (to shape a follower voltage for a follower circuit) includes a tie-low circuit and an anti-noise circuit. The tie-low circuit is connected between a follower node and a first reference voltage. The tie-low circuit is responsive to a second reference voltage. The follower node is connectable to the follower circuit. The anti-noise circuit is connected between the follower node and the second reference voltage. The anti-noise circuit is configured to protect the follower voltage at the follower node from otherwise being distorted by a noise voltage being coupled capacitively to the follower node.
US12119337B2
A semiconductor device has a first substrate including an element region, a peripheral region that surrounds the element region, a first insulator with a first recess portion in the peripheral region, a first metal layer in the element region, and a first conductor in the peripheral region to surround the element region. A second substrate has an element region, a peripheral region that surrounds the element region, a second insulator with a second recess portion that faces the first recess portion, a second metal layer in contact with the first metal layer, and a second conductor that surrounds the element region of the second substrate.
US12119332B2
A tiled display comprises display devices adjacent to one another and each comprising first pixels and second pixels, a first boundary area where longer sides of at least two of the display devices are adjacent to each other, and a second boundary area where shorter sides of at least two of the display devices are adjacent to each other. Each of the first pixels and the second pixels comprises sub-pixels. The first pixels are disposed in the first boundary area such that the sub-pixels of the first pixels are parallel to the longer sides of the display devices. The second pixels are disposed in the second boundary area such that the sub-pixels of the second pixels are parallel to the shorter sides of the display devices.
US12119326B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge.
US12119316B2
An electronic device substrate with a substantially planar surface formed from an electrically non-conductive material is provided with one or more metalized pads on the substantially planner surface. Each of the one or more metalized pads is surrounded by and coplanar with the first electrically nonconductive material along an outer boundary of the metalized pad. The metalized pad is patterned such that portions of the metalized pad form metalized fingers that extend radially from the outer boundary of the metalized pad in an interdigitated arrangement with the first electrically nonconductive material. The metalized pad has a solderable surface.
US12119313B2
A semiconductor technology implemented high-frequency channelized filter includes a dielectric substrate with metal traces disposed on one of two major surfaces of the substrate. An input and output port disposed on the substrate and one of the metal traces carrying a high-frequency signal to be filtered between the input and output port. Other of the metal traces are connected to the one metal trace at intervals along the length of the one metal trace each providing a reactance to the high-frequency signal where the reactance varies with frequency and additional traces of the metal traces serving as a reference ground for the one metal trace and the other metal traces. A silicon enclosure mounted to the substrate with a first planar surface with cavities in the enclosure that extend through the first surface, and internal walls within the silicon enclosure defining the cavities. A layer of conductive metal covers the first planar surface, cavities and the internal walls. The silicon enclosure having substantially continuous areas of metal on the first planar surface about the periphery of the silicon enclosure that engage corresponding areas of the additional traces about the periphery of the substrate. The cavities surround the respective other metal traces with the internal cavity walls engaging the additional traces adjacent the respective other metal traces to individually surround each of the other metal traces with a conductive metal thereby providing electromagnetic field isolation between each of the other metal traces.
US12119305B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate including a first redistribution layer; a semiconductor chip electrically connected to the first redistribution layer; a vertical connection structure adjacent a periphery of the semiconductor chip and electrically connected to the first redistribution layer; and an encapsulant on the vertical connection structure. The vertical connection structure includes a metal pillar having a bottom surface facing the redistribution substrate, a top surface positioned opposite to the bottom surface, and a side surface positioned between the bottom surface and the top surface. The vertical connection structure further includes a plating layer on each of the bottom surface, the top surface, and the side surface of the metal pillar, and having a roughened surface.
US12119302B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having plurality of contacts, a plurality of composite plugs positioned above the plurality of contacts, a plurality of metal spacers positioned above the substrate; and a plurality of air gaps positioned above the substrate. At least one of the plurality of composite plugs includes a protection liner having a U-shaped profile and a metal plug in the protection liner, and the protection liner is in direct contact with one of the plurality of contacts.
US12119282B2
A semiconductor device package includes a carrier and an encapsulant disposed on the carrier. At least one portion of the encapsulant is spaced from the carrier by a space.
US12119280B2
A described example includes: a semiconductor device die with an active surface; the semiconductor device die mounted on a package substrate with substrate leads and the semiconductor device die electrically coupled to the substrate leads; at least a first rigid low expansion material (RLEM) covering a portion of the semiconductor device die; and the first RLEM, the semiconductor device die, and a portion of the substrate leads covered with mold compound and forming a packaged semiconductor device die.
US12119276B2
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a substrate and a chip-containing structure over the substrate. The package structure also includes a protective lid attached to the substrate through a first adhesive element and a second adhesive element. The first adhesive element has a first electrical resistivity, and the second adhesive element has a second electrical resistivity. The second electrical resistivity is greater than the first electrical resistivity. The second adhesive element is closer to a corner edge of the substrate than the first adhesive element, and a portion of the second adhesive element is between the first adhesive element and the chip-containing structure.
US12119268B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate structure over a fin, where the fin protrudes above a substrate; forming an opening in the gate structure; forming a first dielectric layer along sidewalls and a bottom of the opening, where the first dielectric layer is non-conformal, where the first dielectric layer has a first thickness proximate to an upper surface of the gate structure distal from the substrate, and has a second thickness proximate to the bottom of the opening, where the first thickness is larger than the second thickness; and forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer to fill the opening, where the first dielectric layer is formed of a first dielectric material, and the second dielectric layer is formed of a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
US12119262B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first dielectric layer and a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature surrounded by the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and a resistive element electrically connected to the first conductive feature. The second dielectric layer surrounds a portion of the resistive element. The semiconductor device structure further includes a conductive via electrically connected to the second conductive feature. The second dielectric layer surrounds a portion of the conductive via, and a contact area between the resistive element and the first conductive feature is wider than a contact area between the conductive via and the second conductive feature.
US12119261B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor structure is provided. First active areas, a second active area, and a third active area are formed. A first dielectric layer is formed on the active areas. A patterned region that includes a cavity region and a dielectric region is formed in the first dielectric layer, and the cavity region surrounds the dielectric region. A filling layer is formed in the cavity region. Multiple first contact holes and at least one second contact hole that penetrate the first dielectric layer are formed. Each first contact hole exposes a portion of the corresponding first active area, and the second contact hole replaces the dielectric region and exposes a portion of the second active area. Metal layers are filled in to the first contact holes and the second contact hole.
US12119259B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a source/drain region adjoining a channel region of a substrate; a contact etch stop layer on the source/drain region; a first source/drain contact extending through the contact etch stop layer, the first source/drain contact connected to the source/drain region; a gate structure on the channel region; a gate contact connected to the gate structure; and a contact spacer around the gate contact, where the contact spacer, the gate structure, the contact etch stop layer, and the substrate collectively define a void between the gate structure and the first source/drain contact.
US12119258B2
A semiconductor structure for radio frequency applications includes a support substrate made of silicon and comprising a mesoporous layer, a dielectric layer arranged on the mesoporous layer and a superficial layer arranged on the dielectric layer. The mesoporous layer comprises hollow pores, the internal walls of which are mainly lined with oxide. The mesoporous layer has a thickness between 3 and 40 microns and a resistivity greater than 20 kohm·cm over its entire thickness. The support substrate has a resistivity between 0.5 and 4 ohm·cm. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a semiconductor structure.
US12119250B2
A transport system includes a plurality of transport vehicles and a controller. The transport vehicle includes a travel unit and transfer unit. The controller performs a blocking control to prohibit transport vehicles other than the transport vehicle from entering a blocking zone corresponding to the area occupied by the transport vehicle when transferring an article in a plan view. To transfer an article from/to a placement table, the transport vehicle travels along the route to the placement table in a first direction. An area of the blocking zone when the transport vehicle accesses to the placement table in the first direction is equal to or less than an area of the blocking zone identified when the transport vehicle accesses to the placement table in the second direction different from the first direction.
US12119249B2
A conveyance vehicle includes a traveling driver, a main body, an up-and-down stage including a gripper to hold an article and capable of moving up and down with respect to the main body, an up-and-down driver to cause the up-and-down stage to move up and down by drawing out and winding up of belts, a lateral mover to cause the up-and-down driver while being cantilevered to protrude laterally of the main body, and an adjuster. In accordance with a laterally moved amount of the up-and-down driver by the lateral mover and a lowered amount of the up-and-down stage by the up-and-down driver, the adjuster performs one or both of adjustment of the laterally moved amount and adjustment of an orientation of a sensor included in the up-and-down driver to deliver the article to the transfer destination and to receive the article from the transfer destination.
US12119245B2
A hot plate cooling system is provided, configured to cool a hot plate, including a chamber and a cooling module. The hot plate is placed in the chamber. The cooling module extends into the chamber and faces the hot plate. The cooling module includes a nozzle member, a shell member, and a discharge channel. The nozzle member faces the hot plate for spraying a working fluid onto the hot plate. The shell member has a receiving groove surrounding the nozzle member. The discharge channel is connected to the shell member and communicates with the receiving groove. When the nozzle member sprays the working fluid to cool the hot plate, the working fluid is conveyed through the nozzle member toward a surface of the hot plate, and the working fluid is sequentially discharged from the hot plate cooling system through the receiving groove to the discharge channel.
US12119243B2
A method for etching features in a stack below a patterned mask in an etch chamber is provided. The stack is cooled with a coolant with a coolant temperature below −20° C. An etch gas is flowed into the etch chamber. A plasma is generated from the etch gas. Features are selectively etched into the stack with respect to the patterned mask.
US12119241B2
Unit for supplying substrate treating liquid and apparatus for treating substrate including the same
A unit for supplying a substrate-treating liquid is provided with a first reservoir and a second reservoir between which a differential pressure is constantly maintained to establish a flow rate, along with a substrate-treating apparatus having the unit for supplying the substrate-treating liquid. The unit for supplying the substrate-treating liquid includes a supply reservoir module and a buffer reservoir module. The supply reservoir module includes a first reservoir for supplying the substrate-treating liquid to an inkjet head unit for jetting the substrate-treating liquid onto a substrate, and a second reservoir for recovering the substrate-treating liquid that remains unused in the inkjet head unit. The buffer reservoir module is configured to provide the substrate-treating liquid to the first reservoir. Differential pressure is constantly maintained between the first reservoir and the second reservoir.
US12119237B2
A semiconductor device package is provided, including a package substrate, a semiconductor device, a metal lid, and a metal thermal interface material (TIM). The package substrate has a first surface. The semiconductor device is disposed over the first surface of the package substrate. The metal lid is disposed over the semiconductor device and the package substrate. The metal TIM is interposed between the metal lid and the top surface of the semiconductor device for bonding the metal lid and the semiconductor device. A shape of the lateral sidewall of the metal TIM in a longitudinal section is concave arc, and the outermost point of the lateral sidewall is within the boundary of the semiconductor device.
US12119234B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a base; a conductive column, which is at least located in the base; an electric connection layer, which is connected to an end part of the conductive column. The end part, towards the electric connection layer, of the conductive column has a first protruding part and at least one groove defined by the first protruding part, the electric connection layer has a second protruding part at a position corresponding to the groove, and the second protruding part is embedded in the groove.
US12119233B2
An etching method capable of selectively etching an oxide, which method includes an etching step in which an etching target (12) including an oxide is placed in a chamber (10), and the oxide included in the etching target (12) is etched in the chamber (10) using an etching gas containing a fluorine-containing compound including a functional group represented by the chemical formula below: wherein a symbol * means a bonding point with another atom or atomic group. The oxide is at least one of a metal oxide or a semimetal oxide. Further, in the etching step, the etching is performed without generating a plasma of the etching gas in the chamber (10).
US12119231B2
In an embodiment, a structure includes: a contact etch stop layer (CESL) over a substrate; a fin extending through the CESL; an epitaxial source/drain region in the fin, the epitaxial source/drain region extending through the CESL; a silicide contacting upper facets of the epitaxial source/drain region; a source/drain contact contacting the silicide, lower facets of the epitaxial source/drain region, and a first surface of the CESL; and an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer surrounding the source/drain contact, the ILD layer contacting the first surface of the CESL.
US12119228B2
A method of selectively depositing a material on a substrate with a first and second surface, the first surface being different than the second surface. The depositing of the material on the substrate comprises: supplying a bulk precursor comprising metal atoms, halogen atoms and at least one additional atom not being a metal or halogen atom to the substrate; and supplying a reactant to the substrate. The bulk precursor and the reactant have a reaction with the first surface relative to the second surface to form more material on the first surface than on the second surface.
US12119223B2
Method of forming low-k films with reduced dielectric constant, reduced CHx content, and increased hardness are described. A siloxane film is on a substrate surface using a siloxane precursor comprising O—Si—O bonds and cured using ultraviolet light.
US12119214B2
An ion guide includes electrodes elongated along an axis from an entrance end to an exit end and spaced around the axis to surround an interior. The electrodes have polygonal shapes with inside surfaces disposed at a radius from the axis and having an electrode width tangential to a circle inscribed by the electrodes. An aspect ratio of the electrode width to the radius varies along the axis. The electrodes are configured to generate a two-dimensional RF electrical field in the interior having a multipole composition comprising one or more lower-order multipole components and one or more higher-order multipole components and varying along the axis in accordance with the varying aspect ratio, and having an RF voltage amplitude that varies along the axis.
US12119204B2
A particle beam system and, such as a multi-beam particle microscope, can have a current intensity of individual particle beams that is flexibly set over large value ranges without structural modifications. The particle beam system can include a condenser lens system, a pre-multi-lens array with a specific pre-counter electrode and a pre-multi-aperture plate, and a multi-lens array. The system can includes a controller to supply adjustable excitations to the condenser lens system and the pre-counter electrode so that the charged particles are incident on the pre-multi-aperture plate in telecentric manner.
US12119201B2
A cathode heater assembly for use in a vacuum electronic device includes a refractive cup having a bottom portion and side walls forming a container; a cathode secured in the container of the refractive cup; and a heater wire coupled to the refractive cup. The cathode heater assembly may be manufactured by providing a refractive cup having a bottom portion and side walls forming a container; inserting a cathode pellet in the container of the refractive cup; impregnating the cathode pellet with electron emissive materials while the cathode pellet is in the container of the refractive cup; and attaching a heater wire to the refractive cup.
US12119200B2
An industrial magnetron includes an anode cylinder body and a cooling block arranged in a columnar manner around an outer periphery of the anode cylinder body, where the cooling block is provided with a refrigerant flow path that circulates a liquid refrigerant to circulate around the anode cylinder body and directly cool the anode cylinder body, and the refrigerant flow path has a helical groove on an inner wall surface.
US12119193B2
An electromagnetic energy converter for a remote switch. The energy converter has an electrical coil and magnetic components, which comprise at least one permanent magnet and at least one ferromagnetic element. The permanent magnet and/or the ferromagnetic element are each movable between two extreme positions, where the movement of the permanent magnet and/or of the ferromagnetic element between the extreme positions leads to a directional reversal of a magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit. The magnetic flux is enclosed at least in part by the coil. At least one of the extreme positions is configured as a contactless extreme position at which at least two of the magnet components do not contact.
US12119187B1
A keyboard system including a plurality of hybrid key structures configured in an array of subarrays, each of the plurality of hybrid key structures configured within a subarray and including a depressible element, a first type of key switch configured to generate a first signal when the depressible element is activated, a second type of key switch configured to generate a second signal when the depressible element is activated, and processor(s) configured to: receive a first signal from an activated hybrid key structure when its corresponding depressible element is activated; determine a corresponding subarray that the activated hybrid key structure is configured within; scan the corresponding subarray for a generated second signal; detect the generated second signal from the corresponding subarray; identify the activated hybrid key structure based on the detected, generated second signal; and register a key press for the identified activated hybrid key structure.
US12119181B2
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 different shapes and area equivalent diameters. 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 about 90% is defined as an area equivalent diameter D90, an average value of circularity of the holes in a first population including holes each having the area equivalent diameter D90 or more is about 0.7 or less.
US12119178B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrode layers, and an external electrode. The body includes a capacitance generating portion where the dielectric ceramic layers and the internal electrode layers are alternately stacked in a thickness direction, a main surface covering portion on a main surface of the capacitance generating portion, a side surface covering portion on a side surface of the capacitance generating portion, and an end surface covering portion on an end surface of the capacitance generating portion. Each internal electrode layer includes an exposed portion exposed at the end surface, the end surface covering portion partially covers the exposed portion, and the external electrode is connected to the internal electrode layers and covers the end surface covering portion and a portion of the exposed portion of, the portion of the exposed portion not being covered by the end surface covering portion.
US12119172B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of floor mats. More specifically, the present invention relates to a magnetic mat device that prevents a user from wasting excessive amounts of time searching for nuts, bolts, screws, sockets, or other parts that fall onto the floor while working. The device is primarily comprised of a body, further comprised of a top layer, a middle layer, further comprised of at least one magnet, and a bottom layer. Further, the top layer is comprised of a top surface that helps prevent against slips as well as stains from oils and other liquids. Further, the bottom surface is comprised of protrusions that prevent the device from sliding on the floor. The device is also comprised of a side surface comprised of at least one magnet to attach multiple devices together to encompass any size workstation.
US12119171B2
A high-temperature superconducting flux pump system comprises a flux pump body, a superconducting load, and a stator group. A double-pancake coil group comprises at least one double-pancake coil. The stator group comprises at least one stator. The flux pump body has an air gap for receiving the stator group. The superconducting load and the stator group are connected to form a closed circuit. The high-temperature superconducting flux pump system has a simpler structure, solves the problem of low charging rate of magnets, and greatly reduces the power cost without changing the magnet structure and winding cost.
US12119167B2
A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end surface of the winding portion and the outer core portion of the magnetic core, the holding member having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core portion of the magnetic core is inserted. One of the inner core portion and the outer core portion is a hybrid core composed of a powder compact and a resin core molded on an outer periphery of the powder compact, and the other of the inner core portion and the outer core portion is a hybrid core or a resin core. The resin core of the inner core portion and the resin core of the outer core portion are continuous with each other via the through hole of the holding member so as to form a seamless single body.
US12119163B2
An inductor comprises a core and a coil. The coil has a first terminal, a second terminal, a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, a first coupling portion, a second coupling portion, a first extending portion and a second extending portion. Each of the first portion and the second portion is positioned apart from a first edge of the core. Each of the first portion and the second portion is parallel to the first edge. Each of the first portion and the second portion is positioned apart from the third portion in a first horizontal direction. The third portion is positioned apart from a second edge of the core. The third portion is parallel to the second edge. The first extending portion couples the first portion and the third portion with each other. The second extending portion couples the second portion and the third portion with each other.
US12119161B2
An inductor having a coaxial structure is described. In one example, the structure of the single-turn inductor can include a conductor, an insulation layer, a shielding layer, and a magnetic core. An air duct can be located between the shielding layer and the magnetic core. The shielding layer and the magnetic core can both be connected to a ground. In one example, the single-turn inductor can include a single-layer termination structure formed on terminations of the shielding layer. In another example, the single-turn inductor can include a double-layer termination structure formed on terminations of the shielding layer. Displacement current in the single-turn inductor can be reduced using, for example, lumped equivalent circuit models, a semi-conductive shielding layer model, or a resistive layer and conductive shielding layer model.
US12119153B2
A common-mode choke coil includes a multilayer body, a first coil, a second coil, a first terminal electrode, a second terminal electrode, a third terminal electrode, and a fourth terminal electrode. The multilayer body includes plural non-conductor layers. The first and second coils are incorporated in the multilayer body. The first and second terminal electrodes are connected to the first coil. The third and fourth terminal electrodes are connected to the second coil. The first coil has a path length L1, the second coil has a path length L2, and the sum of the path length L1 and the path length L2 is less than or equal to 3.4 mm. The respective lower-face electrode portions of the terminal electrodes each have an area of less than or equal to 0.034 μm2.
US12119144B2
A cable includes a pair of insulated core wires extending parallel to each other, each of the insulated core wires having a central conductor and a core insulation layer wrapped around the central conductor, an inner insulation layer wrapped around the core insulation layers, a metal shielding layer wrapped around the inner insulation layer, an outer insulation layer wrapped around the metal shielding layer, and a single drain wire disposed between the metal shielding layer and the outer insulation layer. The core insulation layers of the pair of insulated core wires abut against each other at a pair of first sides of the core insulation layers facing toward each other. The single drain wire is located at a second side of the core insulation layer of one of the pair of insulated core wires facing away from the other of the pair of insulated core wires in a radial direction.
US12119141B2
Methods and systems for a dielectric material coated busbar are provided. In one example, a conductive material may be formed into a shape of a busbar and portions of the busbar may be selectively coated with a dielectric material which may be both electrically insulating and thermally conductive. The dielectric coated portions of the busbar may dissipate heat to a heat sink via a thermal interface material compressed on the busbar.
US12119127B2
A storage device for storing and/or transporting nuclear fuel assemblies. The storage device includes a number N of adjacent recesses. Some of the recesses created by means of notched, intersecting and stacked plates. In at least one transverse plane, at least one of the adjacent recesses has an inner surface which defines the recess. The adjacent recess being formed in part by a first surface of a first notched plate made with boron and a first surface of a second notched plate made without boron.
US12119115B2
Disclosed is a method comprising accessing, by a machine learning system, a set of data records for a plurality of users, the data records representative of physical statistics measured for each of the plurality of users over a time period. At least a subset of the data records comprises patterns of missing data for at least a portion of the time period. The method also comprises generating a set of masked data records by masking a subset of the data records in accordance with a pattern of natural missingness from a data record. The method also comprises generating, by the machine learning system, a set of learned representations from at least the set of masked data records. Finally, the method comprises fine tuning, by the machine learning system, a machine learning model using the set of learned representations, the machine learning model configured to perform a downstream machine learning task.
US12119110B2
One example method for robotic surgery using multi-user authentication without credentials includes receiving, by a robotic surgical device, a case code associated with a medical procedure; validating the case code; determining one or more users associated with the case code; and providing access to the one or more users to the robotic surgical device to enable a robotic surgical procedure.
US12119103B2
The disclosure provides a method of analyzing a patient. The method includes receiving a plurality of latent space representations of patient data including genetic data associated with a plurality of patients, providing each of the plurality of latent space representations to a trained model, receiving a plurality of images from the trained model, each image included in the plurality of images being associated with a patient included in the plurality of patients, grouping at least a portion of the plurality of images into a plurality of groups, and displaying the plurality of groups to at least one user.
US12119096B2
Healthcare object (HCO) discriminator systems and methods are presented. Systems can obtain a digital representation of a scene via a sensor interface. An HCO discriminator platform analyzes the digital representation to discriminate objects within the scene as being associated with a type of HCO or as being unrelated to a type of HCO. Once the HCO recognition platform determines that a type of HCO is relevant, it instantiates an actual HCO. The HCO can be routed to one or more destinations based on routing rules generated from a template or based on the manner in which the objects in the scene were discriminated.
US12119089B2
Embodiments of the invention utilize a graph-based approach for simulating genomic datasets from large scale populations. Genomic data may be represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that incorporates individual sample data including variant type, position, and zygosity. A simulator may operate on the DAG to generate variant datasets based on probabilistic traversal of the DAG. This probabilistic traversal reflects genomic variant types associated with the subpopulation used to build the DAG, and as a result, the generated variant datasets maintain statistical fidelity to the original sample data.
US12119078B2
A data processing circuit includes a primary transmission path, multiple secondary transmission paths and multiple storage arrays which share the primary transmission path. Each storage array includes at least two sub-arrays, and the secondary transmission path is formed between each sub-array and the primary transmission path, and the sub-array transmits a signal through the secondary transmission path and the primary transmission path.
US12119072B2
Disclosed are protection circuit, method and apparatus for data path and a computer readable storage medium. The circuit includes an input processing circuit, an output processing circuit, and a comparison module. The comparison module is electrically connected to the input processing circuit and the output processing circuit, respectively; the input processing circuit is configured to perform a check operation on an input data frame according to a preset check mode to obtain a first operation result; the output processing circuit is configured to perform a check operation on an output data frame corresponding to the input data frame according to the preset check mode to obtain a second operation result; and the comparison module is configured to acquire the first operation result and the second operation result, and generate a first error alarm signal for the data path based on the first operation result and the second operation result.
US12119068B2
A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including detecting a power up event of the memory device, responsive to detecting the power up event, selecting an open block of the memory device, wherein the open block comprises a set of pages, determining, based at least in part on an analysis of the set of pages, whether the open block is valid for programming, and responsive to determining that the open block is valid for programming, keeping the open block open for programming.
US12119066B2
A flash memory device is provided. The flash memory device includes: a first memory cell; a second memory cell on the first memory cell; and a third memory cell between the first memory cell and the second memory cell. The first memory cell, the second memory cell and the third memory cell share a channel. The third memory cell is configured to block channel sharing between the first memory cell and the second memory cell based on a channel separation voltage provided in first to k-th program loops. The third memory cell is configured to connect the channel sharing between the first memory cell and the second memory cell based on a channel connection voltage provided to the third memory cell in a (k+1)-th program loop.
US12119065B2
A non-volatile memory system limits the amount of programming for a first type of group of non-volatile memory cells based on a first parameter such that a maximum number of programming pulses applied to the first type of group of non-volatile memory cells to program to the last data state after the first type of group of non-volatile memory cells completed programming to the other data states is X programming pulses. The non-volatile memory system limits the amount of programming for a second type of group of the non-volatile memory cells based on a second parameter such that a maximum number of programming pulses applied to the second type of group of non-volatile memory cells to program to the last data state after the second type of group of non-volatile memory cells completed programming to the other data states is Y programming pulses.
US12119064B2
A memory device including a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells, respective memory cells each comprising a storage element comprising phase change memory programmable to three unique states; and a controller comprising circuitry, the controller to convert binary data into ternary data at a ratio of three bits of binary data to two trits of ternary data and provide the ternary data to the memory array for storage.
US12119055B2
Row electrode drivers and column electrode drivers for a memory device are distributed within a footprint share by a memory cell array.
US12119052B2
A twelve-transistor (12T) memory cell for a memory device that includes a transmission gate, a cross-coupled inverter circuit operably connected to the transmission gate, and a tri-state inverter operably connected to the cross-coupled inverter circuit. The cross-coupled inverter includes another tri-state inverter cross-coupled to an inverter circuit. Various operations for the 12T memory cell, as well as circuitry to perform the operations, are disclosed.
US12119047B2
A readout circuit structure is provided, which includes: a first sense amplification circuit and a second sense amplification circuit, disposed adjacent to each other along an extension direction of a bit line, here the first sense amplification circuit is coupled to one memory array in the adjacent memory arrays by a first bit line, and is coupled to the other memory array by a first complementary bit line, and the second sense amplification circuit is coupled to one memory array in the adjacent memory arrays by a second bit line, and is coupled to the other memory array by a second complementary bit line; a first equalization pipe, connected to the first bit line; a second equalization pipe, connected to the first complementary bit line; a third equalization pipe, connected to the second bit line; and a fourth equalization pipe, connected to the second complementary bit line.
US12119045B2
A memory includes: bit lines extending along a first direction and word lines extending along a second direction; a plurality of memory modules arranged along the first direction; a column selection circuit and a read-write control driver circuit, wherein the column selection circuit and the read-write control driver circuit are located on a same side of the plurality of memory modules perpendicular to the first direction; column-select lines extending along the first direction and column connection lines extending along a third direction, wherein each of the column-select lines is electrically connected to an amplification unit arranged along the first direction and is electrically connected to the column selection circuit through the column connection line, and the column selection circuit is configured to drive the amplification unit electrically connected to the column-select line.
US12119043B2
Practical, energy-efficient, and area-efficient, mitigation of errors in a memory media device that are caused by row hammer attacks and the like is described. The detection of errors is deterministically performed while maintaining, in an SRAM, a number of row access counters that is smaller than the total number of rows protected in the memory media device. The mitigation may be implemented on a per-bank basis. The memory media device may be DRAM.
US12119038B2
An auto refresh limiting circuit includes an oscillating signal generating part that generates an internal oscillating signal, the internal oscillating signal being a pulse having a period reflecting an internal temperature of a semiconductor memory device; a masking signal generating part that generates a masking signal by using an auto refresh command signal and the internal oscillating signal, the masking signal being deactivated during a pulse of the auto refresh command signal, the pulse of the auto refresh command signal being first generated after the pulse of the internal oscillating signal is generated; and an auto refresh masking part that converts the pulse of the auto refresh command signal into a pulse of an auto refresh driving signal, the conversion of the pulse of the auto refresh driving signal being masked according to the activation of the masking signal.
US12119035B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a lower electrode disposed within a dielectric structure over a substrate. A ferroelectric data storage structure is disposed over the lower electrode and an upper electrode is disposed over the ferroelectric data storage structure. One or more stressed sidewall spacers are arranged on opposing sides of the upper electrode. The ferroelectric data storage structure has an orthorhombic phase concentration that varies from directly below the one or more stressed sidewall spacers to laterally outside of the one or more stressed sidewall spacers.
US12119025B2
To suppress an unnatural movement of a moving object at a connection point when a plurality of pieces of video data are connected to each other. A frame acquisition unit 22 acquires pieces of frame data captured at the same time, from the pieces of video data input from cameras C1 and C2. A prohibited-region setting unit 24 sets a prohibited region that is not set as a calculation target when a seam is calculated, based on a position of an object detected in an overlap region between adjacent pieces of frame data and a movement direction of the object. A seam calculation unit 25 calculates a seam between pieces of frame data adjacent to each other, without setting a pixel included in the prohibited region as the calculation target of seam calculation. A connection-frame output unit 26 connects pieces of frame data in accordance with the seam and outputs connection frame data 15.
US12119022B2
Systems and methods used in a cognitive assistant for detecting human emotions from speech audio signals is described. The system obtains audio signals from an audio receiver and extracts human speech samples. Subsequently, it runs a machine learning based classifier to analyze the human speech signal and classify the emotion observed in it. The user is then notified, based on their preferences, with a summary of the emotion detected. Notifications can also be sent to other systems that have been configured to receive them. Optionally, the system may include the ability to store the speech sample and emotion classification detected for future analysis. The system's machine learning classifier is periodically re-trained based on labelled audio speech data and updated.
US12119017B2
Provided is a device that includes a user spoken voice extraction unit that extracts a user spoken voice from a microphone input sound. The user spoken voice extraction unit analyzes a sound source direction of an input sound, determines whether the input sound includes an external apparatus output sound on the basis of sound source directions of external apparatus output sounds recorded in a database, and removes a sound signal corresponding to a feature amount, for example, a frequency characteristic of the external apparatus output sound recorded in the database, from the input sound to extract a user spoken voice from which the external apparatus output sound has been removed upon determining that the input sound includes the external apparatus output sound.
US12119016B2
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes receiving an input signal representing audio captured by a microphone of an active noise reduction (ANR) headphone, processing, by one or more processing devices, a portion of the input signal to determine a noise level in the input signal, and determining that the noise level satisfies a threshold condition. The method also includes, in response to determining that the noise level satisfies the threshold condition, generating an output signal in which ANR processing on the input signal is controlled in accordance with a target loudness level of the output signal, and driving an acoustic transducer of the ANR headphone using the output signal.
US12119015B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing a signal. The system for processing a signal may include at least one microphone and at least one vibration sensor. The at least one microphone may be configured to collect a sound signal, and the sound signal may include at least one of user voice and environmental noise. The at least one vibration sensor may be configured to collect a vibration signal, and the vibration signal may include at least one of the user voice and the environmental noise. The system for processing a signal may also comprise a processor. The processor may be configured to determine a relationship between a noise component in the sound signal and a noise component in the vibration signal, and obtain a target vibration signal by performing, based at least on the relationship, noise reduction processing on the vibration signal.
US12119014B2
A method for automatic speech recognition using joint acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement, and voice separation includes receiving, at a contextual frontend processing model, input speech features corresponding to a target utterance. The method also includes receiving, at the contextual frontend processing model, at least one of a reference audio signal, a contextual noise signal including noise prior to the target utterance, or a speaker embedding including voice characteristics of a target speaker that spoke the target utterance. The method further includes processing, using the contextual frontend processing model, the input speech features and the at least one of the reference audio signal, the contextual noise signal, or the speaker embedding vector to generate enhanced speech features.
US12119012B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for audio processing and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an audio mixing feature of a target object, in which the audio mixing feature at least includes: a voiceprint feature and a pitch feature of the target object; and determining a target audio matching with the target object in the mixed audio according to the audio mixing feature.
US12119007B2
Implementations described herein relate to determining how to fulfill a spoken utterance based on a user that provided the spoken utterance. For example, implementations can receive a spoken utterance from a user, determine a set of fulfillment actions for the spoken utterance, and determine whether the user that provided the spoken utterance corresponds to a first user or a second user. Further, and in response to determining that the user corresponds to the first user, implementations can select a subset of first fulfillment action(s) from the set, and cause the subset of first fulfillment action(s) to be implemented to satisfy the spoken utterance. Moreover, and in response to determining that the user corresponds to the second user, implementations can select a subset of distinct, second fulfillment action(s) from the set, and cause the subset of second fulfillment action(s) to be implemented to satisfy the spoken utterance.
US12119003B2
A computing device of a communication network may generate a first connection context that can manage a first voice connection between a first device and a second device. A signal may be received over the first connection context indicative of a request by the first device. In response, the computing device may connect the first device to a second connection context that can manage a second voice connection between the first device and an automated service such as a communication bot. The first device can transmit natural language requests to the automated service. The automated service facilitates execution of the natural language requests by the computing device.
US12119002B1
An artificial intelligence enabled system is disclosed. The system includes a core component for enabling AI-powered interactions between the system and its users and one or more agents that understand user intent and automatically interact with products and services on the web and/or in the physical world through imitation of a human user.
US12118999B2
Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated.
US12118993B2
Disclosed is a full-duplex voice dialogue method applied to a voice dialogue terminal and including recording and uploading by an awakened voice dialogue terminal audio to a cloud server for determining a reply content and a first duration of the audio analyzed for determining the reply content; receiving by the voice dialogue terminal the reply content and the first duration sent by the cloud server; determining whether the first duration is equal to a duration from the moment awakening the voice dialogue terminal to the current moment of uploading the audio; and presenting the reply content to a user if consistent. Both the reply content determined by the cloud server and the duration of the audio is acquired, and the reply content is presented to the user only when the first duration and the second duration are determined as consistent, thereby ensuring proper reply content.
US12118987B2
The present application relates to a method of extracting audio features in a dialog detector in response to an input audio signal, the method comprising dividing the input audio signal into a plurality of frames, extracting frame audio features from each frame, determining a set of context windows, each context window including a number of frames surrounding a current frame, deriving, for each context window, a relevant context audio feature for the current frame based on the frame audio features of the frames in each respective context, and concatenating each context audio feature to form a combined feature vector to represent the current frame. The context windows with the different length can improve the response speed and improve robustness.
US12118971B2
An acoustic supercell may comprise a facesheet having a plurality of perforations, a backplate parallel to the facesheet, a cell wall contacting the facesheet and the back plate, and a periodic structure. The supercell may be custom-tailored to meet specific acoustic wavelength absorption targets. The custom-tailored supercell may be arranged with a plurality of other custom-tailored supercells into an acoustic panel.
US12118960B2
A display device and a control method therefor are disclosed. The display device includes: a display; a transmitter configured to transmit an infrared (IR) signal; and one or more processors configured to: control the display to display a multi-screen including a plurality of images based on a plurality of image signals received from a plurality of source devices, each of the plurality of source devices using a same IR protocol; perform, based on a user command indicating a first image from among the plurality of images, a process for selectively controlling a first source device, from among the plurality of source devices, which provides the first image; and transmit an IR signal for selectively controlling the first source device through the transmitter.
US12118959B2
A display device including a display panel including a scan line, a data line, and a pixel connected thereto, a gate driver, and a source driver including a gamma voltage generator to generate gamma voltages having different voltage levels, a digital-to-analog converter to generate the data voltage corresponding to a gray scale value using the gamma voltages, and a source buffer, in which the gamma voltage generator includes a first resistor string to set a voltage range of the gamma voltages, a second resistor string to set tab gamma voltages corresponding to some of the gamma voltages within the voltage range, gamma buffers to output the tab gamma voltages, and a third resistor string including tabs respectively connected to output terminals of the gamma buffers, the third resistor string being configured to divide a voltage between the tabs to generate the gamma voltages.
US12118951B2
A display system includes a display screen layer, a coupling region, an upper guide, a first coupler, a second coupler, and an optical element. The coupling region may be positioned along a sidewall of the display screen layer and may route a beam between the optical element and the upper guide and may route the beam between the first coupler and the second coupler. The first coupler may be positioned along a front surface of the upper guide and may couple a beam through the front surface of the upper guide. The second coupler may be positioned between the coupling region and the upper guide and may couple the beam between the coupling region and the upper guide. The optical element may be positioned below a back surface of the upper guide. A computing device with the display system is also disclosed.
US12118948B2
A gate drive circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus are provided in the present disclosure. The gate drive circuit includes a quantity n of shift register units arranged along a first direction. A shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first node control circuit, a second node control circuit and an output control circuit. The first node control circuit is configured to control a stage of a first node; and the second node control circuit is configured to control a stage of a second node. The output control circuit is configured to control the scan signal output terminal to output a scan signal. Control terminals of an input circuit of an m-th shift register unit are electrically connected to scan signal output terminals of an (m+1)-th shift register unit and an (m−1)-th shift register unit respectively, where m∈n.
US12118944B2
In examples, an electronic device comprises a camera and a display having a transparent area aligned with the camera. The display comprises a first line corresponding to a pixel row or column of the display, the first line extending from a first end of the display to the transparent area. The display comprises a second line corresponding to the pixel row or column and extending from a second end of the display to the transparent area, the first and second lines separated by a gap. The electronic device includes a controller coupled to the display, the controller to drive the first and second lines consecutively.
US12118943B2
A driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. In the driving circuit, the display panel, and the display device disclosed in the present disclosure, the gamma module outputs the first initialization voltage and the second initialization voltage when the display panel is in the internal compensation mode, and the gamma module outputs the third initialization voltage and the reference voltage when the display panel is in the detection mode.
US12118937B2
A display device may include a pixel, an emission control driver, and a timing controller. The emission control driver may supply an emission control signal set for controlling emission periods of the pixel. The timing controller may receive a received bit stream that includes a first bit set and a second bit set, may determine a first duty ratio of the emission control signal set using bits of the first bit set without using any bit of the second bit set. The first bit set may include at least two bits. The second bit set may include at least one bit. The emission control signal set may control the pixel to operate according to the first duty ratio for each frame of a first frame group.
US12118929B2
A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the display panel, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver, and the data driver pauses a data latch operation.
US12118926B2
A display device includes a display substrate and a backplane substrate. The display substrate includes an array of micro-LEDs forming individual pixels. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. Each pixel logic hardware module includes a local memory element configured to store a multi-bit pixel intensity value of a corresponding micro-LED for an image frame. The backplane substrate is bonded to a backside of the display substrate such that the pixel logic hardware modules are physically aligned behind the array of micro-LEDs and each pixel logic hardware module is electrically connected to a micro-LED of the corresponding pixel.
US12118918B2
Provided is a method for transmitting data. The method includes: transmitting equalization matching data to a source driver chip upon sending a link stable pattern to the source driver chip, wherein the equalization matching data is configured for the source driver chip to determine a target equalization gain, and perform gain compensation, based on the target equalization gain, on display data from the timing controller; and transmitting the display data to the source driver chip in response to a first condition being met, wherein the first condition is that the source driver chip determines the target equalization gain.
US12118916B2
The present disclosure relates to an image display apparatus. The image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a signal processor configured to perform image processing of an input image, and audio processing of audio corresponding to the input image; a virtual sensor device configured to receive image and audio information processed by the signal processor; a sensor device configured to collect externally captured image information or sound information; and an artificial intelligence (AI) processor configured to perform the image processing of the input image or the audio processing based on AI using the image and audio information from the virtual sensor device, and the image or sound information from the sensor device. Accordingly, the image display apparatus may operate based on AI.
US12118915B2
Disclosed is a shift register including a first input sub-circuit, configured to receive a first input signal from a first input terminal and output a blanking output control signal to a first node in a blanking period of time of a frame; a second input sub-circuit, configured to receive a second input signal from a second input terminal and output a display output control signal to the first node in a display period of time of the frame; an output sub-circuit, configured to output a composite output signal via an output terminal under control of the first node, the composite output signal including a display output signal outputted in a display period of time and a blanking output signal outputted in a blanking period of time which are independent of each other.
US12118914B2
A display control method determines whether a low frame rate compensation function is in an on state when a frame rate of a current frame rendered by a graphics processor is smaller than a minimum refresh rate of a display panel, performs grayscale compensation on at least one frame of display picture in consecutive n frames of display pictures of the display panel when the low frame rate compensation function is in the on state, and controls the display panel to display the compensated consecutive n frames of display pictures.
US12118910B2
A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving module, a data writing module, and a bias adjustment module. The driving module includes a driving transistor. The data writing module is configured to provide a data signal for the driving transistor. The bias adjustment module is configured to provide a bias adjustment signal for the driving transistor. A time period of one frame of the display panel includes a non-light-emitting stage and a light-emitting stage. The non-light-emitting stage includes a bias adjustment stage. At least one of a source or a drain of the driving transistor is configured to receive the bias adjustment signal in the bias adjustment stage. An operating state of the pixel circuit includes a first mode and a second mode.
US12118906B2
A method for sensing a display panel includes: sensing an electrical characteristic parameter of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit of a sub-pixel in an X-th row in a blank stage between an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame, wherein X is a random number, and both N and X are positive integers.
US12118904B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is an active electronic shelf label, including: a shelf label body, a guide rail, a guide rail positive power supply line, a guide rail negative power supply line, a shelf label positive elastic sheet, and a shelf label negative elastic sheet. The shelf label body is connected to the guide rail and movable along the guide rail. The guide rail positive power supply line and the guide rail negative power supply line are respectively provided along the guide rail. A first contact point of the shelf label positive elastic sheet is electrically coupled to a power input terminal of the shelf label body. A first contact point of the shelf label negative elastic sheet is electrically coupled to a power output terminal of the shelf label body. A second contact point of the shelf label positive elastic sheet is electrically coupled to the guide rail positive power supply line by contact, and a second contact point of the shelf label negative elastic sheet is electrically coupled to the shelf label negative elastic sheet by contact. The present disclosure can improve the efficiency of installing and disassembling the electronic shelf label, enables flexible adjustment of the position of the shelf label body on the guide rail according to actual needs, and is simple in structure, light in weight, and easy to maintain.
US12118900B2
A sign frame includes spaced apart first and second upright frame members, a first lateral frame member extending between the first upright frame member and the second upright frame member, and a second lateral frame member extending between the first upright frame member and the second upright frame member, the second lateral frame member spaced vertically below the first lateral frame member to define a sign panel receiving space therebetween. The first lateral frame member includes a lower side with a downward facing panel receiving slot. The second lateral frame member includes an upper side with an upward facing panel receiving slot. The downwardly facing panel receiving slot is sized and configured for permitting an upper edge section of a sign panel to be shifted upward and pivotably moved within the downwardly facing panel receiving slot.
US12118888B2
Upon initiating an automated parking space search and/or an at least partly automated parking process, an ego vehicle automatically provides information on at least its current position, initiation of the automated parking space search and/or a parking process, including a parking safety zone that it requires for parking, to other road users in the surroundings of the ego vehicle.
US12118877B2
Systems and methods to provide a portable alert device are disclosed herein. The system may include a key component that includes a connector extending from a first side and a base component. The key component is shaped with a first indent and a second indent on opposite sides. The base component includes: a back piece shaped with a first ledge and a second ledge opposite the first ledge that extend out of an interior of the back piece; a front piece that joins with the back piece to enclose a portion of the key component so that the first ledge is positioned within the first indent and the second ledge is positioned with the second indent, the first ledge within the first indent and the second ledge within the second indent prevent the key component from entirely disengaging with the base component; a transceiver; and alert components.
US12118875B2
Methods and apparatus are described to automatically re-enable monitoring of a bypassed security sensor by a security system control device.
US12118874B2
A total property security system may be implemented to conduct security and surveillance operations. The system includes security operations centers that are connected to one or more sensors and vehicles for collecting and transmitting surveillance data to a database hosted on cloud services. The collected surveillance data is analyzed in order to automatically deploy security measures and/or recommend courses of action using a rules engine that can be configured to client-specific or user-specific security needs. The cloud services can provide a set of application program interface services that can act on the surveillance operations center. Sensor fusion data and other surveillance data can be also transmitted to vetted monitoring service providers on a subscription basis to provide physical security services to the area within the property perimeter. During the subscription period, the selected monitoring service providers can obtain time-based encryption token for accessing surveillance data.
US12118873B1
A personal security alarm system includes a device that is worn by a person that senses contact with the person. The device is configured to be placed between a garment worn by the person and the person's body. If the contact between the device and person's body is lost, the device initiates an alarm process through a mobile device (such as a smart phone) carried by the person. The fact that the device is clipped or otherwise held between the person's clothing and body facilitates initiation of the alarm process if the person's clothing, and in particular the garment to which the device is coupled, is removed from the person, as may happen in an attack on the person by another.
US12118868B2
A child monitoring device has a plurality of sensors to sense data relating to a child to be monitored, a wireless communications unit and a processing unit. The processing unit is able to receive signals from the sensors, receive data relating to the child input via said wireless communications unit, cause the wireless communications unit to wirelessly communicate with an external database to receive data, process the signals received from said sensors to determine child development conditions, compare determined child development conditions with the data received from external database, and cause said wireless communications unit to transmit messages containing child development information for reception by an external device.
US12118866B2
A method for securing a security tag into an article of clothing includes positioning an end of the security tag into a first opening to an interface space between two layers of the article of clothing. The two layers are fixedly connected by one or more opposing connectors that are spaced apart in a manner to form the interface space sized to receive the security tag. The security tag is fully moved into the interface space. Also described herein is a security tag specially configured for placement into the interface space between two layers of the article of clothing.
US12118856B2
Systems and methods related to gaming based on the results at intervals of a race. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12118855B2
The present disclosure provides a method for randomly selecting a winner from a group of participants which is verifiably random, removing the requirement of a trusted third party in competitions such as lotteries. Also provided are processing systems and architectures for implementing the method.
US12118847B2
Systems and methods which provide a player zero, one or more awards based on a variable quantity of symbol display positions associated with one or more reels.
US12118844B2
Denominational dispensing and storing devices are arranged on three stages, and a plurality of denominational dispensing and storing devices are arranged on each stage. At least a dispensing passage is provided for each stage, the dispensing passages are stacked in an up-down direction, and a bottom plate of the dispensing passage is inclined downward toward a dispensing port side. An upward transport belt arranged and inclined upward toward the dispensing port side is arranged below a lower end of each bottom plate. A coin fed from each of the denominational dispensing and storing devices first falls onto an inclined plate from the dispensing passage, slips down, and then falls on the upward transport belt. The coin that has fallen on the upward transport belt is transported to the dispensing port by the upward transport belt moving toward the dispensing port side.
US12118843B2
An identification systems maintains digital identities for people and uses such digital identities to generate and/or provide one or more digital identification objects to one or more checkpoints. Such digital identification objects may be generated on the fly using identity information stored in association with the digital identities, stored, and so on. The identification system may generate the digital identification object in a format expected by the checkpoint, may have a trusted relationship with the checkpoint and/or may be configured to securely communicate with the checkpoint, and so on. In this way, the identification system may enable use of the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints discussed above without requiring that people have a mobile driver's license and/or other government-issued digital identification stored on a mobile device that is capable of communicating with the automated and/or semi-automated checkpoints.
US12118830B2
A vehicle that includes a vehicle communication system including a policy manager circuit configured to interpret a data collection policy including a trigger condition, a vehicle data identifier configured to identify vehicle data to be captured in response to a trigger event occurrence, and a trigger evaluation data identifier configured to identify trigger evaluation data to be captured in response to the trigger condition; and an end point configured to provide a raw vehicle data stream including a trigger evaluation data stream and an identified vehicle data stream in response to the data collection policy.
US12118827B2
An apparatus for detecting mounting behavior of an animal object includes: a memory that stores a program; and a processor that executes the program. The program extracts animal detection information about an animal object detected from the image by inputting the received image into an animal detection model. Also, the program extracts bounding boxes of which a distance between coordinates of central points is smaller than a first set value, bounding boxes of which a difference in rotational angle is smaller than a second set value, and bounding boxes of which a difference between a vector connecting the central points of the extracted bounding boxes and an orientation of each bounding box is smaller than a third set value. If activity information of the animal object is extracted based on an MHI of the image, it is determined that mounting behavior occurs.
US12118826B2
Provided is an information processing system including: a comparison information acquisition unit that acquires comparison information regarding iris comparison generated based on an iris image including an iris of a recognition subject; and a display image generation unit that generates a display image including an image indicating a content of the comparison information in association with positions in the iris.
US12118825B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for extracting high resolution oculometric parameters. A video stream having a video of a face of a user is processed to obtain a set of oculometric parameters, such as eyelid data, iris data (e.g., iris translation, iris radius and iris rotation), and pupil data (e.g., pupil center and pupil radius) at a first resolution. A deconvolution process is performed on the video stream to improve accuracy or resolution of the oculometric parameters, based on stimulus information of a video stimulus displayed on a client device associated with the user, environment data of an environment in which the user is located, device data of the client device, etc. The oculometric parameters are then processed using a prediction model that is trained based on high resolution oculometric parameters obtained using eye tracking devices to predict oculometric parameters at a resolution greater than the first resolution.
US12118821B1
A method includes receiving 2D image data corresponding to a 2D image of a human face of a subject. The method further includes determining a textual identifier that describes a facial feature of the human face represented by the 2D image. The method further includes providing, to a first generative machine learning model, a first prompt including information identifying the textual identifier that describes the facial feature of the human face. The method further includes obtaining, from the first generative machine learning model, a first output identifying, among a plurality of sets of false eyelashes, a set of false eyelashes selected to suit the human face of the subject based on the facial feature.
US12118819B2
A fingerprint recognition sensor having an excellent S/N ratio and capable of realizing thinning and an optical element including the fingerprint recognition sensor. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes a light-receiving element; and an optical element including a near infrared absorbing dichroic substance, in which a fingerprint reading surface is positioned on a side of the optical element opposite to the light-receiving element side. The optical element has an absorption axis with respect to near infrared light in an in-plane direction. When linearly polarized light of near infrared light orthogonal to the absorption axis is radiated from a normal direction of the optical element and from a direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction at an azimuthal angle orthogonal to the absorption axis, an absorbance during the radiation from the direction inclined by 45° from the normal direction is more than an absorbance during the radiation from the normal direction.
US12118814B2
An interactive system for identifying and correcting inconsistencies between a written work, an audio reading of the written work, and a resulting transcription of the audio reading. The system stores on a computing device connected to a network a manuscript, an audio version of the manuscript, and a transcription of the audio version of the manuscript. Via a transcription engine, difference and comparison engine, and a user device having a visual interface, a user is visually presented via the display the inconsistencies between the transcript and the manuscript, the user can amend the manuscript and/or the transcript to reconcile the works, the user can listen to a corresponding section of the corresponding audio file, and the user can interact with collaborators in a context aware interface. Upon the user processing, the manuscript may be read and listened to simultaneously as an enhanced e-book through a separate software tool.
US12118813B2
A document processing method includes receiving one or more documents, performing optical character recognition on the one or more documents to detect words comprising symbols in the one or more documents, and determining a encoding value for each of the symbols. It further includes applying a first hash function to each encoding value to generate a first set of hashed symbol values, applying a second hash function to each hashed symbol value to generate a vector array including a second set of hashed symbol values, and applying a linear transformation to each value of the second set of hashed symbol values of the vector array. The method also includes applying an irreversible non-linear activation function to the vector array to obtain abstract values associated with the symbols and saving the abstract values to train a neural network to detect fields in an input document.
US12118808B2
An image generation method obtains an original image. A character area, a background area, and a position of each flawless character in the original image are determined. The character area is segmented to obtain a first image of each flawless character. A background is removed from the first image to obtain a second image. First image processing is performed on the second image to obtain a third image. Second image processing is performed on the second image to obtain fourth images. Third image processing is performed on the fourth images respectively to obtain fifth images. A similarity between each fifth image and the third image is calculated. When the similarity is greater than a defect threshold, a background image is segmented. Brightness of the background image is adjusted. The target fourth image and adjusted background image are synthesized. The method can generate images with defective characters quickly.
US12118801B2
Provided is an object recognition device capable of accurately estimating a distance from an own vehicle to an object such as a pedestrian. There are provided: a part specification unit 104 that determines a specific part region in an object by analyzing an image of a region corresponding to the object detected by an overlapping region object detection unit 103; an image information storage unit 105 that stores image information on the part region determined by the part specification unit 104; a three-dimensional information acquisition unit 106 that acquires three-dimensional information of the part region specified by the part specification unit 104 on the basis of the distance information acquired by a distance information acquisition unit 102; a non-overlapping region object detection unit 107 that detects the part region specified by the part specification unit 104 with reference to the image information stored in the image information storage unit 105 for the non-overlapping region; and a distance calculation unit 108 that calculates a distance to an object including the part region on the basis of the detection region information on an image of the part region detected by the non-overlapping region object detection unit 107 and the three-dimensional information acquired by the three-dimensional information acquisition unit 106.
US12118799B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of selecting an accident image using the results of the recognition of an obstacle on a road, which can distinguish between an actual accident image and a fake accident image by previously recognizing an obstacle on a road while a vehicle travels and determining an impact event to have a low accident possibility, the impact event occurring in a section in which the vehicle goes over the obstacle, or suppressing the impact event, and can secure a space of a storage medium by deleting the fake accident image or prevent a data usage fee and unnecessary management expenses by blocking the transmission of the fake accident image to a remote cloud server.
US12118796B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to a vision system that detects persons exiting an environment, comprising detecting, by a processor using a plurality of image frames from at least one sensor, persons that exited the environment during a first period of time. The vision system further determines, by the processor, an exit count for the first period of time and retrieves, from a database, historical egress data comprising a detected historic exit count and a corrected historic exit count of the environment for a second period of time corresponding to the first period of time. The vision system calculates an error rate for the second period of time based on a ratio of the detected historic exit count and the corrected historic exit count, determines and stores a corrected exit count for the first period of time by adjusting the exit count using the error rate.
US12118795B2
System and methods for tracking transaction flow through a customer service area. The present invention provides automated, non-intrusive tracking of individuals, based on a series of still image frames obtained from one or more colour sensors. Images of individuals are extracted from each frame and the datasets resulting from the cropped images are compared across multiple frames. The datasets are grouped together into groups called “tracklets”, which can be further merged into “customer sets”. Various pieces of metadata related to individuals' movement (such as customer location and the duration of each transaction state) can be derived from the customer sets. Additionally, individual images may be anonymized into mathematical representations.
US12118792B2
A surveillance system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire motion information of an object detected from an image captured by an image capturing unit, an association unit configured to associate a recognition processing result of the object with the motion information, and a determination unit configured to determine, from among a plurality of objects detected from the image captured by the image capturing unit, an object to be subjected to recognition processing based on the recognition result associated with the motion information. Thus, even when a plurality of abnormal regions is simultaneously present in a region to be monitored, face recognition can be efficiently performed.
US12118787B2
Methods, system, and computer storage media are provided for multi-modal localization. Input data comprising two modalities, such as image data and corresponding text or audio data, may be received. A phrase may be extracted from the text or audio data, and a neural network system may be utilized to spatially and temporally localize the phrase within the image data. The neural network system may include a plurality of cross-modal attention layers that each compare features across the first and second modalities without comparing features of the same modality. Using the cross-modal attention layers, a region or subset of pixels within one or more frames of the image data may be identified as corresponding to the phrase, and a localization indicator may be presented for display with the image data. Embodiments may also include unsupervised training of the neural network system.
US12118776B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method includes determining, in response to receiving a preset identification operation triggered for a capturing frame on a capturing page, a target image having image clarity meeting a preset clarity condition based on the capturing frame on the capturing page. Then, the target image is transmitted to an image identification server for image identifying. Thus, the image processing method provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure can determine a target image having image clarity meeting a preset clarity condition first before image identification and allow an image identification server to perform identification based on the target image which meets the preset clarity condition, thereby the accuracy of image identification can be improved.
US12118770B2
The present disclosure provides an image recognition method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, such as image processing and deep learning technologies. The image recognition method includes: acquiring a to-be-recognized image, and determining a to-be-recognized subject in the to-be-recognized image; extracting a subject feature of the to-be-recognized subject, and obtaining a target feature according to the subject feature; determining a target candidate feature in a plurality of candidate features using the target feature; and taking a class corresponding to the target candidate feature as a recognition result of the to-be-recognized subject. With the present disclosure, different image recognition requirements may be met, and a speed and accuracy of image recognition may be improved.
US12118764B2
A method and apparatus for processing an image based on partial images. The method includes extracting a feature of a current partial processing region of an input image frame by inputting pixel data of the current partial processing region into a convolutional neural network (CNN), updating a hidden state of a recurrent neural network (RNN) for a context between the current partial processing region and at least one previous partial processing region by inputting the extracted feature into the RNN, and generating an image processing result for the input image frame based on the updated hidden state.
US12118757B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a plurality of two dimensional (2D) patches in an atlas frame and a camera offset for a camera. The patches are decoded and converted to a three dimensional (3D) patch coordinate system to obtain a point cloud frame. An offset matrix is determined based on the camera offset. The offset is then applied matrix to the point cloud frame.
US12118756B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating smart compression/decompression schemes at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes unifying a first compression scheme relating to three-dimensional (3D) content and a second compression scheme relating to media content into a unified compression scheme to perform compression of one or more of the 3D content and the media content relating to a processor including a graphics processor.
US12118746B2
A system and a method are disclosed for calibrating an image acquisition system of a farming machine. The farming machine captures images of objects in an environment as the farming machine moves through an environment. Based on the captured images, a represented three-dimensional (3D) model of the environment representing the objects in a three-dimensional space is generated. From the represented 3D model, a represented location of an object (e.g., building, lamppost, tree) is determined. The represented location of the object is compared to a reference location of the object and the comparison is used to calibrate the image acquisition system by modifying positions, orientations, or optical settings of one or more cameras in the image acquisition system.
US12118741B2
The present invention provides a processing apparatus (20) including a first generation unit (22) that generates, from a plurality of time-series images, three-dimensional feature information indicating a time change of a feature in each position in each of the plurality of images, a second generation unit (23) that generates person position information indicating a position in which a person is present in each of the plurality of images, and an estimation unit (24) that estimates person behavior indicated by the plurality of images, based on the time change of the feature indicated by the three-dimensional feature information in the position in which the person is present being indicated by the person position information.
US12118740B2
A method and device for detecting propellers with high-precision are provided, the method includes obtaining a measurement point cloud of the propeller, filtering the measurement point cloud to obtain a target point cloud; processing the target point cloud to obtain a first measurement plane, and finding a center point of a pressure cone point cloud; obtaining a measuring axis according to the first measurement plane and the center point; segmenting the target point cloud to obtain a blade point cloud of each blade, and analyzing the blade point cloud and the measuring axis to obtain the parameters of the propeller, so as to determine whether the propeller is qualified. A high-precision structured light 3D camera is used, simple and high-precision detection solution for propeller products is developed based on the open-source 3D algorithm framework PCL. The device can improve the detection efficiency and the feasibility of promotion.
US12118738B2
A system for executing a three-dimensional (3D) intraoperative scan of a patient is disclosed. A 3D scanner controller projects the object points included onto a first image plane and the object points onto a second image plane. The 3D scanner controller determines first epipolar lines associated with the first image plane and second epipolar lines associated with the second image plane based on an epipolar plane that triangulates the object points included in the first 2D intraoperative image to the object points included in the second 2D intraoperative image. Each epipolar lines provides a depth of each object as projected onto the first image plane and the second image plane. The 3D scanner controller converts the first 2D intraoperative image and the second 2D intraoperative image to the 3D intraoperative scan of the patient based on the depth of each object point provided by each corresponding epipolar line.
US12118731B2
A method of masking in an output image stream includes receiving an input image stream capturing a scene, processing the input image stream to generate the output image stream, including using a detector to detect objects in the scene and a tracker to track objects in the scene based on information provided by the detector, and further including to generate a particular output image of the output image stream by checking whether there exists a particular area in the scene in which an evaluation of a historical performance of the detector and/or tracker fulfills at least one condition, and to, if confirming that such a particular area exists, mask the particular area of the scene in the particular output image. A corresponding device, computer program, and computer program product are also provided.
US12118730B2
An edge detecting device includes a feature extracting circuit configured to extract first and second feature data from an input image; a prototype generating circuit configured to generate prototype data using the first feature data and an input label, the prototype data including foreground and background information of an object; a region detecting circuit configured to generate a segmentation mask by detecting a region of an object using the first feature data and the prototype data; and an edge extracting circuit configured to generate an edge map by combining the segmentation mask and the second feature data.
US12118722B2
A method of operation of a compute system includes: generating a skin segmentation including a non-skin region and a skin prediction based on a patient image; generating a body part segmentation based on the patient image; generating a cropped image based on the skin segmentation and the body part segmentation with the cropped image includes the non-skin region based on the skin prediction; generating a eczema segmentation based on the cropped image and the skin prediction; generating intermediate scores for erythema, papulation, lichenification, and excoriation for the cropped image; and generating a full body EASI score based on the eczema segmentation and the intermediate scores for displaying on a device to assist in diagnosis.
US12118716B2
An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a captured image of a subject's eye. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit is an analysis error image including a predetermined analysis error factor.
